🧵 Thread: California is about to have a massive fight over taxes, housing, and democracy itself. Here's what's at stake and why the legislature needs to cut a deal by mid-June.

if the annualized loss in asset value is still less than the annual rental value then it's not actually a loss

Heartbreaking: The Worst Person You Know Just Made a Great Point

If you opt instead to watch The Daily Show, Star Trek, or SpongeBob SquarePants then your boycott does nothing.

Carvana is about to find out that small business tyrants are the most powerful special interest in American politics.

What I have observed in my lifetime is that if given the choice people will pick the perception of freedom over privacy

Good news for everyone who wants California to get e-bike policy right: AB 1942 and AB 1557 have died in appropriations. Now the path is clearer for SB 1167, co-sponsored by CalBike, Streets For All, and SAFE, to protect legal e-bikes and bring honesty to the marketplace.

This is becoming a fever dream -- the Mayors of Riverside and Long Beach have written an Op Ed in support of Construction Defect Reform (AB 1903). www.presstelegram.com/2026/05/13/n...

The division in “capitalist beneficiaries” should be about recognizing what activities actually produce utility for people vs those activities that actually harm people vs those activities/privileges that only gate-keep utility for people and treating them very differently from a policy perspective.

Imagine trying to build one continuous data center that is 80ft wide and hundreds of miles long through dozens of local jurisdictions and over/under dozens of existing roads and infrastructure. Thats why.

The added complexity also leads to more construction defects. Ask me how I know.

The CBIA (sprawl builders) and realtors in California saying that there's no future for them in California if Tom Steyer gets elected is precisely why I'll be voting for him

Come through

I would join the coalition to reform prop 13 in a heartbeat

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Asm Alex Lee’s single stair bill AB 2252 just failed to move past Assembly Housing and is dead. Seven other states and the rest of the developed world have adopted this policy, but the committee members are concerned about California fire fighter staffing levels and ladder truck availability.

Hate to admit that unfortunately it is people like me who explain why Cursor is somehow valued at $50B. I signed up for the annual subscription a year ago and then mostly forgot about it. After it auto-renewed that was another $192 they got for a product I barely used. I have cancelled.

so I can be ultra-wealthy and have multiple non-primary residences in NYC each worth $5M+ and avoid the tax as long as I have a primary residence somewhere *cough*hamptons*cough* in New York State? sounds hella dumb

Feels good to come home to this Tom Steyer mailer where the first two bullet points are (at least subtextually) about Prop 13 reform. 😊

Tabling at the Oakland Joiners Activity Fair today for @eastbayforeveryone.bsky.social. Ready to chat Connect Bay Area, Oakland General Plan and @holz-bau.bsky.social thought to all comers. luma.com/guntbzt0

After the initial “wow what a cool photo” react you may realize those are ridiculously tiny parachutes on a short tether so it can’t be real.

The best this could do to help regular people is to marginally reduce the cost of short term boat rentals when (if) you take a vacation.

Some of the larger YIMBY accounts have remained on Twitter and post similar things. The ones that post on both are fine, it's the ones that never visit this site are seeing their brain pickled.

This is an opinion you develop from spending too much time on X (Formerly Twitter), @urbancourtyard.bsky.social The YIMBYs that aren't still in the bad place know exactly what the policies they advocate for lead to.

Did you miss seeing my BART movie Tunnel Vision in theaters? Now you too can experience a room full of people cheering as you emerge from the Transbay Tube. And as a treat, if you come to the Roxie showing, you can experience it IN 4K! 1/3

Did anyone else get as annoyed is I did watching Project Hail Mary when at the beginning Grace asks the class "what's the speed of light" and a student answers in fucking _miles per hour_??

As a toddler dad, my weekend leisure time now mostly consists of reducing entropy like this.

Real Estate Agents don’t care about affordability. example no. 827

Which faction is this? sfarchive.dsausa.org/issues/winte...

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Podcast Value Tax fixes this.

These are on my new favorite PROTEIN blueberry pop tarts.

Dear CA Highway Patrol: STOP using the “INCOMING BALLISTIC MISSILE” sound for missing people alerts. Please 🙏

I'm Josh Hawn, and I support this message.

After months of research, dozens of interviews, many tours, and two public hearings, I am so excited to announce the Housing Innovation bill package!

The time has come to raise the housing investment level in this country, just as we did in the 1960s and 1980s. We have a new report out this morning laying out just how high housing production numbers need to go—and for how many years—to dig us out of the shortage.

Assessor should not be a local elected office. There should be a board of assessors appointed by the state governor and affirmed by the legislature à la US Federal Reserve. Regional offices can collect data on rents and sales prices to build a differential land value layer in GIS.

NIMBY rationalization cycle: - building more housing raises prices - building more housing doesn't lower prices - building more housing does lower prices but that's exactly why the market wont build more <- WE ARE HERE - prices first need to rise for the market to build more housing - return to top

If 4x your property tax bill exceeds 30% of your annual income then you are cost-burdened. If not then stop complaining. I don’t make the rules.

Cities have been “thoroughly” upzoning by keeping the allowable building envelope small to "preserve neighborhood character" but which also ensures that the only thing more valuable than a new quadplex is the existing house.

> But that idea, according to a major new housing study [by schollars who desperately want that idea to be dead wrong], is dead wrong.

Are we the baddies?

More people are leaning into Modern Monetary Theory without realizing that high-spend + low-tax + low-debt only works if the spending is primarily on things that curb price inflation by increasing supply relative to demand. Only cutting income tax is absolutely a recipe for price inflation.

The Democratic Party is less popular than ICE?

GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney was secretly recorded in 2012 saying that 47% of Americans were Morally Good*. *Dependent upon government, believe that they are victims, paid no federal income tax, would not take personal responsibility, and would vote for President Obama no matter what.

I'm not saying their votes shouldn't count at all, I'm just saying maybe their votes should be weighted by average remaining life expectancy.

Really sorry about that — I should have waited for your confirmation before launching the nukes. Won’t happen again. What civilization would you like to create next?