Good. More of this.

I don't get to say this often: the San Francisco Board of Supervisors just adopted a really great housing policy. The state legislature should follow their lead and completely exempt projects with fewer than 25 units from all "inclusionary zoning" requirements statewide.

there's not really any empirical way to test it but I do think that 'every political elite and a substantial portion of the population have subclinical PTSD of one kind or another from COVID' is the skeleton key that explains a lot, yeah

Yas kween give us nothing

Must be so rad to live in a country that isn’t ass

Gosh, I hope Durbin got a pinky promise from him. You can't go back on a pinky promise. Everybody knows that.

“merit” means illegal gender discrimination because women in command make pete hegseth’s dick feel soft www.nytimes.com/2026/07/14/u...

i have nothing polite to say

“But the bigger problem is how much of the media of ‘the left’ is dominated by men who appear to have no understanding of sexual abuse or intimate partner violence, but do have a pretty hefty sexist streak that they either aren’t aware of or don’t care to remedy.” YES @juliedicaro.bsky.social

The ICE murder of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo deserves the same fury as Renee Good and Alex Pretti

People are really out here doing Lysenkoism-but-for-housing in 2026. Unfathomable.

Must be fun just to say whatever shit pops into your head without any regard for whether it's actually true.

Oh, we’re really just doing Chavismo-with-American-characteristics, hunh

The people in charge of your city’s streets do not care if their road designs kill people, so long as traffic flows freely.

Design guidelines should be illegal under the 1st Amendment

Anti-intellectualism is a bipartisan project and in both cases it’s basically market protectionism for one’s artisanal shoddy, boring ideas that cannot find an audience.

let this be a lesson to deal with your feelings of gender anxiety and masculine inadequacy with a hobby or therapy or something and not a high stakes senate election

This is a story about a city dominated by a carbrained Mayor and City Supervisors, but it's framed as a transit failure. The transit failed because there were too many cars. Oh, also: Good luck San Francisco in an evacuation. This is what it will look like. www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/arti...

The Sandlot and The Rocketeer are both 4th of July and Christmas movies

I’m gonna be real with you all, I think that anyone who thinks America’s a shithole that isn’t worth saving isn’t worth listening to. The idea of a purifying revolution-to-come is a fantasy, a terminating piece of cope that keeps you from believing it’s worth putting in the work now.

45 years ago today. Buried on page 20 on a holiday Friday just like this one, news that changed the world. www.nytimes.com/1981/07/03/u...

Can’t explain why, but but I feel like DB Cooper is queer-coded. I get drag king energy

Happy “liberal arts professor helps save the Union” day to all who celebrate

Housing is expensive because we do not have enough homes. Affordable housing requirements in new buildings worsen this problem by raising the cost of development. This policy trades broad affordability for a handful of means-tested units for lottery winners. It is bad and we should stop doing it.

California Building Industry Association: best we got is another subdivision in Riverside

Now that the government’s persecution of trans people has gone beyond sports and medicine for teens, where are all the people who insisted they weren’t "anti-trans" but just had some “reasonable concerns"? www.readtpa.com/p/reasonable...

Mai Vang, endorsed by Sacramento’s local DSA chapter, was among the most enthusiastic votes for abolishing single family zoning in Sacramento asking “How can we get more plexes built in my district” Her incumbent opponent, Doris Matsui, wrote a letter to kill a bike lane project a few years back.

Happy SB 79 day to all who celebrate!! But especially @hanlon.bsky.social and @scottwiener.bsky.social who had the vision and held onto it against massive odds. cayimby.org/legislation/...

Happy SB79 Day to all celebrating!

Épuration légale is the moderate postion

I can’t imagine wasting my one precious life being a transphobic loser

The trans sports ban are almost completely an invention of the media, conservative and mainstream. it has been years of lies, of shoddy fact checking on just completely false conservative claims, years of phony concern trolling.

It’s really important to install an entire federal discrimination system so somebody’s cis daughter can finish 14th at her swim meet.

I hate Ruth Bader Ginsberg more with each passing year. What a selfish, egomaniac she was. One vote shy of suspending the constitution today. Would be nice to have more of a buffer!

the worst possible thing you can do to certain factions in san francisco is to advocate for housing that isn’t carefully calibrated to only attract occupants that will support their faction

The Imperial Federal Reserve.

Wait, why is it “Goose” and not “Gander”

The guy who screamed at Scott Weiner to leave the trans pride march being a straight dude who identifies as queer is like a parody of SF leftism.

europeans preferring to kill chronically ill people instead of installing air conditioning in fucking hospitals is straight up eugenics.

A cisgender straight guy screaming in Scott Wiener’s face and telling him that even though he passes great bills on LGBT issues, he “does not deserve to be at” the Trans March that he’s been attending for 22 years because he’s a YIMBY is a perfect symbol of the modern day SF “left.”

Scott Wiener has been doing queer rights advocacy since before I ever set foot in California. You don’t need to like him, you don’t need to vote for him, but this attitude is disgusting and has no place at trans march.

RETVRN

The new centrist Democrat group boosting Polymarket is really just the icing on the cake here.

A lot of people assume that the housing market circa 1975-2005, when urban housing was cheap even without new development thanks to rapid sprawl and white flight, is the natural state of the world and not an historically anomalous period shaped by housing and transportation policy choices.

“Who is BGB”

I do think the anti-interracial marriage shit from DAC is really bad tbh, her opponent definitely did not cover themselves in glory in regard to racism either, but it's the kind of thing that should be beyond the pale. That is a normative not descriptive claim, it obviously isn't because she won.

John Roberts will want you to forget everything that happened this week at SCOTUS after he confirms that the first sentence of the 14th Amendment means what it says, please do not fall for it

The last thing I really want to say on air conditioning is that insisting that you shouldn’t use it is a fundamentally conservative stance. It’s arguing that you don’t have to change because the world is changing. This is simply the hottest summer so far, and either you adapt or people die.