more confirmation that lurking clearly behind this idea of the “heritage american” is a straightforward contempt for the actual history and tradition of this country, such that vermeule has to hallucinate a framework to justify his desire to jettison the clear meaning of the 14th amendment

Trump take house

I love the east Bay Area. People of different races and religions live and work together to build the American Dream. We in liberal society take this for granted but the national rise of extremism stemming from online content seeks to take this away from us. darrellowens.substack.com/p/the-americ...

Selling pardons is ineffably corrupt. Just complete contempt for a rule of law. If this isn’t a high crime or misdemeanor, nothing is.

@jd-vance-1.bsky.social check this out

'Mosul at Dawn.' In the Autumn of 1880 Arthur Melville embarked on a two year visit to the Middle East. Fascinated by the shadowed streets and courtyards, he developed his characteristic 'blottesque' technique which established him as the leading watercolourist of his generation.

I love that he's explaining the housing crisis from the landlord perspective

Today the California State Senate pro Tempore, that body's leader, released the committee assignments for 2026, and I would say that they're quite good overall for housing legislation's prospects. There are some tight corners, but also a path. Next session starts in just a few weeks!

"It is logically impossible to simultaneously be evil, corrupt, and incompetent" is an absolutely amazing take to have in the year of 2025

Radical bearded cleric issues new fatwa -->

I don’t mean to sound extreme, but I don’t think we should have torture camps for people with criminal records either.

I am completely serious that I would please like my check to go “back” to Italy.

I don't really think we can accomplish the politics of building so much it causes people to lose value in their homes. The goal is to build so much we freeze the prices, so as incomes rise, everything just becomes more affordable.

Since his appointment, RFK Jr. has pursued a brutal vision of American health that several experts liken to a sort of eugenics. Kennedy has made it clear that certain deaths are acceptable or even preferable to a world where every child is vaccinated. Read more: www.theverge.com/health/66136...

We are ruled by a Satanic death cult.

Fired up the computer to start a research project on my family I have wanted to do for awhile, and now, because of DOGE "saving me money," I will have to subscribe to a digital newspaper research service. Stupidest shit of all time, man

Zohran Mamdani scares the ADL more than these guys and I think it's fair to ask why

They like him and want to help him

this is the unspoken but absolutely clear argument at hand.

In Feb, the Planning Commission approved a 43-unit townhome project on the east side of PCH (not in the Coastal Zone). In Dec, just 4 blocks to the south and on the west side of PCH, the Planning Commission denied a 49-unit condo project. Main difference? West of PCH is in the Coastal Zone.

Tonight, the Redondo Beach Planning Commission denied a modest AB 2011 project on a lot that has been vacant for 30 years. The only reason it didn't have ministerial approval is because it is in the Coastal Zone. We are far overdo for Coastal Zone reform

The collective delusion here is useful in that it has provoked conservatives to dispense with decades of bootstrap rhetoric and reveal what they would say if they thought black people were people, that is to say, if these things were happening to them

Los Angeles city attorney has outlined her legal attack on SB 79, the high-profile bill to allow dense housing near mass transit. She's planning to make a claim to an obscure state commission to reimburse the city for $2b+ in costs. For subscribers: subscriber.politicopro.com/article/2025...

Remember the YIMBY guy who voted for Trump because "competency matters" hahahahahahahahahahaha

My mom is a Vietnamese immigrant and on her immigration papers, she has her name written the Vietnamese way (Last Middle First.) On her Social Security card and driver's license, she has it the European way (First Middle Last.) That would likely be enough for Republicans to strip her citizenship.

In California, you can kill someone with your car and not even have a point on your license. That’s because of a criminal justice reform law passed in 2020, allowing judges to effectively erase a misdemeanor case from existence. bit.ly/4s4gYyt 📸 Fred Greaves

As crime drops across CA, @governor.ca.gov Gavin Newsom launched a new page tracking Trump’s criminal allies The contrast couldn’t be clearer: CA is driving crime down — while Trump pardons drug lords and welcomes criminals into government See it for yourself: gov.ca.gov/2025/12/14/trumpcriminals/

Unclear to me why the rent control coalition in San Francisco is saying Family Zoning is bad because it only reduces rents by $100 over 10 years. Against rising incomes, that's an insane human rights accomplishment... plus, your biggest goal is do rent control and cap increases at 6%... (???)

Rob Reiner: “Silence in the face of authoritarianism is complicity. Speaking out is a patriotic act. Democracy doesn’t defend itself. It requires participation, vigilance, and courage from ordinary people."

Tuberville's comment is fucking insane for lots of reasons, but it's especially insane in light of the Muslim man who naturalized in Australia three years ago and who quite famously and recently took five bullets to protect Jews celebrating at the beach. There's no appeasing white nationalists!

He @s and agrees with fuel granny specifically hahahahahahahahahaha

A million Muslims live in New York City. We belong here, as does every other New Yorker. This is vile Islamophobia from the Councilwoman and it has no place in our city.

Wow - California did this last year, but it was for five years. Really exciting to see people waking up to the reality that the building code is broken. A freeze isn't enough, or even necessarily good. We have to be reducing building code costs.

Ahmed al Ahmed, the man who tackled one of the Bondi killers, became an Australian citizen 3 years ago. His deed was "his way of conveying his gratitude for staying in Australia, for being granted citizenship." He took 5 bullets, and fears he'll lose his left arm. www.smh.com.au/national/nsw...

This NYT story failed the reader by not digging deeper. One subject dropped out of college after one year (five years ago) and lists "Windows" as his skillset. Story should be: young conservatives who blame immigrants for their personal failures and whose lives won't be improved w/ fewer immigrants

This is one of those things that sorta quietly just happens but could be lowkey one of the most important and beneficial developments in the history of our species. www.pv-magazine.com/2025/12/12/b...

12 dead at a mass shooting at a Hanukkah celebration at Bondi Beach.💔 A 43-year-old father of two, Ahmed al Ahmed, snuck up & tackled a gunman to disarm him. Ahmed was shot twice. Both Jewish & Muslim faiths teach that “to save one life is to save all humanity.” Let us hold fast to our humanity.❤️

A religious display that shows Jesus being harassed by the govt? This is unprecedented

Two victims of previous school shootings — Mia Tretta, who was shot in the stomach in 2019 at Saugus High School, and Zoe Weissman, who survived the 2018 shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School — are now at Brown. Gun violence is out of control in this country.

Buttigieg on Indiana: "The big part of how Trumpism works is to make you feel totally disempowered. To make him feel inevitable. And yet the clear takeaway from this is he is not unstoppable and you are not without power."

This awful era keeps ruining people for me that I once liked. But if you side with fascism, corruption, racism and anti-science ignorance, there’s just no coming back from that.

So the US just hijacked an oil tanker and the president casually says “I guess we keep the oil” Is this not just theft

Cars are so dangerous that parents who move their kids to the suburbs to avoid perceptions of urban crime increase their kid’s likelihood of dying a violent death by like 30 percent.

The only reason you do this is because you want to either kill, enslave, or deport all Black people living in the United States.

He's finally losing it

The US government is now a mafia organization.

In a normal administration, this would be a career-ending, weeks-long scandal

East Bay for Everyone, as co-host with Livable Communities Initiative, is proud to announce the winners of the National Single Stair Design Competition: www.singlestair.com

This article was just lying to you. California builds 25,000 ADUs per year because of state preemption. There are tens of thousands of homes built with state ministerial streamlining. There are now *hundreds of thousands* of homes that would not otherwise exist because of state preemption.