I really appreciate how the City Controller Kenneth Mejia has been highlighting this issue. Liability costs are out of control. As mayor, I’ll cap how much departments (including LAPD) can tap into the General Fund for settlements before using their own budgets + prevent causes of liability.

People seem to struggle with the idea that you can be generally pro-labor while taking issue with the tactics or demands of specific unions, but this is genuinely not complicated. I also support universal suffrage even though I don’t like how a lot of people end up voting.

Nithya Raman is the first Mayoral candidate to max out the City matching funds- despite having entered the race in the literal 11th hour. This shows that she has strong grassroots support from within the city! Help her make the runoff by signing up to volunteer at nithyaforthecity.com

NIMBYs BE WARNED! After the failed MAGA city council in Huntington Beach FAILED to plan and build housing, a Superior Court judge just ordered the city to cough up $50,000 PER MONTH. BUILD MORE HOUSING!!!

new California solar *and* wind records just dropped. new solar records starting in May is typical, but a *huge* jump in wind, nearly 2GW over the previous batch of records on 2022. new farm must be coming on line — must be SunZia in New Mexico www.eenews.net/articles/lar...

The batteries, they ate the duck.

This is REALLY important. The main thing that makes it hard to achieve integrated nature/green in cities ISN’T the density of buildings or the density of people — it's the density of CARS. And the better designed your density of people and buildings is, the fewer cars you need or want. #UrbanTruth

The funniest thing about the “fertility debate” is that it has an easy answer as far as America is concerned (let in more immigrants) but people are like that is neither racist nor misogynist enough

"You should be down in Hollywood (You should be down in Hollywood) You should be down in Hollywood (You should be down in Hollywood) You should be down in Hollywood (You should be down in Hollywood) You should be down in Hollywood (You should be down in Hollywood)" -Wallows, Pictures of Girls

The longer D is finally visible on Google Maps! It's beautiful 😍😍😍

The last fundraising reporting deadline in the LA mayoral election is tonight. Next week's news cycle will be determined by how much money we raise in the next 10 hours. If you have the means, and you want to help get a pro-housing mayor of LA, donate today: secure.actblue.com/donate/nithy...

Californian here. We are doing so much winning that we are, in fact, getting tired of all the winning.

Should the police really be allowed to have unions?

🌲🌲🌲🌲🏙️🏙️🏙️🌲🌲🌲🌲 Or 🌲🏠🏠🏠🏠🏙️🏠🏠🏠🏠🌲

AB 2074 by @matthaneysf.bsky.social, which streamlines the construction of high-rise, residential and mixed-use developments near regional transit hubs, passed out of the Assembly Appropriations Committee today! Next stop is the Assembly floor.

"Progressive" is when people who live in dense city centers with low wildfire risk are forced to pay exhorbitant insurance premiums to subsidize insurance for rich suburbanites in high-fire danger areas of the state. For the love of God, don't vote for Jane Kim.

This is a subsidy from all Californian renters to wealthy people who live in fire zones.

California is the highest expression of the American experiment. The state is literally the greatest thing we've ever built as a people.

I also have California derangement syndrome (because I love it so much)

I'm going to vote for @tomsteyerhq.bsky.social but if you're not a Republican, you need to either vote for him or Becerra. Keep Republicans mad and unemployed as God intended for them to be.

Becerra ultimately doesnt need my vote but going Steyer can get Hilton out.

If enough progs can get in behind Steyer we can absolutely shut Republicans out of the race in November, which will not just guarantee a Democratic win, but will depress Republican turnout across the board

California has been built by immigrants. It runs because of immigrants. We must protect our immigrants — and prosecute ICE.

Huang voters should ask themselves if they'd prefer to have the choice of Raman or Bass in the general, or if they'd like to risk Mayor Spencer Pratt.

California YIMBY has declined to endorse any one gubernatorial candidate in the primary, and has instead provided this helpful write-up from Brian. So with Steyer earning endorsements from @yimbyaction.bsky.social, @abundanthousingla.bsky.social, and @streetsforall.org, he's got my vote.

Why is the E Line blue? And what the hell is L?

I hope the next Democratic administration can wrap their heads around the fact that redesigning America's atrocious urban environments to make mass transit, biking and walking viable is a literal matter of national security.

If you live in LA, VOTE RAMAN!

DTLA: Want more housing? Come support the biggest housing project in LA at tomorrow's PLUM meeting! 2PM at LA City Halll Can't make it in person? Send a letter here: support-fourth-and-central.netlify.app

Where Alissa Walker asks, "are these new stations going to be big enough for a city that's finally been set in motion? 🔥" Born with Earth's finest natural blessing, LA is finally in motion. Riding the D is just the start of our golden age.

If this tweet just said "landlords" instead of "developers" it would make perfect sense, but for some reason a whole lot of leftists see productive capitalists rather than rentier parasites as the leading villain of the housing crisis for some reason.

Well… only if we elect Nithya Raman!

A half hour *flat* to walk from 11th and Broadway to 7th/Metro, get on the train and get to Wilshire/Fairfax. This thing is gonna revolutionize LA.

LA needs an underground train following PCH from Santa Monica to Long Beach with zoning to match.

Today, a new Los Angeles is born. We will heal, we will grow, and we will become. And the city of the angels shall be heaven.

"Mom can we get some AI?" "No honey, we have AI at home." The AI at home:

Been leaning towards @tomsteyerhq.bsky.social since he's endorsed by @abundanthousingla.bsky.social @yimbyaction.bsky.social and @streetsforall.org, but that debate made me still want to consider @katieporterca.bsky.social. Steyer seems most aligned with the YIMBYs but Porter the most knowledgeable.

That was a very substantive housing conversation. Porter, Mahan, Steyer, probably in that order, clearly understood what they're talking about. Villaraigosa sounded like he prepped for a debate. Becerra, especially early on, sounded like he released his housing plan yesterday

Damn, so his plan to bring down construction costs is "Trump bad" and "We can afford to pay construction workers more in California." Also "red tape (derogatory.)" As a professor, I know what it looks like when someone isn't writing their own papers.

Insane how even with all of our new rail we are still so far below our pre-pandemic peak. But if anything can change that, it's a longer D penetrating deep into some the densest, most amenity-rich neighborhoods of Los Angeles

I just jumped on the D and am riding it now!

Ananda Coomaraswamy famously said museums are where we proudly display the artifacts of a way of life that has become impossible. A new mass transit subway stop nextdoor to a car museum makes a terrific A1 photo in today’s LA Times, by Carlin Stiehl.

Prop 13 reform could fix this

I switched from ChatGPT to Claude during the DoD episode and have been satisfied. But I miss having and do need an image generator and I hear there's been some notable progress in the past few weeks What model do y'all recommend for an image generation? Open to any except Grok because fuck Nazis

Nithya Raman is not just pro-housing, she's unapologetically pro-density! Let's make her our Mayor.

Let's make LA a city of opportunity again! #TeamNithya @nithyaforthecity.bsky.social

I switched from ChatGPT to Claude during the DoD episode and have been satisfied. But I miss having and do need an image generator and I hear there's been some notable progress in the past few weeks What model do y'all recommend for an image generation? Open to any except Grok because fuck Nazis

I really hope the D Line opening up will help change the conversation about housing in LA. Many people will look at this, think “hey this is awesome, why can’t more people use it?”, and hopefully demand change.

Is this the first time Metro has shared an official map with the longer D?