Adjusted for average income, housing costs more in Los Angeles than anywhere else in the country. For the first time in many decades, we have a shot at electing a mayor, Nithya Raman, who wants to change that by making it easier to build new apartments.

Ok but only if you absolutely promise

On my bullshit again thinking about a primary challenger campaign centered around something like “Rebuild the Republic: looking forward to the next 250”

Keeping in mind that California’s election reporting means basically any race I care about (conveniently all the close ones) won’t be called till like July 😒

For all the security-related stuff they’re talking about putting in this wing, I have a feeling there’s NO satellite opsec going on. Every adversary with space imaging is going to have a complete cross-section of this part of the building with 90-minute resolution

watching the chuds turn literally everything into Gender at all times is so exhausting and stupid figuring out that You Don't Have To Do That is, I believe, the single most helpful realization a young man can make, it's such an enormous life improvement to just embrace what you actually like

For those following along at home, CARB’s vote today essentially guts the greenhouse gas reduction fund and eviscerates the state’s largest sources of funding for affordable housing and public transit. At a time when we should be doubling down on them, we’re pulling away.

Shocker, the Maxine Waters voter guide has basically all the most status-quo, milquetoast Dem choices on the ballot

The fact that small scale real estate investors who flip $500k starter homes into $2 million McMansions are NOT required to provide subsidized housing for poor people but the investors who flip the same homes into ten $650,000 townhomes ARE is such an indictment of California housing policy.

2026 vintage is gonna be a clear skip down the road

Over a decade of insisting that verifiably restricting Iran's nuclear program was terrible, because unilateral US force would achieve so much more. It hasn't. The JCPOA advocates were always right. Cruz, Graham, FDD, etc. bear responsibility for this disaster (but will likely never acknowledge it).

Isn’t this what Amy Lee was singing about

Cow pastures smell like home to me now #VirginiaTech

Incredible work by the FAA on this approach plate. Gen Z has arrived to Oklahoma City

My freshman English class focused largely on gender. Day 1 me rolled my eyes HARD when I heard. End of the semester me wondered at all the ways we fail young boys and the impacts of it on society

Positive indication that not 1 single Republican voter is worth trying to convince to break for the dems in a general election, nor “independents” who have voted Trump 3 times. Run even harder to the left, give your side someone to get excited about. We just have to force a better country onto them.

We have to just accept these people won’t change their mind, stop caring what they think and give them healthcare with a smile

🧵 Kind of reminds me of my take on Disney leaning so hard into IP at the parks is its own sign of the decline of optimism about the future

What if Bluesky doesn't have to be Important. What if social media doesn't have to be Important. Remember less than 20 years ago when social media didn't exist and we just hung out on forums and anyone who suggested the forum was Important would have been referred for a wellness check.

Political science research had, as I recall, found that politicians are SHOCKINGLY likely to keep their campaign promises

For 45 years, Berkeley built virtually no new housing. By the mid-2010s, it was one of the most expensive college towns in America. Around that time, YIMBYs took over and kicked off a building boom. Today, rents are below 2018 levels in nominal terms—a remarkable case of progress on affordability.

bluesky is an anti-ai bubble. in the real world people are not as hot for it as the crypto bros, but there isn't this instant revulsion like on here.

🚨New Engineer Guy video alert🚨 youtu.be/7vN614cPqTMC

Happy Mother's Day! Let's build a more affordable South Bay. Join us at South Bay Forward!

Oh my god I had to go and see this for myself, come on man what is this 💀

quote this shit and say that you're using the maps anyway

some wisdom from james wilson, framer. "The truth is that, in our governments, the supreme, absolute, and uncontrollable power remains in the people."

“Can I copy off your homework?” “Ok but don't make it look the exact same”

One of those classic gut-reactions, “Hell no we shouldn’t pay them more!” things until you explain like 3 immediate consequences Fastest my mind’s ever been changed on an issue when I first heard it argued

this is also one of my hobbyhorses. you want a better caliber of lawmaker? you want to reduce the odds of corruption? pay them more. a lot more.

Evergreen

Idk man it’s a huge mystery, I wonder how we can protect against this previously almost-eradicated disease

Wonderful thread as always

😂😂😂 I’m reminded of the time Ben Shapiro walked off Andrew Neil’s interview: “Mr. Shapiro, if you only knew how ridiculous that statement is, you wouldn’t have said it”

I have more respect for the Court than some of my peers, but there's no defensible position that says the Court should not reap the politics it sows. Holding this Court accountable for it's radical manipulation of our democratic and governmental systems is the only appropriate response.

Kinda bummed thinking about how I thought I’d be too busy to run for city council this summer when in reality it could literally be buying 5,000 yard signs saying “YIMBY for council” and checking your campaign email every few days

I think if you want to know what someone is likely to end up believing, you need to, first and foremost, try to understand what ideas are presented as obvious, true, or ridiculous in their social universe. It doesn't matter what they experience; it matters what they perceive others as believing

Incredible own goal on the Opposition side of City Council tonight. Food pantry that’s been at (now corrected) odds with the city seeking letter of support for grants. 1 recusal. Mayor opposes. 1 earnestly suggests getting more info but delaying. Opp votes no. Motion for letter fails completely.

We need to re-legalize the very cheap, bare bones housing that keeps people off the street. More broadly, we need policymakers to be ok with letting people build types of housing that they would not particularly want to live in.

PG&E and the realtors being the main funders of these attack ads have basically sealed my vote for him tbh

Only thing I know for certain is that in a week we’re all going to inevitably be saying “man can you believe it’s only been a week since the WHCD thing?”

two things I believe 100% about finding intelligent life in the universe 1) we won't 2) it's totally out there

Evergreen Reddit question www.reddit.com/r/AskHistori...

It really should be studied how so many politicians in one place ardently refuse to believe their region is anything other than a solidly urban area. Have these people never been anywhere else in this country?

Ohhhh, why didn’t we just work with state officials this whole time?? Gosh no wonder there’s so much traffic congestion, it’s because we didn’t have federal and state partnerships to try to figure out how to solve this big, mysterious problem!

NASA’s Artemis II crew fits a decent definition of an aspirational vision for masculinity (a wonderful attribute not sequestered to people born as male). These impressive people are optimizing for service, vs. attention.

Incredible things going on at my alma mater today

anyway, if this court is going to act as little more than a partisan legislature than it ought to be treated like one by the actual legislature