I would never crash out on the TL and start fedposting over bad national political news. I only do that for moderately unfavorable local transit project updates

Absolutely not. There are many reasons for this including: - repossession of collateral - amortization schedules - relative size of borrowing - risks and accounting of them for holders of loans Losses? Sure. Replicating the cause of the GFC? Lol no not happening.

Status: libbing out.

You can see why the press hated Colbert's address www.youtube.com/watch?v=IJ-a... speakola.com/political/co...

The wildest thing about the Hormuz crisis absolutely has to be Trump, absolutely sweaty and shaking, doing everything possible to make sure Iranian Oil goes through because he just thinks "anything that make oil go down good" not actually understanding second order effects at all.

You know what's most insane about the straight of Hormuz thing, we don't have enough ships to do it on our own but we really could do an escort mission reopening with international help. Trump has pissed off the international community so much, they'll bear the pain just to see Trump uncomfortable.

"Has anyone considered that the vikings named it iceland because iceland rhymes with niceland, and they named greenland because greenland rhymes with meanland?"

It’s going to be a big day for telling boomers who believe in human overpopulation to [redacted].

I think people in the Top 10% should pay taxes.

He didn't know it was a Nazi symbol... He didn't know that person he retweet was a Holocaust denier... He didn't know that the guy wearing the 88 shirt was a Nazi... Ok well he sounds like a fucking idiot then, what do you want me to tell you?

you know Zohran’s doing a good job at actually governing because the dumbest lefties are irrationally crashing out about it

in general, people are awful at understanding composition effects say the average new home would get an “efficiency score” of 8/10 while an old home gets a 2/10. If you pass a law requiring new homes are a 9/10, but the increased costs reduce homebuilding by 25%, overall efficiency decreases

I've said it before and I'll say it again "We can't fix the Dems, we need a new viable third party" is the political equivalent of "we can't fix Earth's environment, let's colonize Mars" In that however hard the first one might be - maybe very! - the second one is orders of magnitude harder

Whenever I see someone compare inequality in the US to pre-revolutionary war France my reaction is pretty much that SMBC comic. People need to realize that the first and second estate were TAX EXEMPT. Not 'refusing to pay their fair share', EXEMPT.

America has a housing shortage. Every single housing proposal you see that is not "build more housing" will have the primary effect of pushing up the prices of existing housing, and is therefore, in reality, a plan to enrich current homeowners. In conclusion, build more housing.

No Christmas Eve is complete without Jimmy Stewart crashing out and threatening to fight the husband of his Daughter's grade-school teacher, before heading off to Martini's. ✨🎄✨

All it takes is one nightmare Air Traffic control malfunction and you'll see immediately the necessity of high speed rail. Can't believe people are against it. Cut the red tape and bullshit and finish this thing already.

What's the matter honey, you haven't touched your WeWork wrapped...

Elon Musk didn't retire the 'Mecha-Hitler' version of Grok, he just made it take out the website's moderating system.

Garden-variety conservative: wokeness is the new racism (disapprovingly) Hanania: wokeness is the new racism (approvingly)

I had no Idea what this tattoo symbolized, I got it while I was drunk on shore leave in Anaheim. I absolutely would not have gone through life having this on my leg if I knew what it symbolized – and to insinuate that I did is disgusting

I dont mind that the new york dems are weird about internal state matters I just hate that they carry that weirdness so far as to fail to be partisan nationally. They can't control their own state party and shouldn't be in charge of the national one

I'm so close to convincing my Mom to let me convert the PT Cruiser into a technical. Revolution coming any day now.

Monstrous: "They were crying in fear. One of the agents at one point lifted up his shirt, which displayed the gun that he was carrying....The 6-year-old boy was terrified to see the gun. He urinated on himself and wet all his clothing. No one offered him a change of clothing for many hours."

Because people actually want more police and nobody is asking for free buses. Buses are already*very* cheap. 🤷‍♂️

A few years back, @idothethinking.bsky.social and @muhammadspeaks.bsky.social wrote a piece about how California is the least-welcoming state in the U.S. when it comes to immigrants -- because of our housing policies. That's still true today. While we're protesting. For immigrants' rights.

I'm going to tap this sign again. Fuck PSL always and forever. They are a genocidal organization which, along with their Breakthrough News friends orchestrated PRO #TigrayGenocide rallies & traveled to Eritrea to gaslight us. I hate this segment of the so-called left more than our dictators.

Landlords be like? "Block new housing? No, I must spend 10 million dollars to build a building I will keep vacant, this is the way of my people"

Yeah it's utterly preposterous to think that professionals won't even humor moving to SF if they can't have fresh drywall and stainless steel appliances.

Also according to the best research we have this is just blatantly, factually wrong. "In cities like SF ... new market-rate housing doesn’t reliably 'filter down.' Instead, it often accelerates upward pressure: drawing in more wealth, raising land values, and subtly remaking neighborhoods."

Also, it's backwards to think YIMBYs are deregulators & NIMBYs pro-regulation. US land-use governance is an unregulated free-for-all in which local electeds & neighborhood busybodies exercise arbitrary power. YIMBY seeks to replace that with predictable rule-based decision-making.

you hate ralph nader for throwing the 2000 election. i hate ralph nader for burning america's state capacity to the ground to establish a universal nonprofit veto over any affirmative program, however progressive. we're different.

A West Virginia prosecutor said Friday that while *he* doesn’t want to investigate women for miscarriages, his colleagues are discussing it. He suggested people protect themselves by self-reporting pregnancy losses to police or a doctor. Why this is a horrible idea, feat @ifwhenhow.bsky.social

Child murderers

God are anti-establishment progressives really this much in denial that they think they are the HIGH-INFO voters? Not all moderates are informed, but partisans routinely say the wildest shit.

As we advance big housing reforms — including my bill to allow more homes near transit & @buffywicks.bsky.social bill to exempt infill housing from CEQA — we can look to Sacramento as an example of what happens when a city takes housing production seriously: Lower costs & the sky doesn’t fall.

Most progressive thing Bernie can do right now is retire.

Hamilton Nolan hits it right on the mark, yet again.

The Democrat problem isn't the centrists, the problem isn't the far left, it isn't the center left either. It is the lack of a strong party establishment to keep *everyone* in line and gatekeep special interests. How the hell are there so nany pro crypto grift senators???

Cato has published my comprehensive review of the ~240 Venezuelans the US government renditioned 2 months ago to Salvador’s notorious prison. We identified FIFTY who came legally, never violated any immigration law, but are imprisoned at the US government’s request and at US taxpayer expense.

important survey at work. Do I put Sonic the Hedgehog or Dr. Henry Kissinger?

I'm amazed at just how quickly and thoroughly these Gestapo have been able to kill the idea that 'tough immigration enforcement is good for labor'. Like surely nobody in labor is ever gonna make this argument again right?

I swear to god mainstream discourse would be served much better if we spent less time on capitalism vs socialism and spent more time discussing the truly most nefarious ideology: Romanticism.

You know there are countries that had schools open at this time. Many US schools were already open. It wasn't a catastrophe, the data showed it was very much safe. It's not a crazy hypothetical.

RFK Jr's voice sounds like he is a reanimated corpse being piloted by fell sorcery.

Gavin Newsom trying his whole swing centrist thing is honestly profoundly fucking funny. His whole strategy is that he can flawlessly switch from virtue signaling to craven facist signaling without any pushback from the left or right. It's such a beautiful trainwreck.

"being a centrist is when you don't want to abolish the police, which to be clear isn't what 'abolish the police actually' actually means."

"Sometimes the world changes dramatically and a law that is half a century old doesn’t perfectly fit the times. That is precisely the case with CEQA." Tell your California legislators to vote yes on AB 609! www.sacbee.com/opinion/arti...