Advocates are currently fundraising for an operations funding ballot measure. The idea local advocates aren’t thinking about service-oriented transit planning is just flatly incorrect.

Rising costs and long delays remain key challenges for major public transit projects in Los Angeles. Councilmember Nithya Raman joined “Inside the Issues” host Amrit Singh to discuss why she believes investing now could prevent higher costs in the future.

This is pretty common when thing on X dot com now. This thing where Principled Liberals engage with troglodyte gutter racists spewing slurs by just politely responding to them like peers in a debate club. It’s completely deranged.

Going on a lil vacation tomorrow

“Certainly it was a very strong post”

Sacramento deserves a regional rail system. What would it take to build it?

We need this for SacRT so bad. Our bus system is unusable on the grid given the bus stops every two blocks.

The Odd Lots eps that are like “To figure out how chicken arbitrage works we brought on someone from the chicken nugs finance world” are great but my favs are: “We brought on a markets guy to explain all the volatility” And the markets guy is like “Well, Joe, markets is a land of contrast”

I think high trust, educated PMC types gotta hand it to the low trust lumpen on the Epstein stuff. They got some of the details wrong but ultimately were right about there being a high level conspiracy of pedophile elites.

Heartbreaking: Girlfriend hates Porter Robinson, even his more recent experimental stuff.

If you want a vision of the future, imagine septuagenarian smashing their SUV into a store front - forever

What if I just suddenly declared myself an expert on contemporary Chinese politics and exclusively posted about it.

Correct, American property owners are land value thieves which belong to all mankind.

i made a version of wikipedia you can doomscroll xikipedia.org

There is only one working class, the professional managerial class, and there is only one working class party, the Democratic party, and there is only one working class paper, the Financial Times

I went to the Darrell Steinberg Unity Classroom and nobody knew you

Where did Oprah Winfrey find all of these grifters and why are they all pedophiles

This story really goes out of its way to pretend there are no drawbacks to these “consumer friendly” regulations or even mentions the state of the insurance industry. Climate is rendering more properties to be uninsurable and this piece basically misleads the public about that fact.

Why do so many rich guys struggle to find suits that fit. If I ever got television syndication money, one of the first things I’d do is get bespoke suits.

rooseveltinstitute.org/publications... CC: @rooseveltinstitute.org @kedseconomist.com

I’m not gonna post it because it’s genuinely so grim but there’s this comedian who set up a fake ICE tip line for people to call to report on immigrants and he posts their conversations on TikTok. The most recent post of his was a Kindergarten teacher who wanted one of her students parents deported.

Woke was never the issue but I do think that NPIC-speak where you talk like 1/3rd half-remembered humanities seminar, 1/3rd therapy tiktok, and 1/3rd fake AAVE that a TON of nonprofit advocates and media people did in the 2010’s was grating and probably did hurt the left on the margin.

For some additional context, FAIR plan liability is about 3x as much as the state’s unfunded pension liability.

Not to mention the fact that, like, we're still perpetuating this. We still allow the construction of new homes in areas where the only insurance you're going to be able to get is the FAIR plan. Seems bad!

"Here's some stuff I had an LLM produce, I didn't check it for accuracy at all." Thanks man, I really appreciate it, good stuff as always.

It's really funny to see CA's climate denialism after living in Louisiana. The wealthy Whites who run that state are largely insulated from hurricane damage and actively wish NOLA would disappear. In CA, however, the state's elites live in fire zones and have to convince us all to bail them out.

Given that there are multiple proposals to get the California public on the hook to insure the uninsurable: I feel there is a strong necessity for a grasstops advocacy organization that speaks out against this insanity and has no ties to industry associations. Much like the YIMBY movement.

The current exposure for the California FAIR plan (California’s insurer of last resort) sits at $724 billion. Its liability almost doubled in two years and is now more than double the state’s annual budget. In its most recent financial reporting it had about $1.5 billion on hand.

@gelliottmorris.com continues to have been right about immigration as an electoral issue www.bostonreview.net/forum/how-no...

Repeal every single ballot measure passed in the state from 1970-2000 and this state is so much better off it’s not even funny. California voters in the late 20th century were totally batshit insane: Prop 13, Prop 4, Prop 103, Prop 187 all passed decisively Just total fascist Id for like 30 years.

I think the far more interesting takeaway from this poll (which pleases no one but I think a lot more people should view as an opportunity) is that “Public Opinion” is a lot more contextual and malleable than some elites and gatekeepers would have us believe.

Tapered pants are ugly as hell why do retailers still sell them.

Stealing this logo for my anti FAIR plan/ Prop 103 advocacy group.

There’s a neighborhood bar like this a few blocks from me. COVID era permits allowed them to turn their parking lot into an outdoor seating area. NIMBY got pissed, realized the permits expired, reported them, and now it’s a bar parking lot again. Drunk driving is city policy.

Violent resistance is sometimes necessary but no serious person analyzing current conditions could 1. Believe we are close to that point or 2. Believe Liberals/ Leftists are organized and militant enough to conduct anything more than sporadic acts of terrorism.

City subreddits are at their best when posts are like “Why is this restaurant so weird?”

It’s gotta be a troll but even still this gave me a sensible chuckle over my morning coffee.

Many people are saying the public sector should operationalize urban land rents.

SEIU Local 26 (Minneapolis janitors and airport workers) reported over 1000 workers not working during the general strike on Jan 23rd. Incredible!

Confused as to how Josh Shapiro thinks it is appropriate to compare student protestors to the KKK but inappropriate to compare ICE to the Gestapo

Another entry in the “Liberal except for Israel is an untenable position to take in the current Democratic Party” genre. Dude will get clobbered over this in the 2028 presidential primary. “Pro jackbooted thugs” is unpopular full stop.

It’s pretty bad that the Bircher affectation of referring to everything to the left of Adolf Hitler as “Communist” is basically a universal rhetorical tick among essentially every right wing party across the globe.

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My appetite is not lessened and work seems quite horrid in prospect.

More and more people are saying this.

There's a reasonable case to be made that American law enforcement has abused chemical irritants for far too long and should be banned from having them nationwide

He foresaw all this

Stephen Miller, terrified of the California that Prop 187 made, has now Prop 187ed the entire country in a dipshit attempt to ethnically purge his home state (and the country as a whole).

I think these people are being dramatic and shitty but also I do think high profile, very online activists can be more trouble than they’re worth. Maybe Stancil is worth it since he can generate press but I don’t think it’s unreasonable to have issues with a poster be the face of your movement.