If you have to listen to a song on indefinite repeat, this is an excellent choice!

@christosargyrop.bsky.social Kale sales and autism www.wmbriggs.com/post/58413/

hard to think of a single pundit who is more frequently wrong than this guy if being a pundit was truly a meritocracy, Shadi would be long unemployed

I think that pardoning the Jan 6ers was the most political-violence-incentivizing act that any elected official has done in the past 5 decades.

No Shadi. You aren't doing anything to push the discourse to the center-left by staying on twitter. You get deprioritized by the algorithm, it stifles outbound links and all you do is give Elon's rigged game more legitimacy.

“Urban areas need far more transit than rural areas do, so fighting over transit has always been a thinly coded way to fight over whether cities, and higher-density living in general, are a good thing.” www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Adios you fruitcakes

FUCK YOU @disneyprimevideo.bsky.social et al!

Cancelled Disney+. We hardly ever watched it anyway. Except for Andor. Oh, the irony, the same network that produced Andor is now bending the knee to our very own fascists. Can't make this shit up.

So ABC is going to be the official propaganda outlet of the regime

A lot of times when someone is trying to present “the other side,” it’s actually stupid and wrong cause there aren’t always two sides to everything. In fact, in a lot of situations “the other side” is just poorly educated, bigoted, angry, or all of the above. This life isn’t a piece of printer paper

Regardless of how folks feel about Engardio, the recall option is definitely being abused in the Bay Area, which could have a chilling effect on electeds trying to do anything bold. The state & local charter cities would do well to raise the bar for recall qualifications.

At the Family Zoning Plan rally in SF and a speaker just said her grandmother died last night and the people opposed to the plan shouted liar at her. If this is the character of the opposition to plans to keep seniors in the city and welcome new neighbors, you sure you want to join them?

Imagine results like this in the Bay Area. We need congestion pricing here to make it easier and safer for everyone - including drivers - to get around and to help transit ridership grow.

Today is five years since orange skies day in San Francisco. This was really the lowest, most depressing point of the entire pandemic for me.

My favorite part is how Solana says that Donald Trump is the Abundance president and then never elaborates on that. Perhaps a good editor would have asked for fewer weird paragraphs about Luigi Mangione and some elaboration there?

A core part of the left-nimby conspiracy theory is that new housing raises prices and that new housing is mostly empty. Of course the data always shows the opposite when actually studied.

just saw this great video by a guy called @gavinnewsom.bsky.social calling on the Governor of California to approve funding to save bay area public transit from service cuts. it's a great idea, the governor should take this guy's advice! www.youtube.com/watch?v=iK8l...

Brilliant analogy on housing

Ya bc the bolsheviks murdered all of them

Sure but he's also destroying Bay Area public transport by being a colossal asshole and reneging on a promised bridge loan www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Despicable and thoughtless is literally what they ran on, and Rand was all over it.

i do wonder at what point this ratcheting of rhetoric about the democratic party ends up having real life effects

While Newsom’s social media team is killing it, @governor.ca.gov Newsom’s transit / climate / solar team is killing us. bsky.app/profile/resn... @cayimby.bsky.social @climatebrad.hillheat.com @transalt.org @apta-info.bsky.social @climateandtransit.bsky.social @t4america.bsky.social

“In one breath, we say we want to save American democracy from Trump. In the next, we insist on blocking the very thing—housing—that would help the state preserve its political clout and ensure the immigrants we say we want to protect can afford to live here.”

This is APPALLING. Newsom is reneging on a promise to loan Bay Area transit agencies funds to bridge the gap between COVID emergency funds and 2026 transit ballot measures. www.sfchronicle.com/politics/art...

Talk about a beg button

Make Cholera Great Again

Fucking brilliant, hats off to skáld/danglinghemmie

This speech by Senator Eric Schmitt is an open endorsement of white supremacy.

this is literally just racism

"Ashli Babbitt was a grown ass adult who made a series of conscious, ill-advised decisions to engage in treasonous behavior, and she got exactly what she deserved. She was a traitor. She was a threat to national security. There is no nuance needed here."

The right has collectively mourned Ashli Babbitt more than every kid that’s ever died in a mass shooting combined.

With Die Linke turning a blind eye to anti-Semitism and AfD opposing weapon deliveries to Israel, there's an almost complete overlap between anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism. But the alt-right is anti-Zionist because it's anti-Semitic whereas the alt-left is anti-Semitic because it's anti-Zionist.

California's four largest cities rank among world's least affordable housing markets by price-to-income ratio: 3. San Jose 5. Los Angeles 8. San Francisco 10. San Diego Local governments have failed to address housing crisis for decades, necessitating state-wide intervention.

My feelings about people who love to chime in about politics while maintaining an anonymous account are pretty straightforward: if you aren’t willing to identify yourself and stand by your thoughts, they probably aren’t worth listening to

Jon Lovett’s face when LA City Councilmember Imelda Padilla said she forced an affordable housing project to go down from six stories to three stories and add in EV charging spaces

I don't know what I'm supposed to do with a post like this. We know there is an abominable pay disaparity between ordinary workers and CEOs. But pointing this out ad nauseum without providing any policy prescriptions to change this gets unbelievably wearisome.

I'm personally a huge fan of lunch.

How Republicans really treat the working class.

Jeez.

As usual, wonderful and concise piece from Jarrett.

The goal is martial law, of course. He can’t control the cities and their Democratic populations any other way. It’ll be interesting, though. DC is weird because of its special status. That ambiguity does not exist elsewhere.

The NYT editors are meeting every day, workshopping a passive voice phrase for Martial Law

I’ll always remember spring-summer 2025 as the season of the narcissists

Some of you would be amazed at the frequency with which people in America's Most Progressive City go full blood and soil

dear democrats the president of the united states being pro slavery is a "kitchen table issue" to this black man

Can you imagine California, currently the world's fifth-largest economy, if it had not shackled itself to an enormous boulder for no reason

This is the absolute truth. It destroyed our state.