California's main policy goal for the next decade should be to strip as much governing authority away from Los Angeles as possible.

anyone have the backstory on the revolutionary landlords of santa monica?

You should email this person every morning just to confirm A&M's official policy on the number of genders for that day.

Rushing down to the recruiter's office so I can proudly lay down my life during Operation Forgotten Epstein.

Something that's always amazed me about California politics is how often people will risk spending the rest of their lives in prison over relatively small amounts of money. Either this sort of corruption is common and goes mostly unpunished or California politics is full of very, very stupid people.

I'm going to try to put together a mini lit review on some of the recent institutional landlords papers. there are lots of papers, so I will be necessarily omitting many. Mostly focused on impacts on prices, and whether institutional landlords are killing homeownership and driving up rents.

Coming up with a new university ranking system that's based on how many faculty members traded emails with Jeffrey Epstein.

English -- Republican Dictionary: 40 year old male (White) -- "Little Boy" 13 year old male (Black) -- "Grown Man" 15 year old female (Any Race) -- "Adult Woman"

As a fan of early American history, it's nice to be able to experience The Slave Power's second act.

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Can the city council just rezone the Dodger Stadium parking lots since this is what all this gondala bs is really about anyhow?

Not excusing the NYT's political coverage, but this person makes an important point. The reason legacy media falls all over itself to cover BS like Benghazi, Hunter Biden's laptop, Hilary's server, etc. is because the entire GOP and their media apparatus takes official actions to make them a story.

Looking for a bar in Seattle's CBD that has food until late. Any recommendations?

Was thinking of doing this as I was thumbing through the Google Drive this afternoon. Problem is the emails are redacted (except for Epstein's) so it might be hard if the display names aren't standardized?

Imagining Trump is finally removed from the White House under DC law because sex offenders cannot live within 2,000 feet of a school.

This is everyone's Notes app after they mix up their 10mg and 5mg gummies.

America Disease, neatly summed up in one thread.

Went to check into my flight tomorrow at noon and discovered that Alaska cancelled my flight without telling me, but helpfully booked me on another flight at an airport 50 miles away.

I would love to read an article about how the NY Times abetted the Epstein coverup. There are probably enough disgruntled ex-employees floating around that you could start piecing it together.

I think Republican Senators will only vote for this if they sense they're going to get a primary challenger in 2026. But there are quite a few facing reelection so it's not impossible!

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I know Karoline Leavitt said "Situation Room" in the press conference this morning, but did they really bring her into a SCIF just to bully her into hiding the president's pedophilia? The Situation Room is where they monitored the Bin Laden raid FFS.

@ezrakleinbot.bsky.social derangement syndrome can be cured simply by reading the rest of the column.

👋 I'm Danielle, and I'm on the #econjobmarket this year! Let's start with a student describing her segregated school: "The school felt temporary. Built like a warehouse with aluminum siding . . . I had a slipshod education" The twist? The student is white, and her school is private. A JMP 🧵 -->

Ok now that I'm seeing some of these emails, Trump totally had Epstein killed.

BREAKING: Moderate House Democrats announce they've switched their votes and will oppose releasing the Epstein files. "It was a different time," they said in a statement. "Like, do you remember American Beauty?'

I can sense a lot of hopium brewing that the Epstein stuff is finally going to sink Trump and I just don't think that's how cults work.

Jeffrey Epstein's "jeevacation" email address is the most Boomer shit imaginable.

In 2018, then-Mayor Ada Colau called Barcelona’s new 30% inclusionary housing requirement for projects over 600m^2 a “paradigm shift,” making housing “a right and not a commodity.” It was supposed to produce 330 affordable units a year. The reality: just 31 affordable apartments in all these years.

77 million Americans will rise up as one and proudly proclaim "Technically, it's ephebophilia..."

Watching Death by Lightening and it's a shame Charles Gateau was born when he was because that guy would've made an A+ Trump cabinet member.

Look, Twitter may be entirely White supremacists, people lying about their wealth and spam bots. But it is an indispensable part of any serious person's life because it also has the MyPillow LLM.

In a lot of ways, I think Katie Wilson is going to be a bigger deal for progressivism (broadly defined) than Mamdani.

Great piece about where the post-SB 79 housing policy conversation is headed: reducing costs, speeding permitting, easing financing, and making new apartment buildings more beautiful for the neighbors and livable for their residents.

Toss in "abolish the Senate" and we're cooking!

I feel like no one serious is on Twitter exclusively anymore. You're missing literally nothing by just abandoning that site.

Been thinking we should start telling people that building more apartments affects some complex financial instrument and tax rebate for vacant apartments which in turn diminishes landlord greed. I think they might accept that more readily than the simple explanation.

The next Democratic administration needs to go on a spree of stripping churches who engage in politics of their tax-exempt status and charging them back taxes.

I don't think anyone should enter into a PhD program (unless you're trying to scam a free MA) given the dismal state of academia. But if you do, absolutely do not apply to any program that does not prominently display its placement record. Those places are a waste of your time.

High commercial rents is a problem for most successful American cities. Landlords don't want to sign a 10-year lease and miss out on a high-paying corporate tenant so they leave properties vacant. Ironically, this is why you get much more dynamic commercial spaces in suburbs these days.

Everywhere is the South.

The reason I can't reach out and dialog with Trump voters is because this is exactly what they think about me. If you're not White, then you're just a conditional citizen who can be "sent back" whenever they get tired of you.

There are a lot of complexities and rules in legislative bodies that make lawmaking difficult. However, it is perfectly acceptable and indeed desirable for voters not to care about any of them and judge parties by what they get done.

Are European and Latin American countries dealing with a male loneliness crisis too or is this predominantly a thing in the United States and parts of Asia?

Watched this PBS documentary on the Alternative für Deutschland and they kept bringing up "wokeismus." Are those people so half-assed they need to recycle bullshit from our chuds? Hilarious that European nations want to turn themselves into Alabama.

Most regular people would probably do a better job, but they would also hate it because being a member of Congress is a terrible job. It's appealing only to people with narcissistic person disorder.

This kind of nepotism sucks, but what's worse IMO is when legislative seats get passed on to the chief of staff when a member is termed out. It just defeats the entire purpose of representative democracy.

Fascism is ascendant across the globe, a violent White supremacist movement is gaining power in the US and measles outbreaks are putting people at risk. But unlike the 1930s, instead of cool Art Deco buildings, we have this:

One of the reasons Trump is such a successful Republican is because he operates in the same information space as the average Republican voter. He doesn't even realize he's lying here because he gets all his information about the world from the same TV stations as his voters.

I think it would have been good politics to force the GOP to abolish the filibuster because as it stands, ending ACA subsidies and wrecking Thanksgiving travel is now a bipartisan initiative.