Exceptionalism and resistance to learning what works and doesn’t for other places must be eliminated from public discourse. “What works in this other place won’t work here! This is [insert place name], not there!”

End apartment bans everywhere. Not in some places. Everywhere.

God, I love this guy: youtube.com/shorts/eLz5Q...

Can someone please explain to me how Traci Park ended up with over 60% of the vote in my former council district in LA, CD11?

Living in the real world and voting for Trump for US President, Pratt for Mayor of LA, Paxton for US Senate, et c., is conceptually identical to residing in the Batman universe and voting for The Joker for Mayor of Gotham.

normalize calling your city council member to tell them your rent went up and complain about the lack of housing production

I’m so glad Spencer Pratt won’t be on the ballot for LA Mayor in November. So so so so glad. Hope that keeps his name out of my news feed.

Ban Right Turn on Red

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Beyond passenger elevators, Europe has way more freight elevators than us. On the left, a dumbwaiter at a small Tibetan restaurant in Paris. On the right, a NYC worker about to carry the better part of a ton of beer down into a basement by hand. High elevator costs are a worker safety problem.

if la's mayoral election in november is bass vs. raman, the public gets to have a serious debate about the future of los angeles. if the november election is bass vs. pratt, it's going to be a clown show. let's hope that los angeles gets the former. ojalá.

Finally found that voter fraud.

In all seriousness, since the federal government regulates automobile designs (and states aren’t allowed to overrule those regulations), can the federal government also regulate homes?

won't someone speak up for the orcas? cathcart's 144 acres is *EIGHT* times the area of total tree loss due to multifamily development in seattle between 2016-2021 - when almost 48,000 homes were added. youtu.be/BanZ9XOnHy4

🙏 for Raman and Steyer.

I was just checking on California election results and thought I’d count the number of names on the ballot for Governor. I counted 61. Seems like too many, no? We so desperately need ranked-choice voting statewide.

Please don't vote for this guy. Don't need another petrolhead governor vetoing all our traffic safety bills.

If you follow me you've heard me say a thousand times that you should vote for Nithya and Steyer (and please do!) But also, if you're in CD5 like me, check out this great video from @henrymantelforla.bsky.social and vote for him for the housing policy we need! I did!

Don’t mail your ballot at this point. It probably won’t count. Use a voting drop box like this!

Great thread about the Venice Dell project here. When I lived in Venice more than a decade ago, this project was just starting up. If you live in CD11, vote for Malik! Definitely don’t vote for Park.

@senatorsrp.bsky.social, once again, thank you from the bottom of my heart for your votes last year on SB 79, even if it was MUCH less exciting to me by the time the value-capture ability for transit agencies got stripped out and the ability for local governments to water it down was added.

@mgm.ink’s Henry George Program is one of my favorite podcasts. This episode takes me back to how excited I was last year about the prospects for SB 79 allowing transit agencies in California to thrive when reading the bill as introduced, before those provisions got stripped out.

Very obvious that Bass thinks running against Pratt will be easy for her in the same way many establishment Democrats thought it would be easy to run against Donald Trump.

PSA for anyone announcing a URL out loud: “/“ is pronounced “slash.” Not “forward slash.” Definitely not “backslash.” “Slash.”

Rae Huang’s campaign serves one purpose and that purpose is to boost Spencer Pratt.

If we really want to improve road safety, our new paper finds we need to stop taking exposure to motor vehicle kinetic energy as a given...

A vote for Rae Huang is like vote for Ralph Nader was is in 2000 and she should drop out immediately. Her staying in the race just greatly increases the odds that Spencer Pratt will be in the top 2.

A vote for Porter is a vote to have a Republican on the ballot. A vote for Mahan is a vote to have a Republican on the ballot. A vote for Villaraigosa is a vote to have a Republican on the ballot. A vote for Thurmond is a vote to have a Republican on the ballot. VOTE STEYER!

Make it happen, voters of LA!

If you’re voting in California and haven’t voted yet, please fill the bubble for Steyer!

LA, if you haven't voted yet, vote!! Less than 1 week left to get your ballot in. Super easy to take it to a drop box, they're everywhere. And if there's people in your life rightfully freaked out about Spencer Pratt, let them know that voting Nithya in the primary boxes him out!

I'm attending CalRCV's event, “Cal RCV - Intro & Get Involved: Ranked Choice Voting for California” - sign up now to join me! www.mobilize.us/calrcv/event...

The top-two primary system combined with first-past-the-post voting is absolutely terrible. With ranked-choice voting, it would make some sense. Better yet, RCV+top 4. But as it is, we all have to vote strategically even in primaries. Just terrible. I want to vote for the candidate I think best.

If you live in LA and were going to vote for Huang or Miller, PLEASE vote for Nithya. Pratt advancing to the general would be against everything you believe in.

California could have gone down this road three years ago, but we’re going to get a study… maybe next year instead.

If you live in LA, the most important mayoral election in decades is coming up. thankfully, the best candidate is obvious: It’s Nithya. Vote for Nithya Raman.

I was impressed by Porter’s answers in the housing forum recently, but I can’t get over the abuse-of-staff stuff, plus she’s polling too low to still be in the race, given the realities of the jungle primary.

If you want a Governor of California who supports single-payer health care, VOTE STEYER!

Denver's Union Station knocked my socks off and I will not rest until Seattle's transit hub has something like this.

My mind is made up for Steyer. Vote Steyer!!!!!! www.youtube.com/live/NyuG_I6...

youtu.be/EhyoS6hBEJA?... @nickandert.bsky.social with another banger.

If you live in LA, VOTE RAMAN!

I’ve had a printed copy of Alfred’s housing bill illustrations on my desk every session for years now, and so it will continue. Thank you for this, @alfredtwu.com!

“The market cannot provide affordable housing.” And yet, have you noticed that some housing markets are much more affordable than others?

@jamellebouie.net publishes great videos: youtu.be/Rt6zEEkV3B8?... And great podcasts, and great columns, and, and, and… This topic is something I’ve been pretty much obsessed with since freshman year of college a quarter century ago.