Fighters vs institutionalists is one of the most important axes for understanding macro or micro politics and there's never been a worse time to be an uncritical institutionalist.

Pelosi's announcement video for her state senate run (released on Twitter this morning) mentions absolutely nothing about cost of living or affordability or any major California-centric issues. Off to a great start!

It's just this over and over and over again

feel like shit rn... just want them back...

Every single one of these people should be a pariah within the Democratic Party. Not one of them should ever know a moment of peace again.

Primary time

It would be so great if we had functioning opposition party leadership as our country rapidly descends into fascism. Instead, we have Chuck Schumer.

At this point, if you claim to be on the political left but are advocating against Dems doing retaliatory redistricting, you're either: a) one of the dumbest people alive, or b) a Republican plant

At Terner Fall Colloquium, Buffy Wicks signals that the next big reform for the state legislature is going to condo liability reform and ownership housing units

A great day for single-stair housing advocates everywhere!

I hope Nithya Raman ( @cd4losangeles.bsky.social ) saw a young progressive with a smart housing policy vision win in NYC last night and decides this week that maybe Los Angeles has suffered under the deadwood of its decrepit, geriatric Democratic Party for too long as well.

"This new age will be defined by a competence and a compassion that have too long been placed at odds with one another. We will prove that there is no problem too large for government to solve, and no concern too small for it to care about." - Zohran Mamdani, leader of the Democratic Party

Affordability is *the* message every Democrat needs to focus on right now, and the populism + abundance framing is exactly how they should do it. www.politico.com/news/2025/11...

a liberalism that builds, yes, and also a liberalism that FIGHTS

Prop 50 called at exactly 8pm and currently at 64%, California let’s fucking gooooooooo

the primary lesson from tonight is that dems should run more people who aren’t so old that they’re literally melting

It turns out if you run an honest, joyful campaign built on lifting people up and giving them actionable plans to improve their material conditions, they’ll vote for you in droves. Imagine that!

Cheney had a vision of tonights results and the thought alone killed him

Democrats In Array

The average Virginian right now

Lmao

God I cannot wait for this man to be mayor

like, genuinely, what is the method to ensure a centrist cohesive party line that Matty wants here outside of methods like democratic centralism

After all the bluster, the whining, the endless fearmongering on Nextdoor and Facebook about how redeveloping the mall into housing would "destroy" the "heart" of the city...just 13 people spoke up against it. 25 spoke in favor. Even at the local level, pro-housing voices are starting to win!

Happy Monday, folks! I’m currently at San Mateo City Hall, where the council is hearing an item about the Hillsdale Mall redevelopment into a mixed use space with 1.4K new homes, office, and retail. The house is packed, and there’s an overflow room. As usual: people are mad. 🧵

Spot on and why this debate (which is really built on aesthetic differences & personal animosities, not distinctions in outcome) has been so exhausting.

Gonna save you a click here: this was just as dumb as you think it's going to be

Art of the Day - SB79 Shark City Coming soon to a California transit station near you! SB 79 will take effect in July 2026, allowing more apartments near transit stations in major urban counties.

"no one should make a profit building necessary housing" is one of those things that sounds based and radical... for like half a second, before you finish thinking it through

“visual impacts”

The urban planning profession is so fun. Imagine if microbiology departments at universities graduated students that denied the germ theory of disease.

It turns out that this woman has a PhD in urban planning 🙃

Working in the environmental field but opposing a bus rapid transit project and new apartments in your neighborhood should frankly get you blacklisted until the end of time

Look alive, the Board of Supervisors Land Use and Transportation committee has been called to order. Room 250 is already full for the Family Zoning Plan

Not that she has a shot at this point, but I'm officially crossing @bettyyeeforca.bsky.social off my list of candidates I'd consider for Governor of California. Saying she wouldn't sign #SB79 is totally disqualifying. Thanks to NIMBY group Catalysts for Local Control for getting the tea!

Darrell Owens ass food take right here

If you’re at No Kings in Redwood City tomorrow, come say hi!

Wanted undersells it. They demanded it! The feds leveraged immense resources to focus econ dev to the periphery so white households could do real estate speculation and not share amenities with black households. America’s suburbs are the most effective program of welfare chauvinism in the world.

Mamdani is persuading center-left doubters by making clear his goal is to deliver services to New Yorkers under stress, not to build some left-wing utopia. Welcome to the old American tradition of Sewer Socialism. My @nytimes.com column: www.nytimes.com/2025/10/16/o...

“I’m going to make it easier for the private sector to build housing in this city, because what we see today is that it’s not labor, it’s not materials, it’s the weight that’s often costing so many, so much to actually build the housing we need." The Left YIMBY candidate we need!

The California Forever CEO is telling people that they'll have homes ready for people to move into *in a few years*, dependent on "how serious California is about abundance." Very serious and realistic operation we have here!

If you guessed "someone's trying to build a new apartment building," you'd be correct!

The bleakest thing about this video is that all the things this guy loves about the UK are relatively cheap and easy to build. Alabama could have a better train system than England inside of 10 years if we decided that was a priority. We are a rich country that chooses to live like a poor one.

8:27pm who up reforming they zoning?

Important to remember that not only did we pass #SB79, the biggest transit-oriented upzoning bill ever, we also passed a clean CEQA exemption for new multifamily infill housing. This is, bar none, the biggest year in state action on housing policy reform in California history. Not even close.

If there's one takeaway from the SB79 victory, it's this: never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed [posters] can change the world.

I've spent the last 8 months of my life working to pass #SB79. It will be transformative for housing in California, and is one of the best things I'll probably ever get to do. As of this morning, it's officially law; now it's time to drink!

After 7 committee hearings, a senate floor vote, an assembly floor vote, a concurrence vote, and the governor's signing this morning... @scottwiener.bsky.social's #SB79, which legalizes new multifamily housing near major public transit stops, is officially law! Thank you @gavinnewsom.bsky.social!

The reporter's claim that a Democratic contender for Governor of California needs Trump supporters to win an election is utterly laughable, so Porter's reaction (laughing) was absolutely correct here

The increase in trips by Clipper BayPass holders on BART is really encouraging. Massive increases in trips at San Francisco State and UC Berkeley in September 2025. bart.legistar.com/LegislationD...