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mldunham.bsky.social
Berkeley, CA: About to be the YIMBYest city in California.
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The thing about the Khalil case is that it's very very good that he's free now but you can't have it take three months between "the government kidnaps you off the street for no basis reason whatsoever" and "a judge makes them let you go." You just can't.

submitted 1 day ago • 215 comments

If you want to do this to your fellow US citizens, you aren't a nationalist. You hate your own nation. newsweek.com/ice-agents-l...

submitted 2 days ago • 49 comments

Ask your doctor what treatment the supreme court decided is right for you.

submitted 3 days ago • 135 comments

We’re announcing new legislation — the No Secret Police Act (SB 627) — to ban local/state/federal law enforcement, w/ some exceptions, from covering their faces when interacting w/ the public & require them to wear identifying info. The secret police behavior we’re seeing destroys trust & must end🧵

submitted 5 days ago • 351 comments

Also, the way that every event, no matter how shocking or horrible or unprecedented, gets fed into the far-right social media hallucination machine, and twisted beyond recognition until it supports the far-right's own nonsensical worldview, is the very core of why we are where we are as a society.

submitted 6 days ago • 36 comments

This is how they treat the senior US Senator from the highest-GDP, highest-population state in the country. Wtf

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

I will be damned if I allow a bunch of Confederate-waving January 6th apologists give the American people a lecture on flag waving. There is ZERO reason to enter an argument about patriotism with people who still worship traitors to America 150+ years later. They. Are. Breaking. The. Law.

submitted 11 days ago • 1465 comments

the reason all of this “wealth exodus” shit is always overblown is that rich people like living in cool places they will whine, they will complain, they will throw more money than they’re being taxed at reactionary causes but at the end of the day they like living in NYC and aren’t leaving

submitted 11 days ago • 58 comments

If you really want to drive the point home about how fucked up ICE is then people should start forcing Star Wars themes on ICE. Protesters should start playing the imperial march whenever ICE shows up and should also start dressing like the rebel alliance.

submitted 13 days ago • 782 comments

Chief of Nashville, criminal division resigns over decision to charge Abrego Garcia. That’s a big story and the details will likely be very damning for the administration.

submitted 15 days ago • 275 comments

Berkeley construction site appreciation thread, in order from most to least completed. 1773 Oxford, looking pretty much complete from the outside. Contains 3bd, 2bd, and studio apartments. According to their website, it is completely sold out...

submitted 15 days ago • 6 comments

BIG HOUSING NEWS: The Senate passed our bill (SB 79) to allow more housing near high quality transit & giving transit agencies more authority to build homes on their own land. We need more housing & focusing it around transit makes so much sense. It’ll mean more housing & more transit ridership.

submitted 17 days ago • 16 comments

It brings me intense joy to see these highly armed commando paramilitary freaks face down a mob of enraged moms and long-haired hippie dudes, visibly lose their nerve, and decide they better gtfo before this turns into black hawk down

submitted 19 days ago • 31 comments

I can’t believe the media covered up the fact that a clear mental incompetent was running the government while out of his mind on drugs, despite it being widely known in DC circles, to preserve their access to the White House. There should be huge recriminations for this.

submitted 22 days ago • 336 comments

We’re fixing Atlantic Avenue! This is what a comprehensive community-led rezoning looks like 🏠

submitted 23 days ago • 51 comments

The political theory behind IRA was roughly as follows: We have lost control of the information landscape and can no longer win rhetorical or purely political battles; however, if we make substantive policy progress that directly touches voters' lives, they will notice and reward us.

submitted 29 days ago • 106 comments

Succinctly states where we are and what's happening. These three things, in addition to doing much else, are the sheet anchors of American wealth and power.

submitted 30 days ago • 58 comments

So I've been pretty vocally skeptical of politics as being materially driven, and I've been trying to distill down what I think the alternative viewpoint is. Information and psychology play a role, but what's the mechanism? And I think the best way to sum it up is "social expectations."

submitted 30 days ago • 25 comments

He missed the deadline to submit a single form 10 years ago, amidst family grief when his wife suffered a stillbirth. He did nothing illegal. Paid his taxes, completed citizenship documentation. But once you activate a police state, they don't care about individual circumstances.

submitted 30 days ago • 99 comments

Santa Monica council votes 6-1 to endorse SB79

submitted 39 days ago • 5 comments

Today, our client Rümeysa Öztürk was released on bail from ICE detention in Louisiana, and she will return to New England to continue her studies. 📸 Giancarlo D’Agostaro

submitted 43 days ago • 564 comments

My role at California YIMBY is planning legislation for next year. I am still laser focused on one of my pet issues, construction defect liability reform. Check out my latest in the @sandiegouniontribune.com www.sandiegouniontribune.com/2025/05/01/o...

submitted 50 days ago • 5 comments