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Democrats seem to have lost organized construction and manufacturing labor, I wonder when they’ll accept it and adjust policies accordingly? Is it wise to subordinate their goals on homebuilding, consumer prices, etc. to please interest groups they can no longer win? uaw.org/tariffs-mark...

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Let him cook

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I’m 12 minutes into Gavin Newsom’s podcast with Ezra Klein and Newsom is already lying. Newsom said his goal was 2.5 million homes by 2030. In fact, Newsom campaigned on 3.5 million new homes by 2025. calmatters.org/housing/2022...

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We haven’t really. Not yet. San Francisco, for example, is building less housing than ever before.

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"foremost democracy experts warn about US backsliding" Cynicism and doom and gloom is as big an enemy as anything else. Keep doing stuff. Knitting circle, call your representatives, give a thumbs down as you pass the Tesla dealership, try to reverse California's loss of 4 electoral votes by 2030

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Argentina, 1985 is a very good movie on this subject!

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Just finished Abundance. Good book! People should read it, IMO.

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This guy is a reporter for Talking Points Memo. A news source which I like a lot! But he hasn’t bothered to do any homework on housing. In fact, New York has built very little since the 1960s. Just a fraction per capita of most major cities in the U.S.

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This is awesome.

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Extra notable because Beshear has an approval rating about 15 points higher than Gavin Newsom’s despite Kentucky being about 50 points more Republican than California.

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No? Seems to me there’s a widespread and growing consensus that Trump should not be able to do everything he wants but most are scared of retribution and don’t want to speak up. It’s a huge collective action problem which is not made better by pretending that people support him.

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The budget shortfall is self-inflicted. We’ve hamstrung the local economy by pricing out our workforce and we’ve capped our tax base by refusing to grow. Literally millions of people who would be happy to move to LA, pay our taxes, work for our companies, etc. But no elected official wants that.

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Perfect example of functional red state governance that would get f’ed up in blue states w a hundred concerns both good and bad faith. Small lots are good for housing affordability so they did a bill that did that. @ebwhamilton.bsky.social has noted things like this.

submitted 7 days ago • 2 comments

truly weirdest use of the Kotkin byline (Kotkin a notorious NIMBY and sprawl advocate)

submitted 8 days ago • 7 comments

Someone should tell Karen Bass that there are millions of people who would love to move to Los Angeles and pay property tax and sales tax and all sorts of other municipal fees the moment we start building more homes. www.latimes.com/california/s...

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This is a great bill. I hope Aisha Wahab doesn’t screw it up once it makes it to her housing graveyard I mean committee.

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What I find most notable here is that he’s doing better with Gen Z than any other age group.

submitted 8 days ago • 1 comment

It’s rare, but there’s still some good content on Twitter.

submitted 9 days ago • 3 comments

I think Democrats have a very hard time understanding that pro-worker and pro-union are often two very different things. They don’t want to criticize the tariffs too loudly because the UAW likes them but the UAW is a tiny sliver of the U.S. workforce. For most Americans, tariffs are very bad.

submitted 11 days ago • 1 comment

I prefer to destroy mid-century homes and replace them with apartment buildings.

submitted 12 days ago • 1 comment

There’s so much for the United States to learn from Hungary. For example - MMR vaccines are strictly mandatory with fines for noncompliance. Unlike in the U.S. where rootless cosmopolitans such as RFK Jr. seek to undermine families, Hungary puts its people and its children first.

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Smart policy.

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Karen Bass is exploring how to suspend Measure ULA for mansions burned down in the fires. www.westsidecurrent.com/news/l-a-may...

submitted 15 days ago • 3 comments

California has become synonymous with disfunction but our state agencies tend to be very good at the jobs assigned to them. Caltrans at building roads, Coastal Commision at blocking housing, etc. The problem is we've given too many of them bad assignments!

submitted 16 days ago • 1 comment

Los Angeles and Mexico City are so similar in so many ways.

submitted 16 days ago • 1 comment