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Hurrah for upzoning in Sacramento! "Rents in Sacramento continue to decline, dropping an average of $250 from a year ago." And: "the benefits of more housing supply are shared across the affordability spectrum," including "both market-rate and subsidized affordable housing."

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

submitted 9 days ago • 51 comments

this is literally the arbitrary administrative power generations of thinkers on the right have invoked to support gutting federal regulation

submitted 13 days ago • 51 comments

The gays and theys need to get our digital security together in this day and age so here’s version 2 of Pink Pony Club but it’s about why you should switch all your group chats to end to end encrypted Signal with disappearing messages turned on ;)

submitted 21 days ago • 24 comments

this is a letter to the editor from a high school track runner who came in second to a trans girl in a race. her state house rep in maine started talking about it. so she wrote this: www.pressherald.com/2025/05/14/r...

submitted 23 days ago • 363 comments

Blue Cities: Declaring yourself a "sanctuary city" for LGBT people fleeing red states is meaningless if there aren't any houses or apartments for LGBT people fleeing red states to live in. www.joemygod.com/2025/05/tenn...

submitted 36 days ago • 22 comments

When vacancy rates rise, rents fall. It's the most robust finding in housing. If you want housing costs to fall, you have to build.

submitted 38 days ago • 27 comments

EFF today helped file a motion for a preliminary injunction to end DOGE's illegal access to millions of federal employee records www.eff.org/files/2025/0...

submitted 43 days ago • 3 comments

There is no credible progressive argument against building a ton of new homes at all income levels. Opposing making it easier to build new homes isn’t progressive. It’s super conservative & an argument for a permanent shortage & permanent high rents.

submitted 45 days ago • 26 comments

Q: "How do you respond to Governor Newsom?" Sen. Van Hollen: "I think Americans are tired of elected officials or politicians who are all finger to the wind...Anybody who can't stand up for the Constitution and the right of due process doesn't deserve to lead."

submitted 48 days ago • 1226 comments

The deepest reporting so far shows the government is fighting at the Supreme Court and in public to keep someone in a foreign torture camp based on an obvious lie given by a single unnamed source to an inarguably corrupt police officer. www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...

submitted 49 days ago • 15 comments

I understand that Kilmar Abrego Garcia may have abused his wife but I still don’t believe, given the values enshrined in the constitution and the principles of the rule of law, that he should become Secretary of Defense

submitted 50 days ago • 163 comments

RFK Jr. says there are no autistic poets, so we interviewed one. Hear from Elizabeth McClellan, @popelizbet.bsky.social, an award-winning poet, attorney, and legal educator based in Memphis, Tennessee.

submitted 51 days ago • 1345 comments

Boasberg doing the work that Roberts should be doing.

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Here’s “Creep” but it’s about using two factor authentication (2fa) on all your accounts

submitted 52 days ago • 27 comments

Your location data isn’t just a pin on a map. It can reveal where you work, worship, protest, or seek healthcare—and it’s being harvested, sold, and weaponized. Lawmakers must act now to protect our privacy.

submitted 53 days ago • 3 comments

Practical security advice in song. Next up: Pink Pony Club rewritten to be about switching your group chat to signal

submitted 54 days ago • 14 comments

Ambassador Spock modeling the proper “fuck you, make me” response to intimidation tactics. Our current-day institutions could learn a lot from him.

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VICTORY: Judge Rejects Government’s Attempt to Dismiss EFF Lawsuit Against OPM, DOGE, and Musk.

submitted 65 days ago • 4 comments

While Big Law cowers in fear of Trump, boutique firms are stepping up to condemn his unprecedented attack on the rule of law. Here is Lex Lumina's statement www.lex-lumina.com/newsroom/lex...

submitted 72 days ago • 11 comments

Very little surprises me about the NIMBYs of Livable California anymore after spending so many years attending their meetings. However: hearing someone say "Deport Scott Wiener" at the end of today's call and everyone laughing in response really was shocking, even to me.

submitted 77 days ago • 13 comments

Columbia University has failed to defend academic freedom & freedom of speech & allowed a great institution to be bullied & extorted into submission by an administration hellbent on contorting higher education to their will. The AAUP condemns this capitulation. We can & must fight back.

submitted 78 days ago • 43 comments

www.teenvogue.com/story/vivian...

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To be explicit about why I say "we need to build infra" - housing in blue states, almost without exception, is SCARCE and EXPENSIVE. Trans folks are POOR and often PRECARIOUSLY EMPLOYED. This is going to translate to an explosion of local trans and queer housing insecurity, almost instantly.

submitted 84 days ago • 9 comments

“The right to have access to every building in the city by private motorcar, in an age when everyone possesses such a vehicle, is actually the right to destroy the city.” - Lewis Mumford

submitted 89 days ago • 13 comments

Happy International Women's Day! May every woman find their way into the room where their voice is most needed—whether that's a board room, a legislature, or a PTA meeting. When we stand up and speak our values, women change the world!

submitted 91 days ago • 310 comments

Donald Trump is lying to you.

submitted 95 days ago • 520 comments

One house turns into three homes in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. (2013➡️2019)

submitted 95 days ago • 5 comments

Welcoming SF falls behind fortress suburbia on housing permits per capita.

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UPDATE on Amer. Fed'n of Gov't Employees, AFL-CIO v. U.S. Office of Personnel Mgmt: We've filed emergency motion for temporary restraining order directing OPM, Musk, DOGE, and other def's to stop stealing OPM data, and to destroy any copies of data they've made. drive.google.com/file/d/15Ail....

submitted 113 days ago • 1 comment

EFF just helped file a temporary restraining order to stop the Office of Personnel Management from illegally sharing personal data with DOGE.

submitted 113 days ago • 9 comments

Our case is fairly simple: OPM’s data is extraordinarily sensitive, OPM gave it to DOGE, and this violates the Privacy Act.

submitted 115 days ago • 27 comments

I can’t believe it - after years of advocacy, exclusionary zoning has ended in Cambridge. We just passed the single most comprehensive rezoning in the US—legalizing multifamily housing up to 6 stories citywide in a Paris style Here’s the details 🧵

submitted 117 days ago • 67 comments

"two lawn signs sit side by side. One proclaims NO MATTER WHERE YOU ARE FROM, WE’RE GLAD YOU’RE OUR NEIGHBOR. The other reads SAY NO, urging residents to oppose an apartment building that would house the new neighbors the other sign purports to welcome." www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

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A good, workhorse building we should build more of: Either 12 units for singles or 6 family-sized units. Everyone gets a balcony. Easily fits on a standard 5,000 square-foot lot. Fits around six parking spaces in the back. And yet, illegal to build in the typical US residential neighborhood.

submitted 118 days ago • 26 comments

This is what the government did with 120K+ Japanese Americans in 1942. I know. I was there in those camps.

submitted 127 days ago • 3554 comments

Yes, this administration is dangerous and cruel, but they are also shockingly dim and incompetent. Opportunities are everywhere. Make everything as hard as possible. Resist every demand. Refuse entry without a warrant. Don’t take the buyout. Their problem solving skills are 📉

submitted 129 days ago • 3730 comments

The only sustainable way to bring down rents is to build a lot more housing. If you really want to stick it to the landlords who are increasing rents in the aftermath of the fires, build a lot more housing and force them to compete for renters—not the other way around.

submitted 133 days ago • 14 comments

The typical planning public hearing, depicted with some atistic license.

submitted 133 days ago • 2 comments

When confronted with age estimation face scans, many people will refrain from accessing restricted websites, even if they have a legal right to use them. Government should restrain this hazardous technology, not normalize it via age verification mandates.

submitted 135 days ago • 9 comments

"What can we do?!" The incoming Trump admin is clearly more prepared than they were last time. They've hit the ground running with a parade of horrible executive actions. But we've been planning and preparing too. What we can do is STAY FOCUSED. Here's our plan: www.fightforthefuture.org/2025

submitted 136 days ago • 3 comments

“In authoritarian regimes, corporate and government power are intertwined. To protect privacy, it is not possible to keep government power in check without addressing corporate power.” Seems like a new Solove article we really need to read —

submitted 138 days ago • 1 comment

New from 404 Media: meet GeoSpy, a powerful AI tool that lets cops (& stalkers) geolocate photos in seconds. Trained on millions of images, it picks out soil, architecture, etc. GeoSpy closed public access after asked for comment, now marketing to police www.404media.co/the-powerful...

submitted 138 days ago • 23 comments

Weird how California's homelessness rate is 5.2x that of Texas! I wonder what it could be! It must be drugs, mental illness, and Texas shipping homeless people to California! On a completely unrelated note, here's a chart of how many new homes were permitted, and what the median home price is:

submitted 141 days ago • 6 comments

Ask the Governor: Speed up the construction of multi-family homes! actionnetwork.org/letters/ask-...

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