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Made a tweet on the other site about congestion pricing that went a little viral, and the number of Hitler particles now in my mentions is off the charts. I really need Bluesky to add group DMs so I can get the hell out of there permanently.

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments

In many ways it's fitting that the showdown between monarchy and democracy ends up being over NYC congestion pricing. Cities are where the power of kings were first challenged, and few things are more fundamental to government than control of public space. The cameras are staying on!

submitted 3 days ago • 19 comments

Dem Tea Party hours let's go.

submitted 3 days ago • 12 comments

The Nextdoor Paradox: all the new housing being built in the city is actually unaffordable and completely vacant, but the city is overcrowded because new housing is bringing in too many people

submitted 4 days ago • 3 comments

Spotted this cute little guy in a rural community on the coast this weekend! There’s basically no need for 95% of trucks to be larger than this.

submitted 5 days ago • 5 comments

New regional polling is in: affordable housing and homelessness once again rank #1 and #3 as the most important problems to Bay Area voters. These are the issues voters really care about, not traffic and parking availability. Local elected officials would do well to remember that.

submitted 8 days ago • 2 comments

Tesla's stock is ridiculously overvalued, and even a modest consumer boycott could tank the company, which accounts for the majority of Elon Musk's wealth. The divestment movement weakened apartheid South Africa. Let's do that again. slate.com/business/202...

submitted 11 days ago • 240 comments

This is why paint-only bike lanes are BS. An 80-year-old Marin driver had a heart attack and crashed his car into two other vehicles, right at school dismissal, on a street in front of the high school. If a student was riding in the bike lane when it happened, they could easily have been killed.

submitted 10 days ago • 4 comments

We have a land-use regime that allows and encourages low-density development in areas at severe risk of climate hazards and essentially prohibits high-density development in climate safe areas. This is the result. Pretty big fuckup if you ask me! Maybe we should do something about it?

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

No one in my city makes a pastime of badmouthing bus service quite like the people who never ride the bus.

submitted 12 days ago • 21 comments

Parking quietly rules everything around us. Questioning that system and imagining and advocating for a different one was and remains a revolutionary act; Soup’s work, advocacy, and legacy will continue to change society for the better for years to come.

submitted 15 days ago • 0 comments

Hey guess what I have some good news! This is from data I got this afternoon. year 1 after Portland's fourplex legalization: 1% of new housing citywide year 2: 7% year 3: 26% Some things take some time to pay off. These delightful 20-somethings bought one of them; told me they love it.

submitted 15 days ago • 13 comments

Someone on Nextdoor in San Mateo made a post about a protest march against mass deportations, and the number of local NIMBYs outing themselves as outright fascists is off the charts right now

submitted 16 days ago • 5 comments

Capitulation is not how our grandparents dealt with fascists, and it's not how you should be dealing with them either!

submitted 16 days ago • 1 comment

If I had a time machine, I'd go back and dismantle PayPal, I feel like that would solve many of our current day problems more than you think!

submitted 19 days ago • 1 comment

Livable Communities Initiative launched a national single stair competition! 🎉 Read more details here: singlestair.com

submitted 19 days ago • 1 comment

"We’re going to unleash the public sector, but we’re still going to need more housing. That means taller builder buildings near subway stations, upzoning wealthy neighborhoods, and eliminating parking requirements." Left YIMBYism is the way, folks!

submitted 19 days ago • 2 comments

Have we tried stopping Trump with endless public meetings where crotchety old people can give public comment about how they weren’t consulted and don’t approve ad nauseam? It works pretty well to prevent any change in blue cities

submitted 26 days ago • 0 comments

One of my favorite Twitter Discourse Moments was people arguing that the Ottoman Empire didn't do imperialism. Folks...it's in the name

submitted 26 days ago • 6 comments

So much displacement is in process from the Palisades and Eaton fires, but please don’t mistake it for managed retreat. Disasters like this invariably lead to higher home prices and gentrification, entirely unmanaged. This disaster will play out for a generation and change communities forever.

submitted 31 days ago • 2 comments

Rather than urge the legislature to turbocharge new infill housing in climate-safe areas, LA County elected officials are focused on ensuring no one can add ADUs or skimp on replacement parking. All in the name of "retaining community character." We are so screwed.

submitted 29 days ago • 3 comments

"All people want are single-family homes"

submitted 31 days ago • 4 comments

If you've somehow convinced yourself that Democratic ineptitude in blue cities and states on things like housing affordability and homelessness hasn't destroyed the party's credibility with the average voter you're one of the dumbest motherfuckers alive

submitted 33 days ago • 12 comments

Bipartisanship? Are you fucking insane?

submitted 33 days ago • 6 comments

Really thought I'd lost the capacity to be shocked by anything the far right does anymore, but Musk doing a nazi salute on stage at the inauguration somehow managed to do it

submitted 33 days ago • 1 comment

TikTok was never going anywhere. The TikTok creator gave millions to Trump and they orchestrated this whole PR stunt just so Trump will be seen as a 'hero' to young people. It was literally the Kidz Bop version of the Reichstag Fire

submitted 34 days ago • 138 comments

Every wildfire starts with an ignition – downed powerlines, lightning, arson – and we can do a lot to reduce these. But in California the number of fires has dropped while the area burned has doubled. What has changed is conditions, not ignitions:

submitted 37 days ago • 9 comments