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Climate 🌎 housing 🏡 and transit 🚂 things.
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Sorry, I don't allow fascists in my mentions. You're blocked now.
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That's the free space on the bingo card
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The Fentanyl Czar has a chance to do the funniest possible thing: bust white Americans for crossing the Canadian border with drugs.
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Yep, absolutely. It all feeds back in.
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RIP to an absolute legend
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Most of them aren't posts themselves as much as they are liking comments making jokes about calling ICE on children, etc.
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It's honest to god somehow worse right now
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This guy is a DOGE rent-a-cop, not an actual police officer
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This guy has absolutely no standing to block you from the building! Why are you letting him do that?!
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This should absolutely be the housing platform of any progressive running for office: protecting renters, unleashing public sector construction, upzoning wealthy nabes, and getting rid of other exclusionary regulatory barriers hamstringing production.
This is the new progressive housing standard.
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As a Bay Area YIMBY, it's so cool that this is the DSA/progressive candidate for mayor.
Contrast this with San Francisco's last mayoral election, where the "progressive" was Aaron Peskin, who ran on "protecting" wealthy neighborhoods from new housing.
This is what real progressivism looks like!
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I personally think we need to be asking whether or not it makes sense to build back *at all* in places that are at severe risk of climate hazards.
But if we're going to skip right past that conversation, building in the exactly the same way (which will lead to the same outcome) is pure madness.
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Anyway, this is a sad reminder that our housing and climate crises are policy choices that we have made, and, distressingly, continue to make
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In this time of multiple converging crises, the LA County Board of Supervisors asks the question: "Build back better? What if, instead, we built back *worse?*"
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That’s the wrong question and it valorizes white institutions and white ways of knowing and being and structuring society in really problematic ways.
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What's it like living with a room temperature IQ, Mark?
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Stancil's whole thing is that "the vibes were off," and he's right, but the vibes are intrinsically related to policy and outcomes.
Dems couldn't deliver, and so the vibes were off, which allowed a snake oil salesman selling good times and fascism to slip in. That's the ballgame.
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The utter failure of Democratic machines in blue cities and states to address fundamental quality of life issues for working and middle class voters is turning them into reactionaries.
Solve people's problems, or they'll turn to somebody else. That's the lesson here.
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If only we had one of those
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We have a verdict! After more than 6 hours and 100+ public comments, Menlo Park CC voted to issue the RFQ, allowing developers to submit proposals!
They punted on the surplus land declaration, which could cause problems down the road, but I'm taking this as a win for now!
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Been listening to council for the last hour and my projection right now is that these people are definitely getting the builder's remedy again
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In case people are wondering why I haven't provided an update, it's because there isn't one! The council is still debating.
We are now on hour 6 in this meeting. I'm starting to worry I might die here.
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I need to take a short break, but will be back in a bit!