ATTENTION TO ALL DEM TAX CUT SLOPULISTS

For the record: NOPE. Honestly, I don’t think there’s an issue today I care about on a personal level more deeply than trans rights. And it’s rough out there right now. Bigots on one side of the political aisle and too many cowards on the other. ⬇️

There’s a government shutdown deadline before the midterms. Republicans are asking Democrats to help fund Trump’s efforts to steal the midterms, in a budget Trump will mine for new opportunities to extort or steal tax dollars from blue states. Dems are quietly inching toward yes.

Democrats Poised To Fund Trump's Dirty Tricks

They're gaming out responses to Trump's election-subversion schemes, but they seemingly won't withhold their votes for a budget that funds those schemes.

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Cannot get over how electable just drifting away from a constituent who asked you a challenging question makes you.

Very cool that Shopify’s CEO thinks the poor should have far less of a vote than the rich. Still worth that ad read money, folks?

Schatz has the same pathology as Newsom: a need to show "I'm just like you" to awful people with bad values. It's not even cynicism; it yields no additional votes. Destroying USAID was an illegal act by white nationalists with genocidal intent and it has killed people. That's more than just "bad."

Aaron Huertas@aaronhuertas.bsky.social · 2w ago

Gross to see a senator skip over the part where the aid was cut off illegally and without warning. Cooking their brains on a right wing owned social media site.

it's absolutely mass murder. it is one of the worst atrocities the US has ever committed; racists murdering millions of Black people for fun.

Aaron Huertas@aaronhuertas.bsky.social · 2w ago

Gross to see a senator skip over the part where the aid was cut off illegally and without warning. Cooking their brains on a right wing owned social media site.

Sending a lot of love and solidarity to our friends in Berlin.

Several injured at Berlin Pride after reports vehicle drove into crowd, police say

Police say an intensive manhunt is under way after the incident in Berlin's city centre.

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Elon Musk is responsible for killing 100,000s of people in Africa. Instead of taking responsibility for his actions, he refuses to acknowledge verifiable facts. He can deny he’s a mass murderer all he wants, but history will rank him amongst the worst human beings to ever walk the earth.

Jonathan Harris@jonathan-a-thon.bsky.social · 2w ago

He's quite possibly one of the worst people to have ever lived.

New market rate housing helps poor people by keeping rich people from outbidding them for existing housing. Further, the past 50 years of CA housing policy show us that *not* building enough new market rate homes is TERRIBLE for the poorest, who are forced into overcrowded housing or homelessness.

Sebastian Gorka Izzagirre @obeylittle.bsky.social · 2w ago

My main point is that the market rate housing you advocate for will not help these people and that interests aligned with your group support punitive measures toward that population. You have definitely mobilized a grassroots army of defenders and advocates for market rate development.

This week on the UCLA Housing Voice podcast, Matthew Mleczko shares his research on how exclusionary zoning in more affluent communities increases material hardship for residents of impoverished neighborhoods nearby. lewis.ucla.edu/2026/07/22/1...

Episode 120: How Exclusionary Zoning Hurts Poor Neighborhoods with Matthew Mleczko

When cities adopt exclusionary zoning, their housing stock becomes scarcer and less affordable over time. Matt Mleczko shares research suggesting that the impacts extend beyond exclusionary jurisdicti...

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This story is indeed insane. They literally *discounted his correct answers* (on questions about the Constitution) so that a Trump supporting girl who wants to go to Hillsdale College could win $25K and be televised meeting Trump. So. Gross.

Charlotte Clymer@charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 2w ago

This story is crazy. It would appear Trump admin officials rigged their nationally televised high school civics contest to keep a young man from a Sikh family out of the finalists. www.notus.org/national/ame...

This state supreme court opinion pulls no punches: “This court does not anchor Hawaiʻi’s due process rights to the federal floor. Especially one that keeps sinking. . . . State constitutionalism makes it easy to consider Roberts Court jurisprudence ‘white noise.’”

Eric Segall@espinsegall.bsky.social · 2w ago

“The Roberts Court sees only white. It refuses to acknowledge who the Equal Protection Clause was written to protect. The freed people, their descendants, and all others denied equal citizenship. The 14th Amend. is not colorblind. It never was.” Me? No a judge www.courts.state.hi.us/wp-content/u...

Absolutely necessary reform. Let the city government *do* things.

Streetsblog NYC@nyc.streetsblog.org · 2w ago

The city would accelerate street safety projects by “at least 33 percent” if voters pass a ballot proposal in November pushed by Mayor Mamdani’s Commission on Government Efficiency, which officials shared exclusively with Streetsblog.

This team is doing invaluable work helping the broader YIMBY movement make sense of a building code reform agenda.

Michael Druker 🇨🇦@mdruker.app · 3w ago

Donating to this seems very high leverage. Support the posting-to-policy pipeline for building codes, elevator reform, and the like by signing up for a donation, recurring if you can:

vance? a grifter? i’m shocked

James Downie@jamescdownie.bsky.social · 3w ago

"Agents have shared concerns internally about Vance and his office pressing them for trips and assignments that some agents consider an inappropriate or even unprecedented use of government resources compared to prior Vice Presidents, they said."

we don't have to speculate on other ways the Times could cover this — they gave us a look at a different way they could treat an apparently senile President in 2024. They choose to do this instead.

Nicholas Grossman@nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 3w ago

Great example of NY Times sanewashing Trump. No, the issue is not clarifying which ships have made it through Hormuz. He was lying. The claim that oil was "flowing like never before" is false. At most, fewer than half the pre-war volume got out. One small example of a much larger phenomenon.

The Trump administration just paid Invenergy $765 million to cancel four wind projects. That brings the running total to roughly $2.5 billion in taxpayer money spent to stop energy from being built. Think about that. At a time when electricity demand is rising,

This morning in Biddeford, Maine, a 26-year-old man said goodbye to his wife and daughter and left for work. Moments later he was dead, shot in the head by ICE agents, the second man ICE has killed in six days. ICE is killing our neighbors. ICE cannot be reformed. Abolish ICE.

Boston has built 2.5x as many homes per capita as San José since 2015. The result? Prices are falling in Boston while continuing to rise here. How many times must we prove that housing prices follow the law of supply and demand before we get serious about building our way out of this crisis?

NBC10 Boston@nbcboston.com · 3w ago

Boston apartments aren’t what you'd call affordable. But they’re cheaper than they used to be. on.nbcboston.com/aueiOR5

Prop 13 shields commercial properties from fair taxation, costing CA $6.5–11.5B/yr in foregone revenue, while cities charge developers sky-high fees to compensate. @mnolangray.bsky.social argues split roll could fund fee relief and unlock a building boom. www.ocregister.com/2026/06/21/n...

Nolan Gray: The YIMBY case for split roll

Across California, unsightly strip malls and office parks sit aging and undeveloped, purely because of the perverse incentives created by this fluke in state tax law.

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Mmmmmmhmmmmm 👀👀👀👀 www.nytimes.com/2026/07/09/o...

LA's new proposed "objective design standards" for historic districts are horrific. They're going to result in it essentially being illegal for new buildings to match the historic character of these districts.

Here's the definitive numbers take on Graham Platner: He's bad. Specifically, he's running about 10 points behind expectations — and in a race that decides control of the Senate about 10% of the time (the third most likely tipping point). www.gelliottmorris.com/p/2026-07-07...

People always want to blame "developers" for the ugly, generic buildings that get built in cities these days, but the fact is, they are basically mandated by law & regulation. Just wild the way cities punch themselves in the face.

Joe Cohen@cohenhouse.bsky.social · 4w ago

Under LA's new "Objective Design Standards" for historic districts, the building on the left would be prohibited, and the building on the right would be encouraged

a lot of people doing this would very much affect his decision on whether to drop out.

Eliza Orlins@elizaorlins.bsky.social · 4w ago

ActBlue donors can request refunds if they donated to Platner's campaign. Pass it on. Directions below: (And if you do this, please share that you did so on social media). help.actblue.com/hc/en-us/art...

ActBlue donors can request refunds if they donated to Platner's campaign. Pass it on. Directions below: (And if you do this, please share that you did so on social media). help.actblue.com/hc/en-us/art...

For context, the 9 counties of the San Francisco Bay Area has a population of 7.8M (compared to NYC's 8.5M), covers 6,966 square miles (compared to NYC's 472) and permitted just 16,008 new housing units last year.

Carl Quintanilla@carlquintanilla.bsky.social · last mo.

".. The city added 38,682 units to its housing stock last year—the most new apartments completed in a single year for the city since 1965 .." @wsj.com #NYC www.wsj.com/real-estate/...

YIMBYism is absolutely a precondition for decarbonizing the United States and it drives me insane that a lot of legacy climate orgs, particularly here in California, remain hostile to dense housing construction. www.sightline.org/apartments-a...

Apartments Are the Climate Solution Hiding in Plain Sight

US climate policy is blocked. Housing isn’t.

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"When Democrats retake control of the government... we have to decide if we want to win symbolic victories and simply get caught trying or if we actually want to make permanent, meaningful change. If it’s the latter, then inherently, that requires us to expand the Supreme Court.”

The Dam Is Breaking on Dems Embracing Supreme Court Expansion

A slew of decisions that are killing democracy might have lit a fire under some of the most powerful Democrats. I got them to say that they'll do something about it.

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