I'm so excited Fullerton's new urban trail is finally coming, connecting green space to downtown and providing a safe pedestrian pathway for families to get where they're going, in a part of town that historically hasn't gotten the support it deserves. A big thank you to my councilman Ahmad Zahra!

I saw so many people talking about how Mamdani and Lander were clearly running because they love their city and want to make life better there, while Cuomo seems to hate and fear it, and that feels like the key piece of this campaign that could be replicable by progressives everywhere

Noah Shachtman@noahshachtman.bsky.social · last yr.

Great point by Courtney Gross on @spectrumnewsny1.bsky.social. The portrait of the City painted by Andrew Cuomo (and many of the city's elites) as a crime-ridden, apocalyptic hellhole ... it just doesn't match what most New Yorkers see every day.

Orange County, CA showed up

i think it’s cool that the furthest left people who have any relevance in american politics reverse engineered “ban renters from rich neighborhoods” from first principles.

Bill McKay@mckay4senate.bsky.social · last yr.

So I was looking at a few DSA candidate platforms, and a lot of them called for ending companies buying up single family housing. It seems like an easy boogeyman to attack, but is there any evidence that this is actually causing housing prices to go up?

I want the concept of inclusionary zoning to work, but then when I do the math, it really ends up just looking like a tax on renters (policy illustrated here is 20% VLI @ HCD rents, rounded down)

Honestly this whole city just needs to yank the cartridge out and restart the game.

After multiple hours of stubbed toes, rereading vague IKEA instructions, disassembling and reassembling after realizing I missed a step, and juggling a crying baby: finally out this bad boy together for our four year old. She's thrilled, obviously.

I got this for my brother for Christmas, but it's so good I think I need to get a copy for myself. Annotated with historical context, other writings, diagrams & maps — it's soooo good even beyond Grant's obviously spectacular prose.

Eggnog batch 1 is ready.

So proud of the great work happening in Minneapolis, which shows that boosting housing supply helps make homes more affordable.

Reading about dim sum while having dim sum. Basically incepting it at this point.

My city, Fullerton, is one of the worst offenders in CA's housing crisis. I'm watching a city council meeting to update our zoning to a common-sense middle ground, and almost every speaker (beside People For Housing OC!) is demanding their area be exempted, or the plan abandoned entirely. It's sad.

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I'm unreasonably excited about this

Vance Ulrich@vanceulrich.bsky.social · 2y ago

Michelle Steel’s lead is now down to just 58 votes in CA45! 🎉 Tran keeps shrinking Steel’s lead and should pass her tomorrow!

The preschool drop-off line is just the devil showing us what Hell's like