Somehow things that would have been a background gag in a Verhoeven movie are now just real

If you live in LA County and own a car, you can sign up to get paid up to $600 to not drive for 5 weeks thesource.metro.net/hey-la-count...

They could always sign up to give comment at a public meeting.

The Wall Street Journal@wsj.com · 23h ago

New York City’s business elites are long accustomed to direct access to City Hall, where even Democratic mayors felt the need to court the city’s wealthiest and most influential corporate leaders. That access is getting shredded by Mayor Zohran Mamdani.

ATTENTION TO ALL DEM TAX CUT SLOPULISTS

I am in Las Vegas and folks it is Weird here.

Saw this picture and trying to figure out the Diddy Kong situation is leading me down a rabbit hole that can only end with me rejecting the moon landing

'but it was so charming and sleepy fifty years ago" I am very sorry that the world economy decided to dump a jumbo jet full of money on your placid hometown every three hours for thirty years but here we are

South Carolina is now the first state in the nation for the Democratic Primary and this just ran in The State, the newspaper of Columbia, South Carolina. Come out to the rally and lobby day next week in Sac and help get our legislators to undo the cuts! actionnetwork.org/events/emerg...

Can't think of a thing that will radicalize a generation faster than "you've gotta let that old man in the corner over there see what's inside those pants before you play Kindergarten volleyball."

Gillian Branstetter@gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 2d ago

An initiative on the ballot in Washington state in November would require all athletes seeking to play girl's sports from kindergarten to high school to undergo "genetic screening, a testosterone-levels test, or an examination of their reproductive anatomy" before they can play

People potentially subject to the nyc pied-à-terre tax are being treated with 1% of the administrative hostility of SNAP and Medicaid applicants, and they’re throwing 100x the fit

Suburban sprawl in the West is having a reckoning. What we are learning is that half-city, half-wild is a recipe for conflagration. You have to either build a city, or not a city at all. Otherwise you're just providing the fire a new fuel type.

Kelcie Moseley-Morris@kelciemmorris.bsky.social · 3d ago

I was expecting a high number. I wasn't expecting it to be that high.

it really bears repeating over and over and over that the child who allegedly had her collarbone broken by her congressman dad is the granddaughter of SENATOR bernie moreno who has refused to stand up for her, or for his daughter who was allegedly abused, too. what a sick fuck.

Movie delivered. I’m going to sleep for a week.

Never forget that *three days after the WGA & SAG/AFTRA joint strike ended* Newsom vetoed a bill that would have allowed striking union members to collect unemployment

Karl Bode@karlbode.com · 5d ago

dipshit nice sneak peak of the sort of media policies you can expect under his presidency

if you want to see normally sclerotic do-nothing local governments suddenly snap into action, do some quietly beneficial tactical urbanism type thing like this and watch how quickly they race to remove it

wishda@wishda.bsky.social · 5d ago

The DSA in Wilmingotn, N.C. has created a "crisis" by putting benches at city bus stops, after literal decades of the city promising and failing to do so.

i just failed QC at midnight on literally one of the last shots of this movie and want to chuck my computer out the window.

Wow! Repeat: Full L.A. County City Selection Committee has failed to ratify Santa Clarita Councilmember Jason Gibbs for the Metro board.

I worked at Disney a while ago. Do you know why theme parks are so safe? Because OOSHA reps can walk the track on any ride at any time and any safety violation they see is a $10,000 fine. Each. Theme parks are not safe because the company cares. They're safe because it's cheaper to comply.

Jon of The North@krauza.bsky.social · last wk.

Turns out that food companies were only checking their food because the government told them to, which is exactly why we need government regulations.

Chad Livengood@chadlivengood.bsky.social · last wk.

BREAKING: Husband killed his wife, six kids before taking his own life in west Michigan, police say www.detroitnews.com/story/news/l...

I admire our government's new commitment to honesty.

so the aquarium of the pacific has its own ocean creature puppet channel and my daughter is OBSESSED

The Pacific Pals

Ocean science. Talking animals. Zero indoor voices. Brought to you by the Aquarium of the Pacific!

youtube.com

The reason Zohran scares the shit out of them so much is that they think this sort of technocrat FDR liberalism/market socialism will *work* and be popular, not that it will fail and be unpopular. They're afraid that he will be a good mayor not a bad mayor.

lowtax speedrun enjoyer@rickywlmsbong.bsky.social · 2w ago

zohran is a completely normal (mixed-market socialist/new-deal liberal/whatever) and it’s completely frying the brains of people with too much money or whose livelihoods are built on catering to the opinions of people with too much money

Street homelessness went up in Los Angeles. In Nithya Raman's district, it was nearly cut in half

Street homelessness went up in Los Angeles. In Nithya Raman's district, it was nearly cut in half

Street homelessness — people living outdoors or in their vehicles — went down by 49% in Raman’s district compared to the previous year, she said at a press conference Friday.

latimes.com

Bass promoting fare-free LA metro is a really funny example of a politician attempting to pander but instead landing on a proposal that, within the community of people who care a lot about the issue, is a specific shibboleth for not knowing what you're talking about: bsky.app/profile/mayo...

Mayor Karen Bass@mayor.lacity.gov · 2w ago

As Chair, I’ll build a long-term financial plan to make Metro fare-free. I’ve fought for a world-class transit system my entire career because public transit should create opportunity for everyone.

its really ramped up in the last week with a lot of influencers parroting the same “she’s growing on me!” language, its been very blatant but probably impacting the election for those less tuned in

Ben Collins@bencollins.bsky.social · 2w ago

A dark money campaign is offering influencers $1,500 per post to attack Abdul El-Sayed and support Haley Stevens. Same exact dollar figure that was paid to attack @katmabu.bsky.social (Nobody ever found out who was paying for that campaign.) Gross, lazy and above all cynical shit.

It is genuinely unbelievable that not a single investigative reporter in this country has dug up what happened to Mitch McConnell

The claim “RFK Jr. does not fuck chickens” is not an evidence-based claim because studies have not ruled out the possibility that RFK Jr. fucks chickens.

Coming up for air and laughing my ass off at the Benny Hill metro board reform motions where even THEY seem to have no idea what they actually passed

Instead of letting one of Metro's most successful programs wither, we should be expanding it. With the Olympics approaching, we should be showcasing Los Angeles—not scaling back one of the things that makes our city special.