Nick Burns
@nkburns3.bsky.social
legalize apartments, desegregate schools, resettle refugees
This whole story is nuts but the tl;dr is that elected offices in LA city and county government should be abolished.
Elizabeth Chou@reporterliz.bsky.social · 2d agoSo the mtg was IMMEDIATELY adjourned because Zoom capacity was reached at 1,000. It's a general membership mtg and they can't turn people away, so they have to postpone the agenda items. Some ppl shouted that they could help the CoC make the Zoom upgrade. "I can show you how!"
LA turbo NIMBY Doug Emhoff headlining a fundraiser for Karen Bass? Yeah that checks out. s/o @lamaterial.com for the link in this morning’s newsletter.
👀 “Among Latino voters ages 18 to 49, however, Raman led Bass, 60% to 9%.”
Latino voters have shifted away from Karen Bass in L.A. mayor's race, according to new poll
Raman leads Bass among Latinos, 45% to 21%, with 34% undecided, the latest Berkeley IGS/L.A. Times poll shows. But in the primary, Bass carried 35 Latino majority neighborhoods compared with seven for...
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This is the kind of redevelopment opportunity LAUSD and the LAPL should be considering across all of their properties.
Yonah Freemark@yonahfreemark.com · 2w agoJersey City reveals plans for the redevelopment of the Holland Gardens public housing, taking a moderate density, monofuctional, 192-unit complex and replacing it with a high-density, 753-unit project with commercial space, a community center, & a public library! newyorkyimby.com/2026/09/plan...
Here's another version: Because of the glory of the home mortgage disclosure act, we can see the income of homebuyers with mortgages. Within the same county/neighborhood/neighborhood and adjusting for unit characteristics, condo buyers are poorer than single family home buyers. it's a starter home!
Joe Fish@sadbusdriver.bsky.social · 2w agothe thing with luxury condos is that they're mostly a myth. 1. within the same county, condos sell for 35% less than single family homes 2. within the same neighborhood, they sell for 43% less 3. within the same neighborhood and adjusting for some quality characteristics, they sell for 21% less
Marxist terms of art have outlived their usefulness, you're hearing it more and more.
Polling USA@usapolling.bsky.social · 2w agoFavorability of: 🌹Socialism: Unfavorable: 53% (-5) Favorable: 43% (+8) 🪙Capitalism: Favorable: 55% (-5) Unfavorable: 43% (+8) Gallup / Aug 24, 2026 (% Change With 2016)
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☀️ Starshine@starshine.bsky.social · 3w agoWhat are your top ten shows of the 21st century
This attempt to construct a narrative of persecution around being a white guy in America is at base, an expression of profound jealousy and insecurity towards people who have to overcome challenges they will never face
Grateful to live close enough to Santa Monica NIMBYs that I can watch them flip out about the Bergamot Station housing development on Nextdoor.
This L.A. County city is planning to transform a 2-acre commercial site into an eight-story apartment building with 353 homes, including 36 affordable units
The proposal would bring a major architectural change to a longtime office property near Water Garden and Bergamot Station.
secretlosangeles.com
Paying taxes on the unimproved value of my men’s only yacht because
disc horse bot@horsedisc.bsky.social · 4w agoMost flotillas in the United States are Georgist and misogynistic
TELL @gavinnewsom.bsky.social to VETO SB 194, a targeted attack on the Forest Lawn Safety & Mobility Project. This law would set a horrible precedent where any wealthy Californian can write and pay for their own law, at the last minute, without debate. actionnetwork.org/letters/tell...
Tell Gavin Newsom: Veto the Forest Lawn Amendment
After years of work, LA finally has a plan to make Forest Lawn Drive safer. Mayor Bass paused it in May. Now Sacramento is threatening it again with SB 194, which passed the Assembly on Monday and n...
actionnetwork.org
Shit like this is why no one believes Jeffries et al when they talk about Affordability. Dems will crow about Affordability, at the expense of fighting fascism and ICE terror, and then just not do anything about the cost of living issues they do control.
Stan Oklobdzija@stano.bsky.social · last mo.California's ruling Democrats are just fundamentally unserious about governing this state. They pulled the coward's veto on a bill that'd make it easier to build condos.
Bloomberg is the newspaper everyone says they want the New York Times to be. ✅ real news ✅ stories that make DJT look bad ❌ clickbait ❌ Hasan Piker mentions
The Democratic Party has let a consulting industry exploit elderly donors in its name, wreck its reputation and finances in the process, and walk away rich whether the party wins or loses. When a mirror is held up, the instinct is to break the glass rather than look. On why the press looks away:
The Bulwark Killed an Investigation into Political Fundraising Spam After Its Publisher Took the Consultants’ Side
This is a story about the Democratic Party captured by its consultants, and about what happens when the pro-democracy press is asked to say so.
data4democracy.substack.com
Watch this @lapubliclibrary.bsky.social video about The Odyssey controversy. It’s so gd good.
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LA’s mayoral election is between people who like Los Angeles and people who don’t.
Spencer Pratt gives a rave review to Karen Bass
Pratt said Bass was “an assassin” and a “very skilled politician” who “made mincemeat of Nithya throughout the debate, both stylistically and substantively.”
latimes.com
Bass hates taco trucks because she’s running for the mayor of 1984 Los Angeles; Raman is running for mayor of 2026. And the Sherman Oaks HOA believes in an American dream of suburbs without a city, and Bass is willing to pretend that’s sustainable.
Col. Gustavo Arellano@gustavoarellano.bsky.social · 2mo agoMY LATEST @latimes.com COLUMNA: In Karen Bass’ bad debate night, she even trashed taco trucks. Share, porfas!
They have to be on year 10 of these Vermont Transit Corridor community meetings.
Vermont Transit Corridor Project Community Meeting at Metro Talent Hub
Join us for a Community Meeting for the Vermont Transit Corridor at the Metro Talent Hub!
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The Venice Dell affordable housing project is back on the agenda, Carpenters group plunks down $3M to elect Nithya Raman to mayor, LA City Council member Imelda Padilla lashes out at Raman, and more. LA Squawk Box for Thursday, August 13, 2026 open.substack.com/pub/lasquawk...
LA Squawk Box for Thursday, August 13, 2026
The Venice Dell affordable housing project is back on the agenda, Carpenters group plunks down $3M to elect Nithya Raman to mayor, LA City Council member Imelda Padilla lashes out at Raman, and more.
open.substack.com
From Mamdani balancing NYC’s budget to council members Raman and Hernandez seemingly being the only ones concerned about the financial risks to the city… it would appear the real fiscal conservatives are the Progressives.
Alissa Walker@awalkerinla.bsky.social · 2mo agoI made this because I want you to hear directly from the city officials who negotiated this agreement: there is no way to guarantee we’re protected from significant financial risk. Again, I’m happy to hear them say it! But the city has *no* operational control of LA28 until after this is all over
I just wrote a @theactionnetwork.bsky.social letter: Support more housing in West Los Angeles. Write one here: actionnetwork.org/letters/supp...
Support more housing in West Los Angeles
A proposed 39-unit housing development at 10535 West Missouri Avenue will replace three existing homes with a new six-story apartment building featuring a mix of one-, two-, and three-bedroom units. T...
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Some rubber meeting road in Left-YIMBY world. Mamdani's pick for a key housing position facing pushback from city council members for blaming lack of affordable housing on "wealthy homeowner cartels" and dumping on community benefit agreements www.politico.com/newsletters/...
Mamdani pick for crucial housing panel on thin ice with City Council
politico.com
Oh, the film doesn't pay enough attention to the Odysseus' victims? Well, it pays infinitely more attention to them than the original poem does, as the poem has literately nothing to say on the subject, a thing I learned by reading Emily Wilson's translation of the Odyssey
When you realize America is basically Brazil with Northwestern Europe, the Rhine River Valley, Greater Tokyo, and the Guangdong–Hong Kong–Macao Greater Bay Area attached it becomes clear why you can’t really compare us to any other country.
my core thesis remains Everybody Makes Good Americans
George Lucas can make any movie he wants, but, aside from Kenneth Colley’s unforgettable performance as Admiral Piett, slapdash writing and weak characterization were the only features of note in “The Empire Strikes Back.”
Last month, Ben and I published our projection of the LA mayoral race, analyzing LA as 11 political neighborhoods. Now, presenting: After the Count. What do the per-cluster results say about Los Angeles' voting coalitions? How well did our project do? What do Raman and Bass need to do by November?
After the Count — the 2026 LA mayoral primary, by neighborhood
Bass and Raman advance, Pratt is out — the 2026 LA mayoral primary results read through the Three Los Angeleses: who moved which voters, where the model hit and missed, and what it means for November.
three-las.talevy.soccer
t a l@talevy.soccer · 4mo agoAhead of election day tomorrow*, I built an analysis of Los Angeles' political demography based on past voting patterns and projected neighborhood-by-neighborhood across the five main mayoral candidates three-las.talevy.soccer *(of course, results won't be clear until several days after)
