For this reason, many pro-housing organizations such as East Bay for Everyone oppose Prop 45. We want to be build homes in existing cities, not spraw in wildfire zones. Prop 45 would also make it easier to widen highways - but wouldn't do anything for high speed rail. 2/ bsky.app/profile/east...

East Bay for Everyone@eastbayforeveryone.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Thanks to the important CEQA reform passed last year, the @calchamber.bsky.social BACA measure does nothing for the infill housing we need. What it does do is streamline everything from sprawl detached housing to highways to data centers. Read more: eastbayforeveryone.org/2026/03/05/s...

It remains way past time to stop letting corporations unilaterally make a mess of the sky. Especially not on the basis of blatant nonsense. Today on the #arXiv: Boley et al. 2026, "Rings in the Sky: Orbital Data Centres and Potential Impacts to Astronomy and the Sky" - arxiv.org/abs/2608.02757

Rings in the Sky: Orbital Data Centres and Potential Impacts to Astronomy and the Sky

Megaconstellations of orbital data centres (ODCs) have the potential to fundamentally change the sky without a concerted mitigation effort. Potential changes include producing large coherent structure...

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This 1899 political cartoon is an example of how urban Americans (in this case, New Yorkers) viewed the transit companies at the time.

Jake Berman@lostsubways.com · 3d ago

these monopolies were hilariously corrupt as well, and they had few friends. henry huntington (of LA's red cars), or charles yerkes (of the chicago eleveated) were as detested as bezos and zuckerberg were today. 4/

ATTENTION TO ALL DEM TAX CUT SLOPULISTS

Jane Kim, the current front-runner for the state insurance commissioner, would make this already unsustainable problem even worse. She wants you to subsidize fire insurance for rich people who choose to live in the urban-wildland interface where wildfires do the most property damage.

Urban Land Rent 🇸🇴🚰@urbanlandrent.bsky.social · 2w ago

This is the first time I’ve ever seen a CA publication speak plainly about both the stakes (and the basic distributional politics involved) The FAIR plan is a ticking time bomb and the primary problem is it promises to insure uninsurable property for rich people. www.latimes.com/business/sto...

Here's the language limiting amendment. I don't think it actually says "you can't streamline things this statute chose not to streamline," but it could reduce the Legislature's power in quite a lot of other concerning ways

The way public projects get approved in America is that you do a big report on how Bad your project is and then eventually a Preacher decides if you’ve done enough penance to be allowed to build it or not.

ST served a useful purpose before the YIMBY movement got off the ground, but now that there are myriad progressive alternatives no reason to stick with them

Are you kidding me for real, scratching each others back over maximizing seats across the board? Be for real @reptedlieu.bsky.social

LOWρUFO 🇺🇦🇵🇸🌍@lowrhoufo.bsky.social · 2mo ago

What's the most ethical way to put the fear of God into CA Dems?

Someone once posted “Malcolm Gladwell is Joe Rogan for people who read the New Yorker” and it’s seared into my brain

For Steyer so loved Los Angeles, that he gave up his only begotten gubernatorial campaign, and whosoever voteth downballot for progressives shall not perish, but have eternal Nithya Raman

again, rurals keep America away from greatness 😔

some-other-guy.bsky.social@some-other-guy.bsky.social · 2mo ago

I have a very bad feeling about any additional tax hikes on the ballot for this fall - like the one to save public transit. The vibes are only going to get worse as gas prices continue to climb, and beef prices are set to explode due to screwworm. Imagine 9/gallon gas and $8 double doubles.

Warren Wells, AICP@warrenjwells.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Same thing happened in Novato, which already has the lowest per parcel spending of any city in Marin! www.marinij.com/2026/06/03/n...

"Global city? Hell no, we're still a tiny town like we were 200 years ago and we're going to keep leadership among our tiny clique!"

YIMBYonese Liberation Army@dingbattitude.bsky.social · 2mo ago

All the establishment Democrats in Los Angeles County agree: we’re getting nothing done and that’s the way we like it.

If you want a vision of the future imagine an orthopedic new balance sneaker stamping a human face. Forever.

Someone actually did a study a while back that showed the most effective way to get women out of TERF groups wasn’t people trying to change their minds, it was them getting literally any benign hobby, like learning other languages or taking up needlework

Patrick Wyman@patrickwyman.bsky.social · 2mo ago

You know who isn't getting radicalized? Guys who do ships in a bottle. Embrace model-building and avoid the pitfalls of right-wing extremism

In the darkest night for American liberalism, Tom Steyer went against his class interests, his generation and his era to work for the Mondale 1984 campaign. Absolute lion, I don't care what anyone else says, he's a real one

Another day of California PDI early returns The Dems are backloading their ballots, the partisan split is currently 14 pp more R than 2022 same-day, but closing fast And 2022 was already a redder year, as we know Asian and Black Dem turnout still lagging tracker.politicaldata.com?type=statewi...

Every city's a walkable city if you're Godzilla

Chuck Schumer was damned if he did and damned if he didn't. Eventually the wheel of karma will turn again in the favor of sensible people, but God, am I tired of waiting.

Medical research and public health policy is a prime target paulkrugman.substack.com/p/donald-tru...

Donald Trump Wants You to Die

The attack on public health begins

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Everyone needs to hear this. This is not about opposing Trump and the GOP agenda. This is about fighting for the future and what can be. "The way out of survival mode is to imagine a positive vision of the future."

NASA has taken down its online NODIS directory, which lists NASA's internal directives, policies, and guidelines for how the agency operates. It's not that the server is down; the URL now hits a 404 Resource Not Found. According to web.archive.org/web/20250000... it went down between Jan 22 - 24.

if they are willing to sacrifice things like “wording this EO in a way that makes it possible for a court to interpret what it means” for acting fast enough to overwhelm you with despair, they consider you in a not-despairing state to be a greater threat than the courts alone

a key take away from reading a lot of history for me: the people who survive hard times and eventually brutally humiliate their seemingly invincible enemies are not the people whose first response to adversity is “oh well, guess I’ll die”

Always 💖 Don't make me tap the sign

I pray this helps some of you today. We have a duty to Dr. King whose life was taken because he dared demand that this country face itself, to demonstrate that his work & sacrifice was not in vain. Let’s do it together. Please share. And subscribe. open.substack.com/pub/sherrily...

It Is MLK Day. Do Not Despair. This Year Especially, We Have Work To Do.

With delicious anticipation, we imagined it.

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NASA is closing its Libraries, including at HQ and multiple centers, "with at least 5 librarians losing their positions:"