Please welcome to The Festival of Progressive Abundance: the Executive Director of SELAH Neighborhood Homeless Coalition (@selahnhc.bsky.social), Sara Reyes! Join us! Friday, January 30th to Sunday, February 1st, 2026 in Los Angeles.
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YIMBY Democrats for America 🇺🇸🗽@yimbydems.bsky.social · 7mo agoAre you a student or under the age of 25 who wants to come to The Festival of Progressive Abundance for free? Our volunteer application is now live! Head to the link below for info and to start your journey! 🎯 progressiveabundance.com/volunteer
Are you a student or under the age of 25 who wants to come to The Festival of Progressive Abundance for free? Our volunteer application is now live! Head to the link below for info and to start your journey! 🎯 progressiveabundance.com/volunteer
New Partner Announcement! Please welcome to The Festival of Progressive Abundance: @thewaroncars.bsky.social! The War on Cars is is a podcast fighting to undo a century’s worth of damage wrought by the automobile, mixing together politics and pop culture. @brooklynspoke.bsky.social Join us! 🇺🇸🗽
New Partner Announcement! Please welcome to The Festival of Progressive Abundance: @westsideforev.bsky.social! Westside for Everyone is a grassroots chapter of Abundant Housing LA fighting for real solutions to our housing crisis. Join us! progressiveabundance.com/tickets
As Secretary of State Colin Powell warned President George W. Bush before the invasion of Iraq, “You are going to be the proud owner of 25 million people. You will own all their hopes, aspirations, and problems. You’ll own it all." It's known as the 'Pottery Barn Rule': You break it? You own it.
YIMBY Democrats for America 🇺🇸🗽@yimbydems.bsky.social · 7mo agoForeign policy is generally out of our scope, but we would simply recommend you make your plan for a nation's future *before* you kidnap its head of state. 🤷♂️
Foreign policy is generally out of our scope, but we would simply recommend you make your plan for a nation's future *before* you kidnap its head of state. 🤷♂️
Nick Turse@nickturse.bsky.social · 7mo agoAsked about Venezuela's fate, Trump told Fox: “We’re making that decision now. We can’t take a chance on letting somebody else run it.” He added: “We want to do liberty for the people."
New Partner Announcement! Please welcome to The Festival of Progressive Abundance: @coalitionpac.bsky.social! Coalition PAC is a student-led PAC organizing across 250+ campuses to elect leaders who put working families first, founded by 18-year-old Nicolas Kiet Quach! 😮
Trump may be after oil, but when he asked American oil companies if they'd like to set up shop in Venezuela if he ousted Maduro, they said, "um... no?" 🤷♂️ www.politico.com/news/2025/12...
YIMBY Democrats for America 🇺🇸🗽@yimbydems.bsky.social · 7mo ago18 days ago, Donald Trump's Chief of Staff Susie Wiles said of a possible confrontation with Venezuela: "If he were to authorize some activity on land, then it’s war, then [we’d need] Congress." But that was last year... www.vanityfair.com/news/story/d...
18 days ago, Donald Trump's Chief of Staff Susie Wiles said of a possible confrontation with Venezuela: "If he were to authorize some activity on land, then it’s war, then [we’d need] Congress." But that was last year... www.vanityfair.com/news/story/d...
Please welcome to the Festival of Progressive Abundance: Toby Muresianu, Cofounder of Westside for Everyone! Join Toby, Rep Scott Peters, Rep Laura Friedman, @jonlovett.bsky.social, @mnolangray.bsky.social, @thetransitguy.com, Imagineers, and more at The Festival in LA this Jan 30 - Feb 1st!
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Jon Orcutt@jonorcutt.bsky.social · 7mo agoMamdani & transportation commissioner Mike Flynn announcing (with a big neighborhood turnout) that the half-done McGuinness Blvd *road diet* will be completed this spring as soon as weather permits
Stay tuned. 👀 😉 If you think we're not looped in to Zohran's administration and the amazing folks working to bring Progressive Abundance to life in NYC, think again! So, maybe a few, and maybe a virtual appearance. They are on their first month on the job 3,000 miles away. Happy to let 'em work! 😍
Sloposition 13 Iconoclast🚰🔰@josh.hawn.xyz · 7mo agoOh, so those are the ones attending your conference?
He's pretty busy right now, passing YIMBY executive orders. You know who he is affiliated with, though? His hand-selected YIMBY deputy mayor and YIMBY housing committee.
Sloposition 13 Iconoclast🚰🔰@josh.hawn.xyz · 7mo agoZohran be like:
You can't just assign us candidates based on the characters you've invented for us in your head. 😂 You are certainly welcome to listen to 50+ hours of our podcast, though! You might be surprised... Or just do a little research into Zohran's deputy mayor, executive orders, & housing committee... 🤔
Caerdroia@caerdroia.bsky.social · 7mo agoMamdani is a socialist. He is not a liberal. Your guy was the rapist or the cop.
Seriously! Where's that progress we've been promised from Abundance, a policy you heard about less than a year ago from notoriously bigoted right-wingers like... Ezra Klein? Is this a riddle? Perhaps a kōan? We're intrigued & have a similar question for you: what is the sound of one hand clapping?
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Caerdroia@caerdroia.bsky.social · 7mo agoLiberals are right wing. How can abundance be "progressive" when it has resulted in no progress and when it is spearheaded by bigoted right wingers?
A socialist should love Abundance! (And one does.) You can't do socialism if you can't make stuff. Can't redistribute funds until you raise them. Can't build subsidized public housing if it's also blocked by zoning & neighbor vetoes. Can't get a 21st century FDR if The New New Deal would be illegal!
@2fast2quick.bsky.social · 7mo agoIt makes no sense in pop politics world view of “socialism is when the government does things, capitalism is when the market does things”, but a regulation which protects rentier landlords is as unsocialist as a market which exploits workers
You got us! Zohran just said "Abundance." Who knows what he means? Who knows indeed. Unless you scroll all the way to the... second image, and check the Executive Actions he signed on his first day in office... 🤔 For a guy who's faking it, he sure knows a lot about Jersey City and Tokyo...
Caerdroia@caerdroia.bsky.social · 7mo agoA politician saying a word is not advocacy for a specific set of policy positions.
Which is exactly why adding more residents and their tax revenue can help to pay for sidewalks, pavements, and streetlights while also creating demand and political pressure for increased public transit? Let's let the grannies live in the "granny flats" and not do redlining-again-but-woke?
Alex Wenzel@alexwenzel.bsky.social · 7mo agoJust to clarify, we’re discussing one of the lowest income neighborhoods in San Diego that was redlined, never had sidewalks, is partially paved, and is more than a mile from the train and is served by one hourly bus route.
Except that that's not actually in evidence in the article. There are no experts quoted evaluating sewage and draining, and there are no statistics cited. The article quotes folks nearby fretting about this and wondering why their headcanon doesn't determine other peoples' lives. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Alex Wenzel@alexwenzel.bsky.social · 7mo agoIt’s the lack of infrastructure to support the ADUs. Sewage/drainage, sidewalks, the road, and transit are all insufficient to support the existing residents. Under normal development processes, there would be impact fees and potentially other negotiated mitigations.
If more people need homes than there are homes, renters have to bid against each other, driving prices up like an auction as landlords collect. If there's more homes than people, landlords have to fight each other for renters or be left with nothing. It's musical chairs, and we're adding chairs.
Jesse Mortenson@jk9.bsky.social · 7mo agoSee at least two of those things - “dismantle the incumbent privileges that have pulled the ladder up” and “make landlords compete for us” - are nonsense phrases. There is no common-cultural meaning to those phrases, only the meaning you’re foisting on to them. This is what I’m saying
What infrastructure does this article claim is adversely affected by ADUs? It seems to be mostly about parking and traffic. Residents say the roads are poorly maintained, but that pre-dates the ADUs. We recommend the city use the revenue from new residents to fix the potholes -- an upgrade!
Alex Wenzel@alexwenzel.bsky.social · 7mo agoAiming for “less law” without carefully considering the socioeconomic context and the incentives in the economy broadly can backfire severely in a country as fundamentally unequal as ours. These ADUs will essentially be tenements because they’re the first investment in this neighborhood in decades.
Progressive Abundance means that if you want to make life affordable, lift everyone up, dismantle the incumbent privileges that have pulled the ladder up, make landlords compete for us, and actually fight climate change, then we've got a plan for you. Festival means it's going to be fun.
Jesse Mortenson@jk9.bsky.social · 7mo ago“festival of progressive abundance” is some of the dorkiest shit I’ve seen. What does that even mean.
See attached. ;) But more to the point: Abundance is an attempt to recognize that YIMBY is 100% right and ask: wait, where else does this apply? Is *that* why climate change deniers can build green energy faster than those of us who think it's an existential crisis??
TrueSync@truesync.bsky.social · 7mo agoWhy did we let the abundance wankers co opt YIMBY?
Totally. For us, it illustrates that "deregulation" just means "less law." For example, most folks on the left would certainly like to "deregulate" abortion in the deep South! We're pretty locked in on surging the creation of homes, green energy, and public transit -- the rest is normal politics!
Alex Wenzel@alexwenzel.bsky.social · 7mo agoI agree with you, which is why I’m cautiously optimistic since there are some names and institutions that I’ve seen on prior Abundance conference flyers that aren’t on this one. The difference is far more nuanced than “poison vs homes” though.
The thing about "deregulation" is that it very much matters whether what you are deregulating is corporations' ability to poison the water supply or everyone's ability to build apartment buildings -- including the government's ability to build public housing without nearby randos shouting it down!
Alex Wenzel@alexwenzel.bsky.social · 7mo agoStill not convinced this concept will work or be able to avoid Trojan-horsing wholesale deregulation, but I guess it’s good that some of them are trying to make a version of it that explicitly doesn’t include AEI or creepy anti-union guys.