Stan Oklobdzija
@stano.bsky.social
Ass. Prof. Public Policy @ UC Riverside | Better Cities Through Better Government | 1st Gen 🇺🇸: 🇷🇸/ Việt Nam Cộng Hòa | 躺平 | Ham chơi
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📍: The Inland Empire, California.
stanokl.github.io | https://everyoneiswelcome.substack.com/
📍: The Inland Empire, California.
Watched this PBS documentary on the Alternative für Deutschland and they kept bringing up "wokeismus." Are those people so half-assed they need to recycle bullshit from our chuds? Hilarious that European nations want to turn themselves into Alabama.
November 11, 2025 at 8:36 AM
Watched this PBS documentary on the Alternative für Deutschland and they kept bringing up "wokeismus." Are those people so half-assed they need to recycle bullshit from our chuds? Hilarious that European nations want to turn themselves into Alabama.
Most regular people would probably do a better job, but they would also hate it because being a member of Congress is a terrible job. It's appealing only to people with narcissistic person disorder.
i think a lot of us if plucked off the street and sworn in as a senator would do a modestly better job than a lot of our incumbents
all of these people live in a comfortable room-temperature fog of steakhouse dinners, galas held in their honor, and important decisions prechewed for them and fed to them by adoring but interchangable young people selected to be as inoffensive to them as possible by their chiefs of staff.
November 11, 2025 at 6:21 AM
Most regular people would probably do a better job, but they would also hate it because being a member of Congress is a terrible job. It's appealing only to people with narcissistic person disorder.
This kind of nepotism sucks, but what's worse IMO is when legislative seats get passed on to the chief of staff when a member is termed out. It just defeats the entire purpose of representative democracy.
Christine Pelosi, daughter of Nancy Pelosi, has announced she’s running for the California State Senate.
November 11, 2025 at 5:50 AM
This kind of nepotism sucks, but what's worse IMO is when legislative seats get passed on to the chief of staff when a member is termed out. It just defeats the entire purpose of representative democracy.
Fascism is ascendant across the globe, a violent White supremacist movement is gaining power in the US and measles outbreaks are putting people at risk.
But unlike the 1930s, instead of cool Art Deco buildings, we have this:
But unlike the 1930s, instead of cool Art Deco buildings, we have this:
November 11, 2025 at 1:37 AM
Fascism is ascendant across the globe, a violent White supremacist movement is gaining power in the US and measles outbreaks are putting people at risk.
But unlike the 1930s, instead of cool Art Deco buildings, we have this:
But unlike the 1930s, instead of cool Art Deco buildings, we have this:
One of the reasons Trump is such a successful Republican is because he operates in the same information space as the average Republican voter. He doesn't even realize he's lying here because he gets all his information about the world from the same TV stations as his voters.
Trump on Newsom: "He did something even worse than that. He's now taking a big section of Palisades or some area and he's gonna build low income income where they used to have luxury housing."
November 11, 2025 at 12:38 AM
One of the reasons Trump is such a successful Republican is because he operates in the same information space as the average Republican voter. He doesn't even realize he's lying here because he gets all his information about the world from the same TV stations as his voters.
I think it would have been good politics to force the GOP to abolish the filibuster because as it stands, ending ACA subsidies and wrecking Thanksgiving travel is now a bipartisan initiative.
November 10, 2025 at 11:24 PM
I think it would have been good politics to force the GOP to abolish the filibuster because as it stands, ending ACA subsidies and wrecking Thanksgiving travel is now a bipartisan initiative.
It's more feasible that certain states secede and form a new union than to ever convince the modern Slave Power to abolish the Senate through which they derive all their power.
November 10, 2025 at 11:00 PM
It's more feasible that certain states secede and form a new union than to ever convince the modern Slave Power to abolish the Senate through which they derive all their power.
How does one join their county Democratic Party though? I looked into it since moving back to California and I'm still not sure I have a clear idea on what to do.
“Rather than taking over the Democratic Party the same way the right took over the Republican Party, we should take the easier route and just start up a new party ourselves!”
I’m about to fill my pockets with stones and walk into the sea.
I’m about to fill my pockets with stones and walk into the sea.
November 10, 2025 at 10:05 PM
How does one join their county Democratic Party though? I looked into it since moving back to California and I'm still not sure I have a clear idea on what to do.
This is like how po' boys are made with terrible, dry ass bread because the French couldn't grow wheat in Louisiana in the 1700s so they improvised a way to make baguettes that were mostly water.
I don't doubt this for a second and once you understand this, you will understand a lot about people
November 10, 2025 at 9:40 PM
This is like how po' boys are made with terrible, dry ass bread because the French couldn't grow wheat in Louisiana in the 1700s so they improvised a way to make baguettes that were mostly water.
Democrats that are up for reelection should be calling for Schumer's replacement even if they don't personally want that. It's just good politics right now.
In response to this claim that the "strategy didn't work."
The people were on our side. We were building momentum to help save our democracy. We could have won - the premium increase notices were just starting.
And giving in now will embolden him. Things will likely get worse.
The people were on our side. We were building momentum to help save our democracy. We could have won - the premium increase notices were just starting.
And giving in now will embolden him. Things will likely get worse.
November 10, 2025 at 9:20 PM
Democrats that are up for reelection should be calling for Schumer's replacement even if they don't personally want that. It's just good politics right now.
I think the correct dimension to categorize Democrats isn't liberal to moderate, but those who think elected office is for the exercise of power and those who think elected office is your just reward after climbing the career ladder and waiting your turn.
Shaheen: "We've heard from a number of our colleagues on the other side of the aisle that they're willing to come to the table, they're willing to work with us once the govt is open to get this done. We've heard the same thing from the White House. So now we'll see if they're really gonna work w/us"
November 10, 2025 at 7:55 PM
I think the correct dimension to categorize Democrats isn't liberal to moderate, but those who think elected office is for the exercise of power and those who think elected office is your just reward after climbing the career ladder and waiting your turn.
Remembering how that one Senator cut the Trump impeachment short so he could get home for Valentine's Day and now 8 Dems caved on the shutdown because their friends complained about Thanksgiving flights. Suffering should be reserved entirely for the poors.
November 10, 2025 at 7:07 PM
Remembering how that one Senator cut the Trump impeachment short so he could get home for Valentine's Day and now 8 Dems caved on the shutdown because their friends complained about Thanksgiving flights. Suffering should be reserved entirely for the poors.
This is what our party just surrendered to.
November 10, 2025 at 6:29 AM
This is what our party just surrendered to.
There should be 24 hour protests in front of their homes.
Never forget who sold us out:
Hassan
King
Cortez-Masto
Shaheen
Kaine
Fetterman
Durbin
Rosen
Hassan
King
Cortez-Masto
Shaheen
Kaine
Fetterman
Durbin
Rosen
November 10, 2025 at 4:12 AM
There should be 24 hour protests in front of their homes.
Caved to save Thanksgiving flights. JFC.
November 10, 2025 at 2:46 AM
Caved to save Thanksgiving flights. JFC.
Do you reckon @schiff.senate.gov is one of the ten Senators who wants to cave? Is it worth calling him?
I know @padilla.senate.gov is a stand up guy who understands why Californians put him into office so I'm not worried there.
I know @padilla.senate.gov is a stand up guy who understands why Californians put him into office so I'm not worried there.
Welp, that’s the Senate side of the shutdown over, it seems.
November 10, 2025 at 12:20 AM
Do you reckon @schiff.senate.gov is one of the ten Senators who wants to cave? Is it worth calling him?
I know @padilla.senate.gov is a stand up guy who understands why Californians put him into office so I'm not worried there.
I know @padilla.senate.gov is a stand up guy who understands why Californians put him into office so I'm not worried there.
California had a study bill for a weight tax on passenger vehicles a few years ago (AB 251 by Chris Ward.) Anyone know if there are plans to actually roll one out. I imagine one might find some support among cities who are getting hosed by road maintenance fees right now.
November 9, 2025 at 10:14 PM
California had a study bill for a weight tax on passenger vehicles a few years ago (AB 251 by Chris Ward.) Anyone know if there are plans to actually roll one out. I imagine one might find some support among cities who are getting hosed by road maintenance fees right now.
I obviously don't have any inside information, but the idea that the Democrats are about to cave seems fake. Flight disruptions over Thanksgiving are already baked in by now so no one is getting anything for selling out the party and voting with Trump.
November 9, 2025 at 9:02 PM
I obviously don't have any inside information, but the idea that the Democrats are about to cave seems fake. Flight disruptions over Thanksgiving are already baked in by now so no one is getting anything for selling out the party and voting with Trump.
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Cross-posting my discovery of the day. This guy could have been the Shoup of design review.
He's was a random architect working from home in Bernal Heights. Never had a faculty position.
He churned out scores of academic papers and one great book.
threadreaderapp.com/thread/19873...
He's was a random architect working from home in Bernal Heights. Never had a faculty position.
He churned out scores of academic papers and one great book.
threadreaderapp.com/thread/19873...
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@CSElmendorf: I stumbled across the work of Arthur E. Stamps III this morning and, wow, my eyes have been opened! He's was (is?) an architect in San Francisco who wrote scores of academic papers on th...
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November 9, 2025 at 2:01 AM
Cross-posting my discovery of the day. This guy could have been the Shoup of design review.
He's was a random architect working from home in Bernal Heights. Never had a faculty position.
He churned out scores of academic papers and one great book.
threadreaderapp.com/thread/19873...
He's was a random architect working from home in Bernal Heights. Never had a faculty position.
He churned out scores of academic papers and one great book.
threadreaderapp.com/thread/19873...
The way to understand the "maniverse" is not that these are podcasts for men, but podcasts for men with antisocial personality disorder. It's niche hobby content for the kinds of men we build prisons for.
Loving women is gay. Being attracted to women is gay. Enjoying consentual sex with women is gay.
Is anything straight anymore?
Is anything straight anymore?
November 8, 2025 at 11:30 PM
The way to understand the "maniverse" is not that these are podcasts for men, but podcasts for men with antisocial personality disorder. It's niche hobby content for the kinds of men we build prisons for.
I'm actually pretty interested in how much Republicans can paper over wrecking the lives of their voters with petty bigotries before they turn on them. Obviously, White Southerners have tolerated this for generations, but I think this is new for a lot of the GOP's base.
November 8, 2025 at 10:03 PM
I'm actually pretty interested in how much Republicans can paper over wrecking the lives of their voters with petty bigotries before they turn on them. Obviously, White Southerners have tolerated this for generations, but I think this is new for a lot of the GOP's base.
We need legislation that limits CBP operations to the actual land borders of the US and its ports. This 100 mile Constitution Free Zone we've operated under for the last several decades has just created a general warrant and a Gestapo.
Not ICE. Border Patrol. They’re wearing Border Patrol uniforms with clear Border Patrol patches on them.
There are many videos of ICE officers doing outrageous stuff but a lot of the absolute worst videos are of Border Patrol, who are basically Bovino and Miller’s most aggressive tool right now.
There are many videos of ICE officers doing outrageous stuff but a lot of the absolute worst videos are of Border Patrol, who are basically Bovino and Miller’s most aggressive tool right now.
ICE agents in Chicago violently detain a non verbal autistic man for being “non compliant”
He couldn’t “comply” because of his disability…they don’t care
This is not the first time they’ve gone after a disabled person
They target the most vulnerable because it’s an easy way to meet their quota
He couldn’t “comply” because of his disability…they don’t care
This is not the first time they’ve gone after a disabled person
They target the most vulnerable because it’s an easy way to meet their quota
November 8, 2025 at 7:09 PM
We need legislation that limits CBP operations to the actual land borders of the US and its ports. This 100 mile Constitution Free Zone we've operated under for the last several decades has just created a general warrant and a Gestapo.
Watched Pluribus last night and it was incredible to see television that was made correctly after so many years. Like, you could see details in scenes shot at night and every character added to the larger story in some way. Crazy to think how novel that is these days.
November 8, 2025 at 6:44 PM
Watched Pluribus last night and it was incredible to see television that was made correctly after so many years. Like, you could see details in scenes shot at night and every character added to the larger story in some way. Crazy to think how novel that is these days.
Judicial review in the US is so bleak because the method by which judges arrive at conclusions is so transparently fake and self-interested, while the consequences are devastatingly real.
It's like "Sorry, your children will have to starve because that's what the chicken bones are telling me."
It's like "Sorry, your children will have to starve because that's what the chicken bones are telling me."
November 8, 2025 at 2:36 AM
Judicial review in the US is so bleak because the method by which judges arrive at conclusions is so transparently fake and self-interested, while the consequences are devastatingly real.
It's like "Sorry, your children will have to starve because that's what the chicken bones are telling me."
It's like "Sorry, your children will have to starve because that's what the chicken bones are telling me."
I will never understand how committing perjury doesn't get a police officer immediately fired and thrown in prison for 20 years. That sort of corruption is toxic and needs to be stamped out.
"Police dishonesty, even on the stand and under oath, is so common that it has its own name (“testilying”), and it has forced prosecutor offices to create what are called “Brady Lists” of officers they will not put on the stand out of fear they’ll commit perjury."
My latest, in @msnbc.com, on how ICE, CBP, and Bovino may be overplaying their hand in Chicago.
Also: this will only make hiring go ICE harder.
And: I hope ppl appreciate that the lying Judge Ellis calls out is NOT an aberration, but a very consistent problem w police claims.
Also: this will only make hiring go ICE harder.
And: I hope ppl appreciate that the lying Judge Ellis calls out is NOT an aberration, but a very consistent problem w police claims.
November 8, 2025 at 1:55 AM
I will never understand how committing perjury doesn't get a police officer immediately fired and thrown in prison for 20 years. That sort of corruption is toxic and needs to be stamped out.