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Some neighbors claim that a greater supply of homes won't fix A2 affordability, but housing scarcity is absolutely contributing to our affordability crisis. The City compiled a lit review on this and other critical questions. It is nuanced, but clear. #A2Council
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
June 2025 Housing Literature Review
Research Review, Reports, Toolkits, and Bibliography Introduction Zoning is an important planning tool that allows communities to steward parks, woodlands, and water resources, strike a healthy balanc...
docs.google.com
July 9, 2025 at 3:21 PM
Some neighbors claim that a greater supply of homes won't fix A2 affordability, but housing scarcity is absolutely contributing to our affordability crisis. The City compiled a lit review on this and other critical questions. It is nuanced, but clear. #A2Council
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
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It's not a loneliness crisis. It's a depersonalization crisis, in which tech, standardization and efficiency stop us from seeing each other fully.
Wonderful article by @allisonpugh.bsky.social (author of The Last Human Job: The Work of Connecting in a Disconnected World).
aeon.co/essays/our-c...
Wonderful article by @allisonpugh.bsky.social (author of The Last Human Job: The Work of Connecting in a Disconnected World).
aeon.co/essays/our-c...
Our crisis is not loneliness but human beings becoming invisible | Aeon Essays
Our crisis of work and technology is one in which too many people feel that nobody sees them as a fellow human being
aeon.co
June 20, 2025 at 7:18 PM
It's not a loneliness crisis. It's a depersonalization crisis, in which tech, standardization and efficiency stop us from seeing each other fully.
Wonderful article by @allisonpugh.bsky.social (author of The Last Human Job: The Work of Connecting in a Disconnected World).
aeon.co/essays/our-c...
Wonderful article by @allisonpugh.bsky.social (author of The Last Human Job: The Work of Connecting in a Disconnected World).
aeon.co/essays/our-c...
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I wish people would stop describing things that are indisputably provable as a matter of fact as "controversial." People not liking a fact doesn't mean the fact is controversial. Reality is not malleable around our beliefs and it shouldn't be. We need to stop acting like it is.
June 20, 2025 at 8:36 PM
I wish people would stop describing things that are indisputably provable as a matter of fact as "controversial." People not liking a fact doesn't mean the fact is controversial. Reality is not malleable around our beliefs and it shouldn't be. We need to stop acting like it is.
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A customer told me she couldn't believe this store would put up a Pride display, because what if children see it??
Anyway, it was my display, and I'm proud of it, and you (and your children) should all see it. #BookSky 📚💙
Anyway, it was my display, and I'm proud of it, and you (and your children) should all see it. #BookSky 📚💙
June 20, 2025 at 7:19 PM
A customer told me she couldn't believe this store would put up a Pride display, because what if children see it??
Anyway, it was my display, and I'm proud of it, and you (and your children) should all see it. #BookSky 📚💙
Anyway, it was my display, and I'm proud of it, and you (and your children) should all see it. #BookSky 📚💙
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ICE's increasingly aggressive tactics are unacceptable and dangerous. They do not make us any safer.
I’m calling for an independent investigation right now — this abuse of power must end.
I’m calling for an independent investigation right now — this abuse of power must end.
Warren, Markey call for probe into ‘escalating aggression’ by federal agents in immigration raids - The Boston Globe
The Massachusetts senators called for the investigation in a letter sent Wednesday to the US Department of Homeland Security.
www.bostonglobe.com
June 20, 2025 at 1:10 PM
ICE's increasingly aggressive tactics are unacceptable and dangerous. They do not make us any safer.
I’m calling for an independent investigation right now — this abuse of power must end.
I’m calling for an independent investigation right now — this abuse of power must end.
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AMEN
June 20, 2025 at 7:27 PM
AMEN
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We are facing a serious threat to democracy, law, and liberty. The abuse of prosecutorial power to intimidate, investigate, and detain political opponents is upon us. It is a constitutional crisis. I will keep speaking out until public outrage overflows. I just hope it’s not too little, too late.
June 20, 2025 at 4:39 PM
We are facing a serious threat to democracy, law, and liberty. The abuse of prosecutorial power to intimidate, investigate, and detain political opponents is upon us. It is a constitutional crisis. I will keep speaking out until public outrage overflows. I just hope it’s not too little, too late.
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"The state whitewashed an iconic #Chicano mural painted on the [ #CulverCity DMV] building nearly 50 years ago. Now, one of the artists is working with the state to get it restored." @laist.com: laist.com/news/transpo... #EastLosStreetscapers #publicart
For 50 years, Culver City DMV had an iconic Chicano mural on its walls. Then the state painted over it
Muralist David Botello is now working to get his artwork restored.
laist.com
May 27, 2025 at 7:59 PM
"The state whitewashed an iconic #Chicano mural painted on the [ #CulverCity DMV] building nearly 50 years ago. Now, one of the artists is working with the state to get it restored." @laist.com: laist.com/news/transpo... #EastLosStreetscapers #publicart
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pros of legalizing dense housing: we could fix municipal budgets, address the housing crisis, and increase public transit
cons of legalizing dense housing: wealthy NIMBYs and weird nonprofits will be mad that they have to look at apartments
cons of legalizing dense housing: wealthy NIMBYs and weird nonprofits will be mad that they have to look at apartments
The City of Los Angeles could largely solve its $1 billion budget shortfall by allowing more homes to be built near its transit stations, according to a new report out today from Streets For All.
Read the report here: data.streetsforall.org/blog/sb79_zo...
Read the report here: data.streetsforall.org/blog/sb79_zo...
Land Use Reform Could Solve the Los Angeles Budget Crisis
Our high-level analysis shows how restrictive, exclusionary zoning has accentuated the City’s financial crisis, and how targeting upzoning could help balance budgets. Senate Bill 79 would create capac...
data.streetsforall.org
May 15, 2025 at 5:41 PM
pros of legalizing dense housing: we could fix municipal budgets, address the housing crisis, and increase public transit
cons of legalizing dense housing: wealthy NIMBYs and weird nonprofits will be mad that they have to look at apartments
cons of legalizing dense housing: wealthy NIMBYs and weird nonprofits will be mad that they have to look at apartments
The more we accept, the worse it gets.
The conman who was forced to shut down his fake "university" because its operation was consumer fraud, is trying to undermine America's oldest, most prestigious, legitimate university through an abuse of presidential power.
May 3, 2025 at 7:12 PM
The more we accept, the worse it gets.
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This guy outside the Capitol seems to really be enjoying his weekend. What a vibe.
May 3, 2025 at 6:51 PM
This guy outside the Capitol seems to really be enjoying his weekend. What a vibe.
Preach!
I wish we could have snap elections, and that our general elections were limited to 51 days.
April 28, 2025 at 9:57 PM
Preach!
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This kind of housing - mid-rise, timber, recessed balconies - should be the standard that could accomodate millions of people
By LP Architektur in Salzburg
By LP Architektur in Salzburg
April 23, 2025 at 7:11 AM
This kind of housing - mid-rise, timber, recessed balconies - should be the standard that could accomodate millions of people
By LP Architektur in Salzburg
By LP Architektur in Salzburg
I am advocating for due process for Abrego Garcia
I am advocating for due process for Abrego Garcia.
JUST IN: Deputy Assistant to the President and "Counterterrorism Czar" Sebastian Gorka says anyone advocating for due process for Kilmar Abrego Garcia could be viewed as "aiding and abetting a terrorist" and be federally charged. (h/t Philip Germain)
April 17, 2025 at 4:45 AM
I am advocating for due process for Abrego Garcia
Y’all. WTAF
Sorry for the late-night update. Musk’s staffers are reaching out to leaders of nonprofit organizations, demanding to assign DOGE team members to any institute or agency receiving federal funds.
April 16, 2025 at 6:25 AM
Y’all. WTAF
This is terrifying. This is not normal, and is not legal. Omg
This is so fucked up. ICE agents in Massachusetts smashed the window of a car to grab a Guatemalan guy who was with his wife. They were waiting for their lawyer to arrive because he has a pending asylum case.
Story via @wcvb5.bsky.social: www.wcvb.com/article/ice-...
Story via @wcvb5.bsky.social: www.wcvb.com/article/ice-...
April 16, 2025 at 2:35 AM
This is terrifying. This is not normal, and is not legal. Omg
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Trump could make one call and Garcia would be on his way back to America, where he belongs. Trump's refusal to bring Garcia back as the courts ordered, warrants his immediate removal from office.
April 16, 2025 at 1:59 AM
Trump could make one call and Garcia would be on his way back to America, where he belongs. Trump's refusal to bring Garcia back as the courts ordered, warrants his immediate removal from office.
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Brooke Rollins goes full Pyongyang: "What you have assembled in your vision is a turning point and inflection point in American history. And so just being a part of that is being the greatest honor. Thank you for that."
April 11, 2025 at 12:16 AM
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AKA, Wednesday. Just a regular old Wednesday in this most beautiful of administrations. Ugh
Good morning.
Today is the 80th day that the U.S. President is running a backdoor bribery scheme in which any CEO or foreign oligarch can send him money secretly through his crypto coin scam in exchange for favors.
It's the biggest scandal in the history of the Presidency.
Today is the 80th day that the U.S. President is running a backdoor bribery scheme in which any CEO or foreign oligarch can send him money secretly through his crypto coin scam in exchange for favors.
It's the biggest scandal in the history of the Presidency.
April 10, 2025 at 5:04 AM
AKA, Wednesday. Just a regular old Wednesday in this most beautiful of administrations. Ugh
And yet, still not the most disturbing occurrence of the day news wise… f***ing terrifying.
Prediction:
Today (4/9/25) registered the greatest ill gotten gains from insider trading in history.
Today (4/9/25) registered the greatest ill gotten gains from insider trading in history.
April 10, 2025 at 5:03 AM
And yet, still not the most disturbing occurrence of the day news wise… f***ing terrifying.
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okay now that you all have gotten a taste of America's rational and predictable new trade policy, everyone who wants to build your new factories here just form an orderly line
April 9, 2025 at 6:23 PM
okay now that you all have gotten a taste of America's rational and predictable new trade policy, everyone who wants to build your new factories here just form an orderly line
Love
because you asked nicely, here’s my latest work in progress song, “context clues”
April 10, 2025 at 5:00 AM
Love
While we talk about the market and DOGE, this is what the administration doesn’t want us to notice…
Are you a woman who changed your name when you got married?
Congress is considering a bill that could make it much harder for you to vote.
Call your rep—this is not a drill. indivisible.org/resource/cal...
Congress is considering a bill that could make it much harder for you to vote.
Call your rep—this is not a drill. indivisible.org/resource/cal...
April 10, 2025 at 4:58 AM
While we talk about the market and DOGE, this is what the administration doesn’t want us to notice…