molly
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I'm at the housing crisis
I'm at the Third Amendment
I'm at the combination housing crisis Third Amendment
I'm at the Third Amendment
I'm at the combination housing crisis Third Amendment
June 9, 2025 at 11:48 PM
I'm at the housing crisis
I'm at the Third Amendment
I'm at the combination housing crisis Third Amendment
I'm at the Third Amendment
I'm at the combination housing crisis Third Amendment
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"Dem governed places are nicer, wealthier and safer than Republican governed places" is a layup Dems are weirdly average to taking.
Gavin Newsom is responding to red state critics who represent states with higher murder rates than California, including Mike Johnson (Louisiana) and Tommy Tuberville (Alabama).
June 10, 2025 at 12:32 AM
"Dem governed places are nicer, wealthier and safer than Republican governed places" is a layup Dems are weirdly average to taking.
I can smell this picture
June 9, 2025 at 1:57 AM
I can smell this picture
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there is no rioting. nobody is looting. Nobody is burning random stuff down. This is just americans rising up to protect their neighbors from the ICE brownshirts.
I guess no one’s ever going to learn the lesson that rioting in the streets almost always benefits the right wing in American politics.
Save me your speeches about Watts. It’s been almost a perfect record since 1968.
Save me your speeches about Watts. It’s been almost a perfect record since 1968.
June 8, 2025 at 3:55 AM
there is no rioting. nobody is looting. Nobody is burning random stuff down. This is just americans rising up to protect their neighbors from the ICE brownshirts.
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Happening right in front of us. .Could not be more obvious
Today:
Tanks are being moved en masse into DC.
Trump is deploying a state national guard over a governor’s objection to police protests.
Trump threatened a major donor with “severe consequences” if they support his political opponents.
If you’re still wondering what time it is, read this again
Tanks are being moved en masse into DC.
Trump is deploying a state national guard over a governor’s objection to police protests.
Trump threatened a major donor with “severe consequences” if they support his political opponents.
If you’re still wondering what time it is, read this again
June 8, 2025 at 2:22 AM
Happening right in front of us. .Could not be more obvious
You’d think a decade+ of being the poster child for the failures of liberal governance would make every democratic senator in California an easy yes on “you should be allowed to build apartments next to transit” but apparently not…glad to see this move forward anyway!!
June 4, 2025 at 3:43 AM
You’d think a decade+ of being the poster child for the failures of liberal governance would make every democratic senator in California an easy yes on “you should be allowed to build apartments next to transit” but apparently not…glad to see this move forward anyway!!
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Join us 6/23 to celebrate the end of the legislative session and raise a glass of Colorado whiskey to all your hard work getting pro-housing bills across the line!We’ll also chat with elected officials and fellow advocates about what’s next for housing in Colorado. www.eventbrite.com/e/yimby-legi...
YIMBY Legislative Victory Party
Featuring pro-housing elected officials and advocates from across the state
www.eventbrite.com
June 3, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Join us 6/23 to celebrate the end of the legislative session and raise a glass of Colorado whiskey to all your hard work getting pro-housing bills across the line!We’ll also chat with elected officials and fellow advocates about what’s next for housing in Colorado. www.eventbrite.com/e/yimby-legi...
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at this point I am tapping the "absolutely none of this has ever been about protecting American Jews" sign roughly five times a day
In what might be the logical endpoint of American Zionism, the Heritage Foundation has declared that pro-Palestinian activism is not just antisemitic, but is in fact a shadowy global conspiracy … led by Jews. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/18/u...
May 18, 2025 at 8:28 PM
at this point I am tapping the "absolutely none of this has ever been about protecting American Jews" sign roughly five times a day
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“Inclusionary zoning” is one of those policies that sounds great at first but then when you look at the actual impact it ends up just being a massive tax on new apartments that exempts single family homes, accomplishing the exact opposite of the intended effect
May 18, 2025 at 7:59 PM
“Inclusionary zoning” is one of those policies that sounds great at first but then when you look at the actual impact it ends up just being a massive tax on new apartments that exempts single family homes, accomplishing the exact opposite of the intended effect
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north korea vibes intensify
(AP) — Detailed Army plans for a potential military parade on President Donald Trump’s birthday in June call for more than 6,600 soldiers, at least 150 vehicles, 50 helicopters, seven bands and possibly a couple thousand civilians, The Associated Press has learned.
apnews.com/article/army...
apnews.com/article/army...
May 2, 2025 at 2:22 AM
north korea vibes intensify
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We did a poll! Turns out Denverites want dense housing 😱 check out the full results and press release at
yimbydenver.org/updates/denv...
yimbydenver.org/updates/denv...
May 2, 2025 at 1:54 AM
We did a poll! Turns out Denverites want dense housing 😱 check out the full results and press release at
yimbydenver.org/updates/denv...
yimbydenver.org/updates/denv...
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Scott Wiener had to roll two committee chairs to advance SB 79, the most basic common sense reform that should've passed decades ago. Each objected with the same brain dead garbage that has zero empirical grounding and no support among serious academics who study housing. We must demand better.
It’s way too hard & expensive — & takes way too long — to build the things California needs to succeed, such as housing, transit, clean energy, child care centers, food banks, health clinics, new businesses.
Today, a key Senate committee passed 2 major bills I’m authoring to help turn this around:
Today, a key Senate committee passed 2 major bills I’m authoring to help turn this around:
May 1, 2025 at 5:11 AM
Scott Wiener had to roll two committee chairs to advance SB 79, the most basic common sense reform that should've passed decades ago. Each objected with the same brain dead garbage that has zero empirical grounding and no support among serious academics who study housing. We must demand better.
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yeah i am pretty much on the side of primary everyone
Stephen Lynch, aiming to be top Dem on the Oversight Cmte, blew up at a constituent who asked him to oppose the GOP.
"I get to decide that. I get to decide that. I get to decide that. I'm elected. I get to decide that. You wanna decide that? You need to run for Congress, okay? I get to decide that"
"I get to decide that. I get to decide that. I get to decide that. I'm elected. I get to decide that. You wanna decide that? You need to run for Congress, okay? I get to decide that"
April 30, 2025 at 11:52 AM
yeah i am pretty much on the side of primary everyone
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People love to denigrate modern fare gates like this as “hostile architecture” but I think that this design-based solution that prevents crime from happening in the first place is vastly preferable to having cops bust people for turnstile jumping.
April 29, 2025 at 2:13 AM
People love to denigrate modern fare gates like this as “hostile architecture” but I think that this design-based solution that prevents crime from happening in the first place is vastly preferable to having cops bust people for turnstile jumping.
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2030 census is going to be a mess for the electoral college and Democrats:
April 27, 2025 at 11:41 AM
2030 census is going to be a mess for the electoral college and Democrats:
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Bloomberg’s daily data for the number of container ships sailing from China to the US. Huge drop in recent weeks.
(H/T Torsten Slok)
(H/T Torsten Slok)
April 27, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Bloomberg’s daily data for the number of container ships sailing from China to the US. Huge drop in recent weeks.
(H/T Torsten Slok)
(H/T Torsten Slok)
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love this for us
Almost every line of this story would have been simply unbelievable a few months ago:
—Pioneering cancer researcher;
—*Arrested* at airport in Boston;
—Now indefinite ICE detention in Louisiana;
—"Crime": not declaring some frog-embryo samples for research.
Read it.
www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
—Pioneering cancer researcher;
—*Arrested* at airport in Boston;
—Now indefinite ICE detention in Louisiana;
—"Crime": not declaring some frog-embryo samples for research.
Read it.
www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
New images could change cancer diagnostics, but ICE detained the Harvard scientist who analyzes them
Without scientist Kseniia Petrova’s expertise, no one can fully unlock the data’s potential, putting crucial advancements in early cancer detection at risk.
www.nbcnews.com
April 22, 2025 at 12:30 PM
love this for us
this is truly now a Bay Area tradition, I was part of this one in 2017 and if I remember correctly, the first one was IMPEACH during the Bush administration, maybe 2006 or 7? the organizer (same guy still doing it now) was a parent at my elementary school
April 20, 2025 at 1:51 AM
this is truly now a Bay Area tradition, I was part of this one in 2017 and if I remember correctly, the first one was IMPEACH during the Bush administration, maybe 2006 or 7? the organizer (same guy still doing it now) was a parent at my elementary school
passed by a car dealership with a big BEAT THE TARIFFS SALE advertisement. Are we winning yet?
April 15, 2025 at 5:41 PM
passed by a car dealership with a big BEAT THE TARIFFS SALE advertisement. Are we winning yet?
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Sprawl “solves” the housing crisis by turning it into a transportation crisis.
Not a single time in this article glorifying the need for sprawl to address the US's affordable housing crisis is there a mention of the vast transportation costs of sprawling living patterns. Nor is there mention of the fact that sprawl is directly linked to disinvestment in urban cores.
America Needs More Sprawl to Fix Its Housing Crisis
The word has become an epithet for garish, reckless growth — but to fix the housing crisis, the country needs more of it.
www.nytimes.com
April 10, 2025 at 2:40 PM
Sprawl “solves” the housing crisis by turning it into a transportation crisis.