Ah yes, blame the homeless. Classic move!

I'm working from a hotel room in the Long Beach today because the Air Quality Index at my apartment is still around 400. State and Local groups are frantically working on getting resources organized for folks who have been displaced.

#endofdemocracy

Throwback to when one of the wealthiest landlord couples in Pasadena was featured in a hit piece against our rent control measure claiming to be renters. Good times!

This is as good a time as any to remind us all that this is what landlording is. Pure wealth extraction and transfer to people lucky enough to have money from people who work for a living.

The Iran-Contra Affair is one of the the first foreign policy “events” I remember. I was about 13. This is exactly how I remember feeling about Reagan at the time.

Image from “The Show Must Go On” (New Yorker, Sept 16, 2024).

Derek Tran now leads Michelle Steel by 314 votes in CD-45!

Behold! Rent control and new housing development at the same time! And they said it couldn’t be done. #Pasadena.

I'll bet he doesn't!

This is one consequence of repeatedly running a losing campaign to repeal Costa Hawkins.

Voters have NOT rejected rent control. Rent control is extremely popular and effective at stabilizing communities and keeping rent affordable.

Now we fight this false narrative. Again.

Is anyone else reading Occupation: Organizer, by Clément Petitjean (Verso)? It would be great to discuss it with a few folks.