Trish Weber

i get that peformative cynicism is the currency of social media, but, we’re like 75% of the way through biden’s first term, i think it’s a little late for people to pretend to be surprised when biden does something good that progressives agree with.

Yeah, I think we're past the point where we let the supreme count decide whether it wants or needs oversight and I think we passed it about 5 decades back.

The Return of the Marriage Plot Why everyone is suddenly so eager for men and women to get hitched.

I wrote about what’s wrong with touting the Marriage Cure for poverty and unhappiness, including Ross Douthat’s weird and hilarious opinion that Barbie could save humanity by marrying Ken.

me: what’s crazy is that rudy giuliani first rose to fame because of 9/11

teen born in 2006: ohh. like he helped do it

me: ok no, but i see how you got there

Senator John Fetterman: If those jagoffs in the House stop trying to shut our government down, and fully support Ukraine, then I will save democracy by wearing a suit on the Senate floor next week.

Sen. John Fetterman replies to dress code talks:

BRILLIANT!!!

Whether it’s John Fetterman wearing casual attire on the Senate floor or Lauren Boebert giving a casual handy to her date in a public place with children present, both sides have issues with professionalism. In this NYT opinion piece, I will…

100%. (And black trans women? Forget about it!)

Well, yes, and if lululemon cared about the women, they would make yoga clothing for larger bodies. Eff them.

I think I can speak for all of us when I say that my objections to January 6 are mainly aesthetic

You can have opinions but I have direct experience. I am going to give you the benefit of the doubt and assume given the choice you wouldn’t want to mansplain at me. That’s why I put that out there. A well -written Zoning Code with an option for the Developer to request flexibility is optimal.

However if the Developer has a better idea they can request public process to vary the rules. The Planning Commission weighs the application and public testimony against specific review criteria and make a ruling. That way if a good use doesn’t quite fit a Zoning Code, it can be adjusted.

The formula is - write a good tight Code that will ensure development will be appropriate for the Community in every way possible. If the developer complies, then no public process. Win/win. Good housing will be constructed with minimal delay and NIMBY’s can’t stop it.

That’s because flexibility needs to be requested by the applicant, not imposed by the public. I am a land use planning consultant who has served on the Planning Commission so I have sat on both sides of the table. Do you have professional experience or are you speculating as a layperson?

Yes, because the best approach to planning is to have a clear concise objective Code that applies to the entire City that also allows for *some* flexibility within clear, concise but subjective criteria. Don’t nail the rules down so tight that they can’t be wiggled when it would serve the community.

I mean imagine freaking out because KIDS voted someone homecoming queen and you didn’t like their choice. What kind of sad loser would you have to be?

Over 100 Protesters Arrested in Biggest NYC Climate Disobedience in a Decade "We're out of time. And Biden needs to get off his ass and actually do something."

did you know @teenvogue.bsky.social is on here now?

ran to the climate civil disobedience at NY's Federal Reserve; by the time I got there, 100+ protesters were arrested—the biggest action of its kind in 9 yrs.

a 23 y/o climate activist told me she came from New Mexico because "We're out of time."

California lawmakers pass groundbreaking greenhouse gas emissions disclosure bill The bill would require large U.S.-based companies that do business in California to publicly reveal their greenhouse gas emissions.

About time!

Which state will be next? 👀

www.latimes.com/california/s...