Rob Tracinski

“Would you hide someone from the Nazis” kind of stuff happening in our cities.

😕🇺🇸

“Sparking debate”

The ending of two party politics is looking rather like two party politics.

It would be good to know how many military orders Stephen Miller has forged.

The revolution will not be televised, but the inflatable suit dance party will be streamed to the masses.

Seriously, what is wrong with this country? How can we be so degraded that such a large percentage of our public officials are just completely worthless?

Yeah, these guys have a proven record of lying all the time.

Doubt.

Guy in a wheelchair trying to rag on a guy for his physical fitness. I mean....

I have a serious problem with the fact that we have a culture so degraded that we routinely elect people with such a conspicuous lack of virtue.

The random people who called into this C-SPAN session had better questions for Mike Johnson than most corporate media outlets

Jackbooted thugs targeting the media.

Well, giving permission was their mistake.

are you trying to turn VA perma-blue

C-SPAN caller to Mike Johnson: "Hearing you say that 'everyone is smiling' in cities where troops have been rolled into feels dystopian and insane watching the response to it."

The collaborator class seems serenely confident that the Trumpenreich will last a thousand years while the House GOP is in complete meltdown. Look, I’m not *promising* comedy gold by any means, but the possibility is there.

I just approved major pieces of legislation to keep building more affordable housing.

Whether it's turning empty office buildings into residential spaces or building more homes near public transportation, we're doing all we can to lower the price to realize the California Dream.

“we are telling you right now that we do not intend to honor anything we agree to” is certainly a negotiating position one can take

Every journalist who worked at a flailing and rapidly decaying digital news startup in the mid-2010s knows exactly what is going to happen at CBS News.

PORTLAND: “The frogs are multiplying”

(#NotAWarZone Noem Matter what Kristi says)

Bill has really outdone himself on this.

The trouble NIMBYs have is that they are almost invariably the least sympathetic people you can possibly imagine. The cleverest YIMBY activist in the world could not invent a less likeable antagonist than the median NIMBY.

Three persons in inflatable frog costumes. One of them is holding a nicely painted sign with two little cartoon frogs holding hands, below the text "FROGS TOGETHER STRONG"

Blessed are the frogs, for they keep making authoritarians look incredibly stupid

Don't threaten me with a good time.

Might feel like an inversion of the Civil War, but less than you might think. The federal government was thoroughly in the hands of the Slave Power in the 1850s. States resisted the Fugitive Slave Act; Dred Scott was SCOTUS. Secession happened b/c they wouldn't accept losing that control in 1860.

From this Yankee's perspective, the Labour Party has really adopted a despicable path. But--and I know this is naïve--why not the LibDems? Aren't they pretty good on trans freedom and immigration? Is there much distance between these parties or are they natural coalition partners?

It’s just example # 486 of “reasonable nuanced critique of liberalism gets flattened to meaninglessness through a game of telephone”. Cogent critiques of aspects of respectability politics get turned into “it makes you a brave revolutionary to be the biggest asshole possible to everyone”

Gerisch, a 46-year-old sales executive, isn’t sure whether he and his family will stay put. SB 79 would allow five-story residential buildings on his and other nearby streets, which sit within a half-mile of a Metro K Line light rail station. “I feel like I’ve been blindsided,” he said. “A lot of us were.” Under SB 79, developers would be permitted to build up to nine-story residential buildings adjacent to subway stops, seven stories within a quarter-mile of them and six stories within a half-mile — overriding local planning and zoning rules.

won't anyone think of the uhhhh sales executives who will be harmed by transit-oriented development in California

Kermit faces off with Hopper in The Muppet Movie

Meanwhile in #Portland

MAJOR NEWS: @GavinNewsom signed SB 79, my bill allowing more housing near public transit — rail, subway, rapid bus.

It’s a huge step for housing in California. It’ll create more homes, strengthen our transit systems & reduce traffic & carbon emissions.

Thank you, Governor!