Toby Muresianu

Half the education posts are like "my kid has a 5.3 GPA and invented $5 insulin and got rejected from DeVry" and half are "60% of freshmen do not know enough math to read the numbers on their classroom doors"

I oppose gerrymandering and support independent redistricting commissions--as members of both parties have proposed--but until the GOP-controlled government passes such a measure, not responding to them overtly gerrymandering to sway an election is just surrender. Yes on #Prop50.

Basically, Trump explicitly asked Texas to redraw their electoral maps to have more Republican seats in the 2026 election, and they did.

So California now has a special ballot measure to temporarily redistrict to offset it. You should vote yes.

Yes on 50: A very short voter guide You've already read the tl;dr.

I write a voter guide for every California election, and am thrilled to write my shortest one ever:

Yes on Prop 50.

tobyhardtospell.substack.com/p/yes-on-50-...

No Kings protest today. I didn’t see any of the “Hamas terrorists” or “violent criminals” the White House warned about but I did see the dog who ate the Epstein files.

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Thank you for all you do!

Sex is great but have you ever changed housing law for the world's fourth largest economy?

Can’t believe SB79 passed the governor by a single vote!

Key to using AI effectively: treat it like a person dumber than you, not a person smarter than you.

Good morning. CEQA can no longer stop critically needed urban housing in California. It’s a new day.

We are back on American Exchange with housing advocate and funnyman @tobyhardtospell.bsky.social getting a firsthand account from LA on the 'riots', the protests and ICE raids.

Surprise it wasn't what the media or Trump made it out to be.

WATCH HERE: www.youtube.com/watch?v=yP6Z...

The unidentified maybe-cops trying to deport people remind me of Putin's "Little Green Men"

Hundreds of mentally disabled people are being evicted from supportive housing to Skid Row in LA, apparently due to losing Medicaid coverage.

1) This seems very bad and to be an illegal eviction
2) Is this going to happen nationwide if Trump's Medicaid cuts pass?

And parents who are afraid to attend—bc they aren’t legal, or they are but have seen how this administration has deported people here legally for minor paperwork errors or entirely by accident—are staying home and watching over Zoom.

This isn't the America I know.

This was my son’s LAUSD preschool graduation was last week.

This week, nearby ICE raids caused parents to flee mid-ceremony.

Today, LAPD officers are forming rings around ceremonies to stop ICE officers who don’t have valid legal justification from entering.

Hello. I live in Los Angeles. The president is lying.

It's wild housing opponents will say "We can't have housing unless we have transit" and then it's literally defined to be right by transit they oppose it

The walkability of part of transit-oriented development is often overlooked.

If you allow 7 story mixed use buildings by train stations (SB79), you don't just get apartments.

You also get grocery stores, gyms, and restaurants residents new and old can walk to.

She's supporting other housing bills and given how she made misspoke several times during the speech I wonder if her decision was changed and rushed at the last minute.

I hope that she reconsiders her position and I can support her again.

It's also worth noting Menjivar ran as a public transit advocate who wanted to improve things for families on public transit, reduce air pollution from cars, and have an "all of the above" approach to addressing the housing crisis.

It's a really weird turn.

Then she claims the the transit isn't something "working class residents" use because they have to drive far away for work.

-Have you ever been on transit in LA? It is working class! There's data!

-There are lots of working class jobs in the valley!

-Building housing near transit creates more!

Then she says "we don't have the transit infrastructure yet, we shouldn't put the horse before the carriage [sic]"

-LA has the #1 light rail system in the US and #2 transit system, with 300m+ rides taken per year

-The horse in the analogy is the train! The bill legalizes *carts after horses*!

First she says a new light rail line across the Valley (her district!) goes from "nowhere to nowhere."

-The SFV has 1.8 million people. It'd be the nation's 5th largest city on its own!

-The train connects 3 major transit lines!

-The bill enables stops to grow into "somewhere"!

Dismayed by this speech opposing apartments near transit from Caroline Menjivar.

It's a betrayal of her campaign promises, her constituents facing high housing costs, and the housing and environmental advocates who endorsed her (including me).

It's also...nonsense. ⬇️

I can't believe Ben Allen gave tribute to Donald Shoup--and then 4 days later opposed a bill to legalize apartments by train stations. That just sucks, man.

Property/ Land taxes are really the ultimate “value capture” mechanism it’s annoying that all this energy trying to extract community benefits agreements on a project by project or bill by bill basis aren’t just focused on Prop 13 reform.

Sen. Caroline Menjivar: Triumphantly appears at the event celebrating a federal award of $900 million for East San Fernando Valley Light Rail

Also Sen. Menjivar: "The utter audacity of planning more housing in my district, don't you know this is garbage transit that goes nowhere & serves no one"

If your suburban town is "too rural" to have apartment buildings near train stations, it is too rural to have state funded train stations.