Louis Mirante

Very cool!!

Better yet, set up a recurring donation so they can count on you each month! Even $10 a month can make a big difference for someone who needs it more than you that month!

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Hell yeah brother

Whoa the cut master back in action…

ICE Agent, 7-Year-Old Both Wearing Same ‘Military Commando’ Halloween Costume

ICE Agent, 7-Year-Old Both Wearing Same ‘Military Commando’ Halloween Costume

It feels like I’m describing the dark ages but this was like 4 years ago

It is *so* insane to reflect on how when I was lobbying for California’s parking min elimination near transit (which passed!) planning professionals, environmentalist, some clean jobs labor orgs, transit advocacy organizations, and antipoverty orgs were the main OPPONENTS.

Maybe if you're sycophantically willing to entertain treason in return for access to the Trump Administration.

Why is it that every disappeared US citizen is not front page news? At the very least we should have a little box with a count of the number of citizens who have been taken away and are not locatable and a link to a story with photos & min-bios, just as we used to do with military casually figures.

The Trump administration’s anti-immigrant housing policy reflects a long history of xenophobia in public housing Anti-immigrant housing policies have been cast as a way for citizens to access more housing, but they fail to prevent the shortages driving the crises.

Deportations can reduce the housing construction workforce, leading to fewer units built and higher costs - contrary to claims that they lower prices, according to a sociologist who studies housing. #immigration buff.ly/Dfakz6o

You were critical to getting the final vote we needed for 79 at a critical stage, so never think you don't have an enormous impact!

It’s certainly moved! Don’t know if it will move that far… but who knows!

How do we solve this problem? Do we just pass a law that says, "Okay, by 2030, all land use decisions will be made by the State Office of Zoning?" Local elected officials are in between a rock and a hard place, and I sympathize. But totally removing locals seems politically impossible.

HARDEST PHOTO OF 2025 JUST DROPPED

For years I’ve thought that if we didn’t allow enough market rate housing because we wanted to stick it to developers that someone would reinvent internment camps for homeless people. Seems like that day is here.

New Lewis Center at UCLA report by Paavo Monkkonen on French social housing.

Is the cost rental and financing model upstream of France’s ability to build large number of units without deep subsidies?

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Donald Trump Confuses Dementia Screening for 'Very Hard' IQ Test as He Brags About Results Donald Trump appeared to describe a dementia screening he underwent at Walter Reed Medical Center as a 'very hard' IQ test while speaking with reporters inside Air Force One

Credit to (can't believe it) People dot com for running with it

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Bill Melugin @BillMelugin_ BREAKING: Per four senior DHS & Trump admin sources, a mass removal of ICE leadership around the country is underway, with up to 12 ICE field office chiefs being removed & reassigned in an effort to increase deportation numbers. I'm told the move is spearheaded by Corey Lewandowski, and a handful of the ICE Chiefs will likely be replaced by Border Patrol & CBP officials, some of whom will be hand-picked by aggressive & controversial Border Patrol Commander Greg Bovino. I'm told some of the ICE leadership removed from their positions include the ICE Field Office Directors in: - Los Angeles - Phoenix - Philadelphia - Denver - El Paso - San Diego - Seattle/Portland - New Orleans Border Patrol officials taking over ICE leadership positions would be extremely significant, as Border Patrol and ICE do different things, and I've done numerous ride-alongs/embeds with both.

Generally speaking, ICE typically conducts very targeted operations, largely going after criminal illegal aliens or those with deportation orders, but almost always knowing who they are targeting for arrest, often conducting surveillance to learn their schedules before and waiting hours before arresting them if needed. Border Patrol, under Trump 2.0, while sometimes doing their own targeted operations, has been extremely aggressive and has been at the forefront of some of the most controversial immigration enforcement operations we've seen so far, carrying out roving patrols in Los Angeles, Chicago, etc, often at Home Depot, car washes, flea markets etc, leading to a handful of federal judges around the country issuing injunctions against them. A majority of the viral videos you see online are Border Patrol agents, including the use of a Trojan horse style Penske moving truck at a Los Angeles Home Depot, an operation organized by Bovino. ICE often gets blamed for what Border Patrol does, as the media and activists often cannot tell the difference between federal agents, and everyone is called "ICE". I'm told there are growing concerns about the political and PR fallout associated with some of the roving patrols Border Patrol is conducting as lawsuits continue to stack up and mid-terms approach next year.

I'm told there is significant friction within different wings of DHS and the administration, with Border Czar Tom Homan & ICE Director Todd Lyons preferring to prioritize targeting criminal aliens & the "worst of the worst" or those with deportation orders, while DHS Secretary Kristi Noem, Corey Lewandowski, and BP Commander Bovino prefer to use aggressive tactics to arrest anyone in the US illegally, including but not limited to criminals, to ramp up deportation numbers and achieve President Trump's promises of mass deportations. I am hearing from both sides of this friction. One senior DHS official tells me: "ICE started with the worst of the worst, knowing every target they are hitting, but since Border Patrol started in LA in June, we've (DHS) lost our focus, going too hard, too fast, with limited prioritization. It's getting numbers, but at what cost?". Border Patrol agents I've talked to defend their tactics, with one telling me: "What did everyone think mass deportations meant? Only the worst? Tom Homan has said it himself, anyone in the US illegally is on the table."

It's quite a situation, as both sides of this are on the same team, with the same end goals, but different perspectives on how to get there. Another DHS official confirmed the personnel changes to me on deep background, adding that the moves are based on performance and doing what is needed to achieve the best results. Official statement to @FoxNews via @TriciaOhio : "While we have no personnel changes to announce at this time, the Trump Administration remains laser focused on delivering results and removing violent criminal illegal aliens from this country." 7:57 PM · Oct 27, 2025 · 29.6K Views

🚨BIG changes happening -- ICE leadership is being purged tonight. The old guard, which prioritized targeted enforcement operations aimed at people with criminal records, is being replaced with Border Patrol and Gregory Bovino's "Midway Blitz" style.

Think things are bad now? It'll get worse.

The Republican federal government is fantasizing about killing non-White people like it’s a video game! This is how genocide happens!!

I don’t. Underlying problem is still high costs and high risk. Maybe as the 2025 laws filter up to developers and investors we will have a good 2027, but I don’t think we will see major jumps until hard costs of construction come in line with peer states.

There are as many cranes in this building constructing housing as there are in SF right now.

According to the Department of Finance, California is on track to permit 98,200 homes (SAAR), a 5.5 percent dip from last year. 98k would be the lowest number since 2014. ADUs continue masking major drops in single-family and multi-family sectors since the mid-2010's. dof.ca.gov/media/docs/f...

Watercolor drawing of a transit village with some 5-9 story apartments, some which look like normal buildings and three that look like blue sharks. There is a BART train on elevated tracks crossing over a bus lane with a shark shaped articulated bus. In the background a taller building is under constrcution next to a taller shark. In the front are houses and duplexes, a bus stop, and a shark head shaped ADU.

Art of the Day - SB79 Shark City
Coming soon to a California transit station near you! SB 79 will take effect in July 2026, allowing more apartments near transit stations in major urban counties.

Or a credulous collaborator.

I tweet: "people who see 50% of their monthly paycheck go to rent don't care if a candidate eats with their hands. they want to hear what your candidate is going to do about housing." John Galt 2025 replies: "Move if the cost of living is too high."

who creates the lively art and music scenes if the rent is too high? who makes cultural life? who serves you food or washes your dishes? who creates the fancy little restaurants that draw you to urban living? affordable housing is at the heart of what makes city life worthwhile.

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This was not news fit to print

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“They cheated on a commercial” - a totally sane person definitely fit for the Presidency