Ned Resnikoff

If nothing else this would dramatize for the public the fact that the Supreme Court is now little more than an arm of the Republican Party.

For that matter, impeach every Trump cabinet member who is guilty of murder, which is a lot of them

I feel like if the Court tries to nullify birthright citizenship then House Democrats should commit to impeaching all the Republican justices as soon as they get a majority. Even if the Senate won’t convict, make them make a spectacle out of it.

Alec Guinness as George Smiley

I’m so tired of being ruled by these hideous losers, man

A court with a normal-ish conservative majority would have been tolerable. I'm not eager for court packing, impeaching justices, and other such options. But this court sticking around post-Trump is untenable. They've already torched their own legitimacy, the only question is what do we do about it.

For the record, I am not part of the crowd that thinks Biden's decline was a media fabrication. I saw the debate, after all. But given what is now known about Nuzzi, NY Mag should probably be issuing a full retraction on pieces like this.

The Conspiracy of Silence to Protect Joe Biden The president’s mental decline was like a dark family secret for many elite supporters.

Out of curiosity I popped over to @nymag.com to see how they're handling Nuzzi's story on Biden's reported cognitive decline. It still says an internal review found "no ... evidence of bias." She wrote campaign memos for a rival presidential candidate!! nymag.com/intelligence...

Same difference

Setting the Pivot to Newsmax countdown timer

My irresponsible speculation is that they're using an IV drip to pump him full of uppers before every public event where he needs to remain conscious and relatively cogent.

NEW info on shipwreck attack. It gets worse.

The 2 survivors climbed atop wreckage and waved to overhead.

"Some of the people viewing the video thought ... could have been an attempt to surrender"

Others "said the most logical explanation was ... signaling for a rescue."

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The Great Highway is literally going to be underwater before San Francisco stops relitigating its pedestrianization

We have Aldermen here in Chicago override the installation of protected bike lanes after they're already partially installed, costing additional money to rip them out, and it's nuts this is even a possibility, let alone standard practice

I mean she did basically have a ribbon cutting ceremony for a lone single family home recently, so…

Also, local politicians exercising sway over individual projects is precisely how you end up turning real estate development into an arena for political corruption.

Would it shock you to learn I’m talking about San Francisco

As soon as a mayor says, “Yes this is allowable under the rules we designed but they shouldn’t do it anyway for X boutique reasons,” they’ve expanded the permission structure for NIMBY objections to all kinds of projects.

Maybe a hot take, but I don’t think it’s appropriate for the mayor of a large city to weigh in on individual multifamily project, period. The appropriate time to weigh in is when you’re designing or revising the land use rules that determine what can get built.

Surprised the NYT bio doesn't note Isgur's most notable accomplishment, which is serving as lead propagandist for Trump I's child separation policy.

Wish I were

US now essentially telling NATO allies that we'll break the treaty if they don't ethnically cleanse their populations.

I do too TBH but I don't have a strong opinion one way or the other!

Also worth noting that much of the attractive multifamily housing in continental Europe is illegal to build in most US cities, including San Francisco, because it involves building apartments around a single central staircase.

Okay, but you need to weigh the tradeoffs between intensive design review and getting more housing built quickly. Given that we're in the middle of a housing crisis, I lean pretty far in the direction of the latter consideration.

I'd rather we just build a lot of housing and risk some ugly apartments going up than spend months and months deliberating over stuff like articulated facades while thousands of San Franciscans languish on the streets.

Also, I care about aesthetics but I care even more about homelessness and affordability. One reason we have a housing shortage is cities trying to micromanage the architectural style of every new apartment building. (2/2)

A couple things: A lot of the sameness of newer buildings is a function of the zoning rules and design standards meant to preserve neighborhood character. (1/2)

This type of scrutiny applied to individual projects even when they comply with underlying land use rules is a big part of why there’s a shortage though

They submitted this right now to get SB330 protections against a downzoning of this lot. That's why Sherril and Lurie are against it, because they wanted to move the density to Van Ness to satisfy their donor base in the hills above.