Ned Resnikoff

That feeling when the Governor signs your bill allowing more homes near public transit & you then walk from your 39-unit apartment building to get on the subway.

Housing + transit = perfect combo

Actually just occurred to me that those of us who worked at Al Jazeera America — a hugely expensive boondoggle backed by an authoritarian regime that thought it could have it both ways — are uniquely well positioned to predict the future of CBS News.

Kendall telling the CEO of Vaulter "because my dad told me to" after laying off the entire newsroom.

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.

I don't think either is going to have *that* kind of impact. SB 50 (SB 79's predecessor) might have. SB 79 and City of Yes are steps in the right direction and huge wins, but there's a ton of work left to be done.

Lots of excitement over SB 79—understandably. I would add, every single bill California YIMBY sent to the governor was signed today. www.gov.ca.gov/2025/10/10/g...

Not exaggerating when I say that SB 79, a bill making it easier to build housing near mass transit, is the most consequential piece of legislation that the Democratic Party has passed all year. Saying no to the worst people in our coalition proves we're serious about the future.

To be honest, when I heard that @scottwiener.bsky.social was running another TOD bill this session, my first thought was, "Really? I don't see something like that going anywhere this year."

I have rarely been happier to be proven wrong.

they are clearly trying to terrify everyone out of showing up to the No Kings protest and I simply do not think it is going to work

see you all there

The funny thing is that if Gerisch decides to move because he finds living near apartments intolerable, he'll probably make a killing by selling his home to a multifamily developer.

Congrats man!

Also a big thank you to @gavinnewsom.bsky.social for doing the right thing in this case and not bowing to the Los Angeles political and donor class that would rather worsen the city's homelessness crisis than abide some apartment buildings near LA Metro stops.

Attention Ned Lamont. All the cool governors are doing it

Huge congratulations to everyone who worked so hard to make this happen, including @scottwiener.bsky.social, my friends and former colleagues at @cayimby.bsky.social, and the thousands of volunteers who organized, rallied, and lobbied their representatives.

UPDATE: Newsom has signed SB 79 into law!!

This is a great day for anyone who cares about ending California's housing and homelessness crisis, getting the state to net zero emissions, and recovering American democracy.

Roosevelt Forward quote graphic which reads "While local conditions can explain some of the wins, a consistent theme is that YIMBY groups have a knack for hosting fun social gatherings where they can, and often do, persuade skeptics and convert sympathizers into activists."

YIMBYs are winning reforms that defy political norms, proving community can be a key driver to success.

In #FiresideStacks🔥, @resnikoff.bsky.social explores lessons from the housing policy movement that prioritizes connection.

www.firesidestacks.com/p/yimb...

Listen, currying favor with the big people and building trust with the little people are two very different skills, and we shouldn't expect someone who has only done the former to suddenly develop competence in the latter.

Well, it was arguably the most effective mass murder initiative of the century thus far

Oh weird, all the channels are only playing Bad Bunny music videos

Best way to consolidate authoritarian rule is to not pay your soldiers, this has historically worked out well for everyone who has tried it.

This unhinged antisemite is who Wolf Blitzer praised on CNN earlier today.

Just left my message! This is really easy to do. If you're nervous, don't be, you can leave a voicemail.

This is also a tactic that freedom movements in countries with fully consolidated authoritarian regimes have deployed effectively.

Yeah I dunno about that one. To me the organization of an essay is the whole argument, so if I haven't been able to come up with a good structure on my own it's likely because the argument itself needs work.

For example, the transition from scene 5 to scene 6 might not be working because you actually need to toss out the entire episode and start over. But you need to beat your head against the problem for a few hours or days in order to figure that out. An LLM won't tell you. bsky.app/profile/juno...

Also, a lot of the hypothetical use cases people bring up about LLMs and writing assume that creative writing can be compartmentalized into high-level conceptual tasks and more rote tasks that you can farm out without losing anything substantial. This is absolutely not how writing works.

I write because I love writing. I love writing even when I'm struggling with a writing problem that is killing me. Finding a way through that problem is both intensely rewarding and also helps me become a better writer. There is no reason for me to ever outsource that.

I've already called him twice. Took 1 minute. There's probably nothing more important for CA than building more housing. SB79 is a modest way to do that. This is probably one of the top two or three things for the entire country given the ties between CA's success, population, and liberalism.

Newsom's Fateful Choice Why the governor needs to sign SB 79

If you live in California, please call @gavinnewsom.bsky.social at (916) 445-2841 and urge him to sign SB 79. Here's my post about why the bill is so important: publiccomment.blog/p/newsom-s-f...

No one has the right to revoke someone else's Jewishness, but I will also note that JD Vance in particular has zero standing to decide whether or not someone is an authentic Jew.