Russell Richie 🔰🌐🏗🚲🏳️‍🌈

YIMBYs are winning on housing, and Georgists should be taking notes.

What can we learn from YIMBY's success at turning policy dreams into political wins?

Read Russell Richie's new piece reflecting on YIMBYtown 2025 and how we can bring land value tax into the next wave of housing reform.

Bring back inscrutable security posters

"If I say what I think I'll be suspended six months" meme. It contains that quote and a photo of a soccer player.

When I hear the Trump admin's demands on universities were inspired in part by Marc Rowan

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If your city isn't installing speed cameras and isn't installing monitors for excessively loud engines, you are letting criminals ruin your quality of life while leaving money on the table.

@gavinnewsom.bsky.social on #SB79 just now in his Twitch conversation with @connoreatspants.bsky.social: "It’s on my desk & I will be reviewing it on its merits. It’s really important housing legislation, and I recognize how important it is."

Folks: keep calling + urging him to sign! (916) 445-2841

Update: had a friend just call and said there was zero wait time to talk to a live person and the whole call only took 30 seconds.

Call 916-445-2841 NOW to support SB79 and building more housing near transit

Governor @gavinnewsom.bsky.social could really start the weekend off right by signing SB 79 today.

Montreal is just quebecois philly.

A rarely-seen-in-the-wild collective action solution. Not one news org signed on to the Pentagon’s new restrictions on journalists. Now, the policy is being ‘revised.’

Let’s see if any elite universities are watching…

I may have solved the municipal speed cameras issue. We can pull the speed cameras and instead install speed regulators in all vehicles. It slows down our streets without 'punishing' drivers with a so-called cash grab.

Wheel puzzle solved, showing "riding my bike everywhere"

Wheel of Fortune, welcome to the War on Cars

Update: today is a great day to take 3 minutes to call Gavin Newsom and tell him to sign SB79 so California can build more housing near transit

There's great coverage of the exclusionary history of building codes in Stuck!, the book I cannot shut up about

Good morning.

The government is shut down because Trump wants to act like a king and steal from you.

Democrats have no obligation to support a budget that funds the destruction of our democracy - and DOUBLES health premiums to fund a tax cut for billionaires.

my hatred for the modern Republican Party burns brighter than a thousand suns

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I'm baffled that the governor could be considering a veto. If it isn't signed then there's no chance we turn around the state's housing crisis. If we don't fix the crisis then higher office is out of the question. The only path to the White House requires doing the right thing and signing it.

🚨Newsom getting cold feet about SB79🚨

If you live in California, please call Governor Newsom to urge him to sign this bill!

Homeowners denounce SB 79 vote - Beverly Press & Park Labrea News Legislation awaits governor’s signature

A bunch of toxic LA NIMBYs are whining about SB 79, the amazing housing bill the CA legislature passed recently.

It's on the governor's desk, and reportedly he's getting cold feet. Hey @gavinnewsom.bsky.social, please have some spine on the most important issue in your state. Just sign it.

What I would give for a completely honest, anonymous assessment of this appalling and ludicrous spectacle from the commanders in the room.

We dont allow privatization of the moon or other land in outer space. Why should Earth be any different?

No one made the earth and its land. It is the inheritance of all people past, present, and future.

So why should anyone be allowed to grab it and say "this is mine, keep off", unless they're willing to pay for that privilege?

Yes, and: all land should be public, rented to people for whatever they're willing to pay the public. :)

Ugh, the preview doesn't work. He was accused of sexual harassment and lost his emeritus status.

Giant in philosophy but also gotta hold this in your head simultaneously

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You will own nothing and be happy (you have a GeForce Now Ultimate subscription).

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