Luis Romo

My favorite is when the median voter demands that the city OPEN THE BOOKS!!! and AUDIT THE WASTE AND FRAUD!!!

Forgetting that this rot was all part of the plan:

One California city’s idea to tackle the housing crisis: Take the stairs For champions of more housing development, ditching the extra staircase has become a buzzy cause in fighting California's housing crisis.

I wrote about how Culver City became the first municipality in California (and likely the last for now) to ditch the ubiquitous two staircase requirement for mid-rises. As YIMBYs turn to impediments to construction beyond zoning, Culver City is an early test case.

calmatters.org/housing/2025...

It is very funny that this Pope is just going to get jerseys from now on. Everyone decided that's what this Pope likes and that is it. It's like if your grandmother got you a puzzle for Christmas one year and you said you liked it so your entire extended family is like "oh that's the puzzle kid"

Clearly the players who play the sports we love to watch hate gambling; think it's ruining the game. The only people who want it are networks and the league. I think it's important to remember that. Whenever you fire up the gambling app, you're fucking with the people you love to watch every week

i think online gambling is a cancer that is spreading throughout our society, it was a horrible mistake to de-regulate it, and we desperately need to crack down on it again

Immigrants build our homes

Why am I waiting for a bus to go between terminals at LAX? Bus comes every 10 minutes too.

Even Sacramento international got a train between terminals.

petro is so beast

WHAT DID SCHUMER & THE JUDAS'S THINK WAS GOING TO HAPPEN?!?!?

I never crash my car so why do I have to pay for car insurance vibes

Obviously not the biggest news of the night but all the pro-housing charter amendments are cruising despite the Council Speaker running a scorched earth campaign against them

😎😎😎😎 GOOD THINGS CAN STILL HAPPEN 😎😎😎😎

These people are just shamelessly lying.
If you grocery shop outside high income neighborhoods, you see clerks or shoppers separating EBT-eligible and non-eligible items. I learned which are which just by watching them do it.
That isn't an unusual occurrence

Alfred wearing a sign board that looks like a California vote by mail ballot

Happy Halloween! Californians, remember to vote Yes on 50!

💯 when I lived less than a block away from a grocery outlet and a 10 min walk away from Safeway, that was definitely the year I ordered the least amount of take out ever.

Easy to do if you eat out every day which I think a ton of people do. Honestly cooking and household inventory management should be required classes in schools I think a lot of people would benefit.

Its only gentrification because American planning has prevented dense, mixed use neighborhood replication

The difference in the time it takes a streetcar in Amsterdam vs. Toronto to clear an intersection after servicing a nearside stop.

Americans are losing spending power, say researchers: Most can no longer afford a 'minimal quality of life' Published Fri, Jun 13 2025 12:18 PM EDT The 10 richest Americans got $365 billion richer in the past year. Now they're on the verge of a huge tax cut By Matt Egan, CNN Updated 6:23 AM EDT, Wed May 21, 2025

Hmmmmmm

This crash occurred on a "walkable boulevard" according to SDOT's design concepts.

Citing Trump Order on “Biological Truth,” VA Makes It Harder for Male Veterans With Breast Cancer to Get Coverage A Department of Veterans Affairs memo obtained by ProPublica erects new roadblocks to care for veterans with the rare but deadly cancer. The agency cites no new science but relies on an executive orde...

Citing a Trump executive order banning "gender ideology," the VA is withholding coverage and treatment for male veterans with breast cancer, an increasing condition among veterans exposed to toxic chemicals during service. 100 male veterans a year are diagnosed with breast cancer.

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.

It seems bad that only $668 million of California's $31 billion transportation budget is for public transit capital projects next year.

HSR gets another $798 million.

$1.45 billion out of $31 billion. It's a hidden form of climate arson.

Rep. Rosa DeLauro: "On the food stamp issue, the money is there! Let them not get away with saying they can't do it. Their political will isn't there to feed the people who rely on the SNAP program which is the most effective anti-hunger program in the USA."

As dreams of 1.5°C melt away, net zero’s reckoning is overdue People’s inability to see past net zero shows it is no longer fit for purpose

Rather than think about desired destinations, we should instead think about climate change as an emergency - and act now to limit it as much as possible. That demands the rapid phase out of fossil fuels. If we do not do that we are cooked. 4/6 www.technosphere.earth/as-dreams-of...

World’s climate plans fall drastically short of action needed, analysis shows Recent plans submitted to UN by more than 60 countries would cut carbon by only 10%, a sixth of what is needed

The world is deeply unserious about dealing with climate change. We need to reduce emissions by 50% in 5 years and we're nowhere near that.

I get to sleep in a big bed with my wife tonight

No one has scored for a full baseball game