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This is what getting trucks off local streets looks like.

‘Rental market is largely frozen’: San Diego rent prices fall in national rankings National rents are down 2% annually but Zumper said Southern California is seeing more of a slowdown because of increased supply.

San Diego rents fall 5.5%—proof that building housing works.

Add 6,000 apartments, prices drop.

This eases pressure on voucher programs, helps low-income renters, makes the city more accessible.

Want sustained affordability? Keep building.

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I learned that on the 100 there's a stop that's announced as just "Railroad Crossing"

Going to make a thread of every reason to NEVER vote for Newsom. Let's start with:

you can’t reform this.

Like being on a boat.

When you give money for official Harry Potter merch/ watch the shows/movies on official channels, engage with anything officially monetized, you are directly funding this

JK Rowling personally funds the efforts that lead to the bans that have increased suicide and suffering.

Knowing something

Just take a look at this and remember, Pam Bondi's concern here was not with any of the victims of these crimes but with the nosy Democrats who actually gave a shit about them.

In my opinion, these seats that Amtrak has put in their older rolling stock are markedly less comfortable than the Venture seats.

I do think that the lack of recline on trains that are up to 11 hours long is unacceptable, and the stupid winged headrests need to go.

Same. My only issue is that they don't recline, which imo for an 6+ hour journey is unacceptable.

Don't share this with a Class 1 it'll scare them.

New York Times headline: Libertarians: We Told You So With an image of a big black boot stomping a snake

this is a subject that's near and dear to my heart

1. no you didn't, you retconning fucks

2. your decades of anti-governance "free market" "government never functions" propaganda paved the way for the complete authoritarian decimation of labor, consumer, environmental protections

Yeah the right wing of the country got way more openly racist and the secret police have been emboldened to tear gas random children whenever they feel like but at least the labor market is terrible and we'll all be poorer forever

maybe California should stop throwing tax dollars at a scammer who won't shut up about how much he hates the state, just a thought

i get it's not the point but lol at the airport connector having worse cost/PMT than the F Market. An automated people mover is somehow more expensive per PMT than a heritage streetcar.

high RPM, dramatically increasing fuel consumption and wear and tear on the engine and transmission. That's why cars have very high physical top speeds, and then are governed to lower speeds.

(rather than just having a governor) you do that by either reducing the power or reducing the gearing. A car with only the power to do 90 on the level would not be able to sustain highway speeds up a hill. If you gear the car for 90, then driving at 75 would mean running the engine at a constant

The post you initially replied to is not saying that they need to drive at 90 in a 75. They're saying that if the car is only physically capable of doing 90, then it is practically incapable of driving at 75 for an extended period.

If you make a car that physically cannot go faster than 90

If you live in the US, call your fucking representatives and tell them that repealing Section 230 is a horrible idea. If Section 230 is gone, you can kiss Bluesky goodbye.

Join a union.

So uh Ring just up and said they've got a huge centralized private surveillance network they can leverage all at once huh

The only reasonable implication of saying this is he must be removed from office. That's a binary yes/no. To explicitly say no would be insane. To studiously avoid saying either way makes the allegation seem cynical and insincere. There's no splitting "he's a child rapist" from "he must be removed."

@chicagosmayor.bsky.social has demonstrated a truly insane incapacity to lead. The @ctulocal1.bsky.social and United Working Families should be absolutely horrified by this. Sadly I feel like two of the biggest progressive political orgs in Chicago also don’t care.

every time I want to like MBJ when he drops an anti-ICE banger I'm reminded he can hardly be bothered to accomplish basic mayoral governance

(and the bangers are toothless anyways since CPD will continue to collaborate with ICE anyhow)

Just a quick update from the Twin Cities. (Please forgive the unsolicited message). THINGS ARE NOT BETTER IN MINNEAPOLIS. The media is mostly moving on, Trump is focused on other stuff, BUT NOTHING HAS CHANGED ON THE GROUND. More than 2,000 DHS thugs continue to roam the streets, abducting people 24/7, assaulting legal observers with impunity, and routinely denying 1st, 4th, and 5th amendment rights. Drones and helicopters are overhead every day. Hundreds and hundreds of terrified families have not left their homes since mid-December ... relying on the community to bring them food and help with rent and other necessities. (Those people are NOT violent drug cartel sex offending murderers, as DHS would tell you. Most are legal residents or citizens.) If anything, things have just become more stressful and intractable (think trench warfare as a suitable metaphor): The resistance is better organized and numerous, but DHS has become more clever and better at disguise... and the county sheriff's office is increasingly supporting them . Do not let anyone tell you that Homans (the new person in charge of the occupation) is making anything better. Do not let anyone tell you that 700 ICE agents leaving the city has made much of a difference; the remaining force (again, ~2,000) is still larger than the entire city's police force (which is legally unable to do anything). Please call your congressional reps ... especially if there is any chance the administration might listen to them.

A desperate plea sent to me by a Minneapolis resident who's been on the front lines since the beginning of the ICE occupation:

If you're a business owner who fires someone you have assigned to an overseas job and you don't buy them a plane ticket home you should actually go to prison

Man with no connection to Minnesota posts photo not taken in Minnesota to claim that a thing is happening in Minnesota.

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Alberto Castañeda Mondragón says his memory was so jumbled after a beating by immigration officers that he initially could not remember he had a daughter and still struggles to recall treasured moments like the night he taught her to dance. But the violence he endured last month in Minnesota while being detained is seared into his battered brain. He remembers Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents pulling him from a friend’s car on Jan. 8 outside a St. Paul shopping center and throwing him to the ground, handcuffing him, then punching him and striking his head with a steel baton. He remembers being dragged into an SUV and taken to a detention facility, where he said he was beaten again. He also remembers the emergency room and the intense pain from eight skull fractures and five life-threatening brain hemorrhages.

ICE told nurses this Minneapolis man “purposefully ran headfirst into a brick wall.”

What actually happened is that they pulled him from a car, beat him so viciously with a steel baton that he had 8 skull fractures, 5 life-threatening brain hemorrhages, and couldn’t remember he had a daughter.

New data shows surge in trans kids’ suicides following healthcare rollbacks | Good Law Project A freedom of information request by Good Law Project has found that deaths by suicide of trans young people under 18 surged following the withdrawal of gender-affirming healthcare

The number of trans youth suicides in the UK quadrupled in 2021 following significant restrictions in access to care. The NHS tried to cover this up with a fake report that tried to hide the truth.

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White House says it won’t withhold funding from NH schools with DEI programs Lawsuits challenging New Hampshire laws that ban DEI initiatives and limit teaching about racism and discrimination remain unresolved.

This is why they must be challenged every single time. Not accommodated. Not bargained with. Just challenged.