Sam

TWU be like “Hochul is MAGA because she doesn’t support our MAGA union” in reality, they’re just mad at Hochul because she refused to expand the union’s expensive handouts and make-work jobs funded with taxpayer $$

my brief voter guide on some of the most important races in the country: -vote for all democrats, obviously -vote YES in the NYC ballot measures -vote for Nithya Raman in LA -vote for Scott Wiener in CA-11 -vote for Ben Allen for CA insurance commish -vote YES on prop H & RTM for Bay Area transit

The MTA’s primary union is spending a ton of money to try and swing the vote against Hochul (the most pro-transit governor in generations) When Hochul wins by double digits anyway, I hope she remembers this and plays hardball with the union on efficiency improvements like OPTO and automating IBX

Democracy is when a couple dozen tenants who don’t want to move can prevent thousands of their neighbors in decrepit, mold-choked old buildings from getting brand new apartments at the same rents.

This story is about the tiny minority of tenants who oppose the city’s plan to replace their crumbling old buildings with new ones—with zero tenant displacement!—because they want the city to spend money it does not have and will not get to renovate the old buildings instead.

turns out that voting is a very good way to kick right wing authoritarians out of power

I have been hating on armond white for 16 fucking years. I was 14 years old and dunking on this clown. so satisfying for the rest of the world to realize how much he sucks

nothing in the world feels better than just fucking crushing republicans. do everything you can to ensure that’s the outcome in 10 days

this is the only response you need when faced with Evan Barker, a no-name moron whose entire thesis is “dems should waste more money on my consulting services in Missouri”

it’s simple: swing voters chose Trump because he said he would magically make things less expensive instead, he started a pointless war that made everything more expensive republicans are gonna get crushed. the only question is how bad

this is fantastic but what’s even funnier is that it passed 8-1 with the only NO vote being… Connie Chan. she might just be the biggest NIMBY in California, which isn’t an easy title to win

Robert Reich is a NIMBY so it is completely unsurprising that he is endorsing Chan, the NIMBY candidate in this race

the UK is just cooked. seems like every boomer there has taken up NIMBY as their retirement hobby because god forbid people have access to affordable groceries

elon needs to spend the rest of his life in a prison cell

I am sorry but the transit workers union allying with *donald trump* to protect *horse drawn carriages* is beyond parody

me seeing gas prices rise two weeks before the election in critical senate swing states

what’s more important: Automating the IBX to enable high frequency and convenient transfers for the hundreds of thousands of workers who will rely on it OR providing a few hundred make-work jobs that will significantly reduce ridership and service

i don't think i've ever seen a campaign do a murder-suicide before (decent chance this drags down the entire GOP ticket in the state)

good example of how bike lane NIMBYism is just early onset MAGA

it is interesting to contrast the discipline of the most successful protest movements of the 15 years (maidan, South Korea) with whatever the fuck is happening in France

One would be good and the other would be bad because one cause is good and the other is bad. We are not in the realm of procedural justice concerns anymore, liberalism is not obligated to be neutral on the question of its own existence.

update: Tommy was a staffer for Josh Hawley lmao

I’m just gonna say it the riots in France are super cringe

If you are a San Francisco voter who actually wants to implement left-progressive policy, Scott Wiener is your candidate.

democrats in Congress really need to start building the case to lock Elon up and be ready to hand it to the next attorney general on January 20th 2029

it should probably be a bigger story that Republican operatives are boosting a socialist candidate to siphon off votes from Sherrod brown

This article quotes a sociology professor, a lawyer, and an architect who reject the notion that housing prices are set by supply and demand and do not believe that building more homes reduces rents. It is the housing policy equivalent of platforming climate change deniers.

THE ONLY REASON THAT EASTERN EUROPEAN STATES JOINED NATO IS BECAUSE THEY ARE AFRAID OF RUSSIA ATTACKING THEM, AS EVIDENCED BY THE FACT THAT RUSSIA INVADED UKRAINE, SLAUGHTERED CIVILIANS, AND KIDNAPPED CHILDREN just fucking insane victim blaming.

Huge YIMBY win at the CNN Talarico town hall tonight: asked about lowering housing costs, Talarico touts his work on single-stair reform! "Our outdated buildings didn't allow for single-stair housing, which is smaller apartments, smaller condos. It’s a great entry point for homeownership."