Schumer doesn't work for AIPAC money. He's a strongly committed Zionist because he believes in it. People can be horrible without needing to be bought.

A chain link fence keeping people away from train tracks that separate the city from the beach below.

You'd think Del Mar would be eager to replace these tracks with a tunnel.

Montana Supreme Court Rules Its Constitution Entirely Protects Trans Citizens In Landmark Ruling The ruling will have enormous impacts for transgender residents in the state.

1. In a landmark ruling, the Montana Supreme Court has declared that the constitution, one of the most progressive in the nation, entirely protects transgender people.

The ruling is even insulated from SCOTUS decisions, due to how state constitutions work.

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This implicitly ignores all the good work CA has done on making it easier to build market rate housing (which has resulted in a decrease in rents in San Diego), but it also is more or less surrendering any progress until 2029 when a Democratic president might be there to listen to her pleas.

I was skeptical of Katie Porter after he proposal that most Californian never pay anything more in taxes (which severely limits what public programs we can imagine implementing), but the nail in the coffin for her ability to get my vote was a housing plan that starts with begging the feds for money.

Exactly one year ago today:

THE HOUSE JUST VOTED TO EXTENDED TPS FOR HAITI!!! Thank you, Rep. Ayanna Pressley for your leadership on this. Proud to help co-lead this effort for our Haitian brothers, sisters, and siblings. What a day.

How Silicon Valley Humiliated the Democrats When will they learn? The party remains far too solicitous of an industry that’s rewarded their fealty with four years of Trump and untold damage to democracy.

"Democrats need to break from this path and acknowledge that billionaires—especially those in the increasingly antidemocratic tech sector—are never going to side with them over the GOP." From @alexisgoldstein.bsky.social newrepublic.com/article/2087...

If I can get my parents visiting from Minnesota to take the bus downtown, anyone can do it.

1984 was declared "morning in America" because the Volcker recession had brought inflation down to 4% and been followed by a relatively quick recovery. Reagan won every state but Minnesota and DC in that election.

You're missing the point. This isn't a political action trying to get people to change their votes. It's an attempt to understand the disconnect between macroeconomic statistics and people's descriptions of the economy and especially their choice of who to vote for.

It sounds like a rentier wanting to get more for doing nothing.

GET THEIR ASSES

Defence of car dependency is a position of privilege. Extremely fed up with people confidently asserting the opposite; that any and all criticism of and attempts to reduce car dependency are an expression of privilege.

Again: for any big liberal donor who wants to funnel millions into fixing this country's politics, the ROI on buying any struggling paper and simply tasking it with doing real reporting on local news is vastly higher than the same $$ given to some group that does mass ad buys every election year.

I knew the British were extra NIMBY, but this guy on Midsommer Murders saying they need to protect pigsties takes it to a new level.

But is that true?

The big problem I see in this discourse is people create narratives based on a handful of (often false) data points and either create a new one or get angry when someone points out a problem with their theory or logic.

I want to understand reality. You don't fix problems by finding compelling but misleading stats to quote. You fix problems by digging down to figure out what the problem is and what is causing it.

I'm using CPI from FRED, not median prices which can reflect both inflation and changes in quality and quantity.

US-Israeli Attacks on Iran Show a Pattern of ‘Double-Tap’ Strikes New Lines verified three cases in Tehran and Karaj where sites were hit multiple times, increasing the harm to civilians and first responders for little military advantage

Double-tap strikes are a war crime and the US and Israel should be prosecuted for it. Defanging the UN—including giving the US permanent veto power—means it's a little unclear as to who would be doing this prosecuting.

I think you are making the same mistake that a lot of people to your economic posts are making. You're treating your personal experience with those around you as representative of the larger whole. A divergence between anecdote and overall statistics isn't surprising.

Also, urban and rural aren't static characteristics. Rural statistics aren't going to capture the changes in status that people who move from rural areas to urban areas experience.

Looking into it more, housing increased 350% while all goods increased 310% (CPI, US cities). While that is higher than overall inflation, it isn't that much higher. This implies that the price increase is people shifting their increased wealth into higher quality housing rather than pure inflation.

The dispute is how widely spread that wealth is. The progressives talking about the richest country in the world and being able to afford healthcare expect to pay for it entirely with taxes on the rich with no additional costs to the rest of the country.

While I suspect housing plays a role in people's feelings about the economy due to its large size in budgets, a single item increasing in price faster than wages doesn't contradict increased affordability overall.

People will be closely studying how Hungary's opposition pulled off their win in such a pro-incumbent system. Important to note that the theme was corruption. Democrats need to get much better at calling out Trump's corruption.

Magyar: “No mercy, they will need to take responsibility for all their actions.”

The disabled, those with criminal records, the chronically unemployed. In a tight labor market, hiring someone new requires either outbidding a competitor or bringing someone into the labor market.

Hardcore inflation hawks create a population of unemployable workers who never get a chance to get into the workforce because employers don't have rising wages to encourage them to hire people with higher non-wage costs.

Do we call leftists who implicitly stan for Greenspan "bankies?"