So why then was it so shocking when @robbonta.bsky.social got in there and started filing lawsuits? Where were those lawsuits when Becerra was AG?

I’m undecided in the CA Gov race but want to vote for a committed YIMBY candidate. Katie Porter and Tom Steyer both appear to be that. My issue with Xavier Becerra is - when he was AG it was already clear that some cities had no intention of following state housing law without being forced to…

It’s so creepy that these people see major declines in teen pregnancy as a bad thing.

Orban, Bolsonaro, Trump, and all the rest of these goons want you to believe they are inevitable and, once in power, invincible. They are not.

At some point I might want to write about how treating shade and shadow as a negative under CEQA is a relic from a time when people thought sunbathing with baby oil was healthy.

The DNC Resolutions Committee has passed my resolution to hold Trump Administration officials legally accountable for their crimes.

Assuming the whole packet passes on Friday, it will become the official position of the national Democratic Party.

It is hard to capture what a sweeping strategic defeat the war in Iran has been for the United States. I’m going to thread here some of the posts today that try to capture those effects. Here’s the first:

There's nothing more insufferable than the shitheads who spent the entirety of 2024 sinking the Dem nominee trying to claim the moral high ground because they thought they were doing it for the sake of the Gazans.

They all unironically have the blood of those 150+ Iranian schoolgirls on their hands

Los Angeles’ housing crisis is self-inflicted. 

For decades, city leaders have taken deliberate actions to limit new housing.

Today, we announced our plan to fix this and triple housing production.

Netanyahu sucks, AIPAC sucks, but "we started this war due to pressure from Israel and its powerful American lobby" is just code for "blame Jews." Trump wasn't forced to do this. Trump's supporters—like Kent—weren't forced to elect him and embolden him. They're not absolved of any responsibility.

No more aspirational goals. We need homes, we need them now, and we need them for the next generation.

California was built on the future, but the future doesn't build itself. Let’s get to work.

Let me be clear: I’m glad Kristi Noem was fired. But we still have to abolish ICE.

things every single republican president of your lifetime has done

- started a war in the middle east
- completely destroyed the economy

I was saying this the other day, but for all the thinkpieces about liberal echo chambers, no one discusses the right-wing echo chamber that enables people to think one of the most popular musicians in the world is some niche and offensive selection for the Super Bowl halftime show

I don't speak Spanish, so maybe I missed something, but with this kind of show, he didn't need to make any kind of explicit comment about ICE or whatever. The show itself was a rebuke to the bullshit going on right now.

No Kings includes Draft Kings

No idea what Bad Bunny is even saying, but this is the biggest fuck you to MAGA ever imaginable

Exactly right.

Bovino's leaving? Great, get Noem to resign.

Noem resigns? Great, defund and dismantle ICE.

Go after Stephen Miller too. Bring charges against ICE thugs at the state and local level. Lawsuits. New state laws restricting them.

Every possible angle.

Enough with this garbage about "healing the divide." This is America and it looks pretty damn united to me.

Real patriots turn out for one another and that's why we'll bury this new Confederacy in the same trash heap as their ancestors.

Purple-toned, high-contrast graphic showing two figures side by side. On the left, a woman, Kristi Noem, speaking into a microphone, partially visible. On the right, a masked ICE agent in tactical gear with an “ICE” patch visible on the chest. White overlaid text reads: The Trump administration has weaponized ICE and Border Patrol, turning those agencies into masked, hostile police forces that are terrorizing the American people. ICE has become a rogue agency that has gone far beyond its original mandate. It should be immediately dismantled.

Purple-toned, high-contrast graphic showing two figures side by side. On the left, a woman, Kristi Noem, speaking into a microphone, partially visible. On the right, a masked ICE agent in tactical gear with an “ICE” patch visible on the chest. White overlaid text reads: I will not support funding for the Department of Homeland Security when ICE and Border Patrol agents are assaulting protestors, detaining and arresting people with impunity, inciting violence, and shooting and killing American citizens. Furthermore, Secretary Kristi Noem and her thugs have been acting in violation of court orders and in contempt of Congress, and she should be impeached. At the bottom, a white signature of Congresswoman Diana DeGette

ICE should be dismantled immediately. 

I will not support funding for the Department of Homeland Security when ICE and Border Patrol agents are assaulting protestors, detaining and arresting people with impunity, inciting violence, and shooting and killing American citizens. 

Read my statement:

Literal gestapo shit. I don't know what to say other than that it happened here.

This might sound like snark but it's just an honest reply:

The state's right to carry out violence at will is a top priority of any state, but certainly of a state that's a white supremacist patriarchy.

And the use & abuse of women's & children's bodies is a feature, not a bug, in such a system.

Hey, some of us came in second!

The “prosecute the former regime at every level” candidate has my vote in 2028.

When a cop murdered my big brother at a road block 21 years ago, their post-facto justification was that he tried to run over a cop.

His foot released the brake after the officer shot him in the chest, and the car bumped an officer.

Need this energy when Trump leaves office. Take a fucking bulldozer to his bribe ballroom and rip his name off the Kennedy Center and whatever else he slaps his name on.

THE DAY CARES ARE LOCKED BECAUSE YOU MADE A GENERATION-LONG EFFORT TO MAKE IT AS EASY AS POSSIBLE TO KILL THE CHILDREN INSIDE THEM YOU ABSOLUTE FUCKING GHOULS

This is especially a problem postpartum. “Sleep when the baby sleeps” well, can’t do that if you’re waking me up every hour!

LA has stopped repaving our streets The reason why is probably illegal

LA quietly stopped repaving all streets last July to avoid fulfilling its ADA obligations. The federal govt says when you repave a street, you have to update all the curb ramps. LA has tons of out of date curb ramps, so the rule makes repaving much more expensive. The city's solution: stop repaving!

a few candidates have talked about this but any Dem planning to run in 2028 should make it explicit: the next DOJ will, in fact, go after you if you’re funding this awful ballroom, or any other pay to play deals you make with this administration