The GOP entered this redistricting under the rather childish delusion they were going to gerrymander, and nobody would gerrymander them. In TX, MO, and a half dozen other states, they put their rather naive theory into operation. They sowed the wind, and now they are going to reap the whirlwind
every conservative political complaint comes back to "those people shouldn't count because they disagree with me"
As a California resident, I say it’s obviously true on the merits; as a progressive, I say “you sowing vs you reaping”
DEl speedwagon EM @uhs...•51m X I loathe Spanberger as much as she loathes people like me but I do appreciate that she appears to be governing Virginia like Benjamin Butler governed the military dictatorship of Union-occupied New Orleans The Political HQ • @ThePolitica... • 1h € BREAKING F The Virginia Redistricting Amendment has passed. This changes Virginia's congressional maps from a 6-5 Democratic split to a 10- 1 Democratic split, representing a four-seat gain for Democrats.
the cool thing about being a progressive normielib is that I can just say “this is awesome” instead of doing a bunch of throat clearing about loathing Spanberger before I praise her for obliterating 4 Republican seats
The newsworthy component here may be the apparent graft and sycophancy. But it’s shocking every day anew how much of a narcissist and how childlike the president is. The whole post is about how smart he is and how great it is to flatter him.
Same guy is trying to negotiate himself out of a war!
That said, this city council and mayor election will have serious consequences for sustainable transportation in Torrance & the whole South Bay. Indivisible SB has endorsed the candidates that would be best for sustainability and moving away from car dependence
Rule 1 of Southern California land use and transit policy is there’s always a dumb referendum in play. Always.
I, too, thought checked baggage was for suckers and then I got married and had two kids.
Cursed, completely cursed.
This reads like a parody, but nope it's a real LinkedIn post
We bought in our neighborhood partly because Torrance 8 got us to work when not biking. Torrance 8 and 13 (+bikes) are why we could be a 1 car family
I feel bad for them getting stuck with a transit center far from the downtown near a refinery :/
Starting this summer, a retro Trolley bus will run a modified Route 3, providing 15 minute headways (interleaved with regular Route 3 between RB and LB) between Del Amo Mall and Redondo Beach pier.
Torrance transit staff is serious about transit, and dragging their elected officials along
Yes
The truly deranged LA NIMBY move is doing this, then when someone builds a house with underground rooms, wanting to regulate that away even though they can’t even see it. Not just seeing a big building but the very fact of *knowing* that a big building exists.
LA's proposed SB 79 standards have dropped...
For 1/2 mile from a T2 transit stop, they allow 10 units with 2 FAR, with max height of 2 stories.
It's physically impossible to fit 2 FAR in 2 stories.
In fact, with setbacks, it's impossible to fit 2 FAR in 3 stories!
Hot take: Bunker Hill Plaza has been unpopular for so long but has a very good location (Pershing Sq B/D one side, 2/H A/E on the other) and a good layout protected from the traffic of downtowns street grid, I feel like we are poised for it to become popular in the next 5 years.
No K Line north is all tunnel
We had one Metro bus line that went west of PCH and MB had no interest in keeping it or in letting Rosecrans bus go west of PCH. Meanwhile, MBCC is hand wringing about loss of one parking lot and restaurant sales tax receipts being down. BCT and Metro offered help. Turned down
People can say whatever they want about LBC and Santa Monica, they actually make themselves accessible
when I lived in long beach I went to DTLA quite often and beach cities basically never for that reason
Dual purpose, keeps people without cars away and lets the beach cities point at the horrible traffic as reasons they can’t permit any housing.
It’s like 3 miles from Douglas to the beach and I’m just taking Lyft from Aviation/Imperial. A bike would obviously get the job done but… gestures around.
Reverse transfer at Aviation/Century to Douglas, one infrequent bus from Douglas. You could get the bus at Aviation/Century but look at that route @humantransit.bsky.social … all coverage no speed.
If you had to bet, would you bet that beach cities area transit is designed to make it hard to get the beach without a car? I know I would.
But really what the original poster wants is more along the lines of The Last Saskatchewan Pirate.
He was told they’d sail the seas for American gold!
Northwest Passage also an all time great
“To find there but the road back home again…”
The year was 1778
How I wish I was in Sherbrooke now
When a letter of marque came from the king
To the scummiest vessel I’d ever seen…