NEW — Virginia voters have approved a 10–1 congressional map, putting Democrats in a strong position to flip four seats from red to blue. The new map is now among the most aggressive gerrymanders in the country.

she's still addicted to vichy twitter, eh?

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

one more copilot feature will fix this

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Evelyn Normielib is here and she is politely voting to gerrymander your ass into irrelevance

Our revolution endorsing Tom Steyer is good, of the candidates with a shot I think he’s probably the best one, it reflects well on them and shows policy seriousness. All that said: it’s still pretty funny.

Why doesn’t California build more condos?

It's the most honorable thing he does tbh

I will give right wing muckrakers this: they sure as shit know how to twist the knife

matt drudge is a hater to his bones

in other words

the dividing line for left of center people is not "liberals vs leftists" or whatever million variants people want to cook up in that vein

it is "fight or fold"

i choose to fight

LMFAO a canvasser for this NIMBY candidate just tried to tell me that the NIMBY is the only one who actually cares about housing affordability

she also had a backpack for one of the most elite private schools in NYC that charges $70K/yr tuition

The real challenges with respect to SB 79 (Wiener) were being faced a year ago this month when CC member Jesse Zwick brought the bill to our City Council for endorsement. SB 79 supporters (Yimbys and Abundance Housing LA and the digital industry represented by Bay Area Council) had won an endorsement from West Hollywood and clearly thought that getting endorsements from other progressive cities like Santa Monica would give them momentum in the legislature. We in SMRR were shocked. If you think the current bill is a problem, you should have seen it back then, when Jesse first brought it forward: It was a renter displacement and demolition derby machine!! potentially well beyond what we experienced in the year prior to rent control adoption when landlords demolished 1300 units. When it came before the City Council, Mike Soloff and I, and Rent Board Commissioner Ericka Lesley and a person I had not yet met, Heather Thomason, were there standing up valiantly for renter security objecting to the obvious displacement of renters that would result from this bill, in fact, that was the very intent of the bill. Somehow Zwick and Abundant Housing LA (who had put over $70 K into SM candidate races in the prior election) held away over our own SMRR elected council members. Shockingly, our city council endorsed the bill. One member said "While there was good and bad in the bill, the good outweighed the bad" which can only translate into the good of new market rate units for affluent renters who would move in outweighed the bad of displacement of our current renter neighbors and the demolition of their affordable homes. It was shocking, and I confess, I have not recovered from my anger that people we would elect would betray us and vote to endorse and enable it. Now we face it in a watered down version, thanks largely to the real hero in this saga, Assemblyman Matt Haines of Berkeley. He was thee one who forced the legislature to back out most of the MFH. …

former Santa Monica Mayor Denny Zane is still BIG MAD about SB79

he doesn't really seem upset about the tens of thousands of Santa Monicans he's helped displace over the decades due to high housing costs 🤷‍♂️

Honestly the most worrying thing about Becerra is that he just doesn't seem to have thought about the housing crisis very much. Dealing with the housing crisis is and will continue to be the California governor's #1 job.

hank green hasn't changed, he's just applying the same essential curiosity he always has and reached tentative and nuanced conclusions which your social circle has deemed verboten to even consider

Hollywood jobs belong in LA. Here’s how to help bring them back:

The more charitable interpretation is that debate brain poisons the mind

Every claim about the funding sources and motivation could be true and it wouldn't invalidate Masley's technical refutation

physics-mogged

the beginning of jordan's essay is literally all ad hominem!

he even acknowledges as much before proceeding: "I know what you're thinking, and I know how this sounds. The battle cry of the pseudoscientist is poisoning the well of criticism"

fund Santa Monica instead

The zero-days are numbered  | The Mozilla Blog Since February, the Firefox team has been working around the clock using frontier AI models to find and fix latent security vulnerabilities in the browser.

271 vulns fixed. but: "Encouragingly, we also haven’t seen any bugs that couldn’t have been found by an elite human researcher." — now that's interesting

but it can't reason /s

agents don't have their own bank accounts (yet)

"While we're talking about who NOT to vote for, I give you Planning Commissioner and proud ultra-YIMBY, Seema Patel. ... Here she is in a recent picture she posted with Senator Wiener and other YIMBY faithfuls ... to strip all local control from cities"

San Mateo - vote for Seema Patel!

Can Kash Patel manage to break the glass floor and be the first dude in this shithole regime who gets fired?

This reads like a parody, but nope it's a real LinkedIn post

unless and until republicans agree to a ceasefire in the form of strict anti-gerrymandering provisions: fuck them to hell, squeeze every last drop of blood from the stone, lock them out of every seat you can