Famous California bald eagle couple threatened by luxury housing: ‘We don’t have much time’ A housing development in Big Bear could threaten California bald eagles Jackie and Shadow’s nest.

This matters to me

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I could not imagine repeating the stuff he says to my Latino roomates who's family are immigrans and some don't even speak English that well or to my Trans friends who would easily be thrown into a camp and become forcefully detransitioned if MAGA had their way. Ezra is so out of touch on this

I have Latino friends who they and their families are afraid to go out. I have trans friends who are losing their affirmative care.
This isn't "having to live with each other." They literally want to get rid of us. Are you this detached from reality?

The music just comes off as purposely trying to manipulate ngl. Could you really not with us speak frankly and not use the melodramatic piano?

Responses like his generally make me wonder if Klein knows anyone in his life directly affected by ICE or anti trans laws

Honestly, this reaction makes me think this stuff really spooked him on a personal level. Modern political commentators have never been a situation where they felt their lives might be threatened by what they do.

The Los Angeles City Council voted to oppose SB 79, our bill to allow more homes near public transit.

But here’s the big picture:

In 2019, the council voted unanimously to oppose SB 50, a prior version of this bill.

Today’s vote was 8-5.

That’s called progress. Let’s get the bill passed.

My goat 🙏

It's crazy how Prop 13 makes California property taxes work exactly the opposite of how Henry George envisioned the Land Value Tax, where instead of taxing just the value of the land it's explicitly just taxing land improvements

@grok is this true

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My first, first-author paper of graduate school is out in Perspectives on Psychological Science! We take on the question: can humans have close relationships with AI chatbots? ❤️ 🤖

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Highlight of the week is Goo Munday’s new great album. Truly a young goat of #witchhouse

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TSX is Toronto’s biggest stock exchange as scale. If you tax all of capital there for all it’s worth, and tax all wealth of all Canadian billionaires, it still doesn’t reach what you’d get for taxing Canada’s land value for one year. Land is a big deal. #georgism

lol I’m pretty active there and on the subreddit

To win the YIMBY and Abundance movement, the work needs to be done in LA.

That starts by electing Sara Hernandez in SD 26 and @johnericksonwh.bsky.social in SD 24 in these crucial districts next year.

Fascinating to see the stark rural/urban and north/south divide on #SB79, the biggest housing bill of the year.

Let’s dive into the details, and see how your State Senator voted. 👇

Celebrate Rebelution · Free Rein · Song · 2018

Also the week vibe : open.spotify.com/track/3fYbEo...

Heart Like a Lion Rebelution · Courage to Grow · Song · 2007

I'm in the positive optimistic #reggaerock phase of life rn. Love this stuff. #rebelution

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But there's a lot more to my thoughts and ideas that aren't easy to convey in 300 character limits. I'm meeting with some CG people at Strong Towns next week to talk about this stuff with them and flesh things out so I can put more effort to it in the summer.

People need to know how a bunch of local stuff operate and the mechanics/history of all of the issues. There's a lot of passionate people for LVT who are just intimidated by the black box of local politics. Effort just needs to go into making people willing to participate and not scare them off.

Honestly, as time goes on, the more I'm convinced the only way forward is going to be actually getting LVT people to run for positions rather than try to get others to see the light, or else LVT will be stuck in perpetual "multi-year study bills that will inevitably get ignored."

But like, if this stuff needs to grow, there needs to be a much more solidified process to get people up to speed as fast as possible so they actually do advocacy. Or else the movement is doomed to be just one filled with techoncrats or people who already do housing policy

Issue is that when I joined CG CA, I genuinely didn't know anything about specifics of bills or assemblymen/senators we supported. I had no clue even how the org operates internally or externally, and pretty much no one knew or helped either. It's kind of just a side gig for a lot of them.

Well I haven't had the time to further develop stuff, but I will do so when I'm done wit school stuff soon. But one thing I think needs to happen that I learned from other orgs I'm in is that there needs to be a baseline on boarding to get new people up to speed on state/local specifics.

I’m putting in as much effort as i can (in free time). To try to develop georgism as an on the ground movement. The worst case scenario is if it stays just an online fringe movement

Actually I’ve been working with them for that specific reason lol. Trying to develop some methods to gain new members. Haven’t seen that page though so thanks for sharing

Ya I was trying to be snappy

✅ PASSED ASSEMBLY APPROPRIATIONS COMMITTEE: SB 79 by @scottwiener.bsky.social that would end exclusionary housing policies that have made housing more expensive and transit inaccessible, allowing more people to live walking distance of quality transit, boosting ridership for our transit systems.

If you live here in Los Angeles, please take 10 seconds to email your state senator and ask her to support SB79 (legalizing apartments near train stations): secure.everyaction.com/wD3zN6EAFUSM...

It's one of the most impactful things you can do to lower housing costs and they are counting emails.

SB 79 (Wiener): Transit-Oriented Development and Upzoning SB 79 will make it faster and easier to build multi-family housing near transit stops, like train and rapid bus lines, by making it legal for more homes to be built in these areas and streamlining exi...

[BILL ALERT] SB 79, which broadly legalizes more homes near transit stops like train stations and rapid bus stops, has passed the Senate Appropriations Committee! It now heads to the Senate floor. Learn more: