State is currently actively trying to ratfuck the LOSSAN governance study bsky.app/profile/cale...

The lesson here is that study bills are where good ideas go to die. AB 2252 came out of a study bill that just gave ammunition to the firefighters opposition.

Worried about social housing and LOSSAN governance reform for similar reasons.

Why aren't CAYIMBY, YIMBY Action, or most local YIMBY groups supporting?

Asm Alex Lee’s single stair bill AB 2252 just failed to move past Assembly Housing and is dead.

Seven other states and the rest of the developed world have adopted this policy, but the committee members are concerned about California fire fighter staffing levels and ladder truck availability.

Local ICE watch group hasn't answered my emails about attending a training for months.

Small business owners aren't working class because they own the means of production (their business). Middle class doesn't really mean anything, it's a wishy-washy term.

For politicians I guess it depends on what their day job is but they aren't a real consituency (just not a lot of them).

Working class means you have a boss and make your money from wages, not investments

Fund Transit, Support Our Communities Cleaner air, less traffic, and healthier communities – when we as California fund transit, we support our communities. We make it so our neighbors and families can easily and affordably get where the...

Metro wants to cut $5M in support for Metrolink, contributing to a budget crisis, service cuts, and a fiscal cliff. Meanwhile they plan to allocate $50M to widening the 605 (agenda Item 6). Speak out tomorrow at 10 AM to support regional transit over cars! actionnetwork.org/letters/fund...

rotating villain theory but for each of the 5 Metrolink constituent counties

Fund Transit, Support Our Communities Cleaner air, less traffic, and healthier communities – when we as California fund transit, we support our communities. We make it so our neighbors and families can easily and affordably get where the...

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Locally those jobs are either Teamsters or Steelworkers represented

this even includes lots of UAW members! we have members working in hospitals, universities, book stores, theaters, art galleries, etc

i’m a proud nolsw-uaw 2320 member, where we represent thousands of legal and human services workers. our national executive board only has 4 men out of 14 seats

My thing is how can DSA, as an organization, actually materially help with union drives? Showing up to picket lines is important but it only goes so far.

ALAA

Public defenders iirc www.alaa.org

Also 30% of UAW is grad students and there's a significant lawyer contingent on the East Coast

Union Now Is America’s New Strike Fund - The American Prospect The new nonprofit will put money directly into the hands of workers so they can fight harder and win bigger.

Union Now Is America’s New Strike Fund
Donate now: UnionNow.org
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That's right, donate to @unionnow.org

Yeah it's not really an anti-tech thing per se but e-bikes are an actual example of a new technology that is really good and beneficial that's facing political attacks.

Riverside To Test New Housing Development Strategy On University Avenue The Riverside City Council Tuesday voted unanimously to pilot a year-long program on University Avenue that, if effective, could jumpstart housing development in the area, according to the city.

The Riverside City Council Tuesday voted unanimously to pilot a year-long program on University Avenue that, if effective, could jumpstart housing development in the area, according to the city.
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CA is more Dem and more importantly more Latino than VA

Not looking good for single stair reform in California. YIMBY groups are checked out and firefighters are highly engaged.

Personally I can't stand that the man has shut down and sidelined the good consultant trying to fix SVBARTII, Gall Zeidler

The real "the Left is anti-technology" moment is all the anti-ebike legislation sweeping blue states, although like usual it's not really "the Left" it's mainstream Dems

Land monopoly is the throughline in this piece. Agribusiness moguls seizing indigenous land in the Amazon for commodity crops, then turning around and NIMBYing renewable energy in Wyoming from their exclusive ranches on "conservation" grounds.

in other words, if they don’t want to be turned into vassals or made redundant, tech employees need to start labor organizing ie identifying as working class rather than competitive merit enjoyers just like everyone else

Solutionary Earth Day Special: From Problem to Solution Please RSVP: Solutionary Earth Day Special: From Problem to Solution

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Solutionary Rail welcomes a panel of environmental justice and labor organizers to discuss how we can shift US rail from being a source of harm to an infrastructure that benefits us all.

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How 2 fringe groups and a friendly judge helped pull off Sheriff Chad Bianco’s ballot seizure Emails obtained by CalMatters trace the development of a years-long case that ultimately led to the unprecedented seizure of 650,000 ballots.

Anat Rubin and I co-wrote a story for @calmatters.org about the people behind Sheriff Chad Bianco's "election investigation" -- sovereign citizens, Christian nationalists, and "constitutional sheriffs."
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Even a bus would be an improvement over the status quo of nothing

My contribution to airport discourse is that there should be a transit connection from Riverside to the Ontario airport, and it should be a real one, not a tunnel for cars.

If men don't have paternal instincts, why are there so many dad-simulator anime and video games?