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Hunter Owens @hunterowens.net · 32m

one of the most interesting parts of attitudes from trump 1 Biden trump 2 is the shift among lib attitudes from delieverism to something that vaguely resembles the 1970s California tax revolt in terms of attitude

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 39m

the extent to which media elites treat liberal americans as if they do not count in the body politic is a real problem

Perry Bacon @perrybaconjr.bsky.social · 2h

I read the piece. You shouldn't. He dismisses the "No Kings" protests as liberals in blue cities. He invokes Rosa Parks, as if rural white people in the 60s loved everything that the movement then was doing. "We need a movement but not this one" is a core centrist tact these days.

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Hunter Owens @hunterowens.net · 1h

big fan of the great transformation for understanding the chinese political system was built and frame to US

yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300...

for understanding chinese urbanization and corporate structures, loved the Shenzhen Experiment www.hup.harvard.edu/books/978067...

The Great Transformation

The first thorough account of a formative and little understood chapter in Chinese history “A superb history of China’s transition into and out of the ...

yalebooks.yale.edu

Hunter Owens @hunterowens.net · 2h

extremely excited to see new housing in my neighborhood on an under utilized Metro-owned parking lot w/ this and a few of the new development really shows a new micro-neighborhood growing

Heritage Square Metro station parking lot targeted for housing

Highland Park -- The large parking lot at the Heritage Square train station is being eyed as a future housing site.

www.theeastsiderla.com

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Hunter Owens @hunterowens.net · 5h

in a true only nixon could go to china it does appear that only the trump administration could do market-socialism

www.cnbc.com/2025/10/15/t...

Trump administration will set price floors across range of industries to combat China, Bessent says

China has driven foreign competitors out of business over the past two decades by using its market dominance to slash prices, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said.

www.cnbc.com

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Hunter Owens @hunterowens.net · 5h

the 21st century will belong to whichever country stops hitting itself

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/w...

China Wants Foreign Scientists. The Public Says No, Thanks.

www.nytimes.com

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Hunter Owens @hunterowens.net · 7h

The 6th (now 8th) largest North American metro is in Monterey (pop 1M city / 5M metro), has 3 lines, and opened 1st line in 1991.

Better things possible

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Hunter Owens @hunterowens.net · 18h

Band is extremely dialed in and the small due to rain LA crowd is making up for it with cozy enthusiasm

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Hunter Owens @hunterowens.net · 19h

good news is not a single soul will be making a TikTok of this

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Hunter Owens @hunterowens.net · 19h

extremely fun to find out that ever silver lake resident does in fact still own a pair of skinny jeans

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Hunter Owens @hunterowens.net · 19h

obligatory Bluesky I’m at the Rilo Kiley show post

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Hunter Owens @hunterowens.net · 19h

the way I can instantly tell that band photo was shot in Chicago but nothing else about the band is … not great for my cultural capital

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Hunter Owens @hunterowens.net · 23h

!!!!

Joe Linton @lintonjoe.bsky.social · 1d

Repeat: Metro expects the Wilshire D Line subway extension phase 1 - from Western (Ktown) to La Cienega (Beverly Hills) - to open by ~March 20 2026.

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Hunter Owens @hunterowens.net · 1d

also if you're somebody who loves just doing random "streetview" walks this tool is so so much fun

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Hunter Owens @hunterowens.net · 1d

I gotta be honest I have been historically skeptical of the idea of digital twins but recently I learned that Japan's MLIT built an entire 3D model of every building and road in the country with semantic and underlying use information, so uh... maybe less skeptical

www.mlit.go.jp/plateau/en/

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Hunter Owens @hunterowens.net · 5d

tired: Mexico City gentrification discourse

wired: Mexico City chefs are “in dialogue” with US experience

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Hunter Owens @hunterowens.net · 5d

vignelli 100% vindicated

Massimo Vignelli inspired subway map back in use

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Hunter Owens @hunterowens.net · 6d

good to know that Facebook thinks I need to be friends with my wife

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Jesse D. Jenkins @jessedjenkins.com · 6d

Construction begins this week on a new, upgraded AirTrain at Newark Liberty Airport. The 2.5 mile system is "expected" to cost $3.5 billion and complete in... 2030! 🤦‍♂️https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/outdated-newark-airport-build-3-214920061.html

5 years for 2.5 miles. Just amazing work America.😕

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Hunter Owens @hunterowens.net · 6d

fun fact: ficuses are responsible for so many of the sidewalks in LA that are completely insane looking since their roots grow and spread so wide

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Hunter Owens @hunterowens.net · 6d

as a current bolt (co-)owner this thing is going to do numbers

Zac Estrada @zacestrada.com · 6d

Pretty much everything we've already heard about the 2027 Chevy Bolt is now official by GM: under $30k, ~150kW charging speed, NACS, V2H capability, optional SuperCruise, Angry Birds and HBO Max capable

THEY estimate 255 miles of range and on sale Q1 2026 news.gm.com/home.detail....

It’s back: Introducing the 2027 Chevrolet Bolt

news.gm.com

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Hunter Owens @hunterowens.net · 6d

I’m gonna go with interference operation by a foreign power by December

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Hunter Owens @hunterowens.net · 7d

all these SFH homeowners cashed out for 4 million plus in 2022 on Zillow estimates of around 1.5M

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Hunter Owens @hunterowens.net · 7d

man, the Expo TNP upzoning around Expo Bundy is really resulting in huge results - was at the station yesterday and saw 4 buildings under construction, and now this

la.urbanize.city/post/eight-s...

Eight-story, 42-unit development planned at 2219 S. Wellsely Avenue

In a familiar tale, single-family homes located just south of Metro's Expo/Bundy Station in Sawtelle are set to give way to apartments, according to a recent application to the Los Angeles Department ...

la.urbanize.city

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Hunter Owens @hunterowens.net · 8d

lifelong CA / IL voter: I suspect I voted in ~2 elections that actually mattered at a national level (first election 2012). 2016 + 2020 Dem primaries.

And frankly the CA 2020 Dem primary "mattering" is a reach

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Hunter Owens @hunterowens.net · 8d

this is what living in a swing state must feel like

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