Stan Oklobdzija
@stano.bsky.social
Ass. Prof. Public Policy @ UC Riverside | Better Cities Through Better Government | 1st Gen 🇺🇸: 🇷🇸/ Việt Nam Cộng Hòa | 躺平 | Ham chơi
stanokl.github.io | https://everyoneiswelcome.substack.com/
📍: The Inland Empire, California.
stanokl.github.io | https://everyoneiswelcome.substack.com/
📍: The Inland Empire, California.
Really great article about a city that decided to do things.
Contrast this with Los Angeles not being able to build an eight-mile bike path in nearly a decade with the final bill now projected to be $1 billion.
Contrast this with Los Angeles not being able to build an eight-mile bike path in nearly a decade with the final bill now projected to be $1 billion.
Montreal's New Rail Line Is the Future - Macleans.ca
Canada has forgotten how to build fast, cheap transit. A new megaproject has the fix.
macleans.ca
December 1, 2025 at 2:26 AM
Really great article about a city that decided to do things.
Contrast this with Los Angeles not being able to build an eight-mile bike path in nearly a decade with the final bill now projected to be $1 billion.
Contrast this with Los Angeles not being able to build an eight-mile bike path in nearly a decade with the final bill now projected to be $1 billion.
Reposted by Stan Oklobdzija
Government actors who refuse to be bound by the rule of law are not morally entitled to its protection.
KARL: Did you know about the judge's order when you issued your order for the planes to continue?
KRISTI NOEM: This is an activist judge. We comply with all federal orders that are lawful and binding.
KRISTI NOEM: This is an activist judge. We comply with all federal orders that are lawful and binding.
December 1, 2025 at 1:45 AM
Government actors who refuse to be bound by the rule of law are not morally entitled to its protection.
Hero.
Sooo here's a little public records request I just made to the University of Oklahoma.
December 1, 2025 at 1:32 AM
Hero.
Not to discount Trump's pre-existing racism and authoritarianism, but I think a big reason his administration is staffed solely with Nazis is that only Nazis are stupid and desperate enough to work for Donald Trump.
I like how every six months or so we get a big "This Obscure Fasicst Thinker Is Key To Understanding The Modern Right" and without fail every one of those is the biggest loser you've ever heard of writing the stupidest articles you've ever read for Racism Monthly
November 30, 2025 at 9:55 PM
Not to discount Trump's pre-existing racism and authoritarianism, but I think a big reason his administration is staffed solely with Nazis is that only Nazis are stupid and desperate enough to work for Donald Trump.
Doomers are also bullshitters because they spend all day on this app telling people that things will never be better. If you really, truly believed that, you wouldn't even have an account. Hell, you wouldn't even bother learning what the president's name is.
While this usually isn't the intent, "no one will ever be held accountable for this" doomerism is an excuse not to try.
There'll be at least some accountability if enough Americans work for it. And this time really is different. Doesn't guarantee the aftermath will be, but it increases the chances.
There'll be at least some accountability if enough Americans work for it. And this time really is different. Doesn't guarantee the aftermath will be, but it increases the chances.
November 30, 2025 at 9:45 PM
Doomers are also bullshitters because they spend all day on this app telling people that things will never be better. If you really, truly believed that, you wouldn't even have an account. Hell, you wouldn't even bother learning what the president's name is.
This is how administration acts whenever faculty tries to enforce standards. It's why most people have just given up and just hand out A's.
OU has put the professor here on administrative leave:
November 30, 2025 at 8:57 PM
This is how administration acts whenever faculty tries to enforce standards. It's why most people have just given up and just hand out A's.
Don't really understand why I'm getting served this ad. The German academic market is like one (1) permanent job per year.
November 30, 2025 at 7:27 PM
Don't really understand why I'm getting served this ad. The German academic market is like one (1) permanent job per year.
My uncle is in his mid 70s and I had to spend an hour yesterday making his phone usable because it was so full of malware that he'd downloaded by mistake. Society cannot function if every elderly person needs to have the information security certification.
I'm about 500 times more concerned with my own elderly parents being victimized by an identity theft or pig butchering scam than I am about them being mugged or burglarized and I think that's similar for most voters bsky.app/profile/todm...
I think the scams at issue are phone and email scams, phishing, identity theft etc. Most people I know are actually quite familiar with those, worry about them and wish government would do more to stop them. A promise to do something about that sort of scam might resonate with voters.
November 30, 2025 at 7:17 PM
My uncle is in his mid 70s and I had to spend an hour yesterday making his phone usable because it was so full of malware that he'd downloaded by mistake. Society cannot function if every elderly person needs to have the information security certification.
Dems should use "Lock Him Up" in 2026. That's really all people want.
November 30, 2025 at 6:34 PM
Dems should use "Lock Him Up" in 2026. That's really all people want.
Unironically, this is the logic the next Democratic President should use when ignoring Trump v. US and putting Donald Trump in jail.
KARL: Did you know about the judge's order when you issued your order for the planes to continue?
KRISTI NOEM: This is an activist judge. We comply with all federal orders that are lawful and binding.
KRISTI NOEM: This is an activist judge. We comply with all federal orders that are lawful and binding.
November 30, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Unironically, this is the logic the next Democratic President should use when ignoring Trump v. US and putting Donald Trump in jail.
Democrats should change the slogan to "I waited and it's my turn" because at least that's capturing the real dynamic.
No value, no villain, no vision. Sounds like the tagline for the earnings call of a collapsing appliance retailer
November 30, 2025 at 5:57 PM
Democrats should change the slogan to "I waited and it's my turn" because at least that's capturing the real dynamic.
It's that social media has given everyone a direct line to people so crazy that if a person met them in real life 25 years ago, they'd be telling stories about them for weeks.
I feel like one of the most underrated explanations for what's happening right now in global politics is that almost everyone has lost their minds.
November 30, 2025 at 5:15 PM
It's that social media has given everyone a direct line to people so crazy that if a person met them in real life 25 years ago, they'd be telling stories about them for weeks.
The best thing that could happen to America is car hating activists in every city put in a position of power to declare war on drivers.
Mamdani hires car-hating activist Ben Furnas to transportation team: ‘war on drivers’
Mamdani hires car-hating activist Ben Furnas to transportation team: ‘war on drivers’
Car-hating Transportation Alternatives boss Ben Furnas has been appointed to Mamdani's transition team for transportation, climate and infrastructure – and his agenda is a nightmare for the city's drivers.
nypost.com
November 30, 2025 at 6:55 AM
The best thing that could happen to America is car hating activists in every city put in a position of power to declare war on drivers.
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Why are many U.S. cities building less? Why have they insisted on a "thicket" of regulations that make housing hard to build?
In a new #EconJMP with Beau Bressler (beaubressler.github.io), we study how much of the answer lies with a forgotten federal program that taught cities to restrict growth
In a new #EconJMP with Beau Bressler (beaubressler.github.io), we study how much of the answer lies with a forgotten federal program that taught cities to restrict growth
November 26, 2025 at 7:10 PM
Why are many U.S. cities building less? Why have they insisted on a "thicket" of regulations that make housing hard to build?
In a new #EconJMP with Beau Bressler (beaubressler.github.io), we study how much of the answer lies with a forgotten federal program that taught cities to restrict growth
In a new #EconJMP with Beau Bressler (beaubressler.github.io), we study how much of the answer lies with a forgotten federal program that taught cities to restrict growth
Goddamn, it must rule to be governed by a guy who gets it.
Soon small businesses won’t have to wait for Small Business Saturday to get attention from their Mayor.
Some changes that they can look forward to:
Some changes that they can look forward to:
November 29, 2025 at 11:38 PM
Goddamn, it must rule to be governed by a guy who gets it.
I'm really interested in seeing how Mamdani governs the NYPD's coordination with federal police. Without local law enforcement providing security, ICE and CBP can't operate.
Federal immigration enforcement officials called off a planned raid on Canal Street today shortly before it was slated to begin.
New Yorkers who heard about the raid showed up at the garage where the feds had gathered, and as federal agents tried to leave, the NYPD cleared the way for them.
New Yorkers who heard about the raid showed up at the garage where the feds had gathered, and as federal agents tried to leave, the NYPD cleared the way for them.
November 29, 2025 at 8:09 PM
I'm really interested in seeing how Mamdani governs the NYPD's coordination with federal police. Without local law enforcement providing security, ICE and CBP can't operate.
It is very, very presumptuous to think that citizens will voluntarily submit themselves to denaturalization and removal from this country just because Stephen Miller said so.
To paraphrase Observe and Report, you didn't bring enough pigs to hurt us.
To paraphrase Observe and Report, you didn't bring enough pigs to hurt us.
Creating a military conflict with Venezuela gives this administration a legal "hook" to invoke the Alien Enemies Act. In other words, the foreign war is being manufactured in order to facilitate court deference for its domestic mass deportation policy. It's a Stephen Miller Special.
November 29, 2025 at 6:48 PM
It is very, very presumptuous to think that citizens will voluntarily submit themselves to denaturalization and removal from this country just because Stephen Miller said so.
To paraphrase Observe and Report, you didn't bring enough pigs to hurt us.
To paraphrase Observe and Report, you didn't bring enough pigs to hurt us.
Are people in non US universities and schools seeing this as well? Is this something the world is dealing with or did something fundamental break in our country?
An issue we're seeing at all levels of university is that many students are simply refusing to do *anything*. They aren't reading the syllabus, aren't following assignment guidelines, aren't engaging with material, ignoring deadlines. And this might seem like old news, but it truly has ramped up.
November 29, 2025 at 5:57 AM
Are people in non US universities and schools seeing this as well? Is this something the world is dealing with or did something fundamental break in our country?
If we are being serious with ourselves, is there even a small part of the Republican Party today that is not Trumpism?
That is to say, are there any Republicans left who are at all meaningfully different from this?
That is to say, are there any Republicans left who are at all meaningfully different from this?
The heart and soul of Trumpism in one tweet
November 29, 2025 at 5:20 AM
If we are being serious with ourselves, is there even a small part of the Republican Party today that is not Trumpism?
That is to say, are there any Republicans left who are at all meaningfully different from this?
That is to say, are there any Republicans left who are at all meaningfully different from this?
Sometimes I forget that I'm on the west coast again and I just realized that Northwestern announced their capitulation at like 7pm central time on the Friday after Thanksgiving lol.
November 29, 2025 at 1:51 AM
Sometimes I forget that I'm on the west coast again and I just realized that Northwestern announced their capitulation at like 7pm central time on the Friday after Thanksgiving lol.
Northwestern University Chess Team (playing White, White to move): We resign.
November 29, 2025 at 1:01 AM
Northwestern University Chess Team (playing White, White to move): We resign.
Should be kind of obvious, but the folks leaking information about Hegseth's double-tap killings had to be pretty high-ranking to know such things. It means the military is already sick of him and looking to make him go away.
November 28, 2025 at 11:57 PM
Should be kind of obvious, but the folks leaking information about Hegseth's double-tap killings had to be pretty high-ranking to know such things. It means the military is already sick of him and looking to make him go away.
This America is right here for us if only we wish to build it.
From Frederick Douglass's 1867 "Composite Nation" speech, a defense of Chinese migration to the United States at a time when anti-Chinese sentiment was intensifying.
teachingamericanhistory.org/document/our...
teachingamericanhistory.org/document/our...
November 28, 2025 at 11:09 PM
This America is right here for us if only we wish to build it.
New housing lowers rents.
Interesting new working paper that studies chains of movers after the construction of a new apartment building in Honolulu.
Paper finds that the project resulted in the opening up other, lower cost, housing on the island, benefiting the housing market overall.
Paper finds that the project resulted in the opening up other, lower cost, housing on the island, benefiting the housing market overall.
uhero.hawaii.edu
November 28, 2025 at 11:00 PM
New housing lowers rents.
It's going to be hilarious to watch Stephen Miller spend the rest of his life writing stuff like this on the walls of his prison cell.
Stephen Miller is now arguing that assimilation is fundamentally impossible and that certain cultures are not compatible with Western civilization
November 28, 2025 at 10:39 PM
It's going to be hilarious to watch Stephen Miller spend the rest of his life writing stuff like this on the walls of his prison cell.