joffrey 🐍
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The problem with Prop 13 vis-a-vis the state budget isn't just that it cratered property tax revenue, either. It's that a budget so heavily dependent on taxing income and financial asset wealth is inherently volatile. We have a system designed to make long term fiscal planning extremely difficult.
February 2, 2026 at 5:48 PM
The problem with Prop 13 vis-a-vis the state budget isn't just that it cratered property tax revenue, either. It's that a budget so heavily dependent on taxing income and financial asset wealth is inherently volatile. We have a system designed to make long term fiscal planning extremely difficult.
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Newly Unsealed Batch Of Epstein Estate Photos Contains Rare Holographic Dershowitz
January 31, 2026 at 1:00 AM
Newly Unsealed Batch Of Epstein Estate Photos Contains Rare Holographic Dershowitz
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Remember, these people wear masks and are often wearing generic camo with some velcroed on labelling you could probably get from Amazon.
They pop out of rental car and duplicate license plates.
We do not really know who they are.
They pop out of rental car and duplicate license plates.
We do not really know who they are.
January 27, 2026 at 5:28 AM
Remember, these people wear masks and are often wearing generic camo with some velcroed on labelling you could probably get from Amazon.
They pop out of rental car and duplicate license plates.
We do not really know who they are.
They pop out of rental car and duplicate license plates.
We do not really know who they are.
Ironically if the neighborhood had let the convenience store (and maybe a few apartments) get built the data center would have likely ended up somewhere else...
January 27, 2026 at 11:07 AM
Ironically if the neighborhood had let the convenience store (and maybe a few apartments) get built the data center would have likely ended up somewhere else...
Thankfully there's absolutely zero overlap in the high IQ / ICE agents Venn diagram
Whistles are now WMDs, according to the "high IQ" crowd.
January 26, 2026 at 7:55 AM
Thankfully there's absolutely zero overlap in the high IQ / ICE agents Venn diagram
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Kash Patel's behavior after the Kirk assassination was exactly what it looked like at the time. (From www.nytimes.com/interactive/...)
January 23, 2026 at 1:54 PM
Kash Patel's behavior after the Kirk assassination was exactly what it looked like at the time. (From www.nytimes.com/interactive/...)
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ICE shot and killed a woman on camera today. We all saw the video.
The Trump administration is lying.
The Trump administration is lying.
January 7, 2026 at 7:47 PM
ICE shot and killed a woman on camera today. We all saw the video.
The Trump administration is lying.
The Trump administration is lying.
Post a perfect album from the 90s that isn't Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Soundgarden or Alice In Chains.
December 28, 2025 at 12:30 PM
Post a perfect album from the 90s that isn't Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Soundgarden or Alice In Chains.
Imagine having to explain this post to your 2016 self
December 25, 2025 at 2:43 AM
Imagine having to explain this post to your 2016 self
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Happy Thanksgiving
November 27, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Happy Thanksgiving
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Critical part of the President's new $100,000 charge for H1-B visas: The Administration can also offer a $100,000 discount to any person, company, or industry that it wants. Replacing rules with arbitrary discretion.
Want visas? You know who to call and who to flatter.
Want visas? You know who to call and who to flatter.
September 20, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Critical part of the President's new $100,000 charge for H1-B visas: The Administration can also offer a $100,000 discount to any person, company, or industry that it wants. Replacing rules with arbitrary discretion.
Want visas? You know who to call and who to flatter.
Want visas? You know who to call and who to flatter.
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I’m sorry but I think folks can often be too harsh with Sarah. 95 Ds voted YES bc of leadership, why single her out so often?
She got elected statewide in Delaware. Her path is challenging and this time is terrifying. I think the disagreements w/ her can be less personal. I care about her safety.
She got elected statewide in Delaware. Her path is challenging and this time is terrifying. I think the disagreements w/ her can be less personal. I care about her safety.
September 20, 2025 at 12:20 AM
I’m sorry but I think folks can often be too harsh with Sarah. 95 Ds voted YES bc of leadership, why single her out so often?
She got elected statewide in Delaware. Her path is challenging and this time is terrifying. I think the disagreements w/ her can be less personal. I care about her safety.
She got elected statewide in Delaware. Her path is challenging and this time is terrifying. I think the disagreements w/ her can be less personal. I care about her safety.
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look, it is comforting to think that your political opponents are, at the end of the day, just people like you who really want us all to live together as Americans.
it's just very obviously not *true* in MAGA's case, as you can tell through, well, what they say and do.
it's just very obviously not *true* in MAGA's case, as you can tell through, well, what they say and do.
September 17, 2025 at 8:18 PM
look, it is comforting to think that your political opponents are, at the end of the day, just people like you who really want us all to live together as Americans.
it's just very obviously not *true* in MAGA's case, as you can tell through, well, what they say and do.
it's just very obviously not *true* in MAGA's case, as you can tell through, well, what they say and do.
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/3 We can also call out who has encouraged and normalized political violence and made it government policy. We can note the irony of it in many cases. But celebrating it — yelling “hooray” — is like celebrating going to war. People will die and it won’t be fun.
September 10, 2025 at 7:13 PM
/3 We can also call out who has encouraged and normalized political violence and made it government policy. We can note the irony of it in many cases. But celebrating it — yelling “hooray” — is like celebrating going to war. People will die and it won’t be fun.
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On the bright side, he didn’t have far to fall.
September 4, 2025 at 6:40 AM
On the bright side, he didn’t have far to fall.
Slightly diminish a band: The Cracking Gourds
Slightly diminishes a band: Postwar British Sea Power
Slightly diminish a band: the Novemberists
August 13, 2025 at 8:08 AM
Slightly diminish a band: The Cracking Gourds
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I’d go one further and say the gradual moral collapse of our society and our politics is a direct product of the growing social norm where you cannot impute bad faith or immoral motive on people and institutions who clearly exhibit both.
i'm often accused of being uncivil for my willingness to go at people's character but it is not my fault i live in an age where some of our most prominent commentators clearly believe in nothing
July 24, 2025 at 4:10 PM
I’d go one further and say the gradual moral collapse of our society and our politics is a direct product of the growing social norm where you cannot impute bad faith or immoral motive on people and institutions who clearly exhibit both.
Americans should find the whole concept of "summer recess" for Congress insulting to begin with.
It only gets worse when one party cravenly weaponizes it to protect an individual they're supposed to be holding accountable.
It only gets worse when one party cravenly weaponizes it to protect an individual they're supposed to be holding accountable.
July 22, 2025 at 8:15 PM
Americans should find the whole concept of "summer recess" for Congress insulting to begin with.
It only gets worse when one party cravenly weaponizes it to protect an individual they're supposed to be holding accountable.
It only gets worse when one party cravenly weaponizes it to protect an individual they're supposed to be holding accountable.
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I used to think the point of going to shows was to get up front so I could see the band, now I know that the point is to stand near the soundboard so you can hear the band.
July 21, 2025 at 2:02 AM
I used to think the point of going to shows was to get up front so I could see the band, now I know that the point is to stand near the soundboard so you can hear the band.
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Housing policy is climate policy. If California was serious about mitigating climate change, we would be building tons of new energy-efficient apartments and condos in temperate coastal areas instead of auto-dependent single family sprawl in the desert.
The high in the East Bay today is 70°. The fact that we don't have Manhattan-level density is a climate resilience planning failure.
June 23, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Housing policy is climate policy. If California was serious about mitigating climate change, we would be building tons of new energy-efficient apartments and condos in temperate coastal areas instead of auto-dependent single family sprawl in the desert.
"Actually this is me stone cold sober" isn't the own he thinks it is
Very normal stuff from Elon, posting his drug test results
June 17, 2025 at 9:05 PM
"Actually this is me stone cold sober" isn't the own he thinks it is
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LLMs are the natural endpoint of this. Friction between reality and narrative is reduced to zero. Want to hear why something is true? They'll happily tell you, often convincingly. Want to believe your darkest stereotypes? It'll literally draw you a picture that confirms them all.
May 23, 2025 at 4:53 PM
LLMs are the natural endpoint of this. Friction between reality and narrative is reduced to zero. Want to hear why something is true? They'll happily tell you, often convincingly. Want to believe your darkest stereotypes? It'll literally draw you a picture that confirms them all.
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“Inclusionary zoning” is one of those policies that sounds great at first but then when you look at the actual impact it ends up just being a massive tax on new apartments that exempts single family homes, accomplishing the exact opposite of the intended effect
May 18, 2025 at 7:59 PM
“Inclusionary zoning” is one of those policies that sounds great at first but then when you look at the actual impact it ends up just being a massive tax on new apartments that exempts single family homes, accomplishing the exact opposite of the intended effect
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New from me in @thenation.com: A YIMBY theory of power and a rejoinder to critics who argue that YIMBYs are blind to class/corporate power www.thenation.com/article/soci...
A YIMBY Theory of Power
Pro-housing advocates offer an analysis of class relations that is more sophisticated and has more explanatory power than the one held by many critics of the “abundance agenda.”
www.thenation.com
April 28, 2025 at 10:20 AM
New from me in @thenation.com: A YIMBY theory of power and a rejoinder to critics who argue that YIMBYs are blind to class/corporate power www.thenation.com/article/soci...