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trump wants to kill you. whether it’s an ICE agent shooting you, a cancer drug trial being defunded, increased air pollution, or defunding safe streets funding, the one universal thread in all of their policies is that they think the very idea of making the world a better place is a liberal hoax
Moderna CEO says Trump’s policies have so curtailed vaccine market they won’t be investing in new research. So that’s awesome. Good luck when the next pandemic hits. www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8fWErMy/
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Moderna CEO Stéphane Bancel said the company doesn’t plan to invest in new late-stage vaccine trials because of growing opposition to immunizations from US officials. #health #business #medicine #US #government
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January 27, 2026 at 5:24 AM
trump wants to kill you. whether it’s an ICE agent shooting you, a cancer drug trial being defunded, increased air pollution, or defunding safe streets funding, the one universal thread in all of their policies is that they think the very idea of making the world a better place is a liberal hoax
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New from me for Inside Philanthropy: California foundations need to decide whether they genuinely want to improve housing affordability or would rather keep funding NIMBY obstructionism in Sacramento. www.insidephilanthropy.com/home/philant...
Philanthropy Needs to Pick a Side on the Housing Construction Debate
Despite California’s severe housing shortage, foundations are still funding on the wrong side of the housing fight there, guest author Ned Resnikoff writes.
www.insidephilanthropy.com
November 20, 2025 at 8:45 PM
New from me for Inside Philanthropy: California foundations need to decide whether they genuinely want to improve housing affordability or would rather keep funding NIMBY obstructionism in Sacramento. www.insidephilanthropy.com/home/philant...
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Conversely, if your city is not affordable, it is not well planned.
Well planned cities should have enough housing and transportation for their populations to live affordably. Housing shortages and expensive transportation are *city planning* issues.
Well planned cities should have enough housing and transportation for their populations to live affordably. Housing shortages and expensive transportation are *city planning* issues.
IDK who needs to hear this but a well planned city is an affordable city.
October 21, 2025 at 10:23 PM
Conversely, if your city is not affordable, it is not well planned.
Well planned cities should have enough housing and transportation for their populations to live affordably. Housing shortages and expensive transportation are *city planning* issues.
Well planned cities should have enough housing and transportation for their populations to live affordably. Housing shortages and expensive transportation are *city planning* issues.
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need some kei truck abundance imo
September 23, 2025 at 6:23 PM
need some kei truck abundance imo
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I was walking down a street in New York and I thought how lovely it was, with the trees and the light. Tried to take a photo and this came out. It’s incredible how blind we become to the ugliness of cars. They really do mess things up. Yet somehow we manage to filter them out.
September 22, 2025 at 4:10 PM
I was walking down a street in New York and I thought how lovely it was, with the trees and the light. Tried to take a photo and this came out. It’s incredible how blind we become to the ugliness of cars. They really do mess things up. Yet somehow we manage to filter them out.
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Excellent op-ed in support of SB 79 from a Santa Cruz 8th grader!
I’m a Santa Cruz eighth grader: Let’s tell Gail Pellerin to vote yes on SB 79 so California kids have a chance
Mission Hill Middle School student Gavin Roth argues that California’s housing crisis threatens his generation’s future and calls on Assemblymember Gail Pellerin to vote yes on SB 79, to legalize mid-...
lookout.co
September 11, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Excellent op-ed in support of SB 79 from a Santa Cruz 8th grader!
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Best thing California could do to fight fascism is build more housing.
September 9, 2025 at 7:18 PM
Best thing California could do to fight fascism is build more housing.
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A bill proposed Monday night, just days before the end of the legislative session, would punch a very small hole in a landmark housing law passed earlier this year that appears to apply to one (1) proposed apartment building in the incoming Senate leader's district.
calmatters.org/politics/202...
calmatters.org/politics/202...
This last-minute deal could stymie a new Santa Barbara apartment building
The 270-unit is proposed behind the city’s historic Mission, and in the district of incoming Senate president Monique Limón.
calmatters.org
September 9, 2025 at 9:34 PM
A bill proposed Monday night, just days before the end of the legislative session, would punch a very small hole in a landmark housing law passed earlier this year that appears to apply to one (1) proposed apartment building in the incoming Senate leader's district.
calmatters.org/politics/202...
calmatters.org/politics/202...
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The City of Los Angeles could largely solve its $1 billion budget shortfall by allowing more homes to be built near its transit stations, according to a new report out today from Streets For All.
Read the report here: data.streetsforall.org/blog/sb79_zo...
Read the report here: data.streetsforall.org/blog/sb79_zo...
Land Use Reform Could Solve the Los Angeles Budget Crisis
Our high-level analysis shows how restrictive, exclusionary zoning has accentuated the City’s financial crisis, and how targeting upzoning could help balance budgets. Senate Bill 79 would create capac...
data.streetsforall.org
May 15, 2025 at 3:45 PM
The City of Los Angeles could largely solve its $1 billion budget shortfall by allowing more homes to be built near its transit stations, according to a new report out today from Streets For All.
Read the report here: data.streetsforall.org/blog/sb79_zo...
Read the report here: data.streetsforall.org/blog/sb79_zo...
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One of the great ironies of American urban politics is that the mechanisms to stop the dismantling of cities were put in place at precisely the right moment to freeze everything bad about the previous decades in perpetuity.
Here is what downtown Sacramento looked like in 1949 before midcentury planners and traffic engineers demolished and displaced a lively and urban Chinese neighborhood.
May 9, 2025 at 4:54 PM
One of the great ironies of American urban politics is that the mechanisms to stop the dismantling of cities were put in place at precisely the right moment to freeze everything bad about the previous decades in perpetuity.
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Do you want to make it easier to build more homes near transit stops? Then we need your help right now! SB 79 is up in the Senate Housing Committee tomorrow. But that means we need you to call your State Senator, if they're on this committee, *today* and urge them to votes YES on SB 79. Click here:
Call the State Senate to pass SB 79!
Please call your State Senator and urge them to vote YES on SB 79!
cayimby.org
April 21, 2025 at 5:44 PM
Do you want to make it easier to build more homes near transit stops? Then we need your help right now! SB 79 is up in the Senate Housing Committee tomorrow. But that means we need you to call your State Senator, if they're on this committee, *today* and urge them to votes YES on SB 79. Click here:
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In the recurring legislative fight between YIMBY legislators and defenders of California’s signature environmental law, one bill could be a final legislative showdown. cal.news/41JkoeW
📝 Ben Christopher
📝 Ben Christopher
Will this bill be the end of California’s housing vs environment wars?
The final showdown in that long-standing battle may have just arrived.
cal.news
March 27, 2025 at 1:13 AM
In the recurring legislative fight between YIMBY legislators and defenders of California’s signature environmental law, one bill could be a final legislative showdown. cal.news/41JkoeW
📝 Ben Christopher
📝 Ben Christopher
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lot of cities have such strict rules that the only way to build *anything* is to go to city council for a variance. that empowers both NIMBY busybodies and well-connected developers who know how to grease the right palms. that's regulation from private interested parties
March 18, 2025 at 2:01 PM
lot of cities have such strict rules that the only way to build *anything* is to go to city council for a variance. that empowers both NIMBY busybodies and well-connected developers who know how to grease the right palms. that's regulation from private interested parties
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do any americans go overseas, ride a bullet train, and think: nah, we don't need this?
January 25, 2025 at 12:16 AM
do any americans go overseas, ride a bullet train, and think: nah, we don't need this?