Keegan - Smartest Boy Urbanist™️
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Radical Centrist Geriatric Millennial Hipster. Urbanism:transit/housing, healthcare, econ & enviro. You'll hate half of my content. Opinions mine, not work's.
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Omgggggggggggg the reply from LA Metro.
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Maybe we do need a wealth tax.
NEWS:
@JeffBezos
is spending $42 million building a giant cuckoo clock in the Chihuahuan desert Sierra Diablo mountain range in Texas that's designed to last 10,000 years – This clock will tick once a year, chime every century, and its cuckoo will emerge every millennium.
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Yeah I mean all those people on the beach are in violation of the Marine Mammal Protection Act.
Ticket them.
Sea lions at La Jolla Cove in San Diego were caught on video charging towards beachgoers - again. Activists have been trying to get the
@CityofSanDiego
to shutdown a staircase to the beach where sea lions and their pups frequently congregate. 📹: Bay
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Many people on here: “I hate that Target and CVS keep the laundry detergent locked up now it’s anti-customer.”
Me looking out the bus window at 16th and Mission in SF: “so did that guy buy the laundry detergent from a wholesaler or…”
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Your senator is 89, regularly goes to Dairy Queen, eats junk food at the state fair, and harvests corn on the farm.
My senator is 89 and hasn't been seen in public in months.
We are not the same.
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Just because you’ve been parking illegally for years does not make it legal.
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Every. Single. Security. Report And survey from riders has called for more visible security and the removal of those who are breaking the code of conduct from trains.
Who are you speaking of here when you say “transit riders?”
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Great! Glad to see they’re out and doing their jobs.
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Wait, this is good actually.
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If you really want to watch the NIMBY left lose their mind, point out that the long time homeowners in gentrifying neighborhoods are able to sell and cash out, and then go do something awesome.
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If this train was priced lower it would already be sold out.
The real solution is increased capacity on the corridor. 🤷♂️
Welp, to travel 180 miles on Amtrak one way will cost me $237 to go home for the Thanksgiving. Congress, please stop forcing Amtrak to make a profit. Please.
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The bar is so fucking low.
Earlier this week, we joined LADOT and community members from Lincoln Heights to celebrate the installation of an All Way Stop at the intersection of E Ave 31 & Griffin Ave.
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It is incredible the Obama administration built streetcars all over the country that no one rides when we all just wanted more of this.
Some honest to god streetcar suburbs, with intact streetcars
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I need someone to explain to me, like I'm 6, how the governor is the one who grants "the State's consent" and not the legislature that passed the law?
The MTA’s CFO and General Counsel say that shit is getting taken out of the current capital plan this month due to the disappearance of congestion pricing: “evaluating what changes need to be made to the Capital Program in the lead-up to this month’s Board meeting”
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@Mantiuz
@AlexInAir
@AvGeekJames
Also a slippery slope is allowing governments to force overflying planes to land to remove political opponents.
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@Ian_Gay_briel
@dawginhim
@trotrains
It is France. In august. The French all GTFO of town. Americans then arrive and wonder why everything is closed. A tale as old as time.
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@ChrisCillizza
@rkylesmith
I wonder if there was a network that pumped his narrative at the expense of facts??? 🤔
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The only thing that can make a California Democrat spring into immediate action is a freeway closure.
15 bicyclists have died in the city in a month and they yawn.
Transit signal priority for the Blue Line to Long Beach has been dead for 2 years. Yawn.
Freeway? We'll fix it!
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There was no urgency from
@GavinNewsom
or
@SecretaryPete
to repair the Pacific Surfliner tracks.
Teams will work all night to assess damage to the 10 freeway due to last night’s fire.
I’ve spoken with both
@SecretaryPete
and Governor
@GavinNewsom
about ensuring that no obstacles lay in our way as we work with URGENCY to recover from this blaze.
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@harshahahaaha
Interior Mexico is very *underrated* by American tourists.
In 2019 I did a loop - Guadalajara > Zacatecas > San Miguel de Allende > Guanajuato - and it was an incredible trip.
Very few tourists except for SMdA (retiree crowd) and I was for sure the only one in Zacatecas.
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This 2 minute video full of straw-man “why we can’ts” from this LA City Council candidate is honestly depressing.
There’s no vision.
No view of change as a positive.
Just a litany of reasons why every thing in the build environment needs to stay exactly the same, forever.
A billionaire is trying to build a Gondola from Union Station to Dodgers Stadium. Because you know what Angelenos need? A heavy metal contraption flying just 40 feet above their homes 🚠 Don’t support the destruction of local wildlife and the disruption to local residents.
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House Hunters tonight. Couple in San Francisco. Budget, $1m.
Dude: "I just want a new build, I don't want a house someone has lived in before."
So they found a townhouse on Alameda Island
"This is great we have a 2 car garage!"
These people don't deserve rights.
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Oh cool check out that headway.
The more things change the more they stay the same.
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@michigeese
The entire western hemisphere fawned over her leadership for 15 years, only to find an emperor has no clothes situation as soon as she left office.
Perhaps we should have been more critical for all those years.
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When my left/progressive friends get mad at me for being too centrist (or too conservative) I just hit back with this exact argument.
The American left has had total control of our major cities and many states for 15 years. Wtf did you build while interest rates were zero?
The thing that makes me legitimately angry at cities controlled by Democrats is that we spent all that time when interest rates were practically zero and investors were looking to build everywhere (even Albany!) treating apartment buildings like they were urban highways.
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Hey
@StreetsblogLA
do we know the specifics of what they did to "make trains faster?"
I'm gonna be really mad if they tweaked the transit signal priority so it will work better after all these years of saying they can't.
Taking
@metrolosangeles
to work today to beat the traffic in downtown!
We’ve taken action to make trains faster and have added more busses to routes. Ridership is up 10% over the past two days — this is an opportunity for L.A. to lean into public transportation!
Join us!
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Imagine using transit in LA rather than driving on The 10.
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Tonight, an NYPD officer was murdered while enforcing "no parking in a bus lane."
The suspect has a RAP sheet of violent crime a mile long, and was a convicted felon who could not legally posses a gun.
What in the world are we doing here?
Any public defender will tell you that looking at the RAP sheet of someone with that many arrests means one thing - they have dozens of arrests for misdemeanors and violations born of poverty, namely jumping the turnstile, trespassing, petty theft…
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Call me a carcereal urbanist or whatever but perhaps we should consider aggressively making it clear it is not acceptable to walk into the subway with a machete.
Hollywood/Western: Guy with a machete attempting to stab another guy on the Metro
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Absent mayor who sat on the board as the contractor filed "project is 98.2% complete" updates for four years turns up to pat himself on the back for delivering a line
*Years late
*Over budget
*Incomplete
LA politics and government is so broken.
What a fantastic day for Los Angeles we celebrate the grand opening of the long-awaited
@MetroLosAngeles
K Line.
From Crenshaw to Inglewood to LAX, this is one of the most significant projects in our city’s history and will connect Angelenos to endless opportunities.
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You cannot, in fact, meet your numbers without touching single family zones.
Come on, you know better than this.
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These are not in fact the same fight.
There's absolutely no room in the urbanist movement for conservatives.
The fight for equitable, climate conscious cities, worker's rights, reproductive rights, racial justice, wealth equality, and LGBTQ rights are all the same fight.
It's the fight for our future.
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Jesus Christ just permit more housing.
Rising eviction filings are a huge issue in LA, and filings have now hit pre-pandemic levels again.
But after years of work, we’re on the verge of passing a new policy that has been effective at preventing evictions in other cities — and could be transformative here. 🧵
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The Tap Out experiment is wildly popular amongst surveyed riders.
Blocking emergency exits isn’t it
@metrolosangeles
. Risking our safety for your tap out experiment is deeply insulting.
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Sometimes I think
@wmataGM
is the only transit leader who understands the importance of running more buses and trains.
@headwaysmatter
Hi Jeff. I’ll ask team to review that specific case & see how we can potentially address. I want to be honest though that we are seeing increased crowding complaints and we running all the service we have funding for and deficit grows next year. We need funding to run more 🚌🚇.
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Literally every grocery store chain does this.
Begging leftists writing about business to understand how supplier management works.
The third tactic is the most lethal of all. Dollar General and Family Dollar / Dollar Tree use their market power to strongarm suppliers into giving them lower prices than the suppliers charge independent grocery stores.7/
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For those who think Amfleet is old, I give you VIA rail.
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Thoughts:
1) yes, this is an emergency level rain storm.
2) after 15+ years of drought, LA has returned to having wet winters. I’ve been here for 7yrs, and this is at least the 5th with a major rain storm.
3) LA River is meant to look like this when it rains.
In the last 24 hours, Downtown LA has seen 6.2 inches of rain — more than we’ve had in some entire years recently. And the rain is expected to continue for at least 24 hours more.
This is a state of emergency — we all need to be extremely vigilant in navigating the city today.
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Have you considered permitting market rate housing?
Today’s Supreme Court ruling must not be used as an excuse for cities across the country to attempt to arrest their way out of this problem or hide the homelessness crisis in neighboring cities or in jail.
Neither will work or save lives.
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I'm so tired of reading about Borealis' "profit" which seems implausible, so I dug out the Amtrak May performance report.
Op Rev: $600k
Op Exp: $500k
Diff: $100k ✨profit✨
However, Gross Ticket Revenue is only $300k.
Where's the other $300k coming from?
Yes, within 1 month, service has been so successful, it made a profit within the first 11 days (That doesn't mean It should pay for itself, the government should continue to fund improvements) Proving all the conservatives wrong about this service, especially Think tanks
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This “I dare you to try and do better” from an actual planning bureaucrat from LA County is gross and unhelpful.
You should be embarrassed that this is the best out regional can produce.
@LADOTofficial
@cd1losangeles
But here we are, the City is trying to bring more people at least some kind of interim amenity and everyone acts like an expert. The City is hiring, I dare you Twitter advocates to apply and do better.
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Condition of the LA Metro subway is disgraceful.
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@rhcm123
Even the poor students leave a stupid amount of decent stuff behind. When you have a day to move out and the executive decision making part of your brain still isn't fully formed...
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Really incredible.
The Chief Innovation Officer at LA Metro thinks we don't have enough community engagement for bus lanes.
In LA.
Where our projects are running years late.
Because of community engagement.
Our institutions need to be totally cleaned out.
In podcast on accelerating infrastructure for Olympics, LA Metro Chief Innovation Officer Seleta Reynolds says building bus/bike lanes without extensive community engagement and consent would make them no better than planners that bulldozed homes for freeways, would be arrogant.
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For three summers Yosemite had a reservation system that worked and made the park pleasant and enjoyable.
NPS scrapped it - I believe they had heavy congressional pressure to do so.
And now this …
Yosemite entrance gates backed up for miles with three hour or more waits. “Valley parking is full so they will be diverting incoming traffic across El cap cross over to be in a holding pattern going in circles.”
And this continues all summer. This impacts the resource and the
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@tobyhardtospell
If you work as a planner you can have a whole career producing documents that look like this, none of which are ever implemented.
Soul sucking.
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@Ian_Gay_briel
@besttrousers
@gbenga_ajilore
@JosephPolitano
This. Requiring passports was a sea change for the border states. A handful have “enhanced drivers licenses” which will permit border crossings, as carrying a passport on the regular was considered burdensome.
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AOC on a deregulatory arc is the series we all needed.
US sunscreens are far behind the rest of the world and our regulations aren’t necessarily making our sunscreens better or safer — but it doesn’t have to be this way!
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@sam_d_1995
The endless one and two story commercial/retail is just mind boggling.
Why isn't this all 5 over 1s as far as you can see?
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This is so staged come on.
I recently took over as
@metrolosangeles
Board chair and I’m making it a point to ride more often. I want to understand the challenges that riders face every day firsthand.
This morning I’m starting my day riding the J Line from San Pedro to downtown LA.
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There is no genre of reporting I dislike more than "look at this ancient computer system and how out of date everything is."
Industrial/business software /= consumer software.
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This is nonsense. As Texas demonstrates, there is no shortage of loans, supplies or workers.
It is the regulatory environment in California preventing housing production.
The production case for rent control:
There's a shortage of loans, supplies, & workers.
When new rich residents create demand for housing, steer those dollars towards funding new homes, rather than non-essential renovations of old ones.
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It is almost impossible to engage with arguments like this b/c:
1) They are divorced from empirical evidence
2) For someone trained in econ and finance like myself, they are divorced from market fundamentals
This is NIMBYism as a religion.
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@nathanallebach
@crimsonace
Most expensive real estate in America is land use from the early 1900s, whether that’s apartments or single family Sears houses.
Built on a grid, with sidewalks.
People select suburban SFHs in cul de sacs because that is what is built, not because it is what is desired.
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They’re stealing detergent and toothpaste because they are non perishable and can be sold on eBay, Amazon, or a street corner near you.
Be serious.
Idk who needs to hear this but when someone is stealing detergent and toothpaste, it's probably a sign that our people can't afford life's basic necessities and we should focus on ending poverty instead of just punishing people for trying to survive.
Just a thought.
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LA City Planning Commission President is excited to read the biography of the leader of the degrowth and downzoning movement in Los Angeles.
I’m sure it’s an interesting read but recognize Zev was responsible for the most catastrophic policies of my lifetime.
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It looks like this every single time it rains in the winter.
It's not nuts. This is normal.
For those of you who have never lived in L.A., this image is genuinely nuts.
The L.A. "River" is barely even a river most of the time. Usually it's either a tiny trickle of water at the bottom of a concrete bed, or just completely dry.
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I was told that if we just elected more progressives we’d get nicer stuff.
Instead we get this.
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Best airport in California.
Burbank airport feels like some rural airport in Peru. Cuzco maybe.
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Who wants to go in with me on a 40-story condo project in South Pasadena?
Big builders-remedy news out of Santa Monica:
@California_HCD
weighs in on proposed project, says that developer's filing of "preliminary application" while city is out of compliance with housing element law "vests" the project's eligibility for builder's remedy. 1/8
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@joeyhiles1
@ReasonablySmart
I’ve spent most of the last three days in Ann Arbor. The state of Michigan basically has zero cities with functional transit systems. And yet, when kids go to UMich, they’re piling onto buses, and walking all over AA. For most of them, they’ll never live like this again.
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Trying a new way from Pasadena to LAX and the one minute I had to wait up on this in the middle of the freeway platform was too long. Deafeningly loud.
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14 operator assaults a month, 168 annually, an insane number.
Unacceptable, full stop.
Drivers have safety barriers and don’t enforce the fare, which was supposed to reduce conflict leading to assault.
Yet assaults are sky high.
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CAHSR can’t stop calling itself a jobs program, rather than a high speed rail program.
Creating jobs is how this historic project gets done.
#DYK
: this week, we reached a milestone – creating more than 13,000 construction jobs on the United State’s first 220 mph
#HSR
system.
10,000 of these jobs have come just in the last 5 years!
#BuildHSR
#FactFriday
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The train is doing great, its a much needed service, and I want to see more of it.
But the headlines that "the train is full every day" and "it makes a profit" are misleading and a simple read of Amtrak's own monthly report will show that.
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It is very bad that we have gone from 7 major bus manufacturers (NFI, Gillig, Nova, Orion, NABI, Neoplan, Flxible) that can meet Buy America to 3 (NFI, Gillig, El Dorado) in 25 yrs.
Only NFI produces an artic.
(BYD and Proterra are around too but as low quality niche players.)
Nova Bus (Volvo) is closing its US manufacturing facility in Plattsburgh by 2025. It’ll still have multiple facilities in Quebec but I assume this’ll have “Buy America” consequences for US transit agencies looking to buy new buses.
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Two theatre kids who made it big on Broadway before becoming legendary TV detectives having the time of their lives recording Beauty and the Beast.
Angela Landsbury and Jerry Orbach had amazing careers.
This is magical. 🪄
Angela Lansbury and Jerry Orbach recording Beauty and the Beast.
🎥
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@sam_d_1995
@MorePerfectUS
It is incredible how my mother, working in downtown Seattle in the 80s had a choice of an employer subsidized bus pass or paying for parking herself.
My brain cannot comprehend how this is not the standard.
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I would like Gov Newsom to consider building more housing.
BREAKING:
@GavinNewsom
says he's going to China in a few weeks to address climate collaboration.
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Hey
@metrolosangeles
if the ambassadors are warning passengers to stay away from an unstable person at a station … they need to be calling for more resources.
Not acceptable to let the guy just board the train.
Hearing from other passengers that the
@metrolosangeles
ambassadors were warning people to stay away from him at 7th St Station
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@AGHamilton29
The last paragraph of
@Peggynoonannyc
column is the best thing I’ve read all week.
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Not wearing a mask is now “Social murder of disabled people”???
She has lost her damn mind.
Taylor Lorenz is skipping Christmas for the 4th time because Covid
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These tech execs are worth billions but don’t understand we might want different social media for different audiences.
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Why
@MayorOfLA
and
@cd1losangeles
do 8 departments have to sign off on a bus shelter placement?
Maybe you could consider fixing that?
Typical bus shelters often cost $50k or more and require coordination among 8 departments. La Sombrita (in its most expensive, prototype form) costs approximately 15% of the price of a typical bus shelter and can be installed in 30 minutes or less.
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Not even 24hrs after that batshit anti-gondola screed video by an LA City Council candidate, the LA Times let this op-ed through their editorial process.
There is no city in America opposed to change, any change at all, than LA.
Incredible op ed warning Angelenos of the irreparable harm that will be done to Elysian Park if anything is allowed to be built on the existing SIXTEEN THOUSAND PARKING SPACES around Dodger Stadium.
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@JakeAnbinder
@nilocobau
Only gentrified rice comes in a resealable bag.
Meanwhile, the greatest disappointment of my life regarding consumer packaging is Canadians giving up on bags of milk.
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If people in NYC want churches that are vital to the fabric of the city, they should consider attending every Sunday morning.
The YIMBY responses to Ruffalo's tweet are unhinged. Truth is NYC is rapidly losing historically important community spaces like this church, which have been vital to the fabric of the City (or any city for that matter).
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Can you imagine being so disturbed you are heckling a Holocaust survivor?
WATCH: Susanne DeWitt, an 89 year-old Holocaust survivor who was arrested and sent to Dachau Concentration Camp at age 4, was repeatedly heckled by demonstrators as she spoke in favor of the City of Berkeley's Holocaust Remembrance Day proclamation.
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Zev’s policies have done more to lock people into poverty than any other politician in California in 50 years.
Next graf; Zev says he disagrees with academic consensus that there is a housing shortage in LA.
Zev: "we have an affordable housing shortage. There is a lot of housing being built throughout the region, but a very small percentage of it is affordable [deed-restricted]."
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The community note omg.
Infamous for its starvation wages, Walmart just posted staggering first-quarter profits. The surge is a result of its strategic shift toward catering to affluent shoppers while its full-time workers continue to rely on Medicaid and food stamps.
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This is 100% correct and if you avoid the green circle you’ll find that LA is the most normie major city on the West Coast.
When people hate on LA, most of the time they really haven’t seen much of LA
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Fresh snow in the San Gabriel’s from Highland Park today.
It would be really cool if we built *any* housing near this rail station.
Too bad
@MayorOfLA
is busy nominating people opposed to housing production to the LA Planning Commission.
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@hahnn12
@TheOmniZaddy
***Because they were threaded to attach directly to a Sawyer Squeeze water filter.
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@JakeAnbinder
I regularly tell my friends who are still coping and seething about the Trump tax cut to calculate what their tax would have been and send a check in for that amount.
Is this the MA version of that?
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@codehawkfalcon
@DeanTrantalis
Isn't south florida built on a swamp? that will be fun to tunnel through.
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