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Clayton Becker

@cnbecker14.bsky.social

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PhD student at UCLA studying housing, local politics, public opinion, and how race runs through it all. @divasunglasses on TikTok. Yes, yes, I am another dude with a podcast: "Reject Modernity, Embrace Tradition"

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Clayton Becker @cnbecker14.bsky.social · 14h

I'd have loved to, but I promised I'd spend the night in with my wife since I had a lot of evening events this week.

Next time we pass a transformative housing bill in there! 😉

Clayton Becker @cnbecker14.bsky.social · 15h

I got the news just before meeting with my undergrad RA's this morning and it took nearly all my willpower not to ramble on about it

Clayton Becker @cnbecker14.bsky.social · 15h

Opened up a 2021 right bank Bordeaux for the occasion

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Clayton Becker @cnbecker14.bsky.social · 23h

Absolutely huge fucking news.

I will be drinking tonight...and not just NIMBY tears

Jordan Grimes @cafedujord.bsky.social · 23h

I've spent the last 8 months of my life working to pass #SB79. It will be transformative for housing in California, and is one of the best things I'll probably ever get to do.

As of this morning, it's officially law; now it's time to drink!

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Clayton Becker @cnbecker14.bsky.social · 6d

Conservatives have feelings about Bad Bunny headlining the Super Bowl

Clayton Becker @cnbecker14.bsky.social · 6d

This isn't like, ambiguously antisemitism, he's literally just doing "Jews control the media."

There's no place for this shit.

Clayton Becker @cnbecker14.bsky.social · 6d

Look I'm not their biggest fan or anything, but including that the head of the ADL is Jewish in this graphic is *extremely* stupid.

Not to mention including Susan Wojcicki, who *died of cancer* last year.

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Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 7d

If @gavinnewsom.bsky.social vetoes SB 79, it will be one of the most consequential acts of his governorship. Basically a disaster for the state, the climate, American democracy, and of course his own political ambitions. publiccomment.blog/p/newsom-s-f...

Newsom's Fateful Choice

Why the governor needs to sign SB 79

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Clayton Becker @cnbecker14.bsky.social · 7d

There were so many things to do today.

Did I do all of them? No.

Am I a little salty about it? Yes.

Will I be learning my lesson? Probably not.

Clayton Becker @cnbecker14.bsky.social · 7d

I asked my mom about this one and she said it was a lot of talking to people on the phone

Clayton Becker @cnbecker14.bsky.social · 7d

Democrats who skipped 2024 having massive net positives for all of Newsom, Whitmer, AOC, and Bernie feels like a huge narrative violation lmao

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Clayton Becker @cnbecker14.bsky.social · 14d

Kinda need someone to ask the Republican majority on the supreme court how they sleep at night

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Clayton Becker @cnbecker14.bsky.social · 14d

The White House's official response to Democrats trying to save people's healthcare is "go fuck yourself"

So that's fun

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Clayton Becker @cnbecker14.bsky.social · 16d

✍️ add five miles to my weekly distance goal ✍️

Clayton Becker @cnbecker14.bsky.social · 16d

The real power move is reading about World War I for fun.

Somehow an entirely different valence than reading about World War II

Ryan Nanni @celebrityhottub.bsky.social · 16d

sometimes I think I’m the only person who’s never read a book about World War II for fun

Clayton Becker @cnbecker14.bsky.social · 16d

"Sorry sir but we don't have the parts in inventory to fix your car. Luckily the public transportation is really goo...hmm? What's that?...oh the public transportation is falling apart? Mmm..☹️"

Clayton Becker @cnbecker14.bsky.social · 16d

Management just texted that the elevator in my building will be out for 2-3 months because one of the major parts needs to be replaced.

I don't exactly know how but I just know this is the fault of the tariffs

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Clayton Becker @cnbecker14.bsky.social · 23d

In many of their minds, being accused of racism is a worse slight than racism itself

Clayton Becker @cnbecker14.bsky.social · 23d

The evidence of this in political science is very strong in my opinion. Obama had the gall, as a Black man, to highlight his Blackness just one time, and a certain brand of conservative has never forgiven the transgression.

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 24d

they are furious to the point of rage over the fact that obama reminded them he is black and in doing so implicated them in racial prejudice

Schrödinger's Sneetch Belly @rtodkelly.bsky.social · 24d

I'm sorry, I get that we all have our own s**t but it's incredibly weird that anyone ever thought this quote was meant to stoke the embers of violence, found it to be a radicalizing moment in their life, or is still angry about it a decade later.

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Clayton Becker @cnbecker14.bsky.social · Sep 9

In their defense, the security line in terminal 6 is organized in just about the worst layout possible in that one security lane is actively blocking another open lane

Clayton Becker @cnbecker14.bsky.social · Sep 9

I am back at LAX and I am once again convinced that many of these people have never been in an airport before

Clayton Becker @cnbecker14.bsky.social · Jun 18

Some truly abysmal passengering at LAX this afternoon

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Clayton Becker @cnbecker14.bsky.social · Sep 2

The number of drivers in LA who seem to think that the leading pedestrian interval is an invitation to shoot out and turn right in front of me before I step off the curb is kind of ridiculous

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Clayton Becker @cnbecker14.bsky.social · Sep 1

An important thing to recognize in order to understand the American Voter™️ is that many people consider The Cheesecake Factory to be fine dining

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Clayton Becker @cnbecker14.bsky.social · Aug 31

This is my next option, but frankly I don't know how likely they are to give me this info as I am not a journalist you know?

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Clayton Becker @cnbecker14.bsky.social · Aug 31

I've been trying to figure this out for like an hour to get more details on exactly how many homes (and what types of homes) aren't being built because of her meddling here. But I've thus far had no luck

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