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Nick Burns @nkburns3.bsky.social · Oct 11

"Shared experience is the foundation of a successful polity, and it is not a stretch to think that simply educating children in integrated schools would begin to close the divides that have paralyzed our politics."

Opinion | The Coronavirus and The Cities We Need - The New York Times (nytimes.com)

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Nick Burns @nkburns3.bsky.social · 2h

SB 79 solves this.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13h

Ciattarelli: "We've got a severe overdevelopment crisis in our suburban communities because of the Democrats' idea of social engineering."

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Joe Cohen @cohenhouse.bsky.social · 8h

SB 79 Party tonight, 8:30pm, Westwood Rancho Park station

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RSVP to SB 79 Signing Celebration | Partiful

SB79 celebration at the Westwood/Rancho Park station at 8:30pm tonight!!! Hosted by Westside for Everyone and Los Angeles New Liberals North cul-de-sac by the bikeshare and greenway entrance Afterpa...

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Nick Burns @nkburns3.bsky.social · 3h

Flip side is builders remedy applies everywhere?

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M. Nolan Gray 🥑 @mnolangray.bsky.social · 9h

Ladies and gentlemen, we did it. SB 79 has been signed.

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Nick Burns @nkburns3.bsky.social · 1d

Unless she intends for this tax break to apply to anyone in the Palisades regardless of whether their house burned down, there can’t be more than a handful of lots that ULA would apply to in the first place.

I only see one vacant lot on the market that’s listed for more than $5 million.

15221 Via De Las Olas, Pacific Palisades, CA 90272

(TheMLS) For Sale: 15221 Via De Las Olas, Pacific Palisades, CA 90272 ∙ $10,599,000 ∙ MLS# 25587669 ∙ First time on the market since 1959, the premier double lot on the las Olas Bluffs. Views west all...

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Nick Burns @nkburns3.bsky.social · 1d

Yeah I’ve always thought that Talented Venice High Student X is going to be more competitive than equally Talented Harvard Westlake Student Y. Let alone the tuition money her parents saved.

Nick Burns @nkburns3.bsky.social · 2d

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politiBOO! @politiburb.bsky.social · 3d

Say what you will about the rise of the far right in recent US/European history and whether one is worse or not, the US is indisputably better positioned to fight and beat ours back because we're kinda the only ones left with a liberal/left-leaning party that isn't utterly moribund at this point.

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Hunter Owens @hunterowens.net · 2d

man, the Expo TNP upzoning around Expo Bundy is really resulting in huge results - was at the station yesterday and saw 4 buildings under construction, and now this

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Eight-story, 42-unit development planned at 2219 S. Wellsely Avenue

In a familiar tale, single-family homes located just south of Metro's Expo/Bundy Station in Sawtelle are set to give way to apartments, according to a recent application to the Los Angeles Department ...

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Nick Burns @nkburns3.bsky.social · 4d

He’s a Russian nationalist and war criminal who’s constantly dooming about Putin, Russian military elites, and the war in Ukraine.

WarTranslated (Dmitri) @wartranslated.bsky.social · Mar 2

Terrorist Girkin wrote a letter from a Russian prison, commenting on the recent meeting between Zelensky and Trump. He believes Trump attempted to humiliate Zelensky but ended up humiliated himself. Girkin noted that Zelensky's support in the US and Europe is strong enough to counter Trump.

Nick Burns @nkburns3.bsky.social · 4d

Idk if you follow Ukraine stuff but he sounds exactly like Strelkov.

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Nick Burns @nkburns3.bsky.social · 5d

Blessed to live in a city where the newspaper still works.

Front page of the 10/5/25 Los Angeles Times

Nick Burns @nkburns3.bsky.social · 8d

Why is this person getting ratioed? G&T programs for kindergartners are self-evidently absurd.

Darjeeling Tea Ltd @darjeelingltd.bsky.social · 8d

But it’s not. We’re not talking about AP calculus here. We’re talking about kindergarten. Are we teaching kids to not eat their boogers using better vocabulary in the G&T class?

Nick Burns @nkburns3.bsky.social · 9d

There’s an interesting take downthread - I think old line Dems in blue cities also want the economic growth that comes from attracting educated transplants while not giving them any political power.

Unlike in red states though, the old line Dem electeds in blue cities are dying out.

Maniek Kantorzewski @kantverstehen.bsky.social · 25d

Southern states think they can get the economic growth while locking out educated transplants from having any political power or representation. At this point I don’t even want to travel thru these places, let alone consider migration

Nick Burns @nkburns3.bsky.social · 9d

Feels like desperation from a dying media format.

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Oldest and Youngest Shows by Network
Table with 4 columns and 5 rows.
Network Median Age of Viewer — Oldest Show Primetime Median Viewer Age Median Age of Viewer — Youngest Show
ABC 71.6 — Jeopardy! Masters 65.60 57.1 — NBA Primetime
CBS 73 — Blue Bloods 67.80 58.7 — Big Brother
Fox 65.7 — Alert: Missing Persons Unit 58.10 49.5 — Bob's Burgers
NBC 71 — Magnum P.I. 64.90 55.2 — Sunday Night Football
CW 71.5 — The Spencer Sisters 65.20 53.8 — All American

Nick Burns @nkburns3.bsky.social · 10d

“Does it make sense to build housing in residential neighborhoods?” is a question that answers itself.

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Nick Burns @nkburns3.bsky.social · 10d

www.gov.ca.gov/contact/

Contact the Governor | Governor of California

You can contact the Governor a few different ways. The best way is through his online form.

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Nick Burns @nkburns3.bsky.social · 10d

I left a message asking Governor Newsom to sign SB 79 and so can you.

David Roberts @volts.wtf · 10d

A bunch of toxic LA NIMBYs are whining about SB 79, the amazing housing bill the CA legislature passed recently.

It's on the governor's desk, and reportedly he's getting cold feet. Hey @gavinnewsom.bsky.social, please have some spine on the most important issue in your state. Just sign it.

Homeowners denounce SB 79 vote - Beverly Press & Park Labrea News

Legislation awaits governor’s signature

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Nick Burns @nkburns3.bsky.social · 12d

It’s totally fine to be an anti-MAGA Republican but the people you need to persuade are not Democrats.

Nick Burns @nkburns3.bsky.social · 12d

Ezra Klein seems like the kinda guy who’d blame Democrats for Trump because they voted for Obama instead of Romney.

Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 12d

Klein vs TNC is such a fascinating example of how Ezra views the world:

Of course, he wasn’t debating to find the truth. He was doing politics. He was trying to persuade people. And I’ve watched on our side, not opportunistic engagement but a lot of, I would say, counterproductive disengagement.
But would you like to see one of us put up a sign outside of, say, some white evangelical church in Alabama: Debate me on abortion? And then use that content to say: Such and such “smashes” church parishioner? Or: Such and such “owns” church parishioner?
Would you like to see a version of that?
I would like to see people on our side, yes, go to evangelical churches. Go to places that feel unfriendly, have conversations.

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Nick Burns @nkburns3.bsky.social · 12d

“U.S. Christian nationalists call Kirk a ‘martyr’” - A1 headline from a few weeks ago. How did one paper avoid the psychosis affecting every other non-financial national media outlet?

Nick Burns @nkburns3.bsky.social · 12d

The Los Angeles Times is the newspaper everyone wishes the New York Times would be.

Front cover of the LA Times. Headlines are “Echoes of Red Scare in Trump memo” and “ICE keeps its detainees on the move” with an infographic illustrating 308,000 detainee transfers all over the continental US.

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Dr Grace Peng @gspeng.bsky.social · 15d

4 White LA City Council members against SB79, 5 white state legislators against SB79. 0 white legislators that support SB79

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Nick Burns @nkburns3.bsky.social · 15d

This tracks

“The one councilmember whose vote doesn’t overlap with their corresponding state legislators is Nithya Raman, whose district is covered at the state level by several white representatives who all opposed the bill. Why do I mention their race? Because not a single white elected official at the city or state level who represents the City of LA voted to support SB 79. Not one.”

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Nick Burns @nkburns3.bsky.social · 18d

What?! That's insane.

Nick Burns @nkburns3.bsky.social · 19d

The epistemological crisis continues apace.