Stan Oklobdzija
@stano.bsky.social
Ass. Prof. Public Policy @ UC Riverside | Better Cities Through Better Government | 1st Gen 🇺🇸: 🇷🇸/ Việt Nam Cộng Hòa | 躺平 | Ham chơi
stanokl.github.io | https://everyoneiswelcome.substack.com/
📍: The Inland Empire, California.
stanokl.github.io | https://everyoneiswelcome.substack.com/
📍: The Inland Empire, California.
I'd really like to see this data for other nations. Americans really retreated into their homes following COVID but did other people follow suit?
November 25, 2025 at 5:39 AM
I'd really like to see this data for other nations. Americans really retreated into their homes following COVID but did other people follow suit?
Lol no. Just "regular" overbearing parent stuff.
November 25, 2025 at 4:21 AM
Lol no. Just "regular" overbearing parent stuff.
While America's Democratic Socialist movement may have captured NYC's mayorship by appealing to affordability and governance issues, it's important that it not alienate its core constituency of "Maowadi," a dude with A Little Red Book and what appears to be a Hamas glider in his profile name.
Zohran adding YIMBYs to his transition team is resulting in some absolutely incredible Left NIMBY crashouts over on Twitter. This is my favorite.
November 25, 2025 at 1:04 AM
While America's Democratic Socialist movement may have captured NYC's mayorship by appealing to affordability and governance issues, it's important that it not alienate its core constituency of "Maowadi," a dude with A Little Red Book and what appears to be a Hamas glider in his profile name.
Lol I was just there last weekend and thought it was very cool and moody for the entirety of my three-day stay.
November 25, 2025 at 12:29 AM
Lol I was just there last weekend and thought it was very cool and moody for the entirety of my three-day stay.
What's with his policing team? Any reading you can recommend?
November 25, 2025 at 12:27 AM
What's with his policing team? Any reading you can recommend?
Should I start trying to move to Seattle?
Katie Wilson: "I look at what Mayor Hidalgo has achieved in Paris, and I think that, and some of the mayors in Spanish cities, progressive, socialist mayors in Spanish cities, and the transformation of public space into walkable, people-oriented places where you want to be, it’s just so important."
November 25, 2025 at 12:26 AM
Should I start trying to move to Seattle?
For folks who live in other countries: Are youth sports absolutely insane over there like they are here? Like my jiu jitsu instructor is thinking of cancelling his kids' program because he's sick of dealing with parents crashing out.
people get wrongfooted by terfs going “what if a man can just say he’s a woman and win the Olympics” but they will be a lot less sympathetic when that cashes out with “and that’s why the drunkest MAGA grandpas at the track meet are accusing your tomboy daughter of being a secret male”
November 24, 2025 at 11:56 PM
For folks who live in other countries: Are youth sports absolutely insane over there like they are here? Like my jiu jitsu instructor is thinking of cancelling his kids' program because he's sick of dealing with parents crashing out.
The worst part about this site is that maybe 10% of users are maladjusted defectives who scour posts just looking for someone to get mad at.
People, just spend 5 minutes reading the actual op-ed.
People, just spend 5 minutes reading the actual op-ed.
November 24, 2025 at 11:45 PM
The worst part about this site is that maybe 10% of users are maladjusted defectives who scour posts just looking for someone to get mad at.
People, just spend 5 minutes reading the actual op-ed.
People, just spend 5 minutes reading the actual op-ed.
The most positive thing I can say about Trump voters is that I cannot wait for the day that I can forget that all of them exist.
November 24, 2025 at 11:27 PM
The most positive thing I can say about Trump voters is that I cannot wait for the day that I can forget that all of them exist.
We've gone from the masked American secret police grabbing our students and pushing them into waiting vans to them grabbing our colleagues as they board airplanes.
Down to a person, everyone who voted for this is trash and should never be forgiven.
Down to a person, everyone who voted for this is trash and should never be forgiven.
November 24, 2025 at 11:19 PM
We've gone from the masked American secret police grabbing our students and pushing them into waiting vans to them grabbing our colleagues as they board airplanes.
Down to a person, everyone who voted for this is trash and should never be forgiven.
Down to a person, everyone who voted for this is trash and should never be forgiven.
I remember living in Brazil and being told by some friends that the US invaded Iraq to steal its oil. But after I explained why the US actually invaded Iraq, everyone agreed the truth was much more depraved and it would've been better if the real motivation was just stealing oil.
Rep. Salazar on Venezuela: "We're about to go in ... we need to go in ... Venezuela for the American oil companies will be a field day"
November 24, 2025 at 10:34 PM
I remember living in Brazil and being told by some friends that the US invaded Iraq to steal its oil. But after I explained why the US actually invaded Iraq, everyone agreed the truth was much more depraved and it would've been better if the real motivation was just stealing oil.
Forget "E Pluribus Unum," this should be our new national motto when Trump is gone.
November 24, 2025 at 9:50 PM
Forget "E Pluribus Unum," this should be our new national motto when Trump is gone.
If the Republican Party were not full of literal, no exaggeration, dictionary-definition Nazis, they would have been fast-tracking Venezuelan refugees into the United States and creating hundreds of thousands of die-hard Republican voters that'd last for generations.
Rep. Salazar: "We're gonna be doing a favor to us, to our children, to our economy, to our oil companies to be able to liberate. And to Venezuelans who wants to be free."
November 24, 2025 at 9:49 PM
If the Republican Party were not full of literal, no exaggeration, dictionary-definition Nazis, they would have been fast-tracking Venezuelan refugees into the United States and creating hundreds of thousands of die-hard Republican voters that'd last for generations.
Ooh that makes way more sense.
November 24, 2025 at 9:05 PM
Ooh that makes way more sense.
Wait did Dean Preston have a redemption arc I just never heard of?
November 24, 2025 at 8:41 PM
Wait did Dean Preston have a redemption arc I just never heard of?
Even though every American movie is a Los Angeles movie at heart, here are the top 11 movies specific to LA (in no particular order):
1. Gook
2. Killer of Sheep
3. Heat
4. Drive
5. Chinatown
6. Tangerine
7. Blood In, Blood Out
8. Mulholland Drive
9. Blade Runner
10. Short Cuts
11. Big Lebowski
1. Gook
2. Killer of Sheep
3. Heat
4. Drive
5. Chinatown
6. Tangerine
7. Blood In, Blood Out
8. Mulholland Drive
9. Blade Runner
10. Short Cuts
11. Big Lebowski
i would like pritzker's list of his top 11 movies set in chicago
star wars discourse, okay, but i'm here for fugitive discourse
star wars discourse, okay, but i'm here for fugitive discourse
a man with a beard is talking on a cell phone while wearing a plaid shirt .
Alt: harrison ford in the fugitive starting to trim off his iconic beard
media.tenor.com
November 24, 2025 at 8:32 PM
Even though every American movie is a Los Angeles movie at heart, here are the top 11 movies specific to LA (in no particular order):
1. Gook
2. Killer of Sheep
3. Heat
4. Drive
5. Chinatown
6. Tangerine
7. Blood In, Blood Out
8. Mulholland Drive
9. Blade Runner
10. Short Cuts
11. Big Lebowski
1. Gook
2. Killer of Sheep
3. Heat
4. Drive
5. Chinatown
6. Tangerine
7. Blood In, Blood Out
8. Mulholland Drive
9. Blade Runner
10. Short Cuts
11. Big Lebowski
We also talked about this a few weeks back. There are some places where is issue is that people do not earn enough and the solution is to subsidize their incomes. But there are other places where the issue is that supply is too scarce and a subsidy just fuels the ongoing bidding war.
If you give people money to buy housing, but don't allow the supply to increase, it just enriches the landlords.
November 24, 2025 at 8:18 PM
We also talked about this a few weeks back. There are some places where is issue is that people do not earn enough and the solution is to subsidize their incomes. But there are other places where the issue is that supply is too scarce and a subsidy just fuels the ongoing bidding war.
I was telling my students last week that poverty reduction at its core involves either giving people money so they can afford goods or making those goods cost less. The latter is usually preferable to the former since public dollars are scarce.
November 24, 2025 at 8:04 PM
I was telling my students last week that poverty reduction at its core involves either giving people money so they can afford goods or making those goods cost less. The latter is usually preferable to the former since public dollars are scarce.
The thing about high housing costs is that they can make the lives of even high-earning households pretty miserable because it forces them to either live far from work or accept substandard housing.
The solution is just to build more but that might take away a parking space though.
The solution is just to build more but that might take away a parking space though.
November 24, 2025 at 8:00 PM
The thing about high housing costs is that they can make the lives of even high-earning households pretty miserable because it forces them to either live far from work or accept substandard housing.
The solution is just to build more but that might take away a parking space though.
The solution is just to build more but that might take away a parking space though.
Oh crap, I totally glossed over his name!
Paul Williams seems good too
November 24, 2025 at 7:56 PM
Oh crap, I totally glossed over his name!
It has come to my attention that Mamdani might actually get it on housing.
November 24, 2025 at 7:52 PM
It has come to my attention that Mamdani might actually get it on housing.
Those are faces I'd not seen in a long time.
November 24, 2025 at 7:12 PM
Those are faces I'd not seen in a long time.
Reposted by Stan Oklobdzija
🚨We analyzed 138 million geocoded property tax records to quantify how municipal boundaries spatially overlap onto economic segregation in every US metro area—creating disparities in localities’ ability to fund public goods. And we made an interactive map of our results! [1/16]
November 24, 2025 at 4:31 PM
🚨We analyzed 138 million geocoded property tax records to quantify how municipal boundaries spatially overlap onto economic segregation in every US metro area—creating disparities in localities’ ability to fund public goods. And we made an interactive map of our results! [1/16]
Been reading a bit about the European far right and while it might seem crazy to say now with Trump in office, authoritarianism's prospects over on that continent might be stronger than on ours.
November 24, 2025 at 6:50 AM
Been reading a bit about the European far right and while it might seem crazy to say now with Trump in office, authoritarianism's prospects over on that continent might be stronger than on ours.