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
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📍: The Inland Empire, California.
stanokl.github.io | https://everyoneiswelcome.substack.com/
📍: The Inland Empire, California.
Thomas Paine would've been a killer poster. He'd be like the Menswear guy, but for politics.
One thing that the Founding Fathers all shared in common - Franklin, Adams, Jefferson, Hamilton, Paine, Madison, Henry - is that they would have loved posting
February 5, 2026 at 7:36 PM
Thomas Paine would've been a killer poster. He'd be like the Menswear guy, but for politics.
A big reason that Donald Trump is so successful with evangelicals is that he treats them like they're stupid and he's absolutely correct to do so.
Trump: "Mike Johnson is a very religious person. He does not hide it. He'll say to me sometimes at lunch, 'Sir, may we pray.' I'll say, 'Excuse me? We're having lunch.'"
February 5, 2026 at 7:03 PM
A big reason that Donald Trump is so successful with evangelicals is that he treats them like they're stupid and he's absolutely correct to do so.
It's still a bummer that Joe Biden would get a week of shit for stuttering over "Worcestershire" and meanwhile Trump shows up to everything geeked out on benzos and stimmies to deliver spoken Facebook comments.
Trump at the National Prayer Breakfast: "We hit 'em. And we want to hit 'em right, sir, and we want to hit them from the top! East, west, north, south. Sir, they won't know what the hell! And we'll knock them out. We did it politically correct. Five years."
February 5, 2026 at 6:09 PM
It's still a bummer that Joe Biden would get a week of shit for stuttering over "Worcestershire" and meanwhile Trump shows up to everything geeked out on benzos and stimmies to deliver spoken Facebook comments.
One of the most shocking things about academia for me when I first got into it was what a massive sex pest problem this industry has.
Yale prof David Gelernter defends his letter urging Epstein to hire "v small goodlooking blonde" student by saying that he was "keep[ing] the potential boss's habits in mind."
This creep shouldn't be allowed anywhere near students.
yaledailynews.com/articles/gel...
This creep shouldn't be allowed anywhere near students.
yaledailynews.com/articles/gel...
February 5, 2026 at 5:45 PM
One of the most shocking things about academia for me when I first got into it was what a massive sex pest problem this industry has.
This is about as good as a party who doesn't hold a minority in either chamber can ask for. People calling this capitulation are just clowns.
Schumer & Jeffries lay out the Democratic demands for a DHS funding deal in a letter to the top Republican leaders
February 5, 2026 at 5:40 PM
This is about as good as a party who doesn't hold a minority in either chamber can ask for. People calling this capitulation are just clowns.
Cannot wait to open the newest issue of "Who Gives Shit Weekly."
very weird “I am Spartacus” thing happening right now with the worst people on earth
February 5, 2026 at 5:34 PM
Cannot wait to open the newest issue of "Who Gives Shit Weekly."
I expected that Trump would have utilized the NSA domestic surveillance capabilities that Snowden leaked in 2013 for political purposes by now, but I'm legitimately stumped about what capabilities the CIA has if he's concerned about something happening in the US.
@wyden.senate.gov's record of warning that there is deep and constitutionally-serious dirt being done by the intelligence agencies in secret is unblemished. The vaguer he is, the filthier the dirt is. This is the vaguest I've ever seen him
Ron Wyden Only Talks Like This When The Spies Do Something *Real* Bad
No, I don't know what they did. But I have a lot of experience with the senator
www.forever-wars.com
February 5, 2026 at 5:27 PM
I expected that Trump would have utilized the NSA domestic surveillance capabilities that Snowden leaked in 2013 for political purposes by now, but I'm legitimately stumped about what capabilities the CIA has if he's concerned about something happening in the US.
If she's running for Governor, that's fine I guess. The current candidate pool is total ass.
February 5, 2026 at 2:35 AM
If she's running for Governor, that's fine I guess. The current candidate pool is total ass.
If you want to enjoy your day-to-day life in California, commit to never learning enough about this state's politics that you know exactly what each of these initiatives did off the top of your head.
STOP talking shit about California Ballot Initiatives:
• Prop 14 (1964):
• Prop 13 (1978):
• Prop 184 (1994):
• Prop 187 (1994):
• Prop 8 (2008):
• Prop 22 (2020):
• Prop 14 (1964):
• Prop 13 (1978):
• Prop 184 (1994):
• Prop 187 (1994):
• Prop 8 (2008):
• Prop 22 (2020):
February 5, 2026 at 1:13 AM
If you want to enjoy your day-to-day life in California, commit to never learning enough about this state's politics that you know exactly what each of these initiatives did off the top of your head.
We've lived under the Citizens United regime for almost 20 years and we all just have to shrug our shoulders and accept this indignity like it's some inevitable feature of democratic politics.
Super PACs powered by unknown funders are roiling Democratic politics in Illinois, diving into a trio of open House primaries six weeks before voters effectively pick their new members of Congress in these deep blue-district primary elections.
Secret money roils Democratic primaries
New super PACs are pouring money into open Democratic House primaries in Chicago. It's unclear who's funding them — and opposing campaigns are furious.
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February 5, 2026 at 1:08 AM
We've lived under the Citizens United regime for almost 20 years and we all just have to shrug our shoulders and accept this indignity like it's some inevitable feature of democratic politics.
This is how Republicans wish they could treat you.
Islamic Republic security forces in Iran run over protestors.
February 4, 2026 at 9:56 PM
This is how Republicans wish they could treat you.
We're gonna win.
And we're gonna win because we fought back.
And we're gonna win because we fought back.
Breaking: With No Noted Dissents and No Discussion, Supreme Court Allows California to Use Its Prop. 50 Congressional Redistricting Maps in 2026 electionlawblog.org?p=154139
Breaking: With No Noted Dissents and No Discussion, Supreme Court Allows California to Use Its Prop. 50 Congressional Redistricting Maps in 2026 #ELB
The entire order of the Court reads: “The application for writ of injunction pending appealpresented to Justice Kagan and by her referred to the Court is denied.” I am happy but not surprised with thi...
electionlawblog.org
February 4, 2026 at 8:16 PM
We're gonna win.
And we're gonna win because we fought back.
And we're gonna win because we fought back.
Trumpism generally thrives from anonymity because its driving ethos is the same as internet troll culture. Their greatest fear is loss of anonymity that'd make them subject to social sanction.
From local businesses who donated to Trump to ICE agents, that's what we ought to give them.
From local businesses who donated to Trump to ICE agents, that's what we ought to give them.
ICE agents don't wear masks because they're scared for their safety. They wear masks because they know if they can be identified they risk being shunned and shamed. ICE agents may be evil assholes, but just like other humans they want to avoid social disapproval and humiliation.
February 4, 2026 at 6:58 PM
Trumpism generally thrives from anonymity because its driving ethos is the same as internet troll culture. Their greatest fear is loss of anonymity that'd make them subject to social sanction.
From local businesses who donated to Trump to ICE agents, that's what we ought to give them.
From local businesses who donated to Trump to ICE agents, that's what we ought to give them.
My solution for eviscerated local media in America is to add a news wire service to the USPS similar to the AP. That service would stick to local issues (city councils, police, schools, etc.) and report only hard news.
As folks think about the way news will need to be organized going forward as the legacy institutions pass out of relevance, nonprofit community trusts or worker co ops seem a good way to go. Ad revenue and clicks can’t be the model.
In 2016, the Philadelphia Inquirer, emerging from a messy bankruptcy, was acquired by Lenfest and donated to a nonprofit community trust. The Graham family, meanwhile, sold the Post to the richest man in the world.
Today, Will Bunch has a job at the Inky, and Karen Attiah was fired from the Post.
Today, Will Bunch has a job at the Inky, and Karen Attiah was fired from the Post.
February 4, 2026 at 6:49 PM
My solution for eviscerated local media in America is to add a news wire service to the USPS similar to the AP. That service would stick to local issues (city councils, police, schools, etc.) and report only hard news.
Was talking to my friend about how around the GFC, American cultural production just entered an enforced nose-dive that we've never pulled out of. Life these days just feels so atomized and meaningless because we lack people laboring to give us a collective sense of things.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Washington Post says one-third of its staff across all departments, not just the newsroom, is being laid off.
February 4, 2026 at 6:41 PM
Was talking to my friend about how around the GFC, American cultural production just entered an enforced nose-dive that we've never pulled out of. Life these days just feels so atomized and meaningless because we lack people laboring to give us a collective sense of things.
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This part of our response essay is where I'm at. Boiling down all of politics to electoralism has been absolutely terrible for resisting rising authoritarianism.
www.bostonreview.net/forum/how-no...
www.bostonreview.net/forum/how-no...
February 3, 2026 at 11:28 PM
This part of our response essay is where I'm at. Boiling down all of politics to electoralism has been absolutely terrible for resisting rising authoritarianism.
www.bostonreview.net/forum/how-no...
www.bostonreview.net/forum/how-no...
Saw that a bunch of people turned up to the LAPD Commission meeting to scream at them over the department's refusal to enforce the statewide mask ban.
Excellent energy, take it to the council until someone introduces a resolution tying future funding to enforcing the law.
Excellent energy, take it to the council until someone introduces a resolution tying future funding to enforcing the law.
February 4, 2026 at 5:42 AM
Saw that a bunch of people turned up to the LAPD Commission meeting to scream at them over the department's refusal to enforce the statewide mask ban.
Excellent energy, take it to the council until someone introduces a resolution tying future funding to enforcing the law.
Excellent energy, take it to the council until someone introduces a resolution tying future funding to enforcing the law.
There are many obvious reasons why ICE must be abolished and DHS must be dismantled. But we shouldn't overlook the fact that this bald, fat dork showed up to work with a skull mask and a plate carrier and no one ordered him to go home and change.
Fucking surreal that people dressed like this and carrying assault rifles are permitted to kidnap people off our streets
February 4, 2026 at 5:30 AM
There are many obvious reasons why ICE must be abolished and DHS must be dismantled. But we shouldn't overlook the fact that this bald, fat dork showed up to work with a skull mask and a plate carrier and no one ordered him to go home and change.
My 100% vibes based theory is that the GFC sent tons of millennials to new masters degree programs spun up to allow them to wait out the recession. There, they were exposed to the last gasps of Boomer academic Marxism, which unfortunately broke containment.
Woke was never the issue but I do think that NPIC-speak where you talk like 1/3rd half-remembered humanities seminar, 1/3rd therapy tiktok, and 1/3rd fake AAVE that a TON of nonprofit advocates and media people did in the 2010’s was grating and probably did hurt the left on the margin.
February 4, 2026 at 1:11 AM
My 100% vibes based theory is that the GFC sent tons of millennials to new masters degree programs spun up to allow them to wait out the recession. There, they were exposed to the last gasps of Boomer academic Marxism, which unfortunately broke containment.
A big indication that We're Gonna Win™️ is that pole-climbers whose only moral compass is career ambition **still** don't want to work for Trump. The guy is basically handing out jobs that people used to spend their careers fighting over and yet this is the best he can do.
February 4, 2026 at 12:36 AM
A big indication that We're Gonna Win™️ is that pole-climbers whose only moral compass is career ambition **still** don't want to work for Trump. The guy is basically handing out jobs that people used to spend their careers fighting over and yet this is the best he can do.
Goofus yells at Schumer on social media.
Gallant gets **THEIR DEMOCRATIC REPRESENTATIVE** to commit to reducing ICE funding to zero or else stands up a primary challenger who will.
Gallant gets **THEIR DEMOCRATIC REPRESENTATIVE** to commit to reducing ICE funding to zero or else stands up a primary challenger who will.
Once again begging folks to understand that abolishing ICE isn't on the table as long as GOP holds the gavel. Just not gonna happen.
Maybe this package of reforms doesn't go far enough for you. Understandable position! But if you're going to yell at Schumer tell to get something that's gettable.
Maybe this package of reforms doesn't go far enough for you. Understandable position! But if you're going to yell at Schumer tell to get something that's gettable.
Democrats want commonsense reform for ICE:
End the roving patrols and racial profiling.
Take accountability and abide by the same rules as local police.
Masks need to come off, body cameras need to stay on—no secret police in the United States of America.
End the roving patrols and racial profiling.
Take accountability and abide by the same rules as local police.
Masks need to come off, body cameras need to stay on—no secret police in the United States of America.
February 3, 2026 at 11:44 PM
Goofus yells at Schumer on social media.
Gallant gets **THEIR DEMOCRATIC REPRESENTATIVE** to commit to reducing ICE funding to zero or else stands up a primary challenger who will.
Gallant gets **THEIR DEMOCRATIC REPRESENTATIVE** to commit to reducing ICE funding to zero or else stands up a primary challenger who will.
In fairness, they could be kicking reporters out for entirely normal reasons like because he shat himself again.
Trump can be heard still complaining about Kaitlan Collins not smiling as reporters are ushers out of the Oval Office
February 3, 2026 at 11:39 PM
In fairness, they could be kicking reporters out for entirely normal reasons like because he shat himself again.
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If you agree that retail spaces on the ground floor of apartment buildings should be optional, not mandated, here's something you can do:
Take pics of vacant storefronts in you neighborhood and post them as a reply here, with info about where they are.
And please share this post, thank you!!!
Take pics of vacant storefronts in you neighborhood and post them as a reply here, with info about where they are.
And please share this post, thank you!!!
To celebrate the possibility that SB 6026 will end mandates for apartment buildings to have commercial uses on their ground floors, here's a bunch of pics of empty retail spaces in Seattle's Capitol Hill, the most densely populated neighborhood in WA.
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February 3, 2026 at 9:37 PM
If you agree that retail spaces on the ground floor of apartment buildings should be optional, not mandated, here's something you can do:
Take pics of vacant storefronts in you neighborhood and post them as a reply here, with info about where they are.
And please share this post, thank you!!!
Take pics of vacant storefronts in you neighborhood and post them as a reply here, with info about where they are.
And please share this post, thank you!!!
It's really funny to see CA's climate denialism after living in Louisiana. The wealthy Whites who run that state are largely insulated from hurricane damage and actively wish NOLA would disappear. In CA, however, the state's elites live in fire zones and have to convince us all to bail them out.
The current exposure for the California FAIR plan (California’s insurer of last resort) sits at $724 billion. Its liability almost doubled in two years and is now more than double the state’s annual budget. In its most recent financial reporting it had about $1.5 billion on hand.
February 3, 2026 at 8:13 PM
It's really funny to see CA's climate denialism after living in Louisiana. The wealthy Whites who run that state are largely insulated from hurricane damage and actively wish NOLA would disappear. In CA, however, the state's elites live in fire zones and have to convince us all to bail them out.
It's very funny to imagine what everyone's reaction would be to Trump declaring "I am dictator for life. Congress is suspended and further elections are cancelled."
Mike Johnson on Trump calling for Rs to "nationalize" elections: "We had 3 Republicans who were ahead on election day in last cycle & every time a new tranche of ballots came in they just magically whittled away until their leads were lost. It looks on its face to be fraudulent. Can I prove it? No"
February 3, 2026 at 7:38 PM
It's very funny to imagine what everyone's reaction would be to Trump declaring "I am dictator for life. Congress is suspended and further elections are cancelled."