any discussion of city transit improvement online ever

In California, you can kill someone with your car and not even have a point on your license.

That’s because of a criminal justice reform law passed in 2020, allowing judges to effectively erase a misdemeanor case from existence. bit.ly/4s4gYyt

📸 Fred Greaves

it will never not be odd that 80 percent of america lives in cities but the only real americans are the rural ones

I really think that we need to talk more about the fact that Republicans have basically quietly abolished the House of Representatives

I think my least favorite leftist talking point is when people say speed cameras etc are bad because they’re “part of the surveillance state.” Okay genius since the cops refuse to enforce traffic laws at all anymore I guess we should continue to let drivers plow into like, children walking to school

[VICTORY ALERT] Governor Newsom has signed SB 79, which will make it legal to build multi-family housing near high quality transit!

Our statement:
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Picture how big the Hoover Dam is. An absolute unit. The Hoover Dam has a power capacity of 2 gigawatts (GW).

The solar farm that the Admin just cancelled could have produces 6.2 GW of power. That's more than 3 Hoover Dams.

Last year, CNN ran a “fact check” of Kamala HQ that claimed we were lying for saying Trump’s plan is Project 2025.

Now Trump is outright admitting it’s his plan.

Legacy media failed the country.

STEPHANOPOULOS: The Democratic proposal is designed to prevent millions of Americans from losing their health insurance, losing Medicaid coverage, or paying higher healthcare premiums. Why are you against that?

MIKE JOHNSON: That's an absurd statement

STEPHANOPOULOS: It's a factual statement

When the supply of available homes goes down relative to demand, prices increase. This is one of the best established findings in housing policy, and policymakers who don't center this aren't going to fix the housing crisis.

the amount of raw, unadulterated fear that many Americans have of even small cities is never going to stop being darkly hilarious to me

“If you DON’T change the physical character of your community, you WILL change the demographic and economic character of your community.” - William Fulton at the Casita Coalition’s Build The Middle National Housing Convening

it's pretty frustrating how republicans can just spew endless lies about city life with zero repercussions but the moment a dem disparages a pickup truck it's open season

The California DMV routinely allows dangerous drivers with horrifying histories to continue to operate on our roadways, a CalMatters investigation has found. Too often they go on to kill. Many keep driving even after they kill. Some go on to kill again. calmatters.org/investigatio...

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i'm moving away from a two column/week pace in favor of a single extended argument. here is this week's.

Butler’s response is *exactly* correct. To accept the premise that ‘woke’ is something outside of a right wing moral panic is to be a dupe.