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Louis Mirante

@louismirante.bsky.social

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Advocate for good neighbors and empowering communities. Working to make housing in California more affordable at the Bay Area Council, formerly with California YIMBY. he/him

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Louis Mirante @louismirante.bsky.social · Feb 14

Trans people belong in America and I love them as my friends and family. I hope every trans person knows that for each person who hates them that there are more in this country who love them, as we all strive to love all our neighbors.

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Louis Mirante @louismirante.bsky.social · 20h

LMAO the postman came bringing only a No On 50 mailer, leaving with my ballot!!! hahahaha

Louis Mirante @louismirante.bsky.social · 21h

I need the No On 50 campaign to send me more bullshit so the postman comes to my house and picks up my ballot voting yes on 50. VOTE YES ON 50!!!

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Louis Mirante @louismirante.bsky.social · 1d

And?

Louis Mirante @louismirante.bsky.social · 1d

Wtf I love zoning now

John Skiles Skinner @skiles.blue · 1d

I dunno if I'm the last one to hear about this? But the reason the president is sending the *National Guard* to Portland is because the city mailed the government's landlord...a zoning violation notice?

They are sending in the troops to avoid "a monthly code enforcement fee"??

Notice of Zoning Violation on official City of Portland letterhead

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Louis Mirante @louismirante.bsky.social · 1d

In conclusion, California needs a Growth Acceleration Program

Louis Mirante @louismirante.bsky.social · 1d

Brazil built *4.5 million homes* with just their public housing program in just 9 years - Brazil has an economy slightly larger than the size of Northern California's. The entire housing economy, including private home construction, built probably 750k homes in Northern California during this time.

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Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 2d

If you live in California, today is an excellent day to call @gavinnewsom.bsky.social at (916) 445-2841 and ask him to sign SB 79. publiccomment.blog/p/newsom-s-f...

Newsom's Fateful Choice

Why the governor needs to sign SB 79

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Louis Mirante @louismirante.bsky.social · 3d

Great photo!!

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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 4d

Weaponized gratitude is a key tool in the abuser's toolkit. The goal is to convince the victim that they owe the abuser so much, they should feel guilty for wanting to complain.

Tweet from the VP:
Joy Reid has had such a good life in this country. It's been
overwhelmingly kind and gracious to her. She is far wealthier than most.
Yet she oozes with contempt.
My honest, non-trolling advice to Joy Reid is that you'd be a much
happier person if you showed a little gratitude

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Senator Scott Wiener @scottwiener.bsky.social · 4d

Always remember that if they do this to some people — whether immigrants or otherwise — they can do it to you. We must never normalize this gestapo behavior. There needs to be severe accountability for these thugs & the fascists who direct them.

Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 5d

According to eyewitnesses, armed ICE agents dragged kids out of their beds in the middle of the night, zip tied them and put them in rented vans while raiding an * entire apartment building* on the South Side of Chicago.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=vOXO...

‘F--- them kids’: ICE agents drag children out of bed, ransack Chicago building

YouTube video by MSNBC

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David Bier @davidjbier.bsky.social · 5d

These people hate our country. They hate Americans and have declared war on our constitution and freedoms. They should repent and resign

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Louis Mirante @louismirante.bsky.social · 5d

Wow

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Louis Mirante @louismirante.bsky.social · 5d

Gavin’s America, baybyyy

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Louis Mirante @louismirante.bsky.social · 5d

Unbelievably illegal, just using the money of the federal government to attack a political party

Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 5d

These are all horrible, but this is just disgusting.

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Louis Mirante @louismirante.bsky.social · 6d

Their vision for America is almost exclusively white, rooted in a nostalgia for an America that never existed, one committed to a radically extreme purge of what America was and promised to be. We have been the center of the world, and they would have us not even be a part of it.

John Darwin Kurc @kurc.com · 6d

From DHS. State Run Media.

Louis Mirante @louismirante.bsky.social · 6d

Why would you end it in NYC? There’s already nowhere to park

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Louis Mirante @louismirante.bsky.social · 6d

This is extremely illegal. This is using the money of the people of the United States, the money of our federal government, to campaign, illegally, against Democrats.

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NPR @npr.org · 7d

Pope Leo XIV weighed in on U.S. politics, saying Catholic politicians must be judged on the full range of their policy positions and suggesting the country's immigration policy is "inhuman."

Pope Leo XIV says 'inhuman treatment of immigrants' in the U.S. isn't 'pro-life'

Pope Leo XIV weighed in on U.S. politics, saying that Catholic politicians must be judged on the full range of their policy positions and suggesting that the country's immigration policy is "inhuman."

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Louis Mirante @louismirante.bsky.social · 7d

This is the site of the California Department of Education by the way. But it displaced a gravel pit parking lot. So it’s hard to say if education is good or bad.

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Louis Mirante @louismirante.bsky.social · 7d

I have known about this plaque in Sacramento for nearly ten years, but every time I visit it I’m staggered in disbelief

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Timothy McBride @mcbridetd.bsky.social · 8d

Housing in America is about to get more expensive, thanks to new tariffs imposed by President Donald Trump that will take effect this Wednesday, October 1. www.vox.com/policy/46311...

Trump’s new tariffs will slam America’s already brutal housing crisis

October’s “kitchen cabinet” tax will affect homebuyers and renters alike.

www.vox.com

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Rep. Steven Woodrow @woodrowforco.bsky.social · 8d

MAGA has such an outsized persecution complex that they laugh off their own cruelty.

MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 9d

It certainly appears the United States murdered an innocent fisherman who was a husband and father to four children, claimed he was a "narco-terrorist," posted a video of the execution, and then made jokes about it

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helen, gender goblin @gendergoblinhelen.bsky.social · 10d

'out of the three mass shootings today'

Our Earth Affairs @ourearthaffairs.bsky.social · 10d

Iraq War veteran Thomas Sanford has been identified as the gunman who attacked Grand Blanc Mormon church, killing 2 people and setting it ablaze. Out of the three mass shootings today, two of them have been carried out by Iraq war veterans.

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Popehat Agitates And Irritates @kenwhite.bsky.social · 10d

We have to stop dehumanizing ICE agents while they are doing their important job of dehumanizing us

David Bier @davidjbier.bsky.social · 11d

The agent admits he treats immigrants like "they're animals" and that he tells his kids that they are animals "all the time"

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Louis Mirante @louismirante.bsky.social · 12d

This is the name of an "environmental" organization in California that opposed incentives for building infill affordable housing in the Coastal Zone. Like you can't be serious. I need you to be so serious with me rn.

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