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Nick Burns
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legalize apartments, desegregate schools, resettle refugees
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Great @edmendoza.bsky.social quote:

“The buildings that single-stair promotes are just more - what’s the word? Nicer. They’re nicer.”
Single-stair apartments may be alien in much of the United States, but “represent a bullding more like Brooklyn or Seville or Berlin or Paris," said Ed Mendoza, a building code policy researcher at California YIMBY. "The buildings that single-stair promotes are just more - what's the word? Nicer. They're nicer."
November 28, 2025 at 10:32 PM
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So gd good
Still from Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy of characters sitting around a table smoking drinking and looking British
November 10, 2025 at 5:00 AM
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Boomers grew up around fewer immigrants than any generation in American history. Their perspective is completely warped.
Chart of immigrants as a % of the population over time. https://cis.org/Report/US-Immigrant-Population-Hit-Record-437-Million-2016
November 6, 2025 at 12:30 AM
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Dump Don the Con, Vote Pritzker for Khan
Depiction of JB Pritzker on horseback in Mongolian battle attire carrying a falcon on his arm.
October 24, 2025 at 2:56 AM
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He’s unpopular relative to basically any baseline!
https://www.gelliottmorris.com/p/data
October 22, 2025 at 11:55 PM
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Who’s your favorite Jedi? (right answers only)

Loden Greatstorm and Bell Zettifar

Art by @jakebartok.bsky.social
Color rendering of Bell Zettifar and Loden Greatstorm
October 17, 2025 at 11:55 PM
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Waiting with bated breath for Greg Morrow and/or @shanedphillips.bsky.social to drop a v3 of this classic.
City of Los Angeles zoning capacity and population, 1960-2030.
October 16, 2025 at 9:43 PM
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Kenneth Mejia, LA’s city controller, won almost 100,000 more votes than Susan Collins.
Kenneth Mejia 513,288 Paul Koretz 297,190 Collins (R) * 415,858 51.22% Gideon (D) 342,675 42.20% Savage (Other) 39,986 4.92% Linn (Other) 13,463 1.66%
October 16, 2025 at 3:25 AM
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As exciting as this is for LA neighborhoods like Cheviot Hills and the Wilshire Corridor, it seems like it will be transformative for San Francisco.
Map of SB 79’s impact on San Francisco’s zoned capacity for housing.
October 13, 2025 at 12:10 AM
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Blessed to live in a city where the newspaper still works.
Front page of the 10/5/25 Los Angeles Times
October 5, 2025 at 9:13 PM
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Feels like desperation from a dying media format.

www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/t...
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
October 1, 2025 at 3:31 AM
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“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?
September 28, 2025 at 3:59 PM
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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.
September 28, 2025 at 3:49 PM
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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.”
September 25, 2025 at 4:48 AM
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My pet theory is that Gen X and Boomers didn’t grow up around any immigrants and the fact that in 2025 (or 2016) immigrants are everywhere in America - not just in LA, NYC, and Utica - is freaking them out.

Younger gens were part of this transition and it feels much more natural for them/us.
Chart of immigrants as a % of the population over time. https://cis.org/Report/US-Immigrant-Population-Hit-Record-437-Million-2016
September 14, 2025 at 11:29 PM
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lol the number of low-priced areas in his district is 0 does he think his constituents are dumb?
Map of AD 51, Assemblymember Zbur’s district, which is composed of some of the wealthiest neighborhoods on earth.
September 14, 2025 at 5:39 AM
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Sawtelle’s about to get even more Sawtellier
Map of the West Los Angeles community plan with a circle around the blocks south and west of Stoner Park that are currently zoned single-family only Map of SB 79’s are of impact with a circle around the blocks south and west of Stoner Park that qualify for SB 79’s tier 2 density bonus
September 12, 2025 at 11:48 PM
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Laser-eyes Francis Fukuyama
September 7, 2025 at 8:49 PM
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YIMBY advocacy -> more housing
20 homes -> 621 homes
Perspective facing south from the Expo / Bundy E Line platform with large construction site in the middle ground and the California dawn in the background
September 3, 2025 at 1:34 PM
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Fun fact: Imelda Padilla won her seat with only 8,250 votes, or about 3% of her district.
Total votes: 15,271 Imelda Padilla: 8,520 Marisa Alcaraz: 6,571
August 27, 2025 at 10:58 PM
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Chuck Schumer should get primaried just for being too corny.
Recommended Facebook post from Chuch Schumer’s account: Today, I’m traveling Upstate NY continuing my “Trump Screwed You Over” Tour with swings in: —Cortland on how Trump is slashing Social Security —Jamestown on how Trump is ripping away jobs —Seneca Falls on how Trump is hurting rural schools —Yates County on how tariffs are hurting our farmers
August 13, 2025 at 3:09 AM
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There’s a lot to be upset about right now but after more than 30 years of hard work and advocacy the subway to the Westside will be open next year.
A photo of the under-construction Century City D line subway station from the perspective of the Westfield Century City Mall.
August 10, 2025 at 2:15 AM
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It’s all just Hamilton vs. Jefferson? Always has been.
August 5, 2025 at 2:42 PM
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The Local Journalism Sustainability Act strengthens local media through three targeted provisions: Subscriber Tax Credit: Provides individuals with up to a $250 annual tax credit for subscriptions to local newspapers -whether digital or print. Journalist Payroll Credit: Covers up to 50% of compensation (max $12,500 per quarter) for journalists employed by local newspapers-helping keep reporters on the job and in the field. Small Business Advertising Credit: Offers up to $5,000 in the first year and $2,500 in the second year to small businesses that advertise with local newspapers, radio, or television stations. In order to qualify for tax credits under the Local Journalism Sustainability Act, businesses must have a news journalist (at least one) located in the news area, employ less than 750 employees, and its reporting must be community based.
July 27, 2025 at 2:41 PM
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Tired: Clausewitz
Wired:
Cover of “The Power of Positive Theory”
July 27, 2025 at 7:18 AM