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Aaron 🏗️🚲🌲🏀

@aceckhouse.bsky.social
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Sixplex enthusiast. Redwood irredentist. Lake Merritt booster. Erstwhile Prince of Prosciutto, now Policy Director at California YIMBY. Cities are for people not cars. California is not full. he etc

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Aaron 🏗️🚲🌲🏀 @aceckhouse.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Let’s go Valks!
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Adriana Valencia for AC Transit Ward 3 2026 @valencia4actransit.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
This is why I'm running to be your representative on @rideact.bsky.social's Board of Directors, Ward 3. I believe that the bus should be a viable commuting option in the East Bay, and not an option-of-last-resort that leaves people stranded.
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🦫 Libby Lee-Egan 🦫 @libbington.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Hey Bay Area people! Did you know there's a downballot race where you can have a huge impact? Joel Young is a bully and he's corrupt as hell. Adriana Valencia is running to unseat him on a platform of reliability, access, and transparency. Vote and Donate secure.actblue.com/donate/valen...
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Donate to Adriana Valencia
Show your support with a contribution.
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Aaron 🏗️🚲🌲🏀 @aceckhouse.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
good news: HCD has rejected Beverly Hills' attempted shell game to make 15% of their TOD capacity disappear (TODAP = Transit Oriented Development Alternative Plan) a great win for both housing and mathematical integrity www.hcd.ca.gov/sites/defaul...
While the enacted TODAP addresses many statutory requirements, HCD finds that the TODAP is not in substantial compliance with SB 79 (Government Code Chapter 4.1.5). The standards and provisions of Government Code section 65912.157 continue
to apply in the City unless and until the City adopts a TODAP that has been approved
by HCD.However, the City of Beverly Hills does not subtract the existing unit count from the gross TODAP capacity; rather, the City’s TODAP has a gross zoned capacity that is equal to SB 79’s net zoned capacity. The City must; therefore, recalculate its TODAP based on the statutory requirements of a net-to-net comparison of the SB 79 zoned
capacity.
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Aaron 🏗️🚲🌲🏀 @aceckhouse.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
wondering who you should vote for in East Bay local elections? EB4E has answers
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Aaron 🏗️🚲🌲🏀 @aceckhouse.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
historic preservation is okay in concept but actual historic preservation bodies are [REDACTED]
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George Spies @georgespies.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
So, unbeknownst to most voters, this little AC Transit Ward 3 election is a BFD. If we can get @valencia4actransit.bsky.social elected, the Board tips (McCalley is a swing vote) and change starts to happen. And your life will actually improve. Help us make this happen: valencia4actransit.com fin
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Stephen Judkins @stephenjudkins.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
I feel every few weeks there's a meticulously researched @stephenjacobsmith.com post that's like "here's this one dude in charge of the California Doorknob Industry Commission who has statistically caused 67k more people to be homeless"
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Aaron 🏗️🚲🌲🏀 @aceckhouse.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
I also endorse Adriana for AC Transit
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Vituperative Erb @vituperativeerb.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
It is just objectively true that the biggest impact you a normal person can have is being a super-volunteer/mid-dollar donor for a state legislative candidate
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Robert Fruchtman @fruchtose.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Putting the historic district in the context of its consequences, a very clear trade-off is being made. This historic district would protect buildings that housed past LGBTQ businesses and residents, at the cost of allowing future generations of queer refugees to live in the Castro.
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Californians for Electric Rail @calelectricrail.org · 03/09/2026
With transit capital funding on its last legs, it's time to consider a new approach. We've gotten very little in concrete service improvements from 10 years of TIRCP competitive grants. Let's stop paying for paperwork and fund capital via multiyear investment programs. bsky.app/profile/cale...
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Aaron 🏗️🚲🌲🏀 @aceckhouse.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
where should I donate if I want to support trans kids playing sports? could be legal, advocacy, coaching…
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Aaron 🏗️🚲🌲🏀 @aceckhouse.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
where should I donate if I want to support trans kids playing sports? could be legal, advocacy, coaching…
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Aaron 🏗️🚲🌲🏀 @aceckhouse.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
GO VALKS!!
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YIMBYonese Liberation Army @dingbattitude.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
If you want to know why it feels like there is no direction or vision in LA, this is why. The LA establishment is stuck 50 years in the past, serving people like the Sherman Oaks HOA who want all the opportunity of being a global city while pretending their neighborhood is a village.
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YIMBYonese Liberation Army @dingbattitude.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
If you’re a parent and gang violence is not a concern where you live, cars are really the only thing you should be worried about when it comes to your kids safety.
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Aaron 🏗️🚲🌲🏀 @aceckhouse.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
know local elections are important but aren't sure how to learn about them? have strong opinions about housing, land use, transportation, etc that you want to share with local candidates? either way, this event tomorrow might be right for you!
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dereksagehorn.bsky.social @dereksagehorn.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
You can meet Adriana Valencia and learn about her priorities (and other pro-housing and transit candidates) at the @eastbayforeveryone.bsky.social and friends candidate mixer at Kinfolx (19th Street BART) on 8/20 at 6pm. bsky.app/profile/east...
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Aaron 🏗️🚲🌲🏀 @aceckhouse.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
jumpstart homebuilding with this one weird trick (stop charging people tens of thousands of dollars for the privilege of building housing)
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Aaron 🏗️🚲🌲🏀 @aceckhouse.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
close!
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Aaron 🏗️🚲🌲🏀 @aceckhouse.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Scott Wiener, you have to stop. Your bills are too courageous. Your hustle is too elite. Elon will kill you. www.sfchronicle.com/politics/art...
sfchronicle.com
Scott Wiener takes on fights other lawmakers avoid. Violent threats often follow
Wiener’s willingness to take on potentially radioactive issues has been most visible in his advocacy for the LGBTQ community, in the face of conservative opponents eager to pounce.
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Aaron 🏗️🚲🌲🏀 @aceckhouse.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
GO VALKS
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Aaron 🏗️🚲🌲🏀 @aceckhouse.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
SB 79 at one month: 1) Very encouraging signs of developer interest in actually using the law 2) New projects are all in high resource areas with exclusionary histories 3) We won’t see the full impact in most of the state’s biggest cities for another 5 year 4) Beverly Hills is on some bullshit
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Aaron 🏗️🚲🌲🏀 @aceckhouse.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
SB 79 has been in effect for a month now, so I wrote my take on how implementation is going. Pretty well, I think! But there are some important tests coming for HCD @cayimby.bsky.social cayimby.org/blog/sb-79-o...
cayimby.org
SB 79, One Month In: Taking Stock of California YIMBY’s Signature Bill
SB 79, California YIMBY’s signature legislation that legalized apartment buildings near transit stops throughout California, went into effect on July 1, 2026. Under the law’s provisions, jurisdictions...
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Stephen Jacob Smith @stephenjacobsmith.com · 03/08/2026
We're working with @metroabundance.bsky.social to collect cost drivers in California building codes and standards above and beyond national model codes/standards. See here for more – please circulate among architects, engineers, etc. in the state! admin.centerforbuilding.org/wp-content/u...
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Aaron 🏗️🚲🌲🏀 @aceckhouse.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Go Valks!
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Aaron 🏗️🚲🌲🏀 @aceckhouse.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
feeling pretty good about this
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Professional Husband @bajaenjoyer.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Israel has basically become the easiest test normie dem voters have for whether or not a candidate is ballsy enough to actually fight. Thems the breaks. That’s why Stevens’ amorphous “give em hell” stuff is falling flat
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East Bay for Everyone @eastbayforeveryone.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Alameda County: meet your candidates Join us in downtown Oakland on Thursday Aug 20th at 6pm for a mixer to meet candidates and elected officials running for office across Alameda County this fall. RSVP required. @seamlessbayareaca.bsky.social
events.humanitix.com
Meet Your 2026 Alameda County Candidates!
An informal mixer to meet candidates running across Alameda County this fall. Grab a drink, ask questions, and get a feel for who's on your ballot.
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Aaron 🏗️🚲🌲🏀 @aceckhouse.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
SB 79 project tracker so far: Palo Alto (x9, lol) San Mateo South Pasadena Santa Monica
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Aaron 🏗️🚲🌲🏀 @aceckhouse.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
convert offices to housing with this one weird trick (tearing down old buildings) www.sfchronicle.com/eastbay/arti...
sfchronicle.com
This Bay Area city could become a blueprint for turning empty offices into housing
While San Francisco has struggled to get any office-to-housing construction under way, this Tri-Valley city already has 1,501 units either under construction or approved.
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Every person this administration wrongly deported should be granted asylum and a path to citizenship. Won’t even begin to right wrongs like this. But it’s a place to start.
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Aaron 🏗️🚲🌲🏀 @aceckhouse.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
is there a feed that will show me just the replies of the people I follow?
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Aaron 🏗️🚲🌲🏀 @aceckhouse.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
first BLT of the season tonight 👌
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Aaron 🏗️🚲🌲🏀 @aceckhouse.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
“what if we had a gaudy flower that also looked like a tube worm?”
in a garden, tube like stalks rise up with a profusion of big pink flowers at the end
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Aaron 🏗️🚲🌲🏀 @aceckhouse.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
one thing that William Carlos Williams absolutely got right is that cold plums hit different
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Aaron 🏗️🚲🌲🏀 @aceckhouse.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
worthwhile Austin initiative
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Mark Sawchuk @snarkmawchuk.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Jane Kim, the current front-runner for the state insurance commissioner, would make this already unsustainable problem even worse. She wants you to subsidize fire insurance for rich people who choose to live in the urban-wildland interface where wildfires do the most property damage.
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CAHSR's Strongest Soldier @emoscientist.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Overly complex governance is a skeleton key behind nearly every political problem in America, from why we can't build to the crisis of democracy. Every solution is someone else's responsibility and requires coordination across actors who hate each other so we can't do anything.
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Professa Murray @kalimurray.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
I have said repeatedly that Russell Vought should be impeached. Congress appropriates and this is a high crime against its powers under Article I. The most important thing DOGE did was take over the appropriations pipes at Treasury. If you wanted to close USAID and CFPB pass a bill.
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Stan Oklobdzija @stano.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Law enforcement is an essential state function and people should expect that public spaces will be policed. Having police that are both violent and useless is a catastrophic failure of governance.
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Alex Schieferdecker @alexschief.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
I know that political media only pays attention to Minnesota with the greatest of irritation and the absolute minimum of curiosity, but I genuinely find it offensive when pundits suggest that liberalism lacks a fighting spirit or animating ideals. Our national malaise is an elite phenomenon.
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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
The solution is consequences, by the way. And that doesn’t mean “losing elections” or “public ridicule.” Consequences that are real, that wrongdoers and liars know could happen to them, that bad men genuinely fear facing
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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
AGAIN: the #1 predictor of a mass shooter is violence against women. Cops perpetrate VAW at higher % (though exact # unknown ofc) than the gen population. At some point our culture must take seriously the fact that this is a real red flag. It requires hating women less, though.
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YIMBYonese Liberation Army @dingbattitude.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
This topic is covered in The Low-Rise Speculative Apartment, the definitive contemporary tract on dingbats. They would often go from demolition permit to *occupancy* in a year and this was noted as a key to success because it eliminates carrying costs and associated risk.
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YIMBYonese Liberation Army @dingbattitude.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Liquidate the car dealers, liquidate crypto, liquidate sports betting, liquidate oil and gas. Purge the rottenness from the system.
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Urban Land Rent 🇸🇴🚰 @urbanlandrent.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
You can tell San Francisco’s fee/ labor policy/ affordability reqs/ permitting process are a huge barrier to supply meeting elevated demand because market rate housing pencils in Sacramento at like half the rents.
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Nicole Foy @nicolefoy.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Put 3 kids thru college w/ a blue collar job. Worked dawn to dusk, building homes. Loved his wife of 30yrs & John Deere. Lived here longer than I've been alive It doesn't make a life more valuable. But so many immigrants detained, deported, dying bear the trappings of "real America" we mythologize
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