Reposted by Andy FreelandMax Dubler 🏳️🌈 @maxdubler.com · 23hCars turn people into sociopaths, example ∞ 529925
Reposted by Andy FreelandMax Dubler 🏳️🌈 @maxdubler.com · 10/10/2026Elite impunity is perhaps the single greatest problem in American politics going back to Gerald Ford’s Watergate pardons. These people keep getting away with it. This needs to stop. 261279292
Reposted by Andy Freelandmtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 19hThe media widely covered the stakes of the 2024 election as being that Biden and Harris supported endless forever wars and Trump opposed them, despite literally the opposite being true 12791140
Reposted by Andy FreelandHemry, Local Bartender @bartenderhemry.bsky.social · 7hevery elected official they interview in this article, except derrick van orden who they lead with for some reason, had their death threats instigated & encouraged by donald trump. the country doesn't have an incivility problem, it has a maga death cult problem 8748173
Reposted by Andy FreelandDavid Roberts @volts.wtf · 3hAdding: this will be *doubly* true if Dems win big in 2028 and are in a position to impose some accountability. The whole RW media blob, the NYT, the Atlantic, all the Very Serious outlets filled with Very Serious People will be scolding them to calm down, don't dwell on the past, look forward, etc. 9756102
Reposted by Andy FreelandDavid Roberts @volts.wtf · 3hThe more combative Dems get, the more of this they will run into. It will be a coordinated wave of elite opinion, scolding them, tamping them down. The fight strategy *only* works if they are willing to bull their way through it, blow it off, mock it. (Their history does not raise one's hopes.) 742086455
Reposted by Andy Freelandgeoffrey 💀 (scary now) @parsnip.bsky.social · 06/10/2026very tired of being told it is the responsibility of urban democratic voters never to risk possibly maybe by chance seeming less than respectful of rural red state life and then watching thousands in nebraska cheer on the president joking about a nuclear strike on me and millions of my neighbors 774165839
Reposted by Andy Freelandmtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 07/10/2026they're taking over the country and destroying it as revenge for MeToo 17904196
Reposted by Andy FreelandYIMBYonese Liberation Army @dingbattitude.bsky.social · 07/10/2026ICE probably will quite quit and honestly the Dems should just abolish ICE and give the functions to someone else. Local police refusing to do their jobs is a lot worse and solving it requires Dems to do something they really don’t want to: take on a public sector union. 0162
Reposted by Andy Freelandjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 06/10/2026interesting that conservatives were militantly “we must reward hustle” when the target was affirmative action at elite universities and now, when faced with the success of south asians and other groups, it is “i think we are too meritocratic” 19370401104
Reposted by Andy FreelandMatthew Downhour @matthewdownhour.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Perfect example though of how corrupting tariffs are. Every town & business becomes dependent on little tariff carve outs, meaning that buying influence with Senators becomes mandatory to stay in business. The tariff is the mother of trusts!!! 16813161
Reposted by Andy FreelandMax Dubler 🏳️🌈 @maxdubler.com · 07/10/2026One of the most salient divisions in American urban politics is between people who choose to live in cities because they actually like urban life and temporarily embarrassed suburbanites. 724731
Reposted by Andy FreelandSam @samd.bsky.social · 04/10/2026hard to think of a cartoon that better sums up the mind of a Trump voter than this 151238196
Reposted by Andy FreelandNathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Part of the subtext here is the elite conviction that African-Americans, in particular, are lazy frauds using affirmative action to steal space in prestigious institutions from their children and colleagues, which doesn't necessarily translate to anti-immigration sentiment more broadly. 412112
Reposted by Andy FreelandDoug Mack @douglasmack.bsky.social · 04/10/2026The pundit view of the world is skewed by many things, one of which is a refusal/inability to understand geographic spaces that exist outside their own neighborhoods. It's all based on stereotypes and conjecture—even when they go to other places, and their columns are essentially bad travel writing. 637856
Reposted by Andy FreelandThe Trandalorian @charliejaneanders.com · 30/09/2026I really do think tech crossed a line at some point between "helping you do the things you want to do" on the one hand, and "helping you do the things tech wants you to do" on the other. At this point, we're all contorting ourselves to live how the tech industry thinks we should be living. 411327346
Reposted by Andy FreelandYIMBYonese Liberation Army @dingbattitude.bsky.social · 30/09/2026The next train is only 2.5 miles away. But it will take it 10 minutes to get here. That’s how little your time is worth if you’re riding the A Line downtown. 2143
Reposted by Andy Freelandmtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 29/09/2026its worth asking why posts like this — a purported leftist warning others not to trust elected left-wing politicians — consistently do so well on the site where racist Trump ally Elon Musk controls the algorithm that chooses what posts people see 262364340
Reposted by Andy FreelandIan @woolie.meowmeow.city · 28/09/2026Few things are more beautiful than an elevated train. Along with the bicycle, one of two perfect technologies. 0102
Reposted by Andy FreelandJames Medlock @jdcmedlock.bsky.social · 27/09/2026The GOP cut funding to the IRS because *audits work* and they fundamentally don't believe rich people should have to play by the rules. 293424829
Reposted by Andy FreelandCAHSR's Strongest Soldier @emoscientist.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Messed up how under US rentier capitalism you can spend infinite money on health treatments that don't work (supplements, homeopathy, chiropractic) but it's difficult to simply purchase effective treatments like HRT, COVID vaccines, birth control without extensive gatekeeping. 1112
Reposted by Andy FreelandSam @samd.bsky.social · 26/09/2026nithya is likely going to win because she is assembling a broad cross-ideological coalition of people who actually *care* about making LA better instead of another four years of incompetence and decline donate to @nithyaforthecity.bsky.social here: secure.actblue.com/donate/nithy... 535830
Reposted by Andy FreelandSam @samd.bsky.social · 25/09/2026it’s genuinely fascinating how establishment democratic politics in big cities has become so ossified and incompetent that they’ve created a huge lane for the left to embrace good government reforms and build a broad coalition of socialists and technocrats 351992303
Reposted by Andy FreelandStan Oklobdzija @stano.bsky.social · 27/09/2026It's pretty cool that in California, the law is totally optional so long as you are at the wheel of a car. 0614
Reposted by Andy FreelandMax Dubler 🏳️🌈 @maxdubler.com · 23/09/2026Guy who has never been to New York City or the San Francisco Bay Area: rich people would NEVER move into modest homes built for the middle class. 1136131
Reposted by Andy Freelandjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 23/09/2026i think you can fairly say that the second trump administration is the most racist federal administration since woodrow wilson and honestly i'm not sure that it isn't more racist than wilson's 164113082110
Reposted by Andy FreelandUrban Land Rent 🇸🇴🚰 @urbanlandrent.bsky.social · 23/09/2026My new market rate apartment is affordable to households making ~80% AMI. It was built 5 years ago. I need every skeptic of “filtering” to spend five minutes looking at rentals on Zillow for Sacramento. Actually, let’s do it together: www.zillow.com/sacramento-c...zillow.com 414020
Reposted by Andy FreelandRadley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Just a remarkable choice, this headline. No other leader of any other country in the history of the UN would get that headline after giving an address with that quote. 451365337
Reposted by Andy FreelandMax Dubler 🏳️🌈 @maxdubler.com · 22/09/2026Calling an ADAS lane assist feature “autopilot” is a clear case of consumer fraud and I’d love to see Tesla prosecuted for it. 528634
Reposted by Andy FreelandMadeline Brozen @mbrozen.bsky.social · 22/09/2026This further pollution and health association is why I'm not OK with the housing compromise we are striking in Los Angeles where new housing is focused on corridors with more traffic-oriented pollution versus area-wide zoning. 021
Reposted by Andy FreelandHouserDave @houserdave.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Removing the work requirement for Medicaid that Trump's One Big Ugly Bill included needs to be a priority for next Dem admin in their first reconciliation bill. 022
Reposted by Andy FreelandYIMBYonese Liberation Army @dingbattitude.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Construction is happening in San Diego and Sacramento where rents are lower. The interest rates and construction cost problems are real but this is a self inflicted problem in Los Angeles thanks to ULA and high impact fees. www.latimes.com/california/s...latimes.comWhy L.A. developers aren't building more apartments, despite epic housing shortageL.A. needs more multifamily housing, but developers say it doesn't make sense to build apartments in the current market. 23212
Reposted by Andy FreelandStephen Jacob Smith @stephenjacobsmith.com · 21/09/2026"Most of the people The Times spoke to at the pool said they were Israeli settlers. Many said that knowing the water came at the expense of local Palestinian farms was part of the draw." www.nytimes.com/2026/09/20/w...nytimes.comIsraeli Tourist Trap ‘Herod’s Pool’ Is Draining Palestinians’ Land Dry (Gift Article)Israeli lawmakers have promoted visits to an ancient reservoir in the West Bank that was refilled this summer with water diverted from Palestinian-owned farms. 0359
Reposted by Andy FreelandYIMBYonese Liberation Army @dingbattitude.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Steel bollards for terrorist attacks that almost never happen, plastic posts for bicyclists who get hit every day. 14810
Reposted by Andy FreelandJames Hell Brooks @kleinman.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Taylor Lorenz is proof that Elon's ideological project at Twitter is working. Yeah, the lady who spends 18 hours a day online suddenly got more right wing after he took over, that was the point. 153544512
Reposted by Andy Freelandmtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 22/09/2026huge cuts to our healthcare and infrastructure, bags of cash for the gulf monarchies 1123252
Reposted by Andy FreelandStan Oklobdzija @stano.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Imagining the LA metro area with Paris' regional electric rail frequencies and coverage and then getting really mad. 56411
Reposted by Andy Freelandmtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 04/04/2025Being a billionaire in the United States feels basically identical whether you have $10B or $100B, but feels very different if you can sexually harass your au pair and she can quit and get a different job vs if she is desperate to keep her job and has to put up with it because the economy is shit. 454908990
Reposted by Andy FreelandGreg Greene (he/him/his) @greene.haus · 17/09/2026As the @wired.com article above makes clear, the main point of tech layoffs was never to 'rightsize' coders' 'make-believe' jobs. It was to take a chainsaw to careers — Elon Musk 'let that sink in!' style — to cow workers who survived from challenging their billionaire bosses. 111527
Reposted by Andy FreelandMadeline Brozen @mbrozen.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Preparing for a talk from our LA mobility wallet research - this quote is so sad about the reality of a constrained life without transportation. "I would say I don't go to visit my mom as frequently now. That would probably be the main one, like going to visit family. I just don't do it as often." 021
Reposted by Andy FreelandKen Tremendous @kentremendous.bsky.social · 18/09/2026The Republican Project for literally my entire life has been to warn us that the Federal Government was Too Powerful and Overreaching and would Strip Our Freedoms and now they have gotten into lockstep behind this loon who's like "I might fuck around and ban muffins" 261745422
Reposted by Andy FreelandWilliam B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Love the California ballot system. Does it produce good law? No. Does it reduce the power of special interests? Think again. But is it better for outcomes? Shut the fuck up it’s time to talk dialysis. 1330925
Reposted by Andy FreelandJosh Fruhlinger @jfruh.bsky.social · 16/09/2026beginning to think that the president of the united states, who has immense power over the world's largest economy, doesn't understand how the various flows of money and goods into and out of the country "work" per se 4627
Reposted by Andy FreelandGrudgie the Wail @grudgie.bsky.social · 17/09/2026The dumbest asshole in the country and the President need to be two different people moving forward 18195041815
Reposted by Andy FreelandMax Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Elon Musk: 20+ years here, hates American culture and most Americans, constantly undermines our multi-racial democracy as part of his obsession to restore the Apartheid of his foreign youth, says non-white people can't assimilate Malala Yousafzai: visits Philly once, instantly adopts local customs 685187849
Reposted by Andy FreelandW.E.D.em Boyz @leftistwonk.bsky.social · 15/09/2026It’s so awesome that every billionaire is insanely stupid 983630458
Reposted by Andy Freelandjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 15/09/2026every year this person tells some made up story about how DEI/affirmative action/international students ”stole” a college space from her children or their friends or whoever 1303050409
