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L.A. mayor Karen Bass says you can defeat NIMBYism by building less

The Bass approach of (a) standing foursquare with NIMBYs against density, and (b) forking $$$ out for temporary housing when there's no affordable permanent housing at the end of that bridge _has not worked_. It can't work, b/c throwing $$$ at a supply problem only pushes prices upward.

reason.com

A mayor who wants to see her city become affordable would lean into conflicts instead of shrinking from them.

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Under L.A. mayor's $300-million homeless program, 40% have returned to the street

Just got this text from the police union, and I have to say: If Karen Bass was going to fix homelessness in L.A. by spending hundreds of millions on Inside Safe, she would've fixed homelessness already. She hasn't, at all. Her attack squad doesn't have a leg to stand on.

latimes.com

Even as Mayor Karen Bass' signature homelessness initiative brings more people indoors, a growing number are winding up back on the street.

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It’s giving “Trump, who experts say is president, defies Democrats, which experts say is the name of a political party in a country that experts call the United States, by diverting dollars, which experts say is a currency, to South America from Europe—which experts describe as separate continents.”

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Greg Greene (he/him/his) @greene.haus · 11h

Right: is it just me, or does the word ‘Constitution’ _not_ begin with ‘D’?

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… not in the Aella way though, please

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ve, the ghost of info past @vortexegg.com · 13h

People need to understand the people leading the AI industry, transhumanist/longtermist/EA movements, and tech broadly, as died-in-the-wool pseudoscientists, denialists (climate change, the holocaust), and crank purveyors of conspiritualist woo of the highest order. The height of Rationalism.

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Greg Greene (he/him/his) @greene.haus · 13h

Gonna go to the city council and pitch shadow as "cost-free climate control," wish me luck and have someone cover my six

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Greg Greene (he/him/his) @greene.haus · 13h

"The current level of political animosity is exactly what one would expect to see if an extremist faction attempted to rescind the hard-earned rights of the vast majority of the country’s citizens." – @lilymasonphd.bsky.social, in the Journal of Democracy 🎯 muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...

On these issues, the parties have become increasingly divided. By 2024, Republicans scored significantly higher, on average, than Democrats and independents on racial resentment against black Americans, belief that women’s place is in the home, endorsement of Christian nationalism, and belief in “replacement theory” (the conspiracy theory that immigrants are part of a Democratic Party plot to replace white Christian Americans). These party differences did not exist in the 1980s, when Democrats were more racially resentful, Republicans were less misogynistic, and neither party broadly supported Christian nationalism or replacement theory.

From this perspective, the “both sides” frame falls apart. The problem is not that the parties are divided. The problem is the existential threat that a reempowered ethnonationalist strain poses to pluralistic U.S. democracy writ large. The current level of political animosity is exactly what one would expect to see if an extremist faction attempted to rescind the hard-earned rights of the vast majority of the country’s citizens. The only way to re-oppress most of a country is to use anti-democratic and authoritarian tactics. And the only way to oppose those tactics is to push back as a population and clearly reject them. This is the argument happening in the United States, and its pathology is not anger—it is the movement to undermine a generation of rights.

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Greg Greene (he/him/his) @greene.haus · 13h

(*sigh*) … as I was saying.

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Greg Greene (he/him/his) @greene.haus · 14h

Right, but it’s a private-sector led bet rather than an attempt to minimize the seriousness of the issue with public policy. That’s the part I lament.

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Greg Greene (he/him/his) @greene.haus · 14h

… alright, so we’re getting “go back to Africa” before the N-word. Let’s adjust our betting sheets accordingly.

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Greg Greene (he/him/his) @greene.haus · 14h

… and, with a sigh: yep.

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Greg Greene (he/him/his) @greene.haus · 15h

That's okay, of course — what could funding cost anyway, 2% interest? (*checks WSJ bond-rates chart, does spit take*)

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Timothy Burke @bubbaprog.xyz · 16h

concerning

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Greg Greene (he/him/his) @greene.haus · 16h

Indeed, but what sucks most is that the curse is on _us_.

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Greg Greene (he/him/his) @greene.haus · 16h

I would sincerely like to get off this f––ing ride.

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Voters will be glad to see Trump laser-focused on issues of affordability as stratospheric gas prices continue to hit consumers walle— … wait, what?

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Okay, BRB — going to chuckle and slap my knee for a bit.

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Yep. The objective is to reform the institution as thoroughly as one can, to set it on firmer ground for decades to come, _without_ constitutional amendment. Insistence on going through the veto point of bipartisanship is just a spineless way of campaigning to keep to status quo.

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(… and, as noted here, the Spencer Cox unity tour/ presidential exploratory pre-launch rides on a self-serving airbrushing of his record.)

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Ah, here comes the book tour. So predictable — and tiresome.

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Greg Greene (he/him/his) @greene.haus · 18h

Did he write that Trump has an MBA, though? (I don't say this as hard pushback, I just don't see how it bears mentioning.)

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I can’t believe you would insult a gorilla like that, Kevin

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Greg Greene (he/him/his) @greene.haus · 18h

“Legislation to set an 18-year term limit”: the thing about Third Way’s plan riding on a term limit is that a term limit can’t be set by a law! It requires a constitutional amendment. Wasting energy for reform on a plan that’d be tossed after years of litigation would be malpractice.

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Greg Greene (he/him/his) @greene.haus · 18h

An 18-year term limit and an ethics code … I’m trying to imagine what the mission brief for this court-reform plan was: “nothing, but make it sexy”?

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Yep. One execution in Alabama happened on prom night, way back when I lived there, and news stories recounted the lights flickering in the high school auditorium when the switch was thrown. Sick business.

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"We just love to kill": yep, and this cuts far quicker to the chase than I did.

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Death row inmate Pike's execution halted after nearly two hours • Tennessee Lookout

Anyway, Tennessee — extending its legendary run in 2026 after stripping Black lawmakers of cmte. assignments, gerrymandering a Black-majority district from existence, and siccing ICE and the Nat'l Guard on Memphis — just spent two hours trying to "hurt the people [it] needs to be hurting. Wretched.

tennesseelookout.com

A three-judge panel of the 6th Circuit Court of Appeals temporarily blocked the execution of Christa Pike in Tennessee on Wednesday.

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Tennessee unable to carry out the execution by lethal injection of Christa Gail Pike, witnesses say

There's always been a sour, atavistic energy to capital punishment, made vivid to me w/ stories on local news as a kid about Alabama's electric chair, 'Yellow Mama.' Some just thrill at the thought of the state — to quote a Trump voter from 2019 — "hurting the people [it] needs to be hurting."

apnews.com

Media witnesses say Tennessee officials were unable to carry out the execution of Christa Gail Pike for a 1995 murder on Wednesday.

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The thing about the death penalty has always been that it relies on an infallibility — after all, there's no reversing the punishment once administered — that no state in human civilization has ever achieved. But now there's another, rhyming problem: the state can't even properly administer it.

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[ME, thinking of pundits & editors who’ve given Hanania a platform:] (*mumbles some bars from Ice-T’s “You Played Yourself,” idly*)

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A bit of that too, but I hesitated to say it.

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It’s a little bit Spacey, and a little bit Jeff Bezos.

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Stipulating that I agree w/ the below: @annehelen.bsky.social wrote once re: how ideology rarely announces itself as ideology. With white supremacism, we have a more interesting specimen: ideology that folks of acuity find impossible to see as ideology, even when adherents shout it.

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Also — speaking as somebody raised in Alabama — get a f––ing load of these people.

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Susan Rinkunas @susanrinkunas.com · 30/09/2026

People who want to ban abortion want to ban it everywhere, full-stop — flowered words about 'leaving abortion to the states' notwithstanding.

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To recap: three GOP-led states that wanted the Supreme Court to overturn Roe v. Wade in order to "send abortion back to the states" are now asking the Court to strike down abortion protections in blue states

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Imagine consciously adopting ‘The Kremlin Guide to Warfighting’ as a how-to manual after that three-day special military operation in Ukraine (2022-?). Just remarkable (derogatory).

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