Jake Gotta @jakegotta.bsky.social · 16hHow about this one? August of 2024 apnews.com/article/trum... 0100
Reposted by Jake GottaWilliam B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 17hif you take the other side of any of those arguments you are implicitly accepting that there is a real debate here. there is not. the world's richest man let food grain aid rot on shelves for basically no reason that is even remotely defensible. 485292
Reposted by Jake GottaWilliam B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 17hremember: it saved no net money, social services US citizens are getting cut, and left the US in a weaker place geopolitically. none of the debates about fiscal responsibility, obligation to US citizens first, or 'hard choices' actually apply. they're all bullshit. killed people for nothing at all. 373612846
Reposted by Jake GottaEric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 21hStill kind of inconceivable how many people died or will die because of the death of USAID. And the world’s richest man did it almost as a joke 581820361
Reposted by Jake GottaCameron 🇺🇸🗽🦅 @cameroncorduroy.bsky.social · 29/09/2026speaking of closing tax loopholes, if the IRS was able to collect all taxes owed since 2000 it could mean today's national debt would be $8 trillion lighter some new fiscal analysis from yours truly, link below 5410109
Reposted by Jake GottaMax Dubler 🏳️🌈 @maxdubler.com · 05/06/2025I know America can build things quickly and efficiently because we do it for cars all the time. The slow, arduous permitting and construction processes we have for public transit, bike infrastructure, green energy, and housing are a policy choice that we are free to stop making whenever we want. 627361
Jake Gotta @jakegotta.bsky.social · 29/09/2026POV: you said something critical of Inclusionary Zoning on bluesky 1140
Jake Gotta @jakegotta.bsky.social · 28/09/202615 years after I folded down the back of my first vans, they finally did it Presenting: the Vancla 080
Reposted by Jake GottaRobert Downen @robertdownen.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Wu on redistricting if Dems get control: "You do the exact same thing that they did to you until they say mercy" and agree to national, bipartisan reform. 291741336
Reposted by Jake Gottamaple cocaine @maplecocaine.bsky.social · 25/09/2026The thing about trying to appeal to right wing bigots is that right wing bigots are all stupid idiots who get 100% of their news from propagandists so they will never actually find out that you were trying to appeal to them in the first place 7164891219
Reposted by Jake GottaLawrence Vulis @lvulis.bsky.social · 24/09/2026E-bikes are wild. It truly is a small car replacement. The efficiency is absolutely nuts. My 750 Wh battery has a 50 mi range. It's like 10x more efficient than an EV, don't need to pay for parking, etc. Yet we're unable to effectively get money out to share this technology. 2558
Reposted by Jake GottaAdam Rogers @jetjocko.bsky.social · 23/09/2026A lot of things make me feel kind of dumb, including how to take at face value the logic of “we are a multibillion dollar transnational industry building a vengeful elder god, and we definitely won’t stop unless you regulate us the way we want, which is a secret.” 542081583
Reposted by Jake GottaNed Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 23/09/2026The point @joshtpm.bsky.social makes here about why the Beltway press misread the national climate so badly aligns very much with my case for why journalists and politicos should quit Twitter out of self-interest. (Gift link) talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/we-di...talkingpointsmemo.comWe Didn’t Know Until This Day … Twitter Was the Echo Chamber All AlongDaniel Drezner says we are now in the Wile E. Coyote phase... 425672
Jake Gotta @jakegotta.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Bans / limits on short term rentals do almost nothing to impact housing supply but they DO impact *hotel prices* which is why every hotel labor union (and the politicians they donate to) are so quick to jump to that “solution” to the housing problem 1262
Reposted by Jake GottaSean @stholeary.bsky.social · 24/09/2026You can trace the decline of American society through DraftKings/FanDuel ads. In 2015 when they first infected sports, fans were so mad they stopped. In 2026 every league & network gets a cut, so fans are still mad but we're forced to suffer. The customer is always wrong, now. 701525280
Reposted by Jake Gottamtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 24/09/2026The New York Times has now run two prominently placed stories about Zohran Mamdani's comms department coordinating with unpaid influencers as if it is a huge scandal. Will they cover Trump using our tax dollars to buy literal campaign ads as if it is equivalent scandalous? If not why not? 171321296
Reposted by Jake GottaAaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Incredible. First Secretary Mullin claimed that DHS had identified 15,903 noncitizens on Nevada’s voter roll. Then DHS officials told a skeptical Nevada, no no no, that’s just people we flagged. Here are the names of 185 people we KNOW aren’t citizens. All 185 were citizens. DHS got 100% wrong. 21188083853
Reposted by Jake GottaPlayboy @playboy.com · 24/09/2026Guess what, they're already coming for birth control. From Katie Miller, Stephen Miller's wife calling it "poison" to her followers and other influencers promoting non-scientific messaging, our Playboy Gen Z sex survey found that 33% of young women are quitting because of social media.playboy.com33% of Young Women Quit Birth Control Because of Social MediaRed-pill content is taking aim at hormonal birth control—and it's working. Playboy's 2026 Gen Z Sex Survey investigates. 7253102
Reposted by Jake Gottadr. rich traditions, JD @helldude.bsky.social · 24/09/2026if you don't know your own address it's because you specifically don't have to know it. people that detached from reality shouldn't be in a position to drive social policy for those of us living in reality 331809350
Reposted by Jake GottaJames Stout @jamesstout.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Jesse Singal et al probably make more money than I do and their whole thing is pointing and laughing at people. It's deeply anti social and I can see why it generates a distrust of the press. 11476
Reposted by Jake GottaBrad Ewing @bradleyewing.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Once you see how many local press outlets put their thumb on the scale for anti-housing coverage, you can't unsee it. Housing opponents flood the zone with arguments that are not grounded in data, and reporters and editors take these claims at face value. 45012
Jake Gotta @jakegotta.bsky.social · 24/09/2026From what I gather, polymarket et. al thought calling their gambling app “futures markets” would shield them from laws banning & regulating gambling But guess what! State attorneys general aren’t stupid and it’s obviously gambling! www.reuters.com/world/new-yo...reuters.comNew York lawsuit says Polymarket's prediction markets are illegal gamblingNew York's attorney general sued Polymarket on Thursday, escalating her battle against prediction markets, an industry that she says violates state laws against illegal gambling. 091
Reposted by Jake Gottamtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 23/09/2026classic mainstream media move where Republicans sweep into power and you hire a bunch of Republican operatives because "they're better sourced with the administration" and then Dems sweep into power and you hire a bunch of Republican operatives "to keep the administration honest" 219824
Reposted by Jake GottaAdam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 23/09/2026I think it's very simple, the bosses agreed with Trump about "wokeness" and this was an excuse to purge anything associated with it bsky.app/profile/trac... 472419409
Reposted by Jake GottaAlanna dB @whoalansi.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Driving Parent shenanigans on bike bus this morning. • Not yielding to pedestrians ✅ • Cutting the corner to turn down the wrong side of the road ✅ • Splitting up a group of kids biking ✅ • Saving himself time and dropping his kid off quicker ❌ #yycbike #bikebus 7374
Jake Gotta @jakegotta.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Basically all fearmongering about legalization getting kids hooked on weed we’re not just overblown, they were completely wrong. Teen cannabis use is at all-time historic lows! norml.org/blog/2026/09... 2426
Reposted by Jake GottaErik Noonan @eriknoonan.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Cities should be paying people to bike. Cities should be buying people e-bikes. Cities should be rewarding people for convincing neighbors to ride bikes. Every trip by bike is a net financial gain socially. And it compounds, the more people who do it. 933080
Jake Gotta @jakegotta.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Good news: SANDAG is committing to building a rail connection to the airport Bad news: CEO Mario Orso doesn’t think it’s likely they’ll break ground by 2029 - when $350 million from an agreement with the airport to expand transit options expires www.kpbs.org/news/economy...kpbs.orgAs SANDAG moves forward with airport transit connection, board members push to speed up the processCity and county leaders are engaged in a bipartisan push for SANDAG to move faster on the airport transit connection or risk losing hundreds of millions in funding. 1103
Reposted by Jake GottaJake Anbinder @jakeanbinder.bsky.social · 22/09/2026you just don't get it. transplants are bad, unless they are immigrants in which case they are good, unless they work for tech in which case they are bad, unless their work involves content creation in which case they are good, unless the content creation involves AI in which case they are bad 756457
Reposted by Jake Gottalauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 21/09/2026"transplant discourse" always comes across as profoundly weird to me, someone who does not feel like i am "from" anywhere. but it's also not a big deal because i think this resolves itself pretty much instantly when people talk about their actual experiences with one another rather than generalizing 2669215
Reposted by Jake GottaJohn @johnbull.wtf · 21/09/2026Michael Jordan would have owned all of polymarket if he was in today's NBA. LeBron's only a half assed gambling King. Jordan WAS gambling 1923622
Reposted by Jake Gottaℳatt @matttomic.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Even with safeish picks, LeBron's parlay was a bust. So if you tailed him, you've now lost your money and you're mad at LeBron. When celebrities sell us shoes or Sprite the worst thing that can happen is we buy shoes or Sprite but LeBron James is now selling the Bankruptcy Machine 332075509
Reposted by Jake GottaNed Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Under the Wokou system, everyone who applies to relocate will be classified as either a transplant or an immigrant after extensive testing 940538
Jake Gotta @jakegotta.bsky.social · 21/09/2026We’ve got a great show for you today on Bluesky, a [spins wheel] “constructive postmodernist” is arguing [rolls dice] in favor of communist China-style internal migration controls due to [throws dart at board] climate-change induced regional water shortages. Buckle up! It’s gonna be a fun one 2180
Reposted by Jake GottaAndrew Bowen (he/him) @acbowen.bsky.social · 19/09/2026SANDAG recently forfeited $17.6 million in competitive state grant funding for 4 bike and pedestrian projects across San Diego County. It says the projects are still a priority. Buuuut it also didn’t apply for any active transportation grants this year, so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ www.kpbs.org/news/environ...kpbs.orgSANDAG returns $17.6 million in state funding for bike, pedestrian infrastructureThe transportation agency said the projects' costs had risen, and that it was unable to meet the grant deadlines. Bike advocates are frustrated. 67217
Reposted by Jake GottaNed Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Automatic traffic enforcement would fix this 2695
Reposted by Jake GottaAward-Winning Reporter Dave Colon @davecolon.bsky.social · 18/09/2026No no no this is not Temu Zohran Mamdani this guy is an actual Wario. He's Wohran Mamdani 4958
Reposted by Jake GottaMatt @tiredgenerally.bsky.social · 18/09/2026the american people seem agnostic on the campaign of ethnic cleansing against hispanics, the gutting of foreign aid, the overt corruption, and the bellicose attitude towards our allies so its good he made fuel too expensive for f-150 owners to avoid having to make more sensible life choices 1444
Reposted by Jake GottaJosephtheredengine|ACAB @newspaperbootla.bsky.social · 18/09/2026well if you break the law with a car it's fine because the car is the most holy thing in America 0214
Reposted by Jake GottaUrban Land Rent 🇸🇴🚰 @urbanlandrent.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Amon transpo policy people in state government and advocacy world it’s basically a consensus position that automated enforcement of traffic laws is racist. So more or less in pursuit of equity we shouldn’t have traffic laws. 6534
Jake Gotta @jakegotta.bsky.social · 17/09/2026The housing ladder, explained by Sir David Attenborough and some hermit crabs youtu.be/f1dnocPQXDQ?...youtu.beCrabs Trade Shells in the Strangest Way | BBC EarthYouTube video by BBC Earth 041
Jake Gotta @jakegotta.bsky.social · 17/09/2026It’s was mostly a glonzo issue but also CHP literally spent 6 years organizing multi-agency retail theft ring investigations and conducted major operations arresting thousands of suspects and recovering tens of millions in stolen good www.gov.ca.gov/2026/07/22/c...gov.ca.govCalifornia delivers major blow to organized retail theft, recovering $76.2 million in stolen goods since 2019 | Governor of California 120
Jake Gotta @jakegotta.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Really cannot stress enough how this is a direct result of the State of California saying “no more gas powered lawn equipment” and here we are Like, thats all it took. State says “this is banned now” and the market figured it out just fine! 411315
Jake Gotta @jakegotta.bsky.social · 16/09/2026“Not a centralized location” I don’t know, considering the east half of Solana Beach is like, literally a country club, I don’t know how much more “central” the station can get And oh no! Not housing near the beach! What a nightmare! 1202
Reposted by Jake GottaCalifornia YIMBY @cayimby.bsky.social · 16/09/2026A new UC Irvine study finds inclusionary zoning - requiring developers to include low-income units - cuts annual housing construction by nearly a third. Each affordable home IZ produces costs everyone else $800k in higher rents. calmatters.org/commentary/2... 1368
Reposted by Jake Gottatweety fish @sifu.tweety.fish · 16/09/2026saying "damn, GTA 6 is cheaper than a tank of gas" and making everybody mad just to feel something 254190
Reposted by Jake GottaDarren Buck @bikepedantic.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Over the same time horizon, these bike-inflicted fatalities and serious injuries comprised about 0.05% of all pedestrian KSIs, so obviously we're laser-focused on the pressing danger here. 1213
Reposted by Jake GottaLisa Halverstadt @lisahalverstadt.bsky.social · 16/09/2026NEW SAN DIEGO HOMELESSNESS DATA: The number of people becoming homeless in San Diego County outpaced the number moving into homes in August. The Regional Task Force on Homelessness reports that 1,093 people became homeless for the first time and 884 exited homelessness. 131
