Reposted by Patty Humemayorsoffice.nyc.gov @mayorsoffice.nyc.gov · 14/01/2026You probably don't know what SEQRA is - but you should know that it's slowing down the housing that we need. Deputy Mayor Leila Bozorg is here to explain why reforming it is key to cutting red tape and building more housing. 432765
Reposted by Patty HumeStephen Jacob Smith @stephenjacobsmith.com · 27/11/2025Still thinking about this article. It’s always been a sore spot in YIMBY circles that so many progressive foundations pour money into NIMBYism, and I’m glad it’s finally being aired in public. Keep talking about it. www.insidephilanthropy.com/home/philant...insidephilanthropy.comPhilanthropy Needs to Pick a Side on the Housing Construction DebateDespite California’s severe housing shortage, foundations are still funding on the wrong side of the housing fight there, guest author Ned Resnikoff writes. 842370
Reposted by Patty HumeAndrew Reeves @andrewsshi.bsky.social · 13/07/2025I really hate that in North America your two choices are apparently, "It is illegal to build housing" and, "The Southern Baptist Convention owns your uterus." 37714
Reposted by Patty HumeSophia Babai @swingingstorm.bsky.social · 04/07/2025My mom and stepdad are from the same diaspora group as Zohran Mamdani’s dad (same like “my stepdad was kicked out of the same town and knows some of his classmates”) and apparently the New York Times doesn’t understand how diaspora works, so I am going to tell you a little about my mom’s people! 238121883445
Reposted by Patty HumeJacob Bogage @jacobbogage.bsky.social · 21/06/2025👀 Scoop: Trump and Republicans want USPS to sell off its brand new EVs and chargers. That would mean literally **ripping up post office parking lots** to auction off assets with no private-sector value. It’s buried in the Senate’s “One Big Beautiful Bill.” www.washingtonpost.com/business/202... 19534391993
Patty Hume @pattyhume.bsky.social · 18/06/2025Sale of gov land could impact some communities a lot more than others. There is a ton of BLM land in the hi dez #joshuatree #29palms www.deserttrumpet.org/p/senate-flo...deserttrumpet.orgSenate Floats Auction of 1000s of Acres of Morongo Basin Public LandLand near Section 6 and other local landmarks placed on BLM land privatization chopping block 031
Reposted by Patty Humematt tuckerbaum @mrtuckerbaum.bsky.social · 16/06/2025My god. 6 MILLION acres of public lands in Oregon, including the vast majority of our national forests, will be sold in a fire sale if the MAGA budget passes. 4615911063
Patty Hume @pattyhume.bsky.social · 14/06/2025Biggest turnout out I’ve ever seen in Joshua Tree maybe 500 021
Reposted by Patty HumeUnited Farm Workers @ufw.bsky.social · 11/06/2025We feed you. They hunt us. 11933467714774
Reposted by Patty Humejamelle @jamellebouie.net · 09/06/2025what people seem to believe is that there is a large number of criminal, layabout immigrants who can be easily found and deported. they support doing so snd are dismayed by the deportation of otherwise law abiding people. the problem is that the criminal group is imaginary! 313129563319
Reposted by Patty HumeIndivisible Westside LA ❌👑 @indivisiblewestsidela.com · 08/06/2025Flyer to share 064
Reposted by Patty HumeStan Oklobdzija @stano.bsky.social · 24/05/2025Just finished "Abundance" and that fact that any of it is controversial just illustrates how hosed the Democratic Party is. Building more homes, generating more clean energy and developing a mass transit network is the easiest and most obvious thing that blue states ought to be doing right now. 521208171
Reposted by Patty Humethe beggars out of here getter @milesklee.bsky.social · 04/05/2025“The whole thing feels like Black Mirror.” “He would listen to the bot over me.” “It gave my husband the title of ‘spark bearer’ because he brought it to life.” Relationships are being destroyed thanks to spiritual mania, supernatural delusions, and arcane prophecy — all fueled by AI chatbots:rollingstone.comPeople Are Losing Loved Ones to AI-Fueled Spiritual FantasiesMarriages and families are falling apart as people are sucked into fantasy worlds of spiritual prophecy by AI tools like OpenAI's ChatGPT 962186600
Reposted by Patty HumeDr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 27/04/2025and mostly because we *still* refuse to fucking build! 526942
Reposted by Patty HumeAcyn @acyn.bsky.social · 24/04/2025Newsom: In 2023, Californians contributed $83.1 billion more to the federal government than we received back. And for your viewers: that other state—Texas—took $71.1 billion more than it contributed to the federal government. California: $83 billion, contributor. Texas: taker. 731213047183
Reposted by Patty HumeSenator Scott Wiener @scottwiener.bsky.social · 24/04/2025There is no credible progressive argument against building a ton of new homes at all income levels. Opposing making it easier to build new homes isn’t progressive. It’s super conservative & an argument for a permanent shortage & permanent high rents. 23977204
Reposted by Patty HumeStephen Judkins @stephenjudkins.bsky.social · 23/04/2025The craziest thing about the California housing crisis is how it's likely the substantively single most important issue facing the state yet still has extremely low political salience among Democrats. It's like they want to pretend it's not a problem 2059775
Reposted by Patty HumeRobert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 19/04/2025Last night was the 250th anniversary of Paul Revere's midnight ride to warn the Minutemen of approaching British troops. I want to take a moment to share an excerpt from the Declaration of Independence's grievances against King George III. Remind you of anyone? 7233213012486
Reposted by Patty Humemtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 17/04/2025I think saying "in America, everyone is innocent until proven guilty" works better for low-info normies than saying "due process" does 1095534807
Reposted by Patty HumeThe Coalition to Protect America's National Parks @protectnps.bsky.social · 06/04/2025Visitors are eager to explore national parks this year. But many are asking, is it responsible, or even safe, to visit right now? Coalition Chair Phil Francis shared insights w/ SFGATE, urging people to plan ahead, be self-sufficient, & thank every ranger they meet. www.sfgate.com/national-par...sfgate.comNational parks are in crisis. Should you visit or not?Experts weigh in on whether national park visits will help or hinder the parks themselves. 093
Patty Hume @pattyhume.bsky.social · 28/03/2025hyperallergic.com/998662/a-gro...hyperallergic.comA Group of Friends Walks Into a Mall, and Stays for Four YearsWas it a crime? A prank? A work of art? A new documentary unveils the full story of an artist collective’s secret mall apartment, and other ephemeral actions. 030
Reposted by Patty HumeJohn Skiles Skinner @skiles.blue · 21/03/2025I believe the firings and the AI have the same purpose: to get humans out of the loop of evaluating contracts. To automate the process of spending government money. To rig up a computer that sends taxpayer dollars directly to the broligarchy. 5646691135
Reposted by Patty Humeghost malone ergo propter bones @proptermalone.bsky.social · 19/03/2025this is exactly the right answer imo. it's going to hurt like hell for things to get broken, so bad that we wouldn't ever choose it, but once they're broken you get to build free of all the crud of path dependency and that's an opportunity. 631021182
Reposted by Patty HumeStreet Art Utopia @streetartutopia.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 19/03/2025Thousands of people are ditching Tesla. Here’s one of them with a message you can see from space. Location: Black Rock Sands, Wales, UK By "Led By Donkeys" 24090982880
Reposted by Patty HumeAngus Johnston @angus.bsky.social · 19/03/2025As always, not a lawyer, but one thing that leaps out at me about how things are going down in the courts right now is that the US court system is not designed to be responsive to a crisis like this one. A crisis like this one is not what it's FOR. 663545731
Reposted by Patty HumeBill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 19/03/2025“Less medical research, a pull-back on life-saving vaccines, turning away from science and embracing folk medicine. Make America Healthy Again. Again. Meaning: America used to be ‘healthy’ and now is not. This is the stupidest thing I’ve ever heard.” open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...open.substack.comMAHA Is a FraudAmerica has never been healthier. Going backwards is going to mean more people getting sick and dying. 368100162335
Reposted by Patty HumeDave Weigel @daveweigel.bsky.social · 19/03/2025Talked to Tim Walz as he campaigned in Wisconsin. Thought his answer to one Q I'd had for Dems - if you come back in 2028, do you rebuild everything DOGE broke? - was interesting. "I think it's an opportunity." www.semafor.com/article/03/1... 1894578899
Reposted by Patty HumeJonathan Berk 🏠 @berkie1.bsky.social · 11/03/2025“There is a policy failure haunting blue states. It has become too hard to build and too expensive to live in the places where Democrats govern.” @ezrakleinbot.bsky.social 1411529
Reposted by Patty HumeJenny Cohn @jennycohn.bsky.social · 16/03/2025Balaji Srinivasan suggests giving Elon Musk “control of a huge swath of land surrounding Starbase, Texas” & designate that land as “a military base or … similar, so that [Musk] can fence it off & determine at his sole discretion who can enter.” Then replicate in other states w/ other Tech Bros. 1/ 34820861042
Reposted by Patty HumeAlt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 15/03/2025Trump has rescinded a proclamation that established the Chuckwalla National Monument and the Sáttítla National Monument in California. 1873462941
Reposted by Patty HumeMikel Jollett @mikeljollett.bsky.social · 01/03/2025HEY EVERYONE REMEMBER WHEN TRUMP WAS IMPEACHED FOR DENYING AID TO UKRAINE BECAUSE HE WANTED ZELENSKY TO LIE AND SAY BAD THINGS ABOUT BIDEN AND ZELENKSY WOULDN’T DO IT? Maybe literally one fucking American newspapers could mention this in their, “think pieces,” about what happened yesterday. 403303028504
Reposted by Patty HumeYashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 28/02/2025In an extraordinary display of public support, heads of state, heads of government, and foreign ministers from all over Europe and Canada are posting in support of Ukraine in response to the Oval Office meeting with Trump, Zelenskyy, and Vance. 363161484955
Reposted by Patty HumeAtul Gawande @agawande.bsky.social · 27/02/2025Rubio terminated 5800 USAID contracts – more than 90% of its foreign aid programs – in defiance of the courts. Here’s a list of just some of the lifesaving awards that were terminated. Nearly all were Congressionally mandated. They’ve saved millions of lives. 🧵 420112326199
Patty Hume @pattyhume.bsky.social · 25/02/2025Finally rocking some new glasses! My first time having progressive lens. It’s amazing to be able to see so much more detail at different distances. Trying out Flashes this morning. Hope it catches on as an Insta alternative. Give it a try & post something 2170
Reposted by Patty Humelukelukeluke @lukelukeluke.bsky.social · 25/02/2025Congratulations to @flashes.blue for their official launch on the App Store 🎉🎉🎉 It’s an instagram alternative built on the AT protocol 🙌 all the visual scrolling with none of the Meta algorithm 293106871784
Reposted by Patty HumeNed Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 24/02/2025Unless overcome, blue state NIMBYism is going to grow Republicans' electoral college advantage and price millions of people from targeted populations out of the opportunity to find sanctuary under anti-MAGA legal regimes. 10884211
Reposted by Patty HumeRachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 24/02/2025Thanks to @joshtpm.bsky.social for posting a link to this piece this weekend -- absolutely worth reading: www.hidesertstar.com/deserttrail/...hidesertstar.comJay Obernolte preaches deficit reduction, supports Musk in raucous Yucca Valley town hallYUCCA VALLEY — Congressman Jay Obernolte spoke to a crowd that erupted in boos and chants like “No King” Saturday morning in the community center. 1963019657
Reposted by Patty HumeThe Desert Trumpet @deserttrumpet.bsky.social · 24/02/2025The Morongo Basin joined the nationwide wave of raucous town hall meetings on Saturday. Residents let Rep. Obernolte know their feelings about federal funding cuts breaking into chants such as “Do Your Job” and “No Kings.” We have details including photos and video.open.substack.comTown Holler: Rep. Obernolte Meets ResistanceIn a fractious community meeting, more than 200 Morongo Basin residents insist that their representative tell the truth and do his job 0106
Reposted by Patty HumeGrudgie the Wail @grudgie.bsky.social · 23/02/2025NO KINGS is extremely effective because it’s simple, an extremely widely held belief, and gets right to the core of Trump’s assault without having to use words lots of people don’t understand 12778411841
Reposted by Patty HumeCatherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 21/02/2025Median age of homebuyers just hit a new record high of 56 (Via Torsten Slok) 881178302
Reposted by Patty HumeCarolyn Kellogg @paperhaus.bsky.social · 10/02/2025An ash-filled lot filled with the rubble of a burned home in Altadena just sold for $549,000 in cash, LAist reports. 55316
Reposted by Patty HumeAlt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 07/02/2025USAID, currently being shut down by Elon Musk, purchases about $2 billion annually in rice, wheat, lentils, and peas from American farmers. 12968021331
Patty Hume @pattyhume.bsky.social · 07/02/2025www.thebulwark.com/p/how-to-win...thebulwark.comHow to Win the USAID FightRules for Democrats. 000
Reposted by Patty HumeChris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 04/02/2025This is really astute. www.unpopularfront.news/p/what-happe...unpopularfront.newsWhat Happened HereIt's Very Simple Dialectics 64827172
Reposted by Patty HumeBrian Barrett @brbarrett.bsky.social · 02/02/2025This is a great time to follow WIRED journalists here bsky.app/starter-pack... 17336129
Reposted by Patty HumeKara Swisher @karaswisher.bsky.social · 03/02/2025This by Ezra Klein is really spot on: “You never want a power grab to look like a power grab.” It looks like a power grab. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/02/o...nytimes.comOpinion | Don’t Believe HimLook closely at the first two weeks of Donald Trump’s second term and you’ll see something very different than what he wants you to see. 701826358