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The PUBLIC COMMENT 2026 California Voter Guide — Part 1

There’s always a lot going on in California’s statewide elections, so this year I thought I’d walk through all the major races at PUBLIC COMMENT publiccomment.blog/p/the-public...

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How I'm voting in this year's statewide races

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Sam @samd.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

it is quite confusing that “inclusionary zoning” is not the opposite of “exclusionary zoning”, but actually functions as a tool of exclusionary zoning

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Patrick Wyman @patrickwyman.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I talk about this a lot in "Lost Worlds" - the world didn't begin with people alive today, and it won't end with people today. Apocalypticism is a wonderful way of making it so you don't have to think about the real long-term consequences of your actions. If it's all going to end, why think further?

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See also Yudkowsky and the other AI doomers

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The thing about the florid apocalypticism you sometimes encounter on this site is that a lot of people are less horrified by literal civilizational collapse than by the notion that our descendents are just going to keep muddling through and in less than a century nobody will remember us.

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Left-NIMBYs love to pit welfare state expansion against land use reform, but the latter can 1) can achieve significant poverty reductions 2) without means testing or administrative burdens, and 3) at a net gain for the public budget, which can then be used to expand the welfare state.

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The PUBLIC COMMENT 2026 California Voter Guide — Part 1

There’s always a lot going on in California’s statewide elections, so this year I thought I’d walk through all the major races at PUBLIC COMMENT publiccomment.blog/p/the-public...

publiccomment.blog

How I'm voting in this year's statewide races

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Rebuilding Our Cities — And Our Democracy

If you're in the Bay Area, mark your calendars: December 9, I'll be holding an event at Clio's bar/bookstore to celebrate the publication of my book, with special guests Natalie Foster and Asm. Buffy Wicks. $33 gets you both a ticket and the book itself! www.eventbrite.com/e/build-or-d...

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Build or Die

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Smart to balance out a groyper candidate with a klan running mate

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The Housing Shortage Is a Major Driver of Poverty

"In the states examined in this analysis, a drop of approximately 20% in inflation-adjusted rents—as happened in Austin, Texas, and Minneapolis after those cities made reforms—could reduce poverty by 18% to 26% and child poverty by 21% to 38%." www.pew.org/en/research-...

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Housing costs are usually the largest item in a household’s budget and can determine a family’s financial stability.

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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 29/09/2026

The Talmud teaches that anyone who sustains one soul, has sustained an entire world. For generations, Jewish New Yorkers have sustained our city. Today, we are launching the first-ever municipal Strategy to Combat Antisemitism.

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Senator Scott Wiener @scottwiener.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The Governor just signed my bill to allow people to sue ICE, Border Patrol, and other federal agents for violating people’s constitutional rights. Starting immediately, people can sue federal agents retroactive to abuse occurring in March 2025.

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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I wish there was a way to figure out which of my donations got me on all these spam lists so I could never donate to those causes again

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right, yes. one of the basic problems is that they think that thinking about something really hard is a type of sampling, and that you actually don't need to sample anything to get information, and that there is no difference between thinking about something and doing it.

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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Whenever you see a pollster or consultant give a take like this, it’s always worth following the money. In this case, Emanuel has paid Anzalone’s firm nearly $300k (maybe more but that’s what I found so far). A consultant class is devouring the Dem Party www.elections.il.gov/CampaignDisc...

John Anzalone &
@JohnAnzo
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Underestimate @RahmEmanuel at your own risk.
He knows how to win. He knows how to fight.
And he knows how to message.
And no one will out work him. Regardless of whether he wins the Democratic nomination in 2028 he will make an impact on the race. You can be sure of that. Don't take your eyes off of him. At the minimum, learn from him.
Rahm Emanuel Makes His 2026 Play
Rahm Emanuel Makes His 2026 Play
From nytimes.com
6:47 AM • 9/26/26 • 274K Views

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Congrats to the Manhattan Institute for another work of penetrating scholarship

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seeing a lot of discussion about this and like: the reason the poster did a screenshot with no link is that if you actually search for the article you'd learn that this bill 1) has nothing to do with Zohran Mamdani 2) was introduced in committee back in May and didn't go anywhere

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California's ballot proposition system is not *only* a rent-seeking venue but it is largely for rent-seeking disguised as unmediated democracy

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Marin NIMBYs explaining that they oppose an affordable housing project in Mill Valley because of their sincere commitment to desgregation

Elizabeth Holmes in the trailer for You Can See Everything

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ceej @ceej.online · 27/09/2026

ANATOMY OF A FALL is an incredible movie with a hypnotic central performance and a dog that should have been nominated for best supporting actor

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the tech titan backlash to “woke dei hr ladies” makes a lot more sense now huh

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Rory Blank @roryblank.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

people on some parts of the internet are having a really hard time dealing with the movie Primetime and it reminded me of this post.

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Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I am skeptical of the most florid claims being made about AI's destructive potential, but I do think we need to heavily regulate AI for the sole reason that I would like to hear less about all of these people.

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Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Predictable response to a movie for adults that doesn't instruct you in how to feel at every given moment.

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Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

PRIMETIME is really very good, falls just short of being genuinely great. I think there are individual scenes that could have benefitted from a little more visual restraint, but the overall effect was gripping and sticks to your brain for a while afterward. Incredible cast.

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Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

The cynicism and chutzpah of Marin County NIMBYs never fails to take my breath away www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/arti...

Opponents call the unofficial area East Mill Valley. It is home to all six of the city’s existing income-restricted developments. Though less wealthy and white than Mill Valley’s west-side neighborhoods, it remains affluent by regional standards, with a median household income of about $147,000, a median home price of about $1.5 million and a non-Hispanic white population share of about 65%.

“We are in favor of affordable housing,” said Gary Batroff, president of Friends of Hauke Park, which includes hundreds of members, many of whom live in the Enchanted Knolls neighborhood that overlooks the proposed site. “But if the point is to be inclusive, where do you want to include people? Do you want to include them on the edge of a park, on the edge of town? Or do you want to put them on a main street?”

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Really digging the new Julia Jacklin and Blondshell records. Big day for sad girl music (laudatory).

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Could someone check the cheese drawer to see how that colby is doing

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2/ or going in or out of the city. Literally everyone who lives here knows this. AND I'M A CAR OWNER!

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I feel like people outside NYC don't really get how cars work in NYC. Especially in Manhattan. Basically no sane person drives a car *within* Manhattan except if like you need to move something from one place to another, or possibly w newborn in a car seat. You either have a commercial vehicle ...

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Ostrich and 12.5k others @justostrich.com · 25/09/2026

The whole newsroom found it relatable because they're all currently interviewing for new jobs

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Andy @ndy.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

All The President’s Men but it’s 90 minutes of Dustin Hoffman asking beleaguered Committee To Reelect staffers whether they’d wear sneakers to a wedding.

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"The administration has essentially declared war on car owners...They are replacing parking spots with bike corrals and trash enclosures, escalating ticketing activity"

Step 1: Gut the entire newsroom Step 2: Convert the opinion section into MAGA Pravda Step 3: Desperately try to compensate for subscriber losses by plagiarizing circa 2014 Buzzfeed

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Why We Should Abandon the Term “Working Class”

What an odd criticism. When liberals point out that housing is significantly cheaper in Texas than it is in California, they're typically not suggesting that Texan governance is superior across every dimension. newrepublic.substack.com/p/why-we-sho...

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In the latest episode, Perry is joined by Monica Potts, staff writer at The New Republic covering class politics, to discuss why “working class” has become a meaningless catch-all in political journal...

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Going back in time to tell college-aged me that one day I'm going to think the stars of that Twilight movie are two of the finest actors of their generation

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There's this really odd pattern with Bari Weiss, JD Vance, Richard Hanania etc, where they rise to prominence because their main skill is cultivating the friendship of wealthy patrons, but it's impossible to figure out how they do it because they constantly exude a pungent strain of anti-charisma.

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The great thing about this bit is that it vaguely resembles self-deprecating humor in form, but the actual content is personal aggrievement and a martyr complex.

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