Basically, Darrell Steinberg for governor is what I’m saying
06.03.2026 23:42
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Basically, Darrell Steinberg for governor is what I’m saying
Political will is one of those things that you can’t see upstream but is completely visible in the downstream product housesac.substack.com/p/to-end-a-h...
The fact that Sacramento is dramatically outbuilding San Jose even with rents ~50% lower should be a major red flag for Mahan
*and then devote your life to zealously ensuring that stays true
Definitely inspired here by @jamellebouie.net and @radiofreetom.bsky.social and @resnikoff.bsky.social and others and their valiant efforts to argue that "no, not all is lost"
Read the piece: open.substack.com/pub/protectd...
Which is why it really matters that the Trump admin is taking a hell of a lot of "Ls" recently.
Seriously — look at all these. They're getting cooked across the board.
In this piece, I try to explain precisely why it is that a leader can be so unchecked in some areas but not in others.
Simply: not all guardrails are the same. There's a spectrum from more-to-less permeable bulwarks, and we're still only *maybe* halfway through. That's not autocracy yet!
One of the most frustrating things about the American opposition right is the doomers who treat authoritarianism as a binary. It's not.
Yes, Trump has dangerously unchecked power—especially over things like warmaking. No, he is still *far* from all-powerful www.ifyoucankeepit.org/p/if-trump-c...
Correction. Orwell never said this. He did however, warn that: "political language... is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.” (That's Politics and the English Language, one of my favorite essays)
allow me to “tour” you on Kristi Noem’s luxury private plane
Kristi Noem's firing is a massive victory for democracy and the rule of law. Even in an autocratizing country, corruption, malevolence, cruelty, and incompetence still carry political costs. For Trump, those costs had become unbearable.
The authoritarian faction is losing. Keep going.
American traffic engineers likely kill more people every year than any other profession
JUST IN: A federal judge has barred Gov DeSantis from designating CAIR as a terrorist organization and punish those who associate with the group.
“Once again, Florida chooses political posturing over the First Amendment,” Judge Walker writes.
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Using an absolutely insane 8M (Caltrain modernization costs which had so much go wrong) a single track mile we could be electrifying 125 track miles a day.
Loving the competition between Oakland and Sacramento on which city can be more eager for 79
(current conversation in Sac city hall is about how quickly we can incorporate the standards into our own code and supersede the need for preemption… so I think we’re still winning)
Totally. It just seems notable how small the wave was considering how only 17% of the country got a booster this year
Curious for actual experts — is this consistent with the "COVID will eventually merges into the common cold milder coronavirus milieu over time" hypothesis? Or is vaccine efficacy still the main explanation? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coronav...
What's with the ominous background track?
Also seems like a heck of a lot of evacuees for a single stair residential building? Needed to model every apartment simultaneously having a party?
A US submarine sinking a lonely, dinky Iranian surface ship an ocean away from the theater of the main conflict—and 9000
miles from North America—makes it pretty clear the US is fighting a general war, without the declaration required by the Constitution. www.reuters.com/world/asia-p...
Logistics is woke. Supply is woke. End-state planning is woke. Force protection? Believe it or not, woke
And tell me that wouldn’t be *incredible* TV. Made for Cinderella stories!
So still an advantage to bad teams in the lottery — lower in the standings means more games to potentially win. But you gotta have heart, you gotta fight for it.
New NBA crazy idea for how to fix tanking. expand the play-in to include everyone. Seven straight back-to-back ladder games up the standings. Winner of the ladder makes the playoffs, and, for everyone else, draft lottery odds are determined by who wins the *most* ladder games.
But that's my point. If congressional leaders support a war, why aren't they interested in Congress authorizing that war?
God I hated that crossing when I lived there. Sigh
Try presidentialism, they said. It's so great, they said. Vigorous competition between rival leaders in different branches of government will provide healthy tension checking the exercise of power, they said.
I suppose it's almost certainly both.
I can't tell if Senate Republicans have completely abdicated on war powers because they've spinelessly abandoned their constitutional responsibilities in a way that would make the founders visibly ill...
...or if they just don't want to share the blame when this thing inevitably goes south.
