Andrew Talbot

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I wrote a piece for Business Insider about the trouble with HOAs www.businessinsider.com/abolish-hoas...

America's plague of tyrannical homeownerswww.businessinsider.com Florida is trying to crush the local dictators ruining homeowners' lives. The rest of America should follow suit.

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Old Fisherman's Wharf in Monterey, rehabbed for retail in 1969, vs. Stearns Wharf in Santa Barbara, which opened for retail in 1981 (after the Coastal Commission, which must approve coastal land use, and loves car parking, was formed).

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I like this op-ed a lot--it goes beyond just the impact of single-family zoning to explore new ways to get more abundant housing. #urbanismplus www.nytimes.com/2024/07/08/o...

Opinion | The American Elevator Explains Why Housing Costs Have Skyrocketedwww.nytimes.com An illness led Stephen Smith to study why America has so few elevators. What he learned explains why housing costs are so high.

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I just used an induction stove for the first time and why does anyone ever use gas? This is unbelievable. I am so completely pilled.

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When the center left and the left align to fight fascism, it goes a lot better for all of us than when we each just yell at the other to bend the knee.

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*MACRON'S GROUP PROJECTED TO WIN MORE SEATS THAN FAR RIGHT *LEFT ALLIANCE SET FOR 170-215 SEATS IN FRENCH VOTE: ESTIMATES *LE PEN'S GROUP SET FOR 110-158 SEATS IN FRENCH VOTE: ESTIMATES *FRENCH LEFT SET FOR SHOCK ELECTION VICTORY, PROJECTIONS SHOW

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JUST IN: Polls closed in France. Exit polls show surprise: —Left coalition (New Popular Front) projected first. (!) —Far-right (RN) has lost its bid to take power. Anti-RN front appears to have worked very well. —No bloc close to majority. Follow this 🧵 for results and more:

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MUNI funding is on the ballot! Fund the Bus

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this is amazing "The car industry has identified a few places on earth that do not know THE FREEDOM OF CAR DEPENDENCY. So they hired you to increase car sales and oil consumption. How? By building the greatest car parks ever! Turn neighborhoods into car parks"

Car Park Capital on Steamstore.steampowered.com The car industry needs you to design and build the greatest car parks that simple town life hasn't seen before. Introduce the need for car commuting and turn neighborhoods into car parks! Use propagan...

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List is final: 10 California Propositions for 2024: 2🏫School bond 3🏳️‍🌈Marriage Equality 4🌎Climate bond 5🏗️Easier to pass local bonds 6⚖️Ends Slavery 32💵$18 min wage 33🏠Rent Control 34🚫Limits AHF political activities 35🏥Medi-Cal funding 36🚨Increased drug & theft penalties 1/

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These stats are absolutely mind-blowing. nyc.streetsblog.org/2024/07/05/m...

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This 4th of July, take a little time to think about how the Left can try to reclaim patriotism from conservatives. Seems like the story of a country that cast off a king and fought a civil war to free the slaves is fertile ground given our present moment.

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I've become convinced that one of the biggest obstacles to better road design in commercial areas is well-off business owners who drive their BMW to work every day and find it impossible to imagine a customer who uses any other mode of conveyance to arrive at the shop.

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Wow amazing how the Saudis keep showing up in these stories where they offer illegal support to far right politicians.

Brazil's Bolsonaro indicted for alleged money laundering for undeclared diamonds from Saudi Arabia

Brazil's Bolsonaro indicted for alleged money laundering for undeclared diamonds from Saudi Arabiaapnews.com The indictment of former Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro for money laundering and criminal association in connection with undeclared diamonds from Saudi Arabia marked the far-right leader’s second formal accusation with more potentially in store.

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The U.S. now has more manufacturing: - jobs now than anytime in the last 18 years, since 2008. - job openings than anytime from 2000 to 2021.

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Environmentalism means blocking everything new that's not roads or cars calmatters.org/politics/202...

‘Nothing will be protected' — how California environmentalists killed a plan to fast-track 'green' energycalmatters.org A California ‘green’ bill to quicken environmental reviews for electrical grid upgrades is quashed over environmental fears about state parks.

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legalize it

Artist Hitomi Terasawa drew a meticulous cross-sectioned rendering of Hong Kong's infamous Kowloon Walled City before it was razed in 1994. Now we have rare scans revealing the inner workings of the labyrinth-like metropolis. www.thisiscolossal.com/2024/07/kowl...

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As a long-time creature of municipal and state politics, I tell you the truest criticism of democracy is that power is not a reflection of population, but the highest concentration of highly motivated individuals with identifiable long-term goals and this is the domain of the deranged and mercenary.

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What's this? Oh, just a map of un-utilized sites, owned by Caltrans, that the department could convert into dense infill housing through the state's excess sites program. Why won't they? Dunno, ask them! experience.arcgis.com/experience/f...

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We're 344 subscribers away from where we were before Amazon pulled the rug out from under their traditional subscription program. There is light at the end of the tunnel, but still much work to do. clarkesworldmagazine.com/subscribe/

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A bit of good news: Thanks to SB 423, it just became a lot easier and quicker to start up new housing projects in San Francisco. www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/s...

S.F. becomes first California city to miss its housing goals. The impact will be massivewww.sfchronicle.com San Francisco becomes first city in the state to miss its housing goals. Here's why that might be a good thing for people who want more housing.

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i have so much boundless contempt for these pathetic white men, who were blessed enough to be born in one of the few attempts at multiracial democracy in the world, and who panic at being no more valued than anyone else to the extent that they'd blow it all up and go back to divine right of kings

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Steve Bannon is going to jail today. Let's talk about that and why he's a Trump advisor. And Trump's crimes. Do we really want a felon who is advised by felons as President? I don't.

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Been saying for years: Netanyahu is at best callously indifferent to the diaspora and happy to ally with those who hate us. At worst, he thinks it’s a positive good to make out lives worse so as to encourage Aliyah. Ethnonationalists believe that like belongs with like.

The far-right National Rally leader is unconditionally opposed by French Jewish groups for her party's historic antisemitism. Israel's diaspora affairs minister, however, is 'impressed' by her positions, adding that Netanyahu is seemingly 'of the same opinion' www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

Diaspora affairs minister Chikli says Le Pen as French president 'excellent for Israel'www.haaretz.com ***

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Something I've been thinking for a while, but haven't said. It's not up to Joe Biden alone to defeat Donald Trump. The responsibility is on all of us. That includes getting the message out. You are more credible to Uncle Jack who thinks that Trump is THE MAN to push Putin out of Ukraine. 1/

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Well this is absolutely wild (though not exactly surprising that it's happening in Port Costa)

‘It’s terrorism’: A NIMBY battle is tearing apart this quaint Bay Area townwww.sfchronicle.com The fight to preserve the magic of the small California town of Port Costa might just destroy it entirely.

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Some news on CA Propositions The End Slavery in California Act will be on the ballot! This closes the loophole that currently allows forced labor in prisons.✅ The Proposition to lower pass thresholds to 55% for local measures has been changed to apply only to bond measures.✅ Vote yes on both!

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The good news is that all of the non-housing inflation is gone. The bad news is that we didn't do anything about Millennial families needing places to live and there isn't a city in America that has a plan to do anything about it besides "hope we still have land we can build subdivisions on"

In other news, inflation looks beaten. The blip a few months ago looks like start-of-year price resets, and what’s left is lagged housing costs

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The right to trial by jury is of such importance and occupies so firm a place in our history and jurisprudence that debt collectors can slip a fine print clause into an online form and block you from obtaining any meaningful relief for flagrant violations of the law.

Reading this while being aware of how the Supreme Court interprets the Federal Arbitration Act is going to kill me.