Grassley's statement about "getting Kushner in" seems to imply that they won't get witness testimony because they'll fear leaks. Fusion GPS has been begging for this to be released. Kushner could be subpoenaed. lol
Today is amazing lmfao
I was right yesterday ... Bannon lost his base to a NY snake oil salesman lmfao
If everyone who helps trump gets burned by him I'm going to take enjoyment in thinking Bannon may have been burned the worst.
Man ... more good news:
http://www.latimes.com/politics/la-pol-ca-housing-transit-bill-20180104-story.html
Fuck your NIMBYism
http://www.latimes.com/politics/la-pol-ca-housing-transit-bill-20180104-story.html
A dramatic increase in new housing near transit stations could be on its way across California under new legislation proposed by a Bay Area legislator.
Subject to some limitations, the measure would eliminate restrictions on the number of houses allowed to be built within a half-mile of train, light-rail, major bus routes and other transit stations, and block cities from imposing parking requirements. Sen. Scott Wiener (D-San Francisco), the bill's author, said the state needs the housing to address affordability problems, maximize recent multi-billion-dollar transit investments and help the state meet its climate change goals.
Fuck your NIMBYism
By Fenderputty Go To PostMan … more good news:
http://www.latimes.com/politics/la-pol-ca-housing-transit-bill-20180104-story.html
Fuck your NIMBYism
“I would have a neighborhood with little 1920s, ‘30s and ‘40s single-family homes look like Dubai 10 years later,” Koretz said.What an odd fucking criticism
It's not odd at all it's what keeps a lot of areas everywhere from developing too. A lot of what goes unsaid as well is "I don't want affordable housing near me because muh property values, my view, traffic tho." As if a bunch of people commuting in and out of a place en mass because they can't live in the damn city isn't traffic either.
The fact that the bill is focused near transit areas also means it's trying to encourage public transit which will eventually reduce overall traffic congestion. SF does this already and does it okay for the most part. If you live within 3-4 miles of downtown SF and drive into work? You're doing it wrong.
By reilo Go To PostThe fact that the bill is focused near transit areas also means it's trying to encourage public transit which will eventually reduce overall traffic congestion. SF does this already and does it okay for the most part. If you live within 3-4 miles of downtown SF and drive into work? You're doing it wrong.
LA doesn't. The metro in LA stops through tons of suburbs off of 5 or more train routes that run parallel to various freeways leading into LA. They're currently planing another expansion off of the 210 Freeway Gold line too. That shit needs to get out to the 15 near San Bernardino.
If the Bill wants to have teeth in SF it has to attack the height limitations so people can build up. LA is actually building up en masse right now. Suburban sprawl is real though.
Bannon will be back. He'll be the only one left standing to claim ownership of Trumpism once he goes down
By Dark PhaZe Go To PostBannon will be back. He'll be the only one left standing to claim ownership of Trumpism once he goes down
Bannon goes down and Trump moves to the center on DACA same day lol
Single family homes are an urban development dead end. You want to have a yard and a pool? Don't live near a city.
Go from having national security access to being dumped from your own cesspool site. Bannon lawst, but we win.
A lot of cities could actually develop downwards. Plenty of people got basements that could serve as additional dwelling units but folks are basically expected to take on the whole burden of doing that and out of their own pocket. It's a solution though albeit a complicated one but in terms of homes already there and unavailable land, they're just sitting there, unused and undeveloped.
The same NIMBYs that didn't want an apartment near their home are also taking big advantage of building ADUs to make money off of now that California has relaxed its regulations on them for 2018. NIMBYs are just so full of it.
By reilo Go To PostThe same NIMBYs that didn't want an apartment near their home are also taking big advantage of building ADUs to make money off of now that California has relaxed its regulations on them for 2018. NIMBYs are just so full of it.Yeah a bunch of the ones that do get built here just become overpriced bnbs.
By Random Ass Username Go To PostA lot of cities could actually develop downwards. Plenty of people got basements that could serve as additional dwelling units but folks are basically expected to take on the whole burden of doing that and out of their own pocket. It's a solution though albeit a complicated one but in terms of homes already there and unavailable land, they're just sitting there, unused and undeveloped.
This seems way more inefficient than building up. The one tower I'm managing right now in LA over the next 2 years will have around 700 dwelling units in it. This isn't even that big of a tower. There's 1000's of units going up in LA and the footprint of these towers is basically a small city block.
By Randolph Freelander Go To PostDeveloping
Didn't the SCOTUS already rule on this one and shockingly agreed there's racial bias too?
EDIT: Wait they're striking down the second map that was redrawn to remove racial bias and did so due to partisan bias? Isn't the Supreme Court already hearing this?
By Fenderputty Go To PostThis seems way more inefficient than building up. The one tower I'm managing right now in LA over the next 2 years will have around 700 dwelling units in it. This isn't even that big of a tower. There's 1000's of units going up in LA and the footprint of these towers is basically a small city block.LA got plenty of spots for that but in many other cities there's literally nowhere else unless the city eminent domains people's homes and in many cities those towers aren't even being made into affordable housing, they're just more overpriced condominiums current residents can't afford. Also I'm not even talking efficient at this point just a reality that there are areas that could house more, especially single home areas, but it's going undeveloped because of the capital necessary to even embark on it.
By Fenderputty Go To PostDidn't the SCOTUS already rule on this one and shockingly agreed there's racial bias too?
EDIT: Wait they're striking down the second map that was redrawn to remove racial bias and did so due to partisan bias? Isn't the Supreme Court already hearing this?
I think the SC is hearing a case for a different state that could certainly impact this, but a 3 judge panel went ahead and tossed North Carolina's new and still horrible map.
By Random Ass Username Go To PostLA got plenty of spots for that but in many other cities there's literally nowhere else unless the city eminent domains people's homes and in many cities those towers aren't even being made into affordable housing, they're just more overpriced condominiums current residents can't afford. Also I'm not even talking efficient at this point just a reality that there are areas that could house more, especially single home areas, but it's going undeveloped because of the capital necessary to even embark on it.Sortaaa. Portland is actually going through this. Basically what's happening is that those older apartments (e.g. NW 23rd) that saw their rent skyrocket with an influx of new residents a few years ago is now seeing its rent prices fall and depress because all of the new apartments being built in neighboring areas is having those residents move into because they actually want to live in the fancier places because they have the income to do so. So now the older places that used to be cheap are becoming affordable again.
By reilo Go To PostSortaaa. Portland is actually going through this. Basically what's happening is that those older apartments (e.g. NW 23rd) that saw their rent skyrocket with an influx of new residents a few years ago is now seeing its rent prices fall and depress because all of the new apartments being built in neighboring areas is having those residents move into because they actually want to live in the fancier places because they have the income to do so. So now the older places that used to be cheap are becoming affordable again.What's affordable mean in this instance?
By reilo Go To PostI love this kinda thing tbh.
You can fuck a world by sifting through its trash.
By Randolph Freelander Go To PostDeveloping#johnedwardseffect
That Portland garbage can tweet is about an article written in 2002. Still pertininent today, of course.
By Random Ass Username Go To PostWhat's affordable mean in this instance?Not quite sure but hopefully in line with inflation? That should be the ultimate goal, but baby steps I guess.
By Randolph Freelander Go To PostI think the SC is hearing a case for a different state that could certainly impact this, but a 3 judge panel went ahead and tossed North Carolina's new and still horrible map.
They are hearing a case on partisan gerrymandering from Wisconsin. A previous SCOTUS ruled it's A OK to do just that though because there was no way at the time to measure how much it actually affected results. The Wisconsin case is challenging that previous ruling in which Kennedy said his decision was based on the fact that no metric was provided. The Wisconsin case presents a formula to gauge the effects of partisan gerrymandering and even calls out some blue states.
https://www.politico.com/story/2017/10/03/supreme-court-gerrymandering-wisconsin-arguments-243401
Here's the previous case:
https://www.oyez.org/cases/2003/02-1580
After the 2000 census reduced the size of the Pennsylvania Congressional delegation by two members, the Republican-controlled state legislature passed a redistricting plan that clearly benefitted Republican candidates. Several members of the Democratic party sued in federal court, claiming that the plan was unconstitutional because it violated the one-person, one-vote principle of Article I, Section 2 of Constitution, the Equal Protection clause, the Privileges and Immunities clause, and the freedom of association.
In a split decision that had no majority opinion, the Court decided not to intervene in this case because no appropriate judicial solution could be found. Justice Antonin Scalia, for a four-member plurality, wrote that the Court should declare all claims related to political (but not racial) gerrymandering nonjusticiable, meaning that courts could not hear them. Because no court had been able to find an appropriate remedy to political gerrymandering claims in the 18 years since the Court decided Davis v. Bandemer, 478 U.S. 109, which had held that such a remedy had not been found yet but might exist, Scalia wrote that it was time to recognize that the solution simply did not exist.
Justice Anthony Kennedy, however, wrote in his concurring opinion (which provided the deciding fifth vote for the judgment) that the Court should rule narrowly in this case that no appropriate judicial solution could be found, but not give up on finding one eventually.
Which is why I'm confused. How can a court toss this out on those grounds if the SCOTUS case hasn't been heard yet? Is this a set up for another challenge? Wouldn't the Wisconsin case decide the validity of this NC ruling? It's surely going to be challenged .... The GOP will appeal
So much stuff to sift through today. Those 300 pages have some juicy shit in them. Now Trumps suing them all.
By reilo Go To PostI don't think searching through public trash requires a warrant. Doesn't seem that controversial even. Greenwald out there highlighting articles from 2002 for some reason.
People seem to be saying though they think this will easily be overturned and it was a more a last ditch delay from Cali on Daca. Hope im wrong.
By Fenderputty Go To PostThank whatever / whoever you want to think. Jesus … allah …. FSMThose two law clerks are literally going to have the two most important jobs in the civilized world as far as I'm concerned. They are going to be needing to constantly punch so far above their weight class it's almost like Battle of Thermopylae level shit.
Thank Ruth Bader Ginsburg and thank Black Girl Magic for keeping me alive in 2017 and 2018.
You know what's funny to me, I can never look at New York City as this amazing world-city beacon of democracy and diversity ever again.
New York City is now the same city that isn't only home city to all the greatest economic crashes, the city that not only has crumbling airports and subways, it's also the city that gave us the one-two punch of Rudy Guiliani and Donald Trump.
And now California is the state that gave America two all-time great douchebags, Issa and Nunes.
No place in America is safe anymore. The Russians have infiltrated everything. Everything we have, we have only because the Russians are letting us have it.
New York City is now the same city that isn't only home city to all the greatest economic crashes, the city that not only has crumbling airports and subways, it's also the city that gave us the one-two punch of Rudy Guiliani and Donald Trump.
And now California is the state that gave America two all-time great douchebags, Issa and Nunes.
No place in America is safe anymore. The Russians have infiltrated everything. Everything we have, we have only because the Russians are letting us have it.
By Smoke Dogg Go To PostYou know what's funny to me, I can never look at New York City as this amazing world-city beacon of democracy and diversity ever again.lmao, wtf.
New York City is now the same city that isn't only home city to all the greatest economic crashes, the city that not only has crumbling airports and subways, it's also the city that gave us the one-two punch of Rudy Guiliani and Donald Trump.
And now California is the state that gave America two all-time great douchebags, Issa and Nunes.
No place in America is safe anymore. The Russians have infiltrated everything. Everything we have, we have only because the Russians are letting us have it.
Russia ain't shit. If you want a boogeyman and a legitimate threat to America, start worrying about China.
By Smoke Dogg Go To PostYou know what's funny to me, I can never look at New York City as this amazing world-city beacon of democracy and diversity ever again.
New York City is now the same city that isn't only home city to all the greatest economic crashes, the city that not only has crumbling airports and subways, it's also the city that gave us the one-two punch of Rudy Guiliani and Donald Trump.
And now California is the state that gave America two all-time great douchebags, Issa and Nunes.
No place in America is safe anymore. The Russians have infiltrated everything. Everything we have, we have only because the Russians are letting us have it.
By Smoke Dogg Go To PostYou know what's funny to me, I can never look at New York City as this amazing world-city beacon of democracy and diversity ever again.
New York City is now the same city that isn't only home city to all the greatest economic crashes, the city that not only has crumbling airports and subways, it's also the city that gave us the one-two punch of Rudy Guiliani and Donald Trump.
And now California is the state that gave America two all-time great douchebags, Issa and Nunes.
No place in America is safe anymore. The Russians have infiltrated everything. Everything we have, we have only because the Russians are letting us have it.
🤣
By Fenderputty Go To PostRoyce and now ISSA …Jail
What about Nunes? lol