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Deputy Public Defender | YIMBY enthusiast | Center Left | Cal State Fullerton โ€˜19 | UCLA Law โ€˜22 | ๐ŸŽ—๏ธ

Culver City, CA
Joined November 2015
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The responses to this reasonable explanation and sincere apology are mentally ill
I am genuinely and sincerely sorry. But, this is not the endโ€”it is just the beginning. ๐Ÿ™
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Chuck Schumer flew out to this guy to convince him to run at least 3 times. The night before he accepted, Schumer took him and his father out to dinner. There's no blue Mississippi without Schumer and Colom.
Blue Mississippi is here.ย  Scott Colom is the only person who couldโ€™ve gotten this done. I knew it from the moment I met him.
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They tried to dismantle Black political power and turn back the clock. History had other plans and instead, we witnessed its greatest expansion since Reconstruction! 6 Black Democratic US Senators (NJ, DE, GA, MD, IL, MS) and 5 Black Democratic Governors (MD, GA, NV, WI, VI) Let that sink in! #WhileWeBreatheWeVote
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Imagine sabotaging your own party's nominees and then gloating that you outpolled them. There's no amount of abuse and humiliation these people won't gratefully endure at the hands of a pathological narcissist. truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTโ€ฆ
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For the first time in our history, San Francisco will have citywide ethics rules that strengthen accountability for the $6 billion in taxpayer money we spend each year on contracts with outside organizations.ย  San Francisco spends billions of taxpayer dollars every year on contracts that support our city operations, and San Franciscans deserve to know that every one of those dollars is being spent wisely and in the public interest. But today, our ethics requirements are scattered across different sections of city law, and the rules can varyโ€”leaving room for corruption and abuse.ย  This is what voters set out to change with Proposition E, and now weโ€™re taking the first step toward centralizing and depoliticizing contracting so it serves San Franciscans, not insiders. sfstandard.com/2026/11/10/luโ€ฆ
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there is not a single person in government alive today who has improved my life even a fraction as much as amazon. and most have made it worse.
Companies like Amazon build business models around denying workers their rights and make our streets less safe. ย  It's time for that to change. ย  Let's pass the Delivery Protection Act.
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This photo is hilarious and emblematic of the brain dead anti-data center luddites Sheโ€™s standing there like โ€œyall, I just did something big for my communityโ€ and itโ€™s simply protecting a massive abandoned parking lot from being turned into a huge tax revenue engine for the community We are being crippled by economically illiterate morons
NEWS: A Maryland activist who was evicted in 2024 has helped put a $5 billion AI data center on hold It was planned for the site of a mall that closed in 2002
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At what point can smart people realize that price caps on electricity, credit card fees and housing are equivalent of serving kids a diet of candy: It looks appealing until the digestion process begins. Surely we can get more creative and embrace science over slopulism.
Sen. Elizabeth Warren on a 10% credit card rate cap: "I got the bill. I'm ready to go." She's in line to chair Senate Banking, and she's pitching it as something Democrats can pass with President Trump. It's popular. It's also a price control. An interest rate is a price. It reflects risk, time, and inflation. Cap it below the risk and lenders don't lend more. They lend less, and they cut off the people with thin or bruised credit first. Those families don't stop needing credit. They get pushed to payday loans and pawn shops. If Washington wants cheaper credit, stop the deficits and the inflation that pushed rates up. Nothing is free. Not even a capped credit card. I wrote about this: vanceginn.com/letpeopleprospโ€ฆ Let people prosper.
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Also let's not pretend 10% is a result of careful study of the industry and the policy tradeoffs, it's just a number Warren picked out of the air on a whim
Sen. Elizabeth Warren on a 10% credit card rate cap: "I got the bill. I'm ready to go." She's in line to chair Senate Banking, and she's pitching it as something Democrats can pass with President Trump. It's popular. It's also a price control. An interest rate is a price. It reflects risk, time, and inflation. Cap it below the risk and lenders don't lend more. They lend less, and they cut off the people with thin or bruised credit first. Those families don't stop needing credit. They get pushed to payday loans and pawn shops. If Washington wants cheaper credit, stop the deficits and the inflation that pushed rates up. Nothing is free. Not even a capped credit card. I wrote about this: vanceginn.com/letpeopleprospโ€ฆ Let people prosper.
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This is awful!
I asked Claude Fable 5.2 to write a Beethoven-style piano sonata movement in LilyPond. It wrote the score, recorded it, and made this video. Every note you see is from its source file.
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Replying to @CohenSite
Or they did, and they avoided mentioning it because they didn't want to make the Sherman Oaks Homeowners Association mad. They have her phone number!
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You know whatโ€™s crazy? Los Angeles is on track to permit more apartments this year than any year since 1988 You know whatโ€™s even crazier? Mayor Bass and her campaign seemingly had no idea.
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ื”ื’ืฉืชื™ ื›ืขืช ืืช ื—ื•ืงื™ ืฉื’ื™ื ื’ื•ืœืŸ ื–ืดืœ ืœืฉื•ื•ื™ื•ืŸ ื‘ื—ื™ื™ื, ื•ืืช ื—ื•ืง ื™ืกื•ื“: ื”ืฉื•ื•ื™ื•ืŸ. ื‘ืฉื ืช 2026 ืฉื•ื•ื™ื•ืŸ ื–ื›ื•ื™ื•ืช ืœื›ืœืœ ืื–ืจื—ื™ ื™ืฉืจืืœ ืฆืจื™ืš ืœื”ื™ื•ืช ืžื•ื‘ืŸ ืžืืœื™ื•, ืื‘ืœ ื’ื ืืช ื”ืžื•ื‘ืŸ ืžืืœื™ื• ืฆืจื™ืš ืœื—ื•ืงืง. ืขื“ ืœืฉื•ื•ื™ื•ืŸ ื–ื›ื•ื™ื•ืช ืžืœื๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ฑ๐Ÿณ๏ธโ€๐ŸŒˆ
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ื™ืฉื‘ืชื™ ื•ื”ืงืฉื‘ืชื™ ืœื ืื•ื ื”ื”ื–ื•ื™, ื”ืžืคืœื’, ืžืœื ื”ืฉื ืื” ื•ื”ืžื‘ื™ืฉ ืฉืœ ืจืืฉ ื”ืžืžืฉืœื” ื”ื™ื•ืฆื, ืฉื ื™ืฆืœ ืœืจืขื” ืื™ืจื•ืข ืžืžืœื›ืชื™ ื‘ื”ืฉื‘ืขืช ื”ื›ื ืกืช ื”-26. ื”ืฉืชื›ื ืขืชื™ ืขื•ื“ ื™ื•ืชืจ ืฉื”ื•ื ืื™ื ื• ื›ืฉื™ืจ ืœื”ืžืฉื™ืš ื•ืœื• ื“ืงื” ื ื•ืกืคืช ื‘ืชืคืงื™ื“. ืขืœื™ื ื• ืœืคืขื•ืœ ื‘ื“ื—ื™ืคื•ืช ืœื”ืงืžืช ืžืžืฉืœืช ื—ื™ืจื•ื ืœืื•ืžื™ืช. ื”ืžืฉืš ืฉืœื˜ื•ื ื• ืžืคืœื’ ืืช ื™ืฉืจืืœ ื•ืžืกื›ืŸ ืืช ื‘ื˜ื—ื•ื ื”. @yairlapid @YairGolan1 @AvigdorLiberman @naftalibennett - ื–ื” ืขืœื™ื ื•.
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We are reaching levels of mass hysteria over data centers I couldnโ€™t have dreamed of. She helps block $5 billion in development on a lot thatโ€™s been abandoned for over 20 years, in a county already struggling with the closure of Six Flags, the (impending) departure of the Commanders, and federal job losses. And her father compares her to Medgar Evers, who was assassinated for his work as a civil rights leader. I mean, come on!
JUST IN: Maryland activist helps block a $5B AI data center planned for the site of an abandoned shopping mall that closed 24 years ago, after gathering over 25,000 signatures.
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"The Daily Bruin should be able to report on Palestinian suffering while also recognizing the profound significance of Oct. 7 to Jewish and Israeli students." | via Daily Bruin Opinion dailybruin.com/2026/11/03/thโ€ฆ
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Leftists, and not just white leftists, disparaged this man the day he died.
John Lewis, 2018: We are going forward. When the state of Georgia becomes blue, along with the state of Texas, they will not be able to hold us down. Itโ€™s going to happen.
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Talarico meeting with a Trump->Talarico voter
Senator-elect James Talarico (D-TX) meets with Senator John Cornyn (R-TX)
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Are you allowed to impeach a president for gross incompetence?
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Boomer luxury communism will be responsible for the complete and udder destruction of rural Florida.
This is what the Amendment 3 fallout looks like.
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