🚨We analyzed 138 million geocoded property tax records to quantify how municipal boundaries spatially overlap onto economic segregation in every US metro area—creating disparities in localities’ ability to fund public goods. And we made an interactive map of our results! [1/16]

In debate about CA's wealth tax, many miss the forest for the trees: the US needs revenue, inequality is high & under current system the richest pay little. So we should raise more from the top, as CA is trying. Let's root for this experiment to succeed! equitablegrowth.substack.com…

There are few candidates I'm more excited about this campaign than Marissa Roy. She's a skilled attorney who will use the office to advocate for the people. She also won't deliberately block housing from getting built. She deserves our vote!

I don't expect people to actually be YIMBY about their own backyards. It's rational for people to put their marginal interests ahead of others. The point of the YIMBY movement is to convince lawmakers to correctly weight local vs citywide interests.

1) As should have been obvious: this debate itself (outcome aside) is affecting how ppl see DSA 2) If DSA national has no problem glibly, negatively impacting a race like this (affecting 4 million real ppl) why would any politician / potential member trust or desire involvement?

early voting is underway, the election is TUESDAY!!! and the NPC is demanding that the 2nd-largest chapter hold a meeting in the next 4 days and Nithya alter her GOTV schedule & drop everything to ~say the line~ in precisely the right way to satisfy 15 people across the country.

Unrelenting maximalism with zero regard for optics and no room for compromise and an arrogant overestimation of one’s leverage and power is a great way for a political organization to be permanently irrelevant

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LA is basically run by a "good old chuds" network. Incumbent officials who have run the city into the ground playing petty-tyrant machine politics are furious that Nithya might actually follow laws and professionalize operation of the city. politico.com/news/2026/10/20…

the irony of LOS ANGELES being one of the best places to be a transit nerd in the 21st century 😍🤓

So let met get that straight: paying a wealth tax is impossible (“billionaires have no liquidity”, “it would be taxing unrealized gains”, “their wealth is virtual”) but paying half a billion to influence elections is possible. Did I understand well?

Padilla is the one you might remember from her bragging to @jonlovett about getting an affordable housing project reduced from 6 stories to 3

This point of view has been made for years now, and I'm getting frustrated because it's very clear that he means he doesn't think Democrats represent the interests of working class white people, which are not strictly economic. That's what he doesn't want to lose. There is almost nothing in GOP Trump policy that economically benefits the working class, which saw disproportionate wage gains and stable, low unemployment under Biden. I wish our journalists would be more honest and critical when folks say this.

thought these two statements were very well put

this is the exact person to listen to on this issue and I hope people do

I haven’t followed this closely but regardless of how you feel about the merits of this, doing it literally a week before the election is just incredibly unserious in so many ways

I’ve been doing archival research on municipal socialism for a new project (watch this space), and have to laugh when I see these old headlines: it really has always been this way!

Property owners holding parking lots for this exact reason is one of the things holding DTLA back from its full potentially. Every surface level lot could be housing <on top of even more parking>. Super random interview but it highlights one of the challenges/opps for DTLA.