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🧵 how we tackle our housing & homelessness crisis based upon my experience as an affordable housing attorney, homelessness nonprofit founder/president, rent stabilization commissioner + my very brief touches w/ homelessness as a kid. 1) this is an incredibly complex issue.

@BarExamTutor He was the worst witness ever! The affair question guy, to be clear. What a shit show of a case. Netflix show worthy.

I’ve watched most, if not all, of the clips posted on here of Afroman trial, and it’s got to be among the most entertaining trials I’ve seen. Also, excellent lawyering from Afroman’s attorney. Asking the witness if it’s believable that Afroman actually had an affair with the witness’s wife was quite the chess move. Not believable = not defamation/false light.

@YeahOkayBoss @JamesEsq85 @meghanncuniff The lawsuit was BS. The judge should have tossed it early on. But I think a judge would deny any bad faith argument, sadly.

@JetSetEsq @JamesEsq85 @meghanncuniff This shit is bad faith litigation. I hope they go after their fees that way even though you're right there is no statutory fee shifting and the American rule makes recovery tough. Really annoying part of civil litigation tbh

A retired deputy suing Afroman for defamation testified he doesn’t know why the rapper nicknamed him “Officer Pound Cake,” so Afroman’s lawyer played the “Lemon Pound Cake” video. “You would admit that’s you with the glasses walking by the lemon pound cake on the counter?”

@Erlarnd @pdxer25 @ChrisO_wiki There are no photos out yet.

@pdxer25 @ChrisO_wiki Video is fake. As plane landed. There are even photos of the plan with very little visible damage.

Still to be confirmed, of course, but if this is verified it looks very much like a direct or near-direct hit on an F-35 using a guided missile. My bet would be that this was some kind of laser-guided munition, somewhat like the US APKWS. Stealth would provide no defence.

@eirshy @Arin_Yumi Fuck you

@Arin_Yumi Ngl, this makes it even funnier lol I do hope that the Japanese understand it really was a joke made without a shred of malice or ill will. American humor loves to poke fun at the horrors of the past, both as treatment for trauma, and as declaration we've moved past it.

Japanese news outlets were doing a live translation of the press conference, and when Trump dropped the Pearl Harbor joke the translators were audibly lost for words and paused for a few seconds in disbelief

@sahilkapur @dilanesper 14% blame democrats. AKA members of the MAGA cult who are too stupid to think for themselves.

New KFF poll on expired ACA subsidies (among 2025 marketplace enrollees) —80% report higher health care costs —51% say "a lot" higher —28% switched plans, 9% went uninsured —78% say Congress was wrong to let funds expire —62% blame Trump or Republicans —14% blame Democrats

@PalominoOMG @ForecasterEnten They never were.

@ForecasterEnten It is time we accept that MAGA and America First are no longer aligned.

This is the most troublesome sign I've seen for Trump & the GOP. Trump's now a record low 41 pts underwater on the cost of living per Yahoo/YouGov. He's 60 pts underwater on the issue with indies!! Wave adios to the House & maybe Senate cause you can't win with these numbers.

@politico I'm sorry but no one gives a fuck. He helped a Black woman win the primary to become the next Senator. That is his friend and Lt. Governor. Supporting your friends is a positive. She will be a great Senator. The CBC needs to wake up and realize how stupid they sound.

Pritzker helped a Black woman become senator. Some Black leaders are still mad at him. dlvr.it/TRZd1c

@PollTracker2024 LOLOLOL

Rep. Kevin Kiley (I-CA) tells Stephen A. Smith in a new interview he could caucus with Democrats in the House if re-elected.

@MaxDAWerePanda @edwardbrgr LOL making up bullshit to seem edgy online. Turn off your computer, climb up the stairs from you mommy's basement, and go try to make some friends in the real world.

@edwardbrgr Now look up why so many people hated her for her past actions.

Rewatched Amy Madigan’s Oscar speech and the part that really moved me was when she said she’d been going through the entire awards season alone until the cast and crew from Sinners and One Battle After Another welcomed her into their circle just so she wouldn’t feel isolated. Sure, all three films are from Warner Bros., but still, that kind of genuine support and camaraderie goes beyond studio ties. I think that’s incredibly sweet and genuinely supportive ❤️

I’m glad that Spencer is looking at maps of LA to familiarize himself with the city. He’s trying to not repeat the mistakes he made this morning when he thought Compton was part of LA .

@napientek @PollTracker2024 Both things can be true.

@PollTracker2024 Ramaswamy is going to lose because he is easily the most cringe and annoying person to come on the political scene in a generation, but sure, blame racism.

Ohio Governor Likely Republican—-> Leans Republican Crystal Ball: Looming uncomfortably over the race is the possibility that Ramaswamy might face some sort of racist electoral penalty for being an Indian-American candidate in a whiter-than-average state, something that comes up when we discuss this election with sources. One wild card for the November election is whether Ramaswamy loses any votes on his right to Libertarian Don Kissick, who is running for governor and who got nearly 3.5% of the vote as a Libertarian in the 2024 Senate election.

@ndcoalitionfan @PollTracker2024 Winning by Obama doesn’t mean racism isn’t a thing there. And Obama time period is not the same as now. The overt racism has ramped up over the last 10-15 years.

@PollTracker2024 Ohio voted twice for a guy named Barack Obama

@ndcoalitionfan @PollTracker2024 lol racism is absolutely part of it.

@PollTracker2024 Ramaswamy is not losing because of racism, he's losing because he's a godawful candidate

@PollTracker2024 “MIGHT” face racism? Come on. Of course he will. Grow a spine and just say it.

@Hemadnazari @Osinttechnical The number is real. You have no clue what you’re talking about, you just don’t like the truth. This facility in Qatar is quite different than what you’re talking about in Russia.

@Osinttechnical How Russia when under sanctions and cut out of west can repair faster, but Qatar 3 to 5 years? That nimber is not real and has other purposes.

Iran’s strike last night wiped out 17% of Qatar’s natural gas export capacity, repairs are expected to take three to five years -Reuters (Based prewar market estimates, Iran managed to destroy ~3.5% of global LNG capacity in a single strike.)

@JamesEsq85 @meghanncuniff Generally, the prevailing party does not get attorney fees.

@meghanncuniff This shouldn’t have even made it to trial. That was a gift from the judge. And now they’ll have to pay Afro’s legal fees like morons as they take the L 😭

@grablekelly05 @MikeLevin You have no value in this world.

No here’s what’s really going on and America is getting sick and tired of you Dems ignoring this. Illegals have murdered over a hundred Americans and you want to allow them to stay. You even are passing laws to keep murders out on the streets. So until you Dems come to your senses and realize all illegals get deported nothing will change.

Here is what’s really going on with regard to the funding stalemate in Congress. ICE agents shot and killed two U.S. citizens on the streets of Minneapolis. Democrats then said: before we write you another check, agree to the same rules every police department in America already follows. Judicial warrants before entering homes. Visible ID. Body cameras. No raids at schools and hospitals. We immediately pushed for votes to fund TSA, the Coast Guard, and FEMA. Republicans blocked it. We tried to fund FEMA alone. Republicans blocked that too. Their position was to fund ICE with no strings attached, or shut the whole thing down. So DHS shut down. Then yesterday, the White House sent a letter admitting we were right. But they still won’t agree to judicial warrants or to take the masks off, which means agents can still break down your door without a judge’s approval and you still can’t see their faces when they do it. We’ve been ready to fund your airport security since day one, not to mention Coast Guard, FEMA and the rest. Republicans chose to protect ICE from accountability instead. #FundDHSFreezeICE

@newsjohnson @MikeLevin @Martina Yes, they have rights under our constitution, whether you like it or not.

@MikeLevin @Martina Here’s the thing. Criminal illegals are not citizens of our country and have not earned the right to be treated as such.

@KevinLiao_ @ib2_real You’re a fucking horrible messenger for your boss.

@ib2_real Mayor Mahan's choice to highlight Skid Row and graffiti towers during his LA visits speaks volumes. It's a page straight from the right-wing playbook: framing California as a dystopian hellhole that only unchecked capitalism can rescue. We're not buying it.

The LA graffiti towers are a symbol of unchecked wealth inequality. They were never meant to house the unhoused people on the streets below so the people tagged them up as a reminder that solving homelessness requires more than luxury condos. I’m sorry you don’t know our city.

@Minionz_At_Work @bayraktar_1love Bs comment

@bayraktar_1love Second looks like a decoy, seems like most Ukrainian claimed hits are on decoys since shit aint changed in Crimea

Two more loitering munition strikes on Russian BUK air defence systems