@bobthebobnes @realEstateTrent In Las Vegas, you can get permitted for a $7 billion casino and start the foundation in 12-18 months.
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Attention Economy Politics
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Attention Economy Politics
@LetsBePolitics
If I've heard someone say it already, I'm not going to repeat it. Fresh takes only. Media analysis.
Los Angeles Katılım Mayıs 2026
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@realEstateTrent Yup... I have to wait 6-12mo for a demo permit because the house is on a boulevard considered a state highway. The town requires water and sewer cap to issue the demo permit. The water department said the required state permit is currently on the higher end of a 6-12m wait 🤣😩💀
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The stupidest thing in real estate is how long it takes to get a building permit
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@Twolfrecovery @MattMahanSJ This clip is everything that is wrong with Democratic politics. If you think it works, ask yourself--if you saw and heard this in 2004 (other than high res image) would you think time travel was involved? Probably not.
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It's astonishing that Democrats can't unite around this guy for Governor of California. It just shows how fractured dems are. @MattMahanSJ can unite California. Not pander to the hard left, but moderates, too. He is the right choice and has my vote.
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@MattMahanSJ Attention Economy: Next time show up in jeans and a clean t-shirt. If you REALLY want attention? Bring a beer bottle, crack it open while opponent is talking. Occasionally take a sip. If opponent or moderator mentions the beer, say your team has more offstage if they want one.
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@BrendanHartnett Whatever Josh Shapiro is up to, it's the opposite of attention economy.
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"Shapiro’s campaign says the governor chose to sit out the Philadelphia race because he’s focused on flipping four other Republican-held Pennsylvania district seats so Democrats can ultimately take back control of the U.S. House in the high-stakes midterm election."
The Philadelphia Inquirer@PhillyInquirer
Gov. Josh Shapiro has endorsed in four Pa. congressional primaries. He hasn’t weighed in on Philly’s race. ebx.sh/7SaBOb
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@JamesDukeMason @MattMahanSJ @mattmahansj team has no concept of the attention economy. Why didn't he show up in jeans and light colored button down?
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COMNANDING performance in tonight by @MattMahanSJ - his best yet. Solid, sharp, substantive. Called out the other candidates on the previous failures and performative posturing while still talking about his proven success and pragmatic progressive vision in clear, tangible terms. I don’t see how anyone looking at this in an objective, non ideological way could argue that there’s any other candidate who has what it takes to really change California for the better. Matt Mahan is the Governor that the good people of California deserve.
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Attention Economy Rule: People love celebrities. Give the people what they want.
Jesse Singal@jessesingal
Hope everyone involved is doing okay
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@mnolangray Off topic but I'm curious Nolan--What % of voters do you think hear "mandated affordable housing" and think it's for people living at the poverty line?
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I'm not aware of a single instance where IZ mandates ushered in broad improvements in housing affordability, but I'm aware of loads of instances in which they crushed housing production. Blue cities/states need to take the evidence seriously and scrap these failed programs.
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@alexbruesewitz @KatieMiller Here's a tissue. You have some brown stuff on your face. More people look at @LetsBePolitics everyday and we just started 2 days ago.
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This would be a fantastic move. @KatieMiller’s podcast absolutely crushes it. It’s one of the few shows that bridges pop culture, business, and politics.
Axios@axios
Paramount in talks with Katie Miller for podcast deal as it eyes expansion axios.com/2026/05/14/par…
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POLITICS WITH THE SOUND OFF. This image is attention economy. @katieporterca chose to stand out. Why didn't @TomSteyer or @MattMahanSJ show up in jeans and a light colored shirt?
Brendan Hartnett@BrendanHartnett
Beccera: "This is what happens when you take the lead in polls, they all come after you." Hilton: "I'm leading in the polls." Mahan: "Not for long." Beccera: "This is a great Trump tactic that's used." Mahan: "It's not a Trump tactic."
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@ChrisCillizza This is celebrity behavior. Some work hard and others show up if it's in their flow.
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"Mr. Schlossberg would regularly blow off weekly strategy meetings called for his benefit, and made a habit of disappearing for long stretches with little notice or explanation. (He did carve out time to swim or paddleboard in the Hudson most days.)"
I cannot roll my eyes hard enough.
nytimes.com/2026/05/14/nyr…
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@DrewSav If someone I knew graduated from law school but became a professor of law instead of practicing (which happens), and they called themselves a lawyer, I wouldn't think to question it or call it out. Its semantics.
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Not all doctors practice, much like not all nurses. There are doctors who do scientific research but they're not working with patients. They're still doctors though
Adam Wren@adamwren
NEW: Michigan Democratic Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed for years has publicly said that he’s a physician — but there’s overwhelming evidence that he’s had no experience as a licensed medical doctor. W/ @dlippman politico.com/news/2026/05/1…
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@Michael66203872 @bdquinn Trump is a center of gravity that is impossible to escape. Some Democrats start repositioning on immigration--Trump unleashes poorly trained ICE agents on American cities where they throw people into unmarked vans and ship them off to torture prisons in El Salvador.
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@bdquinn The Ds critical weakness is their big tent. It prevents them from putting up any type of cohesive opposition to Trump. As a NeverTrumper ex-R, I feel like I became a Jets fan when I left the R party. Our only hope is sanity returning to the right. The left are a mess.
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Boy, it's hard to be optimistic about the trajectory of American politics.
The Republican Party is a slavishly devotional personality cult around an unfathomably awful man.
The Democrats have a pincer of a sclerotic establishment vs. a policy illiterate progressive base.
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@RaminNasibov Benjamin Netanyahu and Fox News' Mark Levin attended the same small high school in the Philly suburbs a few years apart. Baseball great Reggie Jackson also attended there.
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The Democratic Party brand is already destroyed. 25 states voted for Trump 3x and all 50 of those Senate seats belong to Republicans. The name of the party will continue. What it turns into is something different.
Evan Ross@MrEvanRoss
Democrats nominating scum like Graham Platner and contemplating bigoted extremists like El-Sayed in Michigan is snatching defeat from the jaws of victory. Even if someone like Platner wins, the brand damage will cost Democrats races elsewhere. Common sense wins, not extremism.
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@jamesonhaslam 25-30% of housing and building costs in Los Angeles are related to the glacial pace of permits and approvals.
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somebody is going to disappear Ezra Klein for saying out loud that labor unions make housing unaffordable
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Pratt will almost certainly lose, but I see this stuff and remember a line I first heard in 2016: If you tell people only fascists would give them what they want, sooner or later they will vote for fascists.
Conor Friedersdorf@conor64
Nithya Raman argues that @spencerpratt represents "mini-Trump." So far, I've thought that his populism resembles Arnold Schwarzenegger much more than Trump. theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/05/… Time will tell, but watch his Pratt Summer ad and ask, what would Stephen Miller think of this?
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@Alameda2988 @DrewSav El-Sayed is risky because we have a President who is flailing politically and has no boundaries in terms of promoting racism and hatred. Trump was rewarded in all 7 swing states for "they're eating the cats and dogs." This is going to be worse. And that is a concern.
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I think El-Sayed is far too risky a candidate even in a blue year. We've seen bad candidate fumble winnable races even when the environment benefits them. There's Sara Gideon, Sharron Angle, Blake Masters, Dr. Oz, Christine O'Donnell, etc.
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@JaredEMoskowitz Just imagine what Rand Paul must say about Jews when he's outside the office for his (32 year old) son to go off like that.
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If you are wondering how things are going up on Capital Hill. We have elected family members screaming “you are a Jew” at catholics
Reese Gorman@reesejgorman
New: Sen. Rand Paul’s son drunkenly accosted and hurled anti-Semitic insults at Rep. Mike Lawler at a Capitol Hill bar on Tuesday night. His son told Lawler that if Rep Thomas Massie loses, it’s going to be because of “your people.” “My people?” Lawler asked Paul. “Yeah, you Jews,” Paul responded. “Do you think I’m Jewish?” Lawler asked. “I’m not.” “Oh wow, I’m so sorry for calling you a Jew,” Paul said. He then said that Jews were “anti-American” and how Lawler and his “Jewish supporters” served Israel more than America. notus.org/congress/willi…
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@TheSWPrincess A 1% success rate of passing bills into law is outstanding. There were almost 9,000 bills filed last year.
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Katie Porter introduced 174 bills in Congress per GovTrack.
Only 2 became law.
That’s a 1% success rate.
Her brand was viral whiteboard moments, not governing.
California needs a governor who can build consensus and get results.
Not an attention hog trying to inherit Gavin Newsom’s megaphone.
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This letter is a cry for help, not an expression of political sentiment. People who feel like this need compassion and assistance with their depression symptoms, not to be told it's a natural response to political or world events.
Leah Libresco Sargeant@LeahLibresco
Unusually explicit connection from the rejection of children to the death drive at the end of this reader roundup in the NYT. Begins with the usual “Who would want to bring children into a world…” and ends, well…
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