Simon
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I drive a minivan with a license plate that literally spells out OVRSITE.
We need to stop measuring success by what we say we'll do and start measuring it by what we actually deliver.
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@NoLimitGains He is talking about the Shiller PE if you are wondering, a completely useless metric.
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That it’ll take him at least 3 years & $30 million to build a grocery already disproves his claim that govt can operate more efficiently than private enterprise.
New York Post@nypost
Mayor Zohran Mamdani that the first city-owned grocery store – which carries a whopping $30 million expected price tag – won’t open until 2029. trib.al/zJEMm8D
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As a single mother and a UC professor, I see firsthand how the $15,588 annual tuition price tag is forcing our brightest students to struggle just to get by.
When I’m Governor, we will restore California’s promise of free tuition for our residents. A degree shouldn't come with a lifetime of debt.
Katie Porter@katieporterca
California has some of the world’s best universities, yet our students are fleeing the state to find affordable education. I’m putting a stop to that. By offering two years of free community college followed by two free years at a UC or CSU, my plan will allow every Californian to earn a four-year degree 100% tuition-free.
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In California, we’ve been cracking down on fraud for years
Long before Trump and Oz made “fraud” their flavor of the month and began politicizing it
We’ve been doing the work and will remain focused and effective
Democrats Deliver@DemzDeliver
🚨 Over the last few years, California has quietly launched one of the largest fraud crackdowns in American history. After 294 hospice fraud investigations and 119 criminal cases, already over $5.1 billion has been recovered for taxpayers.
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If you were a Democrat supporting Eric Swalwell for Governor in California, who are you thinking about backing now?
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I am reviewing eviction records in Florida and it's so much better
complaint filed 1/15
Writ issued after default 2/10
Enforcement of writ 2/21
I should do a whole thread of the differences between CA and FL it's crazy
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@dullhawk All of capitalism is built on theft.
The theft of the commons.
The theft of foreign lands.
The theft of natural resources.
The theft of workers' excess labour value.
Tax isn't the best tool, but it's a tool to seek justice for that theft.
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"Left-wingers want high taxes"
Err, no...
Left-wingers want to tax the rich. They want to redistribute that wealth to the masses, and invest in public services, to improve the lives of regular folk.
Right-wingers want to tax the poor. They want to give your money to the rich.
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“California needs leaders who can walk into a room with Donald Trump and his administration and be able to run circles around them, and that is why Katie Porter is the best choice for Governor of California.”
- @ewarren
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The allegations against Congressman Swalwell are horrifying. I’m thinking of the courageous women who have come forward to share their stories. We believe you and we stand with you.
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@end3of6days9 katie porter and the dems are the reason she’s short every month because their policies create such high costs and rent
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💼 Jamie Dimon gets put on the spot in this 2019 footage when Congresswoman Katie Porter does the actual math live on a full-time JPMorgan Chase bank teller making $16.50 an hour in Irvine, California…
The teller is a single mom with a 6-year-old. After rent, utilities, car, gas, food, phone, and childcare, she’s still $567 short every single month — with nothing left for clothes, school lunches, medical, or emergencies.
Katie Porter puts the numbers right in front of Jamie Dimon on a whiteboard and asks him how this woman is supposed to survive. He just keeps saying “I don’t know… I’d have to think about it.”
Meanwhile, Jamie Dimon made $31.5 million that same year.
Do you think any of this is better today? 🤔
I certainly don't.
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@Bitcoin_Teddy Capitalism works for the owners not so much the rest of us.
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For all the morons who say capitalism doesn’t work
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Jason, business leaders from your industry and others speak to The New York Times, as they have for years, because our reporters produce insightful, fair reporting that illuminates audiences everywhere. We're not publicists and we're not promoting anyone's pitch deck.
@jason@Jason
Founders: take my advice... do not talk to the press, go direct and do long-form podcasts. Wired and the NYT are as biased as Fox News and MSNOW these days This is a function of their need to pander to one side to survive, be it through $ 3-a-month subs or rage-baiting ad-based stories. Attacking tech gets views (see Karen Swisher)... and views get advertisers (paradoxically, tech advertisers support the folks trashing tech! let that sink in!) Founders: If you talk to the NYT or WIRED, they will trash and misrepresent you 95% of the time in order to get more subscribers and page views It is what it is...
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@LA_Multi_Fam everyone willing to accept factual evidence… sadly, this does not include our elected officials
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Who knew the ultimate rent control is no rent control
Peter Mallouk@PeterMallouk
Rents dropping across the country…
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I’ve heard some concerns that ULA’s transfer tax would reduce new construction, but UCLA’s @ShaneDPhillips and Maya Ofek found that the effect would be very minor – and *significantly* outweighed by the new housing we’d get with the funds raised.
twitter.com/ShaneDPhillips…
Shane Phillips@ShaneDPhillips
I have a new report with UCLA grad student Maya Ofek on the estimated impacts of Measure ULA on new development. I had serious concerns about the potential impacts, but we found they're likely to be minimal, esp. compared to the revenues raised. lewis.ucla.edu/research/how-w…
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Some of the LA’s most important housing justice goals are on the ballot *right now*:
🔵Renters’ right to counsel
🔵Enforcing tenant harassment laws
🔵Emergency funds for at-risk tenants
We can have all of those — plus 20,000+ new affordable units — if we vote Yes on ULA.
United to House LA@UnitedToHouseLA
People power >> ✊ We are a coalition of neighbors, families, builders, and housing experts working together to pass Measure ULA so we can reduce homelessness, protect seniors, and support renters. Learn more and sign up to volunteer: yesonula.com #YesOnULA
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A man delivering a birthday cake on a bicycle in Cuba, 1997.
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@la_dorkout we don’t need more parks as long as they still all turn into homeless and drug encampment disasters
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Renderings of proposed "cap parks" over trenched LA Freeways, clockwise from upper-left...
--101 Fwy's "Downtown Slot"
--101 Fwy from SM Blvd. to Sunset Blvd. in Hollywood
--134 Fwy thru Glendale
--over Terminal Island Fwy
All are moonshots, though Hollywood's is promising.
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Just over three months since The Eden opened its doors, we hit 60% leased 🤙
DTLA has lots of challenges - many real and some perceived. Within the Social District, it’s heavily weighted toward the latter (lots of credit to @lasocialdist). Now it’s time to flip that perception on its head. So many great things happening in this neighborhood:
🏥 CA Hospital just completed a major expansion, tripling the size of its maternity ward and ED (already 3rd busiest in LA County).
🏗️ Convention Center expansion is still a go, which will make it competitive with the largest in the country and drive more hotels and F&B in the area.
🥇 LA28 signed 160,000sf at South Park Center, where 4k employees will be based (not to mention the other nations delegations and sponsors that will follow).
🏬 Onni is completing the tallest residential tower in LA three blocks away.
🥷 The Social District’s Clean and Safe Ambassadors are always out cleaning, painting and providing support services to make sure the neighborhood remains the cleanest and safest district in the area.
Come see for yourself…
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@LA_Multi_Fam laminate has been more durable for us. that plus the cost savings has made it what we always do now. also, most renters don’t notice the difference, imo.
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Our flooring guy is pushing laminate, saying it’s made a lot of progress in recent years.
Which would you choose?
Laminate (left): $1.79/sq. ft.
SPC (right): $2.55/sq. ft.
We’ve been using SPC for the past few years, but the laminate does seem better than it used to. Doesn’t have that old plastic look anymore.
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More or less since we started Adaptive, we've had an informal rule that we would go far out of our way to help any employee buy a home.
Like, we would broker the buyside for $0, call in favors w our vendors for inspections, review all the disclosures, etc. (Basically, act like we would for a family member.)
But buying a home in LA, particularly if you don't have family money, is really difficult, so no one had ever taken us up on it... until now.
Proud to say we closed the first one today.
Is it weird that I feel better about helping this deal than almost all of the investment deals I've ever done?
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