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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.

@BTC_Siferd @mistergeezy Fuck off pedo lover.

@mistergeezy Considering we had two horrible candidates to choose from we took what we thought was the lesser of two evils, but that’s life in the corrupt world we live in.

They voted for Trump, and now they are dealing with the consequences of their actions.

@kllnrb @MeghanMcCarthy_ @CountDankulaTV Jesus. Use your brain. The question is who paid for the attorneys.

@MeghanMcCarthy_ @CountDankulaTV From whom? The court is paid by the taxpayers. The police are paid by the taxpayers.

The Afroman Trial. -Cops raid Afromans house for bullshit reasons. -Steal money, break his door, fuck his house up. -No criminality found whatsoever, no charges at all pressed on Afroman. -Afroman spends the next 3 years making songs that make fun of all the officers involved by name, even using footage of the raid from his own CCTV cameras. -Songs had titles like "Randy Walters is a son of a bitch" and "Lick Em Low Lisa" accusing one of the officers of being a lesbian and sleeping with the other officers wives. -During the raid one officer looked like he was about to eat some lemon pound cake sitting on Afromans counter, Afroman made a whole album calling the officer fat. -The cops get mad and file a lawsuit for defamation. -Afroman turns up to court in a whole American flag suit. -Officers performatively mald and cry while listening to the songs really trying to oversell how badly the songs upset them. -One officer was suing because Afroman made a whole song about him saying he was fucking the officers wife. When the officer was asked if Afroman was really fucking his wife, he said "I don't know". Nuking his own case and establishing that there is a non-zero chance that Afroman might actually be fucking his wife. -As his only witness for the trial, Afroman brought a deputies EX FUCKING WIFE. -The jury ruled completely in favour of Afroman. This entire thing has been a great win for free speech and absolutely fucking hilarious.

@SBeitelshees @YoungGun8140 Go pound some more cake, you little bitch.

@YoungGun8140 These songs and videos are awful. I wish I hadn't seen them

Had the officers never sued in the first place we wouldn’t even know what’s going on. Now they have helped relaunch Afroman’s career.

@alanthefisher @coryfromphilly How much fucking planning do you want? 53 more years?

@coryfromphilly the only thing that needs to happen is speeding up construction, which requires money and good planning

I am begging California leaders to treat CAHSR as the boondoggle as it is. Bad FL and TX infrastructure doesn't justify California bad infrastructure. Make changes to speed up the construction of CAHSR!

@short_straw lol no there won’t. Ignorant comment. It’s been around for years and nothing has changed so much in this world to believe it will be used much more often soon.

Shitty lawyers (not all of them, I've seen good ones already figured this out) are sleeping on Intrusion upon Seclusion. Quote me. There will be an increase in the near future in the use of this cause of action.

@hcetamd @BarExamTutor Waaaaa my Nazi podcast friend lost a lawsuit and he should have won. Waaaaaah. Stfu

@BarExamTutor This is why the defamation claims against Alex Jones probably should have been dismissed early in that lawsuit. Of course, he had terrible representation and was a terrible client.

Lawyer for the cops must have told the witness that if something is clearly false, it's not false light or defamation. It has to be false *but believable.* So the witness acted accordingly. But you don't get to manipulate the law like that when testifying. Jurors have common sense.

@nikicaga Fuck them, for this bullshit stunt.

The CBC pretending they're the only legitimate representatives of Black Americans is pretty bad ngl I feel the other minority caucuses aren't nearly as controlling

@JMGregorchuk My God. Laziest comment ever. Good work 👍🏼

Who hates public transit: DSA or Pratt? The DSA folks allow transit to be an unmitigated disaster for Angelenos. Pratt wants to kick homeless crack heads off so grandma can go to the grocery store in peace. DSA = Less riders, less revenue, more costs, more public transit hate. Pratt = More riders, more revenue, less costs, and more public transit love.

@MattBraynard @fawfulfan @sahilkapur @MondaireJones Shut the fuck up. Painfully stupid lies.

@fawfulfan @sahilkapur @MondaireJones And even in that moment, Kamala was still more concerned with the interests of foreigners than of Americans. A dirt bag to the end.

James Talarico calls out “the groups” in the Democratic Party on immigration. “In recent years there’ve been a series of advocacy groups that claim to represent the interests of different communities like here in Texas, but actually have no real connection to the actual people on the ground. And those groups convinced the [Biden] administration that it was racist to support border security.” x.com/ElectTheBench/…

@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.