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M. Nolan Gray 🥑 Profile picture
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May 29, 2020 • 4 tweets • 2 min read • Read on X
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I don't know who told the two officers to drive directly into the crowd but they almost lit a powder keg...
...a potentially very crazy situation, averted only by organizers stepping in.

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Dec 13, 2025
Reading bizarre NPIC position letters on common sense California legislation is kind of my full-time job, but I don't think I've ever seen one this strange. Enforcing DUI law is a form of "racialized wealth extraction"...? Image
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“Drunk and drugged driving is now so common in car-centric California that drivers routinely rack up four, five, six DUIs. One woman in Fresno just got her 16th.” calmatters.org/investigation/…
"...drivers face even more burdensome costs of DUI class fees, high cost-insurance premiums..." What is the point of insurance if not to force people to internalize the risks? California already mandates that auto insurers provide subsidized insurance for repeat DUI offenders! Image
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Dec 9, 2025
California builds basically no condos. This is a real problem, as their starter homes of 2025. Here's what I've learned as to why. (1/n) Image
In many California cities, condominiums automatically pay much higher "impact" fees. In Palo Alto, a 1,200 square foot will pay $79,656 for affordable housing (this is not a joke) while a rental will pay $31,860 per unit. Image
In California, if you build an apartment allowed by the zoning and rent it out, the process is ministerial. If you want to sell them, you must undertake a subdivision, which is a discretionary process that adds a lot of chaos and delays to the process. Image
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Aug 22, 2025
Something I've been thinking about a lot: In a recent 5Cast episodes, Andrew Callaghan made an off-hand comment about how nearly all of the recently-minted conspiracy theorists he has talked to mention "Ancient Aliens" as being a watershed moment.
I don't think it should be illegal, but whew buddy, a major outlet branding itself as "The History Channel" running content like this was profoundly unethical. In an entertainment industry with a backbone, anyone involved in that slop is blacklisted.
Netlix is doing the same thing with "Ancient Apocalypse." It's not just that these shows promote bullshit. It's not even that they conclude that entire hard sciences are bullshit. It's that they promote a mode of thinking that breaks peoples brain and corrodes social trust.
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Jul 29, 2025
In recent years, supply-and-demand denying interest groups have cajoled state legislators in Sacranento from excluding any housing that has hosted a renter in the last X number of years from using state housing laws legalizing a lot more housing...
...bad actor cities like LA then make the problem worse by shifting the burden of proof on homeowners. Many normal people give up, and projects don't proceed.
In this case, this house will either remain a dump or flip into an expensive single-family home, when it could have been four apartments. (Or with SB 1123, up to 10.) Is this a win for equity? Of course not.
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Jul 2, 2025
SB 79 is live in Assembly Housing! Image
@Scott_Wiener cayimby.org/legislation/sb…
@Scott_Wiener Councilmember @JedLeano speaking in support! Image
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Jul 1, 2025
The impossible has become possible: we've passed a clean CEQA infill exemption. This is probably the most important thing California has done on housing in the present YIMBY moment. Image
I explain the significance of this historic win in this thread. 👇
If your Assemblymember and/or Senator voted AYE, please take a moment to CALL or EMAIL them to say THANKS! We need more courageous votes like this if we're going to end the California housing crisis!
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