Rent control isn't a "liberal reform" that moderately restricts rent prices, and that's that. Rent control is an organising weapon that's important enough that real estate has spent decades trying to end it; it's illegal in most states and limited everywhere else for a reason When confronted with a multi-billion dollar annual increase in commercial property taxes & rent control in 2020, the real estate industry spent *far more money* trying to defeat the latter than they spent fighting the former

A comrade and friend was in L.A. last weekend and he said he was blown away by Latino/a support for Trump. The two things that really stood out: the depth of anger they felt & how strong their arguments were.

These folks were service workers, even some hotel workers. Things they brought up to him? They brought up overtime wages, high rents, and immigration.

It was a small sample size, of course - vox populi style stuff. But was struck him was the paucity of folks saying they were going to vote Kamala.

I don't want to upset the "England Always Bad" contingent, but these have been the most consistent teams this tournament & it sucks they battled it out in the quarters tbh. England did well and this is the best performance at a tournament from England in a while imho I just want the villainous Argentines to fall now. That's all I actually want.

Noooooo 😭 Messi scoring, game over imho

Poor Croatia, clung on to dear life until the bitter end LMAOOOOOOOOOOOO CHAOS

Progressive candidates are now leading in their races - including those championing police reform. (The two YIMBY candidates were crushed.)

The @nytimes published a story last week about the CA primary being referendum on progressive police reform policies. We need a correction. "Chesa Boudin was a referendum on California progressives' policing policies!!,” crowed the @nytimes.

Meanwhile, a city 4-5x larger than San Francisco is handing a progressive who brazenly challenged police budgets with billboards across the city a 15-point lead. #correction

I look at the overwrought debates among my British lefty friends about the state of Labour and think they're overthinking things. From a distance, it feels very simple - Labour are reaping what the right of the party and their allies in the media sowed for 5 years. That's it. Electoral outcomes are overdetermined, and the state of Labour now is the aftermath of 2019:

- Corbyn was the victim of an obscene volume and quality of attacks in the media
- The rightwing of the party sabotaged him from day one
- Liberals deliberately made Brexit a wedge issue

So #AB1482 passed in the California State Assembly. The bill is a huge step in the right direction. It is also not enough. HUGE HUGE shout-out to all of the tenants across the state, including so many of my friends, who worked their butts off to get this anti-rent gouging bill through the Legislature. We can and will do so much more still to get REAL rent control