@rollonyouchairs
Oakland-based dude with a spinal cord injury. Disability, urbanism, climate change, human rights in general, Cal sports, Niners and Warriors. I do policy and PR consulting on those first 3 topics. Available for partnerships. www.disabilityimby.com
A hummingbird and a heron perched on different branches on a tree without leaves. Old two-story building in the background. Obscured Street sign with an oak tree that says 12th Street
Big birb/little birb
#hummingbirds #herons #birbs #oakland
Unfunded inclusionary zoning mandates are de-facto taxes on new housing that worsen the housing shortage because they require homebuilders to rent or sell a percentage of their new homes at a loss.
Funded inclusionary zoning, on the other hand, is a great tool to economically integrate new housing.
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Nancy Youssef, ..guil @ X.com @nancyayoussef The preliminary Pentagon cost estimate of the war in Iran is $1 billion a day, a congressional official told me. 12:20 PM • 3/4/26 • 44K Views
Preliminary Pentagon cost estimate of the war in Iran is $1 BILLION a day. So far.
Hey that’s about the cost of the SSI Restoration Act, which would cut recipient poverty by 60%, eliminate marriage penalties, and modernize draconian asset limits.
Ban the fucking polymarkets. Betting on death. Betting on war while Incentivizing death and war. Shaping foreign/domestic policy by rewarding the rich people already in the know and encouraging them to make decisions that destroy the world while padding their pockets. Burn it down.
The media and academia have an obligation to not remain neutral in the face of authoritarianism. These institutions need liberal institutions to exist in any meaningful way. Authoritarianism is an existential threat. Our devotion to "neutrality" will keep us from fighting for our own survival.
Investigative Post obtained this video of Border Patrol abandoning Nurul Shah Alam, the nearly blind Burmese refugee who was found dead
www.investigativepost.org/2026/02/26/t...
A cornerstone of fascism is the devaluing and intentional, malicious discarding of #disabled lives. Alam's death is tragic and abhorrent – and yet another sociopathic homicide in a larger war on people with #disabilities.
Arrest them.
if you’re a leftist, you need to understand how widespread it is for white supremacists & fascist conspiracy theorists to use populist language to advance their violent, bigoted agendas. they are not on your side. they do not get grace or uplifted due to being a broken clock.
(I was also told recently that the spinal fusion hardware looks like the Chinese character for "moon," which adds an extra wrinkle to the piece).
I have a large wood print in my apartment and visitors love it. Perhaps it'll be a new conversation piece for your home, too…
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The piece features 7 surgeries & wounds I had from 2004-2014: a spinal fusion & subsequent surgical debridement, a baclofen pump placement & replacement, a partial sacrectomy & flap, a pressure ulcer, & a femural rod. Ultimately, it depicts the surgical side of life w/ a #disability.
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Hi everyone! I've put my 2014 Surgical Self Portrait on Fine Art America, where you can buy prints and items with the piece on them (from mugs to pillows to T-shirts). I'd love it if you visit the product page and, if you like the piece, purchase a print or share the link with your friends.
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I see lots of people here noting this is part of a part of a larger war on Minnesota... But what I haven't seen so far is that it's part of a larger war on #disabled people (which it is)
Because of the National driver register, since their licenses are suspended, trans folks cannot move to another state and get a new license until they remove the suspension on their existing Kansas license.
They can't even escape this by moving to another state.
We obtained the Dilley detention center’s 911 call logs.
Among them are pleas for help for toddlers having trouble breathing, a pregnant woman who passed out and an elementary-school-aged girl having seizures.
It is difficult to overstate how quickly & thoroughly & shamefully we have normalized “the president can use federal funding as a cudgel to punish blue states & only blue states on his whim” in our polity & society. Yet another thing that would have ended any other presidency in the modern era.
Abortion was phase I, trans healthcare was phase II, birth control is phase III
If California and other relatively LGBT-friendly states want to be helpful, they're going to need to build a lot more housing.
It's pretty amazing that I'm almost middle-aged and still can't avoid biting the inside of my mouth while eating.
No judgement on his potential success as governor... But it sure would be nice to watch TV without a Tom Steyer commercial nearly every commercial break
So-called “inclusionary zoning” acts as a tax on new housing by requiring home builders to sell or rent a %age of the new homes at a loss.
Without funding, IZ only “works” when the market price of new housing is significantly higher than construction costs.
I am glad to see Oregon rolling it back.
congrats to everyone, well done, no notes
3 Bluesky posts. Hank green. Canada has better jerseys tho. Jerry Chen. bluesky, The North American yelling about hockey app Rachel Gilmore. fuck the USA.
What a great trio of posts on my feed
Yes. They could have moved much faster to this point and allowed Trump to destroy our alliances and bankrupt small US businesses in the meantime
Trump should be ordered to personally reimburse us all instead of having the Treasury do it.
The left tried for decades to pass green energy subsidies, passed them, the subsidies worked, and now literally the entire planet's electricity grid is going to convert to solar+battery. It just doesn't feel like "tech" because it mostly produces kinda boring blue collar jobs instead of billionaires
