Kellen the stormin Moormon

Head coach of the New Orleans Latter day Saints

[Socialist News Media @Socialist_Wins]

Kat Abughazaleh is using her organizing group, Kapow, to canvass and phonebank for Abdul El-Sayed in Michigan, Fran Hong in Wisconsin, and Cori Bush in MO-1.

[Kellen the stormin Moormon @DAisadope]

It’s hilarious that the aussies correctly determined that the quintessential American third space is Walmart.

[Dallas Texas TV @DallasTexasTV]

Walmart in Arlington 😭

[Dr. Abdul El-Sayed @AbdulElSayed]

Retweeting this from February, apropos of nothing at all…

[Mr. Beat @beatmastermatt]

The people who murdered Pretti and Good still walk free but don't worry, there has already been a thorough investigation of a dude who stuck his hand into the Reflecting Pool.

[Kellen the stormin Moormon @DAisadope]

@hi_amhigh Whether or not it’s been successfully elected dope

[Gary Chambers @GaryChambersJr]

Today is Election Day.

Go vote No on all 5 Constitutional Amendments

Vote Jamie Davis for US Senate

In EBR vote for Caulette Jackson-Guillard for Judge if on your ballot.

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[Kellen the stormin Moormon @DAisadope]

@FriendsOfXB There’s a reason teachers have endorsed Steyer—

[Kellen the stormin Moormon @DAisadope]

@raeforla

[Matthew @ohgoditsmatthew]

*Paid for by all the worst companies in California

[Jason Paladino @jason_paladino]

When you point out that big oil dumped $500,000 to support Becerra, according to a disclosure yesterday 👇

[Kellen the stormin Moormon @DAisadope]

@BornToChill Maybe because he’s also not broke

[Jason Paladino @jason_paladino]

Lmao that is RICH.

[Eliza Orlins @elizaorlins]

A super PAC backed by real estate money just entered the race against @EliNorthrup. They know he can't be bought, and that terrifies them. As a fellow public defender, I know Eli will fight for working people, not corporate donors. His final fundraising deadline is Monday: 🔗⬇️

[Toby Muresianu 🇺🇦 @tobyhardtospell]

This image has a key lesson for housing advocates.

Story time...🍿

I live in Katy's district, and help run a grassroots pro-housing neighborhood group (@WestsideForEv).

In 2023, a 24-story building was proposed near transit in this district (1050 La Cienega). Mixed-use, on a vacant lot, with a public pocket park, would singlehandedly double the amount of dedicated Affordable Housing in the area. Still got heavy NIMBY pushback and wasn't clear if it would get through planning commission even though it would probably be illegal to block it.

We supported it. We were on good terms with Katy as we had endorsed her, were aggressively supporting her key priority (a 30-ish bed homeless housing facility in my neighborhood) and got ~70 petition signatures from people in the area in favor of the 24-story building to counter the argument that the "community was against it".

At the hearing, staff report was that all the NIMBY claims were baseless and approval recommended. Katy said the building was "too tall" but her hands were tied by state law, etc. so she didn't officially oppose.

The building was approved. Okay, we'll take it. We kept working with her (successfully) on the homeless housing project.

Unfortunately, she rapidly became worse on housing, perhaps because she feared a NIMBY challenger. She led the movement to roll back LA’s ED1 initiative (streamlining for 100% Affordable Housing projects) in areas with "Historic Preservation Overlay Zones" (which IRL cover lots of non-historic parts of LA), delayed meeting with local housing orgs who'd supported her until after the rollback was codified, and then offered nothing new on increasing housing despite LA home production continuing to crater and having promised to build a lot of it in her campaign. She voted to oppose SB79 allowing ~7 stories of housing near train stations. When it passed anyway, she led the effort to hobble and delay implementation. Etc. We were getting nowhere.

Then I decided to help campaign against her.

@HenryForLA, a Tenants Rights Attorney, wanted to run on a pro-housing platform. I started helping run the digital operation.

We're very much underdogs (she is an incumbent who has literally 10x our funding) but we have some viral successes, got endorsements from pro-housing organizations, are being recommended in an increasing number of voter guides, and are criticizing her housing record publicly.

Now, suddenly it's night and day.

She is literally posting pictures of 2 *67-story* towers and saying "more of this please."

Someone who delayed legalization of seven story buildings by transit *six weeks ago.” Who largely ignored housing advocates even when we'd actively fought for her key priorities. She hadn't even posted on twitter in years!

All this is to tell housing advocates:

Run candidates.

Organizing around projects, speaking up for them, etc is good.

But if your elected officials aren't giving you the time of day, running candidates against them is like having power tools.

You have no idea how responsive government can be until you are publicly running to take their job and telling people how you'll do a better one.

Oh, and please support @HenryForLA. You can trust we like tall buildings; we also did six weeks ago.

[Nithya Raman @nithyavraman]

Hours after I held a press conference exposing Mayor Bass’s secret deal to allow rental homes to be turned into vacation rentals, filings were published showing that Airbnb is spending big on a PAC to get her reelected. 
This is what pay-to-play politics looks like. 🧵⬇️

[Gary Chambers @GaryChambersJr]

In 250 years, Louisiana has sent 171 white men to Congress.

During Reconstruction, Black people were elected and denied their seats. Only one Black man — Charles Nash — served in the 1800s.

Then from 1877 to 1990, Louisiana sent zero Black people to Congress. Zero. For 113 years.

In 1990, Black Louisiana finally got a member of Congress again. Since then, white voters have elected 25 members. Black voters have had 4.

All 4 were in the same room fighting to keep the two seats Black Louisiana fought for.

Don’t tell us this isn’t about denying Black people representation. It always has been.

@repcleofields_ and @reptroycarter were joined by former Congressman Cedric Richmond and William Jefferson to let the record be clear that Black voters are due fair maps.

This image should put things into perspective for you.

Today at the state Capitol, the Senate Governmental Affairs Committee will vote on which congressional map Louisiana will have.

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[Josh Billinson @jbillinson]

lol

[matt bernstein @mattxiv]

i was really looking forward to interviewing mallory mcmorrow (candidate for US senate) today. her team asked if i’d have her on my show, but they cancelled after i said we’d cover “healthcare and foreign policy” and offered no possibility of rescheduling. :(

[Rob Freund @RobertFreundLaw]

Georgia ADA files brief in murder case, cites fake cases generated by AI.

The trial court denied the defendant's motion for a new trial, and issued an order citing the fake cases!

Then, in response to his appeal, the ADA cited even more fake, AI-hallucinated cases!

Unbelievable.

[Talia Jane @taliaotg]

NYPD Captain Wilson making political statements in uniform to members of the public, knowingly on camera, denigrating @NYCMayor, saying he’s “nonsense” and “expendable” and “not my mayor.”

Is this @NYPDPC’s influence?