Stan Oklobdzija
Public Policy @ Tulane ➡️ UC Riverside, Fall 2025 | Build 🏠 & Reform 🏛️ | 1st Gen 🇺🇸: 🇷🇸/ Việt Nam Cộng Hòa | 躺平 | Ham chơi
New Orleans, LA
stanokl.github.io
- If Kenneth Mejia were to run against Bass next year I think he’d win by 30+ points.
- I want to believe that man has the juice.
- Giving California cities authority over land use is like giving Southern counties control over voting.
- Not trying to "umm akshully" this joke, but immigration was entirely "Whites Only" until 1965. If you're not White and your family are immigrants, thank the Civil Rights movement!
- American political institutions cease to function when there are high levels of partisan polarization. Luckily the Founders thought of that and created mechanisms to address it, such as a civil war or letting half the nation be run as an authoritarian apartheid state.
- "Masked security forces captured an opposition leader in the coastal province of New Jersey as regime officials continue their months-long crack-down against pro-democracy elements in the embattled United States. The arrest comes as the regime issued calls for summary detentions without trial."
- If habeas corpus is suspended, states should secede.
- I hope I live to see the time when former members of the Trump regime have to change their names and move to small towns in the hopes that no one will recognize them.
- May there come a time soon when finding a MAGA hat in a dead relative's belongings will bring the same sense of deep shame as finding a swastika armband or a Klan hood.
- One of the great ironies of American urban politics is that the mechanisms to stop the dismantling of cities were put in place at precisely the right moment to freeze everything bad about the previous decades in perpetuity.
- This is Claiborne Ave. in New Orleans. In 1968, it was torn up for a raised highway that was originally going to replace the French Quarter. But because Whites protested the Quarter's destruction, Black homes and businesses in Treme got the axe instead.
- Right now, we should be wrapping up the process of tearing down urban highways and replacing them with homes, businesses and recreational space. But the tools we have are all designed to stop change and those who benefit from this awful status quo use them to hold everyone else hostage.
- Academic social science buddies: If you had about $12,000 you needed to spend on survey research before July 1, would you bank it at Lucid, which has a lower quality respondents but charges ~$1.50/complete, or one of the better vendors that charge ~$4.50/complete?
- I think a lot of anger at outlets like the NYT is misplaced since 99% of their readers vote Democrat and GOP voters live in a hermetically sealed media ecosystem anyhow. Democrats barely make it onto Fox News and Jasmine Crockett isn't getting asked to be on "The 400 lbs Aryan Podcast" or whatever.
- Forget the NYT, what percentage of Trump voters **read** any kind of news?
