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CAHSR's Strongest Soldier @emoscientist.bsky.social · 8h

Both images appear to be projected unless I'm missing something

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Californians for Electric Rail @calelectricrail.org · 10h

NO ON MEASURE A (RIVERSIDE CO.) - This extends the existing Measure A sales tax indefinitely, locking in a pattern of transit disinvestment and sprawl and highway construction. Just 12% of Measure A in Western Riverside County goes to transit, while Metrolink is in crisis and transit is substandard.

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CAHSR's Strongest Soldier @emoscientist.bsky.social · 12h

These days I'm constantly swinging between "oh man why do I feel like shit all the time" and "oh wait that's why"

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Stardust Coyote (郊狼) 🇹🇼🇵🇸🇺🇦 @coyotestail.bsky.social · 12h

going from "well that was ordinary life" to "PEDOPHILE MCHITLER IS KIDNAPPING YOUR CHILDREN AND EXECUTING YOUR NEIGHBORS" is 0 to 60 way too fast man. its gonna shake a lot of people. the damage to the social fabric and national psyche will last for at least a generation

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CAHSR's Strongest Soldier @emoscientist.bsky.social · 12h

This reminds me of OCTA saying that since OC Bus (which like VTA has kinda shit service) was at 100% ridership recovery every agency with a fiscal cliff including Metrolink must be horribly mismanaged.

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CAHSR's Strongest Soldier @emoscientist.bsky.social · 13h

Nonpartisan local elections keep the CA GOP on life support. On the one had, it forces them (for the most part) to run as sensible fiscally conservative moderates rather than MAGA nutjobs, on the other hand it helps them keep getting elected.

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CAHSR's Strongest Soldier @emoscientist.bsky.social · 13h

By my count, the Metrolink board is majority Republican despite the GOP being far from the majority in the region. Metrolink cuts were spearheaded by a small group of OC Republicans. Why do the rest of us let this happen?

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CAHSR's Strongest Soldier @emoscientist.bsky.social · 13h

My count is: Barger - GOP Spiegel - GOP Trembley - GOP McCallon - GOP Marquez - GOP Nguyen - GOP (?) Berkson - ? Solis - Dem Sandoval - Dem Chaffee - Dem So good question as to why a blue region lets Republicans run our regional transit system.

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CAHSR's Strongest Soldier @emoscientist.bsky.social · 13h

While most of them are elected to nonpartisan local offices so it's hard to say, I think a majority of the Metrolink board are Republicans as well?

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CAHSR's Strongest Soldier @emoscientist.bsky.social · 13h

It's mostly OC Republicans pushing these cuts, so they know how to work strategically.

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CAHSR's Strongest Soldier @emoscientist.bsky.social · 13h

I have like 3 coworkers who do this commute and they all drive to work despite very expensive workplace parking.

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CAHSR's Strongest Soldier @emoscientist.bsky.social · 13h

This is a super common commute pattern that IE agencies do basically nothing to do accommodate because transit service ends at county lines. No direct route and no fare or schedule coordination for transfers.

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CAHSR's Strongest Soldier @emoscientist.bsky.social · 15h

Kind of nuts that the agenda packet completely contradicts itself and nobody on the board called it out. Whether fares revenues go up or down is hugely consequential for next year!

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CAHSR's Strongest Soldier @emoscientist.bsky.social · 15h

This is what I'm talking about. Random dipshits who don't understand basic stuff like infrequent service having worse ridership and farebox recovery making consequential decisions for 20 M people. And Chaffee is one of the better people at OCTA! bsky.app/profile/cale...

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CAHSR's Strongest Soldier @emoscientist.bsky.social · 17h

And one of the greatest cybercrimes in history

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Glonzo the Bureaucrat 🇬🇱 🌹 @snarkranger.bsky.social · 19h

I am sick and tired of seeing this shit. DOGE was not a "missed opportunity," it was an intentional effort by billionaire oligarchs to destroy the federal government's capacity to do good things for the American people.

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CAHSR's Strongest Soldier @emoscientist.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

So let me get this straight... 4 years after the only rail connection between CA's 2 largest cities closed for over a year, they're only getting around to starting a *study* of realignment, which will be done in 2034. Incredible incompetence here. www.latimes.com/california/s...

The famed railroad line along the San Clemente coast has found itself on the endangered list amid a relentless assault from rising seas and punishing surf.

Transportation experts have long spoken about the possibility of relocating the tracks in the area, but the California State Transportation Agency is expected to launch a study before year’s end examining what would go into potentially moving the rail line, according to Darrell Johnson, chief executive of the Orange County Transportation Authority.

Johnson said the study would likely take at least several months to complete.

Transportation planners previously said it could cost more than $5 billion to move the tracks inland.

In September, high tides and powerful wave activity from Hurricane Marie buffeted the San Clemente coastline, temporarily halting Pacific Surfliner and Metrolink service after more erosion and slope damage was spotted near the train tracks.

“As a condition of work on the portion of rail line in San Clemente, the California Coastal Commission required a Long-Term Railroad Adaptation Study due by 2034,” according to a statement from the California State Transportation Agency.

The study has not yet launched, the agency added, and all options are on the table.

“There has been no decision made to relocate the portion of the rail line in San Clemente and it would be premature to identify a route, timeline, or cost before that study has concluded. Relocating a rail line that carries passenger, freight, and military traffic is a major, long-term undertaking that requires careful analysis of engineering, environmental impacts, community effects, cost, and funding, along with close coordination with rail owners, operators, and federal partners,” the agency said in a statement.

“In the meantime, protecting the existing line is essential to keeping trains running safely for the communities that rely on them.”

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Stan Oklobdzija @stano.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

It's unreal how poorly California is governed relative to the size of our economy. We're going to tear out the copper wire on train service for a region of about 20 million people because our extremely dumb state thinks that Orange County Republicans should be able to veto mass transit for everyone.

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curtlarock.bsky.social @curtlarock.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Cutting weekend/off peak service, just as high gas prices are encouraging people who don’t commute on transit to ride, is extremely shortsighted.

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CAHSR's Strongest Soldier @emoscientist.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Those mid-day off-peak trains were great for getting home from Metrolink board meetings without having to take an entire day off of work. I'm sure they're much happier if I'm not there making them do stuff.

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CAHSR's Strongest Soldier @emoscientist.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

The mind of the guys who want to replace everyone with AI

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CAHSR's Strongest Soldier @emoscientist.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

While OCTA deserves most of the blame here, supposedly RCTC also wanted a return to commuter schedules. I guess none of them have ever been on the 91 on the weekend, or know anyone with a blue-collar job.

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CAHSR's Strongest Soldier @emoscientist.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

This is just not good governance. Metrolink is being forced to increase costs, shed riders, and ignore international best practice at the behest of random GOP city council members who know jack shit about transit in an attempt to save $5M

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dereksagehorn.bsky.social @dereksagehorn.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Center Right tech CEOs trying to understand transit costs: Imagine a burger restaurant

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Californians for Electric Rail @calelectricrail.org · 08/10/2026

With these cuts, Metrolink could enter the transit death spiral. They project $10M less fare revenue next year which will lead to more service cuts soon if we don't take action. Speak out tomorrow @ Metrolink and future OCTA + Metro meetings to demand $ for Metrolink docs.google.com/document/d/1...

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Metrolink board meeting 10/9/26 - Service cuts & Budget Talking Points

Metrolink Special Board Meeting Friday, October 9th, 10 am Via Zoom: https://scrra.zoom.us/j/88243690937 Or see agenda for in-person locations Link to agenda Link to new schedules How to comment: If ...

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Californians for Electric Rail @calelectricrail.org · 08/10/2026

Want to find out more about Metrolink service changes? Is your train getting cut? Use this tool to find out. docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

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Metrolink 2026: How do service cuts affect my train?

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Californians for Electric Rail @calelectricrail.org · 08/10/2026

Metrolink finally has a budget after 6 months, and it includes 29% weekday, 40% weekend service cuts, with no weekday service to Oceanside. Click the link for more info. Speak out TOMORROW at 10 Metrolink and other meetings later in the month to fight back. calelectricrail.org/metrolink-an...

Scenario 8 service levels. Scenario 8 vs Optimized (new schedules vs 2025) has the following cuts: SBL -36% weekday, -25% weekend, VCL: -36%weekday, 0% weekend, AVL -27% weekday, -67% weekend, Riverside 0% cuts, Orange County -38% weekday, -50% weekend, IEOC -22% weekday 0% weekend, 91/PVL -14% weekday 0% weekend, overall -29% weekday, -40% weekend

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CAHSR's Strongest Soldier @emoscientist.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Decades of disinvestment and austerity is actually a significant reason why stuff is so expensive! We don't invest in in-house staff, fund projects piecemeal, and do everything as a one-off, so everything costs more.

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Urban Land Rent 🇸🇴🚰 @urbanlandrent.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

This sort of stuff makes me want to scream. The cost bloat is in *capital projects* not in operations! Capital projects are bloated because of a complex web of balkanized permitting processes, the byzantine and inconsistent nature of federal grant funding, and outsourcing talent to consultants.

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Stan Oklobdzija @stano.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Given how much Los Angeles' terrible governance on housing and homeless affects the rest of the state, it's no exaggeration to call the LA Mayor's race the most important election in California this cycle.

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CAHSR's Strongest Soldier @emoscientist.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

And the general vibe, which definitely was picked up by students, was that school doesn't matter, which has only gotten worse with Trump's War on School since 2024

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CAHSR's Strongest Soldier @emoscientist.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I am not trying to criticize COVID-era education policies in my thread, I don't really want to litigate school closures. What I'm talking about was the lack of effort to make up for it once schools re-opened everywhere. No summer school, no extra support, no repeating grades.

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Maya🚂🚃🚄🚅🚆🚇🚈🚉🚊🚝🚞🚋🚌🚎 @trains.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

precovid jumps like these would be across all levels of media, every politician would be yelling about them, we would look to improving systems to keep the growth going ectect and yet due to our current political climate and austerity minded politicians many systems are on the verge of collapse

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CAHSR's Strongest Soldier @emoscientist.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

This is a counterpoint, but I think the "mom populism" approach only really works in swingy areas with fewer socioeconomic contrasts and a real GOP threat. I'm skeptical that people outside Red states care about public ed as much as this piece claims. bsky.app/profile/oluf...

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CAHSR's Strongest Soldier @emoscientist.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Measure A's local return setup is also a massive subsidy to sprawl. Revenue from relatively transit-rich areas like Riverside and Corona are lumped in with the sprawl frontiers in San Jacinto, and Lake Elsinore that mix open lands with untransitable tract developments, a net transfer of wealth.

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Ari Drennen @aridrennen.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

An initiative on the ballot in Washington State this fall would require families to pay for their daughters to have a genital exam or other sex test if they want to play sports AT ANY LEVEL, and the left is sleeping on it. I talked to KUOW:

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Polling shows ban on trans girls in girls' sports could pass in November

Washington state voters will soon weigh in on a ballot measure to ban transgender girls from playing on girls’ school sports teams. The initiative is controversial, but national and local polling sugg...

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UC Faculty Association @cucfa.org · 07/10/2026

Class sizes are growing, and Instead of investing in faculty, UC invested in management and administration. Now, faculty are feeling the effects. www.sacbee.com/news/local/e...

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UC is hitting its enrollment targets. But permanent faculty hiring lags

Faculty say the University of California’s reputation for academic excellence and its contribution to new ideas and innovations is at stake.

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CAHSR's Strongest Soldier @emoscientist.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

All the major cities with an ascendant socialist Left, including New York City

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John Burns @burnsajohn.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

The three amigos!

Three dinoflagellate (Tripos sp.) cells overlapping.

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CAHSR's Strongest Soldier @emoscientist.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

The SF school board is an extreme example but the "should we get rid of exam schools" question has been a hot topic in every city that has them. And the fiscal tradeoffs between serving high-achieving and low-achieving kids are real.

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CAHSR's Strongest Soldier @emoscientist.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Working class Asian Americans and upper middle class white people who are progressive enough not to send their kids to private school concretely benefit from concentrating resources on "high-achieving" kids and both of these were an important part of the Mamdani coalition.

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CAHSR's Strongest Soldier @emoscientist.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

The other 2010s political current in education reform (briefly alluded to in the piece) was the push for charter schools and ed-tech. There's not a lot of evidence they work and these are essentially rent-seekers structurally aligned against the Left.

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CAHSR's Strongest Soldier @emoscientist.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

In San Francisco controversial stances on 8th grade algebra and selective schools basically nuked the progressive block citywide (there were also other factors). It's politically savvy to avoid emphasizing issues that divide your base.

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CAHSR's Strongest Soldier @emoscientist.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Secondly and relatedly we're coming out of a decade of very divisive public debates on K-12 education. 2010s progressives made a lot of pushes for equity in schools that, without commenting on their merits, served as wedge issues. Leftists are cross-pressured issues like selective schools.

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CAHSR's Strongest Soldier @emoscientist.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I think there's a couple of historic reasons the current Left is not focused on schools. The biggest one being that since the pandemic, I feel like society at large has given up on schools. We gave up on trying address learning loss, performance is declining, and no one cares - why should the Left?

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Hamilton Nolan @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

The most important political task in America is clawing back wealth from the very rich. The most important ballot measure in America is the California billionaire tax. Oligarchy is at the front door. Time to stop fucking around. www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/the-war-ag...

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The War Against Accumulated Capital

Either pass wealth taxes or learn to love digital feudalism.

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CAHSR's Strongest Soldier @emoscientist.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Try this one granicus-aasmp-peak-files.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/atta...

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Daniel Swain @weatherwest.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Just did some number crunching using latest (Oct 1) ECMWF seasonal data, and I must say that I've never seen such high predictive confidence in a very wet California winter. This is a truly extraordinary forecast amid a record-strength El Niño event. [Thread: please read to end.]

Model-relative sea surface temperature anomalies for November 2026–January 2027. The supplied grid is displayed without added smoothing or coastal filling. Beige marks land and gray marks missing ocean values. The main colour scale spans -2 to +10°F, with white at zero. Hot pink marks anomalies above +10°F. This map does not establish an operational ENSO category.

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CAHSR's Strongest Soldier @emoscientist.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

In addition to these reasons, Metrolink is going from all day operations in 2025 to peak-only service in 2027, which has higher operating costs per rider bsky.app/profile/emos...

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