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Javier Panzar

@jpanzar.bsky.social
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Doing web, social, comms, this, and that @bart.gov. Erstwhile LAT journalist on the Climate + California teams. Oakland grown. Fiat Lux. Getting around by train, bike and bus! 🌲 🐻 ✨ 🚆🚲 Go Bears!

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Javier Panzar @jpanzar.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I started out as a @dailycal.bsky.social higher education reporter so shooting editing this video with Chancellor Lyons on his way from UCOP back to campus on BART was a real Time Is a Flat Circle moment for me!
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Javier Panzar @jpanzar.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Funny what difference a day makes in the Bay. Taken from Capitol Corridor approaching the Berkeley station
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Javier Panzar @jpanzar.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Is this dude ripping a lung dart??
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Javier Panzar @jpanzar.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
I unearthed this the other day and started posting it around. People were so into it I decided to find some more archival BART magic to share …
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Javier Panzar @jpanzar.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
The California Zephyr got us from The Bay to Truckee exactly on time today. Plus we made a bunch of kiddo friends along the scenic journey and had a delicious meal. Trains are a treasure
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Javier Panzar @jpanzar.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
The California Zephyr got us from The Bay to Truckee exactly on time today. Plus we made a bunch of kiddo friends along the scenic journey and had a delicious meal. Trains are a treasure
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Javier Panzar @jpanzar.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
What a day that was
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Javier Panzar @jpanzar.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
I made a cameo in the latest BART Connects feature!
Screenshot from a BART social video taken from a phone that fell off a suction cup tripod thing showing the recording of the very video you are watching And the  BART employee making the content
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Javier Panzar @jpanzar.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
The only thing better than sifting through the BART media archives is getting to share with the rest of you lot
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Javier Panzar @jpanzar.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Shout out to Tommy for taking me fishing for the first time!!! For the real transit heads: The latest BART Connects features a sick Van Ness Bus Rapid Transit appearance
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Javier Panzar @jpanzar.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
For the latest BART Connects we followed Sehinne, the BART Poet! Her poem about BART is honestly the best distillation of what the system means to those of us who grew up riding it. Really brought me back to my teen days in the mid 2000s rising BART!
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Javier Panzar @jpanzar.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
BART Connects Episode II! Filming this one was super fun and involved me having to track down a pair of appropriate golf pants in order to be let onto the course! Thankfully some guy let me use his rain pants.
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Javier Panzar @jpanzar.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
I got to hang out with Oakland legend Fantastic Negrito for a night while he played and shared his amazing BART story! One of the more fun things I’ve ever gotten to make 👇
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Javier Panzar @jpanzar.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
Amazing quotes in this story about robot company employees going around the Bay Area secretly and trashing the homes while prototype testing robots to do household chores. By @skbaer.bsky.social sfstandard.com/2026/05/28/s...
“The dishonesty is really what upsets me the most,” he said. “If they had come straight up, ‘Hey, we would like to rent your house for testing of our robot,’ then we could have come to an agreement. But it’s the lying and the misrepresentation that makes me feel violated.”

It appears that he’s not the only Bay Area resident who has been duped.

Three of the guests connected to the April 12-25 booking for Donovan’s home have received negative reviews from at least 12 other Airbnb hosts alleging they damaged the property and personal belongings, failed to clean up, exceeded the limit on the number of guests, or violated other house rules during their stays.“I just kind of assumed they might have had a party,” said the owner, who requested anonymity for privacy.
But then a neighbor told him they had seen people bringing big black boxes into the house, so the owner thought maybe they had filmed a movie.
“The robot thing kind of makes sense now,” the host said.
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Javier Panzar @jpanzar.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
Behind the scenes of the hard hat BART content
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Javier Panzar @jpanzar.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
So this is probably my favorite social vid I've made since starting at BART in 2024.  Here is how it came to be: When I came back to work from paternity leave last year I saw we had been tagged in a few posts featuring this baby rail fan. I asked the mom if BART could repost them and she said sure
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Javier Panzar @jpanzar.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
Congrats to local coffee shop patron Ryan Coogler
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Javier Panzar @jpanzar.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
Nap trapped on the cargo bike How far can we make it before she awakes Starting point: Martinez shoreline
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Javier Panzar @jpanzar.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
One Battle After Another under discussed great train movie
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Javier Panzar @jpanzar.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
🚊 🥇
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Javier Panzar @jpanzar.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
Congrats to fellow Ain’t Normal Coffee patron Ryan Coogler on 16 Oscar noms for SINNERS
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BART @bart.gov · 15/01/2026
Ever wonder how BART tunneled under the streets of San Francisco? Watch this film from our archives. Find the full version on our YouTube page! Two Calweld oscillating tunnel-boring machines were used to bore twin mile-long tunnels between the Mission Street lines and the Market Street lines.
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BART @bart.gov · 08/01/2026
Cycling down the Transbay Tube?! It happened. Watch the full archival film “A Vision to Reality” on BART’s YouTube page. It’s groovy youtu.be/EPreZNCZr7I
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Javier Panzar @jpanzar.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
Lake Merritt at 7 am is a magical place
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Javier Panzar @jpanzar.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
Quite the trip around the sun!
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Javier Panzar @jpanzar.bsky.social · 29/12/2025
All hail @bsquiklehausen.com
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Javier Panzar @jpanzar.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
Maybe I’ll make reading comically enormous books on BART my new bit for 2026
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Javier Panzar @jpanzar.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
A Thanksgiving salute to these two hanging out in the Carquinez Strait this morning
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Javier Panzar @jpanzar.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
My daughter crashed her first planning commission meeting last night! She wandered in, took a seat and watched dutifully for like 10 minutes, just holding onto her stick! Love a civic minded kid!
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Javier Panzar @jpanzar.bsky.social · 22/11/2025
Big Game week really stirs the pot over at @bart.gov HQ! I spotted @valmenotti.bsky.social from across the floor and came running.
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Javier Panzar @jpanzar.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
Well my Paternity leave is OVER and I’m back at @bart.gov social duties I was greeted Monday by a great predawn and sunset Capitol Corridor commute
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Peter Hartlaub @peterhartlaub.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
With apologies to Crockett & Sunol, Martinez is my new No. 1 choice if I need to go into witness relocation in the Bay Area. I went there by bike & train (🫡 @Amtrak Capitol Corridor 🚆) and built a case to make this your next day trip. 🦫 🍸 💯 www.sfchronicle.com/totalsf/arti...
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This historic town — with beer, beavers and a shipwreck — is the Bay Area’s secret getaway
I knew this Contra Costa town for its imposing row of refinery equipment along the highway. But a train trip downtown changed everything, culture critic Peter Hartlaub writes.
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Clarence Eckerson Jr./Streetfilms @streetfilms.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
Been watching the 1974 “Planet of the Apes” tv series with my kid. My fav episode is #3 “The Trap” where Gen Ursus & astronaut fall into a BART subway station during an earthquake and need to work together to survive! @apthornley.bsky.social @transitcenter.bsky.social @2avesag.as
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Aaron Mendelson @amendelson.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
Older Americans have the highest rates of gun suicide of any age group. Not by a little — by a lot. Why? I spent months exploring this question through data, field reporting, and interviews with experts. Our story is up today on @thetrace.org www.thetrace.org/2025/09/gun-...
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The Quiet Crisis: What’s Driving Gun Suicides Among Older Americans?
More and more older Americans are dying by firearm suicide, a new analysis from The Trace and GQ reveals. Older white men and those in rural areas experience alarmingly high rates.
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Javier Panzar @jpanzar.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
My daughter is hyped for transit month!!
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Javier Panzar @jpanzar.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
I appreciate fog a whole lot more after making this Cloud Chasing video with Milo.
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Javier Panzar @jpanzar.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
I had a lot of fun riding BART with Zayn and his family and sharing their love for transit! Check out this Behind the Scenes photo it looks like we have no choice but to start a BART band now?!
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Javier Panzar @jpanzar.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
Very excited to share these today
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Javier Panzar @jpanzar.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
We got Peter out cruising the Carquinez Strait!!! Everyone needs to experience its glory
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Hamed Aleaziz @haleaziz.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
SCOOP: The Trump admin has abruptly shifted the focus of its mass deportation campaign, telling ICE officials to largely pause raids and arrests in the agricultural industry, hotels and restaurants, according to an internal email and three officials with knowledge. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/13/u...
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Trump Shifts Deportation Focus, Pausing Raids on Farms, Hotels and Eateries
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Javier Panzar @jpanzar.bsky.social · 31/05/2025
New summer ritual: The first day it crosses 90 degrees in Martinez I bike along Carquinez Scenic Dr. to see Capitol Corridor Train 548 come around the bend just past Port Costa … magical!
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Javier Panzar @jpanzar.bsky.social · 31/05/2025
The Martinez waterfront along the Carquinez Strait is sort of the tropics of the Bay Area?
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Javier Panzar @jpanzar.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
Biking, BARTing, and posting
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Javier Panzar @jpanzar.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
I was in line for coffee and heard this voice. I thought “That dude sounds JUST like Ryan Coogler.” I turn around, and IT IS Ryan Coogler! People were coming up and singing his praises, so I had to as well. We chatted about Skyline, Saint Mary’s, 70 mm at the Grand Lake, etc. Extremely cool dude.
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BART @bart.gov · 13/05/2025
Bike to Wherever Day 2025 is almost here! This Thursday, May 15, there will be “energizer stations” popping up throughout the BART system. Click the thread below to learn more ⬇️
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Javier Panzar @jpanzar.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
Time for Sinners in 70
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Javier Panzar @jpanzar.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
Meeting Terence Blanchard on the job a new career high point
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BART @bart.gov · 05/05/2025
🚨 🚇 TOMORROW, Tuesday May 6th is All Aboard Bay Area Transit Day! BART staff will be on trains in the morning to offer free stickers to riders. If you are spotted wearing one by staffers later in the afternoon you get a prize! We want the Bay Area to come ride and experience transit improvements.
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Javier Panzar @jpanzar.bsky.social · 04/05/2025
Find me at @bart.gov May The Fourth event if you want to discuss the disastrous state of journalism in the Republic … I used to work at THE DAILY CORUSCANT now I’m a social media guy for the JEDI COUNCIL. (PLO KOON is a great mentor… KI-ADI-MUNDI is a glue guy, MACE obvi gr8, KIT FISTO is wild)
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Javier Panzar @jpanzar.bsky.social · 04/05/2025
A wild assignment on BART today!
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