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Jamie Pew

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Pedestrian Climate at NextGen Policy NJ raised, Oakland based boxd.it/1jz17

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Big Wonderful Wyoming @wydot.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I-80 Mile Marker 353, 9/29/2026, 7:34:23 PM
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Jamie Pew @jpew.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
So uh, this is a nuts maneuver by the CA Assembly www.kcra.com/article/news...
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California Assembly kills wildfire liability plan Gov. Newsom agreed to with legislators
California's Assembly on Tuesday killed a wildfire liability plan that lawmakers and Gov. Gavin Newsom agreed to days ago.
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Stan Oklobdzija @stano.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
California's ruling Democrats are just fundamentally unserious about governing this state. They pulled the coward's veto on a bill that'd make it easier to build condos.
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Lake Michigan! Live! @lake-michigan.live · 01/09/2026
Current* conditions near Mackinaw City, MI:
Northern view of the Mackinac Bridge traversing the Straits of Mackinac with Lake Michigan on the left. // Image captured at: 2026-08-31 23:06:02 UTC (about 1 min. prior to this post) // Image sourced from: mackinacbridge.org // Current Temp in Mackinaw City: 68 F | 20 C // Precip: overcast clouds // Wind: N at 1 mph | 2 kph // Humidity: 99%
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CAHSR's Strongest Soldier @emoscientist.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
I'm getting mad at the oil industry for more esoteric and complex reasons than you could ever imagine
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工an Monroe 🚰 @eean.dev · 19/08/2026
I don't believe in SaaSmageddon overall but the ability of one guy putting together a complex useful site like this is real. See also nlrbresearch.com
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Jamie Pew @jpew.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Excited about two new features on CALege.com -- Now you can build customizable legislator lists, or "caucuses," to track targets for lobby days + generate scorecards on your bills. And the big one... share everything - lists, notes, vote counts - with your team using the new CALege team plans!
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Jamie Pew @jpew.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Excited about two new features on CALege.com -- Now you can build customizable legislator lists, or "caucuses," to track targets for lobby days + generate scorecards on your bills. And the big one... share everything - lists, notes, vote counts - with your team using the new CALege team plans!
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Jamie Pew @jpew.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
One tiny (cool) feature of CALege - it makes it really easy to share a list of bills with non-users. Here's a list of the wildfire bills that may get rolled into the governor's end-of-session wildfire package: www.calege.com/shared/eb960...
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CALege
California legislation research dashboard
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Californians for Electric Rail @calelectricrail.org · 17/08/2026
As we've predicted since our founding, the hydrogen bubble burst and H2 is now on the decline across California. Transit agencies are left holding the bag for a failed experiment - and the state is still committed to 10 expensive H2 trains with nowhere for them to go. www.latimes.com/environment/...
“I would not recommend going deeply into hydrogen today,” said Derek Toups, deputy planning director of a small transit agency in Santa Cruz, when asked directly on a panel. With its 20 hydrogen buses on the roads, Santa Cruz Metro is committed to the technology, he said, but the funding landscape has changed drastically. “It makes sense to watch and learn before diving in because it is extremely costly.”California gets most of its hydrogen for transportation from facilities in Las Vegas and Ontario that make it out of natural gas. Just one very small producer in Fresno makes it with electricity.

A slightly larger green hydrogen producer in Vernon will begin serving 10 trucks and buses a day at the end of the month, with plans to ramp up to 100, according to its founder, Vishal Shah.

But most of the production plants originally envisioned under ARCHES “have been canceled, or just indefinitely delayed. Same thing, really,” said Alfredo Arredondo, a lobbyist for the Green Hydrogen Coalition, who noted a lack of customers as the problem. In California, hydrogen costs four times more per mile than gasoline, even with the latest increases in U.S. fuel prices, said Matthew Hodgkinson, an analyst at S&P Global Energy.

There were about 20 times more EV trucks and buses on the road than hydrogen ones at the end of last year. And there are just four public filling stations and 10 private ones at transit agencies to serve them, according to the California Energy Commission.
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Ben Raderstorf @raders.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
I can’t believe this video is real and that Karen Bass posted this to her own account.
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Urban Land Rent 🇸🇴🚰 @urbanlandrent.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Mood
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Caræsten 🇵🇸 @cara.city · 03/08/2026
so there's been this big Clear Channel digital countdown to the world cup billboard in Oakland for the last six months, except the world cup is over, and they haven't found someone new to buy the billboard space, so right now it just says: "-51 days till all eyes are on the Bay Area!"
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Jamie Pew @jpew.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Some good points in this...
tomsteyer.substack.com
California’s climate cowardice
At the moment California should be accelerating its clean-energy transition, its leaders are surrendering to Big Oil.
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Jamie Pew @jpew.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
New on www.CALege.com this morning...
Pro users can now annotate bill and statute text in CALege Beta!
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Idothethinking @idothethinking.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
The battle of Hopkins bike lanes are back, the final battle, and I got a lot to say. I haven't attended a Berkeley city council meeting in 7 years, but on Tuesday I'll be there, and I hope you will too. darrellowens.substack.com/p/the-final-...
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The Final Battle of Hopkins Bike Lanes
One of the most important climate actions goes to Berkeley City Council.
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Jamie Pew @jpew.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Several upgrades still available. Ftr that means free forever. Also email me if you/your org may be interested in testing a teams account feature!
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Jamie Pew @jpew.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Teased this a couple weeks ago, now have an official beta launch! A new CA policy dashboard, designed for ease of use. Keeping as much of the tool as I can in front of a (low) paywall. Will upgrade the first, say, 10 DMs to a Pro account for free. More to come! www.calege.com
calege.com
CALege
California legislation research dashboard
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Big Wonderful Wyoming @wydot.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
I-80 Laramie Gate, 7/23/2026, 9:43:11 PM
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David Weiskopf believes in you @dave.bzky.team · 24/07/2026
Hell yeah. Fuck yeah. Nice one.
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Jamie Pew @jpew.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Teased this a couple weeks ago, now have an official beta launch! A new CA policy dashboard, designed for ease of use. Keeping as much of the tool as I can in front of a (low) paywall. Will upgrade the first, say, 10 DMs to a Pro account for free. More to come! www.calege.com
calege.com
CALege
California legislation research dashboard
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Jamie Pew @jpew.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Of all the lessons people learned from Zohran's campaign, "Fight Agency brought the juice" is probably the most damaging across progressive campaign world
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Jamie Pew @jpew.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Just got my insurance payout from my car that got stolen in February. $164 dollars in my pocket for a total loss on a leased vehicle ~6 months ago. Insurance rules (but it also sucks)
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Jamie Pew @jpew.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
if you live in California you can eat a delicious burrito pretty much every day, lots of people don't take this into account
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Alissa Walker @awalkerinla.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
California gubernatorial candidate Tom Steyer was so excited that Metro was offering free transit for election day that he came to LA to ride the D this morning
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Alex @alxlndomountain.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
Adding to Tom Steyer discourse
Tom Stever: "I'm totally in favor of trans athletes n high school. When you understand the vulnerabilitv. the stress. the danger of being a trans kid and you understand almost half of them try to commit suicide. Then you think we're gonna punish those kids, we're gonna cut them off from team sport. It's like. no we're not*
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Jeff Weiss @passionweiss.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
D'Angelo & Beck photographed by Jonathan Mannion (2000)
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Silky @silkyweineck.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
@umich.edu alums: let your voice ring docs.google.com/document/d/1...
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UM Alums - 2026 Spring Commencement
If you’re an alum of the University of Michigan, please sign the letter by clicking on this link to open a form. https://forms.gle/g5LZcE8bGGKZkG9J6 May 4, 2026 Dear President Grasso, Provost McCau...
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Californians for Electric Rail @calelectricrail.org · 28/04/2026
CARB has proposed massive a giveaway to oil companies, the MDI, that would increase pollution while defunding Cap-and-Invest transit $$ (and housing, clean water, etc) and jeopardize High-Speed Rail's $1B funding guarantee amidst an energy crisis. But a group of legislators are pushing back!
California is the last great hope for stability and progress for climate and energy security. But threats, both foreign and domestic,are destabilizing markets and burdening working families with ever more costly energy bills and climate disasters. 

We urge the California Air Resources Board to amend their Cap-and-Invest proposal to push back on pressure from an oil industry that is making hundreds of billions in wartime profits. The recently proposed amendments put bothour 2030 targets and the stability of the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund at risk.They also depart from the spirit of our landmark agreement from last year by seeking to achieve affordability goals without accountability. 

CARB’s proposal, rather than adhere to the will of the Legislature and clear statutory direction, adds up to 118 million metric tons of allowances back into the market, providing at least $3.5 billion in subsidies that will only prolong our reliance on fossil fuels and their disproportionate impacts on public health in environmental justice communities. This contradicts CARB’s Initial Statement of Reasons about what was required for California to reach our 2030 emissions target. It also effectively zeroes out future Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund investments. 

In addition to diluting the market signal of the cap—increasing emissions and reducing demand for allowances- the proposed Manufacturing Decarbonization Incentive (MDI) under the newly created Build Up California Reserve lacks any enforceable mechanism to demonstrate real, permanent, quantifiable, and verifiable emissions reductions.The MDI resembles CARB’s existing offsets program, but without any of the accountability measures required by law. 

Speeding progress towards the 2030 emissions target will allow us to accelerate investments to provide lasting relief for the pain at the pump families are struggling to shoulder. Instead, this proposal entrustsSummarized rather than verbatim due to character limits

The legislature worked extensively to produce the current cap and invest program and balance affordability and climate goals. Meeting 40% reduction in GHGs below 1990 levels by 2030 is a requirement, not optional. SB 840 has clear expectations for ongoing revenues to support vital public services and infrastructure. 

Instead, the MDI cements reliance on fossil fuels through costly, inefficient subsidies and will not prevent the next gas price spike. Investments in EVs, transit, livable communities, and innovation to lower costs will immunize us from the oil wars of the future, while creating jobs here at home. The proposal also lacks oversight and accountability tools to avoid costs from CERCLA cleanup liability for oil infrastructure. 

Better options are available to stabilize in-state fuel supply. Verbatim:
CARB must stay on course in this rulemaking to meet the 2030 targets while doing the following: 

1. Apply the same rigor and accountability to any compliance instruments generated under the MDI program as we do for offsets—namely, that they be real, permanent, quantifiable, verifiable and additional emissions reductions—there must be accountability on public spending and environmental justice.
2. Provide clarity that the 2030 target remains in force, and that the MDI program not be permitted to expand the emissions cap, including by limiting the total quantity of MDI-related instruments and requiring a commensurate adjustment to the allowance budget.We understand the Board seeks to act on this rulemaking in the coming weeks. We expect CARB will stay on track with program amendments that adhere to both the spirit and letter of the law by making appropriate revisions to ensure California does not backslide on its climate goals.

Signatures from Sen. Henry Stern, Asm. Damon Connoly, Sen. Josh Becker, Asm. Rick Chavez Zbur, Asm. Isaac Bryan, Asm. Robert Garcia, Asm. Ben Allen, Asm. Alex Lee, Asm. Gail Pellerin, Asm. Sade Elhawary, Asm. Gregg Hart, Asm. Ash KalraSignatures from: Asm. Chris Ward, Asm. Chris Rogers, Sen. Scott Wiener, Asm. Nick Schultz, Asm. Lena Gonzalez, Asm. Dawn Addis, Asm. Jesse Arreguin, Asm. Marc Berman, Asm. Rebecca Bauer-Kahan, Asm. John Harbedian, Asm. Tasha Boerner, Asm. Steve Bennet, Asm. Jessica Caloza, Asm. Mia Bonta, Sen. John Laird, Sen. Catherine Blakespear
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Jamie Pew @jpew.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
repertory theater that does not sell popcorn and collects your phone at the door.
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Jamie Pew @jpew.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
Discovering that Takanaka made an album based on The Rainbow Goblins, one of the picture books that mesmerized me most as a child: archive.org/details/masa...
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Masayoshi Takanaka ‎– The Rainbow Goblins : Masayoshi Takanaka : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
Masayoshi Takanaka ‎– The Rainbow Goblins
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Jamie Pew @jpew.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
Had not touched AI until a week ago. Couldn’t code my way out of a wet paper bag. Set up claude code out of curiosity
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Jamie Pew @jpew.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
Americans might not be poorer than they were 5 years ago, but our culture is
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Jamie Pew @jpew.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
@dave.bzky.team a penny for your thoughts/righteous outrage/schadenfreude
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Jamie Pew @jpew.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
It gets my goat that every story about Cap-and-Invest regs mentions the fact that TWO DEM GUBERNATORIAL CANDIDATES are calling for the state to backtrack (those two candidates being no-hope Mahan and even-less-hope Villaraigosa, who are polling at a combined 6 percent)
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Jamie Pew @jpew.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
So this is California's air regulator basically giving up on cap-and-invest until the 2030s, at least. ww2.arb.ca.gov/sites/defaul...
ww2.arb.ca.gov
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Jamie Pew @jpew.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
The elites in the CA Dem Party are absolutely feckless, but on top of Ned's (correct) analysis here, I think it is worth considering two other interrelated factors in why the race has gone this way:
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Jamie Pew @jpew.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
US automakers deserve what’s coming to them. The rest of us don’t
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Nithya Raman @nithyaforthecity.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
Let’s lower the rent! As mayor, I will triple housing production by cutting red tape, lowering costs, and eliminating pointless bureaucracy.
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Jamie Pew @jpew.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
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Jordan Grimes @cafedujord.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
Mike, a leader of the local Sierra Club chapter, is up now. He says it’s “heartwrenching” to hear people’s needs for housing. He claims that the city has always been supportive of affordable housing. BUT! He says this project is too tall (5 stories) and doesn’t have enough parking.
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Jamie Pew @jpew.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
“As to the rail connection, that’s a regional decision, not something an individual municipality can do” Exactly!
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Jamie Pew @jpew.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
Highway robbery
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Jamie Pew @jpew.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
$75 billion of value locked up in the land occupied by urban highways of four CA cities alone. Easily reaches more than $100 billion if you include Sacramento, LA, the rest of the Bay Area and SoCal. What a waste of economic potential.
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Jamie Pew @jpew.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
Car got stole
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Jamie Pew @jpew.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
Framed up some xmas and bday gifts today - an old Chicago tourism advert and a CA DPW draft of the Reber Plan
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Lloyd Alter @lloydalter.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
NY State will put speed limiters (5MPH over limit) in cars of drivers caught 6 times by red light or speed cameras. Meanwhile, in Ontario, go as fast as you like! empire.streetsblog.org/state-of-the...
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State of the State Exclusive: Hochul Will Push 'Stop Super Speeders' Bill Through Her Budget - Streetsblog Empire State
New York City motorists with a documented pattern of excessive speeding would be required to install speed-limiting devices inside their cars, Gov. Hochul is expected to announce today.
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Jamie Pew @jpew.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
Does anyone know if this means the transit loan is being released? @seamlessbayareaca.bsky.social @cyrushall.bsky.social ebudget.ca.gov/FullBudgetSu...
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Jamie Pew @jpew.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
Discovered today in configuring settings on a new phone that I had been listening to mono audio since… well I can’t remember when I set it to that. Possibly years ago to deal with a futzy car stereo. It’s like listening to music for the first time again.
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Jamie Pew @jpew.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
I truly love this movie (I know, we all do), tried to capture why: boxd.it/clvfcX
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A ★★★★★ review of One Battle After Another (2025)
This review may contain spoilers. Visit the page to bypass this warning and read the review.
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