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Californians for Electric Rail @calelectricrail.org · 17/08/2026

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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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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 · 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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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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California legislation research dashboard

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

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Big Wonderful Wyoming @wydot.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Ikr - this is basically the thing I set out to build, everything else was basically "oh this would be nice to have also" You might be pleased to know this feature specifically was tested heavily on SB 1259!

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I-80 Laramie Gate, 7/23/2026, 9:43:11 PM

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👻 David Weiskopf believes in spooks 👻 @dave.bzky.team · 24/07/2026

Hell yeah. Fuck yeah. Nice one.

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My favorite part, personally - click on any reference to statute in the text of a bill to open up a second pane displaying that section of statute. Plus an explanation of how the bill interacts with it.

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Works on mobile and desktop - though i highly recommend getting oriented on desktop to start. CALege lets you make bill lists and auto-generates a calendar based on the daily file. Then: filter the calendar by your lists, and track votes on your bills for upcoming hearings! 😁

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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 · 26/06/2026

Exactly! Excited to polish it up, put it through the paces and see how it morphs my workflow. And obviously for others to find it useful. Thank you for the kind words.

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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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Jamie Pew @jpew.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

Delillo’s intro to Underworld is a great example of this. (Rest of the book might be too, didn’t make it much further)

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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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Jamie Pew @jpew.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

Pretty sure this was an automated tweet misfire, no vote has happened yet That said it might soon!

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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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Jamie Pew @jpew.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

That’s great for everyone fortunate enough to live there already. What about anyone who wants to move to NYC? For social, political, career reasons. That demand bids up the cost of existing supply. Does that mean the city’s “full?” No - new supply can help absorb the demand instead.

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Jeff Weiss @passionweiss.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

D'Angelo & Beck photographed by Jonathan Mannion (2000)

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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 entrusts

Summarized 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 Kalra

Signatures 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.

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

The process has been incredibly satisfying but has provided me with a distinct lack of pride of authorship. I didn’t build this website, the machine did. I kinda just told it vaguely what i wanted and then what i liked / didn’t like.

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And it is crazy how much utility I anticipate getting out of this in my dayjob. Huge amount of friction removed from essential legislative analysis tasks

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All with a clean intuitive user interface that’s easy on the eyes. This would probably be a dinky little API data pipeline project in the hands of any software engineer, but i’m pretty startled at how easy it was for me, someone who struggles with basic technology stuff

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I now have a working dashboard prototype that queries California’s leginfo site and allows me to cross reference legislative text with existing statute on the same page, surf committee analyses in-browser (no more downloading endless PDFs), search and track bills.

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Jamie Pew @jpew.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

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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Americans might not be poorer than they were 5 years ago, but our culture is