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Kylekatarn95

@kylekatarn95.bsky.social
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Pragmatic Liberal from the Bay Area. 🇮🇪 🇺🇸🍦🥁 🧦🥥↙️↙️↙️Huge Star Wars and political science nerd—Backup account from Twitter. Never trust the voters.

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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
When the CBP or ICE agent that Stephen Miller is trying to get killed dies, it is extremely important that every member of the media be told, repeatedly and loudly, that they wanted this and that people called it out in advance.
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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
All the focus is on abolish ICE but CBP seems honestly the worse of the two. Bovino, today’s shooting, and Ross was former CBP.
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Urban Futurist Democrat @urbfuturistdem.bsky.social · 14/09/2025
Now the official Senate roll call vote is up, and surprisingly, between the Senate first passing out SB 79 in June and concurring in Assembly amendments Friday Sept. 12th, a full 12 senators changed their position! Let's dig in.
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Ben Phelps @thisisbenphelps.bsky.social · 14/09/2025
I've really been thinking about SB 79. This is a culmination of a years-long online project for me. We'll see if it works. I've been studying the maps. First of all: the places with the greatest redevelopment potential have the HIGHEST land value, au contraire Assemblymember Zbur. This is obvious.
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Robin Riley @riley.pub · 14/09/2025
Who is running for California State Senate district 2? Other than Damon Connolly – who voted NO on #SB79 despite Marin and Sonoma getting carve outs. Lots of time between now and the primary, but I'm leaning toward Natalie Rogers: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_Ca...
A screenshot from Wikipedia that reads: Candidates Declared

    Damon Connolly (Democratic), state assemblymember from the 12th district (2022–present)
    James Gore (Democratic), Sonoma County supervisor (2015–present)
    Natalie Rogers (Democratic), Santa Rosa city councilor (2020–present)
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ansel @ansel.lundberg.com · 13/09/2025
Very grateful for the support for SB 79 from Sacramento legislators Senator @angeliqueashby.bsky.social & Assemblywoman Maggy Krell. There is a strong coalition of pro-housing folks in Sacramento who will not forget your aye votes for this bill. Thank you! @sacyimby.bsky.social
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David Pollack @davidmpollack.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
Senator Becker working hard to maximize donations from affluent California homeowners after abstaining on #SB79. www.paloaltoonline.com/guest-opinio...
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Guest Opinion: To build housing, we need to fix RHNA
As my colleagues and I enter the final weeks of the legislative session, housing is rightly at the center of our attention. But as high-profile bills move across the floor, I keep returning to an elep...
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Cities of Lions @citiesoflions.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
A major YIMBY win out of California with the passage of SB79! This should be a model for states all over the USA to help address our housing shortages without creating more unsustainable forced car dependence sprawl. Way to go @scottwiener.bsky.social
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ani @17ani.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
Left wing YIMBY need to start controlling the online narrative better. The majority of the no votes for SB79 came from Orange County and north county San Diego (traditionally Republican areas), yet the prevailing narrative is that the problem is Left-NIMBY.
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1 million Portlanders by 2045 🌲🌧️🦫🚲🚇🚰 @bradleyclover.com · 13/09/2025
I actually think Sacramento may be the biggest winner from SB79. It's got a large proportion of land gets upzoned by it.
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BART @bart.gov · 13/09/2025
SB 63 is headed to the Governor's desk. It is a historic opportunity to allow voters in 5 counties of the Bay Area to consider a sales tax measure in Nov 2026 to preserve and improve transit. BART, and the entire transit network that keeps the Bay Area moving, stand to benefit from this bill.
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Jerold Chinn @jerold.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
Bay Area transit news: SB 63, a bill to authorize a regional funding measure to fund transit in the Bay Area, passed the state legislature and is headed to Gov. Newsom's desk for his signature. Newsom has until Oct. 12 to either sign or veto the bill. Statements from SFMTA and BART below.
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Senator Scott Wiener @scottwiener.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
Last night, the Legislature passed & sent to the Governor our bill to authorize a 2026 Bay Area regional revenue measure to fund our public transportation systems, SB 63. We need these systems to be strong. Let’s get it done!
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tschuy 🏳️‍🌈 @tsch.uy · 14/09/2025
and lastly, thank you to @seamlessbayareaca.bsky.social and @transbaycoalition.bsky.social for the help with this event, and for all the work you all put in on Transit Month!
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Seamless Bay Area @seamlessbayareaca.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
And SB63 passed the Senate at 1:30am! Now on to the governor's desk! It took a lot of organizing and mobilizing and compromises to get to a bill that will save and improve Bay Area transit - now on to the governor, and to people power to help gather signatures and pass the measure!
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工an Monroe 🚰 @eean.dev · 13/09/2025
Yesterday we celebrated #SB79 being poised to pass. Today it passed. But the time for celebrations is over. On to the next. #grindsky
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Seamless Bay Area @seamlessbayareaca.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
SB63 passes Assembly Floor! Transportation Chair Lori Wilson reads from a letter signed by over 30 local electeds in San Mateo County expressing their support. Assembly Members from all 5 counties speak in favor.
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SPUR @spur-urbanist.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
The Bay Area transit system is very regional. Transit trips are 70% more likely to cross county lines than auto trips. SPUR dug into the impacts of the region's looming $800 million annual deficit and why SB 63 is the best hope to save Bay Area transit. bit.ly/4mZNVJD
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SPUR Research Shows What Could Happen to the Region Without Transit Funding
Why should voters in one county care about funding transit in another? Because the Bay Area’s transit system is very regional. SPUR research found that Bay Area transit trips are 70% more likely to cross county lines than car trips, making the success of all transit agencies vital to the region’s health. We dug into the impacts of the looming $800 million annual deficit and why Senate Bill 63 is the best hope to save Bay Area transit.
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Alicia Trost @aliciatrost.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
Bill deadline day!!! SB 63 (the Bay Area Transit funding bill) will need to go to the Assembly floor, Senate Transportation Committee where BART will provide lead testimony, then the Senate Floor.
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Ben Raderstorf @raders.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
The 2025 legislative session is one for the record books. We finally won two longtime housing moonshots — a clean infill housing exemption to CEQA (AB609/SB607) and a statewide transit upzoning (SB79). It's a new day in California. @cayimby.bsky.social @yimbyaction.bsky.social @sacyimby.bsky.social
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Mishka @mishkaa.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
Half a century of NIMBYism and density free-riding has consequences. SB79 is just the beginning. LA could've actually decided to stick to a genuinely compliant housing element but didn't. LA, the Bay and SD could've actually decided to build housing in non-anemic numbers but didn't. Game over.
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Bobak Esfandiari @bobakkabob.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
Senator Wiener’s SB79 is now up at the California State Senate for a concurrence vote. It would create a statewide standard for building homes near major transit🏗️🏬🚎🚌🚎 This would be the last legislative vote before the bill could be sent to the governor🙏🏽 GO @scottwiener.bsky.social GOOOOOO!
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YIMBY Action @yimbyaction.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
Senator Sasha Renée Pérez points out that it makes exceptions for high fire severity zones, and the upzoning has been decreased to apply to .25 miles of transit in small cities, and protects historic resources.
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Brian Hanlon @hanlon.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
Thanks to my board and donors. When I pitched Nat Friedman and Zack Rosen on starting California YIMBY at a bar 8 year ago, I first wanted to run a big TOD bill. I still remember Nat asking if we were being ambitious enough! SB 79 mostly sticks to the original 2017 plan: 6/x
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Brian Hanlon @hanlon.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
Thanks to all YIMBYs who called in, met with their reps, wrote a letter to the editor, posted, or otherwise advocated for SB 79. Grassroots activists are the heart of the YIMBY movement and nothing we achieved would be possible without your support. 5/x
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Brian Hanlon @hanlon.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
Thanks to my team at @cayimby.bsky.social - the best housing advocacy org in the business - and all of our coalition partners, especially fellow co-sponsors @streetsforall.org, @abundanthousingla.bsky.social, @innercitylawcenter.bsky.social, SPUR, Greenbelt Alliance, & Bay Area Council 4/x
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Brian Hanlon @hanlon.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
First, huge thanks and congrats to Sen. @scottwiener.bsky.social. Without his dogged persistence and desire to work with his colleagues and address their reasonable concerns, we never would have made it. 2/x
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Brian Hanlon @hanlon.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
After 8 years, we did it! SB 79, the biggest upzoning bill in state history, just passed the Legislature. Brief 🧵, with some important thank yous. 1/x
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Jordan Grimes @cafedujord.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
And there it is! #SB79, Sen. Scott Wiener’s bill to legalize multifamily housing near major public transit stops across California, just passed the state assembly! We are one vote away from the most significant shift in land-use policy California has ever seen!
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Sam Alcorn @samalcorn.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
Imagine what a better place we’d be in by now as a state and as a nation if SB 827, and then SB 50, hadn’t been killed almost a decade ago. Call your state senator! It only takes a minute of your day, and would be meaningful for everyone. It makes a difference. Yes on SB 79!
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amb @amb.fyi · 12/09/2025
California’s big bill to add more housing near transit is down to the wire. If you’re a Californian (especially in this district) call your legislator to plead for SB 79
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Sam @samd.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
The most impactful housing bill in California history is on the 1 yard line. It has passed the assembly and the senate vote is TODAY! Right now is your last chance to call your state senator and tell them to support building more housing near transit! cayimby.org/call-sb-79/
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Call the Senate to pass SB 79!
Please call your State Senator and urge them to vote YES on SB 79!
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Nowcowan @nowcowan.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
This could be you Los Angeles 🎶 🚲 🎉 Call your state senator & tell them to vote yes on SB 79 And check in & report unimplemented HLA projects on the LADOT dashboard
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Mobility Plan Implementation Dashboard | Los Angeles Department of Transportation
Mobility Plan ImplementationIn March 2024, Los Angeles City voters approved the Healthy Streets LA (HLA) ballot measure. The ballot measure mandates that the City install the City’s Mobility Plan 2035...
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David Schleef @trafficfurnitur.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
Privilege checked today after riding my bike through my walkable neighborhood in Oakland near transit by a dentist tech who told me about her 1.5 hour commute from Mountain House. "Traffic wasn't bad today," she said. Pass SB 79 so my dental tech can affordably ride a bike to work.
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M. Nolan Gray 🥑 @mnolangray.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
It's crunch time, YIMBYs! 🗣️Years of work depend on a vote that will happen today. Today is the day to take action. If you've already called/texted/emailed, do it again. If it's your first time, it's not too late. LET'S PASS SB 79 AND FIX CALIFORNIA! cayimby.org/call-sb-79/
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Call the Senate to pass SB 79!
Please call your State Senator and urge them to vote YES on SB 79!
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suldrew 🏳️‍🌈 @suldrew.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
I did! You should too.
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Joshua G. Schraiber @jgschraiber.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
If you're in the Bay Area, do this. "I want to encourage Senator Becker to vote yes on SB79 to expand housing the Bay Area. I do not live in Senator Becker's district but the housing crisis in Senator Becker's district impacts me in Berkeley".
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Oren Ben-Joseph @orenbj.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
What is the point of investing billions of dollars into transit expansion if local governments just continue block density around it? It is time for a much-needed state intervention. Call your California State Senator to support SB79! plaza.streetsforall.org/mailto/out/*...
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Rebecca Saltzman @rebeccaforec.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
🎉🎉🎉 Congratulations and thanks @scottwiener.bsky.social and @cayimby.bsky.social for this visionary bill that will lead to so many more homes near transit. El Cerrito was unfortunately amended out of the bill, but that won’t stop us from building as much housing as we can near transit.
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Blackgaynerd @blackgaynerd.com · 12/09/2025
Breakdown by party and Assembly district:
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Bobby Garrity @bobbygarrity.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
TODAY is the last day of 2025 legislative session, so if you haven't yet called your Senator and ask that they vote YES on SB 79, do so NOW!
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mmautner @maxmautner.com · 12/09/2025
Support SB79. Public transit financially needs density. Contact Senator Josh Becker’s office
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Alfred Twu @alfredtwu.com · 12/09/2025
Big day for California housing politics as #SB79, a bill to allow more housing near rail stations, passes the Assembly! Next stop: Senate needs to vote in the Assembly amendments (Ask your State Senator to vote yes!), and then to the Governor's desk!
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LibLeft workout guy @runningurbanist.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
If SB 79 gets across the finish line tomorrow, this group is damn heroic. Literally saving California
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Alex Lee @votealexlee.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
Proudly voted for #SB79 to build dense, transit oriented housing. If not here, where else? I’ve lived near transit all my life. But too much of it is stuck as suburbs. Cities are evolving, living things. They are not mausoleums to the past @scottwiener.bsky.social @cayimby.bsky.social
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