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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.net · 05/10/2026
The fact this is was completely avoidable and preventable...what the fuck America. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
bloomberg.com
New York Declares State of Emergency Over Measles Outbreak
New York Governor Kathy Hochul issued an executive order declaring a state of emergency in response to rising measles cases on Monday, as infections skyrocket nationwide.
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Next door in Silicon Valley @nextdoorsv.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
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dereksagehorn.bsky.social @dereksagehorn.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Anthropic donating $250k to the Regional Transit Measure has scandalized a lot of the opposition. It seems straightforward to me. The AI industry is highly concentrated in FiDi, which depends on BART, Muni and Caltrain for job access.
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Sam @samd.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
this sounds awful but that’s because she’s actually mocking Trump and Mr. Smoothgroin deceptively clipped it to own the libs
TAPPER: So, it sounds as though he's saying Democrats would allow Iran to have a nuclear weapon. He's also saying, of course, the war is going to end after the midterms. What's your
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PELOSI: Well, first of all, let's just say it's not about always responding to Donald Trump. I know that must attract advertisers, but it doesn't win the election. We have to talk about what we're going to do for the American people. Hakeem Jeffries is going to be the speaker. He is preparing how we win, how we protect the election and what we're going to do when we win.
Our country is at war. We always root for our country under any circumstance. So, let's get this done, Mr. President. You said it would take a few weeks. Clearly, you did not know what you were talking about. And you're sounding like Richard Nixon when you say you're going to end this right after the election. But okay for that.
The fact is so sad about this war because it was could've been so totally avoided. President Obama was masterful, virtuoso diplomatic accomplishment when he did the Iran nuclear agreement. And they had stopped -- we accomplished all of our goals. Except this one comes in, tears that up and now says he's going to stop the development of nuclear weapon in Iran, which he hasn't.
So, it's really sad, but our troops are in harm's way, and this is not a small potatoes thing as that person you had on the screen might refer to it. Small potatoes is not how we describe our men and women in uniform risking their lives.
So, this Iran war is taking a toll on the nation because people don't like us going to war in the first place. Second of all, it's increasing the cost of price at the pump, gasoline for farmers, increasing the price of food and groceries. So, this has an impact right at the kitchen table of the American people, in addition to not protecting the security of our country.
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OB Chargn @obchargn.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Insane that a local government paid its residents to take ~1,000 e-bikes off the road in a time of climate catastrophe and increasing energy costs. ktla.com/news/orange-...
ktla.com
‘Close to 1,000’ vehicles surrendered at Orange County e-bike buyback event
Nearly 1,000 vehicles, including e-bikes and e-motorcycles, were surrendered at a buyback event in Orange County on Sunday.  A spokesperson with the Orange County District Attorney’s Offi…
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Max Dubler 🏳️‍🌈 @maxdubler.com · 09/09/2026
Insurance Commissioner is a hard but important job that demands a serious policy person to deal with a very real crisis that affects nearly every Californian. Do not vote for Jane Kim.
sfstandard.com
Opinion: Jane Kim’s California insurance plan is built on a myth
The candidate for insurance commissioner has campaigned on a platform of smoke and mirrors: big talk, little respect for the facts, and at times outright falsehoods.
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mel in ballhalla 🏳️‍⚧️🔰♨️ @astruckpersonn.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
“democrats have lost silicon valley” no they haven’t. that’s not true
Election results of the 2026 California Gubernatorial Primary

COUNTY, LEADER, TOTAL VOTES
Alameda County: Steyer +1.5, 410,011
Contra Costa County: Becerra +6.4, 323,063
Marin County: Steyer +2.5, 103,254
San Francisco County: Steyer +13.9, 266,077
San Mateo County: Becerra +3.7, 199,777
Santa Clara County: Becerra +6.4, 416,988
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Max Dubler 🏳️‍🌈 @maxdubler.com · 08/09/2026
After 40 years of rent control, unfunded affordability requirements, and restrictive zoning, West Hollywood's average rent is $2,554/month, which means that anyone who wants to move in has to make more than $100,000 a year to afford housing. Is this what successful affordability policy looks like?
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M. Nolan Gray 🥑 @mnolangray.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Zillow has got to get a handle on the use of AI in listings. Using AI to mislead a prospective buyer into thinking that an attic might be useful as a living room and lounge is plainly fraud. Realtors evidently can't/won't police themselves, so the listing services should step in.
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milquetoast liberal yimby @liberalyimby.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Anti-chart / data people are so funny to me because like, how exactly do you want to measure progress and regression otherwise?
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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
you can see that this is just strictly false in essentially every country with a multiparty parliamentary democracy
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Joe Cohen @cohenhouse.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
IMO the optimal policy for AVs is to let them get as cheap as possible in order to replace car ownership, then apply a road tax based on congestion and availability of alternatives, and use that revenue to fund transit.
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Upzone the coastal elites @aboutdave.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Greedy developer narrative in shambles. commongroundorwa.org/2730-2/
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meorge @meorgeis.me · 01/09/2026
Ok. And "stab the bourgeoisie in the public square" is not a coherent or rational position, it's an edgy slogan for a 15 year old who's breaking out of their moderate to conservative upbringing for the first time
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Stan Oklobdzija @stano.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Very amazing country where the literal President is awake at 1 am making the same kind of violent threats that I hear from crackheads when I ride the train in Downtown Los Angeles at that hour.
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Babad🎃🎃kakis @ryanwu2438.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Karen Bass reelection update: the mayor has come out as anti-taco stand. In Los Angeles.
“I do not believe that you should have a food vendor in front of a restaurant, period,” Bass shot back, adding that she wanted them off the streets completely and in brick-and-mortar locations. Their presence near restaurants “discourages people from going in, just like you shouldn’t have encampments in front of restaurants or in front of schools. You just should not do that.”
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Stephen Jacob Smith @stephenjacobsmith.com · 17/08/2026
Great piece on the lackluster effects of California’s new housing laws. Legislators have finally challenged anti-density NIMBYism, but by loading on inclusionary zoning and wage requirements, they’ve made newly legal housing too costly to build www.theatlantic.com/economy/2026...
theatlantic.com
The Real Reason California Can’t Build
In trying to accomplish every objective and accommodate every interest, all at once, the state set up its housing agenda to fail.
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Anarcho-Crust Demon Hunter @jamesaskew.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
This person now chairs the Housing Committee for Los Angeles
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ArtsulSelva @artsulselva.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
yeah, like how are you going to keep track of who has got what’s coming to them, and who hasn’t yet?
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milquetoast liberal yimby @liberalyimby.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Who is the top versus bottom in it we should pasteurize milk or cook meat? Big pasteurization? The pots and pans industry?
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The War on Cars @thewaroncars.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Agreed! It's all about the Hierarchy of Controls. There's a reason the top of the inverted pyramid is "Elimination."
Graphic titled "Hierarchy of Hazard Controls" showing inverted pyramid. From top to bottom: elimination, substitution, engineering controls, administrative controls, PPE."
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milquetoast liberal yimby @liberalyimby.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
What are everyone’s thoughts on Prop 45 (CEQA speed up ballot measure).
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Idothethinking @idothethinking.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
the section of Berkeley this white property owner is defending against "gentrification" from a bike lane is the most segregated area of Alameda County by share of non-Hispanic white residents. (Bike lane areas in yellow.) Median income over $200,000 and home values over $2 million.
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Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Not only does this guy refer to his own act of manslaughter as "MY trauma," he also calls it "the fatal accident I was in" as if a court did not find him legally liable for it. www.instagram.com/p/DbZgUOsC8_1/
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DoomloopDispatch on Instagram: "Biking advocates are not good people. They have the same morals and ethics as Republicans. #cycling"
8 likes, 3 comments - doomloopdispatch on July 29, 2026: "Biking advocates are not good people. They have the same morals and ethics as Republicans. #cycling".
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Sam @samd.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
this guy (doomloop dispatch) literally killed a biker with his car… and he’s posting on twitter how it just made him even more anti-bike lane. The NIMBYs are not OK.
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Well it's official - the bike lane advocates who are paid by developers got their wish to gentrify Berkeley. Shame on Berkeley City Council and shame on all the bike advocates who used fake safety concerns to push it through. Disgusting
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person who killed someone with their car has thoughts on street safety
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What's funny is that my accident made me realize how much I loved driving and needed to do it. When I was forced to spend a year on transit it was one of the worst years of my life.
Transit and bicycling will never replace a car
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Buffy Wicks @buffywicks.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
If we want to make homeownership more attainable in California, we have to start building condos again. Today, we barely do. Here's why that matters — and why I'm working on reforming California's construction defect laws. 🧵
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Eric Panzer @ericpanzer.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
I'm about as urbanist as they come, but this framing makes the perfect the murderer of the good Waymos were involved in 𝟴𝟭% fewer injury crashes If we could achieve that broadly, nationwide it would save 𝟮𝟵,𝟬𝟬𝟬 people per year I like transit better than cars but I like living people even more
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Bilal Mahmood @bilalmahmood.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
Why is this photo so maddening? Because it exposes the generational divide in our housing debate. Between those who find a reason to say no - instead of yes - to housing.
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Max Dubler 🏳️‍🌈 @maxdubler.com · 23/07/2026
Extremely important point that all Californians need to understand:
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Next door in Silicon Valley @nextdoorsv.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Thought bubble of everyone in the Peninsula who has to drive on 880 or 580:
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 20/07/2026
"Cities are humanity’s greatest invention." My mayor. 🫡
seattletimes.com
Seattle, the World Cup brought possibility. Let's build on it | Op-Ed, Mayor Katie Wilson
Seattle’s World Cup revealed something else, something many of us knew, despite the persistent voices pushing narratives of decline. Seattle is a great city.
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sick public transit, gloria @seung.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
one underplayed argument for why we should want and need an urban environment that reduces car reliance and promotes other modes of transportation is that car tire particles released into the air from use is really, really, really bad for your health www.jalopnik.com/2214081/tire...
jalopnik.com
Tire Particles Linked Directly To Alzheimer's Disease, But I Can't Remember Whether That's Bad Or Not - Jalopnik
Whether it's building separate bike lanes, improving public transportation, or increasing density in downtown areas, we have lots of options to reduce tire use.
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milquetoast liberal yimby @liberalyimby.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
I agree with Kyle Kuzma on… AI compute?
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Sharon 🪳🌹 @sharonk.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
imo it's because short of car accidents, people really do not understand how many particulates and by-products driving creates and the negative impact it has on health because those effects are longer-term or invisible
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Next door in Silicon Valley @nextdoorsv.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
FINALLY!!! Now single family home neighborhoods can ensure that only the *right* people live in those neighborhoods!! (As opposed to people who can't afford the down payment to buy a home in that neighborhood - oh wait did you think PE firms keep the homes vacant instead of renting them out?)
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milquetoast liberal yimby @liberalyimby.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Am I the only one who thinks this is insane behavior? Also… as much as I’m not pro-car they’re far safer than human drives who… suck
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milquetoast liberal yimby @liberalyimby.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
Amazing bill, Warren does some weird politicking sometimes, but damn if she doesn’t put together some good bills.
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milquetoast liberal yimby @liberalyimby.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
What are the odds the private equity “ban” in the housing bill actually ends the rhetoric around them “buying up single family homes” or if it continues
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Senator Scott Wiener @scottwiener.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
We need our member of Congress to go to the mat for transit, not obstruct it.
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LOWρUFO 🇺🇦🇵🇸🌍 @lowrhoufo.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Oops, all my legislators are billionaires and they constantly quit to live in Belarus, no idea why
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milquetoast liberal yimby @liberalyimby.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
x.com/grahamformai... No, Graham Platner the establishment didn’t make you get a Nazi tattoo, the establishment didn’t make you work for blackwater, it didn’t make you make racist and misogynistic comments and it certainly didn’t make you rape sexually abuse and assault women. Genuinely fuck off
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milquetoast liberal yimby @liberalyimby.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
This, this right here is good local government focused on addressing actual problems making big cities more expensive.
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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
Since it apparently needs to be said: “Innocent until proven guilty” is the standard for convicting a person of criminal misconduct in a court of law and depriving them of liberty. It is perfectly reasonable for voters to have a different standard for electing someone to the US Senate.
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s. e. smith @sesmith.lol · 03/07/2026
Sure seems like betting markets on wildfires are an...extremely bad idea lol.
hcn.org
Will betting on wildfires lead to arson? - High Country News
Fire survivors say using prediction markets to gamble on wildfire is “morally reprehensible.”
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milquetoast liberal yimby @liberalyimby.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
rdp.scag.ca.gov/portal/apps/... SCAG released new SB79 maps and despite the document about the change saying it'll add the K North and Sepulveda line, that doesn't appear to be the case. Might be missing something here but I'm a bit confused.
rdp.scag.ca.gov
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California YIMBY @cayimby.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
[Bill Alert] AB 1903 (@buffywicks.bsky.social) has passed out of the Senate Judiciary Cmte. AB 1903 will reduce housing costs & increase opportunities for homeownership by allowing builders to fix problems in newly constructed homes before costly legal fees and court proceedings are triggered.
cayimby.org
AB 1903: Housing Construction Defect Reform
AB 1903 will reduce housing costs and increase opportunities for homeownership by rewarding high-quality construction, and allowing builders to fix problems in newly-constructed homes before…
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Buffy Wicks @buffywicks.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
I'm the author of ACA 22. I'm also adamantly opposed to it. That deserves an explanation – so I want to tell you what went down w/the ACA, and the fight over transfer taxes & the Taxpayer Protection Act. 👇
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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 27/06/2026
Say it with me: Build. More. Housing.
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