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Housing and transit first. Shahmander second.

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dante @dante.cool · 05/05/2026
HAN SOLO: Hell, I never would have flown a spaceship if it wasn't for the daring exploits of Ben Quadinaros, famed podracer... He inspired all of us kids back on Corellia. LEIA (NODDING): Yes, I also know and love Ben Quadinaros. The boy, Han... let's name the boy after him
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Michael Druker 🇨🇦 @mdruker.app · 11/10/2026
As a driver, I want physically separated lanes for bikes As a pedestrian, I want physically separated lanes for bikes Also as a cyclist, I want physically separated lanes for bikes
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
I keep reading that there have been no public executions in the United States for decades. Not true.
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Nathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 16h
not my face pressed to the glass like a starving Victorian waif outside a confectionery shoppe right now
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 22h
This was a well-done report - www.npr.org/2026/10/11/n...
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The women who fought back when their jailers assaulted them : The Sunday Story
Aliksandria Prout had only been at the Central California Women’s Facility for a few days when a male officer stopped her at a checkpoint. “You have beautiful lips and beautiful eyes,” he said. That w...
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open borders now @radtranslib.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
American small business owners largely see themselves as lower-level rentiers in a quasi-feudal economy as opposed to service providers in a competitive market economy, and part of that means not having to actually be competent at providing services
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pixelatedboat aka “mr bluesky” @pixelatedboat.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Australopithecus 3 million years ago:
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Californians for Electric Rail @calelectricrail.org · 11/10/2026
Meanwhile CalSTA is just getting around to *starting* a study on relocation, with a deadline of 2034... Can the tracks even last that long? www.latimes.com/california/s...
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SoCal's famed coastal railroad may have to move to survive rising seas. How could it happen?
The California State Transportation Agency is expected to launch a study examining what would be needed to move the railroad line from the San Clemente coast.
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William Lawrence @wewill2026.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
There's so much good stuff we need to build: Housing, Schools, Vehicles and Transit Infrastructure. But data centers are sucking up all the available capital investment and crowding out everything else. It's time to reevaluate our national priorities.
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mel in ballhalla 🏳️‍⚧️🔰♨️ @astruckpersonn.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
5 million annual riders between amtrak, coaster, and metrolink. and not only are we not fixing it, orange county is actively sabotaging it
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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
This is why Musk doesn't mind that that Twitter revenue is down 59% (or Ellison w/ CBS). He's more than making up for that loss via Twitter's political effects--ingratiating to Trump, fomenting racist panics, etc--which help SpaceX and xAI get favorable public contracts and regulatory treatment
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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
These different incentives from standalone media owners vs. "common owners" like Benioff is the subject of one of my working papers www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/07aux...
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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Piece came out at USAToday Why? Because USAToday owners (Gannett) only own media companies, so they have an incentive to attract an audience & advertisers Tech elites like Bezos, Ellisons, Musk, & Benioff use their media firm to cozy to Trump, not to make profit www.usatoday.com/story/opinio...
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DEI initiatives didn't cost companies. Just the opposite. | Opinion
Firms that kept DEI, whether due to executive decisions or shareholder pressure, performed as well in the stock market as those that rolled it back.
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Battle Order @battleorder.org · 10/10/2026
FICTION | My take on a dedicated robotics unit in the U.S. Army of the Fallout universe before the Great War. I decided the Gama Goat looks Fallout enough that it could come as-is
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dereksagehorn.bsky.social @dereksagehorn.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
At the same time Borenstein has been a vocal supporter of significantly adding BART police headcount for two decades while cutting service levels. www.mercurynews.com/2026/10/09/e...
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Endorsement: No on Measure RTM transit tax. BART created crisis; VTA doesn’t have one.
Billion-dollar annual levy on sales would affect Alameda, Contra Costa, Santa Clara, San Mateo and San Francisco counties.
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sick public transit, gloria @seung.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
“we need your help funding our operations so we can avoid drastically cutting our train service as our ridership grows”
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sick public transit, gloria @seung.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
three magical words to pause anti-RTM discourse seems to be: what about Caltrain?
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Seamless Bay Area @seamlessbayareaca.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
We are thrilled to announce the endorsement of @valencia4actransit.bsky.social for AC Transit Ward 3! Make sure to vote for Adriana by Novemeber 3rd.
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escapedexplorer.bsky.social @escapedexplorer.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
There's a compelling case to be made that you effectively cannot regain control of the NYPD (or indeed any major metro police department that is clearly happy to operate as a conservative paramilitary first and civil service never) without a strong Democratic President willing to back your play IMO
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H.E. Cas Piancey @cascoinfoundation.org · 09/10/2026
Board meeting meme

An exec stands at the front and says: I'm polling terribly, we need ideas to save us for the midterms.

One board member says: bomb Iran again

Another says: public executions

A third guy, hunched over says: No more tariffs and make peace with Iran?

The boss angrily throws him out the skyscraper window.
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Musicology Duck @musicologyduck.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
They are reading off what percentage of each branch of government are former frat members and the numbers are …high.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
I keep thinking of the soldiers convicted of war crimes in his first term that he pardoned. Hegseth was deeply involved with that. time.com/7176342/pete...
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Pete Hegseth's Role in Trump’s Controversial Pardons of Men Accused of War Crimes
Pete Hegseth advocated for Trump to intervene on behalf of service members in three cases involving war crime accusations in 2019.
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Fred, His Enemy Getting a Vote @thefred.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
We do need a strict liability regime for AI agents.
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Urban Land Rent 🇸🇴🚰 @urbanlandrent.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Denying BART and Muni et al operations funds will do *nothing* to address capital project bloat problems. If anything, this will make the problem far worse. We need state and federal reforms to cut red tape with more wholistic funding programs. Starving transit ops gets us no closer to this!
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Urban Land Rent 🇸🇴🚰 @urbanlandrent.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
This sort of stuff makes me want to scream. The cost bloat is in *capital projects* not in operations! Capital projects are bloated because of a complex web of balkanized permitting processes, the byzantine and inconsistent nature of federal grant funding, and outsourcing talent to consultants.
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Robert Prinz @prinzrob.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Just this past week pedestrians have been killed or severely injured by hit-run drivers around the East Bay in Castro Valley, Oakland, Union City, and now Berkeley.
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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Horseshoe theory remains undefeated.
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Alex @mplsalex.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Petition for Jamelle Bouie to replace all headline writers in the US.
YouTube. Video with title

I cannot emphasize enough that the president has pudding for brains
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isaac @sevier.io · 07/10/2026
It's class war.
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Leigh Alexander @leighalexander.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
storytelling media plays an essential role in how we negotiate our shared values and imagine the future as a society. the elite slop-capture of these spaces has irrevocable consequences, and they know it
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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
People forget that J6 was successful. Everyone who participated was let out of jail and the guy who perpetrated it is President again. There were no consequences. They have plenty of incentive to do a much bigger and worse version.
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Henry Gilbert (Beloved Podcast Personality) @talkinghenry.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Skydance now owns Nick, Cartoon Network, Adult Swim, Comedy Central, and MTV, effectively ending US TV animation as we know it. Countless jobs will be lost, and fewer new shows will be created. An apocalyptic scenario for cartoons, yet it's maybe the 5th-worst thing about the Paramount-WB merger!
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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 06/10/2026
Our language has been completely warped by Big Tech's algorithms, from a generation that's grown up saying "unalive", to the way everyone's censored themselves talking about the Cornell rapists. It's time to fight back against billionaire control of free speech. www.anildash.com/2026/10/06/k...
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We are going to kill “unalive” - Anil Dash
A blog about making culture. Since 1999.
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Andrew Deck @andrewdeck.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
ChatGPT is adding the signatures of real New Yorker cartoonists to its AI-generated images. So far, I've found the signatures of more than 15 contributors. "It’s slop, and unlike the other slop that I’ve encountered, this is slop that’s pretending to be me." www.niemanlab.org/2026/10/chat...
Left: A cartoon generated by ChatGPT and signed with Emily Flake’s signature that was posted to a Reddit forum in June. Right: A real Emily Flake cartoon published in The New Yorker on August 20, 2026 and licensed via The Cartoon Bank.
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Miles Grant @milesgrant.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
The NY Times framing every fascist as tough strong & brilliant, and not a dumb racist liar, is one of many ways the NY Times tells Democrats that they are Not On Our Side, and Dems mostly choose not to listen
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Karoline Leavitt, Trump’s ‘Machine Gun,’ Has a New Gig at Fox News
A fierce and nimble speaker, Ms. Leavitt is the second of Mr. Trump’s former press secretaries to join the cable news network.
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nyc5265.bsky.social @nyc5265.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Reagan and Thatcher rose to prominence once no could remember the Gilded Age. Glass-Steagal was repealed when no one could remember the Depression and look where we are now that no one can remember World War II...
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 04/10/2026
these fucking ghouls should never know a day of peace for the rest of their lives
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whet moser @whetmoser.com · 03/10/2026
“Drawing on labyrinthine Internal Revenue Service records, the pair study a group of rich business owners that looks more like a suburban chamber of commerce than an oligarchy: car dealers, dentists... What they find is tremendous wealth and power.” www.nytimes.com/2026/10/02/b...
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The Rich People Democrats Aren’t Talking About (Gift Article)
As billionaires become a popular political target, a new book urges Washington not to lose sight of a much larger, and quieter, group of wealthy business owners.
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roterote @roterote.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I think Greg is correct, but Americans need to be aware that Magyar’s Tisza government is aggressively going after every Fidesz official, removing them, using every lever of the state to yank them out of power. This is far more aggressive and rapid than anything proposed in the US so far.
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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Again, you can always detect some faint embarrassment from Democrats when they talk about the ballroom, but “the president demolished a big part of the White House to build himself a palace with bribes from enemy powers” is, by an order of magnitude, the worst corruption scandal in US history
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A Wealthy Russian Businessman Is Helping Fund Trump’s Stupid Ballroom. Nothing Sketchy About That, Right?
Surely, our president will face consequences for this insanity.
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Streets For All @streetsforall.org · 02/10/2026
✅ SIGNED BY THE GOVERNOR: AB 1740 by @asmrickzbur.bsky.social that makes it easier to build bike, transit, and pedestrian projects in the Coastal Zone.
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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Things Gavin Newsom has vetoed this week: -A ban on secretly recording people with smart glasses -A ban on ICE agents working for the state government -A ban on websites selling your data -A bill giving native tribes more say over water rights -A bill protecting transgender healthcare providers
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Stan Oklobdzija @stano.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I had to look it up because I couldn't believe he did this, but yes, @gavinnewsom.bsky.social actually vetoed the Speaker's bill banning former ICE agents from public employment in CA. The Legislature should over ride his veto.
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Gov. Gavin Newsom vetoes bill to bar former ICE officers from California jobs
The ambitious and sweeping measure was strongly supported by Democrats in the Legislature.
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Paul Crider @paulcrider.liberalcurrents.com · 02/10/2026
I'm cheating wrt the spirit of the prompt, but the answer is obviously the Bible.
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Kirsten Bladh @kerstanley.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Why can't LA build more affordable housing? Well, you see, because a building located in an R5(CW) zone shall not cast a shadow on a lot located in the R4 or R5 zone for more than two hours each day between the hours of 9AM and 3PM on the Winter Solstice and 9AM and 5PM on the Summer Solstice.
A corrective comment from a zoning review for a 100% affordable housing project in Los Angeles that reads, "BUILDINGS OR STRUCTURES ON A LOT LOCATED WITHIN THE R5(CW) LAND USE CATEGORY SHALL NOT CAST SHADOWS ON A LOT LOCATED IN THE R3 OR R4 ZONE, OR THE R4(CW) OR RC4(CW) LAND USE CATEGORY FOR MORE THAN TWO (2) HOURS EACH DAY BETWEEN THE HOURS F 9 AM AND 3 PM ON THE WINTER SOLSTICE AND 9 AM AND 5 PM ON THE SUMMER SOLSTICE. THE PROJECT APPLICANT SHALL SUBMIT A SHADE.
SHADOW ANALYSIS TO THE DEPARTMENT OF CITY PLANNING AT THE TIME OF APPLICATION FOR PROJECT PERMIT COMPLIANCE REVIEW."
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Interurban Era @interurbanera.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Put in modern cable car rails on streets in SF that had them pulled up in the 40s and then use modern equipment like this with a bike flatcar to, say, get between the ferry building and the Richmond side of Golden Gate Park!
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Robert Prinz @prinzrob.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Oakland and Berkeley both want to do this, but are prohibited by California law. Senate Bill 50 in 2023 attempted to change this but stalled in the legislature, & the author has since left office. I would love to see another legislator take up the cause.
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Peter Sagal @petersagal.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Important; it’s an immigration judge, who unlike federal judges are under the direct supervision of the Administration, which has been pushing out judges they feel are unduly biased towards immigrants.
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Finally, the podcast everyone has been waiting for: Two uncomfortably moist men speak Truth to women
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