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Peter @peterwj.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

wild that Waymo can pay a 127.5% tariff on a Chinese EV and still save money compared to the Jaguar I-Pace

The company’s Jaguar I-Pace robotaxis can reportedly cost upwards of $200,000 to retrofit with its technology. Despite being heavily tariffed, Ojai’s are actually cheaper.

Ojai robotaxis cost an estimated $38,000, according to U.S. import declarations cited by news outlets. After 127.5% tariffs are applied, the price skyrockets to roughly $86,500. Then hardware and software is equipped, which Forbes estimates costs $25,000 per unit to install.

Peter @peterwj.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Diviz line should be a Van Ness line, in line with the 1995 SFCTA "Four Corridor Plan". but it got watered down to BRT dn790009.ca.archive.org/0/items/four...

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Peter @peterwj.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

yup, they’ve adopted the Uber/Lyft playbook of “park wherever you want; vulnerable road users be damned” I wonder whether they count cyclists injured by their bike lane obstructions in their safety stats pic from Aug 24

a Jaguar Waymo loading passengers while standing in a green bike lane along San Francisco’s embarcadero

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Peter @peterwj.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

didn’t have “Trump invokes never-used Smoot-Hawley authority” on my 2026 Bingo card but here we are tax.thomsonreuters.com/blog/after-i...

Section 338: The untested wild card
Section 338 of the Tariff Act of 1930 — a relic of the original Smoot-Hawley legislation — holds a unique status in this landscape: it has existed for nearly a century and has never been invoked. It gives the president authority to impose tariffs of up to 50% on countries that discriminate against U.S. commerce, subject to a 30-day notice requirement.

Whether it will remain unused is genuinely uncertain. The current administration has demonstrated a consistent willingness to test the boundaries of available tariff authorities. If Section 338 were invoked, immediate legal challenge would be virtually certain given its untested status. But “has never been used” is not the same as “will never be used.” Compliance programs that monitor the full range of potential authorities are better positioned to respond if this one comes off the shelf.

from Thomson Reuters Tax

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Peter @peterwj.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

this is so unbelievably cringe

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Peter @peterwj.bsky.social · 19/10/2025

looks like TFP's editorial choices have already polluted CBS News's coverage..nothing about No Kings above the fold but we do have a story about a freeway closure in rural San Diego County..

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Peter @peterwj.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

a real “home” in Charleston Meadows—a 75 year old decaying plywood box with no insulation that nonetheless is worth $2.6 million (paying $1800/year in property taxes)

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Peter @peterwj.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

the all-ages helmet rule is crazy because *by the county’s own data* e-bikes look significantly safer than acoustic bikes, which lack the helmet mandate

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Peter @peterwj.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

this rural Hallingdalsveien segment of Norwegian route 7 has better pedestrian infra than like 99% of US state highway milage lol

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Peter @peterwj.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

880% AMI affordable housing development in Palo Alto $60M project to build 37 studios/SROs, 8 1BDs, and 5 2BDs. that’s $1.1M per bedroom the construction cost crisis is REAL

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Peter @peterwj.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

San Francisco really is a basket case it is Bad when you need to make $350,000 to afford the median house price and when people making above-median, six-figure salaries qualify for subsidized housing

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Peter @peterwj.bsky.social · 20/04/2025

another victim of Trump v. United States. the president, acting via DOJ or Treasury, has exclusive authority to enforce federal tax law. absolutely immune! I hope Roberts is happy about reading the constitution to ban common-sense good government like not politically weaponizing tax collection

Trump v United States: "We thus
conclude that the President is absolutely immune from
criminal prosecution for conduct within his exclusive
sphere of constitutional authority"

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Peter @peterwj.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

beautiful…Apple’s forever buggy software helped cause signal-gate

According to three people briefed on the internal investigation, Goldberg had emailed the campaign about a story that criticized Trump for his attitude towards wounded service members. To push back against the story, the campaign enlisted the help of Waltz, their national security surrogate.

Goldberg’s email was forwarded to then Trump spokesperson Brian Hughes, who then copied and pasted the content of the email – including the signature block with Goldberg’s phone number – into a text message that he sent to Waltz, so that he could be briefed on the forthcoming story.

Waltz did not ultimately call Goldberg, the people said, but in an extraordinary twist, inadvertently ended up saving Goldberg’s number in his iPhone – under the contact card for Hughes, now the spokesperson for the national security council.

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Peter @peterwj.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

on an isolated volcanic archipelago 800 miles from the nearest continent, Trump has also not Taken Egg

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Peter @peterwj.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

the MAGA-fication of Kristi Noem, from 2011 to 2025

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Peter @peterwj.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

project 2025 is expressly pro single family zoning. they’re our opponents even on the “narrow” issue of housing

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Peter @peterwj.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

whoa— - Congressional Ds raised WAY more money than Rs: $2.6 billion vs $1.7 billion. that's 53% more! - small donors (those giving $200 or less) gave 29% of D cash vs 25% of R cash didn't realize how dependent Rs are on Prez Musk data from @opensecrets.org www.opensecrets.org/elections-ov...

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Peter @peterwj.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

to contextualize yesterday's news— a) go-arounds are very common, especially at DCA. 1 in 300 flights during FY22–3 aborted landing! b) runway incursions are also somewhat common. there's on average one per day across the top 30 U.S. airports www.faa.gov/air_traffic/...

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Peter @peterwj.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

when a Scalia clerk, FedSoc member, and *Trump’s own appointee to the interim U.S. Attorney role* quits, you know it’s bad the Trump Administration is corruptly buying the mayor of America’s largest city and making no effort to hide it it’s WELL past time for impeachment

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Ms. Sassoon, 38, joined the Southern District in 2016. A graduate of Harvard College and Yale Law School, she clerked for Justice Antonin Scalia on the Supreme Court, and is a member of the Federalist Society, the conservative legal group.

Ms. Sassoon is best known for the successful fraud prosecution and 2023 conviction of Sam Bankman-Fried, the founder of the cryptocurrency exchange FTX, who received 25 years in prison. She also prosecuted Lawrence V. Ray, who was convicted in 2022 of extortion and sex trafficking related to his abuse of Sarah Lawrence College students. He was sentenced to 60 years in prison.

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Peter @peterwj.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

what the actual fuck is going on really hard to do my job when the CENSUS WEBSITE is down

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Peter @peterwj.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

"police car chases make us safer" 🙄 prop E's supporters should explain why it's OK to seriously injure 6 innocent bystanders so SFPD can nab a burglary suspect a little bit faster missionlocal.org/2025/02/car-...

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Peter @peterwj.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

the Republican Party recently we’re careering towards electoral authoritarian regime / an elected executive despot and the GOP delegation in Congress refuses to do anything about it

grim reaper knocking on doors meme. “roe v wade” and “14A Section 3” are already murdered; “marbury v madison” is next

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Peter @peterwj.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

DETERMINED to cite Pope Francis's 2015 encyclical Laudato Si in my parking paper

153. The quality of life in cities has much to do with systems of transport, which are often a source of much suffering for those who use them. Many cars, used by one or more people, circulate in cities, causing traffic congestion, raising the level of pollution, and consuming enormous quantities of non-renewable energy. This makes it necessary to build more roads and parking areas which spoil the urban landscape. Many specialists agree on the need to give priority to public transportation. Yet some measures needed will not prove easily acceptable to society unless substantial improvements are made in the systems themselves, which in many cities force people to put up with undignified conditions due to crowding, inconvenience, infrequent service and lack of safety.

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Peter @peterwj.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

the constitution is showing its inability to handle 21st century political threats the constitution does not mention political parties anywhere. some founders quixotically opposed political "factions" yet the GOP and the modern party system has destroyed any limit on executive power

The only institution capable of responding to this with any alacrity is Congress. ***But Congress is also led by Republicans, and both the Senate majority leader, John Thune, and the speaker of the House, Mike Johnson, have declined to take any steps to arrest the president’s illegal arrogation of power or Musk’s destructive effort to run the federal government.*** Thune and Johnson, acting with the support of Republicans in both chambers, have, in effect, renounced their power over the purse and abnegated their powers of oversight. Their Congress is supine, submissive and subordinate, less the equal of the president than a tool of the executive branch — a subject of his will.

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Peter @peterwj.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

even the 19th century meaning of "allegiance" can't bear that weight. U.S. v. Wong Kim Ark, 169 U.S. 649 (1889):

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Peter @peterwj.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

day six and there’s no eggs just 1455 days to go

costco out of stock of the 60-pack and 24-pack of plain white chicken eggs

Trump pointing at first photo captioned “I did that!”

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Peter @peterwj.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

it’s bad www.sf.gov/data/percent...

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Peter @peterwj.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

I get the urge to blame climate change for the Palisades Fire and other ongoing fires but Malibu has been burning down nonstop since time immemorial. maybe we shouldn’t live there

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Peter @peterwj.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

related—Newsom promised meaningful action on housing, then demonstrated zero leadership for 6+ years voters are smart and are sick of do-nothing empty suits that run D states

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Peter @peterwj.bsky.social · 31/12/2024

end of year timeline cleanse HNY! 🎇🎆

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Peter @peterwj.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

government shutdown hasn’t even happened yet but the market is down 3% overnight thanks Elon and Donald!

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Peter @peterwj.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

drop a pic from the last place your passport was stamped lovely SUMMERY Copenhagen 🇩🇰🌞

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Peter @peterwj.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

wish I hyperfixated on career tasks as effectively as I hyperfixate on Factorio

factorio spaceship that got absolutely destroyed on the way to Aquilo

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Peter @peterwj.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

one of SFMTA / SF Muni’s “rapid” routes has EIGHT stop signs in a half mile segment probably why the J Church’s scheduled run time in this segment is 7.8 mph 😭😭

map of stop sign location son J church route in Noe Valley. there are stop signs at 8 intersections between 24-29 st inclusive

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Peter @peterwj.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

haaaaate that I’ve thirst trapped in this exact bathroom before 😭😭

thirst trap in pink running shorts at a new york equinox gym on greenwich ave

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Peter @peterwj.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

somebody show Vivek 5 ISC 905(b)

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