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Catbus @catbus.phd · 23h
Quick reminder that Ralph Nader had zero impact on the electoral outcome of the 2000 election, which Bush didn't win anyway He was gifted the presidency by the supreme court, a decision Al Gore immediately accepted for some reason
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rzu.bsky.social @rzu.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Input needed! This is a project I’m involved in with Walk Oakland Bike Oakland (WOBO)
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Robert Prinz @prinzrob.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Complete project info is here, along with a notification list sign-up form: www.oaklandca.gov/Government/O...
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Foothill Boulevard Traffic Safety Project (23rd Ave to Fruitvale Ave)
Making Foothill Boulevard from 23rd Ave to Fruitvale Avenue safer for everyone as part of planned repaving
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Robert Prinz @prinzrob.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Do you want to see bike lanes + no center turn lane, or center turn lane + no bike lanes on Foothill Blvd in Oakland, 23rd Ave to Fruitvale Ave? Take OakDOT's survey here to share your preferences: qualtricsxmn22whq9qz.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
illustration of Foothill Blvd in Oakland w painted bike lanes but no center turn lane

BIKE LANES
PEDESTRIAN ISLAND
& FLASHING LIGHTS
SPEED CUSHIONS
HIGH VISIBILITY
CROSSWALKS
SOME PARKING
REMOVAL
REMOVE CENTER
TURN LANE"illustration of Foothill Blvd in Oakland w center turn lane but no bike lanes

"CORNER ISLAND TO INCREASE VISIBILITY OF PEOPLE CROSSING
STREET
PEDESTRIAN ISLAND & FLASHING LIGHTS
SPEED CUSHIONS WITH CENTER ISLAND TO DETER ILLEGAL PASSING
HIGH VISIBILITY CROSSWALKS
KEEP CENTER TURN LANE"map showing the project area for Foothill Blvd from 23rd Ave to Fruitvale Ave
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Jaime Omar Yassin [TNH] @hyphyrepublic.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Not at all unexpected: City of Oakland unions are signaling they're prepared for a city wide strike in the wake of City refusal to negotiate a fair contract with workers. IFPTE 10 and SEIU 1021 will hold a "strike school" to inform workers of rights if there's a strike
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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Dude thinks he's appealing to "moderates" (really just a handful of right-wing podcasters) and can't stop printing out receipts that say "Gavin ain't got that dog in him." His veto may as well have been sent from another planet where Republicans don't instantly breach every supposed norm.
While I share the author's views on the importance of protecting these important healthcare services, extradition is an exclusively executive function. When discretionary, that discretion is appropriately placed with the Governor. I am troubled by the precedent that would be set if an outgoing administration agreed with the Legislature to erode the executive authority of an incoming Governor based on their shared policy preferences, regardless of how righteous and well-intended those actions may be.
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Alessandro Rigolon @alerigolon.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Re: “people don’t bike in the winter”, let’s think about places where people bike more: the Netherlands, Denmark, Berlin, Paris. Not great weather Places in Southern Europe with great weather and no winter (Italy, Greece) don’t have large biking numbers It’s not the weather. It’s infrastructure
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Dave Tait @davetait.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Classic example of why journalists should avoid the passive voice. WHO barred them? What authority if any did that person have to issue such an order? If no real authority, it was just a request backed with an implication of revenge against any who didn't go along. That's not being "barred"...
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dave_v2 @objectdave.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Was just thinking about how the Texas trans community will likely still overwhelmingly vote for Talarico, while white cis men will overwhelmingly vote for his opponent, and how fucked up it is that white cis men are still yelling at trans people about being insufficiently supportive.
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Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Has any Democrat of any stature ever said "no single person deserves to go without"? Without qualifying it with "hard-working Americans" or "taxpayers" or some shit. Just a blanket true statement. No single person should suffer. Period.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
“Stop Making Sense” turns 42 today. Of his performance, David Byrne said: “You see this person in the beginning [of the film] who's kind of angsty, stumbling around .. And then, by the end, he's surrendered to the music and is fairly joyful .. He’s found a kind of community." 🙏🏼 “Slippery People”
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dr. rich traditions, JD @helldude.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
im inclined to agree with the techlords that AI is dangerous. again, not because it's alive but because they're insisting on putting it in positions where it can hurt people, leaving aside the promised jobpocalypse they're promising us. chimp with gun
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Jordan aka Jirdan @slclunk.com · 09/09/2026
Any answer other than “who gives a shit, republicans are using a dozen kids playing JV volleyball as a distraction from looting the county and covering for elite pedophiles” is cowardly horseshit
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Rebecca Saltzman @rebeccaforec.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Last night our neighboring city Albany voted to drop Flock, following El Cerrito’s vote in May. There will now be a continuous Flock free area and I’m hopeful our two small towns are starting a wave that will spread through the East Bay and beyond. Thanks to all the advocates who made this happen!
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Sarah Tuttle @niais.cryptoanarchy.network · 10/09/2026
As a parent of a trans kiddo - medical care for trans care is clear, has medical recommendations, and does not need you sticking your nose into the business. The only debate is an existential one. Either you support trans people, or you think they don't deserve to exist. Everything else is noise.
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Jaime Omar Yassin [TNH] @hyphyrepublic.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
OPOA's contract would ADD raises if other city unions get a raise greater than what OPOA got in corresponding period. Other unions haven't had increases in 2 years, so its possible any "catchup" increase over a shorter contract frame would mean OPOA would get even higher raises.
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rzu.bsky.social @rzu.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
East Oakland needs better access to our regional parks
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The Oaklandside @oaklandside.org · 25/08/2026
The East Bay Regional Park, a haven for migratory shorebirds, is a highlight of East Oakland’s natural environment. But it's hard to reach across I-880.
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A vision for pedestrian and bike access to Martin Luther King Jr. Regional Shoreline 
The East Bay Regional Park, a haven for migratory shorebirds, is a highlight of East Oakland’s natural environment. But it's hard to reach across I-880.
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dr. rich traditions, JD @helldude.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
i believe our problems are fixable. we did manage to create a period of time when people could work a job, buy a house, and retire. i don't think this is some crazy unattainable thing, and i do believe essentially all of our big economic problems are fundamentally due to runaway wealth inequality
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
When your government says it’s planning to open multiple prisons that will house up to 3,000 children, it’s time to demand a new government. There is no context in which this is legitimate or acceptable.
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Jeffrey Tumlin 🏳️‍🌈 🌁 @jeffreytumlin.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
"Motorists going at least 11 mph over the speed limit fell by 70%" Most cited motorists received a single citation then stopped speeding. Speed safety cameras work. www.sfchronicle.com/eastbay/arti...
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Oakland installed new automated speed cameras. Drivers’ behavior changed dramatically
A new report shows that drivers are slowing down significantly on what have been some of the city’s most dangerous roads.
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Cooper Lund @cooperlund.online · 16/08/2026
This is a great example of why Jeffries is not the man for the moment, and a bad choice to be Speaker. Instead of hitting the unity notes that Dems are doing well in Michigan and Wisconsin, he’s obsessing about local NYC politics because he’s afraid of losing power and it’s hurting Dems nationally.
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Robert Prinz @prinzrob.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
California currently makes up half of the entire e-bike market in the US wrt new sales, even w/o a state rebate program. There is an incredible demand & opportunity to transform the future of our state for the better. But right now we are currently whiffing it completely wrt governmental support.
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Sen. Lemon Gogurt @ugarles.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
people use umbrellas to keep them dry but the umbrellas are so wet when you get back inside
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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Watched a multi-acre fire break out before my very eyes and then watched a bunch of helicopters show up and put it out. Government was a good idea, it should do more things like that instead of evil and corruption
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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
I propose a new law: Every politician, PAC, SuperPAC, whatever, and all of their staff/employees, must receive on their personal phone, with a push notification, every single fundraising text they send out. The texts must also be sent to the personal phones of their family and friends.
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
An all-Muppets Super Bowl halftime show would be amazing.
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lucindacatchlove.bsky.social @lucindacatchlove.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
What an important act of humanizing, inclusion and kindness towards people who get so little of it. Mamdani's kindness stands out in stark contrast to how so many other politicians act. Truly a man of and for the people.
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public health guy @publichealthguy1.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
omggg
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French soccer team arrives in Dallas on an ICE deportation jet
Less than an hour after dropping off Les Bleus in Dallas, the plane departed for Texas to conduct another deportation flight to Mexico.
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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Mainstream Respectable opinion is that people joking about a bad person's death represents a culture of cruelty, but really it represents a culture of impunity. It's a coping mechanism for watching someone do evil their whole life and never seeing consequences
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Stan Oklobdzija @stano.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Racism aside, there is nothing that the Chinese Communist Party wants more than for America to continue to be run by stupid hicks like this woman whose careers are dedicated to flushing every competitive advantage we have down the toilet.
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james 🐎🔫 @buffalocia.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Do people know this is the Bosnia manager's first soccer coaching job after a post-playing career of professional poker and constantly criticizing the national team on social media
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Dave Draeger @davedraeger.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Weird how this never applies to the Second Amendment.
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rzu.bsky.social @rzu.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Golaço!
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alexis simpson @amutepiggy.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
crazy to me that rich people have been so successful in perpetuating the lie that the poor are stealing from everyone. they don't have any money. the rich people are the ones with the money! that's who stole the money
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I'm Dirt Mother Fucker @aynrandy.boontavista.com · 24/06/2026
Remember when those grade school kids begged Dianne Feinstein to do something about climate change and she said condescendingly "we know what we're doing" and then fell over and died
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rzu.bsky.social @rzu.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
Busy bikey week! M- Picked up my cargo bike after a much-needed tune-up W- Celebrated the opening of a section of the East Bay Greenway (Thanks @prinzrob.bsky.social of @bikeeastbay.bsky.social for the photo!) F- Bike Party! @ebbp.bsky.social S- Advocacy workshop with @bikeleague.org
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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Some really crazy cases in here - cop looked up ex-girlfriend and family in Flock 100+ times - cop stalked wife giving "test" as reason - cop searched one plate 395 times in 10 months; was later fired Cops keep getting arrested for using Flock to stalk people www.404media.co/cops-keep-ge...
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Cops Keep Getting Arrested for Using Flock to Stalk People
There have been more than a dozen cases around the country where police use Flock to obsessively and illegally stalk people.
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Steven Lucy @slucy.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
CDOT Commissioner Cheaks should announce on Monday morning that the city will be phasing out "door zone" bike lanes starting immediately, as they are inherently deadly.
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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 01/06/2026
if you just went by media coverage you would think that trangender kids playing sports are a much more immediate threat to the public well-being than a billionaire becoming a trillionaire by pumping $2 trillion worth of fraud into every single 401k
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Robert Prinz @prinzrob.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
The semi ban on 580 is also why there are more surface street connector routes for trucks in E Oakland compared to other parts of town. This is partly why we haven't been able to get traffic calming or other safety features on some streets like 55th Ave. It isn't just a 580 vs 880 issue.
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Jaime Omar Yassin [TNH] @hyphyrepublic.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
This is the perfect synthesis of the issue. "Public trust in Oakland's government is low. That is not on civilian-represented employees. It's on City leadership for writing a blank check to OPD while failing to invest in the workforce that also delivers essential services"
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
Absolutely nothing is stopping John Cornyn, Tillis, Murkowski, & Paul from caucusing immediately with Democrats & giving them control of the Senate. The same is true of Thomas Massie & any 2 retiring GOP Reps in the House. It is a choice to continue caucusing with the authoritarian personality cult.
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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
Dems are polling crazy high based on the flaming catastrophe that is Republican fascist rule, so primarying as many of the bad weak complicit Democrats in favor of good determined angry ones has rarely if ever been more crucial
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rzu.bsky.social @rzu.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
Awful
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SFist @sfist.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
A grisly crash Saturday night in East Oakland took the lives of three pedestrians and left three others hospitalized with injuries, and a juvenile driver was arrested in connection with the crash. buff.ly/5t635e6
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Speeding Juvenile Driver Arrested After East Oakland Crash That Killed Three Pedestrians
A grisly crash Saturday night in East Oakland took the lives of three pedestrians and left three others hospitalized with injuries, and a juvenile driver was arrested in connection with the crash.
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rzu.bsky.social @rzu.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
Damn!
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Jaime Omar Yassin [TNH] @hyphyrepublic.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
Breaking: Mayor's announces that City Administrator Jestin Johnson has been terminated after Mayor became aware of "degrading" and "communications". Coming on a Sunday morning it means its probably very bad, and about to break in local media.
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