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Qagggy! @qagggy.bsky.social · 5h
CODDLED DRIVERS—LAVISHED WITH BILLIONS OF DOLLARS OF INFRASTRUCTURE JUST GIVEN TO THEM WITHOUT ANYONE NEEDING TO LAUNCH AN ADVOCACY CAMPAIGN THAT TAKES ALL OF THEIR TIME ON EVENINGS AND WEEKENDS—EXPECTED TO EXPERIENCE SLIGHT INCONVENIENCE
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Baselines shifted @tboggia.bsky.social · 2h
is this good?
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Baselines shifted @tboggia.bsky.social · 3h
It's so much easier to be nice and considerate to people. More people should try it, it feels really really good.
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Joey Politano🏳️‍🌈 @josephpolitano.bsky.social · 15h
Sort of insane fact about how broken US urban planning is—America now spends more building *just the lights for roads and highways* than on all subways & ground mass transit combined Spending on roadway *pavement* is 18x transit spending
a graph of roadway and mass transit lights
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Tim Carmody @tcarmody.bsky.social · 20h
This is the funniest thing I've seen today, possibly ever
A tweet by SarahStarberry that says "oh god read the vertical axis" on top of a chart measuring AI models' release dates and model numbers rather than any real capabilities
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Baselines shifted @tboggia.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The most predictable crisis in a litany of predictable crisis.
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Baselines shifted @tboggia.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
It's so fun that customer service these days consists of asking a question, and then trying to jailbreak the llm to give you what you want even though it's explicitly against its directives.
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Baselines shifted @tboggia.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
You know someone is a good legislator because this time of the year they talk about all their bills that made it through the legislature. @scottwiener.bsky.social regularly has some of the best.
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Baselines shifted @tboggia.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The real e-bike moral panic should have been about parents refusing to encourage their kids to do things that are harder but healthier (riding bikes) concern trolling about safety and cost, while jumping on an easier but more dangerous and expensive tool the moment it comes along.
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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
There is a moment at the very very end of Abdul El-Sayed's podcast with Ezra Klein (book recommendation section) where he talks about the idea of "speaking truth to pain" and this will be staying with me for an extremely long time. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/25/o...
But there’s also something about truth to pain. We talk a lot about truth to power, but I think it’s actually a lot harder to speak truth to pain. I say that as someone who went to medical school, realizing that in a lot of our politics right now, we’ve got to get a lot better at speaking truth to pain if we’re going to get through some of these challenges that we have.

What does “truth to pain” mean?

It’s one thing to look power in the eye and say: You’re wrong about this. But there’s a way in which pain is very difficult to reason with. Because when somebody is in their pain, they’re in their trauma. They see that pain, and they may not see what’s causing it.

I remember just very explicitly being in a trauma ward with a gunshot wound patient and watching this big guy with his hand on his gunshot wound. All the folks are trying to pull his hand off his pain, that point of his gunshot wound, this clear vulnerability.

And this emergency room doctor had the presence of mind to be like: Everyone, stop. And she looks him in the eyes, and she’s like: I get that really hurts, and I’m so sorry that you’re here. You don’t want to be here. We don’t want you to be here. But if you don’t let us fix this, you could die. So I’m going to take your hand, and I’m going to move it off, OK? Because I need to get there so that you can live.

She was speaking truth to pain. He understands he’s at the hospital, he needs care, but he also doesn’t want anybody to touch the wound. Which is a natural thing. And I think it is a really great metaphor for how we think about a lot of these challenges we talked about today.
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Max Dubler 🏳️‍🌈 @maxdubler.com · 29/09/2026
People mistakenly believe that unfunded inclusionary zoning is a way to tax developers and rich people to fund subsidized housing for the poor. It is not. In reality, it’s a tax on working and middle class renters. Actual rich people, who overwhelmingly own single family homes, pay nothing at all.
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Hellscape Navigator @hellscapenavigator.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Batman dies and is informed by Heaven that his biggest contribution was the lead abatement program the Wayne Foundation financed for Gotham's water supply and older housing stock.
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Senator Scott Wiener @scottwiener.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The Governor just signed my bill to allow people to sue ICE, Border Patrol, and other federal agents for violating people’s constitutional rights. Starting immediately, people can sue federal agents retroactive to abuse occurring in March 2025.
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Berkeleyside @berkeleyside.org · 28/09/2026
Canceled and delayed trips have become routine. A board member told the East Bay bus agency to “get a handle on this ASAP.”
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AC Transit buses have become more unreliable this year, say riders and transit board
Canceled and delayed trips have become routine. A board member told the East Bay bus agency to “get a handle on this ASAP.”
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Josh Fruhlinger @jfruh.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
oh no portland got affordable to live in and now the WSJ is freaking out????
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Baselines shifted @tboggia.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
What drives me nuts about data center backlash (which I vaguely support) is that on every metric fossil fuel/auto companies are orders of magnitude worst and yet we give them a pass because we have swallowed car propaganda that there is no alternative.
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Sam @samd.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
it’s particularly on-brand that Scott Wiener is an active participant in SF Transit Month while Connie Chan is nowhere to be found (which is unsurprising given that she fought against the ballot measure that saved Caltrain during the pandemic)
Elected Officials
Leaderboard - Rides - San Francisco Bay
Area
Top elected officials, appointed officials, candidates or board members who live in the San Francisco Bay Area by ride count for September 1 - 6

Name
Total
Distance
Agency
Count
Ride
Count

1 Alfred Twu
138 mi

43

2 D7 Myrna Melgar
64.6 mi
2
20

3 Scott Wiener
31.6 mi
2
17

4 Marina MIMBY
16.3 mi
1
12

5 Joaquín Torres
109 mi
3
9

6 EmilyM
46.6 mi
5
9

7 Emma Hare, DCCC
18.7 mi
2
9

8 James4mv
32.9 mi
3
8

9 SaraLovesBART
29.8 mi
2
8

10 busbaddie
10.8 mi
1
8

11 RebeccaEC
40.0 mi
3
7

12 Rockgirl
94.6 mi
1
4

13 H.B.
34.8 mi
2
4

14 Janice Li
11.0 mi
1
4

15 Danny Sauter D3
3.8 mi
1
4

16 Lydia S
12.9 mi
2
3

17 IttyBittyP
10.9 mi
2
2

18 Sam Gould
4.3 mi
1
2

19 ChristinePelosi
2.1 mi
1
2

20 Mike Chen
1.4 mi
1
2
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Sam Alcorn @samalcorn.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Is your goal reducing carbon emissions? Legalize apartments. Is your goal advancing social justice? Legalize apartments. Is your goal reducing segregation? Legalize apartments. Is your goal reducing housing costs? Legalize apartments.
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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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Yonah Freemark @yonahfreemark.com · 25/09/2026
US isn’t taking climate change seriously when it comes to transport policy Other countries are demonstrating that they can (1) mode shift toward transit, walk, bike; (2) electrify; (3) densify. US failing on all fronts. Result is that US emissions from transport aren’t falling as they should
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East Bay for Everyone @eastbayforeveryone.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The Yes on 45 campaign downplays exactly what types of home and transportation it streamlines. The answer is single-family homes in exurbs & freeway widening in urban and rural areas. At the same time, it deliberately carves out CA High Speed Rail and regional rail from its benefits.
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Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive @bampfa.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Join us Sept. 26 for the free Georgian Cinema Now Symposium. 🇬🇪🎬 Filmmakers, journalists, scholars, and activists discuss Georgia’s current political and cultural landscape, freedom of expression, academic freedom, and more. 11:30 AM–5 PM. bampfa.org/georgian-cinema
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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Seems like it should be part of the "are phones ruining the kids" debate that every marker of teen mental health has improved since 2021 www.cdc.gov/yrbs/youth-h...
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Sam @samd.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
holy shit, dems actually have a chance to flip the PA Senate and NC leg to get trifectas in both states I have updated the optimized state donation list so we can donate to these candidates that just need a little bit of $ to take advantage of what could be the biggest blue wave in history
Chaz Nuttycombe ®
@ChazNuttycombe
NEW PA STATE LEGE POLLS €
PA SD-36 (Trump +15) |
PA SD-40 (Trump +7) ||
PA HD-41 (Trump +5) | (
Jones +3
Brown +3
Chambers +1
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Ryan North @ryannorth.ca · 23/09/2026
Pompeii is a UNESCO world heritage site not because it was remarkable in its prime, but because it survived to our era untouched: one moment, preserved for all time. But future generations won't know what OUR world was like unless we do the same. This is why we MUST bury Toronto with a volcano
Picture of the streets of Pompeii, from https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pompei_-_panoramio_(26).jpg. Taken by Tanya Dedyukhina, used under CC
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RESIST | FIGHT™ @resistfight.com · 23/09/2026
LAPD cops working for ICE contractors off duty — while the department fights to keep its moonlighting records hidden. That is the accusation now being leveled directly at LAPD leadership after a judge ordered the records turned over.
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Joe Fish @sadbusdriver.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
the thing with luxury condos is that they're mostly a myth. 1. within the same county, condos sell for 35% less than single family homes 2. within the same neighborhood, they sell for 43% less 3. within the same neighborhood and adjusting for some quality characteristics, they sell for 21% less
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Baselines shifted @tboggia.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
If you ascribe to the "this is the collapse of the Republic, not the Empire" theory of historical comparison, Newsom cleanly fits the Julius Caesar role: an aristocratic power-hungry madman allied by convenience to the populares (Democrats) faction with no real allegiance to its stated values.
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Doug Gordon @brooklynspoke.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
No one who goes to Paris, Amsterdam, Tokyo, or even Disneyland ever walks around and thinks, "You know what would make this place better and more pleasant? Robot cars."
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Baselines shifted @tboggia.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
I bet that if a few city attorneys dug a little they'd find delivery company training tells drivers to park in the bike lane. There is more candy in this piñata.
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Sam @samd.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
stumbled upon the first Ken Paxton supporter on insta that I’ve seen in a while and of course he’s a fucking used car dealer next dem administration needs to crush these extractive jobs that just funnel donations to the far right: used car dealer, crypto scammer, sports betting websites, etc
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Clearly my
bros and sistas need to stop
voting blue. I know it's what their parents did and parents parents, but it has accomplished nothing and gotten worse. How's the new property tax increase going? Blue votes won.
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@officialjasonharwood Republicans have run Texas for 30 years straight. No wonder it's gotten worse
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@protecting_account_ Don't worry. He was just posting from the wrong account.
He thought he was posting from his burner.
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officialjasonharwood 3d • Edited @rbinhouston2000 nope. My Personal account. Observing the sadness in the Jewish community that they feel obligated to vote Democrat. Enjoy the higher property taxes that your blue men and women voted for.officialjasonharwood
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Baselines shifted @tboggia.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
I always forget that late September is Veto Season, also known as Newsom Hate Week.
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Corey Atad @coreyatad.com · 22/09/2026
“If you are staring at an example of social disorder or social inefficiency, and the left refuses to explain either why it has happened or how they will fix it, then the right gets to point at someone in the immediate area and say, ‘That’s who did it.’” crazy how much Mamdani speaks my language
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Robert Prinz @prinzrob.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
SPUR’s new report details how catastrophic it will be for Bay Area transit riders if the public transit funding Measure RTM fails. But drivers will feel it too, w an estimated doubling of Bay Bridge crossing times and more than 3X longer through the Caldecott Tunnel. www.spur.org/sites/defaul...
“The Bay Area's Top Three Highway Bottlenecks After Potential Transit Cuts
The Bay Bridge, Caldecott Tunnel, and I-680 in Walnut Creek/Concord would experience some of the most significant travel delays in both directions if looming cuts to transit service are not prevented.
Bay Bridge
+33
MINUTES
A.M. PEAK
+43
MINUTES
P.M. PEAK
Caldecott
Tunnel
+20
MINUTES
A.M. PEAK
+27
MINUTES
P.M. PEAK
1-680
(Walnut Creek/Concord)
+15
MINUTES
A.M. PEAK
+20
MINUTES
P.M. PEAK”“EXHIBIT 4
Traffic Delays at Most
Current Highway
Bottlenecks Would
Double With Proposed
Transit Service Cuts
Line and station closures and reduced service frequency would compel transit users to drive, worsening current highway bottlenecks.
Source: SPUR-Jacobs.”
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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Private school tuition is taxed at 300%, no charter schools allowed. Going to a non-lottery school is a serious crime. You can re roll with a new radius only if you move more than ten miles. It would be as popular as chlamydia and it would also work.
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Baselines shifted @tboggia.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
I wish this got a fraction of the attention Piker has been getting in the news media/
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John Lloyd @boyonabike62.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Newsom’s car brain is so infuriating. - vetoed safety stop-as-yield (aka Idaho Stop) twice on spurious reasons. - cut active transportation in each budget (restored by legislature). - transferred e-bike rebate money to EV car rebate program.
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Waschesalon Grammy Campaign Manager @reginageorgebush.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
trans people are also just flatly correct to rage at Dems for wavering on trans rights because immigration advocates did not do so when Dems started wavering on immigration under Obama and that led us to Biden adopting Trump I immigration policy almost wholesale
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Joshua Foust 🪖🎮 @joshuafoust.com · 18/09/2026
Again, there is clear evidence a data center moratorium would peel far more votes away from the GOP than the 10-15 (not thousand, literally 10-15 total) who might switch over this same crowd’s demand to betray queer people. It’s malpractice that the party won’t ditch these professional losers.
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Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
"There is a kind of developing consensus that immigrants are needed." www.nytimes.com/2026/09/17/w...
nytimes.com
Sweden Swings Back Left, Bucking a Trend in Europe
The results of this week’s exceptionally close election dealt a blow to far-right nationalists, who have gained ground elsewhere.
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Idothethinking @idothethinking.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
A driver under the influence slams into a public bus and kills two people. While covering the incident with helicopters, one crashes and plummets to the ground killing the crew. If only LA's addiction to cars and fossil fuel sprawl got the same attention kids riding ebikes do, my god.
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A. Zivarts @nondriver.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
The explosion of e-bikes, e-trikes and e-scooters is truly revolutionary...The joy and freedom of biking is intoxicating for everyone who has had the opportunity to try out life on two or three wheels with a little e-boost.
amny.com
Op-Ed | E-bikes mean freedom for low-vision cyclists like me: don’t take that away | amNewYork
So did a lot of other people who, like me, don’t have valid driver’s licenses. In July, the state’s new e-bike law went into effect. Among other regulations
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Baselines shifted @tboggia.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Who would have thought that green movements, progressives, Dem candidates agreeing to never talk about the climate crisis would result in people not taking the climate crisis seriously.
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 17/09/2026
Called it. The father was charged with punching the child while the mother did witness intimidation to cover it up. www.wbur.org/news/2026/09...
The case was reported to the state in early 2025. Both parents were charged in connection with an incident at the family’s Southborough home in late January of that year, according to court documents. WBUR is not identifying the teenager, who is a minor.

Joseph Kutzko was accused of punching and threatening his then-15-year-old child at the family home on Jan. 28, 2025, records from Westborough District Court show. A Southborough police detective wrote that Kutzko punched the victim in the shoulder and pulled them by their hair. Kutzko later allegedly threatened to kill the victim “for not singing in tune during a birthday celebration,” according to court records.

Kutzko was arrested the next day and pleaded not guilty. In setting bail, the judge referred to three prior restraining orders against Kutzko, one of which is permanent. She did not say whether any are tied to this case.

The child’s mother, Arlene Kutzko, was charged with witness intimidation after allegedly pressuring the child to “tell the school that she was exaggerating and being stupid.”
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Tamoor Hussain @tamoorh.com · 14/09/2026
btw Kanye did a song Heil Hitler and no one stepped in to oppose his tour(s), which is ongoing. In fact, Kanye is scheduled to perform at one of the stadiums Macklemore has been stopped from being at.
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David Weiskopf believes in you @dave.bzky.team · 14/09/2026
A statistic that haunts me because it is 100% true and shocking and useless in advocacy precisely because it is true and shocking: Policy that enables a 1-car lifestyle rather than 2 is equivalent to giving a family a $25,000 annual pay raise.
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Peter Flax @pflax1.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
I tried to avoid polemics with the first post, but a few thoughts. -Driving is so costly and more people should question whether it's worth it. -The payments are painful but still doesn't cover the cost to cities and society. -Folks complain about gas prices but it's a small piece of the total cost.
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Matt Bors @mattbors.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
It was exactly ten years ago today, on my 33rd birthday, that I posted this comic online.
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Jean Walsh @therealjeanwalsh.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
“During my time on the AUSD Board, I have reached out to Director Young… I did not receive a response... That is a problem. If an elected AC Transit director won’t make time to engage with a local school district serving thousands of transit-dependent students, who exactly is he representing?”
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