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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · Nov 13

if i've learned one thing from doing union stuff while also doing other forms of organizing, it's that you're better off with people you disagree with who are nevertheless trying to do the same thing as you than with people you agree with who aren't trying to do anything

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Andrew Allio @andrewallio.bsky.social · 6d

11 billion is just a little under half the amount needed to get High Speed Rail out of the Central Valley and into the Bay Area, transforming mobility in the state.

Or we can spend it so that people can drive from the booming metropolises of Novato and Vallejo.

Tough call.

Alfred Twu @alfredtwu.com · 6d

The entire proposed Highway 37 Solano-Marin super bridge is estimated to cost $11 billion, all to replace an existing road between a couple of suburbs. And it's proposed at 114 feet wide.

For comparison, the Golden Gate Bridge is 90 feet wide.

Warren Wells, AICP @warrenjwells.bsky.social · 6d

Caltrans has released a cross section for the ultimate (raised viaduct) version of SR-37.

Now maybe I'm just being paranoid, but if you were building a road that you planned to keep at 4 lanes wide, I don't think it would look like this.

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Michael Mechanic @michaelmechanic.bsky.social · 8d

Administrators of the @uofcalifornia.bsky.social can let the Trump administration pick off campuses one by one.

Or they can stand together, resist this abomination, and win the gratitude and support of their state and their >2 million living alumni.

CC: @governor.ca.gov

Why elite colleges aren't pushing back on Trump, and why silence is dangerous

Their caution, one expert notes, is "potentially fatal for the university as we know it."

www.motherjones.com

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Andrew Allio @andrewallio.bsky.social · 9d

Santa Clara County and the broader Bay Area. ICE wants to ride the coattails of the Super Bowl to create a spectacle of their own so they can post 4K cruelty-porn videos of "protecting America's Game" to Twitter and Fox News

Andrew Allio @andrewallio.bsky.social · 9d

I understand why people come to this conclusion. Prices are high, travel expensive, etc.

It's not just one event, though. The Super Bowl is a week long spectacle. 14-16,000 work the game itself. And there are concerts and fan fests open to the general public. Not to mention the diversity of...

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 9d

I was in Portland last night for a soccer match. The only thing I saw burned to the ground was the opposing goalkeeper by this rocket from Olivia Moultrie.

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Dustin Mulvaney @dustinmulvaney.bsky.social · 10d

The Amah Mutsun are getting #LandBack within their ancestral territory of Juristac, in the Pajaro watershed, for the first time since dispossessed by mission San Juan Bautista.
baynature.org/2025/09/20/t...

A Land Back Success for the Amah Mutsun Within Its Historical Territory - Bay Nature

The tribe has been without a land base for more than 200 years.

baynature.org

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Warren Wells, AICP @warrenjwells.bsky.social · 11d

For context on what $500M could pay for, that is exactly 3x the amount that California budgeted for its *statewide* grant bike/pedestrian program that only pays out every 2 years.

So it's a sinking highway for 25k people in the North Bay vs 6(!) years of bike/ped funding across the entire state.

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ben schwartz @benschwartz.bsky.social · 12d

My new piece, up now @thenation.com: "If only trans activists had known what size check to cut for Chappelle, they could have shut him up years ago and saved themselves all the picketing at Netflix." www.thenation.com/article/cult...

The Sad Spectacle of American Comedians Selling Out in Saudi Arabia

It turns out that edgy free-speech warriors will scuttle their principles for a check from a brutal autocratic regime.

www.thenation.com

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Andrew Allio @andrewallio.bsky.social · 14d

But also, I erase the boards when I leave because I'm not a monster

Andrew Allio @andrewallio.bsky.social · 14d

One of my favorite games is spending the term trying to figure out what class was in the room before I teach. A good way to get folks talking in a general ed class since they'll usually have a better idea than I do.

Jacqueline Antonovich @jackiantonovich.bsky.social · 14d

For those of you professors who are team “you erase the boards when you come in, not before you leave,” I would like to let you know that I lectured about the history of vaginal and rectal fistulas today and i am sure the prof coming in after me appreciates that i erased the board before i left.

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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 19d

streaming platforms have robbed us of the randomness that used to be both an essential property of tv watching and a quality that mitigated its addictiveness somewhat. we were wholly beholden to whatever happened to be on! if we didn’t like any of it we were obligated to go do something else!

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k☭wagata, a specter haunting europe 👻 @kuwagata.bsky.social · 19d

People occasionally talk about the streetcar conspiracy, but nobody ever really talks about how so thoroughly the private car has become an immovable pillar of American society through decades of propaganda that very few people can imagine society being constructed differently

NPR @npr.org · 19d

In 2024, 7,100 pedestrians were killed on the road, and in recent years, more than 1,000 cyclists have been hit and killed annually. Safety experts explain how bikers and walkers can stay safe.

8 walking and biking safety tips that just might save your life

In 2024, 7,100 pedestrians were killed on the road, and in recent years, more than 1,000 cyclists have been hit and killed annually. Safety experts explain how bikers and walkers can stay safe.

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Tara Goddard, PhD @drtaragoddard.com · 20d

whoa. Every single one of the Sinclair advert buyers on this list is automotive or automotive related (insurance). That is one aspect of the power in our society held by car companies that I haven't seen studied enough.

Anthony's Spinning Circles here too! @circlesspinning.bsky.social · 20d

For those in #Sinclair and #Nexstar markets.... #Boycott the advertisers!! After all, Disney got the message that way! There may be some you can’t, but there are some you can!

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Doug Gordon @brooklynspoke.bsky.social · 21d

One of the biggest things we want readers to take away from “Life After Cars” is that learning to *see* cars is step one on the path to realizing a better world.

Edwin Heathcote @edwinheathcote.bsky.social · 22d

I was walking down a street in New York and I thought how lovely it was, with the trees and the light. Tried to take a photo and this came out. It’s incredible how blind we become to the ugliness of cars. They really do mess things up. Yet somehow we manage to filter them out.

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Andrew Allio @andrewallio.bsky.social · 22d

This rules

Razzball @razzball.bsky.social · 22d

A guy on tik tok onside kicks into random things

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 22d

It's a basic point, but one that needs to be repeated:

If right-wingers and their views were popular, they would not be so desperate to control mass media & social media nor to use government power to silence everyone else, and they wouldn't need oligarchs pumping billions into amplifying them.

🇬🇾🗽Sydette The Dreaded Gorgon🗽🇬🇾 @blackamazon.bsky.social · 22d

So you know how many views Charlie Kirk’s memorial got online in TOTAL now a day later ?

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Folks are having “dialogues” to see both sides with folks who can’t top a mid level anime food influencer

At some point we admit they aren’t being bullied . They’re racists weaponizing cowardice

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Andrew Allio @andrewallio.bsky.social · 23d

Bouie don’t miss example #58295

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 23d

it's all about that "Right Here (Human Nature Remix)"

Albumism @albumism.com · 23d

What are your favorite songs from SWV's debut album 'It's About Time' (1992)? | Listen to the album + explore our tribute here: album.ink/SWViat

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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 25d

Hakeem Jeffries voted for Charlie Kirk Day but still isn’t sure if he’ll endorse Zohran Mamdani. This is why the approval rating of the Democratic Party is lower than Trump’s or the GOP.

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Steven Lucy @slucy.bsky.social · 25d

This is what crossings in front of schools should look like.

Raised crossing, short crossing distance, 20mph speed limit, close street trees for calming, protected bike lane, two-way road narrows to a pinch point / cars have to slow down and take turns.

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Mina Kimes @minakimes.bsky.social · 25d

My toxic trait is I absolutely love trick plays that result in gains of less than 10 yards. Can’t get enough.

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Andrew Allio @andrewallio.bsky.social · 25d

This nails it. Too many “scholar activists” don’t recognize that the average American isn’t reading Said or Fanon [or are even interested in doing so]. The best are able to be “bilingual” in a way that makes their activism accessible to wider audiences, not just their peers.

William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 27d

one of the worst ways in which academia has overlapped with activist circles is that stuff that sounds sexy and provocative in seminar is expected to be messaging to actual normal people who aren't going to do the reading. "abolish the family", etc.