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Cyrus Hall @cyrushall.bsky.social · 11h

The 12 Folsom could really use some transit priority love.

Cyrus Hall @cyrushall.bsky.social · 11h

Hundreds of U.S. students quarantined amid measles outbreaks

At least 270 unvaccinated kids are staying home from school as measles continues to spread nationwide. "Expect more," one expert said.

www.nbcnews.com

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · 14h

aaand we are officially in the hide-your-neighbors stage

Sophie Sherry @sophiesherry.bsky.social · 17h

During a military-style raid on a building in Chicago’s South Shore, one resident heard a knock on his door.   It wasn’t the feds — it was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for help.

He let them hide in his unit for the next 3 days.

chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Neighbor shielded 7-year-old during South Shore federal raid: ‘I didn’t want them to take her’

During the Sept. 30 raid one tenant protected a terrified girl and her mom. Remnants at the complex, including a detailed map of all the units, offer clues to what authorities may have known before th...

chicago.suntimes.com

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Cyrus Hall @cyrushall.bsky.social · 16h

Looks like the lack of afterburners in the Snowbirds' acrobatics resolves ~90% of the complaints the Blue Angels used to get.

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Transform California @transformca.bsky.social · 16h

Preliminary results from the Clipper BayPass Phase 2 pilot show riders took 35% more transit trips in late 2024 compared to 2023.

The increased ridership generated $1.1 million in new fare revenue for Bay Area transit agencies.

blog.bayareametro.gov/posts/second...

Second phase of BayPass pilot looks like a winner

Preliminary results from the first year of the Clipper BayPass Phase 2 pilot indicate participating riders at the first three partner organizations in aggregate took 35% more transit trips in the last six months of 2024 compared to the same period in 2023

blog.bayareametro.gov

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Cyrus Hall @cyrushall.bsky.social · 17h

Extremely sad. Sounds like his daughter is now orphaned.

‘He was her whole world’: San Francisco hit-and-run victim identified as 30-year-old father

The man killed in a hit-and-run collision in San Francisco’s Bernal Heights was identified as Binod Budhathoki, a 30-year-old immigrant from Nepal who leaves behind an 8-year-old daughter.

www.sfchronicle.com

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Cyrus Hall @cyrushall.bsky.social · 17h

Getting groups of riders up to Sac once or twice a year is good, but it's deeply insufficient. Public transit needs multiple people pushing legislators full time, getting to know them well, understanding how they think, understanding how they power map.

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Cyrus Hall @cyrushall.bsky.social · 17h

Lobbying, you say? Yes, lobbying. Most politicians in Sacramento are woefully uninformed about public transit. They've rarely if ever taken it, they see it as a subsidy for the poor (and thus negotiable), and see the only state role as support capital investment/small county ops support.

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Cyrus Hall @cyrushall.bsky.social · 17h

...yet the state loan to keep Bay Area transit from collapsing? Still not finalized, and not a clear priority for Newsom.

Outside of @caltransit.bsky.social, I'm not aware of any full-time public transit advocates in Sac. Advocates need to figure out how pipeline funding to lobbying like YIMBY has.

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Cyrus Hall @cyrushall.bsky.social · 17h

I'm happy to see Newsom signed SB 79. It's an imperfect step in the right direction, and we wait for perfect at our peril.

But it is frustrating that there is so little holistic vision at the state level. There was no delay and virtually no debate over AB 697 to spend half a billion on SR 37...

Bryan Culbertson 🥄 @bryanculbertson.com · 19h

A state that is prioritizing building housing near transit stations should fund transit operations

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Popehat Agitates And Irritates @kenwhite.bsky.social · 21h

But that’s no excuse for not showing up.

Show up to a protest on the 18th. It’s a way to stand up and be counted for the proposition that what these people are doing to your country is not right, not acceptable.

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L.A. TACO @lataco.bsky.social · 1d

DAILY MEMO: Another ICE Detention Death and A Woman is Saved From ICE By Police 🧵 2 parts

If you appreciate reporting like this, please consider becoming a member of L.A. TACO, buying some merch, or dropping a dime in our fundraiser so we can continue to bring you this news.
@eltragon.bsky.social

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Californians for Electric Rail @calelectricrail.org · 2d

This one highway is projected to cost 85% of what CA has spent on high-speed rail over 15 years and hundreds of miles. If we can afford this, we can afford high-speed rail.

Alfred Twu @alfredtwu.com · 3d

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 · 3d

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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Cyrus Hall @cyrushall.bsky.social · 1d

And we should trust you because...? You're a nameless person whose account does nothing but shill for hydrogen.

Go waste other people's time.

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Cyrus Hall @cyrushall.bsky.social · 1d

🙄

Go waste other's time with your FUD.

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Cyrus Hall @cyrushall.bsky.social · 2d

And yes, clearly 1420 has already passed. Never said otherwise. Your whole approach to this thread has been redirection and distraction every time your claims are countered with evidence. It's classic FUD.

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Cyrus Hall @cyrushall.bsky.social · 2d

History is also full of astroturf groups and phony social media accounts run by marketing firms. 🤷

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Cyrus Hall @cyrushall.bsky.social · 2d

So everyone that opposed SB 1420 is a stooge of the fossil fuel industry (NRDC, Sierra Club, etc), yet the fossil fuel industry supported SB 1420 (SoCal Gas, SDGE, etc)?

Can you make that make sense for me? To not be a gas stooge of you need to support the bill supported by the gas industry? 🤯

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Cyrus Hall @cyrushall.bsky.social · 2d

1) The targets in SB 1420 are targets, not reality. The leg analysis is, however, clear: "Nearly all hydrogen produced for use in California today is the relatively dirty gray variety."

2) Environmental orgs near unanimously opposed SB 1420. The DoE's 4kg/CO2e per 1kg H2 is not accepted as "clean."

Best Fit for Hydrogen’s Future Use. California will likely rely on hydrogen to
decarbonize certain targeted sectors. However, despite decades of active investment and
support across different use cases and technologies, the majority of hydrogen demand in
the state today remains in the form of petroleum refining and ammonia production, and
upwards of 95% of that hydrogen is sourced from fossil fuels. Hydrogen can be used to
decarbonize the power sector, transportation, industry, and buildings, but whether it
should be used in certain cases across each of those sectors (due to considerations of
economics, efficiency, etc.) remains an unsettled debate, and one the ARCHES hub is
meant to help elucidate.

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Cyrus Hall @cyrushall.bsky.social · 2d

It's just me using 15 different clipper cards because BART no longer tells me how much money I have left. /s

This is a really amazing result. 112% of pre-pandemic riders! A result the agencies should really emphasize as showing trust in the systems as we go into election season.

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Cyrus Hall @cyrushall.bsky.social · 2d

What's your source for that? According to industry sources - the sources most likely to overstate that number - green hydrogen was less than 1% of all produced hydrogen in the US in 2023.

Mapped: Global Hydrogen Production by Region - Fuelcellsworks

Explore the global landscape of hydrogen production, with a breakdown of blue and green hydrogen production by region in 2023.

fuelcellsworks.com

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Felipe De La Hoz @felipedlh.bsky.social · 2d

You cannot be fucking serious

SCOOP: Apple Quietly Made ICE Agents a Protected Class

Internal emails show tech giant used anti-hate-speech rules meant for minorities to block an app documenting immigration enforcement.

migrantinsider.com

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Cyrus Hall @cyrushall.bsky.social · 2d

At least they made it a u_int of some seemingly demented, non-standard size?

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Cyrus Hall @cyrushall.bsky.social · 2d

What percentage of hydrogen used in California is green? Feels like this is an important question. 1-2%? How much additional money does green hydrogen cost?

Who puts the most money into hydrogen lobbying in Sacramento? Last I checked, it was SoCal gas.

Hydrogen *is* the fossil fuel industry line.

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Cyrus Hall @cyrushall.bsky.social · 2d

My only takeaway here is that one ignores framing to the peril of their preferred policy.

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