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A Boo!-zen Eggs (Parody Account) @adozeneggs.bsky.social · 34m

"AI is the asbestos we are shoveling into the walls of our society and our descendants will be digging it out for generations" - Cory Doctorow

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Harry Underwood @blackgaynerd.com · 1h

Beautifully sobering last paragraph:

Jarrett Walker @humantransit.bsky.social · 1d

California legalizes life near public transit! Governor Newsom has signed SB 79. My thoughts: humantransit.org/2025/10/cali...

California Legalizes Life Near Public Transit — Human Transit

OK, the headline is a little exaggerated, but California’s Senate Bill 79, authored by Senator Scott Wiener and just signed by Governor Newsom, is a game-changer. It prohibits most cities from forbid...

humantransit.org

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Dr Grace Peng @gspeng.bsky.social · 15h

I really like this pop art meets street art mural on the side of Dog Lovers. 57th/Crenshaw. There's a lot to look at.

Store wall seen from the side parking lot. Portraits of half faces of several people. Some facsimiles of generalized commercial painted signs. You have to see it bc different parts leap out every time you look

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Dr Grace Peng @gspeng.bsky.social · 15h

Slauson/Crenshaw (US Bank): composite portraits of real people from the neighborhood nominated to represent them. People who contributed to the life and culture of South LA. Starting newspapers, schools, etc

Woman's head and shoulders looking directly at viewer. She has a large gray afro, black shirt, dark lips in a Mona Lisa smile, silver earrings. African symbols and textiles in the background

Another African American woman looks slightly downward towards the viewer through the spines of an actual agave plant. More symbols over patchwork colors behind her

A black man with braids and a beard and narrow mustache. Diamond earring. He looks off to the side. Nipsey Hussle RIP

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Dr Grace Peng @gspeng.bsky.social · 16h

Next, we scouted out a mural tour of the Crenshaw Corridor that I was asked to lead. We found all the murals I read about and some new ones, too.
We saw the ones east of Crenshaw northbound, then the west ones southbound.
59th St/Crenshaw: Paul Williams, architect of LAX

Woman standing on sidewalk in front of mural of a black man in a blue suit surrounded by architectural tools and some of his notable projects. Panoramic view captured a man exiting a parked car with crutches

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Dr Grace Peng @gspeng.bsky.social · 16h

First, we got off at Fairview Heights station and rode the newly built rails to trails project. The bioswales with pollinator plants are great

A rail corridor with warehouses on the right and residential area on the left. The railway was replaced with a 2-way bike path, a bioswale of flowering plants, a wide concrete walkway. Shrubs on each edge. Some of the warehouses have graffiti art

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Dr Grace Peng @gspeng.bsky.social · 16h

Went on a transit and bike adventure today with a friend who gets the occasional Friday off when they need to work weekends. 3 bikes on our train

2 ebikes with panniers and crates in the bike section of a Metro LA light rail car

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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 6h

You could call it the Humpty Dumpty playbook for the permanent destruction of democracy.

Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 6h

They know they won't be in power forever. So, they're breaking as much as they can right now, in the hope that whoever follows them won't be able to put it all back together.

Lena Sun @lenasun.bsky.social · 8h

NEW: @CDCgov hit hard by massive firings that several staff describe to me as a “bloodbath.”
Among those RIFd:
—leadership of the center for immunization and respiratory diseases;
—leadership of global health center
—leadership of the measles outbreak response; 1/4

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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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Alex @mplsalex.bsky.social · 22h

I dunno, feels like reaching the “hiding your neighbors from the masked secret police” stage of things in like 9 months doesn’t bode well for the next couple of years.

Sophie Sherry @sophiesherry.bsky.social · 1d

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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Dr Grace Peng @gspeng.bsky.social · 15h

We rode the train back to Redondo Beach and I biked to my Dr's office in Torrance minutes before she closed.
The K line train and my ebike lets me access so much of LA without a car.
Scouting trip was successful and I will draw a map for the tour.

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Dr Grace Peng @gspeng.bsky.social · 15h

Time flew as we enjoyed sweet potato pie and peach cobbler. We biked past the Crenshaw Wall, a block of murals. Another day. We briefly looked at the Nipsey Hussle mural on the side of Fat Burger. Then we walked across Crenshaw to Hyde Park station, with homage to Nipsey

Man in white shirt and dark shorts standing on train platform with a pink semicircular sticker showing an airplane by his foot. A pillar behind him sports a black and white photo of Nipsey Hussle

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Dr Grace Peng @gspeng.bsky.social · 15h

We were ready for a cold drink and dessert. Mr Dulan unlocked the back gate to store our bicycles. Inside, he greets customers under the watchful eyes of a photograph of his parents who started the restaurant 50 years ago

Man with white shirt and navy shorts leaning towards diners sitting at a table

Wall painted aqua on the bottom, checkerboard tans on top. Photo portrait of an African American man and woman look down upon the dining room

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Dr Grace Peng @gspeng.bsky.social · 15h

On the way to Crenshaw Wall at 50th St, we ran into Mr Dulan of Dulan's Soul Food. He proudly showed us the mural he commissioned. He wanted to show positive images of black manhood and families. He's standing in front of a man in a Dodger's hat reading an Octavia Butler novel. Watts towers

Man in white shirt and navy shorts standing in front of mural. To his left, a woman braids a child's hair. The child braids a doll's hair

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Dr Grace Peng @gspeng.bsky.social · 15h

You can see Sankofa Park rising up at the triangle where Leimert meets Crenshaw
destinationcrenshaw.la/vision/

Looking from across the street to see above construction fencing. Bronze ribbon rising several stories high. Will surround a future outdoor amphitheater for musical performances

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Dr Grace Peng @gspeng.bsky.social · 15h

An apartment building on Crenshaw south of Stocker appears to be incomplete. It's called Elixir. Right now, it's a single woman's head surrounded with roses. I didn't get a picture

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Dr Grace Peng @gspeng.bsky.social · 15h

We biked north through Leimert Park neighborhood to Stocker. The single family home streets had mature jacarandas forming a green arch. This must be spectacular jacaranda flower season. Beautiful houses (with ADU construction signs). Small apt bldgs along Stocker.

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Dr Grace Peng @gspeng.bsky.social · 15h

We turned right at Vernon and went a block east to 11th Ave to see the tallest mural in the area on Good Shepherd Manor, an apartment building. This is a stunner

10 story tall painting of a Black Madonna and child. Mostly monotone grays. Partial Circle/halo around child in warm yellow/orange/red/gold. The halo glows

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Dr Grace Peng @gspeng.bsky.social · 15h

I really like this pop art meets street art mural on the side of Dog Lovers. 57th/Crenshaw. There's a lot to look at.

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Dr Grace Peng @gspeng.bsky.social · 15h

Slauson/Crenshaw (US Bank): composite portraits of real people from the neighborhood nominated to represent them. People who contributed to the life and culture of South LA. Starting newspapers, schools, etc

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Dr Grace Peng @gspeng.bsky.social · 16h

Next, we scouted out a mural tour of the Crenshaw Corridor that I was asked to lead. We found all the murals I read about and some new ones, too.
We saw the ones east of Crenshaw northbound, then the west ones southbound.
59th St/Crenshaw: Paul Williams, architect of LAX

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Dr Grace Peng @gspeng.bsky.social · 16h

We turned back to the pleasant narrow part. The 5.5 mi rail to trails project ended up costing $130 M. But it feels very Cadillac infrastructure We cobbled together transportation, stormwater management, parks & environmental cleanup funds to pull this off.
www.metro.net/rail-to-rail/

Another view along corridor. sidewalk on right with pedestrian stencil, narrow bioswale, 2-way bike path, shrubbery and graffiti on warehouse wall. Pole in bioswale with green bike route sign

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Dr Grace Peng @gspeng.bsky.social · 16h

When we got to the part next to Slauson, it got wider, but less pleasant. Traffic noise, exhaust and more intersections with traffic lights. But the bioswales are wider. More runoff from wider road. The curbs are broken periodically to allow water to flow into the bioswales.

Green wall with plants held up with supports on the left edge of a 2-way asphalt bike path. A concrete sidewalk is to the right of the bike path. A wide bioswale shaped like a V to the right between the sidewalk and roadway

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Dr Grace Peng @gspeng.bsky.social · 16h

At least every 1/4 mile, there is an access point to the linear park. Standing outside one of the access gates in a residential cul de sac, we were able to get photos

Woman in blue shirt and gray sun protection sleeves standing in front of a warehouse wall with aesthetically appealing graffiti. Bioswales in the foreground

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Dr Grace Peng @gspeng.bsky.social · 16h

First, we got off at Fairview Heights station and rode the newly built rails to trails project. The bioswales with pollinator plants are great

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