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Aaron 🏗️🚲🌲🏀 @aceckhouse.bsky.social · 4h

these look like they would meet the Oakland standards for being inset

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Aaron 🏗️🚲🌲🏀 @aceckhouse.bsky.social · 4h

(same PD that showed up with a dozen+ squad cars to break up East Bay Bike Party)

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Aaron 🏗️🚲🌲🏀 @aceckhouse.bsky.social · 4h

Walnut Creek

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Aaron 🏗️🚲🌲🏀 @aceckhouse.bsky.social · 7h

Contra Costa

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Aaron 🏗️🚲🌲🏀 @aceckhouse.bsky.social · 10h

they view all bikes/bicyclists with contempt

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Aaron 🏗️🚲🌲🏀 @aceckhouse.bsky.social · 11h

Something deeply satisfying to see (grand) juries emerging as an anti-authoritarian bulwark

There’s a reason the “jury of peers” is one of the oldest, most foundational rights!

Ghostly Bree @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 13h

The fact that they can't get a random sampling of citizens from any city to indict people for interfering with ICE seems more informative than any political poll, tbh

Seth Stern @sethstern.bsky.social · 1d

A federal grand jury declined to indict two people charged with assaulting law enforcement agents outside a suburban Chicago ICE facility, an attorney for one of the defendants said, Megan Crepeau and @benjaminpenn.bsky.social report

news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 13h

if blue state governors and mayors aren't already thinking about the reliability of various police forces nominally under their control, they should start immediately

southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 13h

The situation in America is not great. www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...

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Aaron 🏗️🚲🌲🏀 @aceckhouse.bsky.social · 11h

update: just heard from a friend that his Bay Area suburb's PD is ticketing kids on e-bikes for Bike to School Day

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Aaron 🏗️🚲🌲🏀 @aceckhouse.bsky.social · 12h

the issues isn’t so much whether it’s fair to treat e-bikes & mopeds as different things (sure, absolutely) as whether we can trust police to enforce the distinction without mass harassment of (non white) e-bike riders

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Aaron 🏗️🚲🌲🏀 @aceckhouse.bsky.social · 12h

this is another example of how the fundamentally untrustworthy behavior of American law enforcement constrains policy making

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Aaron 🏗️🚲🌲🏀 @aceckhouse.bsky.social · 12h

Liz Warren has always been on the housing supply side as far as I can tell

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Aaron 🏗️🚲🌲🏀 @aceckhouse.bsky.social · 23h

Mamdani has (with apologies) rizz tho

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Aaron 🏗️🚲🌲🏀 @aceckhouse.bsky.social · 23h

Sonoma is actually one of the more pro-housing corners of the state

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pumpkin spice amb 🎃 @amb.fyi · 23h

even setting aside whatever it means for the vote on the release of the epstein files, we're at a very grim place if the republicans are straight up refusing to seat people democratically elected to congress

Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 23h

Today marks yet another day that Speaker Mike Johnson has denied Adelita Grijalva her right to govern.

She won her special election on Sept 23rd but has yet to be sworn in.

Why? Because she will become the 218th vote needed to discharge the release of the Epstein files.

Say her name.

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Aaron 🏗️🚲🌲🏀 @aceckhouse.bsky.social · 1d

Disempowering NIMBYs makes for better public process, and it’s always an available choice

East Bay for Everyone @eastbayforeveryone.bsky.social · 1d

Ultimately the crowd was a lot less hostile than they would have been in previous years because there's nothing they can do to stop the proposal

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Aaron 🏗️🚲🌲🏀 @aceckhouse.bsky.social · 1d

Who benefits from kicking people like this out of our country? Nobody

The whole community is poorer for it

Struggle for citizenship

Sandra and Sergio Garcia were well-known in Waco by the early 2000s, raising a family, running a thriving business and staying active in church life at St. Francis on the Brazos.

But to the United States government, the couple were still undocumented immigrants.

Garcia said he and his wife have spent more than 25 years trying to obtain legal status, hiring immigration attorneys in Austin, Houston, San Antonio and Florida most recently.

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Felipe De La Hoz @felipedlh.bsky.social · 1d

These guys are often in plainclothes but at least they usually have visible badges. I did not see a single badge visible among any of these guys. They are literally indistinguishable from any random guy off the street

Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 3d

This is how ICE detains individuals without any warrants, even in the presence of a lawyer making requests.

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Aaron 🏗️🚲🌲🏀 @aceckhouse.bsky.social · 2d

seems like you really oughta be able to build at least 60 units/acre

maybe even 60 ft!

Aaron 🏗️🚲🌲🏀 @aceckhouse.bsky.social · 2d

for example, this stretch of Sausal Creek is a huge length of bike/ped obstruction

but it's anchored by an existing public park at one end, and multiple big institutional land owners at the other

and the undeveloped/green area is quite wide!

google satellite view of Sausal Creek below William Wood Park in Oakland

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Gillian Brockell @gbrockell.bsky.social · 2d

Claim: 10 cars rammed ICE
Truth: No cars rammed ICE

Claim: She boxed ICE in
Truth: ICE boxed her in

Claim: She shot a rifle at ICE
Truth: She did not have a rifle

Claim: ICE returned fire
Truth: Only ICE fired

Claim: She drove herself to the hospital
Truth: Paramedics found her

Chicago Sun-Times @chicago.suntimes.com · 2d

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government’s claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed.
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Attorney for woman shot by Border Patrol claims officer said 'Do something b-----' before shooting

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government's claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed. A judge ordered Martinez and a co-defendant released pending trial.

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Aaron 🏗️🚲🌲🏀 @aceckhouse.bsky.social · 2d

I have unlocked a new scrolling activity: looking on Google Maps for greenway routing opportunities along Sausal, Courtland, and Arroyo Viejo creeks

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Aaron 🏗️🚲🌲🏀 @aceckhouse.bsky.social · 2d

o7

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Jonathan Eby @jonathaneby.bsky.social · 3d

Yeah defund and dismantle ICE. We can have some sort of border enforcement agency but this institution needs to be completely dismantled. No one working there should be working in government.

Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 4d

A WILD ONE: A man broke his leg during an arrest by ICE at a car wash south of L.A.

ICE has held him under 24/7 guard at a hospital, registering him under a pseudonym, for *37 days* without telling him why.

A judge has ordered his immediate release.

storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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Aaron 🏗️🚲🌲🏀 @aceckhouse.bsky.social · 4d

this is great

Aaron 🏗️🚲🌲🏀 @aceckhouse.bsky.social · 5d

have you called Governor Newsom yet for SB 79?

Jordan Grimes @cafedujord.bsky.social · 5d

@gavinnewsom.bsky.social on #SB79 just now in his Twitch conversation with @connoreatspants.bsky.social: "It’s on my desk & I will be reviewing it on its merits. It’s really important housing legislation, and I recognize how important it is."

Folks: keep calling + urging him to sign! (916) 445-2841

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