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suburban urbanist, cargo pants aficionado, UAW member, Georgist, YIMBY socialist, geoscientist, Inland Empire respecter, hydrogen hater, 🔰🚰🌹 they/them
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75% of VMT is from trips longer than 10 miles. California needs to rapidly expand electrified regional and intercity rail to meet our climate goals. We need commitments today, not vague promises and hydrogen pilots, and real reform to speed up the delivery of rail projects.
I think entirely too much about how California’s climate plan explicitly says that converting to EVs is not nearly enough to meet our greenhouse gas reduction targets so we need to reduce VMT 25% by 2030, and then we do basically nothing to try to achieve that goal
November 22, 2025 at 3:03 AM
75% of VMT is from trips longer than 10 miles. California needs to rapidly expand electrified regional and intercity rail to meet our climate goals. We need commitments today, not vague promises and hydrogen pilots, and real reform to speed up the delivery of rail projects.
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According to his lawyers, Carlos Jimenez had attempted to warn agents of the presence of school children at a nearby bus stop in his community when he was shot by federal agents.
The latest update: lataco.com/ontario-man-...
By Aisha Wallace-Palomares and @eltragon.bsky.social
The latest update: lataco.com/ontario-man-...
By Aisha Wallace-Palomares and @eltragon.bsky.social
November 22, 2025 at 1:38 AM
According to his lawyers, Carlos Jimenez had attempted to warn agents of the presence of school children at a nearby bus stop in his community when he was shot by federal agents.
The latest update: lataco.com/ontario-man-...
By Aisha Wallace-Palomares and @eltragon.bsky.social
The latest update: lataco.com/ontario-man-...
By Aisha Wallace-Palomares and @eltragon.bsky.social
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It's painful to read plans from a century ago that perfectly formulate how to build a world class transit system yet today we still need years of redundant studies to even build a bus lane
November 22, 2025 at 12:36 AM
It's painful to read plans from a century ago that perfectly formulate how to build a world class transit system yet today we still need years of redundant studies to even build a bus lane
One factor behind the alleged preference for suburban living is people psychologically underestimate transport costs relative to rent. Rent is a big ticket item that comes all at once, while the cost of driving comes in dribs and drabs. If you're bad at budgeting, it's easier to ignore.
November 22, 2025 at 12:37 AM
One factor behind the alleged preference for suburban living is people psychologically underestimate transport costs relative to rent. Rent is a big ticket item that comes all at once, while the cost of driving comes in dribs and drabs. If you're bad at budgeting, it's easier to ignore.
As always, the synthesis here is rentier capitalism. Capitalists would rather be feudal lords, extracting rents via regulatory capture, state-guarenteed monopolies, and asset ownership than compete in a free market system using workers who might get uppity.
newleftreview.org/issues/ii129...
newleftreview.org/issues/ii129...
November 21, 2025 at 8:04 PM
As always, the synthesis here is rentier capitalism. Capitalists would rather be feudal lords, extracting rents via regulatory capture, state-guarenteed monopolies, and asset ownership than compete in a free market system using workers who might get uppity.
newleftreview.org/issues/ii129...
newleftreview.org/issues/ii129...
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For a fun GIS project I mapped the highest transit mode share census tract in every state to examine transit dependent neighborhoods across the country, particularly in less urban states. The national peak tract map is below with individual maps in this thread from highest to lowest.
November 20, 2025 at 8:51 PM
For a fun GIS project I mapped the highest transit mode share census tract in every state to examine transit dependent neighborhoods across the country, particularly in less urban states. The national peak tract map is below with individual maps in this thread from highest to lowest.
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CA's peak transit tract is also the highest density tract in this list. Part of Westlake, the densest neighborhood in LA after K-Town, it is largely Latino with an abundance of street vendors. Only a 5-min train ride from DTLA, its interminable poverty shows the paltry appeal of LA's historic core
November 20, 2025 at 8:51 PM
CA's peak transit tract is also the highest density tract in this list. Part of Westlake, the densest neighborhood in LA after K-Town, it is largely Latino with an abundance of street vendors. Only a 5-min train ride from DTLA, its interminable poverty shows the paltry appeal of LA's historic core
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The thing with car culture is that you create a social model where every human being is, by default, disabled and cannot meet their daily needs without a mobility device. People have a relationship to their car more akin to a wheelchair than to a train. That's a problem.
November 21, 2025 at 12:36 PM
The thing with car culture is that you create a social model where every human being is, by default, disabled and cannot meet their daily needs without a mobility device. People have a relationship to their car more akin to a wheelchair than to a train. That's a problem.
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We’ve 100% lost the war on using phones while driving and it’s the worst.
November 21, 2025 at 1:53 PM
We’ve 100% lost the war on using phones while driving and it’s the worst.
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A ballroom legend, an aspiring model and a young athlete: Some of the trans people lost to violence and suicide this year
A ballroom legend, an aspiring model and a student athlete: These are some of the trans people lost to violence and suicide in the past year | CNN
On a cool November night in 1999, dozens of transgender people and their friends stood thousands of miles apart in Boston and San Francisco. They lit slender candles and spoke into the surrounding dar...
www.cnn.com
November 20, 2025 at 2:49 PM
A ballroom legend, an aspiring model and a young athlete: Some of the trans people lost to violence and suicide this year
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its the same violence visited upon women with buzzed hair, men who want to paint their nails, women who want an abortion, men who have never cared for sports, women who value education and career over family. same violence, different form
November 20, 2025 at 6:15 PM
its the same violence visited upon women with buzzed hair, men who want to paint their nails, women who want an abortion, men who have never cared for sports, women who value education and career over family. same violence, different form
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i know im preaching to the choir here but yall know the violence done to trans women specifically is demonstrative, theyre making an example out of us to keep everyone in line, right ? theyre saying "this is what will happen to you if you break our gender rules"
November 20, 2025 at 6:11 PM
i know im preaching to the choir here but yall know the violence done to trans women specifically is demonstrative, theyre making an example out of us to keep everyone in line, right ? theyre saying "this is what will happen to you if you break our gender rules"
They put me on Adderall at age 8 and now I'm addicted to microblogging, these drugs are out of control
trying to start a moral panic and the stories are all like “the ADHD meds really helped but didn’t solve everything”
November 20, 2025 at 6:29 PM
They put me on Adderall at age 8 and now I'm addicted to microblogging, these drugs are out of control
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Starbucks can end this today: bargain in good faith, resolve unfair labor practices, and stop the union-busting.
Until then, workers are holding the line! #NoCoffeeNoContract
Until then, workers are holding the line! #NoCoffeeNoContract
November 19, 2025 at 6:32 PM
Starbucks can end this today: bargain in good faith, resolve unfair labor practices, and stop the union-busting.
Until then, workers are holding the line! #NoCoffeeNoContract
Until then, workers are holding the line! #NoCoffeeNoContract
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As high-speed rail erodes airfares, China’s airlines are stuck in overcapacity
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As high-speed rail erodes airfares, China’s airlines are stuck in overcapacity
Flight loads have surpassed pre-pandemic levels on high-density routes, but China’s carriers are still struggling to balance their books.
sc.mp
November 20, 2025 at 5:49 AM
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Workers from @sbworkersunited.org put their bodies on the line today, shutting down Starbucks' distribution center in York, PA, the largest in the US
Stand in solidarity with these working-class heroes, DON'T BUY STARBUCKS ANYWHERE UNTIL THEY WIN THEIR STRIKE
Stand in solidarity with these working-class heroes, DON'T BUY STARBUCKS ANYWHERE UNTIL THEY WIN THEIR STRIKE
November 19, 2025 at 11:21 PM
Workers from @sbworkersunited.org put their bodies on the line today, shutting down Starbucks' distribution center in York, PA, the largest in the US
Stand in solidarity with these working-class heroes, DON'T BUY STARBUCKS ANYWHERE UNTIL THEY WIN THEIR STRIKE
Stand in solidarity with these working-class heroes, DON'T BUY STARBUCKS ANYWHERE UNTIL THEY WIN THEIR STRIKE
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This was published in '24, "95.80 percent of total residential land area in California is zoned as single-family-only."
Single-Family Zoning in California: A Statewide Analysis | Othering & Belonging Institute share.google/tkSh5H0mxOex...
Single-Family Zoning in California: A Statewide Analysis | Othering & Belonging Institute share.google/tkSh5H0mxOex...
Single-Family Zoning in California: A Statewide Analysis
This report culminates a six-year investigation into restrictive land-use policies in California — namely single-family residential zoning — and their ramifications for racial residential segregation,...
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November 19, 2025 at 6:55 PM
This was published in '24, "95.80 percent of total residential land area in California is zoned as single-family-only."
Single-Family Zoning in California: A Statewide Analysis | Othering & Belonging Institute share.google/tkSh5H0mxOex...
Single-Family Zoning in California: A Statewide Analysis | Othering & Belonging Institute share.google/tkSh5H0mxOex...
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It's a solid post on its own, but the photo will live in my nightmares for some time. That's education, transit, healthcare, and a number of other services, being eaten by Howard Jarvis.
In the ideal world, California's public revenues would be a more balanced three-legged stool of
- income tax
- sales tax
- property tax
But unfortunately the third leg of the stool was eaten by mad selfish voters in 1978
- income tax
- sales tax
- property tax
But unfortunately the third leg of the stool was eaten by mad selfish voters in 1978
November 19, 2025 at 9:44 PM
It's a solid post on its own, but the photo will live in my nightmares for some time. That's education, transit, healthcare, and a number of other services, being eaten by Howard Jarvis.
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Almost half the Waymos on California streets are driving around empty. They're either waiting for the next customer or en route for a pickup.
If robotaxis scale, anything close to that level of deadheading would create crushing gridlock.
www.thedriverlessdigest.com/p/what-cpuc-...
If robotaxis scale, anything close to that level of deadheading would create crushing gridlock.
www.thedriverlessdigest.com/p/what-cpuc-...
November 19, 2025 at 7:14 PM
Almost half the Waymos on California streets are driving around empty. They're either waiting for the next customer or en route for a pickup.
If robotaxis scale, anything close to that level of deadheading would create crushing gridlock.
www.thedriverlessdigest.com/p/what-cpuc-...
If robotaxis scale, anything close to that level of deadheading would create crushing gridlock.
www.thedriverlessdigest.com/p/what-cpuc-...
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Ottumwa, Iowa
Pop: 24,121
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ottumwa,_Iowa
Images: https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=74116376
https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=48610473
https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=31403896
Pop: 24,121
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ottumwa,_Iowa
Images: https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=74116376
https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=48610473
https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=31403896
November 19, 2025 at 6:21 PM
Phasing out fossil fuels:
- ensures long term economic & political stability by reducing climate change
- provides lower costs & energy independence
- structurally disempowers right-wing, anti-democratic interests domestically and abroad.
Suggesting Dems do otherwise is wrecker behavior
- ensures long term economic & political stability by reducing climate change
- provides lower costs & energy independence
- structurally disempowers right-wing, anti-democratic interests domestically and abroad.
Suggesting Dems do otherwise is wrecker behavior
they are trying to build a consensus to keep a future democratic majority (potentially a trifecta in 2029) from absorbing the capital costs of building out renewables
November 19, 2025 at 6:13 PM
Phasing out fossil fuels:
- ensures long term economic & political stability by reducing climate change
- provides lower costs & energy independence
- structurally disempowers right-wing, anti-democratic interests domestically and abroad.
Suggesting Dems do otherwise is wrecker behavior
- ensures long term economic & political stability by reducing climate change
- provides lower costs & energy independence
- structurally disempowers right-wing, anti-democratic interests domestically and abroad.
Suggesting Dems do otherwise is wrecker behavior
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Climate change is a kitchen table issue. For most people a home is their largest investment, when climate change depresses their property values or makes their home uninsurable, it's a huge economic hit.
Rising Home Insurance Premiums Are Eating Into Home Values in Disaster-Prone Areas
Changes in the insurance market have started to affect home prices in the most disaster-prone areas, new research finds, pushing some homeowners’ finances to the breaking point.
www.nytimes.com
November 19, 2025 at 5:29 PM
Climate change is a kitchen table issue. For most people a home is their largest investment, when climate change depresses their property values or makes their home uninsurable, it's a huge economic hit.
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oh you tell me a biased set of "experts" refuting mainstream consensus released a government pseudo-study claiming a form of science is "junk"?
sounds like the anti-trans movement using the climate denial playbook to me!
sounds like the anti-trans movement using the climate denial playbook to me!
November 19, 2025 at 4:45 PM
oh you tell me a biased set of "experts" refuting mainstream consensus released a government pseudo-study claiming a form of science is "junk"?
sounds like the anti-trans movement using the climate denial playbook to me!
sounds like the anti-trans movement using the climate denial playbook to me!
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WE JUST KEEP WINNING. (UC President's Postdoctoral Fellowship Program RESTORED!!!!)
![On official UC letterhead:
UNIVERSITY
OF
CALIFORNIA
James B. Milliken President
Office of the President
1111 Franklin Street Oakland, CA 94607
universityofcalifornia.edu
CAMPUSES Berkeley
Davis
Irvine
UCLA
Merced
Riverside San Diego San Francisco
Santa Barbara Santa Cruz
MEDICAL CENTERS
Davis
Irvine
UCLA
San Diego
San Francisco
NATIONAL LABORATORIES Lawrence Berkeley Lawrence Livermore Los Alamos
DIVISION OF AGRICULTURE AND NATURAL RESOURCES
November 18, 2025
Dear Chancellors:
I'm writing with regard to the President's Postdoctoral Fellowship Program (PPFP) and the program's associated faculty hiring incentive.
As you know, for more than 40 years, PPFP has provided postdoctoral research fellowships, professional development, and faculty mentoring to scholars in all fields whose research, teaching, and service advance the academic and research missions of the University of California.
Since 2003, UC campuses that hire current and former PPFP fellows into ladder-rank positions have been eligible for a hiring incentive funded by the University that provides support for newly hired fellows for five years. Since the creation of the incentive, more than $162 million has been invested by the University to support PPFP faculty hires. This commitment has enabled our campuses to successfully recruit and retain outstanding faculty across a range of disciplines.
Given the myriad challenges currently facing UC - including disruptions to billions of dollars in annual federal support, as well as uncertainty around the state budget- reasonable questions were raised in recent months about whether the University could maintain the commitment to current levels of incentive funding. After considering a recommendation to sunset the incentive program due to these significant fiscal constraints, I consulted with all of you as well as faculty and campus academic administrators and systemwide Academic Senate leadership.
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November 18, 2025 at 10:34 PM
WE JUST KEEP WINNING. (UC President's Postdoctoral Fellowship Program RESTORED!!!!)
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Remember: NEVER cross a picket line. Don't buy Starbucks at any location as long as @sbworkersunited.org are on strike! #NoContractNoCoffee
November 18, 2025 at 12:05 AM
Remember: NEVER cross a picket line. Don't buy Starbucks at any location as long as @sbworkersunited.org are on strike! #NoContractNoCoffee