@rzu.bsky.social
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I notice he hasn't been renaming anything after charlie kirk
December 20, 2025 at 1:27 AM
I notice he hasn't been renaming anything after charlie kirk
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if capital can't justify the operating costs of a newspaper in every city over a few hundred thousand people (even though this worked profitably for decades) i think it's up to the federal government to fund them and if red states don't like a bunch of big city libs reporting on them, all the better
"The newspaper industry served as a feeder for our entire news media ecosystem. So when we lose those newspapers, we've lost that journalism. In the early 2000s, we had 40 journalists per 100,000 people. We're now down to 8 journalists per 100,000 people," says @victorpickard.bsky.social.
December 16, 2025 at 7:34 PM
if capital can't justify the operating costs of a newspaper in every city over a few hundred thousand people (even though this worked profitably for decades) i think it's up to the federal government to fund them and if red states don't like a bunch of big city libs reporting on them, all the better
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Any Democrat who lacks the will to tear down the Arc de Trump-Umph on day 1 does not deserve the presidency
Trump: We’re building an arc like the Arc de Triomphe. It will be like the one in Paris but it blows it away.
December 14, 2025 at 7:25 PM
Any Democrat who lacks the will to tear down the Arc de Trump-Umph on day 1 does not deserve the presidency
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As I never tire of reminding people, the two plausible alternatives to automated traffic enforcement are that we either rely on the discretion of individual police officers or we simply don't enforce traffic laws at all. We have been trying both alternatives now and they are failing us.
See also: debates about speed cameras.
There's a problematic reflex among some progressive reformers to move from "conventional criminal legal responses are bad" to something too close to "accountability in general is bad."
I think (as Jamelle argues here) it's rooted in not thinking abt victims.
There's a problematic reflex among some progressive reformers to move from "conventional criminal legal responses are bad" to something too close to "accountability in general is bad."
I think (as Jamelle argues here) it's rooted in not thinking abt victims.
someone tell the California ACLU who is disproportionately more likely to be killed in traffic accidents including those involving people under the influence
December 12, 2025 at 8:47 PM
As I never tire of reminding people, the two plausible alternatives to automated traffic enforcement are that we either rely on the discretion of individual police officers or we simply don't enforce traffic laws at all. We have been trying both alternatives now and they are failing us.
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With three weeks left in the year, Oakland is on track to have among the lowest, if not the lowest, violent crime rate in decades, while it had one of the fewest number of officers in OPD's history.
December 10, 2025 at 5:02 PM
With three weeks left in the year, Oakland is on track to have among the lowest, if not the lowest, violent crime rate in decades, while it had one of the fewest number of officers in OPD's history.
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The fact Bovino is a career civil servant and not a political appointee really shows CBP needs to be abolished root and branch. Let the IRS do customs (seriously).
December 8, 2025 at 3:26 PM
The fact Bovino is a career civil servant and not a political appointee really shows CBP needs to be abolished root and branch. Let the IRS do customs (seriously).
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Think much of the over-parenting we despise stems from the early on fear of the driver.
If parents weren't terrified of our streets kids would have so much more freedom and independence which might get them comfortable with their children's ability to navigate the world without them.
If parents weren't terrified of our streets kids would have so much more freedom and independence which might get them comfortable with their children's ability to navigate the world without them.
December 5, 2025 at 12:09 PM
Think much of the over-parenting we despise stems from the early on fear of the driver.
If parents weren't terrified of our streets kids would have so much more freedom and independence which might get them comfortable with their children's ability to navigate the world without them.
If parents weren't terrified of our streets kids would have so much more freedom and independence which might get them comfortable with their children's ability to navigate the world without them.
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This is obviously total thuggery, but, in my limited capacity as a short-lived former letter carrier for USPS: it is also a completely empty bluff. Fucking good luck to Amazon doing last mile delivery to every address in the US.
Exclusive: Amazon has long been USPS’s top customer, providing over $6 billion in annual revenue in 2025.
But Amazon may give up its long-standing partnership with USPS to deliver packages itself, which could spell disaster for the mail agency.
But Amazon may give up its long-standing partnership with USPS to deliver packages itself, which could spell disaster for the mail agency.
Amazon explores cutting ties with USPS, building its own delivery network
Amazon looks into expanding its nationwide delivery network and giving up its longstanding partnership with the U.S. Postal Service.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 5, 2025 at 4:28 AM
This is obviously total thuggery, but, in my limited capacity as a short-lived former letter carrier for USPS: it is also a completely empty bluff. Fucking good luck to Amazon doing last mile delivery to every address in the US.
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These are good moments to remember that the CEOs of all the biggest companies in America are happy to go to White House dinners and slap this guy’s back. They do not care about this. Remember this, years from now, when they want you to forget.
Trump: "It’s a hellhole right now. And those Somalians should be out of here. They've destroyed our country. And all they do is complain, complain, complain. You have her. She’s always talking about the Constitution provides me with – go back to your own country and figure out your constitution."
December 4, 2025 at 12:13 AM
These are good moments to remember that the CEOs of all the biggest companies in America are happy to go to White House dinners and slap this guy’s back. They do not care about this. Remember this, years from now, when they want you to forget.
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A reminder that “safer than human drivers” is a really low f**king bar w a lot of wiggle room.
Also, AVs are primarily in competition w already safer, more equitable, & more labor-friendly public transit, since the areas where AVs are most profitable are dense urban centers. Stop buying the hype.
Also, AVs are primarily in competition w already safer, more equitable, & more labor-friendly public transit, since the areas where AVs are most profitable are dense urban centers. Stop buying the hype.
Self-driving Waymo cars are suddenly driving way mo like “an aggressive, New York taxi driver.”
www.wsj.com/lifestyle/ca...
www.wsj.com/lifestyle/ca...
Waymo’s Self-Driving Cars Are Suddenly Behaving Like New York Cabbies
Autonomous vehicles are adopting humanlike qualities, making illegal U-turns and flooring it the second the light goes green.
www.wsj.com
December 3, 2025 at 3:50 PM
A reminder that “safer than human drivers” is a really low f**king bar w a lot of wiggle room.
Also, AVs are primarily in competition w already safer, more equitable, & more labor-friendly public transit, since the areas where AVs are most profitable are dense urban centers. Stop buying the hype.
Also, AVs are primarily in competition w already safer, more equitable, & more labor-friendly public transit, since the areas where AVs are most profitable are dense urban centers. Stop buying the hype.
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One problem with AVs that always gets waved away is the timeline: so when does adoption become ubiquitous? 50 years? 100?
Even if they perfect the technology, Tesla & Waymo ain't giving those cars away. Our crappy car-centric infrastructure will be majority-human-driver for the foreseeable future.
Even if they perfect the technology, Tesla & Waymo ain't giving those cars away. Our crappy car-centric infrastructure will be majority-human-driver for the foreseeable future.
“There’s a public health imperative to quickly expand the adoption of autonomous vehicles.”
Would the author say the same about building bike lanes? Installing automatic traffic cameras? Requiring Intelligent Speed Assist?
All of those are proven to save lives — and at a fraction of AVs' cost.
Would the author say the same about building bike lanes? Installing automatic traffic cameras? Requiring Intelligent Speed Assist?
All of those are proven to save lives — and at a fraction of AVs' cost.
Opinion | Don’t Fear Self-Driving Cars. They Save Lives.
www.nytimes.com
December 3, 2025 at 1:05 PM
One problem with AVs that always gets waved away is the timeline: so when does adoption become ubiquitous? 50 years? 100?
Even if they perfect the technology, Tesla & Waymo ain't giving those cars away. Our crappy car-centric infrastructure will be majority-human-driver for the foreseeable future.
Even if they perfect the technology, Tesla & Waymo ain't giving those cars away. Our crappy car-centric infrastructure will be majority-human-driver for the foreseeable future.
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Thank you Oakland City Council for voting unanimously to approve the construction contract for the Lake Merritt Blvd / Lakeside Dr protected bikeways & bus lanes project (yellow line on the map below), starting in 2026!
www.oaklandca.gov/Government/O...
www.oaklandca.gov/Government/O...
December 3, 2025 at 2:19 AM
Thank you Oakland City Council for voting unanimously to approve the construction contract for the Lake Merritt Blvd / Lakeside Dr protected bikeways & bus lanes project (yellow line on the map below), starting in 2026!
www.oaklandca.gov/Government/O...
www.oaklandca.gov/Government/O...
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anyway on the off chance this fucking thing gets finished tearing it down is mandatory
November 30, 2025 at 11:11 PM
anyway on the off chance this fucking thing gets finished tearing it down is mandatory
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Heading into 2026 like this
November 26, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Heading into 2026 like this
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Close Telegraph to cars immediately!
Berkeley voted years ago to close it by rebuilding the street, but it can be closed to cars immediately with plastic posts and signs
Safety can't wait any longer
Berkeley voted years ago to close it by rebuilding the street, but it can be closed to cars immediately with plastic posts and signs
Safety can't wait any longer
BREAKING: A cyclist died Saturday after a crash on Telegraph Avenue near UC Berkeley, authorities report.
Cyclist dead after Telegraph Avenue crash in Berkeley
Berkeley police have now taped off the block for an investigation and called in the Fatal Accident Investigation Team.
www.berkeleyscanner.com
November 16, 2025 at 1:21 AM
Close Telegraph to cars immediately!
Berkeley voted years ago to close it by rebuilding the street, but it can be closed to cars immediately with plastic posts and signs
Safety can't wait any longer
Berkeley voted years ago to close it by rebuilding the street, but it can be closed to cars immediately with plastic posts and signs
Safety can't wait any longer
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Nuzzi's fawning coverage of the sociopathic conspiracy crank she was having an affair with aided his rise to political power, which he is using to perpetrate the worst intentional public health catastrophe of our unnecessarily shortened lifetimes, and THAT is the STORY.
November 15, 2025 at 12:18 PM
Nuzzi's fawning coverage of the sociopathic conspiracy crank she was having an affair with aided his rise to political power, which he is using to perpetrate the worst intentional public health catastrophe of our unnecessarily shortened lifetimes, and THAT is the STORY.
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They’re wearing masks so they can’t be prosecuted later. As long as they think they can’t be prosecuted, their crimes will intensify. They will torture, starve and kill, as they have already, on greater and greater scale.
Signed, someone who’s covered the unaccountable War on Terror for 23 years.
Signed, someone who’s covered the unaccountable War on Terror for 23 years.
I’ve come to believe that we need to gather considerable forces and a campaign to demand the removal of face masks by ICE, Border Patrol, FBI and police.
It is a practice in conflict with the principles of transparency & accountability that are central to the concept of democracy.
It is a practice in conflict with the principles of transparency & accountability that are central to the concept of democracy.
Video on social media shows an immigration agent pulling a gun in Little Village and holding it to the side — which is not an appropriate or safe way to hold a gun. (Among other issues.)
November 9, 2025 at 2:36 PM
They’re wearing masks so they can’t be prosecuted later. As long as they think they can’t be prosecuted, their crimes will intensify. They will torture, starve and kill, as they have already, on greater and greater scale.
Signed, someone who’s covered the unaccountable War on Terror for 23 years.
Signed, someone who’s covered the unaccountable War on Terror for 23 years.
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Third consecutive OPD report listing zero homicides. Oakland is on track to have of its lowest homicide totals in a decades, with one of the lowest numbers of police in decades also. The how/why should be the number one focus of Public Safety Committee discussions and isn't.
November 5, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Third consecutive OPD report listing zero homicides. Oakland is on track to have of its lowest homicide totals in a decades, with one of the lowest numbers of police in decades also. The how/why should be the number one focus of Public Safety Committee discussions and isn't.
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Big-tent folks won't like this but if socialists are going to win that they to teach men like Schumer that there is a political cost to opposing us. No political favors for anyone remotely associated with Cuomo. Lock them out of power.
November 5, 2025 at 2:52 PM
Big-tent folks won't like this but if socialists are going to win that they to teach men like Schumer that there is a political cost to opposing us. No political favors for anyone remotely associated with Cuomo. Lock them out of power.
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this is a reminder that we dont have to settle for newsom in 2028
November 5, 2025 at 2:44 AM
this is a reminder that we dont have to settle for newsom in 2028
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Liberals are going to call this a victory for "wokeness" but when SNAP cuts are followed by a 28 point surge for Dems among the poor the message is unmistakeable, and if you want to win again you'll listen to it.
November 5, 2025 at 1:33 AM
Liberals are going to call this a victory for "wokeness" but when SNAP cuts are followed by a 28 point surge for Dems among the poor the message is unmistakeable, and if you want to win again you'll listen to it.