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A driver just brazenly hit a kid’s bike while he was in a crosswalk, and still didn’t stop. This is at MLK and Virginia in Berkeley, a known to be dangerous intersection. Virginia is one of our Bike Boulevard’s, the city installed an RRFB here, but drivers still don’t stop for people crossing.

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“You see, Billy, your mom died because she couldn’t go to work during chemo and Republicans cut off her Medicaid before her cancer was cured. But Peter Thiel has a shiny new tax-free contract to mine your personal data, so that’s good.”

submitted 10 hours ago • 5 comments

Meanwhile MTC/Caltrans are trying to make the case that the bridge can structurally handle moving the zipper barrier back & forth on the upper deck multiple times every week in order to close the bike/walk trail to create a breakdown shoulder. www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/e...

submitted 2 days ago • 4 comments

40% of Donald Trump’s entire net worth has been made since he took office in January. What else can you call that, if not corruption?

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Let's be clear: When the press talks about how "Trump is doing outrageous thing X" without any pushback or expressions of outrage, it means "from Republicans." Republicans in Congress have completely abandoned all morals and commitment to the Constitution. It has become the anti-republic party.

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This week the cities of Danville, San Ramon, & Dublin ticketed dozens of "unsafe" youth ebike riders in a crackdown effort. Meanwhile, these cities have each built zero protected bikeway projects to date, ten years after they were legalized in California. www.youtube.com/watch?v=2lmG...

submitted 13 days ago • 6 comments

How about some basic rules? --All law enforcement officers should wear identification --No law enforcement officers should be allowed masks --All law enforcement officers should wear and use body cams ...oh and... --All law enforcement officers should understand, respect & follow the law

submitted 25 days ago • 911 comments

"Masked security forces captured an opposition leader in the coastal province of New Jersey as regime officials continue their months-long crack-down against pro-democracy elements in the embattled United States. The arrest comes as the regime issued calls for summary detentions without trial."

submitted 26 days ago • 631 comments

Your School House Rock moment......

submitted 29 days ago • 601 comments

YES

submitted 31 days ago • 1 comment

Jamie Dimon says the best case scenario for the US is now a recession. Cool, cool. From the best economy in the world to a self-inflicted recession in 4 months. Gotta be some kind of record.

submitted 36 days ago • 983 comments

Francisco shares: I've worked 20+ yrs at the Muranaka Co. under a UFW contract harvesting parsley, cilantro, leeks & radishes. Having a contract means we get pensions, holidays, bonuses + we can speak up. It's a huge difference from working for a labor contractor. #WeFeedYou

submitted 44 days ago • 11 comments

If the Constitution is meaningless and can be unilaterally defied, then there is nothing legally stopping California, Oregon, Washington, and Hawaii from ignoring all federal directives or even leaving the Union.

submitted 51 days ago • 1 comment

One minute Trump had us assembling iPhones and building robots, and now that’s off and he wants us to be coal miners instead.

submitted 52 days ago • 315 comments

"Move fast and break things" is "haste makes waste" restated as an objective.

submitted 59 days ago • 24 comments

Nonprofits known as 527s can raise unlimited sums for political spending. As a reminder, we've got a database that allows journalists, researchers and others to more easily search these organizations’ finances:

submitted 63 days ago • 8 comments

Who can build a US Oligarchs tracker? 1) current location; 2) all corporate masks to hide wealth; 3) holdings of investments and real estate; 4) current transactions of investments and real estate; 5) political contributions US and abroad. What else? I need and desire such a tool

submitted 85 days ago • 0 comments

Since it apparently needs to be said: As a Jew who works on a university campus, I am safest in a country that protects academic freedom and liberal values of due process of law. Anyone who supports extrajudicial detention of students for "wrong" ideological opinions is not doing it for my safety.

submitted 86 days ago • 32 comments

Tesla just announced that sales fell in Q4, and its shares dropped ~4%. Nota bene ⤵️

submitted 126 days ago • 17 comments

BREAKING: young Angelenos who fled wildfires are occupying the Phillips 66 facility demanding oil & gas companies pay to rebuild LA. These companies make climate change worse while raking in TRILLIONS of $$ each year. They profit while we lose our homes. That must end.

submitted 139 days ago • 4 comments

AOC is the best

submitted 147 days ago • 393 comments

This is a key defining attribute of the far right globally (Johnson absolutely is that). They loathe historians, actual history, archives, libraries and books, but they value the immense rhetorical power that history can possess for the public, so they pervert history, lie and obfuscate

submitted 148 days ago • 1 comment

www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/arti...

submitted 149 days ago • 0 comments

I am enraged at the rewriting of the history of Jan. 6, 2021. It was a savage, unforgivable attack on democracy & the lives of specific police officers, who did their duty with courage & personal sacrifice. To soothe one weak ego the entire GOP repeats a lie. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

submitted 149 days ago • 0 comments

For all of his dystopian rhetoric, by many traditional metrics, the America that Trump will inherit from Biden is actually in better shape than that bequeathed to any newly elected president since Bush came into office in 2001. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/05/u...

submitted 150 days ago • 741 comments

Democracy dies in DOD contracts... www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

submitted 150 days ago • 28 comments

Hahahahahahaaahahahahahaahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahha

submitted 151 days ago • 86 comments

good sources of news from Ukraine

submitted 150 days ago • 13 comments

I’ve felt this for decades. #stockholmsyndrome #unsustainable #roadrage

submitted 156 days ago • 0 comments

I'm not asking full-time motorists to bike. I'm demanding cities equitably use tax dollars to build high-quality mobility options for those who can't or don't want to drive. If people ditch their cars later, great, but this is about giving real choices, not mandates.

submitted 158 days ago • 15 comments

Socialism for motorists. Thoughts and prayers for everyone else.

submitted 162 days ago • 4 comments

🤣😂 if the MAGA Messiah hates it, I'm all for it!

submitted 163 days ago • 8 comments

Trump wants us to talk about Greenland and Panama, but what if this is actually more important?

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submitted 166 days ago • 117 comments

PERFECT.

submitted 166 days ago • 59 comments

Vaccines are why 1 of every 4 of us didn't die in infancy. Fluoride is why most of us keep our teeth into old age. The ACA is why 21 million of us can see a doctor. The FDIC is why we don't lose our life savings. And a handful of GOP billionaires want to take it all away.

submitted 173 days ago • 80 comments

Women can't talk rape online without guys chiming in with #NotAllMen. This guys says "Well, actually, yeah, all men."

submitted 180 days ago • 2 comments

Musk explains his X algorithm

submitted 181 days ago • 624 comments

Reading the pardon coverage...I don't think the significance of the Gaetz/Patel/Bondi nominations has sunk in. People still aren't getting what a politicized DOJ and FBI, with the power to arrest/bug/harass anyone for any reason, would be able to do.

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