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The recall against Supervisor Engardio — a superb public servant — isn’t just about the recall or Great Highway. It’s also an attack on SF’s ability to end our severe housing shortage, improve transit & make our streets safer. The recall leader, Aaron Peskin, has morphed it into a NIMBY campaign.

submitted 11 days ago • 2 comments

A leading candidate for New York City mayor wants free local bus fares. But studies have repeatedly shown that any money you spent on that would be more productively spent on better service. 1/ www.cityandstateny.com/politics/202...

submitted 23 hours ago • 17 comments

Not to mention the boundaries of this curfew zone is the most LA/carbrained thing ever.

submitted 8 hours ago • 0 comments

Over at the other side I had a thread with arguments and examples of why ‘free’ public transport is a bad idea. I considered copying it here, but alas no need, as @humantransit.bsky.social explains it brilliantly here 👇🏻

submitted 8 hours ago • 1 comment

once again los angeles has imposed a curfew in an area and made it impossible to leave that area without a car

submitted 10 hours ago • 3 comments

This makes me incandescent with rage @reptedlieu.bsky.social @schiff.senate.gov @padilla.senate.gov We need to see you out there protecting our workers, our communities

submitted 9 hours ago • 1 comment

Hey, I'm in the news www.latimes.com/california/l...

submitted 9 hours ago • 0 comments

JUST IN: Two ballot measures to protect public libraries from the conservative city council in Huntington Beach are both ahead by very wide margins. Measure to repeal a 'book review committee' up 61/39. Measure to bar privatization up 63/37. That's already with 51K+ ballots counted. Context:

submitted 11 hours ago • 26 comments

We feed you. They hunt us.

submitted 9 hours ago • 779 comments

Absolutely begging for some Midwest politicians to seriously grapple with the growing mountain of data showing biofuels have been a disaster for land, water, climate, and rural economies. Some brave soul ready to go beyond the rote boosterism of “Yay corn and soybeans! We’re feeding the world!”

submitted 12 hours ago • 1 comment

If you want to fight fascism, stand in solidarity with disabled people. Wear a mask (ideally N95). Call elected officials and speak out against mask bans, vaccine restrictions & public health cuts. The Nazis started with us because they knew no one would fight for us. Don’t let it happen again.

submitted 10 hours ago • 0 comments

New research from my colleagues out today looking at the environmental and social impacts of food crop-based biofuels in the US, where we now use >30% of the corn supply and >40% of the soybean oil supply (on tens of millions of acres of prime cropland) to produce only ~6% of US transport fuel. 🧪

submitted 14 hours ago • 10 comments

Watching my city's 3rd of 4 budget public meetings. You find out what your city does by following the money. Taking notes for League of Women Voters Observer Corp.

submitted 10 hours ago • 1 comment

Yurok Tribe restores sacred lands and salmon in historic conservation deal #cawater mavensnotebook.com/2025/06/10/m...

submitted 21 hours ago • 0 comments

Amazing how hard it is to write: “Police shoot at journalists.”

submitted 13 hours ago • 74 comments

The Mayor of LA has issued a curfew tonight — not because the citizens are out of control BUT BECAUSE THE PRESIDENT IS.

submitted 13 hours ago • 97 comments

“His goal is to eliminate incentives to develop vaccines.” www.wsj.com/opinion/rfk-...

submitted 14 hours ago • 43 comments

You have no obligation to defend or explain the behavior of random street protesters. We have a lawless government that is flagrantly violating its legal, moral, even philosophical obligations to us. Everything else is secondary

submitted 14 hours ago • 44 comments

It is 100% carrying water for the opposition to participate in this collective delusion that Dems for some reason need to answer for every teen who throws a rock rather than hold the Trump admin accountable for intentionally creating chaos and breaking the law to stoke violence. They are in charge.

submitted 14 hours ago • 435 comments

So all of Downtown Los Angeles is now under curfew from 8pm to 6am. As a resident, I'm somehow exempt though I don't know how I'm supposed to prove it. Despite that, I'm going to get a beer at 8:30 wherever is open because I refuse to modify my life to support Donald Trump and the Republican Party.

submitted 13 hours ago • 16 comments

As of 2 pm, Foothill Transit has again given up on serving the City of Los Angeles, even to Cal State LA miles away from the protests and where summer session is ongoing.

submitted 17 hours ago • 0 comments

Just saw Keri's reel about this and came here to boost. So useful. True service journalism.

submitted 15 hours ago • 2 comments

We’re in questionable legal territory again — CHP has blocked both ends of Commerical between Alameda and Garey adjacent to the 101. No dispersal order or arrests, but there is media stuck in the area they’ve blocked off.

submitted 15 hours ago • 3 comments

Wisest choice for Americans, go anywhere else but DC, en masse & upstage him. Hit him where it hurts. Ratings & news coverage 👍

submitted 15 hours ago • 27 comments

Reading Everything I learned, I learned in a Chinese restaurant by @curtischin.bsky.social and finding out his mom got a bus lane on Cass Ave removed to preserve car parking 😱😡🤮

submitted 15 hours ago • 0 comments

"The time has come to recognize whales not merely as resources but as sentient beings with inherent rights." The rights-of-nature movement is fascinating--and perhaps game-changing. insideclimatenews.org/news/1006202...

submitted 16 hours ago • 0 comments

This is why none of his nominees should have been approved by Dem senators. An absolute abomination.

submitted 3 days ago • 240 comments

The disparity btwn what’s actually happening in Los Angeles and the way it’s being mischaracterized is one of the biggest stress tests of modern media in recent memory. Botted socials, AI, old clips, declining literacy—it’s like seeing a broken emergency response system hit by a storm.

submitted 16 hours ago • 949 comments

All of L.A. is not a ‘war zone.’ We separate facts from spin and disinformation amid immigration raids, protests throughout the city. Latest w/ @karenmg.bsky.social @tarantulaarms.bsky.social www.latimes.com/california/s...

submitted 19 hours ago • 10 comments

Trump, talking at Fort Bragg right now about Los Angeles, is doing something I'm not sure I've ever seen a president do: he's actively maligning people in Los Angeles — an American city — in front of U.S. troops. And the troops are applauding. As an Army brat myself, this strikes me as very new.

submitted 18 hours ago • 402 comments