An under-regulated Waymo will be a disaster for cities just like under-regulated TNCs were. This has been staring us in the face for tears.

There are real safety problems here. But trying to make safety the main/only framing is distracting from the biggest structural risk: an explosion in VMT.

Bus stops all over San Francisco have an ad for some AI company that says "San Francisco has lost a lot of its soul"

And it's honestly the most "hot-dog-suit guy meme" energy ever

BART is planning changes for platform assignments at Daly City that will balance headways and enable more cross platform transfers at Bay Fair and MacArthur.

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I’m in a group chat where basically anytime someone sees Red Rock Island, they post a picture and this fun fact, and I am thrilled to know we’re not alone with this particular bit

'Shocking': More details emerge about pedestrian killed in SF hit-and-run The driver is being accused of murder after he allegedly ran over a pedestrian.

a 74 year old trans woman was murdered in SF. literally run over by an angry man in a big SUV.

www.sfgate.com/bayarea/arti...

Nothing says progress like destroying the coastal park to turn it back into a highway

I've been thinking of it that the NY Post is basically written to be read by (a certain audience of) New Yorkers who have some basic engagement with local reality, while the California Post exists to create content that mocks, embarrasses, or defames California for an audience of non-Californians

what a use of free will

So this is California's air regulator basically giving up on cap-and-invest until the 2030s, at least.

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Tornado warning for parts of Butte and Tehama counties on Hwy 99

the viability of many right-wing intellectuals and intellectual spaces is enormously dependent on the largesse of reactionary billionaires and foreign governments, who help them circumvent a marketplace of ideas where they would otherwise post extraordinarily poor sales

Take Action ASAP for April 15 vote on Hopkins I gather my neighbors to support more housing and better transportation options in my city

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flipping your phone off spaceship mode after landing must be a bummer

the fintwitter account really needs to be banned or at least shunned for imitating a newswire without actually being one

This convective line moving over San Francisco Bay just brought a 1-in-25 year rainfall rate to SFO with 0.26 inches in 5 minutes!

In his petition to Dr. Bhattacharya, Mr. Siri similarly argued that vaccines that blunt illness but do not prevent infection or transmission do not have an impact more broadly on the population, so individuals should be free to choose for themselves whether they wish to be immunized. He included in this category vaccines against polio, tetanus and human papillomavirus or HPV.

I'd like to take a second to explain all the ways that this comment is disqualifying as a marker of legitimate expertise in vaccination. 🧵

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69 Apr 7, 2026 STRICKEN AND IMAGES REMOVED PER COURT'S ENDORSED ORDER 80***NOTICE of Referral to The United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary by Marvelle J. Ballentine. (Attachments: # 1 Exhibit A)(MLB) Modified text on 4/10/2026 (ABM). (Entered: 04/08/2026) Main Doc­ument Notice (Other) Attach­ment 1 Exhibit A 70 Apr 7, 2026 STRICKEN AND IMAGES REMOVED PER COURT'S ENDORSED ORDER 80***NOTICE of Referral to the Department of Justice, Child Exploitation and Obscenity Section by Marvelle J. Ballentine. (Attachments: # 1 Exhibit A)(MLB) Modified text on 4/10/2026 (ABM). (Entered: 04/08/2026) Main Doc­ument Notice (Other) 71 Apr 7, 2026 STRICKEN AND IMAGES REMOVED PER COURT'S ENDORSED ORDER 80***NOTICE of Referral to the Congressional Black Caucus by Marvelle J. Ballentine. (Attachments: # 1 Exhibit A)(MLB) Modified text on 4/10/2026 (ABM). (Entered: 04/08/2026) Main Doc­ument Notice (Other) 72 Apr 7, 2026 STRICKEN AND IMAGES REMOVED PER COURT'S ENDORSED ORDER 80***NOTICE of Referral to the United States House Committee on the Judiciary by Marvelle J. Ballentine. (Attachments: # 1 Exhibit A)(MLB) Modified text on 4/10/2026 (ABM). (Entered: 04/08/2026) Main Doc­ument Notice (Other) 73 Apr 7, 2026 STRICKEN AND IMAGES REMOVED PER COURT'S ENDORSED ORDER 80***NOTICE of Referral to the Federal Trade Commission by Marvelle J. Ballentine. (Attachments: # 1 Exhibit A)(MLB) Modified text on 4/10/2026 (ABM). (Entered: 04/08/2026) Main Doc­ument Notice (Other) 74 Apr 7, 2026 STRICKEN AND IMAGES REMOVED PER COURT'S ENDORSED ORDER 80***NOTICE of Referral to the United States House Committee on Energy and Commerce by Marvelle J. Ballentine. (Attachments: # 1 Exhibit A)(MLB) Modified text on 4/10/2026 (ABM). (Entered: 04/08/2026) Main Doc­ument Notice (Other) 75 Apr 7, 2026 STRICKEN AND IMAGES REMOVED PER COURT'S ENDORSED ORDER 80***NOTICE of Referral to the United States Senate Committee on Commerce, SCience, and Transportation by Marvelle J. Ba…

ENDORSED ORDER to strike 70 Notice filed by Marvelle J. Ballentine, 72 Notice filed by Marvelle J. Ballentine, 69 Notice filed by Marvelle J. Ballentine, 77 Notice filed by Marvelle J. Ballentine, 74 Notice filed by Marvelle J. Ballentine, 76 Notice filed by Marvelle J. Ballentine, 71 Notice filed by Marvelle J. Ballentine, 78 Notice filed by Marvelle J. Ballentine, 75 Notice filed by Marvelle J. Ballentine, 73 Notice filed by Marvelle J. Ballentine. Plaintiff's notices attach correspondence to non-parties and state that no relief is requested. Thus, there is no basis to file such documents on the docket of this case. Plaintiff shall refrain from filing such notices on the docket of this case. The Clerk is directed to delete the documents. Signed by Magistrate Judge Daniel C. Irick on 4/9/2026. (Irick, Daniel) (Entered: 04/09/2026) Main Doc­ument

INTRODUCTION On April 9, 2026, Magistrate Judge Daniel C. Irick entered an endorsed order (Dkt. 80) that strikes ten filed documents (Dkts. 69-78), directs the Clerk to "delete" them from the docket, and directs Plaintiff to "refrain from Case 6:26-cv-00376-AGM-DC Document 89 Filed 04/10/26 Page 2 of 13 PagelD 716 filing such notices on the docket of this case." The order was entered sua sponte. No party moved to strike. The order cites no rule of procedure. It makes no finding of frivolousness, bad faith, or harassment. It provides no prior notice. It affords no opportunity to be heard. It considers no lesser measure. 3. Four grounds support this objection: a) The order cites no procedural rule that authorizes striking non- pleading filings and rests on a legal premise-that filings must request relief-that no authority supports. b) The prospective directive constitutes a filing restriction subject to requirements the Eleventh Circuit has articulated and that the order does not satisfy. c) The deletion directive removes judicial records from the public docket without satisfying the Eleventh Circuit's public-access framework. d) A magistrate judge may lack statutory authority to enter a filing restriction directly under 28 U.S.C. § 636(b)(1)(A). Each ground presents a legal question reviewable de novo.

thought you'd like an update on how this is going: we're now to the "file two new cases in Florida, file a dozen letters to Congress complaining that judges keep ruling against you, and file 18 pages of complaining that your random letters to Congress were struck from the docket" phase of litigation

Put the bollards in the streets not up against the fleets

Debate ensues over Cooley Dickinson lighting in ambulance canopy - Daily Hampshire Gazette Cooley Dickinson Hospital's request to brighten its ambulance canopy lighting were met with public health concerns at a Planning Board meeting last week, with some residents claiming that the lighting is a public safety necessity and others fearing that the hospital lights could lead to breast cancer and other complications.Arguing for a waiver to continue the proposed project before the Planning Board, Cooley Dickinson Executive Director of Operations Kathy Reed explained that the lighting's necessity for patient safety supersedes local zoning ordinances concerning light pollution.Reed, addressing the Planning Board, explained that since the light fixture is directly attached to the hospital, is not near any directly abutting properties or neighbors and is located in a medical zoning district, it is exempt from standard light zoning regulations. "This lighting is essential for safe and effective patient care and has been designed to meet nationally recognized medical institute Illuminating Engineer Society standards. The hospital operates in a medical zoning district where the ordinance does not specifically address ambulance canopy lighting," Reed said. "The zoning requirements for other zones simply do not apply and will not produce a safe enough lighting condition."

There’s NIMBYism and then there’s the “holding planning commission meetings to debate whether having code-required lighting at the entrance to the emergency department will cause cancer” level of completely losing the plot on community outreach

Double exposure of a SF Muni bus and a jet landing at LAX

Double exposure of a Jet and the wheels of a Caltrain train.

turns out, if you accidentally double expose a roll, it's absolutely worth scanning it anyways.
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Love seeing Muni and BART with the highest rail ridership growth in the US.

If we pass @connectbayarea.bsky.social measure, ridership growth will continue.

If we don’t, service will be slashed and ridership will plummet - Bay Area way of life and economy will crumble.

We must pass this measure!

that man went through enough

there's something so profoundly weird about looking at one of humanity's greatest technological achievements while contemplating the utterly senseless use of one of its most destructive

you don't actually have to grant someone anonymity so they can threaten nuclear annihilation. that, in fact, is a perfectly legitimate reason to burn a source

my takeaway from that video of young people in Iran walking around and being totally fucking normal while their government is a bunch of totalitarian lunatics makes me feel exactly how they'd feel if they saw a video of a guy doing that same thing in my neighborhood

San Francisco’s new safety strategy: A crackdown on bikes San Francisco has long treated bike rule-breaking loosely. Now comes a sharp enforcement shift

What a misapplication of resources. Embarrassing stuff from the city, they cannot be bothered to provide safe infrastructure for people outside of cars and now want to focus on punishing them www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/b...

What?

HOLY SHIT

FRINKIAC BUT FOR "30 ROCK"

MILLENNIAL GAME-CHANGER

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When does a judge eventually demand a Westlaw rep show up and explain on the record why their product doesn’t work and what claims they made about its performance?

This guy is responsible for what he filed, but there are real questions for the folks selling the Fraud on the Court Machine too

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