The Federal Transit Administration released its annual report on new transit projects to fund.
The report recommends a total of just $1.2 b for existing & new projects, a massive reduction from previous years. The federal role in funding new transit projects is being decimated.
An illustration styled like an old propaganda poster. A generic white guy in a suit is shaking hands with a generic furry poodling in a white-tank top and leather harness. There is red text reading "SUPPORT YOUR LOCAL FREAK TODAY" between them and "THEY'RE JUST LIKE YOU!" below them.
The City of West Hollywood has formally said that Karen Bass' approach doesn’t work and risks delaying accelerating the entire K Line Northern Extension.
MAYOR BASS STOP PLAYING GAMES WITH THE ENTIRE REGION’S TRANSPORTATION SYSTEM TO APPEASE THE UNAPPEASABLE!
The 2025 federal employee viewpoint survey was a pretty sobering read. Absolutely brutal year for public servants and everyone is feeling it. Thread below and full document here bestplacestowork.org
Mary Fong Lau, the 80 year old woman who killed four people including a baby and a toddler after crashing into a bus stop going 75mph the wrong way down a 25mph street, has been sentenced to probation and will not permanently lose her drivers' license.
This is a despicable miscarriage of justice.
Screenshot from a Berkeleyside article. The visible text reads: Any student, faculty or staff member, or alum can submit a proposal to rename a building, and must explain why they feel the current namesake’s legacy is at odds with university values. (Photo caption: The Cesar E. Chavez Student Center on the UC Berkeley campus. Credit: Ximena Natera for Berkeleyside) Kane said he wasn’t aware of any pending applications to rename the student center. But Reddit commenters had already started a thread Wednesday to suggest possible replacements, including the Dolores Huerta Student Center and, archly, the Men in Power are Dangerous Student Center.
As an alumna, I’m 100% behind renaming it the Men in Power Are Dangerous Student Center.
The FCC is waiving a rule that bars a single company from owning TV stations reaching more than 39% of U.S. households.
Nexstar and Tegna combined would cover ~60%.
Reminder that Nexstar's CEO has praised Trump and quickly pulled Jimmy Kimmel off its stations last fall.
See how this works?
I have nothing but the greatest imaginable level of respect for Dolores Huerta
Yet another way congestion pricing is working — subway ridership is way up!
"Ridership on the biggest US subway system reached 1.28 billion last year, a 7.7% increase from a year earlier... The boost is more than double the 3.7% ridership increase in 2024."
Screenshot of a Vox article header in the Policy section. The headline reads in bold, "The fight over transgender rights in America has entered a new phase." Below it, the subheadline says, "The policy fight is moving well beyond sports and youth medicine. The political response hasn't caught up." The article is by Rachel Cohen Booth and dated March 17, 2026, 6:00 AM EDT.
I am going to become the joker.
We've been screaming from the rooftops that this was never about sports or trans youth healthcare. Instead, we were ignored and browbeaten by a bunch of idiot centrists who took the concerns of people who want us eliminated in good faith.
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Wait, lol what am I looking at?
1. In the most extreme bathroom ban moving in the nation, Idaho's House has passed a bathroom ban with a potential 5 year prison sentence for 2nd offense-using the bathroom.
It even counts "offenses" of using the bathroom in other states.
It now moves to the Senate.
Want to make cities more affordable? You have to make it possible for more people to ditch their cars.
"'This car is the bane of my existence,' said Ms. Greene, 24, who lives in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. 'Probably the worst decision I’ve ever made, like, financially speaking.'"
Dude ruined California
If you asked me to describe the extent of Big Auto’s control over American suburbs, I would keep my mouth shut and show you this photo
🚨 A new frontier of coordinated disinformation.
Fossil fuel industry front groups are using AI platforms to flood clean air regulators with fake public comments—submitted under real residents' names, without their consent.
@robbonta.bsky.social
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Brooke Rollins on farmers: "That $12 billion was an important bridge payment. We don't call it a bailout."
Brooke Rollins: "The American dream is not being on a food stamp program. The American dream is not being on all these programs. That should be a hand up, not a handout. As of yesterday, we have moved 1.75 million people off of SNAP."
BROOKE ROLLINS: Don't call a $12 billion payment to farmers a bailout
BROOKE ROLLINS MOMENTS LATER: The American dream is not getting help from the government
screencap of WH tweet
the White House's official X account gloats over the arrest of Don Lemon with a chains emoji
the arrest of journalists in minneapolis, including don lemon, is more evidence that the only move the administration knows how to make is to use force, and does not know how to respond when that force is met with defiance and indifference.
Apparently PG&E has decided my building power is also on strike today lol
NEW from @justinrohrlich.bsky.social:
“I’m not surprised this happened,” Ilhan Omar attacker Anthony Kazmierczak’s brother said. “Not at all. Unfortunately, he and my mother are both right-wing extremists.”
"In my mind, he’s a piece of s**t," he added.
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i love that rightwingers genuinely seem to believe that political ideology is a set genetic inheritable trait
RAND PAUL: If a country bombed our air defense missiles, captured & removed our president, & blockaded our country, would that be considered an act of war?
RUBIO: We just don't believe this operation comes anywhere close to the constitutional definition
PAUL: Of course it would be an act of war!
1/27/2026 - Minneapolis
ICE just attempted an illegal entry into the ECUADORIAN CONSULATE to abduct someone
They did not have a warrant
Nine DAs are coalescing to work on prosecuting federal agents for 'overreach':
—L. Krasner in Philly
—J. Creuzot in Dallas
—M. Moriarty in Minneapolis
—L. Conover in Tucson
—S. Descano in Fairfax (VA)
—R. Fatehi in Norfolk (VA)
—S. Morales in Portsmouth (VA)
—P. Dehghani-Tafti in Arlington (VA)
Something important to understand about ICE thugs in the Twin Cities is that they're harassing innocent kids and parents at bus stops and schools every single day. Even after the Pretti shooting. It's terrorism.
The “prosecute the former regime at every level” candidate has my vote in 2028.
Prediction markets platforms (in their current, unregulated state) are incentivized to encourage insider trading.
