This is excellent and directly addresses questions of public input in traffic safety projects as well as transit. Good engagement is possible!

America’s car problem is *also* a crime problem. Cars are the locus or enabler of a LOT of crimes in the US. Using a car to commit a crime, using one to get away, criming on the car (theft, breaking in), and car-based crimes like hit-and-run. Using cars to smash into stores for robbery!

Etc

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Donald Trump: job killer

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...Gentrification is wealthier people moving to poor places bc they can't afford to live in the places they'd rather live in. Gentrification can be avoided by forcing wealthier areas to build more housing which also builds the tax base for the improvements that are not gentrification elsewhere.

Being a filmmaker or a tenured professor is not a scandal.

This is about a climate action fund for underserved communities. But imagine, if you will, the broad swath of public-minded action that this describes in this cursed era.

We must band together and destroy these people’s power.

NYT, streaming with sweat, laboring uphill under fire to frame popular middle-class couple as *almost* elites!

Smoke ‘em if you got ‘em, fellas, you deserve a rest!

Well, here’s your problem!

I didn’t know much about him except he seemed too law-n-order, and too aggro, and the vibe was just way off, and now I know why: he’s a rapist.

More evidence that the California speed camera pilot needs to expand and become permanent (with all the privacy protections maintained)

Also, pulling back housing development in the woodland/urban interface, and bowing to climate reality as reflected in the ca insurance crisis. Would he cut loose new development from the state fair coverage plan, for example?

State capacity for regional transit planning and construction!! (inc. commitment to HSR)

Auditing of CalTrans (per @mateosfo.bsky.social ’s diatribe on this)

Moving money out of highways and into mode shift.

#hugops to the Bluesky team. It's notable how few outages like this they've had.

Total Taxes $55,230.32

Total Taxes $3,456.98

I totally forgot to post this last week when property taxes were due in Silicon Valley, but I love these two neighbors in Palo Alto:

One person paid $55,230.32 this year in property taxes.

The adjacent neighbor paid $3,456.98 this year in property taxes.

Behold the glory of Prop 13!

Tomorrow!!
Yes, I know the the Berkeley TIC is meeting tomorrow. I'm sorry to have that obvious overlap. However, maybe you can still make it!

Staff can push back on baseless claims! Imagine your city staff doing this! Now, insist that they do!

Which farmers market? Grand lake?

JD Vance warns David Attenborough he’d best be careful when talking about nature.

Remembering Carl Anthony, architect who brought racial equity analysis to environmental movement He co-founded the Breakthrough Communities project in Oakland, directed a Ford Foundation initiative and served on the Berkeley Planning Commission.

Such a giant, such a sad loss. Hats off to Carl.

oaklandside.org/2026/04/14/c...

Is there like a Pro version? You know, if I have an LLC?

I stopped being a rural chicken farmer only in 2018. I regret how long it took me to find another line of work.

Yeah but what’s the difference between a pivot and a swivel?

My question has to do with the location of transit stops. Have you and Wes talked about this? If you’re going to put a bus stop only every third to half mile, can they at least be at controlled crosswalks? People dashing across to avoid an insanely long walk are taking their lives in their hands!

Well, yes. Far be it from me to tell her where and how to ride, but I’m happy to lecture the city at length about its duties towards its residents.

Can we talk about transportation engineering? To quote M Gandhi, “great idea! We should try it!”

AOC rides.
Not performatively, but for utility.
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lol

Dorsey has done many, many absurd things. They actually used to hire really well there and the place was successful, then he got even weirder…