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AV's have the potential to improve traffic safety by taking increasingly distracted drivers out of the equation, but not if those AVs are programmed to break the very laws that keep us safe.
Companies like @Cruise willfully disregard the law, with serious consequences 1/9
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There’s a clear choice in this race: I’ve fought to build the homes we need to lower costs. My opponent has only blocked them.
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It could not be more stark, according to the data. You could have the hardest-working, most prodigious Congressional representative or the most obstructive.
“Based on 84 votes she cast on land use since she joined the board in 2021, Chan was second only to former Board President Aaron Peskin in amassing a record consistently opposed to liberalizing housing regulation.”
“From Wiener’s first session in the state Senate in 2017-2018 through the 2025-2026 session, he authored the most bills of any legislator in the chamber, at 186. Of those bills, 97 passed and were signed by the governor — the second-most over that period.”
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For 45 years, Berkeley built virtually no new housing. By the mid-2010s, it was the most expensive college town in America. Shortly thereafter, YIMBYs took over and kicked off a building boom. Today, nominal rents are below 2018 rates—remarkable progress on affordability.
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Everyone who cares about climate should understand this. Texas, with no pro-climate policies, has blown passed California in clean energy. In large part because Texas has less red tape and makes it easier to build.
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Every time there's a Republican president, they destroy the economy and drag us into a stupid war in the Middle East. You could set your fucking watch to it.
The only fresh wrinkle is that this time he's doing it to distract from his raping of children.
“The city’s finance department is on a fast track to take over parking enforcement from the department of transportation, alarming staff and business leaders. The turf dispute will get aired out at a Feb. 10 council committee meeting.”
oaklandside.org/2026/02/06/f…
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There is a direct line from blue state anti-housing policy to population loss to the rise in authoritarian political power. We did this to ourselves.
#NEW: 2030 Apportionment Forecast based on 2025 Census Bureau Population Estimates (January 27, 2026).
Forecast prepared by Dr. Jonathan Cervas (CMIST) at Carnegie Mellon University
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Hoy se cumplen 178 años de la ocupación de Los Ángeles por Estados Unidos, el 13 de enero de 1847, cuando aún era ciudad mexicana. Aquel episodio marcó el inicio de uno de los procesos más brutales y silenciados de la historia norteamericana: el exterminio sistemático de los pueblos indígenas californianos.
Antes de los yanquis arrebataran Los Ángeles a México, California contaba con una población indígena estimada en unos 150.000 habitantes. Tres décadas después, en 1880, apenas sobrevivían unos 16.000. No se trató de un colapso demográfico accidental ni exclusivamente provocado por enfermedades, sino del resultado de una política deliberada de violencia, desposesión y exterminio.
Como bien señala García del Junco:
«Antes de que los colonos ingleses y sus descendientes exterminaran a las tribus de las praderas, los exploradores españoles ya habían entrado en contacto con la mayoría de ellas sin necesidad de exterminarlas».
¿Y qué llevó a los anglosajones a desalojar de sus tierras a los indígenas que llevaban siglos ocupándolas?
El 19 de agosto de 1848, el diario New York Herald anunció el descubrimiento de oro en California. Miles de buscadores se desplazaron hacia esos territorios.
Cuando comenzó la extracción masiva de oro, los colonos emplearon inicialmente a indígenas en las minas. Llegaron a trabajar unos 4.000 indios para los blancos. Pero a partir de 1850, muchos colonos optaron por su esclavización y exterminio.
Con la excusa de que los “salvajes” suponían una amenaza para la soberanía estadounidense, el gobierno aprobó en 1850 una ley que permitía a los colonos blancos poner a trabajar forzosamente a cualquier indígena que no pudiera demostrar medios legítimos de subsistencia.
Al año siguiente, el primer gobernador de California, Peter Hardeman Burnett, afirmó ante los legisladores que
«debe esperarse que continúe una guerra de exterminio entre las razas hasta que la raza india se extinga».
Y actuó en consecuencia.
Burnett empleó fondos públicos para armar milicias locales y solicitó apoyo del Ejército federal. Estas milicias llegaron a exterminar poblados enteros. En 1850, asesinaron a unos 400 miembros del pueblo Pomo.
Entre 1851 y 1852, el estado de California pagó un millón de dólares a milicias que cazaban indígenas. En algunos pueblos se ofrecían recompensas por sus cabelleras, con precios que oscilaban entre 5 dólares y 25 centavos. Los cazadores reclamaban el pago exhibiendo ocho, diez o doce cabezas.
Incluso la prensa informaba de las masacres. Así lo relataba el periódico Alta California:
«La cuadrilla descendió sobre ellos y les voló la tapa de los sesos o les partió el cráneo con hachas. Incluso a los recién nacidos que llevaban en canastas…».
El asesinato sistemático de indígenas continuó hasta finales de la década de 1870. En conjunto, se extinguió alrededor del 80 % de la población indígena de California desde 1846, mediante masacres y asesinatos cometidos por colonos y fuerzas armadas estadounidenses.
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West Virginia has the highest rate of fentanyl deaths in the United States, one of the highest rates of mental illness -- and among lowest rates of homelessness.
The reason is, drug use, mental illness, and homelessness are not related.
West Virginia just has plenty of homes.
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it’s kind of insane how people kind of vaguely root against parking enforcement when the streets would be a total mess without them. good luck finding parking if people can just plop their cars in a spot permanently or block your driveway
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worst housing crisis in the country 🤝 worst traffic in the country. LA needs SB-79.
Call your legislator today: streetsforall.org/sb79
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When Democrats take the House, they must understand they are not a governing party. They are a dissident movement.
Act like it.
First day:
- cut off all funding of Exec. Branch
-vote to nationalize Starlink and SpaceX
-defund ICE
That’s the first day.
On the second, get more aggressive.
There is nothing in the middle of the road but yellow lines and dead armadillos.
Trump cancels Kamala Harris' Secret Service protection that had been extended by previously undisclosed Biden order.
cnn.com/2025/08/29/politics/…
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montréal (the best city in the western hemisphere) is adding bike trailers to its bike share system
RIP to the parking 🐐 He completely changed the game. The Steph Curry of parking.
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The reason we’re losing electoral power is straightforward: CA builds shockingly little housing today
Compared to CA in the 1970s and 80s, or to Texas and Florida today, our production of housing at all affordability levels is low
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Calling all Oakland cyclists! 🚴♂️
Where would you like to see more BayWheels bike share stations? 18 new stations are on their way (with funding from @MTCBATA), and we need your help to determine where they should go.
My 2024 election forecast via @270toWin . Harris loses NV narrowly and AZ but picks up NC and blue wall holds 270towin.com/maps/A2Arm #2024election
Vote Yes on Prop L San Francisco!
Robotaxi companies are presenting themselves as transit’s new best friend.
Don't fall for it. Cities full of robotaxis would be a disaster for public transportation.
Me, in @CityLab
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OakDOT is hiring Transportation Planners I, II, and III! Help us achieve our goals of equity, safety, and sustainable infrastructure. The application deadline is November 17. Links to all job postings can be found here: hubs.la/Q02VzwBX0





































