Today in Oakland USPS graffiti: a sad, exhausted clown

When NIMBYs say that California is full and their cities can’t accommodate more housing, they are saying that queer people trying to get out of red states are on their own.

Not sure this captures the nature of the posts.

Year 1 data on congestion pricing in Manhattan… * Vehicle traffic: -11% * Foot traffic: +3.4% * Storefront vacancy: -0.9% * Pollution: -22% * Revenue for mass transit: $548M So YES this has been a huge success.

Reductions in particulate pollution will disproportionately benefit people with respiratory conditions and limited lung capacity, and those who are immunocompromised. Congestion pricing is a huge win for public health and an especially huge win for people with disabilities.

Particulate pollution in the air down a whopping 22% in NYC’s congestion pricing zone. Not only are the streets less congested, but so are our lungs. e360.yale.edu/digest/new-y...

Researchers found a 22 percent reduction in heavy particulate matter from the projected average without congestion pricing. hellgatenyc.com/new-yorkers-...

Ed Roberts & the Rolling Quads established the key concept of independent living for ppl with #disabilities. Among other things, successful independent living creates a foundation for personal climate resilience & gives people with disabilities agency over their own sustainability & planning. 1/4

Big news! My consultancy @accessibleclimate.com is finally on Bluesky! Follow us for insights & announcements on the intersections between #disability and #climatechange. People with #disabilities are especially hard-hit by climate change and get disproportionate benefits from climate action. 1/4

Heavy-industry sectors like cement have long struggled to decarbonise because their processes require very high temperatures. That’s why the new Rondo Energy heat-battery project in Thailand is such a big deal - powering a cement plant with low-carbon steam. www.energy-storage.news/rondo-energy...

A climate deal without explicit language calling for a fossil fuel phaseout is like a ceasefire without explicit language calling for a suspension of hostilities. #COP30

You were incredible, Alice Wong, and it was a blessing to have collaborated with you on projects, to have read your words and to have heard your voice, as full of life and passion and joy and rage as it was. You made a difference—so much of a difference. Rest always in peace, and always in power.

This kind of thing is so terrifying, and I feel for @angryblacklady.blacksky.app potentially losing a friend to a robot

NEW – IEA: Fossil-fuel use will peak before 2030 – unless ‘stated policies’ are abandoned | @drsimevans.carbonbrief.org and Ho Woo Nam Read here ⬇️

Cowards die many times before their deaths, The valiant never taste of death but once.

The opposition party leader just received one of the most brutal ratios I've ever seen, and it indicates the justified anger of Americans that have been betrayed by him after fighting so hard during the special elections, they virtually granted him a mandate.

the thing that upsets me about this the most is that Dems had all the momentum, republicans were reeling, and we were getting intra-GOP fighting over the filibuster, all while voters were blaming republicans for their incompetence this destroys all of this. just a total gut punch

just a reminder that the 8 Dems who folded need to vote again later in the week (thanks to dumb senate procedure, unsurprisingly) light their phones up tomorrow at 9AM

All my Republicans gone

We go to sleep in a better country than we woke up in. Thank you to everyone who worked for these coast-to-coast victories, for this utter repudiation of Trumpism, for economic justice and a country for all of us, not for white supremacy.

1. This will be a forced labor camp; 2. Utah is already planning to make it easier to commit people to it.

Just curious, how many units of housing are going to be in this ballroom?

SNAP benefits expire in one week.

I want more people to care that SNAP benefits are being cut off on November 1. 40% of SNAP beneficiaries are children. This is callous and vile.

Reliance on central cloud services has, in may ways, improved cybersecurity and stability around the world. But this standardisation comes with major tradeoffs—the platforms become a single point of failure for large swaths of critical services. www.wired.com/story/what-t...

Good news: carbon intensity has declined Bad news: carbon emissions increased, due to the rapid rise in world GDP Also bad news: the chance of staying below 2°C remained low, at 17% Better news: chance of going above 3°C has gone down substantially, from 26% to 9%

Beyond race, I'm glad activists here mentioned the attack on urban representation. This would turn the House into another Senate, heavily biased toward rural voters. A Tennessee with no representatives from Memphis or Nashville, or a Missouri with no representatives from St. Louis or Kansas City.

Un-presidented brass band at city hall in Portland tonight celebrating the release of their clarinet player from federal custody

Heritage president Kevin Roberts, in a truly revealing passage of his Foreword to the Project 2025 policy agenda, states that the project of “dismantling the administrative state” is not about the actual size of government at all: The goal is to cut “the secret lifeblood of the Great Awokening.”

Tens of millions of people have died from Covid. Every country should have responded with record investments in public health infrastructure. Instead the US government is putting us all at greater risk of more catastrophes by firing hundreds of top scientists whose job is to prevent outbreaks.

“We can give $20 billion to Argentina but we can’t afford the CDC’s measles experts” is a hell of an argument

There are reports that the *entire* office of special education at the US Dept of Education has been cut. These hardworking folks ensure kids with disabilities get equal access to a quality education. America’s children deserve better than this.

Imagine that

NEW: @CDCgov hit hard by massive firings that several staff describe to me as a “bloodbath.” Among those RIFd: —leadership of the center for immunization and respiratory diseases; —leadership of global health center —leadership of the measles outbreak response; 1/4

So, I'm a side sleeper and no matter what I've tried, I've woken up with shoulder and neck pain. Then the advertising algorithm led me to this mattress and I sprung for it. It's easily one of the most transformative purchases of my life sonusleep.com/products/son...

New — Video shared with me shows ICE officers in DC detaining a man on Friday. Bystander filming asks man for his name. ICE agent lies and says he’s not allowed to speak to him “by law” and another says “We’ve arrested American citizens for being too close…If he gets any closer, put him in cuffs.”

“it has become clear that truth and transparency are not desired by the Secretary, but rather he wishes subservient confirmation of his misinformation and lies.” FDA CBER Director Dr. Mark’s resignation letter #science #autism #MAHA

The White House Antifa Roundtable is one of the best displays I’ve seen of this-is-how-bad-it’s-gotten — just a sewer of open fascism, dementia, morons and freaks, and incoherent rage.

The historically volatile Texas grid was entirely stable this summer, despite extreme temperatures. Grid operators never once had to ask Texans to conserve energy or shut off their air conditioners. Why? Solar & batteries. Want a stable grid? Try solar & batteries.

very cool that if you are working on behalf of right-wing culture warriors, you no longer need standing to have your claim adjudicated by the supreme court

chris jones’ controller disconnected, watch this man do absolutely nothing

If U.S. states have any degree of sovereignty, if there’s any states’ rights at all, it is the right not to be invaded by the armed forces of another U.S. state.

"mark sanchez stabbed, in hospital" "oh no!" "mark sanchez immediately arrested despite being stabbed" "... oh NO"

The messages show high-level officials in the Trump administration discussing the possible deployment of the Army’s 82nd Airborne Division, an infantry force that has dropped into combat zones in both World Wars, Vietnam and Afghanistan.

The ICE agents deploying these are people without necessary training, those who couldn’t cut it in police training or didn’t want to join the military. They are in this to hurt people and play Call of Duty on our streets, deploying chemical weapons on our neighbors as if they’re pressing L1.

they’re intenionally advertising to and recruiting far right loyalists. they post and reply to explicit groyper memes. they’re not super subtle about what this government is

Thread from one of California's leading air quality experts.

Trump just posted an AI-generated video depicting Russ Vought as the grim reaper, set to Don't Fear the Reaper

“Fuck them kids.” That’s literally what an ICE agent said when ICE, the FBI et al. raided an apartment in Chicago, including with a Blackhawk helicopter, separated children from their parents, and zip-tied them to each other. abc7chicago.com/post/ice-chi...