I rode the new, electrified trains on a recent trip to SF. Marvelous!! Maybe a field trip by Metro managers is in order.

Democrats aren’t just winning at the statewide level. We’re evicting MAGA at the local level, too.

I just recorded a short video--essentially an updated version of my social media threads--on the Bill Gates climate memo. Despite agreeing with some points therein, I still think its framing is fundamentally flawed and thus also its key conclusions.

If National Guard troops are deployed to the Bay Area they would not be able to make immigration arrests. But they could offer “cover” for ICE agents who are doing so. This has already taken place in other cities: missionlocal.org/2025/10/how-...

@wyden.senate.gov Ashland turned out today with 100s of folks lining Main St and a parade of cats sounding their horns and showing is peace signs, thumbs up, and raised fists. We had folks tell us thanks for protesting as we walked home.

Here's how differently-abled and disabled folks can join No Kings 2: www.mobilize.us/nokings/even... It’s a virtual protest! My backup plan 🙃

Another reason for Metrolink to electrify: their renewable diesel fleet isn't actually reducing emissions. #ElectrifyMetrolink

NEW: ProPublica obtained records from the Department of Agriculture that detail the millions of pounds of food, down to the number of eggs, that never reached food banks because of the Trump administration’s cuts to an aid program.

The executive branch does not have the authority to get the United States into armed conflicts. And it cannot turn noncombatants into military targets just by saying they are so. This is explicitly unconstitutional, illegal violence.

Going as low as they can go.

Pete Hegseth will text secret war plans, but he prefers to do his body-shaming face-to-face

NEW: The Russian “Movement of the First” organization continues to play a key role in Russia’s efforts to indoctrinate Ukrainian youth by forcibly removing children from occupied territories of Ukraine to Russian re-education and militarization camps. 🧵 (1/6) Read more: isw.pub/OccupationUp...

EPA tells some scientists to stop publishing studies, employees say

File this one away for the inevitable, populist backlash to AI data-centers driving up Americans’ utility bills. @mikezaccardi.bsky.social

Today begins the process of removing interpretive assets across National Park Service sites that violate the president's EO. If you work for the NPS, please let me know what, if any, changes are taking place at your site. No names will be used. Thank you. #NationalParks 🗃️ cwmemory.com/contact-me/

"At breathtaking speed, the Trump administration is enacting policies that will be difficult to reverse and could disrupt population health for years or decades to come. Time is running out to intervene." www.thelancet.com/journals/lan... @thelancet.com

Federal scientific integrity (SI) policies were created to protect fed scientists & their work from politicization, retaliation, & censorship. The Trump admin is replacing them w/ new policies to give the admin more leeway in politicizing science to reach conclusions convenient for its agenda🧵

When PA ignored SEPTA's plea for emergency funding, Philly lost 20% of its transit service and riders faced 21% higher fares. CA has until Tuesday to offer loan to avoid worse fate in Bay Area. Please call Newsom and attend Monday rally. Details below 🧵 actionnetwork.org/events/emerg...

🧵🧵🧵 Two decades ago, writer Laurence Britt listed 14 defining characteristics of fascism. In this thread, I match them up with actions of Trump and his regime. Spoiler alert: MAGA is 14-for-14. 1. Powerful and continuing nationalism

Yes, you're reading that headline right: there's a proposed rule that would give the administration control of who federal agencies hire and fire. This politicization of our civil service is bad for the American people.

“By reverting to these older policies, we’re going to see scientists lose protections from retaliation. We’re going to see the loss of professional or appointed scientific integrity officers,” said UCS's Jennifer Jones. “They will now basically be replaced with political appointees.”

Why is the global hydrologic cycle accelerating, with increases in both wet & dry extremes like heavy downpours & flash droughts? Blame the increased water vapor-holding (and water vapor-evaporating) capacity of the "expanding atmospheric sponge."

Lurie allowing Waymo/Uber onto Market while cutting Muni service for 240,000 daily riders is despicable, and keeps anyone without tons of wealth out of downtown. We will not let the Mayor and his corporate buddies create an SF for the wealthy only. Sign the petition. Direct action coming soon.

New research from us debunking CARB's 2020 "Trucks vs. Trains" analysis is out. Intended to model regulation impacts, CARB's assumptions do not hold up in 2025. With signature regulations dead and truck ZE lagging, trains are the cleaner way to move freight today. calelectricrail.org/why-carb-is-...

Cutting off mRNA research because the first mRNA vaccines weren't good enough - *even if that were true, which it really isn't* - is like if we banned personal computers in 1981 because the IBM PC was too expensive

That's right. Gift link www.nytimes.com/2025/08/18/o...

“A great and very successful day in Alaska!” says Trump after the Putin summit that yielded nothing except empowerment of Putin and a waste of jet fuel. In other positive spin, the Hindenburg disaster was a well-illuminated airship landing.

Absolutely worth reading.

High pressure is quickly building in across the region this morning. Here is a look at the latest visible satellite imagery showing generally clear skies.

The Trump admin has acted again to endanger our public health. Led by HHS Secretary RFK Jr., this administration has been eliminating research funding, removing experts from advisory roles, promoting misinformation & kicking the public out of govt decision-making. This time the focus is vaccines (🧵)

NEW: Helping Ukraine inflict battlefield setbacks on Russian forces remains essential to efforts to persuade Putin to reevaluate his position on the war and negotiations. 🧵(1/9) Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, August 5, 2025: isw.pub/UkrWar080525

A different way of practicing politics is possible - where we vigorously fight for what’s right while inviting people into our coalition, rather than pushing them away.

The Bay Area transit advocacy tour continues, with the next stop in Santa Clara County. July 29th, rally for Santa Clara to join the regional measure! In Santa Clara, this isn't just about solving VTA's operating deficit, but about expanding service.

All of us - not just those on Medicaid or food stamps - will be directly paying for the costs of the billionaire tax breaks in the Trump budget package. Here's how.

"Solar power was the European Union's largest source of electricity for the first time in June, overtaking nuclear and wind while coal's contribution fell to an all-time low." ☀️💪

Caltrain ridership won't stop going up, with the biggest increase right after electrification. Who will be the next agency to replicate their success? public.tableau.com/app/profile/...

The Oregon Health Authority expects that up to 200,000 Oregonians could lose their health insurance coverage through Medicaid in the next decade due to new eligibility requirements passed in Congressional Republicans’ massive tax and spending cut bill. ashland.news/republican-t...

There have been claims that NOAA/NWS did not foresee catastrophic TX floods--but that's simply not true. This was undoubtedly an extreme event, but messaging rapidly escalated beginning ~12 hrs prior. Flood Watch mid PM, "heads up" outlook late PM, flash flood warnings ~1am.

New video: "BREAKING: Texas Officials Blast Trump for Fatal Error" click below to WATCH👇 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gafZbyKvN4c

The media made a HUGE deal out of "basket of deplorables" and "cling to their guns or religion." But, of course, it will totally ignore Trump saying he hates Democrats: "I hate them. I believe they hate their country."

Spot on!!

If one of these people is your senator, it is incredibly important that you call them today. Urge them to vote NO on the Senate budget bill that would make most Americans poorer to give billionaires a tax cut they don't even need.

This isn’t over—we can still stop the GOP bill. I’m staying in the fight for every baby who shouldn’t go hungry. Every senior who shouldn’t get kicked out of a nursing home. Every American who shouldn’t lose their health care. Now is the time to call your senators.

1. Trump cuts to science have massive impacts and deserve mainstream attention like this. 2. Health research focused on understudied populations conducted under the Biden Administration is in no way equivalent to the political interference in research happening now. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/26/p...

Yesterday senators from both sides of the aisle questioned OMB Dir. Russell Vought about the Trump administration's rescission package. Unfortunately, they didn’t get much insight. Worse, though, was Vought's blatant disregard for the rule of law. (cont ⬇️)

It's hard to believe the lengths this regime will go to in order to subvert science behind things they disagree with. Why, soon, we're going to find that smoking is actually good for one's health.

We're in so much trouble