This sign in Sausalito is real? baybybrompton.substack.com/p/missed-con...

Glad that senior Democrats are widely disregarded for their atrocious political takes.

Ferry Building plaza

The fund will operate for 2–3 years, distribute somewhere between $400M and $1.2B, get wound down, and become a case study in Federal Courts and Administrative Law textbooks. That loud "whoosh" sound is the taxes you paid April 15th going to Jan. 6 insurrectionists

Headsup: New House transportation bill imposes a new, national $130/year fee for owning an EV.

Huh. what a surprise www.nature.com/articles/s41...

California is pretty magical

We're here to cheer on your bike ride, in San Mateo, CA!

Terrifying precedent: abcnews.com/US/trump-poi...

BREAKING: Another bad ebike bill gone! AB 1557, which would have blown up the 3 class system and do substantial harm to mom and pop bike shops across the state, is dead in the appropriations committee.

These are all so distant in the past: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2647...

When?

If I were to operate a bike shop I would only sell and service coaster brake bicycles. No hand brakes, no cables--no problem!

Never forego the opportunity to gather as a neighborhood and recognize a street safety improvement for the win that it is!

Standard chemtrails Nextdoor posts when people find time to go outside. Wake up SHEEPLE!

Hell yeah let’s go

Happy(?) ending--quick build road diet (~30 days later):

You might ask: what is a San Francisco supervisor doing at an AEI conference? missionlocal.org/2026/05/cons...

Localism has always been anti bike lane?! 😂 "We don't want any eastern bicycle fellers or one-hoss lawyers with patent leather boots, to tell us how to fix the roads that we use"

Chuck Schumer?

NIMBY group California Cities for Local Control is doing endorsements and sent a questionnaire to gubernatorial candidates. NONE of the major candidates have responded and Tom Steyer declined. Love that candidates see that NIMBYism will not win elections. localcontrolca.com/endorsements...

Why does California have 123,974 people sleeping on the street? I hate to break this to you, but it's not because of billionaires, private equity, or venture capital. It's because of your neighbor Frank -- who is big mad at a 5 story apartment for low income senior farmers.

Round the horn:

ELON MUSK: every woman should have at least two of my children. well, every white woman. only native-born white people and billionaire white South Africans should be able to vote. let's drown trans people. EZRA KLEIN: guy's just monomaniacally focused on accelerating the EV revolution. admirable.

Holy ratio!

RIP homie 😔

Let’s go Burlingame! fp.mysocialpinpoint.com/burlingame-v...

Just read this excellent piece on east LA transit—I deeply regret not exploring the transit service of Claremont as a student, but I have now done so as an alumnus!

Instead of having every article about a bike collision take pains to say whether the cyclist was wearing a helmet, I’d love for them all to describe the street infrastructure for biking. “There is no bike lane at the crash site” or “there is a paint-only lane” or “there is a protected lane.”

Working on it!

What in tarnation?!

Picnicking is very important. Prioritize it in your daily life

Please carry these learnings forward so you save 6 years of your life and bring about a better world faster: maxmautner.com/2026/04/30/w...

The Prop 13 beatings will continue until morale improves: maxmautner.com/2026/04/30/h...

Hell yeah brother

Unfunded inclusionary zoning—requiring homebuilders to rent some of their new units at a loss to low-income tenants as a condition of permit approval—is a tax on new housing construction that worsens the housing shortage. It's bad, counterproductive policy that should be ended everywhere, for good.

And so continues my obsession with Prop 13: maxmautner.com/2026/04/25/p...

Train ridin appetite goes "brrrr" www.reddit.com/r/Amtrak/com...

I was riding BART yesterday, and it’s fascinating to see how quickly nature is reclaiming the shoulders of our regional highways

Visual impacts analysis strikes again! The Cesar Chavez Foundation pushed through design changes that added nearly $1B in costs to CAHSR, in order to reduce its "visual impacts" at a park that sees dozens of freight trains per day. www.sfchronicle.com/california/a...

As I waited 17 minutes for a BART transfer at SFO I educated myself on a few things

Brutal: www.youtube.com/watch?v=BbjA...

Comfort, first!

I still don’t know what a BlueSky “starterpack” is

The amount of coffee beans that homebrewers of espresso waste while "dialing in their grind settings" is distasteful and morally objectionable. Aeropress/moka pot fo' life ☕️

Thanks for all the love on Metro Mapper! Been averaging ~150 unique players per day and over 10,000 total. Check it out on metromapper.net Ⓜ️

It happened! Ribbon-cutting for new intersection safety improvements here in San Mateo, CA. The city won’t do it but we will!

Continuing my blog series on breaking down barriers to bicycling: maxmautner.com/2026/04/25/s...