Westwood Blvd at Rochester is still very much a designated pedestrian enhanced district under Mobility 2035 which the city is legally obligated to implement when it does any road improvements thanks to HLA (which Karen Bass has responded to by stopping all road improvements)

However thanks to enemy-of-the-city Paul Koretz the segment between Wilshire and Santa Monica Blvd was removed from the bike lane network for no-logical reason whatsoever (it was deemed bad for business, unlike cars killing your customers while they shop in your store, which is fine)

There was once a plan to run a bus lane and a protected bicycle lanes down Westwood Boulevard. It might have been one of Los Angeles' great promenades. Instead, NIMBYs killed the proposal, and now it's a round-the-clock car sewer where people randomly die in extremely violent ways.

So many shitheads out there claiming that every heterosexual male lusts after teenage girls. No we don't. Stop projecting that shit onto me

Saw this headline, thought "didn't LA remove bike lanes & undo road diets in Playa del Rey a while back?" and… on that very street 😔😡

In 2024 Oakland implemented a 4 car lane to 1 car lane road diet on 13th St in Downtown using only paint. It’s not perfect but this relatively cheap change has helped a lot w speeding. The perpendicular Webster corridor is the same width & needs a similar update ASAP.

Brutal column in the Kansas City Star about a local real estate company trying to avoid public scrutiny for selling ICE a property for a massive prison camp: www.kansascity.com/opinion/arti...

Laminated notice taped to a utility pole that reads: “ICE KIDNAPPED OUR NEIGHBOR HERE” “AQUÍ LA MIGRA SECUESTRÓ A NUESTRO VECINO.” “HALKAN IMMIGRATION-KA AYAA AFDUUBTAY DERISKEENA.” South Minneapolis, January 2026

remember, NIMBYism is subject to the categorical imperative: oppose in your backyard only what could rightly be opposed in anyone's backyard there is no appropriate location for concentration camps, so NIMBYism is not only okay but morally correct!

my grandmother, an Auschwitz survivor, was Anne Frank’s neighbor in Amsterdam, and Oma thinks this comparison is perfectly apt

there are, alas, many such cases in California if we keep treating new housing as a blood bag for city budgets, we’ll never meet our affordability goals

Protesters chanting "We're not cold, we're not afraid, Minne[apolis/sota] taught us to be brave" in Boston tonight outside Government Center station.

The face painter: "I feel afraid. Only hours have passed since they shot a man right in front me and I don't feel like I can go home because I heard agents were looking for me. I don't know what the agents will do when they find me. I do know that they're not telling the truth about what happened."

It’s no secret I have a lot of love for Minnesota. Minneapolis shaped me more than I can probably ever truly express. If you are looking for a way to help the good people of Minnesota and aren’t there, there are a ton of good ways you can support the work on the ground there financially

Why are they sending witnesses to Whipple? WHY ARE THEY SENDING WITNESSES TO WHIPPLE?

Republicans could end this it any time and I think every single Republican member of Congress should be asked daily why they continue to allow this. They are cowards who want to destroy our country and should have to carry that shame.

BTW this is one reason why we absolutely need swift justice and extremely harsh sentencing for rogue federal agents. These people only understand force and punishment. Nothing else will get through to them.

This is such a slam dunk of a bill. Gestapo members should not be allowed to join local police departments. Please contact your legislators and urge them to sign on!

This something I want people to understand. If you don’t get their names, they’re just gone. There’s no arrest record and the snatch-and-grabs can last seconds. People simply disappear and we can’t find out who they are or what happened to them.

Tomorrow's my birthday, and I'm asking for just one little thing - to save Bay Area transit! Join me for the kickoff for Connect Bay Area, which will keep BART, AC Transit, and other agencies running strong service. I'll be at the Oakland event at 12:15 pm. Details: luma.com/le1g7slf?tk=...

There’s no point during the detention of a five-year-old that any person with a functioning moral center would not step back to reassess the situation and their place in it. That nobody involved did proves they lack the common interiority required to successfully coexist in ordered society.

My least consequential political opinion is that California should negotiate a land swap with Oregon to acquire the northernmost coast redwood groves, making them a California endemic species

Every Stephen Miller tantrum and DHS recruitment ad speaks in these existential terms about "defending your culture" to elide the fact that they need people with the courage to wear a mask while interrogating a sixth grader

At about the 35-second mark the officer says "IF YOU FUCKING MOVE I'LL FUCKING TASE YOU," followed immediately by "GET OUT OF THE FUCKING CAR RIGHT NOW." Which contradictory order are you supposed to follow, knowing that either could get you tased? Or worse? bsky.app/profile/petr...

The longer *this* all goes on and it is not aggressively called out by Dem AND GOP politicians—even if “nothing happens—the more the rest of the world will know the US can never be trusted again to make reliable trade deals or be military allies

ICE ended up returning the man, Saly, after realizing he’s a fucking US citizen with no criminal record, per his sister-in-law. These fucking animals.

Of course, this can all be avoided if a handful of GOP Reps and 20 GOP Senators finally discover their virtue, patriotism and courage.

it's been 10 years, but I still think a lot about this graffiti I saw on the sidewalk in Buenos Aires

the Bay Area is where all of the rivers of the Sierra Nevada & Great Valley cut through the coast range to reach the sea, which is pretty cool but while I do love the Carquinez, longtime followers may know that I’m really a Lake guy

A very odd part of the housing debate is that the people who oppose replacing old run-down buildings with big new buildings because the old buildings are affordable are also the people who deny that "filtering" causes new buildings to get less expensive as they age.

This is your regular reminder that authoritarianism is just domestic abuse writ large.

Made this for dinner tonight, it was damn good I was worried about the escarole being too bitter, but it wasn't an issue at all, totally silky & luscious www.seriouseats.com/neapolitan-e...

"The freedom of individuals verbally to oppose or challenge police action without thereby risking arrest is one of the principal characteristics by which we distinguish a free nation from a police state." —William J. Brennan Jr., joined by White, Blackmun, Stevens, & Marshall, Houston v. Hill, 1987

What I learned was that they can't kill us all and Americans won't be cowed at the point of a gun

these are evil people and more people should speak plainly about it. bring back shame.

Join a community vigil in El Cerrito tonight for Renee Nicole Good and all victims of ICE violence. 6pm in the El Cerrito Library parking lot on Stockton, near the Ohlone Greenway. A ten minute walk or very short bike ride from El Cerrito Plaza BART.

🎼 Let’s get fiscal, fiscal Let’s get fiscal, fiscal 🎶

Imagine that you were detained for twenty five days. What would that do to your life? Would you still have a job when you got out of? How did you pay your bills when you were inside? If you couldn’t, were you evicted? Was your credit rating wrecked? Will DHS help you fix it? Of course not.

surrounding them after they just killed somebody and shouting “you can’t kill us all, nazis” is legitimate “ready to run through a wall” inspirational

parliament and king thought that unless a little powder burned the trumpeters might burst with trumpeting and yet it lack all glory; and perchance the guardsmen's drowsy chargers would not prance Now days are dragon-ridden

The reason you go scorched-earth on this is the same reason we should have gone scorched-earth on impoundment; you can't stop it from happening, but you absolutely need to stop it from becoming a normal part of politics. You have to draw a line.

it was bad enough for the Bad Take of the Day to be from an Iowan, but when she wheeled out the terrible pork industry take it really felt like a personal attack

parking is a nuisance use because it inherently attracts car traffic, which everyone hates

My parents and I moved to Fremont when I was less than a year old, and we haven't left the East Bay since. I grew up in Union City, went to UC Berkeley, and live in Oakland. It taught me what the US is and could be: A land where difference doesn't separate us from making each other's dreams happen.

“I’m Black. I’m not White, Hispanic, Indian, Chinese, Muslim, Hindu, Jewish, transgender, gay, non-citizen, or a temporary resident. But all these people are my people — the American people. An attack on any of them is an attack on America and on me.”

This vision of California is the vision of America that's going to win and everyone who wants to stop it from happening is cordially invited to die mad.

one of the park’s in my new neighborhood has this absolutely glorious oak tree (which may be the oldest in Oakland)