Some further backstory on this: when the State Fire Marshall released new fire hazard maps that more narrowly drew Very High Fire Hazard coverage within urban areas (redesignating some of it to High or Moderate Hazard), SD Fire Department said "no, we don't like that, everything should be VHFHSZ"

Second Sunday Ciclovia around Lake Merritt would put up NUMBERS

You shouldn’t even be trying to live in your own past - let alone trying to force other people to live there.

In Los Angeles, it is easier to stop housing than to build it. That has to change. We must create a culture of yes to new housing: affordable housing, market-rate housing, social housing, and shelters. You can see the full plan on my website.  Here are some highlights:

This is the dawning of the Age of New Clarity

dinner tonight: scarlet runner beans cooked with star anise, guajillo, garlic, onion, and a splash of fish sauce chard with green garlic, a little pancetta, soy sauce, and cider vinegar

single strait (is this anything?)

designing our planning & legal system around accommodation of the loudest cranks is a choice we should make better choices

Anyway, "Kill someone with your car and you'll never drive again" is a message that would have immense benefit to society.

Another case in which the “unknown side effect” of a vaccine turns out to be “it actually saves *even more* lives” sickness is bad for you, and the magic shots that prevent it are good!

My top 3 list of people who need to go to prison are Miller, Hegseth and Vought. One fucking asshole holding the US government hostage just has to be punished.

since I moved a bit deeper into East Oakland, I’ve been using the bus more AC Transit could use some stop consolidation, default spacing seems to be ~0.15 miles and there are places where it’s inexplicably even shorter also, bus bulbouts plz

Extremely bullish about Berkeley Middle Housing + SHRA (especially if we can fix the minimum density rule)

I guess I should appreciate that Katie Porter removed herself from consideration for my vote

It's a real shortcoming of speed cameras that the law precludes them from being used to hold repeated scofflaws accountable We should take these people's keys away! www.sfchronicle.com/eastbay/arti...

Oakland skeeps: my highest food rec for Tasty Bowl next to Lake Merritt get the oxtail pho w/ oxtail as the only meat (my wife's order) or the vermicelli bowl w/ vegetarian egg rolls (mine) Tasty Bowl >>>>> Pho King (next door) imho

Every second of free time you have ever had in your life was subsidized by the existence of the combine harvester.

The Return of Dingbat Urbanism, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Townhome

this doesn't really make sense to me; isn't a core purpose of habeas to force the government to physically present the detained person? www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/arti...

Radical idea: if someone racks up 76 speeding violations in a year, maybe they shouldn’t be allowed to keep driving.

commuting in on the 14, and despite @dereksagehorn.bsky.social’s effort to cancel it the bus is *full*

always a treat to see legislation I worked on being used to get more housing built, faster

Yes In My Back Yard

The converse is that a things like unfunded inclusionary zoning mandates hurt low-income tenants who aren't lucky enough to win lotteries by reducing supply.

Judge Goodwin: "An anonymous government is no government at all. It cannot be held accountable. A masked agent freely uses force without justifying his actions, and the public cannot name him to challenge his conduct. A regime of secret policing has no place in our society."

Incredible opinion. It holds that the common ICE tactic of jumping out of an unidentified rental vehicle and seizing suspected noncitizens while masked violates the Fourth Amendment because the *manner* of the seizure is incompatible with a free society governed by the rule of law.

anybody know if Alysa Liu has made any comments about Lake Merritt?

the last sentence of this is an absolute bar and we need a California version of it "The broad back of the California bear is sturdy enough to hold all those who wish to come here"?

Don't let transit go backward. Join us with Connect Bay Area at Lake Merritt TOMORROW MORNING to start collecting signatures to reinvest in buses & BART. RSVP luma.com/q9in3rvd

hi does anybody here have $10M to place Prop 13 reform on the California ballot this fall? I really think we could win!

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?

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.