New Jersey Devils Pope Hat when?

All sports teams should release pope hats with their logos on them.

We need to find out if this guy was one of those Bluesky posters

March 2026 was California's warmest March on record by an incredible margin. The mean temperature of 60.8 degrees was 10.6 degrees above the 1991-2020 average and 3.5 degrees above March 1934, the previous record.

No offense, Teddy, but that sounds like something a man in an arena would say

This picture goes crazy hard.

Rice, welcome to the war on cars

Another scorcher - now let’s pass the Safer Sac Streets ballot measure so we don’t have to rely on the ever-shrinking peanuts provided by the Gov and Legislature (hat tip to Ariane’s article before this one).

I am the Vice Chair for the City of Sac's Active Transportation Comm where I review essential safety improvements. Yet they rarely get built because we CHOOSE not to fix dangerous streets by not funding the fixes. Going to be volunteering to pass Sac's Safe Streets and Affordable Transit Measure

California is just like the rest of America, only more so.

There is a continued failure to communicate that this is not the “new normal” - it’s just a taste of what is coming. While average high temps will rise, the number of extreme heat days will actually increase at a rate much higher than you’d expect from the rising highs because of events like this.

Bringing this one back based on the news of the day

If we are to trust AI summaries to quickly pull percentile distribution, that’s about 1.7 million families paying about 1% of the State’s personal income tax revenue. Interestingly, the current cost of CalEITC is $1.4 billion.

I think it’s quite bad progressive politicians instinct is to be anti tax. Taxes are not a significant financial burden on lower to middle income people! This is a conservative talking point! Knock that shit off!

@calmatters.org is doing such incredible work that the DMV is immediately getting caught in its own lies, and then getting immediately caught by CalMatters. Fantastic work holding power accountable for allowing the slaughter of children.

It’s a disgrace Steve Gordon still has a job. He should have been in tears begging for forgiveness for his role in hurting all those families sharing the worst days of their lives to make a difference. Only a twisted pathetic person could sit there and make selfish excuses.

SacRT does this even better with its “live tracking” which will show a bus running 5 minutes early (so we rush to get to the stop), then say the bus has already departed, and then 5 minutes later the bus actually shows up (all the while Google Maps is showing the bus several stops away)

Maddening to see such obfuscation from the author of a bill that will criminalize people biking while doing nothing to address unsafe driving. The cause of the vast majority of deaths while biking or e-biking is drivers in CARS. If the Assemblymember truly cared about safety, she’d regulate cars.

The Joe Rogan of the Left®️

quite the shame you’ve opened yourself up to attack by considering the tradeoffs of a public policy; I have avoided such things by pretending they don’t exist and being really smug about it

This is SUCH a big deal. Would be transformative for anyone who bikes, walks, or takes transit in this city

Today, something happened in the City of Sacramento. The beginning of something exciting. Language was filed with the city for a ballot measure to raise sales tax 0.5% to fund safe streets and transit infrastructure. It's gonna take everyone to get this passed, but together, I think we can do it. 🚲🚌

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E-bikes are a perfect example of how climate mitigation and adaptation solutions make people healthier and happier and while literally saving the world. Yet reactionary “Democrats” like @bauerkahan.bsky.social, @asmmarcberman.bsky.social, and @asmloridwilson.bsky.social wrote bills to block them.

We should also be calling Assemblymember Bauer-Kahn’s office every day they continue to sponsor this insulting bill.

What a real representative would do @dorismatsui.bsky.social

This is why it’s maddening that Sacramento is spending millions on a few miles of painted bike lanes on Broadway, Folsom, etc. Honestly I’d rather the City stop all large projects until there is a top-down commitment to a network of protected lanes always and only. Staff sure aren’t going to do it.

While NIMBYism and degrowtherism are exposed as elements of fascism by stuff like this, the more chilling part for me is seeing the dystopian trope of the ultra-wealthy more literally walling themselves off and pretending to preserve their world in amber realized.

Yet every boomer comments this on every housing project

Sacramento has had 3 major freeway widenings within the decade, I-5, I-80, US-50 (which is extra over budget and delayed and lane splitting that killed a lot of people). I have to run the numbers but it’s over $1B on more freeway lanes. Glad we declared a climate emergency

Also, the wealth and power of this class of barons is extremely entwined with massive public subsidy, the benefits of regulatory capture, and so many other direct acts enabling their hoards. To act as if anyone can amass these levels of wealth without personally relying on government is insane.

If shooting a legal observer in the head from 25 feet away isn’t enough, Michael Mantsch is now making $435k a year with benefits after a promotion to sgt. Shameless. Great reporting from Theresa Clift (and hat tip to @arianelange.bsky.social for reporting on ongoing OT abuse by SacPD)

Given that there are multiple proposals to get the California public on the hook to insure the uninsurable: I feel there is a strong necessity for a grasstops advocacy organization that speaks out against this insanity and has no ties to industry associations. Much like the YIMBY movement.

It's unsettling how traffic violence is reported in the US. If the driver was going this street's speed limit of 25mph, there's a 90% chance this woman would be alive. But that's unmentioned. The driver was "cooperative." There will be no follow up. There will be no convictions. A life is lost.

seriously though, they take the no smiling vibe to another level

Reps Tarra Simmons and Shaun Scott have introduced a bill in the WA State Legislature that would prohibit state and local law enforcement agencies from hiring individuals who were previously employed as sworn officers with ICE on or after Jan 20, 2025. This is called an idea whose time has arrived.

California Governor Newsom vetoed a bill that would require audible feedback when a driver drives significantly faster than the speed limit. He said he would veto speed limiters, so the sound was the compromise position, then he vetoed that, too. He's watered down & vetoed several road safety bills

Absolutely incredible to see the drop in gas generation.

@governor.ca.gov’s CHP and DMV are only the most overt in this gubernatorial administration for their contempt of victims of violence on CA roads. It clearly runs through Caltrans, CALSta, ARB, etc. - the whole spectrum of state agencies committed to maintaining the deadly status quo

Two weeks ago, a very dear friend of my parents was killed while cycling by an SUV driver who turned left into him without looking. The CHP officer tried to protect his killer by bizarrely claiming *he* had been at fault. Even when presented with VIDEO evidence, CHP appears to be doubling down.

It sucks to say, but unfortunately Luka Doncic is better at giving out e-bikes than the Air Resources Board @airresources.bsky.social www.latimes.com/sports/laker...

@urbanlandrent.bsky.social here’s another terrible take claiming “progressives” can just make insurance affordable by taxing “polluters” with no discussion of reducing risk in the first place. What the hell is going on with this spate of completely bullshit “progressive climate policies”?

I agree, but I’m currently listening to Kingfish about Huey Long and there are so many horrifying parallels. Long dismantled democracy so quickly in Louisiana, and honestly it’s a relief Trump is such a syphilitic idiot rather than a megalomaniac genius like Long.

Sacramento could never - the City actively refusing to enforce AB 413 as policy. In one specific instance, they refuse to take any action even after daily reports of an intersection in front of an elementary school where the sidewalk and crosswalk are blocked by the same lifted truck.

It sucks that being on the sidewalk next to speeding cars or at a wide intersection like this entails the constant risk of death. No one understands this like runners, and I hope these kids are able to go back to doing what they love without fear one day.

As Walt Whitman once wrote, “Mr. Sun, Sun, Mr. Golden Sun: Please. Shine down on me.”

In CA, it feels like there are no shortage of half-baked plans for trails, but almost never is there a macro-scale analysis of how trails can serve most trips for most users even at the city scale. There should definitely be a transit overlay with any regional scale plans, too.