Mai Vang, endorsed by Sacramento’s local DSA chapter, was among the most enthusiastic votes for abolishing single family zoning in Sacramento asking “How can we get more plexes built in my district” Her incumbent opponent, Doris Matsui, wrote a letter to kill a bike lane project a few years back.

One calculation that blew my mind: When I push a pedestrian beg button to cross an arterial road w/ 40 mph spd limit. Wait of 90 sec means a car 1 mile away gets to priority to clear the intersection before I am allowed to cross the road. I am standing roadside breathing particulates

Always money for freeway expansions in Sacramento. Pennies for safer streets www.onsiteobserver.com/sacramento-a...

Water spills over the sea wall at the San Francisco Embarcadero amid a king tide. The tidal anomaly at the time of recording was 1.4 ft and www expected to increase to 1.7ft within the hour. A 2-foot anomaly, the highest summer tide on record, was forecast Sunday evening.

The USMNT would literally never do something like this, and that fucking sucks

California politics has a lot of complete dumbos who think they are wiser than Solomon, but I don’t think there’s a bigger discrepancy across such a long period of time and across so many issues between how much of a dumbass Glazer is and how much he thinks his contrarianism makes him brilliant.

From Truckee to Miami, the pressure to socialize how climate change has made certain places unbelievably risky needs to be resisted by talking about how the changing climate will not go back. More warming and worsening extreme conditions are baked in for another 30 years at least.

On one hand, I’m so glad to see bills responding to the License to Kill reporting move forward. But even more infuriating than reading quotes from pro-murder advocates like Debt Free Justice is the fact that these conditions exist and are being reformed so minutely. calmatters.org/investigatio...

66% is a huge undercount based on the number of cars that blow by me while I wait to cross the street in a school zone with a child in a stroller.

Now that is the sort of pop culture crossover that I can celebrate

Feeling romantic about electric rail. (late spring edition)

The overt and explicit climate arson wing of the Democratic Party seems to be taking over the whole party. It’s good to see an elected official talking sense (now let’s get the ones who aren’t most vocal climate champions to chime in)

It’s nice not having to ask how Mai Vang would vote.

too many stupid people have money; that's why I'm launching protein cigarettes

Static maps will increasingly shield us from reality. 3-5 million years ago (the last time that atmospheric CO2 ppm was around 420ppm), sea levels were 50-80 feet higher. There will be a lag: we are physically changing the atmosphere much faster than other systems can respond. Just a matter of time.

What will improve QoL and safety more: license plates for e-bikes or this?

Some people say we don’t build beautiful things anymore and, like, lol. Motherfuckers, we built this:

Despite a lot of lip service from council members, nothing changes as the death toll rises. In 2026, it appears that we are on track to have the most traffic violence deaths on record (and on track for it to surpass homicide as the leading cause of violent death).

In a world where child rape allegations against Cesar Chavez are universally accepted and substantial evidence of child rape by Donald Trump is believed by a majority of the country, it’s crazy that so many Kevin Johnson apologists receive 0 repercussions in Sacramento.

The significant difference here between centrists and Working Families AND Peace&Freedom candidates is not that one has a serious plan to implement MC4A, but instead that the latter advocate the universal backstop should be subsidized by urban taxpayers.

Having @abridgedpbskvie.bsky.social is such a blessing for Sacramento. So many critical news stories every day that aren’t otherwise covered. This one was my favorite today: www.abridged.org/news/midtown...

Federal Safe Streets for All (SS4A) grants now penalize applications that include bike lanes, lane reduction, traffic calming, and speed cameras.

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.