Did Bay Wheels set another record for monthly ridership in the East Bay in October? Not quite. Missed it by three rides. But it was a record for Octobers.

You are about to see harrowing footage of a father in Fitchburg, MA being brutalized by masked ICE agents while holding his terrified, crying baby. The Trump admin and every ICE agent who terrorizes our communities must be held to account for their inhumane, illegal actions.

I still remember my anthropology professor’s favorite joke from college: “What did Watson and Crick discover?” “Rosalind Franklin’s notes.”

Must-read 🧵 for fans of justice and lovers of Chicago

Defense begins, “This case, ladies and gentlemen, is about a sandwich. A sandwich that according to Agent Lairmore somehow both exploded on his chest in a spray of mustard and onions but also landed intact on the ground still in its Subway wrapper.”

Interesting that despite the toxicity and hysteria that the yimbys are winning in Marin County. Pro-commercial upzoning and anti-recall over apartment development in Fairfax are winning. www.sfchronicle.com/election/art...

Border Patrol agent Lairmore testifies that he was not injured by the sandwich, but he felt the impact through his ballistic vest. The sandwich came apart and "kind of exploded" on his chest upon impact, he says. "I could smell the onions and mustard."

Big day at U.S. District Court in D.C. where Sean Dunn, the D.C. Sandwich Guy, is on trial for misdemeanor assault of a federal officer. Border Patrol agent Gregory Lairmore is on the stand narrating surveillance video of the sammie toss. 'Now he’s struck me with the sandwich,' Lairmore says.

Looking forward to this garbage coming to London. youtube.com/shorts/8ltYK...

My friend ran into Zohran while trick-or-treating in Park Slope!

“Love you all, but there’s a few people in here who have a lot more money than me,” she said, to a smattering of applause. “And if you’re a billionaire, why are you a billionaire? And no hate, but give your money away, shorties.”

it's me, unnamed critter from bosch's triptych of the temptation of anthony!

More big news: the Senate just passed my bipartisan resolution to end Trump's global tariffs. This is a huge win and shows how unpopular Trump's tariffs really are. Now it's time for Mike Johnson to abandon his 6 week vacation and get this passed in the House.

Trump is quite literally the biggest union buster in American history. Every single Republican who supports Trump is anti-union, including Vance and Hawley and the other mythological “we love workers” ones. You are all lying rat cowards.

JD Vance claims that diversity weakens unions, as people end up distrusting each other and not organizing. Let me tell you two menswear stories related to this claim. 🧵

Some good news from the Netherlands: www.nytimes.com/2025/10/29/w...

Petty Activist 😘

Thought this line really nailed that dynamic bsky.app/profile/john...

the grievances of the Right are 'legitimate' and exist because the Left 'goes too far.' The grievances of the Left(s) are illegitimate because they are disfavored groups who should be grateful to get to live in this country.

Be sure to read Emily Hoeven's account of the crazy-making petty politics confounding Sausalito's redevelopment of the Marinship yards, the quintessence of coastal California NIMBY obstructionism www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/emil...

Hell yeah

It's where the original No Kings Protest was held!

Boston. Wow.

#NoKings Miami!

Hi, I'm the ProPublica reporter who's been tracking an unusual stat: U.S. citizens grabbed by immigration agents. I did it because the government isn’t. This is what I found.

Chicago - no kings

Seen earlier today before the march

When the Birmingham, Alabama, march is packed, you know something is up in America!

I have a dream that one day police will treat all Americans with the respect that they give to a drunk racist guy who yells “I’M FUCKIN LAW ENFORCEMENT”

Find a No Kings protest Saturday and go! Don't worry that you've never been to a protest before. Don't worry about being dressed wrong or looking out of place. Don't worry that you don't agree about everything -- or even about much -- with lots of people at the protest. /1

$40 billion for Argentina. $0 for U.S. soybean farmers, including in Minnesota, who are paying for Trump’s trade wars.

meanwhile paris is *actually* saving billions of dollars a year by prioritizing sustainable mobility, public health, and inflation mitigation with a car-light future bsky.app/profile/anne...

Average new-vehicle manufacturer’s suggested retail prices hit an all-time high last month, reaching $52k, up 4.2% from last year. (The best selling vehicle in the U.S. is a ford truck that sells for more than 65k) All that “freedom” to be stuck in car dependency & traffic sure sounds expensive.

Gov Gavin Newsom signed #SB720 allowing for automated red light camera enforcement! This will help hold drivers accountable for dangerous behaviors and keep our streets safe. #VisionZero @governor.ca.gov @gavinnewsom.bsky.social

Just before getting hired, McClintock wrote the Los Angeles Traffic Ordinance of 1925. This law, which I posted about this morning, prioritized driving and restricted walking. McClintock wrote it at the request of L.A. Studebaker dealer Paul G. Hoffman. The ordinance became a model for the USA.

This, the first national traffic engineering institute, was funded entirely by Studebaker and named for the company’s president. It soon relocated to Harvard and later to Yale. In 1935, when Studebaker could no longer fund it, the Automobile Manufacturers Association assumed responsibility for it.

October 13, 1925: One hundred years ago today, Miller McClintock was hired to serve as the director of the new Albert Russel Erskine Bureau for Street Traffic Research, endowed at the Southern Branch of the University of California (today’s UCLA). ...

SB 720 - SIGNED INTO LAW This bill by @senatorashby.bsky.social will institute a fairer and easier to administer red light camera program in the state that cities could choose to use.

It is funny how the Speaker of the House has been quoted several times having strong opinions about a Super Bowl Halftime show, then gets asked about the shutdown federal government being run by a mad king and scheming vizirs, and he just goes "Not sure! I'm still getting caught up on emails today!"

Mayor Harrell Announces Police Officers Will Recite Land Acknowledgement Before Sweeping Homeless Native Americans on Indigenous Peoples’ Day: tinyurl.com/35b9yp9f

I take a look at this long-awaited, transformative project in this HIGH SPEED dispatch: www.highspeed.blog/the-new-fren...

Transit is stuck in a 20th-century paradigm: a mix of city-center-serving subways/metros and commuter rail for the suburbs. (And too many cities can't even manage this.) But #Paris is building the first truly 21st-century #transit system. Nothing to do with hyperloops or maglevs... 🧵

Welcome perspective and counsel for a disoriented plutocrat philanthropist from @peterhartlaub.bsky.social, the "Marc Benioff Come-Back-to-Your-Senses Challenge", lace up your shoes and engage San Francisco one foot after the other, the way your grandfather did www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/m...

ICE / Border Patrol threatening to arrest a cyclist for following and recording in Chicago

“Forget EVs. Cycling is revolutionising transport” www.economist.com/internationa...

Philip Morris to provide free cases of cigarettes to area schools amid debates over effects of tobacco on health.

STEPHANOPOULOS: I didn't insinuate anything. I asked you whether Tom Homan accepted $50k as was heard on an audio tape recorded by the FBI in September 2024. You did not answer the question. Thank you for your time. VANCE: No, George, I sai-- STEPHANOPOULOS: We'll be right back

Attacks on the federal workforce are also attacks on Black workers, who are overrepresented in the public sector. Black unemployment is 7.5%. I'm reminded of Coates' observation that Black Americans regularly experience conditions that would be considered a crisis if whites faced them.