As a patient, my doctor and her staff are wonderful, but UC’s understaffing has repeatedly caused me harm. As a member of a UC union, if you think UC doesn’t have money to spend, you should see the absurd things for which they’re paying counsel to drag us to arbitration.

Not that the overall point is wrong, but using “overwhelming” to describe a 1.5% popular vote margin and a single-digit House majority is just propaganda.

In UAW’s case against the “DEI” cuts, a *Reagan-appointed judge* said the regime’s action was one of the most overtly racist and generally discriminatory things he had ever seen from the bench. The university did not join us in that suit, nor did it file its own. It negotiated to concede the merits.

This was recently a construction site for a new research building. They finished the already in-progress excavation and paused indefinitely due to risk from funding cuts. With NIH making fewer grants, it would be hard to staff anyway. Whatever cure you’re hoping for, the regime is stealing it.

Idea for addressing constant MTS route 30 delays: - Route 30: Old Town <-> La Jolla via existing alignment - Route 32: La Jolla <-> UCSD Central Campus via existing alignment to Gilman Dr, then Pepper Canyon Dr, Voigt Dr, existing route 985 stop.

An inactive musician’s Spotify account was hacked and started posting near-daily AI slop. When I reported this to Spotify, they forked the original music to a blank account and let the hacker keep the original one with 200,000 followers. A lot of media companies are openly facilitating fraud.

UC nurses are joining our union siblings at @afscme3299.bsky.social and @uptecwa.bsky.social for a sympathy strike on Nov. 17 & 18. We stand united against UC's attempts to cut corners and deprive our coworkers of fair contracts. If you take on one of us, you take on all of us!

ICE deported him anyways. They literally put a man who was at death’s door on a plane to Costa Rica. Doctors there found he had encephalopathy, rhabdomyolysis and the inability to eat on his own. What happened to him in ICE custody to cause this? He died a few weeks after deportation:

Bumping this devastating, essential reporting by @dmbrown-tboy.bsky.social again. Rideshare workers, already treated terribly by the union-busting corps they work for, are being kidnapped from O'Hare as city-hired security guards watch.

Pregnancy became far more dangerous in Texas after the state banned abortion, according to our analysis, which found the sepsis rate for women hospitalized as they miscarried in the 2nd trimester shot up by more than 50%. (Published February)

Would be nice if the headlines were "Adams donor with no firefighting experience quits as fire commissioner" rather than implying that NYC is losing critical safety personnel over Mamdani's election.

I thought he was just a guy from LI who didn't want to have to live in NYC under Mamdani. I was wrong, he's from NYC. He has financial ties to Israel and no firefighting experience (he was appointed last summer and uhm a lot was going on). From wikipedia.

That's ok, Google, I can't either.

"The President is posting bizarre content on the Internet for no apparent reason, I'm therefore going to scroll through this video and count his fingers every time his hands are on screen." - normal thought that occurs to normal people in normal times.

We're at the "travel restrictions in opposition strongholds" phase of fascism, and the "they don't understand that most airline are hub-and-spoke networks and they'll hurt their own supporters just as much" phase of stupid fascism.

Getting new details on this now: As the arrest unfolded, teachers pleaded with the agents telling them the teacher had a work permit. The agents went into multiple rooms looking for teachers while children were present. One teacher hid with a child in her care while the agents stormed the facility.

Not a lawyer, but every day I see more things that make me think the real life justice system is becoming more like the union contract grievance system I’m more familiar with. To be clear, that’s very bad.

I think we sometimes shoot ourselves in the foot by treating things like cycling/pedestrian safety, transit, and housing as distinct policy fights when they’re really the same issue and one can’t be solved without the others. Siloing them leads to short-sighted positions like defending Waymo.

A US Congressman posting a statement that a nuclear warhead should be launched at America’s largest city would’ve been a domestic and international crisis at one point. It won’t even make the news because everyone knows we’re led by an assembly of Facebook Uncles and you can only ignore them.

This is not unusual domestically. Soldiers and their families are one of the largest groups of people going to food banks in San Diego, even in normal times.

Apparent ICE policy is, if their agents cause a car crash, to arrest the other driver at gunpoint and charge them with assault for existing where ICE wanted their car to be at that moment.

NIH has started a policy of allocating multiple years of funding for new grants rather than one year at a time. Because that money comes out of the current fiscal year, this means fewer grants. This will kick off an attrition cycle in science if not stopped, or funding not increased.

Mamdani was voted for by more people in this one election than voted for Kristi Noem in all of her elections combined (SD state rep two terms, US rep three terms, and two terms as SD governor)

Tonight might be the biggest, but there have been several off-year or replacement elections since last November, and many of them had results like tonight’s that were promptly ignored by all the commentators. Establishment media is human-centipede’d to itself, we have to stop seeking its validation.

This is a good heuristic for who to primary: Every Dem who said something nice about Cheney today disqualified themselves by doing so.

Hate being tempted to put my faith in Important Individuals again, but this is critical for people to head and I hope he never stops saying it as long as he has a national platform.

Given the extremely absurd accusations of antisemitism in the other screenshots in this thread, worth noting that the “argument” they’re all referencing is whether or not Fuentes and his explicit call for eradicating American Jews can be accepted as a wing of their movement.

The Pure Water construction traffic patterns have been getting progressively more unhinged on each iteration and I think MTS operators deserve hazard pay for the new Nobel and CMB ones.

We’ve had multiple shooting/bomb threats since I’ve been here. Militias held anti-vaccine rallies. Hospitals and clinics are one of the most common sites of workplace violence with several mass shootings over the last couple years. No one overreacted to the Harvard news, a motive still isn’t known.

Would be good for all these judges to actually follow through on sanctions threats because apparently the Feds can openly destroy evidence now.

San Diego City Council had to repeal a 1918 prohibition on “seditious language” because SDPD was still using it as recently as 2020, mostly to punish Black men for rap lyrics or for criticizing police. voiceofsandiego.org/2020/08/03/s...

today’s information came out piecemeal, and people should be able to share their own situations on their own time, but I could share this much ^ as it is pretty cut and dry on the facts. Teen Vogue also no longer has any trans staffers as of today.

thank you for all the support; the statement from our union is now live here with some more reporting. now that this is public I can confirm that the majority of today’s layoffs were women of color. there are no longer any Black women working at Teen Vogue.

Anecdotally, people losing their jobs because of funding cuts in academia (postdocs, research staff) are typically pressured to resign first. I've seen supervisors insinuate that refusing to resign is unprofessional, or that having a formal layoff on record will be a barrier to future employment.

Traffic engineers designing the main entrance road to the city's largest university: Let's give the drivers at least two 10' wide 50 MPH lanes in each direction. And the cyclists? Hmm maybe we could squeeze a few inches for them between the speeding cars and this wall of poison oak

I was in Memphis for work recently, didn't see almost anyone besides the Guard downtown at any time of day. www.propublica.org/article/memp...

And don’t build UTC again. No more dense housing around high-frequency transit with planning that still makes cars the primary mode of transportation.

The San Diego Police Department are asking for the public help in locating an at-risk 19-year-old with a mental condition last seen in Southeast San Diego.

The President’s Postdoctoral Fellowship Program, PPFP, has been a jewel in the crown for faculty development and recruitment at the University of California for years and the results have been an expanded faculty with almost 100% tenure rates — unprecedented success.

US citizen shot from behind as he warned ICE agents children would be coming to get bus, lawyers say

To summarize, the President and the HHS Secretary are boosting attacks on one of the largest health systems in California, likely resulting in disrupted care for thousands of people, because the Dilbert guy tried to cure his cancer with veterinary anti-parasitics. www.npr.org/2025/05/20/n...

Convince me this is not state-sponsored terrorism.

Anecdotally, I think ICE aggression in San Diego has increased since last week.

Been worried about things like this for awhile.

California fell for these lies in the last election. In San Diego, there have already been thousands of additional arrests, and if SNAP gets cut off, the jail system in which people already die several times per year from medical neglect, will completely collapse.

Other than just prioritizing speed, the biggest mistake planners make is assuming that people will always follow rules. There is a tangible difference between just having a rule about yielding to pedestrians on paper and having a physical sign that explicitly protects the pedestrian right of way.

I asked for a no-right-on-red to activate with the ped signal because the ped signal already leads the green but corner has a visibility obstruction. The City told me they won’t do that because it would slow traffic. Again, I wanted a no-right only when a pedestrian crossing has been initiated.

Get It Done resolution time estimates are a bit silly. I reported flashing reds at Balboa and Genesee last night and they eventually closed it with a note that it was already reported/dispatched, but the confirmation email said it would take 15 days to address.

Apparently the executive order prohibiting federal officials from fact-checking private speech only applies to public health.

Union-Tribune reported this week that kindergarten-age children in San Diego County have dropped below the herd immunity threshold.