ICE told nurses this Minneapolis man “purposefully ran headfirst into a brick wall.” What actually happened is that they pulled him from a car, beat him so viciously with a steel baton that he had 8 skull fractures, 5 life-threatening brain hemorrhages, and couldn’t remember he had a daughter.

Try doing this with your car.

Cool things about signature gathering to help save & improve transit throughout the Bay: -Every signature you gather is vital and materially moves the Bay towards $1B in annual transit funding -Takes about 30-60 minutes to learn how to do well, then you can do it whenever luma.com/connectbayar...

Off to gather signatures in Palo Alto and San Jose today. Admittedly, two places that don't have a lot of BART, but this article is illustrative of our general transit future if we don't fund it.

This is another reason why I think the information retrieval push, even pre-LLM, to shift from 10 Blue Links to retrieving contents, answering questions, etc. may be a mistake. We lose important things when we unmoor information from authorial & organizational grounding (and cites aren’t enough).

In brighter news...

Tear it all down. A list of things that must be abolished: * The Department of "Homeland" Security. It's been a racist enterprise from that start. * Its twin offspring, ICE and CBP * All for-profit detention, jails, and prisons * Immigration courts

Looking for a chill outdoor event to do some good this ☀️ weekend? There are some signature gathering opportunities in relaxed locations coming up! Saturday: Dolores Park, noon-2pm, drop on anytime if you're trained, noon if you are looking to learn.

the cost curve for BART service cuts is just absolutely brutal. Under any scenario, most of the savings from deep service cuts are just immediately cancelled out by reduced revenue because people stop riding it's really bleak. come help prevent this! luma.com/connectbayarea

BART's newly released concepts for what they'll do if Connect Bay Area transit funding measure fails are terrifying. Phase 1: 63% train hours cut & 10 station closures Phase 2: Cumulative 70% train hours cut, 15 station closures Phase 3 (if required): END BART SERVICE We must pass the measure! 🧵

🚨HOLY CRAP. The Trump admin just took a SLEDGEHAMMER to due process, largely eliminating the Board of Immigration Appeals process and MANDATING DISMISSAL of ALL appeals (which cost $1,000 thanks to OBBBA) filed after tomorrow unless a majority of the BIA votes to hear the case.

Looking for a chill outdoor event to do some good this ☀️ weekend? There are some signature gathering opportunities in relaxed locations coming up! Saturday: Dolores Park, noon-2pm, drop on anytime if you're trained, noon if you are looking to learn.

you personally have the ability to secure elections for yourself and your neighbors.

In a fascinating union of two of my interests, it turns out that the technology that built the special effects of star wars (motion control) was invented by UC Berkeley to research how Marin residents would react to development proposals if they could see realistic video renderings.

BREAKING: The Supreme Court will not stop the use of California's new congressional maps in this year's midterm elections. The court rejected California Republicans' effort to stop the use of the new maps. There were no noted dissents and no opinion.

We are lucky no one died or was permanently injured. Police have been using tear gas (and less lethals) to penalize speech they disagree with for decades. It's not unique to ICE/CBP. But the nonchalant nature and rapidity of it is still chilling. Should be a crime to use gas like this.

Relatedly, high quality public transit is necessary for our community to engage in protest like this, both wrt travel to the event as well as the assembly space itself. Volunteer & donate to the #ConnectBayArea ballot measure to save Bay Area transit this year: connectbayarea.com

Really bad news for wildfire, hydro output and electricity prices later this year.

It's very hard to imagine this wasn't a policy decision - both to start enforcing and then to stop. The agency says it's hard to cite drivers parking in the bike lane, but did it suddenly become harder in March 2025? No. www.sfchronicle.com/totalsf/arti...

A huge amount of quiet, inside work went into making sure this happened, and deserves massive praise. 🥳 I am concerned that the final number is less than needed and requires the regional measure money to come in without delay after passage. Looking for agency updates with this new, smaller number.

A fundamental tension: Robotaxi services can make the most money in dense urban neighborhoods—which are precisely the places that need them least.

San Ramon having a morning.

March 5/6th, Tigran will be at the Great American Music Hall. No idea what this new project will be like, but it will for sure be some sort mix of jazz metal and folk music.

We're at the part of the resistance where we build roundabouts. Good traffic engineering 🤝 defeating fascism.

There's a reasonable case to be made that American law enforcement has abused chemical irritants for far too long and should be banned from having them nationwide

Much of the U.S. is not prepared for the influx of people getting older, living longer but aging out of driving. We need to enact policies that make our communities less dependent on people driving themselves around to simply live. usa.streetsblog.org/2026/01/15/a...

Thank you to everyone who came out for the #AlexPretti memorial ride in Oakland today. It was a huge turnout, even more than shown here at Lake Merritt, as some people peeled off since the start at Rockridge BART. @bikeeastbay.bsky.social @ebbp.bsky.social

This video ends up interviewing George Bliss, and now I want to know a lot more about George Bliss and what he does.

Yesterday I got a preview of the possible cuts Muni would have to make without new funding sources. It's bad. 20 lines gone, only OWL service after 9pm, half the frequency on all remaining routes. No F or cable cars. Ridership numbers would plummet, and our streets would be gridlocked.

The best first mile / last mile transit technology even invented is a good sidewalk. That’s how all the world’s successful transit systems work.

this is so bad! owl service starting at 9 is wild but no f market or cable cars is just crushing the soul of the city

Yesterday I got a preview of the possible cuts Muni would have to make without new funding sources. It's bad. 20 lines gone, only OWL service after 9pm, half the frequency on all remaining routes. No F or cable cars. Ridership numbers would plummet, and our streets would be gridlocked.

Minnesota based Independent Journalist GEORGIA FORT has been arrested for filming a protest of the church pastor that works as an ICE manager. SPREAD THE WORD! Georgia has been doing outstanding reporting from ground zero!

I know we’re so far past even considering the possibility that Republicans ever actually believed in the Constitution, but it’s a useful thought experiment to read this article as if it was about Biden using technology developed by a billionaire donor to surveil anti-abortion and 2A activists.

Neoliberalism in government has been a giant drain on government capacity and efficiency. It's a major contributor to governments' inability to address pressing problems. It's based on the fantasy that companies extracting maximal profit will somehow be cheaper than managing large programs directly.

👇

For a bunch of self-declared isolationists, they sure do seem like a bunch of colonialists. Color me surprised.

If advocates gather 186,000 signatures across the Bay Area, a half-cent sales tax proposal will appear on the November ballot. Passage would mean an infusion of cash for BART, AC Transit, and other mass transit agencies.

Finished my first packet of signatures for the regional Bay Area transit funding measure! 🫡✨🚎

Peer review science relies, more than we care to admit, on what @zey.bsky.social calls "load bearing frictions" that make it difficult to fake good science, and on trust that most ppl also value science itself & won't cheat just for personal gain. This creates the wrong environment for that to hold.

Public transit doesn’t move faster when we just talk about fixing it. It moves faster when we actually cut the red tape holding back the fixes. I’ve led the fight in California to streamline transit projects, get bus and bike lanes added and improved, and save communities time and money.

This Chronicle article is short on details, and I would love to know more about this case. A lot of echos from my experience as editor-and-chief of my high school newspaper, and a school administration who wanted to suppress students first amendment rights.

Love to see so many people riding BART! Don’t love thinking about how all of us on this red line train would be impacted if the orange line was cut and service was just once an hour. We need to pass the Connect Bay Area to prevent this and save transit. Sign the petition and vote in November!

Now imagine BART collapses and Muni cuts service by 50%.

Night all!

If Muni still ran to the Marin Headlands, the lion could just take the bus.

"'Two things we need right now,' Remington said, 'are more art and more transit.'"

The biggest risk in this moment is something sociologists call “symbolic compliance.” That’s when an institution that is violating civil rights gives the public just enough symbolic victories that accountability efforts lose steam before there has been any meaningful change.

Last Friday, we joined our partners from across the Bay Area to officially kick off the Connect Bay Area Transit campaign, the five-county regional transit funding measure. Now they need your help with signature gathering to qualify this measure for the November election!