Muni to the fireworks! If the fog lifts. The live GGB cam is looking very SF summer currently.

Back in the 00s, I thought we had seen the beginning of the end of Christian Nationalism. Now we have a government that posts this slop all the time. The 4th of July is a time to remember that revolution is never done, and that we will always have to keep fighting against fascism of all stripes.

ACA 22 -- the bastard child of the CA state legislature and failed negotiations that would require all special purpose taxes to require a 2/3rds threshold -- will be Prop 43 on the November ballot. When you're talking to friends and neighbors, remember to tell them to vote no on Prop 43!

Every 250 years America must begin the process of sloughing off its mad king or we get out of shape

my "we are not building an Orwelian surveillance system" t-shirt has people asking a lot of questions already answered by my product called "Robocop"

Statistics like this are genuinely shocking, but so too has been the intensity and duration of this extraordinary heatwave in Europe. As a society, we have greatly underestimated--and therefore underpriced--the cost of highly extreme heat events in a rapidly warming world.

Listen to @buffywicks.bsky.social. Vote no on ACA 22.

It sounds like the legislature had seen very positive polling for the Jarvis measure, and felt they had to act to protect existing budgets.

I don't particularly recommend watching the video unless harassment turns you on, or you're up for some unhinged hatred. This sort of harassment is disgusting, to say nothing of ineffective & counterproductive. I don't know what's in these individual's hearts, but it's not a desire to talk.

The Kidney Dialysis of parks.

Lying on a ballot petition might be a bad idea. missionlocal.org/2026/06/grea...

treaty - noun trea•ty 1: a worthless document based on vibes and fundamental misunderstandings 2 (archaic): a: an agreement or arrangement made by negotiation b: a document in which such a contract is set down

Wow, today's SCOTUS ruling was horrific.

14 California Propositions this election: 💵1. Billionaire tax ❌2 & ❌3. Competing measures against billionaire tax ✏️4. High earner tax, funds schools 🚧5. Makes it harder to pass special tax 🏘️6. Affordable housing bond 🏠7. 1st time homebuyer loans 1/ calmatters.org/politics/202...

My BART Strava art gets an honorable mention in MTC's Bike Month wrap-up.

Haven't seen this reported elsewhere, and it seems like a big deal. No doubt, it will be appealed up to SCOTUS. No enforcement agency should ever be allowed to use a hearing as a way to entrap someone - it makes a mockery of any court system. missionlocal.org/2026/06/judg...

Okay, really premature on my part to call AB 736 dead. But the situation seems very sticky. Other funding can just fill the void. There are plenty of ideological tax opponents in the US with billions floating around. I'm also curious who else was party to the negotiations, and gave things up.

From the other place. HJTA is not going to take the Wicks deal. I believe that means AB 736 is dead, the SF DSA measure is alive (and an important yes vote, as it exempts the first sale of multi-family from the transfer tax), & passage of ACA 13 (and defeat of the Jarvis measure) must be top prios.

new take™ www.youtube.com/watch?v=LNFi...

New from me! How can we get better data interoperability across transit agencies around California?

Far past time to kill the contract with Flock.

The obsession with getting instantaneous election results is weird and unhealthy, serves no real purpose, and feeds conspiratorial nonsense. Increasingly thinking we might be better off just embargoing all results for like a week.

Next up: Connect Bay Area qualifies for the ballot, and then it'll be time to win two campaigns for funding this November!

"It gets dumber" really is the motto of the U.S. right now.

We seem to be approaching a self-inflicted societal inability to understand reality. Disbelief will become self-defense, creating a world in which everything seems possible, yet no shared understanding of reality exists. Looking forward to logging off a lot more until the nukes go off. (gift link)

Damn straight. The idea that California elections have to match MAGA conspiracy theorist ideals should be dead on arrival.

We did a whole episode with Laurel about this recently. It’s important to understand the impacts of these types of decisions. usa.streetsblog.org/2026/04/02/t...

I am willing to bet the dogs weren't on leash, cornered the bear, and the bear "attacked." 70-lbs is...a small bear, likely a juvenile.

The AP has called it for Ramen. But the eye-popping numbers are how much she is also spanking Bass in some of these later drops. Ramen has a real shot in November. A more progressive electorate and a big blue wave. Exciting!

I do not support building lots of new roads, which is part of what made the IIJA such a bitter pill. But the IIJA also didn't solve other underlying structural issues, like a lack of labor and supplies to do the work. The result? Prices skyrocketed, and much less got done.

Oregon and Portland have failed to find funding to stop transit cuts, and now serious cuts are almost here. We have a lot of work remaining in the Bay Area, but we have managed to get on the ballot, and now we just need to win!

BART Prom was amazing fun and @bart.gov announced it'll be happening again next year! Met lots of friends, danced for a few hours! 🎉🎊

The LA Mayoral election will hopefully be very interesting. A chance for actual, substantive debate!

Oaklanders, whats the analysis for why Measure E failed? I read through the tax today, and while I don't love how the rates were constructed, it also doesn't seem actively bad on its face. SPUR's analysis indicated most owners would face an overall lower tax burden, with other taxes expiring.

Best reporting I've seen to date on what last week's @airresources.bsky.social vote could mean for Muni: cuts to free and reduced-fare programs, and a big gap in capital funding for the upgrades to the train control system.

"Our pool is bigger than skyscrapers," is the sort of utterance that is very cute when it comes from a five-year-old.

"Simple" things like schedule alignment are overly hard in the Bay Area, but they make a huge difference!

Statewide predictions: * Steyer fails to top Hilton * Raman manages to beat Pratt in LA, advances * We get a split result in the two CA-1 elections, sending Gallagher to congress (before then being defeated in November in the new district) * Ma takes Lt. Gov despite her scandals

New research examines Waymo's California robotaxi trips btw Aug 2023 and Dec 2025. Conclusion: 46% of miles driven involved no one inside the car. That's 40 million miles of deadheading, with Waymo vehicles using road space w/o transporting a human. doi.org/10.32866/001...

He's going to get tired of looking like a total looser in the media and just walk aware from the burning fire he lit, acting like it's all fine.

Yes this is somehow real. The BART fare gates went down because Cubic failed to pay the AT&T bill. They had another Clipper outage last month because they let the disk fill up on the database server Just absolute clownshow stuff

The deep levels of incompetence by Cubic also indicates a lack of oversight by @mtcbata.bsky.social. MTC needs to be transparent about how their project management failed, and what they are going to do to solve it. It's hard to believe they had staff subject matter experts that could oversee Cubic.

Connect Bay Area transit funding measure signature campaign conclusion party today! Thank you to everyone that volunteered and to everyone who signed the petition - Next stop, the November election!

I know there is a lot going on, and not all of this is new, but numerous aspects of this OMB proposal are highly alarming and would, if enacted, effectively force American scientists receiving federal funding (which is...most of them in some capacity or another) to stop engaging with the public.

For those following along at home, CARB’s vote today essentially guts the greenhouse gas reduction fund and eviscerates the state’s largest sources of funding for affordable housing and public transit. At a time when we should be doubling down on them, we’re pulling away.

So fucking short sighted

CARB passes the motion create the MDI program and transfer billions from transit and housing to oil & gas industry 😡 Balmes: Yes Eisenhut : Yes Guerra: Yes Hopkins: No Limon: No Pacheco-Werner: Yes Rechtschaffen: Yes Santiago: Yes Shaheen: Yes Silva: Yes Granados: Yes Takvorian: No Sanchez: Yes

Perhaps the best single pieces of political reporting on the Congressional race.

NorCal continues to elect some truly horrible people.