Good news for the Santa Clara County Assessor runoff election, the first batch of ballots has Neysa Fligor (endorsed by Democrats, labor unions, and many progressive elected leaders and organizations) with a significant lead! Thank you to everyone who voted! ✅😍

It should be harder to get a drivers license and easier to lose it.

A six-story building like this should be allowed by default virtually everywhere, especially in cities like San Mateo and Palo Alto who think it’s a slippery slope to becoming Hong Kong.

Just another day on the suburban car-brained roads of Palo Alto as police arrest woman involved in a road rage incident. www.kron4.com/news/palo-al...

Meanwhile over on Nextdoor, “if we build that 4 story skyscraper, our schools will be overwhelmed.” www.smdailyjournal.com/news/local/m...

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Great, another one of those memes about how they worked and saved enough to take the rest of 2025 off. Ha ha ha.

Boba-ization of downtown the leading indicator of a vibrant, walkable community. Sorry, I don’t make the rules. San Mateo and Berkeley have a high ratio while cities like Menlo Park have one. Even San Carlos downtown has like 4+.

Wishing a very @bvbofficial.bsky.social Christmas to all.

On behalf of everyone in The Resistance movement following the massive EPSTEIN coverup, I want to wish all my fellow Radical Left Scum the happiest of holidays!- ♥️, Mar🐫

Sort of like how one has to diversify an investment portfolio or risk losing everything all at once, a transportation system that doesn't have a diversity of modes is destined to crash. Building everything around cars, autonomous or otherwise, is always going to lead to this outcome.

How to show you’re an entitled homeowner without saying you’re an entitled homeowner. I live nearby and never noticed. Maybe because I’m a renter. 🤷🏻‍♂️

Who needs a village when you can have parking lots?

In Santa Monica, the FPPC has disqualified pro-housing Councilmember Jesse Zwick from all future housing votes. They said that because he works for a housing non-profit, he’s “conflicted” and must recuse. Pretty absurd. The NIMBY deep state strikes again. www.smdp.com/state-regula...

Sometimes you just have to look a nice 78yo left-liberal white lady in the eye at the Hanukkah party and say “no, there is no upper limit to how many people can live in the Bay Area; and I believe that we are morally called to welcome the stranger, which means being ok with neighborhood change.”

M*A*S*H.

When Bon Jovi wrote the words “my heart is like an open highway” in It’s My Life, he was presciently foreshadowing the battle over the Great Highway and secretly showing which side he is on. In this essay I shall…

That’s the woman who said whatever that guy is saying, 5 minutes ago, but got ignored.

Swanton Berry Farm is a organic UFW contract company in Davenport CA, in Santa Cruz County. "Angela" worker who labors there invites UFW supporters in the area to try their holiday pies, saying we have apple, pecan, blackberry and strawberry rhubarb pies. #WeFeedYou

The people yearn for dense, walkable urban areas with public plazas!

Councilmember Phoebe Venkat said she would be opposed to any potential e-bike ban, calling it “very shortsighted. It’s about prioritizing the right actions rather than blame and shame kids and blame and shame parents,” Venkat said. www.smdailyjournal.com/news/local/w...

This is a damning graph but it shows exactly what you would expect. People living off Prop 13 largesse inveigh against newcomers and yet they need them to actually pay for the services of their community. They are not serious people

The highest risk of depression was among sprawling suburbs, and the lowest was among multistory buildings with open space in the vicinity. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Don’t threaten me with a good time.

I think this project looks cool but I also think everyone needs to get over the idea that one building they consider an eyesore is going to destroy the entire neighborhood. If you want to micromanage the aesthetics of your neighbors' property then move to an HOA.

Passed over for vice mayor of Cupertino couldn’t happen to a nicer guy than Ray Wang. /s sanjosespotlight.com/cupertino-ma...

Amazed that the elite college laser focused tiger moms of Palo Alto are 10+ years behind Sequoia Union High School District. www.paloaltoonline.com/education/20...

Menlo Park is one step closer to facing the consequences of not taking the housing element seriously. www.almanacnews.com/menlo-park/2...

I don’t think it is progressive to force urban homeowners like me who live in fire-safe areas to pay higher home insurance premiums to subsidize people who choose to live in McMansions in places with very high fire risk.

Yeah, I still can't comprehend how there is a huge moral panic about ebikes and not these human crushing machines. The only theory I can imagine, is that moral panics are perpetuated by the news media which gets a large fraction of its revenue from car ads.

“Some of the comments that we heard use language that makes it sound like that square footage of the street in front of someone's home belongs to them,” Narita said. www.smdailyjournal.com/news/local/w...

This happened in my city last week. Since it seems like the entire world is obsessing over the potential dangers of teens riding ebikes lately, I feel like a reminder is in order: drivers are far and away the greatest threat to your kid and everyone else on the road, and always will be.

Ozempic but for cars. usa.streetsblog.org/2025/12/02/o...

NY minimum auto liability insurance for killing a pedestrian or bike rider is $50,000 per person/$100,000 per accident for multiple deaths.. In California, $30,000 per person/$60,000 per accident for multiple deaths.

The top 5 fastest growing U.S. transit agencies (3 million to 15 million annual trips) over the last year are: 1. @caltrain.com, CA ⬆️ 56% 2. GoRaleigh, NC ⬆️ 42% 3. Blacksburg Transit, VA ⬆️ 26% 4. Airtrain JFK, NY ⬆️ 23% 5. Golden Empire Transit, CA ⬆️ 20% #TransitWrapped2025 is fall 2025-fall 2024.

“Beloved” is another word for a dilapidated store that’s seen better days. "Taking a massive parking lot strip mall of sadness and turning it into a vibrant community—I mean, the building looks gorgeous." hoodline.com/2025/12/mari...

Fixed it for you: E-Bike Injuries Are Up 1,800%, But It's Not Actually E-Bikes: It's Primarily Irresponsible Car Drivers Projecting velo.outsideonline.com/ebike/ebike-...

Sad that Foster City's response to date is to blame the school district and e-bikes. actionnetwork.org/petitions/pl...

Tall buildings in San Mateo ensure Godzilla paying a visit.

Menlo Park politics in a nutshell.

Cars have feelings too.

Area retirees had clutched their pearls when Draeger’s closed claiming the area was becoming a food desert. www.smdailyjournal.com/news/local/n...

also this is just disingenous bullshit. "you should need a license plate and a license to ride a bike" is not "pro-e-bike." this is concern trolling.

If only the pros outweighed the cons.

Every last one of these cars should be destroyed.

You’re next Menlo Park. www.pressdemocrat.com/2025/12/01/c...

I literally can't walk 4 blocks downtown without almost almost being hit by a car running a atop sign, red light or rtor without yielding. It's gotten so bad, I've started wearing a camera while walking. But those ebikes 🙄 NYT gets paid by car ads. That's why they print anti-ebike articles.

The Car and Oil industries are going to work overtime to paint ebikes as dangerous instead of a solution to the danger of cars, and legacy corporate media like the NYT are going to help them

I fixed it for you: The Dangers of Cars: Injuries and deaths are rising — but the law hasn’t kept up. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/30/b...

If the media said about everyone hit by a driver ‘Hit by driver fractured their skull, so victim set a course of reform?’ The immediate reaction would be ‘not ALL drivers are irresponsible and distracted.’ www.youtube.com/watch?v=99WQ...