In the confusion over DHS, it's being lost that the GOP is doubling down on violent ICE tactics, no longer even talking about guardrails. Between that and Trump's insanely inflated defense budget, everything else the federal government is doing is literally under the gun. nymag.com/intelligence...

Gerald Ford vetoed naming a post office after himself.

What is there even left to say at this point. Humiliating to be represented by this government.

I'm not sure how someone can go from being a safe streets hero — winning 93% (!) of the vote in an election where her opponent tried and failed to make bike lanes a wedge issue — and then opt to not treat her landslide victory as a mandate for improving her city as quickly as possible.

This is completely nuts

Gas is up to almost $5 in parts of Chicago, and it's going to get worse. So now is a good time to start looking into a way of carrying people and things that's dramatically cheaper - a cargo ebike! My fuel cost for 2 years was around $6, with only $29 a month total running cost

“Air pollution fell substantially as Paris restricted car traffic and made way for parks, people-streets and bike-lanes.” Better for the climate, better for health, better for livability and quality of life. Common sense. Such a no-brainer, it’s remarkable that more cities HAVEN’T done the same.

Powerful stuff, disgraceful stuff. I feel Fallows’s righteous anger.

Re-upping from last night. This offense deserves attention.

Just dreaming of a crosswalk like the fourth image where the Hornet Crossing intersects College Town. Imagine prioritizing kids walking and rolling to school over those in single occupancy cars!

Meanwhile, conventional US speed limit approach: Take 100 typical drivers Find 15th most-aggressive and ask, how fast would you like to drive here? Then round up*

Another scorcher - now let’s pass the Safer Sac Streets ballot measure so we don’t have to rely on the ever-shrinking peanuts provided by the Gov and Legislature (hat tip to Ariane’s article before this one).

The best time to pedestrianize a street is 100 years ago, but the second-best time is today 😎

If you’re roughly my age, it’s wild to reflect on the optimism for the future Americans felt when Obama was elected — young Americans spontaneously took to the streets to celebrate! — and contrast with what we face today. The falloff over the past 18 years is hard to process.

I am so unbelievably ready for this: www.safersacstreets.com

Now would be a good time for California to actually prioritize helping people to find other ways to get around than by car

Christo & Jeanne-Claude, "Wall of Oil Barrels—The Iron Curtain" (1961–62), an installation of stacked oil barrels that completely blocked the historic rue Visconti, one of the narrowest streets in Paris, and slowed traffic through the city's Left Bank

Alex's mom on his 38th birthday.

As a professional military strategist, I just wanted to make sure everyone has a full understanding of the American strategy in Iran, thank you for your attention to this matter

If this measure passes, it would raise over $2 billion for Sacramento transit and safe streets over the next 30 years. Every dollar raised nets over $5,000 dollars in impact. I’m good for a million bucks worth ($200) — who’s with me?

Let’s make safe streets a priority here in Sacramento!

Today, something happened in the City of Sacramento. The beginning of something exciting. Language was filed with the city for a ballot measure to raise sales tax 0.5% to fund safe streets and transit infrastructure. It's gonna take everyone to get this passed, but together, I think we can do it. 🚲🚌

Another great reminder that if Sacramento is serious about climate goals, it needs to focus itself on getting folks to move around by transit, bikes, and (gulp) scooters

Going car-free is the best thing most people can do for climate. To reduce car dependency, cities should promote car-free living, supporting compact cities through policy, and investing in public transportation, pedestrian and bicycle infrastructure, and shared mobility options.

My colleague got into Trump's sprawling family detention camp, which is full of toddlers, kids, & teens. - Kids have cut themselves or talked about suicide -There's worms & mold in food -300 kids have been held for 30+ days, far longer court settlement allows www.propublica.org/article/life...

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hard to overstate just how much Houston nailed it with the dunking astronaut logo

Just experienced the most intense tear gassing of my life by federal officers outside the ICE facility in Portland where marchers gathered. There was no fast exit as they indiscriminately threw loads of gas and flash bangs. Children were in the crowd screaming. @oregoncapitalchronicle.com

About 60% of The Sacramento Bee’s reporters and photojournalists are white. But if you look at the pool of local reporters whose wages are so low they qualify for low-income housing, the ratio is flipped: 63% are people of color. Management offered a deal that would leave most of them low-income.

ICYMI: The Sac Bee Guild is urging McClatchy to raise salaries and give our lowest paid reporters fair pay. Currently, eight of our local news reporters (who are predominantly BIPOC + women) are underpaid so much that they qualify for low income housing. We deserve better.

In bargaining with the Sacramento Bee guild today, McClatchy management proposed wage increases so pitiful that they would leave seven of our local journalists eligible for low-income housing.

The nurses are pissed

Remember when these guys lied that they were preserving Confederate monuments because you had to leave up the whole messy contested historical record rather than erasing history?

in case you're curious about how angry Minnesota is about ICE, it was -20 today

Here is a gift link to the Times’ new analysis of the Good shooting. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/15/v...

For what it's worth, at least our present moment is helping me understand the Dada artists & their motivations a whole lot better

Daring to imagine H Street or J St or BROADWAY with this setup

PBS News notes this Sunday will be “PBS News Weekend’s” last due to federal budget cuts

yeah they’re just grabbing random people at bus stops there is absolutely no attempt to even give the pretense that this is about immigration anymore. it is absolutely just a military occupation

A career federal agent says that in 25 years, a fleeing vehicle has never justified killing its occupant, and officers should never stand in front of a running car. CBS reportedly pulled the interview, but it posted on YouTube. www.youtube.com/watch?app=de...

I’ve heard from multiple friends today about daycares being raided and parents being ripped out of cars (in one case with a child left behind in the backseat). Grim times here.

Would love to see this kind of forethought from Sacramento community leaders

If you are a foreign president who commits crimes overseas, America will come get you, arrest you, and lock you up. But if you are a US president who commits crimes here in the United States, America will give you immunity from prosecution, reelect you, and bribe you with billions of dollars.

News: Gang of Eight in Congress were only notified about Trump's Venezuela operation after it began, source familiar tells me. That means the heads of the Intelligence Committees in Senate and House were *not* consulted. Just crazy.

Want to reduce US reliance on oil? Fund transit and electrify our trains!

According to the new rules, if you and a few friends go to a defense contractor’s testing facility and you say “where are the missiles” and they don’t let you in then all federal funds for defense contractors will be frozen

Exactly this: "School drop-offs. Grocery runs. Work commutes. Hardware store trips. Dog transport. Coffee runs that somehow turn into three errands. Once a cargo bike is sitting by your door, charged, set up, and ready, it becomes the default." A much happier way to get around!