In California, people are too often killed by reckless drivers while waiting for the bus. We need: 1. Steel bollards protecting bus stops 2. Mandatory electronic speed governors in cars 3. Much stricter rules for getting and keeping a drivers license Riding the bus shouldn't be a death sentence

"Everything from tariffs to defunding the Department of Education is in part motivated by this underlying misogyny. To the online right, tariffs are good because they will make the economy “manly” again. Fossil fuels are good because they require manly men to do hard work."

"The report, titled 'Wasted space: Axe car‑parking rules to ease the housing crisis', found the biggest savings would come from removing rules that force buyers to pay for one or more car spaces they may not want or need."

My story on “red boxing” in San Diego area congressional campaigns! This is how candidates and outside spending groups coordinate spending without violating FEC rules www.kpbs.org/news/politic...

An actual ‘tough on crime’ thing that would be huge would be expanding the liability that Amazon and Facebook marketplace have for all the shady shit sold via them.

Incredible that Amazon is one of the largest companies in the world and we just tolerate them selling counterfeit and stolen goods

In many European countries, a single DUI will result in loss of license and mandatory prison sentence. In some, a second offense means you can’t get your license back, and if you have lost your license due to DUI and you are caught driving, same penalty applies. Their traffic is way safer than ours.

“The economy is terrible nobody can afford what my parents could” Your parents at 25: Married for 2 years, 2 salaried jobs with healthcare & benefits, kids on the way You at 25: posting on the smallest and least important social media site getting 26 likes

Saw someone respond to the idea of DC statehood with “so should every major city be its own state?” and yeah don’t threaten me with a good time.

Mmm yess @economist.com free markets indeed www.washingtonpost.com/technology/i...

Much ink has been spilled over Hormuz being the end of freedom of navigation, but I submit to you that seizure of peaceful civilian vessels in international waters and the abduction of crew and passengers, to no official response from any of the nations that flagged those vessels, is also that.

can the city or county of san diego just seize del mar into a conservatorship ? it's a failed state

I think a lot of people have lost sight of the fact that bicycle helmets can do a decent job of protecting the wearer from a fall off the bike, but were never intended to protect the wearer from getting hit by a massive truck.

Wait until taxpayers hear how much those car lanes cost to build and maintain

Elon musk retweeted the “shooters were trans” lies on his personal account of over 200 million followers

Someone once said every city's budget looks like the dril candle tweet and they are undefeated

Tax cuts were expected to juice consumer spending in '26H1. Instead, the refund increase per filer from '25 to '26 has been offset by higher energy costs. With gas at $4.50 & tax season over, the net effect will soon be negative. Rather than an accelerant, the OBBBA acted as a short-term buffer.

Tom Steyer under fire for mistaking editor of WIRED magazine for editor of WEIRD magazine

Context: there's nothing new here. The shooters say they were motivated by white grievances fostered among the online incel culture against the usual scapegoats and boogiemen -- Muslims, Jews, immigrants, women and gay and trans people.

I'm not naming these shooters but just shaming them away does disservice. It's important to recognize and acknowledge their actions are part of a global white supremacist stochastic terror movement

Kinda buried the lede here: “The fee would mean EV drivers could end up paying more than drivers of traditional vehicles, who pay between $73 and $89 a year in gasoline taxes, according to ZETA data.”

Somebody please help me balance my budget, my city is broke :/

i would just constantly pile up evidence before him. "why are you creating a pedophile slush fund? are you going to prioritize giving tax dollars to people who attacked the capitol or who donated to trump first? how much more of a crime wave do you guys plan to enable?"

Exactly. Hit Blanche with the degenerates this will help. "This is a mug shot of so-and-so. He beat up cops on January 6. Trump pardoned him. Then he was arrested for molesting a child. How much taxpayer money do you plan to give him from Trump's insurrectionist/pedophile slush fund?" Rinse, repeat

This dude needs to get the Willie Horton treatment. Sadly we don't have a big enough megaphone to make it happen.

This is a fantastic example of everything wrong with the "progressive" wing of the San Francisco political establishment. You cannot claim to care about the affordability crisis while espousing pro-car, anti-upzoning policy positions and messaging. Sorry!

The most listened to episode of Cancel Me Daddy in history was our Amber Heard episode with @michaelhobbes.bsky.social. That's because we went viral on Reddit as one of the only pieces of coverage to be sympathetic to Heard.

Remember when the Supreme Court said a president lacked the power to forgive $20,000 of student debt for Pell Grant recipients and the White House just said "Oh, okay"

QUINTANILLA: According to the filings, the president has been trading some Intel in the quarter JIM CRAMER: Yeah, uh, yeah, hmm FABER: Got nothing to say? CRAMER: Uh, uh, yeah, whoa, yeah. FABER: Don't worry. We're not having technical difficulties, but we gotta go

Ring the bell because for the first time ever: Jim Cramer is stunned silent. Just like the rest of us, he’s seeing the President commit insider trading right in front of our very eyes.

The “we don’t have the votes” excuse for refusing to force a vote on impeachment is conceding the point and saying even the opposition party doesn’t think this high crime merits removal from office. It’s not being politically astute and pragmatic, it’s self-defeating in its cowardice.

Many jurisdictions actually have minimum parking requirements for bars. Objectively pro-drunk driving urban planning.

A wild but totally accepted part of car culture is the normalization of giant parking lots next to bars and breweries

Property crime on trains is down about 95% since BART installed tall fare gates that make it significantly harder to ride without paying.

You put a Game 7 on Amazon Prime then you deserve it to turn into a 30-point blowout. Thems the rules NBA

Die Abeetus Day (2002)

the crimes of this era are nigh innumerable but what the united states has done to the global south will live forever in infamy

2023 data for annual STICKER price at U.S. Colleges. Upper-bound on cost paid by students (because it does not consider aid and grants)

I ride the trolley quite a bit and absolutely support fare gates After any given Padres game, swarms of fans get on the trolley and I see *maybe* 10% tap a card to pay the fare. Maybe.

this truly is the thing that makes the united states exceptional, and right wingers hate it so much they want to destroy it

“Conservatives hate universities because they are broke outside the club” is incredible

Many people have a vested interest in pretending otherwise, but the US research university is globally dominant to an almost unbelievable degree. The typical state university is a football team stapled to a R&D lab with a budget bigger than the entire nation of Belgium.

Single payer healthcare makes sense because the risk of getting hurt or sick is random; so price discrimination is unfair to unlucky people. Pricing risk to homes, OTOH, is good and useful. If you choose to buy a house in a flood plain or fire risk zone, you *should* pay higher insurance premiums!

4th and 5th tallest towers in LA, with 2,500 units, just proposed next to the new D Line subway extension. The project would also include 2,100 parking spaces.

Not mentioned in this story is the complaint-based governance that defines most California cities is wildly unequal and unrepresentative. Another way to frame this: "San Francisco usually bends over backwards to accommodate its violent drivers. But not this time." www.kqed.org/news/1208238...

Everything MPU posts about data centers is complete garbage. They have zero respect for their audience. Literally no one here is losing power. This post is a complete lie. 🧵

A remarkable piece from 93-year-old Fran Moreland Johns on what life was like before the measles vaccine. www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...

What if we got four guys nobody knows to sit in the overflow room at a mid-tier city’s convention center and discuss politics wearing eerily matching corporate chic