How to better serve CSUN and the San Fernando Valley with transit. (1) Bus lanes on Reseda that can serve as an extension of the G (orange) Line busway and a relocated Northridge Metrolink station up to CSUN. (2) Extend these bus lanes down to Ventura Blvd […] [Original post on urbanists.social]

Thanks to Stranger Things, beloved Fleetwood Mac album track "Landslide" has finally hit the Billboard Hot 100. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WM7-PYtXtJM

So Tom "Thank you for the bag of $50,000 in cash" Holman is now in charge of ICE in Minnesota? What could go wrong? https://www.newyorker.com/news/the-lede/tom-homan-and-the-case-of-the-missing-fifty-thousand

A podcast series must for these times: Joanne Freeman’s “A Few Thoughts For Those Who Can’t Sleep.” Between her and Heather Cox Richardson, I think we can all agree that a good historian rocks! https://www.youtube.com/live/9CjwOWe8C94?si=ec6VnPuTxZobVg_t

MAGA Bovino is “retiring” in California — not Texas nor Florida nor any other Trump state — beautiful California. MAGA hates us but wants to be us. That said, can we expel him from the state? “Sorry, but you don’t have the proper documentation for the Republic of California. Get on the bus.”

The reason George W. Bush doesn’t speak out against Trump’s fascism is that he is the second worst President in American history and still the terrible person you remember.

Foreign countries selling our bonds caused Trump to back down on tariffs. We can do the equivalent domestically. Start hurting Republican campaign donors by boycotting their businesses. Only when their donors lose money will Congressional Republicans finally take action against Trump.

Yes, it’s fascism https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/01/america-fascism-trump-maga-ice/685751/

Although I usually post about transit, I really enjoy this channel, This Old Road”, covering the history of the highways and byways of the West. A great anomaly in Los Angeles County is The Castaic Crossover https://youtu.be/nGEUxq4OKhM?si=QZyx2uPz7YtSEpeK

“We were Born… Born… Born To Be Alive…” https://youtu.be/9UaJAnnipkY?si=u5kh7g2Oc4fileQj

The first Trump term was like a disastrous hurricane. Then Biden rebuilt the structures that had fallen. The second Trump term is a flood. The topography will have been permanently changed. There is no going back from here. What happens next with the USA or its successor(s) will be very […]

The first Trump term was like a disastrous hurricane. But Biden rebuilt the structures that had fallen. The second Trump term is a flood. The topography has been permanently changed. There is no going back. What happens next with the USA or its successor(s) will be very different than before.

If other democracies want to help democracy in America right now, they can start selling our treasuries. That seems to be the only thing that gets Republicans to take action against Trump.

Anti-ICE protest forming in Studio City. Californians in solidarity with Minnesota #losangeles

“I am going to make Americans pay much higher prices at the store with my tariffs and make their lives unaffordable in order to punish “other” countries.” - Trump’s insanity

California has now joined the WHO. Every state in the Governor's Public Health Alliance should join the WHO too. You'll have to ask other Governors why they've allied with Trump and RFK on health instead. What would really help public health is universal […] [Original post on urbanists.social]

Mary Richards approves of her fellow Minnesotans standing up to authoritarianism. The scowling old white woman in the back voted for Trump.

A live action photo from Donald Trump's Board of Peace

A giant day for transit in King County as Link Light Rail Line 2 opens across the lake between Seattle and Bellevue. @urbanistorg https://www.theurbanist.org/2026/01/23/sound-transits-2-line-will-finally-connect-across-i-90-on-march-28/

RE: https://mstdn.social/@urbanistorg/115945833179622005 So excited! 🥹🙆🏽‍♀️🥳😆🥹 #seattle #transit

Now I know why Minnesota resident Prince named his band "The Revolution". "Let's Go Crazy." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aXJhDltzYVQ

Stop waiting on politicians. Politicians follow the people. People have the power. Shut Republican big money donors down to shut down Trump's authoritarianism. We the People have had enough of Trump's authoritarianism. https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/23/us/minnesota-businesses-protest-ice.html

When foreign countries tank our bond markets, Trump backs down on tariffs. Now it is our turn. If we cannot withhold our labor because we need to put food on the table for our families, then withhold all non-essential spending. When Republican donors start losing money, they’ll wake Congress up.

I am not anti-red state. All states that pay federal taxes deserved to have their emergency management funds and infrastructure funds paid to them. I am pro-blue states standing up for ourselves and together against the Trump regime’s weaponization of a broken federal government against us.

This Minnesota general strike needs to go national. Bring this authoritarian regime down.

Now that the Sepulveda Transit Project has been approved, let’s make long-term plans to extend it north to Sylmar and south to LAX. Now that the K-Line has been approved to Torrance, let us extend the it north to WeHo and Hollywood and south to San Pedro and Long Beach. #transit #losangeles […]

Sending love to Minneapolis, Minnesota, the best way I know how. The light rail connects Minneapolis and St. Paul downtown and the airport. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bYw4A0lM4q8 #transit

Metro approved the Hawthorne alignment for the southern extension of the K-Line. Hopefully, this will go to Long Beach someday. Now onto the Northern extension to Mid-City West, WeHo, and Hollywood. #losangeles #transit #MetroLosAngeles

The Pomona to Claremont section of the A-Line is going ahead. Serving the Claremont Colleges will be a good addition to the Metro Los Angeles system. https://la.streetsblog.org/2026/01/21/extending-the-foothill-a-line-hasnt-been-forgotten #losangeles #transit

A unanimous Metro vote in favor of the Sepulveda Transit Corridor Heavy Rail project connecting the Valley and Westside. Absolutely fantastic news. #transit #losangeles

A "How-to" video for the Los Angeles Metro. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xnne2wygZqI #losangeles #transit #MetroLosAngeles

Canadians are so lucky to have a qualified, steady hand like Mark Carney as Prime Minister rather than Mango Mussolini as President. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LgPQtGMUXAc

Here is how states can achieve universal healthcare under the existing ACA law, as they probably cannot get the necessary waivers from the Trump/Vance Administration for single-payer: (1) Establish state public health insurance options (like WA and CO) (2) Regulate providers with global […]

So Trump being an authoritarian dictator, attempting a coup, likely raping girls, and being a Russian asset didn’t end his Presidency. But Europeans and Asians selling U.S. treasuries and tanking our bond markets could. What a revelation about our “republic” and the Republican Party.

Everything Trains video on Los Angeles’ emerging rail system. https://youtu.be/pWRcLp-tSh0?si=o8ixcS-7LKegoZsD

Trump backs down on his Greenland insanity when the bond markets start tanking — just like he did after his “Liberation Day” tariffs. Other countries now know how to control the U.S. — our bond markets. The stock market is for amateur capitalists. The pros play in the bond and money markets.

Republicans who don't like California and Virginia Democrats standing up to Republican gerrymandering in red states are free to support a bill banning partisan gerrymandering nationwide. But they keep voting against one. They want one-sided gerrymandering while Democrats play by a rule book […]

Gov. Gavin Newsom’s office said he was denied entry into a venue at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland on Wednesday under pressure from the Trump administration. --- Surely there is another forum at Davos that wants to hear from the leader of the 4th largest economy of the world […]

"But we can't stand up to Donald Trump because he will get angry and do something..." --- These Neville Chamberlain tribute acts are something else. This is not the generation that would have won World War 2.

How many Iranian protesters were slaughtered in the streets because they believed Trump when he said, “Help is on the way.” That horrible regime is to blame for the murders, but Trump’s betrayal of the Kurds should have been a warning to the people of the world that Trump’s word is orange manure.

The Weimar Republic ain’t got nothing on this Congress.

“I Shall Be Released” - Mama Cass, Joni Mitchell, and Mary Travers God, I love YouTube. https://youtu.be/sEZFt5ZZj9s?si=nAHsh4DkzaeqRDEC

If Trump wants a 51st State so much, make the Douglass Commonwealth a state and end this taxation without representation. DC is more populous than WY and VT.

Spreaking from frustration: We have a partisan Supreme Court that ignores the Consittution, an absent Congress that doesn't fulifll its basic Constitutional responsibilities, a madman authoritarian who likely raped mulitple kids who no one stops, a broken national news media that refuses to do […]

"If we keep our heads down, don't stand up to him, and look the other way, then he won't get upset at us and retalitate and we will be okay. Maybe he will be pacified" - Members of Congress, Democratic Governors, and European leaders. Didn't work in 1938 and won't work now.

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There are 16 state Democratic Trifectas with Governors who are angling to run for Presidents of what's left of the United States in 2028. They could create a state universal health care system to run on nationally. Current ACA law allows states to create something like the Swiss system […]

If anyone in Europe wants to stop Trump, have your intelligence agencies leak your copies of the Epstein files.

Contradictory Opinion: Instead of having the shutdown fight over ICE (which I favor shutting down), have the shutdown fight over complying with the law to release the Epstein files. It hits these pedophile protectors right where it hurts.

A message to European leaders and Democratic Governors: Stand up to Trump. You don’t need to “tone down the rhetoric” or “turn down the heat”. Mango Mussolini eats that “diplomacy” for breakfast as a sign of weakness. Standing up to his bullying is the only thing that has ever worked with him.