Muni ridership climbed to 82% of pre-pandemic levels in September, marking the strongest recovery since COVID-19 upended the city’s transit syste” www.sfgate.com/local/articl...

My first for @bayareacurrent.bsky.social -- A self-driving car killed a beloved SF cat. It’s part of a long history of tech companies using the Bay as a testing ground at our expense. People have had enough. bayareacurrent.com/fuck-waymo-l...

Waymo's 2025Q1 CPUC report shows continued ~linear growth. Modest increases in robot utilization & repositioning are likely due to maturation (slowing growth) in SF & shift to most new growth in less compact LA. Waymo has done ~5.1 million ridehail trips cumulatively in California through 2025Q1.

Lyft says Waymo will deploy "in Nashville, a couple 100 AVs...over the next year, and that'll grow over time" Lyft also said they are building a $10-15 Nashville depot for Waymo. All typical. Waymo spent $20 million on a Dallas depot for their Via trucking dept, which they shutdown months later.

"Europeans recognize his vision about free public transit and universal childcare. We expect our governments to make these kinds of services accessible to all of us,” said Verbeek. “We pay higher taxes and get civilized societies in return."

In Signal chats, the CBP agent boasted to colleagues: “I fired 5 rounds and she had 7 holes. Put that in your book boys.” If he felt comfortable enough celebrating the shooting of an American citizen, it speaks to a irredeemable organizational culture. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/whos-threa...

A U.S. Senate investigation led by Sen. Jon Ossoff (D-Ga.) "has uncovered dozens of credible reports of medical neglect and poor conditions in immigration detention centers nationwide — with detainees denied insulin, left without medical attention for days and forced to compete for clean water."

"..factors related to economic deprivation influence persons from certain social classes to support far-right parties..empirical studies reveal considerable variation: there is strong support from segments of the working class but only in some contexts" www.etui.org/publications...

I’m gutted by this decision. So many excellent editors and writers impacted. My column, Disability Visibility is no more as well. Many thanks to Allegra for giving me this amazing opportunity www.teenvogue.com/contributor/...

“Experts predict hundreds if not thousands of flights could be canceled. “I’m not aware in my 35-year history in the aviation market where we’ve had a situation where we’re taking these kinds of measures,”” www.latimes.com/world-nation...

A US friend interviewing people for corporate jobs in India said that in interviews candidates keep talking about Mamdani and how exciting his win is. People all over the world are elated. Wake up, Democrats! Ordinary people want to fight oligarchy.

I'm honored to be co-chairing #DigitalDuende2025 with the brilliant #DigitalHumanities superstar @sararribas.bsky.social! We invite proposals for academic papers, artist talks, & multimedia demos on the subject of digital approaches to flamenco research/performance. CFP: bit.ly/digitalduend...

Great piece from @awinston.bsky.social: "One area where Mamdani is guaranteed to clash with Tisch is on the NYPD’s massive technical surveillance apparatus and intelligence-gathering methods, which have metastasized since 9/11 to levels that rival the capabilities of a midsize country."

Getting new details on this now: As the arrest unfolded, teachers pleaded with the agents telling them the teacher had a work permit. The agents went into multiple rooms looking for teachers while children were present. One teacher hid with a child in her care while the agents stormed the facility.

Raids inside day cares had been off limits until this year, when, on his first day in office, President Donald Trump removed that protection. The arrest reportedly took place in front of children. 19thnews.org/2025/11/chil...

A ‘Mamdani Monitor’?? Zohran RESPONDS to the ADL’s Jonathan Greenblatt for vowing to “track” his admin for antisemitism. “I have some doubts in Jonathan's ability to do so honestly, given that he previously said I had not visited any synagogues only to have to correct himself.” zeteo.com/subscribe

I'm Jewish, I was born in New York City. My grandparents were immigrants from Europe. My grandfather opened a kosher dairy restaurant in lower Manhattan. Jonathan Greenblatt from the ADL is a bigot who doesn't speak for me. Congratulations, Mayor Mamdani!

NEW YORK CITY: I hear you're in a celebratory mood over there. Well how would you like to use some of that energy to help dismantle big tech? Join me, @parismarx.com, @edwardongwesojr.com, @jathansadowski.com, @veenadubal.bsky.social, and special guests for the Second NYC Luddite Tribunal.

The President's Postdoctoral Fellowship Program is one of the most coveted & prestigious positions for UC graduates. It gives a hiring incentive to campuses who hire recipients for a tenure track position. What a DAMN travesty. This is capitulation to Trump's demand letter & anti-diversity agenda.

"in the last year of the Biden administration, officials opened nearly twice as many inquiries over antisemitism allegations than over all other types of racial discrimination. Under Trump, the latter type appear to have ended altogether."

A whole new generation is going to be reading about Eugene Debs this morning. Read him from Haymarket in his own words. www.haymarketbooks.org/books/1246-t...

My taxi driver this morning in Irvine, California: “I stayed up to watch Mamdani win. We are all so happy. He crushed the racists and criminals.”

Good Mayor Mamdani morning to those who celebrate!

Today for @lpeblog.bsky.social I have a short piece on clinical academic freedom and the challenges we face in vindicating our rights as clinical faculty amid political interference. This piece stems from an Essay I have forthcoming on the topic in 2026. lpeproject.org/blog/clinics...

Zohran Mamdani says on NY1 he didn't get a congratulatory call from either Andrew Cuomo or Eric Adams last night. He says he got a congratulatory call from Curtis Sliwa, though.

“'Some complaints are just rants with almost no evidence or detail,' noted Darryl Li, a professor at the University of Chicago and co-author of the report. 'Government civil rights enforcement is now being driven by the equivalent of a YouTube comment section.'”

Important new report out from AAUP & MESA, “The data…offers a detailed account of how landmark civil rights legislation – and particularly Title VI of the 1964 Civil Rights Act – has become a primary tool to restrict speech on campus.” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

I feel a little glimmer of hope tonight. A light heart. Haven’t felt this in so long.

More than 60 California professors say they are suppressing their own work due to Trump's looming threats over UC. The chill is affecting students 7 medical patients alike. "The purpose is censorship," said Veena Dubal, AAUP General Counsel & UC Irvine professor. @veenadubal.bsky.social

“Into the fray of “girl” interests, a new contender has emerged: Cool Girls for Capitalism, a group that has sprung up in the final days of the New York mayoral campaign to support former Gov. Andrew Cuomo. And capitalism.” www.nytimes.com/2025/11/04/s...

I don’t know why, but I continue to be surprised at the level of vitriolic racism dished out by this sitting Senator. Disgusting.

Two of the most significant politics editors in Teen Vogue’s history were working class trans people from Ohio and Philly, and their tireless, fearless work is a huge part of why so many people are mourning its demise now. @satansjacuzzi.bsky.social and @leximcmenamin.com you will always be famous

Our new book, Notes Toward a Digital Workers’ Inquiry, is out today! Use the code DIGI-WORKERS-HOMIE on the @commonnotions.bsky.social site for a 25% discount

If by people you mean Andrew Cuomo it’s because he’s a jerk face.

Capacitor Collective = @julieychen.bsky.social, @enda-b.bsky.social, Alessandro Delfanti, Brian Dolber, @gleemie.bsky.social and myself. Thanks to folks we interviewed including @krystalkauffman.bsky.social @alexhanna.bsky.social @katejsim.bsky.social and to @veenadubal.bsky.social for the blurb

Elite and public! Great, now do every politician who went to Andover and Harvard Westlake.

If you missed these memes yesterday you are in for a treat.

As you see Elon Musk, Donald Trump, and Stephen Miller all endorse Andrew Cuomo, just remember that Chuck Schumer — leader of the Democratic party — never ended up endorsing Cuomo's opponent (the Democratic nominee)

Sarah McBride reached out to me in August through an intermediary to ask me to tone down the criticism of her after this post because it was her birthday. She also wanted to meet with me to discuss the issue. She asked for my availability. I sent my calendly and she never booked a meeting.

😳 ““I was the original [expletive] tradwife,” [Martha Stewart] said in a phone interview last week… “And I was just as pretty as those girls, and more organized.” 👀👀 www.nytimes.com/2025/11/03/d...

““In 22 years, I have never seen a situation like this,” Mr. Haywood said in an interview. The investigation, he said, raises concerns about whether “our state police is carrying water for an administration that is suppressing free speech.”” www.nytimes.com/2025/11/03/u...

"I did not, however, anticipate Andrew Cuomo going from being Donald Trump's puppet to being so nakedly his parrot." - Zohran this evening, which I can't find here so yes I'm sharing a tweet w/the video: x.com/JosieStratma...

Condé Nast finally achieved its dream of wrecking Teen Vogue and killing its politics section. www.thecut.com/article/teen...

Reggie Williams was walking to a corner store when armed authorities aggressively asked him if he was from Ethiopia or Ghana, he said He and other Black Memphis residents have been reporting harassment by Trump’s police task force: "I don't feel safe"

“The University of Southern California has issued layoff notices to more than 900 employees since July amid a fiscal crisis that has battered morale and strained resources.” www.latimes.com/california/s...

“In an industrial town in… India, Naveen Kumar, 28, stands at his desk and starts his job for the day: folding hand towels 100s of times, as precisely as possible. He doesn’t work at a hotel; he works for a startup that creates physical data used to train AI” www.latimes.com/business/sto...

I live 2900 miles away from NYC, and Zohran is my main hope for the future.

New awareness campaign

Complicity of liberal institutions with the crackdown on student protest paved the way for the crisis of academia. To defend our work we must sever the link with the security state. Come join us at U of C tomorrow, where we will discuss how to confront the hiring of the inveterate liar John Kirby.