If your city isn't installing speed cameras and isn't installing monitors for excessively loud engines, you are letting criminals ruin your quality of life while leaving money on the table.

@gavinnewsom.bsky.social on #SB79 just now in his Twitch conversation with @connoreatspants.bsky.social: "It’s on my desk & I will be reviewing it on its merits. It’s really important housing legislation, and I recognize how important it is." Folks: keep calling + urging him to sign! (916) 445-2841

Update: had a friend just call and said there was zero wait time to talk to a live person and the whole call only took 30 seconds. Call 916-445-2841 NOW to support SB79 and building more housing near transit

Governor @gavinnewsom.bsky.social could really start the weekend off right by signing SB 79 today.

A rarely-seen-in-the-wild collective action solution. Not one news org signed on to the Pentagon’s new restrictions on journalists. Now, the policy is being ‘revised.’ Let’s see if any elite universities are watching…

I may have solved the municipal speed cameras issue. We can pull the speed cameras and instead install speed regulators in all vehicles. It slows down our streets without 'punishing' drivers with a so-called cash grab.

Wheel of Fortune, welcome to the War on Cars

Update: today is a great day to take 3 minutes to call Gavin Newsom and tell him to sign SB79 so California can build more housing near transit

There's great coverage of the exclusionary history of building codes in Stuck!, the book I cannot shut up about

Good morning. The government is shut down because Trump wants to act like a king and steal from you. Democrats have no obligation to support a budget that funds the destruction of our democracy - and DOUBLES health premiums to fund a tax cut for billionaires.

my hatred for the modern Republican Party burns brighter than a thousand suns

We’re hiring for two machine learning roles. A chance to do cutting edge things with ML to make this place a lot more personalized. jobs.gem.com/bluesky/am9i...

I'm baffled that the governor could be considering a veto. If it isn't signed then there's no chance we turn around the state's housing crisis. If we don't fix the crisis then higher office is out of the question. The only path to the White House requires doing the right thing and signing it.

🚨Newsom getting cold feet about SB79🚨 If you live in California, please call Governor Newsom to urge him to sign this bill!

A bunch of toxic LA NIMBYs are whining about SB 79, the amazing housing bill the CA legislature passed recently. It's on the governor's desk, and reportedly he's getting cold feet. Hey @gavinnewsom.bsky.social, please have some spine on the most important issue in your state. Just sign it.

What I would give for a completely honest, anonymous assessment of this appalling and ludicrous spectacle from the commanders in the room.

Yes, and: all land should be public, rented to people for whatever they're willing to pay the public. :)

Giant in philosophy but also gotta hold this in your head simultaneously dailycal.org www.dailycal.org/archives/for...

This machine escapes fascists. 🚲🚲🚲

The developer wanted to preserve more of it in an earlier proposal, but it got nimbyed because it would have been a bigger building.

Blue cities should tear up the roads in front of ICE facilities and then start decades of community engagement and input sessions to rebuild them. Let's harness our core competencies.

The way I hate this intersection.

Motonormativity in action: my city's main hospital has been built miles outside the city, up by a motorway junction. You want to get there but you can't drive? Tough, your time has no value

Reimagining (with AI) a South Philly street to have a curbless design that creates space for more trees.

Tear down I-95 in Philadelphia.

Can we install updated versions of this on all of Philly’s surface parking lots?

There’s sort of no excuse for the rail electrification being such a sleeper issue given the incredible success of CalTrain. sf.streetsblog.org/2025/07/31/c...

hey @jimmykimmel.com should bring wilson and mamdani on his show

@5thsq.org is having its next meetup this coming Tuesday:) www.5thsq.org/sept2025

I can not stress enough how much more my commute sucks without my ebike.

If they had a right-wing, “tough-on-crime” coded mayor there would be endless national profiles about him and how he finally brought sanity back to Chicago.

My folks live on a farm and are retired. My mom recently got an e-bike. She rode into town today to play cards with friends and called me when she got home. I can’t remember hearing her as genuinely happy as she was today. Blue sky, sun, and a bike ride. Magic.

Why should a person on a bike get a criminal summons for traveling 16 mph, while the driver of a 5,000 pound SUV doesn't even receive a ticket for speeding at 35 mph? Mayor Adams continues his war on biking with this backward rule — despite >90% of public comments opposing it.

Sorry but parking "cops" are good, unarmed civil servants rightly ensuring access to public spaces remain accessible. I own a car and almost never get parking tickets because I park correctly and in consideration of other people who need curbspace.

Let a hundred cultural markets bloom

A tale of two newspapers: one that sucks, and one that doesn't. Subscribe to @inquirer.com !

I confess I'd probably agree to have Isaac Chotiner interview me, as long as it isn't published. Think about what you could learn about yourself by having someone delicately but ruthlessly hone into the heart of all your hypocrisies and weaknesses and eviscerate you on that basis.

Landlord (at a street reconstruction open house): “My apartment building has 12 units so I need at least 12 spots, but our off street lot only has 8. You can’t remove the on street parking from this block for a bike lane.” Mpls staff: “Mpls doesn’t have parking minimums.” 1/2

I am once again asking @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social to come on The War on Cars podcast to talk about his transportation, public space, and climate policies.

“The Mamdani administration will allocate $20 million per year to ensure that every school can have an Open Street. This money will support additional programming, operational support, and maintenance to ensure each child has access to clean, safe, and fun space—every day.”

One of the most interesting things in @yappelbaum.bsky.social's Stuck, is the idea that people join groups most when they can live where they want.

the economist absolutely torching their cross-atlantic credibility to bully some children

Their tough guy act sure seems to disappear anytime the rest of us stick together and tell them to get fucked.

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Mayor Pete, wtf are you doing man??

I want rideshare for this.

No other political widow has ever become a public figure I say, having researched this by thinking really hard for twenty seconds and drawing a blank