After four immigrants died in ICE custody last week and the agency waited until after hours to announce it, I’m sitting here on a Tuesday night wondering how many people (we’ll learn about later on the weekend) will have died during this week. What a morbid reality.

I maintain that a significant part of why the Idaho Stop works is that drivers have absolutely no problem seeing cyclists when they're doing something drivers think they shouldn't.

“Trump seizes Maduro, vows to run Venezuela” January 4th, 2026.

I’m leading a workshop on using social media for change at KALW’s Youth Summit on the 31st in SF. I’d love for you to share this with the young people in your life! See you there!

Toronto is always the warmest welcome.

You don’t need to watch the video. You don’t need to make yourself feel more hopeless than you already do. Organizing isn’t always attacking the problem directly — it’s simple actions that create hope and free your neighbors’ capacity to organize. Some ideas you can do today 🧵

Dem leadership isn’t just weak anymore, it’s an accomplice to the Trump administration.

Enjoying the thrill of a highway express bus following a painfully slow ride on Line 6

It appears ICE murdered someone in cold blood today and their plan is — per usual — to create a fog of lies so the killer does not face justice. We simply can't let that happen. The shooter has to be arrested and so does Bovino. They can't just kill people on the street.

O Canadaaa

Also, AVs are so far the most prevalent & utilized in denser areas that already have greater levels of transit service, b/c that's where they're most profitable. Converting transit trips to AV trips is a net loss wrt safety & other factors, in addition to also weakening transit for non AV-users.

Philly trip ending with a bang.

Now that opponents have lost two lawsuits and two elections, we invite them to accept the will of San Franciscans and work with us to make the most of our coastal park.

🚨Breaking News: an SF Superior Court just rejected the lawsuit attempting to overturn Prop K, dismissing all four claims.

Driverless cars are very ineffective at getting bad drivers off the road. Multiple studies have shown that TNCs are mainly replacing public transit, walking, and biking trips — not human drivers.

Friends in the Inquirer! @thewaroncars.bsky.social

Nevermind

Alright if we win I’ll graduate early and move here at the end of the year

If I was the party of “protecting children from evil adults” I probably wouldn’t send civilian men to childcare centers demanding to see random kids but that’s just me

California residents now have a gov portal to request all personal data be deleted from over 500 data brokers

A dream come true since finding out that there’s a REN station 6 months ago Unfortunately I have no business getting off the train in Indiana

My friends are so cool!

Row of college-aged lesbians on the California Zephyr, all swapping film cameras and discussing our tattoos. I’ve found my people.

Grand Junction general store haul (already ate my string cheese)

Today is a good day

Another preventable crash at an intersection with tons of pedestrian traffic. Driver turning left and either wasn’t paying attention or saw her too late. We need to do so much more to make East Bay Streets safer for everyone, particularly in places like this, where so many are walking or biking.

this seems specifically designed to break mail-in voting (where deadlines are defined by postmark)

Like most human drivers, Zoox thinks it’s okay to creep up on an elderly person crossing the street because of its god-given right to turn on a red.

Tech Billionaires Threaten To Flee California Over Proposed Vest Tax https://theonion.com/tech-billionaires-threaten-to-flee-california-over-proposed-vest-tax/

If you’ve ever said “the war on cars”, you’ll like giving a tiny dollar amount each month to the geniuses who popularized the phrase 👇

Pure horror driving through SF and realizing every single billboard is AI. Every. Single. One.

The train still works when it’s raining

The holidays are hard when you're estranged from your family, but it gets easier, and you are not alone. From @sandyernestallen.bsky.social some counter programming for trans people who may be struggling today. www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...

I'm on something of a street photography kick lately, so please enjoy these photos I took of New York and San Francisco. glass.photo/108c/5DMHtvn... & glass.photo/108c/5b6IEA7... Hasselblad X-Pan, 45mm f4 lens. • Kodak Portra 400. #xpan #filmphotography

every cubic product makes me long for the days of hole punched paper tickets

Paid parking has its place in the city's transportation ecosystem, but it's far better to just get rid of as much on-street parking as possible. This is what the best cities in the world are doing and there's no reason New York City shouldn't follow suit.

If I am killed and the case goes to trial do NOT create an AI of me.

HeadsUp: Ride #SFMuni for Free on #NewYearsEve from 8 p.m. Wed., 12/31, to 5 a.m. Thurs., 1/1. ➡️Please do not tag your @BayAreaClipper Card or activate your #MuniMobile ticket during the complementary period. ➡️For details on extra #NYE service, visit: r.sfmta.com/EgJ

No matter what tech bros tell you, Waymo is an attack on public transit. The reason they deny this fact, rather than admitting that they just don’t care, is because the median voter cares a lot more about the bus than a driverless car.

Huge thanks to everyone at @bart.gov and @sfmta.com who have kept the lights on and dealt with the PG&E failures over the last week! SFMTA's main headquarters was without power until this morning, making the work to keep up with the rolling failures particularly challenging.

Year 1 data on congestion pricing in Manhattan… * Vehicle traffic: -11% * Foot traffic: +3.4% * Storefront vacancy: -0.9% * Pollution: -22% * Revenue for mass transit: $548M So YES this has been a huge success.

I wrote much less this year than I've written in the past five, so there's not a whole lot to revisit. This piece, though, I still think is probably the best article I've ever written, even if it was a dumb professional move to write it [free to read] www.patreon.com/posts/empero...

The PR push around “we’re taking the power outage in the Richmond very seriously” lowkey icks me out for how much it de-centred the rest of the city. Thousands of people in Civic Center have no power OR water w/ yet another quiet delay, and narry a peep from Mr Vertical Video.

I am calling for a hearing at the Board of Supervisors into both PG&E and Waymo in light of the service disruptions during the blackout this weekend in San Francisco.

AI is such a disaster for the climate, it already put San Diego under water

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Americans & Europeans needlessly exposing African babies to preventable diseases just to see if they can find something that would justify their preexisting antivaccine beliefs is not only unscientific and actually anti-science, it is very much reminiscent of colonialist, racist human rights abuses

“Worlds Safest Driver” Waymo spent all last night stopped in streets and intersections across SF due to a power outage. You’d think they’d plan for something like that. At least one blocked an emergency response vehicle. This is what happens when a company gets to run a public service.

Cars are not as useful as people think they are in a widespread emergency or natural disaster. Driverless cars even less so.

America finding out what it’s like to FOIA