The "worst of the worst" now targeted by masked "police" now include preschool teachers.

will more than make up for the 2% of LA’s water that comes from Mono Basin streams. Construction is already underway. Board President Richard Katz said that once the recycled water starts flowing, “we won’t need Mono Lake water to meet the supplies in L.A.” www.monolake.org/today/major-...

I'm looking to speak to people who rely on SNAP about what this past week has been like. If that's you, please reach out, or pass along to others. Can be anonymous. Signal: marisakabas.04 Email: [email protected]

"This is the system we’re in, where people have been trained to immediately say, 'If we’re under nuclear attack, we need to respond.' There’s a lot of fog of war. You get, like, 10 minutes to decide. And if you make the wrong decision, the consequences can be catastrophic."

Helsinki goes a full year without a traffic death, largely by upgrading pedestrian and cycling infrastructure and reducing speed limits to 30kmph, via @semafor.com yle.fi/a/74-20174831

"Beneath the air of normalcy, a crisis is looming, say advocacy groups and former parks leaders who have repeatedly called to close the national parks during the government shutdown." Via @kqednews.kqed.org

Thank you, Sarah. Going to miss working with you, too!

@bart.gov Power & Support Audio: BART Transbay Tube Service Disrupted due to Breakers MCG and MEG Not Closing October 27, 2025 @danbrekke.bsky.social youtu.be/SiuQFohWhYE

Following a cool and wet October, a much warmer and drier November to come across California. Via @weatherwest.bsky.social #caweather #cawx #cawater

Mayor Lurie has it exactly right: Masked immigration agents "are deployed to use aggressive enforcement tactics that instill fear ... (and) are designed to incite backlash, chaos and violence, which are then used as an excuse to deploy military personnel.”

Just had another little shake -- 2.2 magnitude, the red dot on the USGS map -- along the Hayward Fault in #Berkeley. Yellow dots mark quakes from the past week; white dots show quakes since the series began with a 4.3 temblor on Sept. 22. #earthquakes @kqednews.kqed.org

Per @bart.gov radio: A train operator reported a small explosion in the Transbay Tube on the M2 track, Possibly due to a blown insulator. The train is going out of service. October 20, 2025, 5:45 AM @danbrekke.bsky.social

“There are large swaths where everything is dead — all the trees are dead. It will be a start-over event for this forest.”

Susan Stamberg, an original National Public Radio staffer who went on to become the first U.S. woman to anchor a nightly national news program, has died. n.pr/4qjVMDS

Caltrans told KQED there is no structural safety reason preventing trucks from using I-580 and that “the freeway was designed to be safe for all vehicular traffic.” Via @kqednews.kqed.org & @lauraklivans.bsky.social

This afternoon BART crews safety removed this tree and branches from the trackway. We are running single track service through the area and will make repairs overnight.

"The BART" instead of BART. Only an outsider would say "I'm going to ride the BART." A local would say, "I'm going to ride BART."

@bart.gov customers, here’s why Red Line service has been suspended today. #transit #bart

Encampments Are Polluting Bay Area Creeks. Can Those Who Live There Help Restore Them? Via @kqednews.kqed.org

In a series of veto messages, Newsom argued the bills were either unworkable, unnecessary or legally suspect. Via @kqednews.kqed.org

Subsidence photo op stirs bad feelings in already bitter San Joaquin Valley groundwater clash

A retired L.A. Fire Department battalion chief faults the agency for not coordinating with the city's water utility to prepare for the extreme fire weather that was forecast days before the deadly blaze swept through Pacific Palisades.

@bart.gov Audio Click: Bart plans to Encrypt its 🚓Police radio channels on October 12, 2025 The BART police radio is not available online. The cheapest radio to reliably listen to it costs $770 @danbrekke.bsky.social

"The fact and truth businesses are suffering economic headwinds driven by the bullshit and rhetoric businesses. The current administration is hostile to facts that conflict with the president’s claims and is driving his base’s distrust in any outlet that’s in the business of generating facts.'

Taking time out from our current slew of manmade disasters to consider one that could be much, much bigger:

@bart.gov's ridership in September topped 5 million, the first time that's happened since February 2020. Ridership for the month was up 9.7% over September 2024. Weekday average ridership: 195,057. That's 45.8% of BART's pre-pandemic September benchmark of 426,300. #transit

"The stakes are high: The Presidential Memorandum makes clear that DOJ intends to target tax-exempt organizations and their funders for investigation and potential criminal prosecution, including based on activities that have historically been viewed as protected by the First Amendment." #NSPM-7

🚨 NSPM-7 🚨

Some 511,877 vehicles in the state have active clean-air vehicles decals, according to the DMV. Forcing all of them to merge into general traffic will likely create gridlock. But the CHP has already announced a 60-day grace period before they'll begin ticketing solo CAV drivers in carpool lanes.

In the US, even a “cheap” transit bus costs 2-3x more than in Asia or Europe -- and one agency may pay twice as much as another for nearly identical vehicles. In Bloomberg, I explored a ripe opportunity to improve transportation by applying Abundance-coded, supply-side reforms. 🧵

This was at the north side of the intersection of Dearborn and Wacker if you're keeping track at home. ...

"After a retired senior officer, Lt. Gen. Ben Hodges, tweeted that German generals were 'called to a surprise assembly in Berlin' in 1935 and 'required to swear a personal oath to the Führer, the defense secretary responded with sarcasm. “'Cool story, General,' Hegseth wrote.'

“What German Holocaust reparations started was to serve as a historical precedent for systematically addressing past atrocities and to say that a government is responsible for its actions or what actions it allows.” Via @kqednews.kqed.org

This Is the Feeling of Losing a Country. I Know It Well.

So now the FCC is policing "concerted efforts to lie to the American people"? Great! I can tell them just where to start.

Look, the obvious solution is not to engage in an all-out campaign to deport immigrant workers & inhibit new immigration. But if you're going to support that, then the other market-based solution is to <all together now> Raise. Wages. bsky.app/profile/mcop...

“Things that would normally take us years to do, like exhibit development, we’re trying to figure out how to wholesale make changes that many of us are morally opposed to in weeks,” a. park superintendent said. “It’s kind of wild.” Via @kqednews.kqed.org

Quick update now but will have blog update/livestream Mon-Tue: It's looking like a very active weather week in California once again, with burst of humid heat followed by major thunderstorm outbreak (mix of wet & dry storms) as remnants of Tropical Storm Mario move overhead.#CAwx

Many of the men deported to CECOT said they are permanently changed: struggling to sleep, drink water or leave their homes. One man broke into tears describing how he had a panic attack the first time he walked down a busy Venezuelan street.

"Lifton described a key psychological mechanism, what he called the 'thought-terminating cliché.' It’s the switch that mutes any idea that may contradict the totalist ideology. In Trumpism, Lifton believed, the Big Lie — the fiction that Trump won the 2020 election — served that function."

State lawmakers advanced a plan that would allow California colleges to offer preferential admission to students who are descended from enslaved people, part of an ongoing effort to address the legacy of slavery in the United States.

In a rare pre-litigation settlement announced Friday, @bart.gov agreed to pay $6.75 million to a Union City woman shot by one of the agency’s police officers last year and admitted that its initial public allegation that she had assaulted an officer was untrue.

"We should not be naive. Will those of us named now be branded on a government list? Will our travel be restricted? Will our email communications be surveilled?" #ucberkeley

The White House response: “This is just another hit piece from a left-wing dark money group that constantly attempts to smear President Trump’s incredible Cabinet members."

"Clearly the artist is attempting more than creating a likeness. The work here is an exercise in trying to restore dignity and humanity to those denied it at the end of their lives."

“Given the scale, complexity, and visibility of this project, these failures are not minor oversights; they are unacceptable breaches of trust."

A pro-Palestinian activist came to Oakland to practice medicine. An outrage campaign followed www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/arti...

Just to say this plainly: what you're looking at here is a federal police force accountable only to the president rolling up to intimidate the governor of California as he announces his plan to counter a federal legislative coup out of Texas which will ensure their permanent presence in our streets

Community unites for Trinity River clean-up as flows are threatened by Trump biological opinion

“When a Tribal station goes dark, the silence is more than technical,” said Loris Taylor, president and CEO of Native Public Media. “These stations are not just media outlets, they are cultural infrastructure.” www.niemanlab.org/2025/08/how-... via @niemanlab.org