I'm going to do a thread of all the references and context behind Bad Bunny's performance and what it means for Puerto Ricans to see this on the biggest stage. The opening title screen is a street mural in Puerto Rico that comes to life with footballs as coconuts. Follow along!

Analysis finds that “comparing a single day before the speed camera implementation with one day after, average speeds came down at every single one of those 15 corridors last month. It also found that the share of vehicles speeding by more than 10 miles an hour over the limit fell by a whopping 78%“

This excellent story Dave Rand posted on Twitter is a perfect illustration of the kind of person Nithya Raman is:

About 1 in 5 San Mateo residents can’t rely on a personal car for daily trips. In many neighborhoods, it’s closer to 1 in 3. Limited car access shows up most in lower-income areas. www.carlitesanmateo.com/blog/car-acc...

“Copenhagen reported that 62% of its residents are now commuting to work or school by bike — an increase from 52% in 2015 & 36% in 2012, when the City Council launched a 14-year-plan to improve the quality, safety & comfort of cycling.” #Copenhagen chose. They keep choosing even better every year.

"A woman was seen on the ground screaming and wailing as two other women tried to comfort her." This is 100% my biggest nightmare. It is increasingly dangerous to just *walk* around our cities, and our electeds are mostly asleep at the wheel while kids die. www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/arti...

Insane but true fact: making US roads as safe as Canadian, Australian, or European roads would save more lives than eliminating murder from the US.

Step 1: Read the Mars series by Kim Stanley Robinson Step 2: Realize that terraforming is a bad idea

As the Border Patrol heads to the Bay Area, Nancy Pelosi today said local law enforcement may arrest federal troops who break California law. The idea comes from San Francisco DA Brooke Jenkins who says she will prosecute them. W/ @kellen.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/10/22/u...

In CA you can’t replace the windows on a historic property without triggering CEQA. An I the only one wondering if the White House is on the National Register of Historic Places and if this addition conforms to the Secretary of the Interior’s Standards for the Treatment of Historic Properties?

Ok but if you’re working 10 hrs/day 7 days/wk when are you dating? Who are these brilliant people that can build AI but don’t realize this math doesn’t math?

What if…and hear me out…they had a place to ride on the roadway protected from giant SUVs and lifted pickup trucks? www.nytimes.com/2025/10/19/u...

By popular demand, @aceckhouse.bsky.social and I have put together a deep-in-the-weeds explainer on SB 79. Enjoy! substack.com/home/post/p-...

My feed is currently dominated by housing news and I want to take a minute to thank @votealexlee.bsky.social for protecting our feline friends! 😻

How is this article not about San Mateo?? We have 16 boba shops downtown with more opening soon!

This may explain why there’s an aggressive response to people who merely post Kirk’s own words. It threatens the existence of the alternate Kirk - the motivational speaker that had been marketed to young kids and white Christian groups through selective quotation & clips.

The fact that Matthew Dowd lost his job for pointing out Charlie Kirk’s hate speech, while Brian Kilmeade openly suggests we should euthanize the homeless and there is zero outrage, shows exactly what is terribly wrong with today’s political mainstream media.

OMG

This article is a great example of reflexively sympathizing with the driver. Instead of noting the cyclists “were operating a Class 2, two-person bike legally and in accordance with traffic laws” (i.e. cut off by the driver), it reports the driver “said an e-biker startled her by hitting her car.”

Omg!!!! LFG!!!

So impressed with @scottwiener.bsky.social in this clip. My face would’ve been the mirror of @jonlovett.bsky.social’s.

remember folks, we cant have gun restrictions because if we do the federal government will occupy our streets, imprison people without due process, ship dissidents to foreign gulags and things of that nature

I took this photo right after someone in a monster Ford pickup truck honked at us as they drove by. R said, “I don’t want to go in the bike lanes anymore because people are mean.”

Bike infrastructure is so important. Protected bike lanes are linked to nearly double the number of bike commuters:

This

it’s become clear that state level gerrymandering bans were just unilateral disarmament and the only real solution is a federal gerrymandering ban… And the only way to get that is Dems pushing for maximal gerrymandering until we get a trifecta to pass the law and pack the courts to enforce it

We were within inches of a vaccine for several cancers, flu, the cold. Inches.

Damn

Driver cuts off an ebike, then hits the accelerator instead of the brake and kills a 4 year old on the sidewalk. And this is a quote NBC prints: "Those e-bikes are out of control" #safestreets #bikesky

A chance encounter! @caltrain.com

SO good. The sarcastic “habibi” killed me 😂

One of the most incredible and moving museums I’ve ever visited is the museum on journalists slain in the line of duty at Al Jazeera’s HQ in Doha

Mayors & city council members (or candidates) walking across their cities may be partly a shtick for social media, but its also a great way to road-test pedestrian infrastructure. Let’s hope this trend catches on in more places.

True: @zohranmamdani lives in 1 unit of rent-stabilized housing. Also true: Andrew Cuomo oversaw the loss of 96,064 units of rent-stabilized housing. And killed NYC’s program helping people move out of shelter. Leaders must show moral clarity. Andrew, time to move out. 🧵 x.com/andrewcuomo/...

Excellent Opinion article today by @rahmemanuel.bsky.social about how the housing crisis and incel crisis and democracy crisis are directly related. Here’s a gift link. wapo.st/3Ujj3qO

Oh look, imma tikkin and a tokkin with some help from @aclusocal.bsky.social

Three days ago 9-year-old Nadir Gavarrete and his brother were hit by a driver at 4th & New Hampshire in Ktown. Nadir died and his brother is hospitalized. LA city officials are well aware of the dangers of this intersection and have done nothing. 

Four crosswalks painted at 4th & New Hampshire.

Blocking SB 9 in the Palisades means that under-insured homeowners who could have sold half their plots and used the revenue to fund rebuilding their homes will instead be forced to sell their land to McMansion developers and move elsewhere. Shameful cowardice from Mayor Bass.

One of the best things to come out of @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social’s rise is discovering @bradlander.bsky.social. What a gem.

Can’t wait for SCOTUS to rule that Texas can redraw their maps for political gerrymandering but California can’t

This under-construction 7-bedroom, $14mm mansion did not have to pay any affordable housing fee. If you built a five-unit apartment of the same size, it'd need to pay a $360,000 affordable housing fee. How do five small homes negatively impact affordability more than one mansion?

This.

This is a really good plain language of what CEQA is, how it went off the rails, and how it was recently reformed for the better. www.politico.com/news/2025/07...

Fixed it

I attended this hearing in the courtroom, so no electronic devices. I'm driving home and processing; I'd like to post thoughts soon.

I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE. This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined. It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.

This @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social video is absolutely INCREDIBLE. The numbers he cites, the strategy and results they produced — it’s the future. When have you heard *any* campaign talk about this, ever? (Video split in 2 to fit in Bluesky’s limits)

LFG!!!! 🎉🎉🎉

This is an incredible analysis