Me talking to the city engineer about the new Vision Zero plan.

last week a plainclothes policeman violently assaulted children who were staging a walkout to protest ICE and i keep seeing people say "well these kids just wanted to skip class" and as an organizer i wanna remind us that people come to movements from self-interest and that's not a bad thing

Also announcing they would inspect the private parts of Scouts.

A reminder that the administration spent the day before it launched a war in the Middle East feuding with tech companies over whether and how the AI models the Pentagon buys will be restrained from autonomously killing people.

“I am angry that the city that I love allowed an accident that should not have happened." www.berkeleyscanner.com/2026/02/28/t...

if you believe in any form of free enterprise at all, the idea that the Pentagon can not only cut off your contract but designate you a supply chain risk and prevent other companies from buying from you just because you won't build killbots for the government should be terrifying

EXCLUSIVE: For Luis Soto, it all began with a mysterious voicemail from Highland Hospital saying his younger brother, Diego, might have been admitted. When he finally got through, the news was horrific. "I'm praying every day," he told us. "All the friends and family are praying for Diego."

I cant love this enough - the government directly explaining how they can protect people from what sucks in a way that resonates you could totally do the same but about regulations that keep food safe, etc.

Highly visible petty corruption like this is so deeply corrosive to public trust in the cops, firefighters, and city government in general.

win elections with this one weird trick* *convince voters youre going to fight for them

New meta-analysis of 26 published studies concludes that AVs will lead people to use cars a lot more — which would thicken congestion and worsen pollution (even if AVs are electric). "AV deployment is anticipated to lead to an overall increase in Vehicle Miles Traveled." doi.org/10.1016/j.tb...

Rightsize the vehicle. Don't oversize your streets.

can we please give my tax dollars to a blue haired 23 year old who will make weird alienating art with it instead of this wasteful bullshit

So impressed and blessed for all the brands reaching out to support. thousand and more companies offered to donate product and my team gunna get to it. 🙏🏾🙏🏾 BUT if you a billion dollar company,,, we don’t want a product donation. We want you to sponsor these women + athletes. 👀

I can’t stop thinking about this.

🚨 Republican Attorneys General sued Vanguard—in reality the world’s biggest holder of coal equity—for supposedly conspiring to drive the coal industry out of business And RAGA won. Vanguard has signed an agreement that “blocks [it] from supporting efforts to fight climate change.” WTAF

This is a well-written and insightful article with lessons for talking to climate deniers and dismissives too. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/27/o...

Please keep writing about Nurul Amin Shah Alam. They killed this man. It's a system wide problem that resulted in his death. Every step of the way it was a travesty of justice. This is how immigration law intersects with criminal law. ICE and CBP. Read this and ask why do we fund this? Why?

This caller is doing more work here than the media person.

Cities aren’t loud, cars are loud (and stressful). - expanding on @thewaroncars.bsky.social

Keeping the buildings the same does not preserve a community. When you make it illegal to build new housing at the high end of the market, rich people just buy up existing less-expensive housing and renovate it into luxury homes.

respectfully tapping the "support billionaire-free, worker-owned, independent media" sign again

People are always like what’s something you miss from the past and one of mine is antitrust laws

This should be a front-page scandal.

I wish that more people around the world understood just how bad American democracy is compared to other, wealthy nations. As just simple examples, imagine if the president was chosen via popular vote or if there was no such thing as a Senate.

I live in California and I knew exactly who this was about. When someone is famous for having fucked up and been slow to fix it, the Senate is a terrible idea.

In an overlooked decision this week, the Supreme Court ruled that the post office can refuse to deliver your mail, which is KIND OF SIGNIFICANT if you choose to mail your ballot. To do this work, the anti-democracy wing turned to their favorite “black friend,” Clarence Thomas.

America's enslaved population from 1790 to 1860

With each passing day I am newly infuriated that national media (and many politicians) bought the Trump regime's lies about a draw down in Minnesota

Oh hey look at what cities that give a shit about safety for people walking and biking actually do. City of Berkeley could take some notes.

it's cool that they're just setting social contracts on fire so no one is going to trust anyone ever again for anything all for one of the least popular policies in recent history 🫠

I would never reveal to my enemies that I was this much of a bitch ass bitch. I would swear all witnesses to secrecy and never speak of it again.

Gotta call bullshit. Note how this concern is never brought up for one-way, one-lane streets with no bike lane with parking on both sides leaving no room for drivers to pull over to make way for emergency vehicles. Same thing with big arterials such as Flatbush or Atlantic that are often jammed.

Trans rights are human rights and if one of is ain’t free then none of us are.

Don't forget the trans people who, even with assistance, cannot or do not want to leave their state. It's so important for the organizations in these states to fight back - don't abandon red states.

Ask everyone you know what their favorite and most memorable class was in college and take careful note of how few of them name a course from their major or that is relevant to their current career.

It really is either you support trans rights or you support Hitler 2.0

Part of authoritarianism is that you're never not thinking about the authoritarian. With 10+ years of Trump being the central character in American life, I think we've all forgotten how nice it is to not have to think about an elected official all the time because they're just doing their job well.

that 2020 proposal in the harvard law review where they propose to fast track a form of dc statehood to admit every neighbourhood as like 120 new blue states and use this to push open lawfare on the republican party and change the constitution was like the baseline sicko mode needed for the times

the license criminalization scheme in Kansas...stripping immigrants of their legal status... all of this shows, and is meant to show, that the legal rights of disfavored groups are conditional and can be rescinded at will such discriminatory chaos is incompatible with a real inclusive democracy

We want the holodeck but are getting the Borg

To my trans folks online: no matter how many cowards you encounter or observe, you are, and have always been worth fighting for.

Doctors say that vaccines are the best way to protect children against measles. A guy who eats dogs and snorts cocaine off toilet seats says they should just swim in untreated sewage water instead. For busy parents, it can be hard to know who to trust.

To any Democrat who ever said about any issue, "Maybe if we agree with Republicans just this far, they'll stop there," remember that you were wrong, it was obvious at the time, and you really should never believe that again about any issue, ever.

*stares in Hopkins*

it's genuinely hard to express how bad jim crow was. however bad you think it was it was worse.

it is very honestly and calmly reasonable to put this administration in company with other genocidaires.

Whatever attempts they've made to quiet down the Minneapolis news cycle, they're still waging an illegal war on their own constituents in Minnesota.

You don’t drop off a blind man who doesn’t speak English five miles from home with no resources because you expect him to be fine