Stop the union busting and give workers a fair contract, NOW! Day 4 of the @rei Anniversary Sale boycott is going strong, with @reiunion members standing outside every store in Washington to inform community members about worker efforts to return REI to its roots.

This is utterly delusional, especially in the middle of an energy crisis

Riverside near the bottom in terms of housing production, while the city council keeps voting down subsidized affordable housing projects.

THURSDAY, May 21st is a critical opportunity to save Metrolink funding and stop catastrophic service cuts: LA Metro's Budget Public Hearing. Metro board needs to hear from YOU about the value of Metrolink. If you can't make in person (best), email your board members. docs.google.com/document/d/1...

if folks have agita, they should donate to the Fearless slate which is running against Sean O'Brien in Teamsters president race

California is considering handing oil refineries and other major polluters billions of dollars in free emission allowances just as the state says carbon reductions need to come faster than ever. cal.news/4dB7ZOR 📸 Loren Elliott

EV fees are good policy if designed well! But in the context of numerous serious proposals to suspend the gas tax (and Trump gutting both EV and transit funding) it's a step backwards. EVs should not be taxed more than other cars.

Why would Dems agree to this? No reason not to drag this out til after the midterms. Vichy Dems have learned nothing. This is energy and climate crisis denialism plus a giveaway to a core GOP constituency, car dealers, plus a mega fuck you to Blue states with higher rates of EV ownership

That several major California transit agencies are preparing to scale back service or even declare bankruptcy while the state continues to expand highways is a failure on an almost indescribable scale.

We're here in Barstow with a big coalition of environmental justice advocates, labor, and residents from the ports to Barstow calling on Barstow to electrify the BIG! Learn more about the project here: calelectricrail.org/the-b-i-g-is...

Just as I'm headed to Barstow to demand electrification at the Barstow International Gateway!

“Most Chinese scientists came to the U.S. with the hope of staying for their careers,” Innes says. “But now they are getting the clear message that the government doesn’t want them to be here.” 1/2 @policyhound.bsky.social 👏👏👏 www.science.org/content/arti...

The dominant conservative narrative blames unions and a wage-price spiral for the 1970's inflation that gave us neoliberalism, but it seems like wartime inflation from Vietnam and crazy supply chain stuff like this might have been more important.

California gubernatorial candidate Xavier Becerra just took half a million dollars from the fossil fuel industry. This on top of the max contribution from Chevron. When someone shows you who they are, believe them.

Conservatives when transit comes in under budget: “clearly you don’t need money, let’s cut your budget” Conservatives when transit needs more money: “if only you were more efficient with the money you had, let’s cut your budget” 🙄

I was lucky enough to work with @alexdavistransit.bsky.social to put transit planning to good use and propose a way to save @metrolinksocal.bsky.social's train schedule! youtu.be/SGIxEhBDgfE

The Metrolink budget crisis is a perfect example of how GOP austerity mindset makes public services less efficient and more costly (thread) 🚰🚰🚰

My second choice for the image to pair with this blog was this photo of Earth from the Artemis II mission, to visualize the growing shadowy void that is geoscience funding. 🙃

that’s the fucking fight. Endless gumshoe shit. Make people own their values. There has been so much wasted momentum from the last year because we don’t have a party willing to organize & fight. People who want to fight will eventually lose interest and withdraw inwards.

Good news for everyone who wants California to get e-bike policy right: AB 1942 and AB 1557 have died in appropriations. Now the path is clearer for SB 1167, co-sponsored by CalBike, Streets For All, and SAFE, to protect legal e-bikes and bring honesty to the marketplace.

The Division of Earth Sciences postdoc fellowship solicitation "has been archived and will not have a competition this fall,” an NSF spokesperson confirmed to Eos. eos.org/research-and...

the crimes of this era are nigh innumerable but what the united states has done to the global south will live forever in infamy

gwen does fantastic work as usual on some of the 401,000 trans people who’ve had to flee hostile territory in their own country in the past 18 months.

The wave of unionization among PhD students becomes a lot more understandable when you let yourself notice that it took until the late 2010s, at most institutions, for grad-students to make "Bernie wages" in the >=$30k range.

White dudes are the all time reigning champs at intellectualizing the belief that they're the rational and objective ones and everyone else is hysterical Moreover, ICE must be destroyed

The BIG project is also another L for local control. City council in a small town where members were elected with hundreds of votes gets final say on decisions that affect all of Southern California.

Electrifying the ports to Barstow would not only reduce pollution, it would help transit. The Metrolink 91/Perris Valley & IE-OC Line and future CA High-Speed Rail share tracks with BNSF, and could be electrified with BNSF's consent, as they already have given for LA-Fullerton.

The Barstow International Gateway project is a prime opportunity to electrify SoCal freight and build the nation's first all-electric railyard. But instead, BNSF is doubling down on dirty diesel, increasing pollution throughout the region. Speak up for electric rail this Saturday at 1 in Barstow!

Geologists are good while physicists and chemists are evil. Seems reasonable to me.

imagine how much harder your life would have been if you'd had to wear a spooky costume the whole time

🧵Tomorrow, @afscme3299.bsky.social workers are launching their first-ever open-ended ULP strike against the University of California, which is violating state law by refusing to negotiate with workers over housing benefits and by imposing terms that increase their health care costs.

This Saturday, May 16, show up at Barstow Community College to make your voice heard. The community will be mobilizing at noon and the hearing starts at 1pm. Check out www.ueunion.org/green-locomo... to learn more about UE’s Green Locomotive Project.

we are losing influence on neopets because you keep posting on the neopets roleplaying forum instead of the neopets battledome forum. you are wasting time pretending to be a shoyru named jeff

Kilmar Abrego Garcia is once again able to walk out of court and return to his family. Federal Judge Xinis’ protections remain in place for Kilmar. This victory is thanks to the power of community organizing and all of you who have stood up for justice. #Fight4Kilmar

On NSF’s postdoc page, the biology and earth science fields have been completely eliminated; the only remaining fellowships are in math, astronomy, engineering, and “entrepreneurship.” Weird choice not to support research on the life support system for 8 billion people. www.nsf.gov/funding/post...

The American Civil Liberties Union of Southern California announced Monday that the state’s civil rights agency had opened an investigation into allegations that Riverside officials violated anti-discrimination laws. riversiderecord.org/riverside-qu...

Howard Jarvis Taxpayer Association sucks

Starting "Bluesky sucks" discourse on Bluesky is like poking a hornet's nest. Why would you do this? What could you possibly accomplish?

Watering down increased vehicle miles traveled (VMT) mitigations for some roadway widening projects seems like a bad move. Climate change doesn’t care whether increased VMT is in a rural or urban area.

As Trump prepares to talk to Xi and probably grift money for American rich people, I explored with @cipolicy.bsky.social on why China hawkishness in itself is not enough for America or for targets of Chinese state violence internationalpolicy.org/publications...

Democrats are the Mom party and Republicans are the Dad party but at some point Mom needs to learn some feminism and get Dad's custody revoked for abusing the kids.

Imagine if Metro had to beg Long Beach and San Fernando and each neighborhood in LA for operating funding every year? If Long Beach could decide to fund Metro less, but demand to maintain A line service? That's the situation Metrolink is in every year.

SBCTA's agenda lists other agencies' priorities. Metro wants to maintain Antelope Valley Line service while cutting its funding. Others want to cut funding in LA and OC but maintain service elsewhere - except all routes go through those counties. How can you run a regional transit agency like this?

Where are the young people?? At your local transit board meeting, asking them to fund the trains!

I've found another example of 110% justified data center NIMBYism: the affluent Bergen County suburb of Montvale is trying to ram through a data center to use up land that could (and under state law, *should*) be affordable housing www.fairsharehousing.org/press-releas...

Well, the good news is California has spent the last two decades building dense, infill development and investing in bike lanes, public transit, and high speed rail connecting its major cities so the impact of this should be minim- [puts finger to ear] California did what now?

Southern California showed up today at OCTA to fight for Metrolink funding! We need to do the same next week at LA Metro. May 21st, 10 am. Be there!

If we are serious about holding and wielding power, every car dealership and MLM scheme needs to be bankrupted. The Uihleins and Mercers and Adelsons of this world need to be stripped of their assets and exiled or imprisoned. The think tanks and churches need to be destroyed by the IRS.