“The Mamdani administration will allocate $20 million per year to ensure that every school can have an Open Street. This money will support additional programming, operational support, and maintenance to ensure each child has access to clean, safe, and fun space—every day.”

Proud of this haul. Don’t let anyone tell you a cargo bike can’t replace a car

I have a package coming from China to my house. I do not have any idea what it is. I apparently have to pay $20 in tariffs to find out.

I tried so hard and got so far and in the end I disrupted B2B sales with my innovative strategies - LinkedIn Park

Wait so did Motivate’s monopoly finally end??

This. Times a thousand. Again and again.

Political violence is bad and I will eat a hat if it turns out a Leftist pulled the trigger

iPhone 17?? Come on, should be iPhone 26

Why do Republicans always think their troops will be greeted as liberators?

To put this loan amount in perspective: California is spending $500 million to widen a 10-mile stretch of Highway 37 in the northern Bay Area (through a wetland, no less). But $750 million to save the *entire* Bay Area’s transit systems is apparently infeasible.

Extreme “I have no idea what I’m talking about” energy here. "Chaos agent” is at least an accurate moniker.

Let's get to the results. SF only issued warnings for the first several months of the program, along with putting up plenty of warning signage. This had a *huge* result! On the 33 speed camera locations, drivers traveling >11 mph over the speed limit fell ~75%! That was just with warnings!

ICYMI: You can now pay for BART with credit or debit cards or with mobile payment like Apple and Google Pay. We talked with riders at SFO on launch day to get their thoughts!

Even just 5 years ago, CADEM embracing a position like this was unthinkable. The party was too dominated by anti-housing zealots and suburban homeowners. Today, the vote to support SB79 was 111 to 62. It’s nothing short of a sea change.

AI is going to democratize having personal assistants, but without the bit where there are repercussions for the assistant screwing up.

TIL news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3674...

California Disability Benefits application process is kafkaesque

Was at the dog park in the Outer Richmond last night and folk were talking about how they weren’t supportive of the Sunset Dunes park because they need to get to Skyline sometimes. Turns out they didn’t know the Sloat->Skyline connection was falling into the ocean and slated for closure.

BBC News: Do you think you were a witness to war crimes? American veteran who worked at Gaza Humanitarian Foundation aid distribution center: Without question I witnessed war crimes.

My “I’m not opposing the development” T-shirt has people asking a lot of questions answered by my shirt

Wait, the guy who endorsed Cuomo in 2025 had a great relationship with a serial child trafficker? Shocker

People really struggle to comprehend the difference between the folk who build housing and the folk who rent it out. High housing prices generally does not mean higher profits for housing developers.

this is especially relevant for certain kinds of progressive approaches to public investment of all kinds, because they fail to recognize that every delay to a project itself costs money it is not *free* to wait and do another study, another public comment period, another community engagement

My most millennial trait is using the word “click” when discussing opening an electronic document

Bringing cars back to Market would be a disaster. Keep Market Street Moving! keepmarketstmoving.org

Every American should read this ACLU lawsuit about what is happening in Los Angeles and California. It is the stuff of dystopian nightmares. This is not immigration enforcement. It is positively stuffed with videos and articles documenting racial profiling on a scale unseen since Jim Crow.

Welcome to the resistance, Joe

We’re going to need a real big tent to fix the bill that passed today

SF progressives, grapple with the fact that Mamdani actually supports housing of all types and realize that is a key issue to voters challenge www.politico.com/newsletters/...

Just to be crystal clear: bombing Iran is completely illegal.

AOC: “It is absolutely and clearly grounds for impeachment.”

Fuck ICE. Impede them at every opportunity. Mock them. Bully them. I really want America to remember its rebel spirit, which has somehow been soured & twisted in recent years to aim at... HR departments & Ivy League schools. Those are not the oppressors! The guys with the guns are the oppressors!

I have also never been closer to obtaining a nuclear weapon. I have no lab and no plutonium. But at no point in time was I further from a nuke than I am now.

This is what effective state resistance looks like

Lander and Padilla have set the standard that absolutely every Democratic politician should meet or exceed if they don't want to get primaried.

the story today is of a profoundly low energy military parade being met with millions of americans in nationwide protests denouncing the dictatorial pretensions of the president

Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a man the Trump administration acknowledged was wrongly deported to El Salvador, is on his way back to the US, ABC News reported Friday

It is shockingly expensive to get non-owners liability car insurance. Urbanist folk in CA: have a provider you like?

BIG HOUSING NEWS: The Senate passed our bill (SB 79) to allow more housing near high quality transit & giving transit agencies more authority to build homes on their own land. We need more housing & focusing it around transit makes so much sense. It’ll mean more housing & more transit ridership.

The full Senate passed our legislation to authorize a Bay Area regional revenue measure to fund public transportation & avoid massive service cuts. SB 63 is a critical part of stabilizing our transit systems & strengthening them for our region’s future.

Do you know what else would lower the profit margins of billionaire landlords? A bunch of new apartments. The very thing YIMBY won’t shut up about.

Paris Votes to Make 500 More Streets Car-Free #publicrealm #publicspace flip.it/O-E7kJ

This site has the juice

I have a piece in the @sfchronicle.com today about why San Francisco should copy New York's successful congestion pricing model to revitalize downtown: www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/open...

My takeaway: rich folk drive more because rich neighborhoods rarely discourage driving. Meanwhile denser neighborhoods often have less parking, which induces mode shift.

At least 27 are dead in Missouri in Kentucky after severe weather alerts were delayed overnight because of DOGE cuts. www.mesoscalenews.com/p/tornado-wa...

I remember when Newsom promised to build 3.5 million homes in four years. Now he just wants to disappear homeless people.

holy SHIT you need to watch this video notice what happens about 14 seconds in (trust me, you'll see it) www.youtube.com/watch?v=77ub...

Things that didn’t happen under Biden

I would love to see an intrepid reporter write an article about why supplemental rental car liability insurance coverage has universally gone from $1mil to $300k in the last decade, and yet everyone is still charging the same amount for it. Shrinkflation at its finest!