@gavinnewsom.bsky.social has a chance to demonstrate that he truly understands that "climate change is real" by leveraging his political capital on passing these bills.

One of the reasons this site feels like it's full of self-righteous, under-informed assholes is that whenever self-righteous, under-informed assholes say something they get retweeted into the discourse.

Newsom keeps demonstrating that he hasn't the vision or the ethics to be President

The whole thing about Democrats searching for a winning message for the midterms is infuriating because it is staring them in the face: Rule of Law — People who do illegal shit should face consequences. For insider trading. For illegal wars. For ignoring court orders. For being a pedophile.

Can't stress enough how basically banning people from renting single family homes (which is the flip side of banning companies from renting them out) is basically economic redline with lefty vibes (only the well off can live in suburbs). Sadly I think that is why it is so popular.

One of the reasons I left Italy was that I couldn't stand the way catholicism permeated all levels of the state and here I am again.

your grandparents voting for reagan

What I love the most about Mamdani is that he's taking all of the milquetoast excuses of politicians past and revealing them to be nothing but vapor. @billdeblasionyc.bsky.social remember how you insisted you needed a parade of SUVs with you at all times?

This Slotkin post has made me break my record for amount of times I write and then delete a post because I won't pass a background check if I post this on my timeline

If the estimates were right, there were about 9 million people at No Kings rallies today. That would mean this protest was THIRTY TIMES AS LARGE AS THE TEA PARTY PROTEST which we were told, over and over again, was a massively important sign that US politics had shifted dramatically to the right

AC Transit board and staff, please stop saying the only solution to our budget crisis is additional service cuts.

This fucking party. Just absolutely incapable of mustering even the minimal baseline unity necessary to make an argument to the public.

Trying to reconcile how this is both true, and, if impeachment was any easier Republicans would have impeached Obama for wearing a tan suit.

This is cool! At one point I had a dream of pitching for Oakland's Jack London Square to set up a Renewable Energy Park with demonstration turbines, panels, tidal generators, etc and cool exploratorium like signs and then realized I'd be on of the 3 nerds who's be really excited about it.

There are 10 million people in this county and 20 million in the region. Your experience of LA in your 20s is a tiny slice of a fleeting moment in time. Something from your past changing is just that, about you and not wanting to get old. It’s not a grand pattern in the city, not even close.

I would ask who the hell is advising these Dems, but then I remember my time at the Center for American Progress getting yelled at by the "experts" about how "no coal" was not a politically viable goal.

My resignation letter

Today my students discussed whether and to what extent Islamophobia and anti-Arab racism play a similar structural role in Europe to the role antisemitism played in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Then the Israeli Foreign Ministry just goes and tweets out an Islamophobic octopus.

All the Saxon Musk posting reminds me of one of the all-timers

Say what you want about the #CAGov clown car primary, but billionaire/ self-proclaimed "class traitor" Tom Steyer rebranding Prop 13 as the "Trump Tax Loophole" is an interesting rhetorical move. I wonder why nobody else is taking a page out of his playbook. (h/t @jdcmedlock.bsky.social)

Gavin Newsom could really stick it to Trump by ordering his DOT to build just an absolute fuck-ton of high-quality curb-protected bike lanes on every state road. Man it sure would make him mad. Are you listening to this @governor.ca.gov? You could really get under his skin this way, team his grits.

Okay so like I said, why is the department blocking bike lanes in the flatlands for fire safety when the number one obstacle to stopping wild fires in Berkeley is street parking in the hills?

Can a privacy expert tell my why popo in Cali get to put up FLOCK cameras wherever they want, but speed cameras require legislative approval? Is entirely about our state's carbrain.

The solution to the mid CA-GOV race is simple: Abolish the governor's office, merge the assembly/senate, double the amount of seats and have them elect a prime minister

If you work for Sunrise, and feel you are morally unable to prioritize climate change over Gaza, fine, understandable. You should quit and get a different job doing that then.

I've interviewed more than a dozen hydrologists and climatologists across the West the past 10 days. A sense of panic is starting to set in. Wildfires and water shortages will start mounting this summer. Adverse impacts are expected from not only this heat wave, but the historically warm winter.

geez, if only there had been decades long efforts to get airlines to take decarbonization as a strategic imperative.

America's auto-oriented environmentalists think of this Ritz Carlton hotel as more eco-friendly than a proposed housing project for retired farmworkers. Why? It prevented the "environmental impact" of "inadequate parking" by building a massive 3-level parking garage to "mitigate" environmental harm

This is how San Francisco and Silicon Valley's Economy actually works:

I can tell lots of developers are using AI because so many things that used to work flawlessly now have the weirdest bugs.

It's important we hear out Trump voters and let them speak for themselves:

OPD sent at least 6 officers and 4 cars to a fight between two people at Amtrak. When we are told police overtime is necessary to maintain the peace and we should keep excessive deployments like these in mind.

What does it say about Trump that he isn't paranoid? Is it his narcissism, sociopathy, dementia, the cocktail of it all? Most aging authoritarian leaders in history, with precipitating popularity and power, and at times when assassinations are the norm would have been jumping at shadows by now.

lol www.youtube.com/watch?v=cJER...

We got a DM the other day with a fun request from a local family: Could we find this nice BART train operator who always waved and beeped at this special little rider? And if we found him, could we deliver him a thank you card!?  So we got to work …

Dang he made me like St. Patrick's Day. What can't he do

Right now, unfolding around us on a global scale, is a rich and unambiguous lesson on the dangers of fossil fuel dependence. The most obvious solution is for the affected countries to reduce their dependence through clean energy. Are you seeing that message in media?

Spent most of my career talking down the endless stream of unjustified oil market alarm. Now I’m acutely alarmed to the point of disbelief, the oil market is still shockingly sanguine, and I feel like this guy.

Possible solution to the Strait of Hormuz?

Italian elections: do you approve vote 55 comma 3 105 43 32? American elections: Taxes bad?

If Porter wants to reduce California's reliance on income taxes she should get on the Prop 13 repeal train lol

This is a good lesson for journalists: Use plain language to state true things clearly.

Let there be as much outrage from politicians in Washington when kids go hungry as there is when I break bread with New Yorkers.

For 5 weeks, Oakland's new speed cameras have been issuing warnings. Starting March 15th, tickets will be mailed to people exceeding the speed limit by at > 10 mph. So far the 18 locations have seen 140k instances of speeding. Most people were sent one warning. 11 people have been sent 30+.

E.g. "trans people deserve the full slate of human rights" as opposed to "the people publishing anti-trans op-eds on the topic in the NYT are clowns"

using public office to name and shame evil landlords into submission is so cool. i hope democrats learn from him