It's amazing that "One Battle After Another" filming was wrapped up last year before we even had Trump 2. It nails so many things.

If you're wondering whether this metric is garbage: on the day in question, I actually threw the main breaker on my house at 4:00 p.m. and left and didn't turn it back on until midnight.

Trucks are like the metric system: every country has way better trucks than America. Every single one. None of them would tolerate bullshit American trucks. And every brand mentioned in Trump's tweet is a subsidiary of a huge European truck conglomerate (Mack: Volvo, Freightliner: Daimler, etc).

On the surface these claims amount to a legitimate action, but under the circumstances it's impossible to rule out that Trump just has a personal beef with the Liu family. www.cbp.gov/newsroom/nat...

Here is a perverse outcome of scattershot local zoning reforms. After "Middle Housing" reform in Berkeley, the R-2A zone has mandatory minimum intensity of 20 dwellings per acre. The supposedly more intense R-3 zone has no minimum density. So this guy is going to build 3 detached houses at 14 du/ac.

Everyone is dunking on this NPR garbage, and yeah, go ratio them, if you want. But what you should really be mad about is the clown quoted in the article is a consultant that your city is paying to design your streets! Call NPR editors if you have to, then hang up and call your mayor.

From the "how many affordable units did the tire shop have?" department: developers adding beds, adding subsidized units, adding height, and removing parking. You love it.

This guy got raptured up right where he stood on Bonita Street.

Apropos nothing, I would like to mention one of the numerous reasons why there is very little danger of a large-scale data center construction boom in the Bay Area: the almost total lack of access to transoceanic networks. Even the cables on this map that look like they get close are future plans.

The BEST thing about this building, by far, is that it shades Victory Point Cafe in late summer when it's sunny and 95 degrees and would otherwise be unbearable.

It's amazing that people act like Isaac Chotiner has superpowers simply because he is the only journalist who has object permanence. The only journalist who doesn't freak out in a tantrum when mommy covers her face with her hands, and people are like holy shit this guy is basically Columbo

Fun fact: The building in this deal is operated as rental apartments, but is condo mapped. The purchase price of $52.3 million is slightly lower than the current assessment of $313,785 x 175 = $54.9 million. www.eastbaytimes.com/2025/09/23/e...

One in five Californians spend more than half their income on housing. Not having enough homes to buy or rent creates cutthroat competition and drives up prices. The solution is to allow a mix of homes of all sizes and prices, including apartments near transit, which would be allowed under SB 79.

EV rebates are bad policy and it doesn't matter if Newsom and Trump happen to be aligned on it. www.sfgate.com/tech/article...

What was the assignment here, exactly? GO HOME.

"Tesla shareholder-influencer" is a vocation that should have its own punitive tax bracket. electrek.co/2025/09/21/t...

There's only one song that I could just write down all the lyrics to, and that is "It's the End of the World as We Know It (And I Feel Fine)".

Median Berkeley driver has entered the chat, and your house.

Technologically advance a band: The B-2s

To mark the last days of summer, and the foreseeable possibility that it won't fail to rain soon, I put the fenders on the bikes. Which led me to that annual question: why are there never the same number of fenders at the end of summer as there were at the end of winter when I put them away?

Rezoning this decades-old eyesore of a junkyard from R-1 to R-2 was enough to incentivize the owner to clean it up and put it on the market.

@bart.gov why did you allow these classic car show losers to gather in your parking lot in Orinda? These smog belching, subwoofer blaring jerks are terrorizing the entire county with their miles-long traffic jam to get into the parking lot.

Some of you accused me of hyperbole when I said the country was over in November.

you need cold, salt and a meal at the same time

Texas A&M University has had 8 presidents in less than 20 years. The next one will be the 9th. Clown university.

Elsewhere in America: the high-rise apartments buildings are approaching 50% parking by volume.

Everyone at the group ride: "What is that thing?" My bike fitter: "This isn't what I meant." Members of my household: "Why is there another bike?" Me: "New bike whips."

PG&E should not be allowed to just use their peak billing days every year, in the absence of grid emergency conditions. It should not just be guaranteed bonus revenue for them every year.

Carfree Berkeley Now. www.ktvu.com/news/bmw-dri...

These aren't very thorough stats, because they don't control for the mix of new and old inventory, and they are using the useless average instead of the median, but it is notable that the Berkeley Rent Stabilization Board has published an annual summary for the first time in over 4 years.

It's dumb that both AC Transit and Caltrans are now in the loop for local land use planning.

New contender for weirdest landlord

Check out the Berkeley Old Time Music Convention this weekend (September 17-21), featuring performances by local and national acts, a rollicking square dance, an open cabaret, and the illustrious string band contest in venues throughout the city! 🪕 🎶 More Info: www.berkeleyoldtimemusic.org

This is infuriating. Letting people drive into your city with their uninsured and illegally modified pickup trucks is no way to run a city. sfstandard.com/opinion/2025...

Another "fun" census fact is the bureau is shutting off the data users' forum with only 2 weeks of notice. Trump take forum.

"Fun" fact? The new Census estimate for the California population increased by half a million people in 2024, while HCD says that the state permitted just 115k new homes in 2024.

Someone bought these two derelict Berkeley houses for a combined $2.025 million a few weeks ago. Fun fact: one of them is just less than a quarter mile from Downtown Berkeley BART. Hello, 8 stories?

Ok FINE. Without Berkeley Amtrak!

One thing I love about New Census ACS Day is: nonsense.

Oh SB79 passed? I guess now I can share the forbidden map.

Apropos nothing, here's an excellent analysis from 6 years ago about the cycle of escalation in the online/offline nexus of the Kirk-Fuentes beef. I don't know why the article is full of glitches and typos. Just read it. www.diggitmagazine.com/column/charl...

extremely interesting indicator of where we are in postmodern syncretism that the guys making Kirk out to be a hero of the Christian faith will simply not comment on a Hindu proposing that he is now in the afterlife of Norse Paganism.

Re-establishing Wildcat Canyon as a through route to exurban Contra Costa County is a mistake. Fix it if you must, and leave it closed.

LETS GOOOO SB 79!!!!!

Everyone remembers when Berkeleyside let this fool call himself a Berkeley resident, right?

Was just thinking about last year's election in which the "tenants' union" candidate campaigned on the lie that most apartments in Berkeley are vacant.

Riaz Capital buys the apartment building next to their nearly-completed construction site on Dwight. Very interesting. Riaz has the juice right now. They are breaking ground and buying property. www.eastbaytimes.com/2025/09/10/b...

As the situation with Charlie Kirk continues to unfold in Utah, be very careful when getting news via social media. I've seen posts falsely claiming Kirk has died and others naming an alleged suspect. Be very skeptical and seek out trusted news sources because nothing is verified yet.

I will say that I find it weird that a lot of people are like "this is the moment that will tip us into violence" when a Minnesota politician was assassinated in her home 2 months ago and someone literally shot Trump in the head last year. how exactly is charlie kirk the tipping point

All the preemptive discourse policing makes me want to take the other side just out of sheer spite. There's no reason to police the discourse in advance, people.