Please someone do this, you will be a hero

Not to mention, SD21 covers the same area as HDs 41 and 42, Reps. Nosse and Gamba. They're both much better on all the dimensions that matter.

senator taylor is such a good target for a progressive challenger. she fought preschool for all, prefers means-testing, and doesn't believe in voter-initiated ballot measures.

Please somebody primary Taylor.

The process does matter. As someone who had a hand in shaping our groundbreaking environmental justice fund, I will always center community voices in our discussions about PCEF’s future.

batteries.

You absolutely cannot have a world-class downtown that is auto-centric. It's fundamentally in opposition to a strong downtown experience. The geometry just doesn't work.

f l e x i b i l i t y www.canarymedia.com/articles/bat...

Black History Month reminds us: housing policy was never neutral. Redlining and exclusionary zoning were deliberate choices, and we can choose differently today. Building more homes in every neighborhood is part of undoing that legacy. 🎥 @zonedoutplanner

Even more evidence that building new housing decreases rents: Researchers tracked the residents of a newly built luxury condo building and found that they freed up less expensive apartments nearby. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

*pounding table* BAT. TER. IES. (gift link) www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Alysa Liu telling 60 Minutes “I love struggling, it makes me feel alive” is a legit revolutionary statement from a Bay Area native in a time when copious amounts of time and resources are being put toward convincing us to opt out of experiencing struggle, friction and self-actualization

modest proposal, we trade parking for ice rink in the new plans. for each car space you remove, you get half that square footage added to the new ice rink.

Apologies for the very Catholic post, but is anyone else cutting screen time or social media for Lent (or has)? Interested in seeing what practices/guidelines/approaches people use when their jobs require them to be pretty online. I’ve heard journalists and pols are the worst with this 😬

data centers do some useful things - you're using one right now if you're reading this. but they don't need tax breaks. in fact, we should charge them excise taxes. traditional economic development arguments don't hold - they have the money to pay and are rushing to build.

I am a great proponent of analogies in science, but I have gradually learned that the ability to jump from one analogy to another is perhaps more important than the ability to devise one in the first place: apprehending the latent invariant is the key phase transition, cognitively.

There are lots of good people trying to help each other everywhere.

Climate goals in corporate procurement are generally a good thing for induced demand in e.g. green cement. But renewable PPAs could actually be hindering transition to flex-demand energy with storage, which would massively accelerate grid decarbonization. PPAs are counter to flexibility.

HB 4076-1 just passed out of the House Energy committee. This is a good bill that makes it easier to upgrade energy facilities and get more juice out of existing interconnections. Why does this matter? The current grid is severely under-utilized, and interconnection queues are long. #orleg

What a coincidence, I want to eliminate state bridge funding unless their tollbox recovery ratio is 50% or more.

ok, I'll bite - I've never been to the Moda Center, but it looks like a nice, big building in the eastbank skyline. Are they expanding the size of regulation basketball courts? Why does it need so much dollars?

If the top marginal tax rate was 90% it would be easy and morally defensible to throw tax dollars at Rose Garden renovations, put people in affordable homes, and raze the Banfield to make space for a high speed rail system while rewilding downtown but I don’t get to set the terms of the discourse. ☹️

the master's tools rule. you should steal them. if you don't, you had better hope whoever does likes you and your cause

hell yeah!

I will patiently explain as many times as I have to that we live in a society, and having the things that make up a society benefits everyone

Novick is not a serious councilor

Bad Bunny again. I want to see some of the worst people in the world explode

Rep. Delia Ramirez to DHS officials: "I have as much respect for you as I do for the last white men who put on masks to terrorize communities of color. I have no respect for the inheritors of the Klanhood and the slave patrol. Those activities were criminal and so are yours."

cowards

if you see this, quote with a robot that isn't from "Star Wars", "Star Trek", "Dr. Who", or "Transformers.”

#BadBunny's performers continued to dance and party outside the stadium after the #SuperBowl #HalftimeShow

however, there's cool stuff brewing localy in the arcipelago: cooperativahidroelectrica.coop/en/index.html

Just a few weeks ago, the administration cancelled all remaining department of energy grid resilience projects in Puerto Rico. All of them. www.latitudemedia.com/news/the-end...

FUCK LUMA! FREE PUERTO RICO!!! BAD BUNNY FOREVER!!!!!

thank you bad bunny for highlighting the importance of critical power distribution infrastructure bsky.app/profile/cost...

i'm here for the trombone representation

the Italy sports event gives all the winners tiny weasel plushies, and I like that.

the sentiment behind “saving” the lloyd center mall gets the wonder and joy of cities backwards. it isn’t the building; it’s the people. turning the site into homes would be a revival, not a death.

Now on @sciam.bsky.social: Carbon dioxide may be the most important—and most misunderstood—molecule on Earth. @peterbrannen.bsky.social explains why in his brilliant, epic new book—and in this conversation with me. I hope you read both! www.scientificamerican.com/article/carb...

if you want to understand my world view, this book is required reading. it's also one of the most poetic things I've read in years

There are only 2 real responses to housing scarcity. You can either build enough homes to accommodate everyone or start drawing up a list of “undesirable demographics” to exclude. I know which side I’m on.

tired: participatory budgeting wired: participatory taxing participatory budgeting is gladiator combat, dont @ me

as his former constituent when he was supervisor, i hate to say it but he's got some good bills lately new argument for Make Polluters Pay oregon just dropped: we gotta get our $ from the oil majors before CA beats us to it

How it started: How it's going:

idk if anyone needs a remedial tutorial, but when we talk about "frontline communities" we don't mean the starting lineup of a basketball team.

Very big win here. A federal judge says it's just fine for funds and pension plans to boycott fossil fuels www.nytimes.com/2026/02/05/c...

As an engineer, my job is to find solutions and make things possible, out of basic science, research, rigorous testing, and raw materials. We make things work in reality, we find ways and give options Some erstwhile progressive politicians seem determined to ignore solutions & find stumbling blocks

Autonomous Vehicles hold a lot of promise to increase access and mobility, especially for people with disabilities and elders.

We cannot have normal responses in abnormal times. This moment requires incredible imagination, leadership, and a willingness to step outside the bounds of normalcy to protect everything we hold dear.

This never gets old. If you hear people say that climate change action is not possible or too difficult ask yourself whether they engage in one of the many discourses of climate delay.