There are too many Elon stans & AV fanatics on the other site to have a straight discourse, but phenomenon of parents getting fed up w/ traffic violence and bullying city halls to enact safe streets is a national story. We're now at the phase where they take over city hall. Next phase: Save lives.

The absurdity of the Hopkins saga is what radicalized me and got me interested in engaging Berkeley politics in the first place. I’m running for D1 and safe streets is a core priority of mine. Climate, community, public safety and personal health: bike lanes are the way 💪🚲 Rossforberkeley.Com

I wonder how many of the folks blaming data centers for the end of the world drive an SUV that gets less than 25 miles per gallon. Because in the U.S., that describes ~ 65% of all people. Carbrain isn't just about violence. It's also about blaming others for your lifestyle choices.

This is basically as close as we're gonna get to the Confederate traitors saying "As long as Democratic governors don't set up militias to stop our brownshirts, we're gonna keep giving it to their residents good and hard." Wonder what happens next.

Damn, I am impressed. The City of Berkeley just hired an *actual* safe streets expert to run its public works department. Maybe we really can have good things. Kudos to @berkeleyca.gov, I would not have expected this from you.

Biggest failure of capitalism in my lifetime has been how the socialist car salesmen grifter convinced a bunch of billionaire climate philanthropists in California that his shitty cars would solve climate change, picked their pockets for his first few billion, then converted those into junk bonds.

🚨SpaceX bond yields rocket towards junk www.ft.com/content/3a02...

ugh, California Assigned Auto Risk Plan (CAARP): California like all US states has low minimum coverage, a driver can kill you and only pay $30k. Some drivers are so dangerous insurers won't cover that. The state of California should take their cars, not subsidize driving with minimum coverage!!!

If Americans ever discovered the modern world, it would utterly transform our lives. I wish there were some kind of international program to help ailing backwaters like us get out of our under-developed stasis and embrace modernity. Alas, UAW gotta build those F-150s I guess.

An amazing quote from Lindsey Graham in this Atlantic story. It really captures an essential truth about politics that too few people ever really come to terms with. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

oil has succumbed to the quantum observer effect, if you don't observe it it acts like a commodity but if you do it turns into a marauding band of chaos monkeys

Wrong, the Upper West and East sides of Manhattan are about to no longer be covered in the trash that is the result of massively subsidizing the lifestyles of a handful of drivers.

Mother Jones has been the ~ only publication on the left that is willing to do the kind of honest, introspective reporting that could have prevented the forces of NIMBY slopulism from gaining traction in left circles. So, you can't blame MoJo for what's happening, or what comes next. Subscribe.

People who've legislatively done more to block housing bc they *claim* to be anti-corporate but really they're protecting the views and housing value of their core constituents—Aaron Peskin and Connie being prime examples—are why rents and housing purchases are so out of control in SF.

In San Francisco (and maybe everywhere) the labels of "moderate" and "progressive" have become so useless as currently applied by the local media.

The mystery isn't that hard to solve. Connie Chan is against transit and parks and housing. Teachers aside, her labor support mostly comes from those unions trying to block modular offsite construction. She's best understood as a west side NIMBY, not a progressive. sfstandard.com/opinion/2026...

Ride In Peace, Louisa.

The OP and the comments are a cesspool of violent driver cope and apologia, only, leftistly.

Someone who received a speeding ticket is more of a danger to society than someone whose only infraction was being undocumented.

Steve Hilton says he’d extradite California doctors who prescribe abortion pills to states with bans. Xavier Becerra says he’d refuse. Democratic lawmakers want to take that choice out of governors’ hands for good. kffhealthnews.org/courts/shiel...

it's ... raining?

A question for all the serious politics and democracy knowers: What are the *actual* remedies for a President who operates outside Constitutional law, a Congress controlled by Confederate traitors who hate the Constitution, & Supreme Court that adjudicates in favor of Confederate principles? ELI5.

Deeply saddened to learn of the loss of my dear friend Satan, the Prince of Lies. Though we often disagreed about matters such as the appropriate role of torture in the afterlife, I will most remember how his quick wit and affable nature made our weekly golf outings a ritual. He will be missed.

Does replacing parking with bike-lanes hurt restaurant business? Of course not, as this new peer-reviewed STUDY of 15 years of Montreal data showed. ACTUALLY, downtown experienced significant restaurant growth after bike lanes were installed. @momentummag.bsky.social momentummag.com/do-bike-lane...

Curious to hear Mitch McConnell's comments on the passing of Lindsey Graham.

“scheduled”

If you're looking for a form of transportation that can run 100% on solar power ... This is it.

We're in the midst of a transportation revolution. www.twincities.com/2026/07/11/c...

Michael Fanone's take on Lindsey Graham is one of the most powerful I've read:

Ah this is the same as any "progressive" city government in the United States. for example in Berkeley, our elected leaders have all kinds of excuses for why maintaining vehicles speeds is more important than saving the lives of its children, elderly, etc. So many of the things we blame on Trump

In addition to the fact that solar panels aren't a replacement for oil -- 99% of cars in the U.S. run on oil, not electricity -- it is far more effective, both in terms of energy and climate change, to replace parking lots with housing. I did the math. 🧵

Voters think the car industry is capitalist, and that transit is communist, when it's actually the exact opposite. this is really it, IMO: Check the numbers, the US government is a semi-nationalized car company with a side hustle in weapons manufacturing

Most cars are essentially fashion statements.

The Audible version is just one long exhausted sigh.

it's brutal out there.

Think about this: American SUVs are the primary users of Venezuelan oil, which means American drivers generate most of the Venezuelan export revenues that Confederate fascists are diverting back to the U.S. Way to go, car culture. You've found yet another new and exciting way to fund fascism.

It is very cool to live in era where so many ppl across the world would rather destroy their economies and their democracies instead of allow more housing to be built

Years ago on the bird site I speculated/half-joked that When It Happens they just won’t admit it and the media will be too afraid to report it and was told that I was crazy but I dunno, friends, I dunno.

I see a lot of posts about car drivers being unsafe to bikes so let’s give a quick shout out to the drivers that go out of their way to create safety for bikes. Pulling wide around us, (smartly) waving us through, exaggerating observations so we know they see us. It’s appreciated.

This is an area of US law we need to change. A cyclists can present law enforcement with the most incontrovertible evidence imaginable of illegal and dangerous driver behavior, and they will absolutely dgaf. Contrast this with the UK where cyclists are basically deputized to write citations.

Tennis star Arthur Ashe heading to a a news conference in New York City, 1977 Happy #BicycleBirthday, Arthur Ashe! July 10 (1943-1993)

May US transit data is in today, & all of the 10 largest US rail networks are growing! SF is seeing a real boom, with ridership up 16% on Muni & 13% on BART SEPTA (Philly, 8.7%) and PATH (NY/NJ, +6%) are also seeing strong growth, while MTS (San Diego, +0.6%) is the slowest🧵

On top of the fact that the driving mandates make Dallas as expensive as Paris, Dallas drivers are also the most violent in the United States and kill more people than drivers in any other city. Is that worth as much as Paris? I guess it depends on your values and priorities.

The massive premium that most Americans pay as a result of car dependency really needs to be a bigger part of the affordability conversation.

"To lose her on a morning commute at an intersection the city has explicitly documented as dangerous for years is just an unmitigated tragedy, a systemic failure." Deaths like Louisa's occur because our leaders prioritize the convenience of drivers over the safety of pedestrians and cyclists.

San Francisco's socialist left-NIMBYs just came out with a new report on housing in San Francisco. You'll never guess what they found. Turns out they think San Francisco is building *too much housing.* This was funded by Policy Link and the San Francisco Foundation.

the world is big, and complex

It turns out this is a fake letter. If you're a thinking person -- and I don't want to assume you are, or make false accusations -- you need to turn on the same level of skepticism and critical thinking for leftist propaganda that you use for the fascist version. We're off the map of epistemology.

i don't like to pick fights on the internet. but i also don't like the tendency i've seen on here to whitewash what was actually said on 10/8. here, for instance, is what the people's forum had to say about 10/7: that it was heroic, liberatory, righteous.

Tire dust!! It's the same stuff that's been killing the Coho Salmon - It's destroying our bodies too.