I saw chaos inside and outside of the ICE detention center Delaney Hall today. Detainees protesting the lack of due process, the disgusting food and poor treatment while their families and advocates stood outside calling for help. 1/4

Can’t believe that Andy Kim is in two of the most haunting pictures of the last few years.

I don’t understand how days before the election a leading gubernatorial candidate doesn’t understand the biggest CA infrastructure project. Up until a few weeks ago Becerra barely seemed to grasp the housing crisis, with few ideas on how to address it. Why are so many Democrats supporting him?

And they're gone! Thanks to all the new recruits. 🫡 I do this so when, at a City Council meeting, someone complains that the deep-pocketed Bike Lobby is recruiting for the War on Cars, I can yell "GUILTY AS CHARGED" and twirl my mustache, cackling. It really throws them off their game.

I am big fan of @thewaroncars.bsky.social, so the first 10 people to respond to this (reply or DM) will get a one-year membership at the "Sergeant" level for free. Last year they went quickly! 🫡

This is a fantastic run-down on housing issues and while it's local to Berkeley (and my neighborhood) I think it's worth reading for anyone.

Seattle has done a lot of the heavy lifting in helping trans people leaving red states, and they need help, both in the form of donations and support from state & local government, links in the thread. ❤️🏳️‍⚧️

I'm trying out Indigo from @soapboxsoftware.bsky.social, to keep up with bsky + mastodon in one client. Let's see how it goes (initial impressions are good).

Kidical Mass Montréal !

Every summer I repost this article on how to spot drowning. Please read it and pass on. In the last few years I’ve had SIX messages from people who saved a kid’s life after clicking on the link from my feed. slate.com/technology/2...

No. The “anti-weaponization fund” should not exist. Do not validate it as a concept.

This is exactly right. By venue-shopping some of the trans healthcare cases to a single judge in Texas, though, DOJ is recognizing the problem and trying to avoid getting called on it, rather than actually fixing it.

Two high-profile dismissals due to vindictive prosecution in two days. Good.

A family in Idaho has dropped their lawsuit challenging a state law barring transgender students from using the restroom after their 16-year-old trans daughter died by suicide. Idaho AG Raul Labrador praised the decision without mentioning the girl's death or why the case was dismissed.

“Idaho Attorney General Raúl Labrador hailed the case’s end, saying the law is ‘fully in effect’.”

In the spirit of "always read the source document," this transcript of today's dismissal of charges against the Broadview Six (the Kat Abughazaleh case) is worth reading in full—both because it lays out how badly the prosecutors were behaving, and because the judge responds appropriately to that.

It's Global Accessibility Awareness Day. On Bluesky, you might have had someone encourage to use alt text on your images. That's an example of being more accessible for some groups. More resources www.ala.org/accessibilit... accessibility.day #a11y

Madiba's post is the best piece on the RIH case yet. Boston Globe: "The hospital said it would turn over some records by the deadline, though without patient names. 'We will make an initial production today...Our production to the Texas court will not include patient identifying information.'”

My friend Adriana wrote about her story game based on Dante’s Inferno. “In Vya, I modeled Pom after the poet Alice Notley, whose Descent of Alette (1996) is one of the great contributions to the literature of katabasis.” [adrianaxjacobs.com]

I guess we’ll have to find out what everyone thinks “anonymized” means. I do not think it means what the First Circuit thinks it means.

I love this on a lot of levels. You can’t say bike infra is just for “athletes” when it starts helping in more and more ways. It will cause conflicts in narrow lanes, but NYC has some much wider bike lanes than the rest of the US. Overall: great. (gift link) www.nytimes.com/2026/05/19/b...

Paxton is evil and has pursued vicious anti-trans policies. He should not have any position in any government.

Our older child started riding @bart.gov solo during a time when reliability was *really* low and hates it to this day—even loving other public transit. Our younger has now had multiple recent experiences standing at an @rideact.bsky.social stop and having a low-frequency bus just not appear at all.

@rideact.bsky.social realtime updates seem to be down. Any word on when they’ll be back?

"At some point, this Legislature must face reality and pull the plug." Yeeeaahh. Have all the gubernatorial candidates weighed in on this? Let's get them on the record now.

When I bought an ebike, I was already commuting on a conventional bike. For a while I alternated between them, tracking rides with an Apple Watch. The ebike was 1/2 the workout—calories burned, change in heart rate, etc. But my riding distance went up 5x in the 12 months after getting the ebike!

Bay Area 👇🏻

No child should have to grow up in fear of the President’s hatred and power to do them harm.

We cannot elect people who do not care about the future of our state.

I'm glad that @berkeleyca.gov Transportation is starting a quick-build project along this corridor, starting at this intersection, imminently. I hope it helps with this intersection and more. Thanks, @markhumbert.bsky.social!

Juniper was a trans refugee. She fled from New Mexico to Seattle — and was murdered in a state that’s increasingly an “escape point” for trans people fleeing anti-trans laws in the United States. She deserved so much better.

This took me out. What an utter failure of humanity.

Good news.

Your city should build housing for trans refugees. Now, not decades from now. www.chron.com/culture/arti...

Called it. bsky.app/profile/marc...

Well said, @davidshere.net.

Good. I hope DOJ learns that this approach will not work.

(1) fast bus has to be light, so it can't carry batteries -> catenary (2) 120mph means rubber disintegrates -> steel (3) at these speeds they need dedicated ROW -> rail (4) we could save on labor if we attached several together -> train It's like, "what if we derived a train from first principles?"

The levels of overreach here—criminal subpoena, from a court in Texas to a hospital in New York, targeting private patient records—are outrageous and should frighten anyone in any category that the administration might choose to target.

George is right—and also, getting involved in local politics introduces you to people who share your values and make for great new-found friends! That’s how I met @georgespies.bsky.social, for instance. ❤️

The Station Smashburgers in Berkeley is a lot more popular since its revamp. Unfortunately, the pedestrian crossing to reach it—much-used by UC Berkeley students walking over from campus—is unsafe. Cars blow through while pedestrians try to cross. Someone is going to get badly hurt or killed here.

From 2017: a story about rubber ducking.

I’ve listened to this a couple of times now, and it is such a great statement of intent and purpose. We are so lucky to have her working towards these goals.

I think there are a lot of valid criticisms of California’s High-Speed Rail megaproject. “We empowered them to get the job done right” doesn’t seem to be accurate, though.

Maybe the best thing on the internet at the moment: * An AI PR pitching platform has confused Kyle Kingsbury, MMA fighter and podcast host with Kyle Kingsbury, software engineer and gay leather man * Good Kyle decided to start a podcast where he interviews confused manosphere influencers

Another good day for us all to keep fighting for a better world

Here’s the article with full credit to the photographer:

She’s even got an account on here: @nicolehester.bsky.social

weird how *one* tech co working with the govt has taken issue with how their tools may be used when the new WH plan is to find the "radically transgender" and "Use all the ‌tools ⁠constitutionally available to us to map them at home, identify their membership, map their ties to..."

And us, Berkeley.