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Mike Okuda @mikeokuda.bsky.social · 8h

Voters in California: Please vote YES on Proposition 50, the temporary redistricting measure that will fight fire with fire against cheating by the radical right in other states. Deadline to vote and to send in your ballot is Tuesday, Nov 4).

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City Limits News @citylimitsnews.bsky.social · 46m

"Every year, hundreds of thousands of Americans are released from prison. Too many step back into society with nowhere to go." citylimits.org/opinion-what...

Opinion: What Happens When Reentry Starts with Housing? - City Limits

"Every year, hundreds of thousands of Americans are released from prison. Too many step back into society with nowhere to go."

citylimits.org

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Streetsblog USA @usa.streetsblog.org · 45m

As cities save lives by slowing down traffic, every 5-miles-per-hour increase on interstates increases the chances of death by 8.5 percent. buff.ly/4XvCC91

Wednesday's Headlines Hurry Up and Wait — Streetsblog USA

As cities save lives by slowing down traffic, every 5-miles-per-hour increase on interstates increases the chances of death by 8.5 percent.

usa.streetsblog.org

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𝚃𝚊𝚛𝚊𝚜 𝙶𝚛𝚎𝚜𝚌𝚘𝚎 🚇 @taras-grescoe.com · 38m

In #Switzerland, fine for a speeding driver is based (1) on how far over the limit the driver is going
(2) on how much the driver earns.

One man caught driving his Ferrari at 137 km/h the in an 80 km/h zone in a village near St. Gallen was fined 300,000 Swiss Francs (today, $375,000 US).

🇨🇭🧵

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Jake Berman @lostsubways.com · 10h

This kind of shit is rampant in rich parts of the Bay Area. There should be more teeth to state housing law. If you're not zoning in good faith, cities should face more consequences. I have an idea for how this could be done. 1/thread

Anne Paulson @annepaulson.bsky.social · 11h

Los Altos Hills CA is up to their old tricks, to get out of allowing homes for the people who can’t afford the $5.7M houses there. The rich exclusionary town has to zone for multifamily housing, but they don’t want to, so they’re weaseling. 🧵1/7

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Engineer Like A Girl @engineerlikeagirl.bsky.social · Aug 22

Remember this when people quote collision data and say that "speed isn't a factor" so reducing the speed limit won't positively affect road safety. It's always a factor, despite what the police write in their incident report.

Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · Aug 21

Remember, whenever you hear that “speed wasn’t a factor” in a deadly crash, what they mean is that the car involved wasn’t technically speeding. At least “not by much.” It presumes that the speed limit wasn’t too high to begin with.

When it comes to death from collisions, SPEED IS ALWAYS a factor.

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James @gravitysra1nbow.bsky.social · 16h

You wouldn't possibly guess in a million years what the event is that he's honoring here. Incredible.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 16h

Trump on LA: "They already lost 25k houses to fire because they wouldn't let the water come in from the Pacific Northwest. They didn't do it and we had 25k homes where they had no water in the sprinklers, they had no water in the fire hydrants. We broke in and had the water come down."

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Saad Asad @realsaadasad.bsky.social · 12h

Housing policy is climate policy.

🔗 : buff.ly/iHHPFub

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Streetsblog L.A. @streetsblogla.bsky.social · 15h

South Pasadena is in the process of redesigning Fremont and Huntington to be safer and more conducive to walking and bicycling la.streetsblog.org/2025/10/14/h...

Huntington and Fremont to get Complete Street Redesigns in South Pasadena - Streetsblog Los Angeles

Early concepts portray lush, green pedestrian and bike facilities.

la.streetsblog.org

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Momentum Magazine @momentummag.bsky.social · 17h

Here’s Why Governments Should Start Paying People to Bike to Work.
momentummag.com/is-it-time-g...

Here's Why Governments Should Start Paying People to Bike to Work

In North America, where cars reign supreme, a new idea could gain ground like it is in some areas of Europe — paying people to bike to work

momentummag.com

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Jonathan Berk 🏠 @berkie1.bsky.social · 15h

Fairly certain if we hadn’t built places like this 200 years ago we’d never allow ourselves to build them today.

Imagine being in the first public meeting proposing this level of density to Newburyport today…

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Nicholas Slayton @nslayton.bsky.social · 12h

Not only has the US killed 27 people (by its figures, independent verification obviously being difficult), they haven't presented evidence or any real legal authority to justify this. Even as they formalized it under a task force.

Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 18h

Unless and until some kind of compelling legal and moral argument is presented as to why this is a legitimate use of deadly force, this is just…mass murder.

Amarnath Amarasingam @amaramarasingam.bsky.social · 18h

The military has now killed 27 people as if they were enemy soldiers in a war zone and not criminal suspects. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/u...

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jacksonp42.bsky.social @jacksonp42.bsky.social · 12h

The internet is over. Welcome to the incelnet.

David King @cityplanning.bsky.social · 12h

It seems that one main use case for AI will be to create AI versions of real people (mostly women without consent) that other people (mostly dudes) will have sexual relationships with.

The Verge @theverge.com · 20h

Sam Altman says ChatGPT will soon sext with verified adults

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California Housing Defense Fund @housingdefense.bsky.social · 19h

HAA letter to Beverly Hills, CA for tonight's Planning Commission meeting re proposed 65-unit Builder's Remedy project at 346 North Maple Drive, which includes 13 lower-income units.
drive.google.com/file/d/1BkLM...

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Capt. Jack Sharrow @sharrows.bsky.social · 1d

Without street parking, surface lots, and parking garages, Oslo’s busiest shopping district is left abandoned. Only robust transit, bike paths, scooters, and tons of places to sit remain. Sad. #BanCars

Seating in the foreground, shops on the right and left, people everywhere shopping

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Isaac G. Bryan @ib2real.bsky.social · 18h

The Governor and I have done incredible work together across many issue areas…

But this is beyond disappointing and we cannot stop pushing for what our people deserve. Especially in this moment.

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👻👻👻boonoteat👻👻👻 @donoteat.bsky.social · 19h

frankly the lengths railroads are going to avoid conventional electrification are astonishing; even the laws of thermodynamics are not a barrier

www.trains.com/pro/freight/...

Pacific Harbor Line to work with startup Remora on carbon-capture technology - Trains

WILMINGTON, Calif. — Pacific Harbor Line has entered into an agreement with Michigan-based startup Remora, which is developing carbon capture technology for freight rail and trucking. The railroad, wh...

www.trains.com

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CAHSR's Strongest Soldier @emoscientist.bsky.social · 19h

Meanwhile the CA legislature is bailing out refineries and expanding oil drilling to keep car sauce cheap but barely finds transit operations. People displaced from CA's few transit-friendly areas by housing costs are taking on heavier transport burdens with no real solutions from the state.

pumpkin spice amb 🎃 @amb.fyi · 20h

i have a handful of theories as to why, but none of them fully explain why we've managed to get all on the same page and fully radicalized on how expensive housing has become but the closest anyone gets to noticing transportation is also expensive is "gas prices are too damn high"

A. Zivarts @nondriver.bsky.social · Aug 5

AAA estimates the average cost of owning a car is $12,297 a year, and recommends drivers spend no more than 10 percent of their income on car costs. This means you should make 120K to afford the average cost. Median *household* income in the US is $77K. The math just doesn't work.

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Californians for Electric Rail @calelectricrail.org · 18h

CA High Speed Rail will bring tremendous benefits to Southern California beyond the high-speed train. Once this EIR is complete, Metrolink could choose to implement these projects - and electrification - long before CAHSR reaches LA.

CA High-Speed Rail 🚄💨 @cahsra.bsky.social · 20h

As we prepare to release our draft EIR/EIS for the Los Angeles to Anaheim section, we want to highlight how this section will improve transit for everybody in Southern California.

See the video for more info! (1/2)

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Emily Hamilton @ebwhamilton.bsky.social · 19h

If you want to really feel the housing crisis, browse the Census microdata for LA households with lots of people in them. About 16,000 houses in LA County have three bedrooms and 8+ people.

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Mel Buer @melbuer.bsky.social · 20h

So like, is the manosphere just one giant slimepool of lead psychosis?

paris martineau @paris.nyc · 21h

nearly all the plant-based products we tested had elevated lead levels: vegan powders had 9x as much lead as dairy and 2x as much as beef

though dairy-based powders had the lowest levels, half were still too contaminated for safe daily use

you may be asking: how could this be? well...

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Andrew Freedman @afreedma.bsky.social · 18h

NEW: A significant gap in weather balloon coverage in western Alaska, caused by Trump admin cuts to NOAA/NWS, may have hurt the forecast accuracy for the deadly storm there over the weekend. www.cnn.com/2025/10/14/w...

Predictions for deadly Alaska storm may have suffered due to DOGE cuts | CNN

The forecast for the powerful and deadly storm that battered small communities in western Alaska over the weekend was likely made worse by a lack of weather data triggered by the Trump administration’...

www.cnn.com

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Janne K. Flisrand @jannefrommpls.bsky.social · 18h

I'm leaving Strasbourg impressed by all the newly built and heavily used protected bikeways.

A city street lined with multistage buildings. The street has dark asphalt because it's newly paved. There's a big island in the street, dividing the near side wide bikeway from car lanes on the other side. A freshly painted crosswalk goes across all four lakes, bike and car.

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Nicholas Slayton @nslayton.bsky.social · 19h

Well fuck.

paris martineau @paris.nyc · 21h

my latest investigation for @consumerreports.org is based on months of reporting and 60+ lab tests of leading protein supplements

we found that most protein powders and shakes have more lead in one serving than our experts say is safe to have in a day (🧵)

www.consumerreports.org/lead/protein...

Protein Powders and Shakes Contain High Levels of Lead - Consumer Reports

CR tests of 23 popular protein powders and shakes found that most contain high levels of lead.

www.consumerreports.org

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Abundant Housing LA @abundanthousingla.bsky.social · 18h

Join us for Housing 101, Abundant Housing LA’s free online crash course on how we got here—and how we fight back.
We’ll talk zoning, racism, politics, and organizing for real housing justice.

🗓️ Oct 15 at 6:30 PM (online)
🎟️ Free to attend — RSVP now at the link in our bio!

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