Facebook took down League of Women Voters accounts around the country while we were giving out nonpartisan voter information leading into the 2024 election

Talking to normies in LA, it’s surprising to me how little people know about the LA Metro rail system, its expansions, connections.

Few people have heard about LAX station, or have seen an LA Metro map. @metrolosangeles.bsky.social should run ads in trad’l media (print, billboard, commercial).

She’s a coming, hold onto your hats, looks like this is gonna get intense

OpenAI *really* isn't hiding its intention to power the AI boom with fossil fuels.

New from me @desmog.com

www.desmog.com/2025/10/13/o...

You're living through one of the biggest technological transformations in world history and it has nothing to do with AI

@josiahwhite.bsky.social 🚲🗺️

Don't worry, Metro LA will continue to do voluntary EIRs on its projects

By popular demand, @aceckhouse.bsky.social and I have put together a deep-in-the-weeds explainer on SB 79. Enjoy!
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More CDC Cuts :: NCHS Edition 📊🔫

At least 1/3 of the staff at the National Center for Health Statistics has been cut (and remain cut). This is catastrophic for our nation’s health data.

Say goodbye to national health statistics that you can trust, healthcare surveys, NHANES and data systems.

The editors of the CDC’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR) were apparently fired today.

The precursor to MMWR began in 1878 to address emerging public health threats rapidly.

We are not “great” without it. We are vulnerable to threats from sporadic foodborne illness to bioterrorism.

Immensely grateful for the privilege of working with @cafedujord.bsky.social and the rest of the SB 79 team, all of whom relentlessly believed that better things are possible beyond the status quo. Sickos for hope.

When we got to the part next to Slauson, it got wider, but less pleasant. Traffic noise, exhaust and more intersections with traffic lights. But the bioswales are wider. More runoff from wider road. The curbs are broken periodically to allow water to flow into the bioswales.

Some real sad patient cases in the hospital these past few weeks.

Life is short and suffering so unfair.

Evidently, the California Coastal Commission is doing an event with Our Neighborhood Voices in Redondo Beach.

There’s a couple in Loma Linda

Insta-blocked by Larry Gross, CADEM regional director for SFV in LA, for gently reminding him that his opinion is overwhelmingly at massive odds with his own party on SB 79. If these are the unsophisticated primitive NIMBYs that Newsom is listening to, he probably has no business running for POTUS.

This is the values debate right here.

I have said “Contrarianism without strong values always leads to the right.”

That’s true for pundits generally.
What this interview shows is Coates‘ values.
And Klein’s lack of strong values.

Los Angeles city-county consolidation yesterday (minus the antelope valley they can go do their own thing)

A former expressway. Now a place for an evening stroll. Nighttime on the Cheonggyecheon River in Seoul.

"No planning, no consideration, no nothing. It’s not anything that I’ve ever seen in my life before."

It's been 7 mos since my coworkers and I were interrogated, insulted, and ultimately fired by DOGE. But I still can't quite believe how senseless it was.

300,000 people have left the government

*banjo picking and sporadic musket fire* dearest martha, the horrors of war-torn portland cannot even be described

Blue cities should tear up the roads in front of ICE facilities and then start decades of community engagement and input sessions to rebuild them. Let's harness our core competencies.

One smart, cheap, urban response to global warming: shade canopies. Seville, Spain

In the US, even a “cheap” transit bus costs 2-3x more than in Asia or Europe -- and one agency may pay twice as much as another for nearly identical vehicles.

In Bloomberg, I explored a ripe opportunity to improve transportation by applying Abundance-coded, supply-side reforms.

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