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Carter Rubin @carterrubin.com · 9h

I remember buying Return to Cookie Mountain from Amoeba in the Haight when it came out. I felt very grown up.

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Tim Dickinson @timdickinson.bsky.social · 2d

Searching for Jackie Merlos: What happened when the Trump administration disappeared an immigrant mother and her four U.S. citizen kids

Her Kids Are U.S. Citizens. Trump's Admin Disappeared Them Anyway

Donald Trump's Customs and Border Protection (CBP) disappeared an immigrant mom living in Portland and her four U.S. citizen children.

www.rollingstone.com

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Carter Rubin @carterrubin.com · 20h

The D Line / Purple extension is going to totally transform Los Angeles.

Carter Rubin @carterrubin.com · 21h

In three years this wI’ll be 15 minutes from Westwood Village.

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Carter Rubin @carterrubin.com · 21h

In three years this wI’ll be 15 minutes from Westwood Village.

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Sara Hastings-Simon 🇨🇦 @shastingssimon.bsky.social · 22h

The alternative to old bungalows being torn down and replaced by a number of condos or townhomes that costs roughly the same is the old bungalow being torn down and replaced by a large house that costs 3x as much.
This is literally what happened before rezoning

www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Farkas gave an example from the Glamorgan neighbourhood, where he said $600,000 bungalows
are being torn down and replaced with $750,000 luxury condos.

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 1d

Psst: Stop burning stuff on Earth for energy. Let the burning fireball in the sky be your energy source.

T&E @transportenvironment.org · 4d

NEW: Biofuels globally emit more than the fossil fuels they replace, our latest study shows.

The first-of-a-kind study looks at global biofuels production today and the potential impacts of government biofuel targets.
🧵⤵️

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Carter Rubin @carterrubin.com · 1d

I think about Jeromy Burnitz at least twice a year.

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California Landscapes @calandscapebot.bsky.social · 1d

Blue Mountain Modoc 1, Modoc County, CA
🗺41.8301, -120.8636 🧭207° ⛰5741 ft
https://ops.alertcalifornia.org/cam-console/11019

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Carter Rubin @carterrubin.com · 2d

Thank you for your leadership, Senator!

Christopher Cabaldon @senatorcabaldon.bsky.social · 2d

Stoked that @cagovernornewsom.bsky.social signed SB79. It barely passed--not a single vote to spare in 3 committees or on Senate floor twice. I voted yes all 5 times, after working w/Sen. @scottwiener.bsky.social to focus it on urban places w/strong or emergent transit networks. Giant step forward.

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Carter Rubin @carterrubin.com · 2d

Just got my $50 gift card in my inbox.

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Senator Scott Wiener @scottwiener.bsky.social · 2d

MAJOR NEWS: @GavinNewsom signed SB 79, my bill allowing more housing near public transit — rail, subway, rapid bus.

It’s a huge step for housing in California. It’ll create more homes, strengthen our transit systems & reduce traffic & carbon emissions.

Thank you, Governor!

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Los Angeles Times @latimes.com · 2d

Newsom signs historic housing bill to bring density to transit hubs

Newsom signed Senate Bill 79 into law on Friday. The historic bill, which looks to add density to transit hubs across California, is one of the most ambitious state-imposed housing efforts in recent memory.

www.latimes.com

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Streets For All @streetsforall.org · 2d

BREAKING NEWS: SB 79 HAS BEEN SIGNED INTO LAW.

Thank you to @scottwiener.bsky.social @gavinnewsom.bsky.social and cosponsors CA Yimby, Greenbelt Alliance, Inner City Law Center, Bay Area Council, AHLA, and SPUR. for making this bill happen.

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Yonah Freemark @yonahfreemark.com · 3d

Caltrain’s new electric trains are designed to recuperate energy when breaking. The agency made a deal to sell that energy back to the local power supplier, which will net the agency millions of dollars in annual revenues.

Caltrain electrified trains return power to grid, offsetting energy costs

For decades, Caltrain has been known for what it takes off the roads. Now, it's being rewarded for what it puts back into the power grid.

www.cbsnews.com

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Costa Samaras @costasamaras.com · 3d

Picture how big the Hoover Dam is. An absolute unit. The Hoover Dam has a power capacity of 2 gigawatts (GW).

The solar farm that the Admin just cancelled could have produces 6.2 GW of power. That's more than 3 Hoover Dams.

jael holzman @jael.bsky.social · 3d

SCOOP: The Bureau of Land Management says the largest solar project in Nevada — the Esmeralda 7 mega-farm — has been canceled

The news was quietly dropped via a sudden website update with no public word from any of the companies involved or a statement from the agency

@heatmap.news

Esmeralda 7 Solar Project Has Been Canceled, BLM Says

It would have delivered a gargantuan 6.2 gigawatts of power.

heatmap.news

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Carter Rubin @carterrubin.com · 3d

The trains go fast and the rails stand still. 🤔

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 3d

This is good, from Hakeem Jeffries. More of this please, in every conceivable forum:

"Sycophants who aid and abet the President’s vengeful schemes will not be able to hide from the serious legal consequences of their behavior. They will be held accountable."

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@LAhistory @lahistory.bsky.social · 3d

Oct 9, 1936: Hoover Dam began transmitting electricity to Los Angeles. To celebrate the arrival of hydroelectric power in Los Angeles, the city hosted the Boulder Dam Inaugural. #hydropower #infrastructure

Photos via @uclalibrary.bsky.social: digital.library.ucla.edu/catalog?utf8...

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Hunter Owens @hunterowens.net · 4d

man, the Expo TNP upzoning around Expo Bundy is really resulting in huge results - was at the station yesterday and saw 4 buildings under construction, and now this

la.urbanize.city/post/eight-s...

Eight-story, 42-unit development planned at 2219 S. Wellsely Avenue

In a familiar tale, single-family homes located just south of Metro's Expo/Bundy Station in Sawtelle are set to give way to apartments, according to a recent application to the Los Angeles Department ...

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Hunter Owens @hunterowens.net · 4d

all these SFH homeowners cashed out for 4 million plus in 2022 on Zillow estimates of around 1.5M

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 4d

Newsom just signed an excellent law that will help fund the widespread transition from natural gas boilers to industrial heat pumps.

Now sign SB79, Gavin.

California Passes Law To Help Modernize Manufacturing in a Win for Jobs and Clean Air

AB 1280 establishes funding mechanism for companies to replace dirty industrial equipment with zero-emissions technologies

earthjustice.org

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 4d

This might be the worst ICE video yet, because it’s literally random dudes hanging around, and then a bunch of heavily armed thugs running them down completely out of nowhere, because they’re brown. It’s a nightmare that would have seemed excessive in Jim Crow. Everyone in America should see this.

Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 4d

ICE is not only chasing down every random brown person in Chicago, they have a cameraman following them to film this for social media. Cruelty and inhumanity as content.

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Bryan Culbertson 🥄 @bryanculbertson.com · 5d

You could electrify 4.5 Caltrains for the cost of this $11B eight lane highway through the wetlands that is currently a two lane road

Warren Wells, AICP @warrenjwells.bsky.social · 5d

Caltrans has released a cross section for the ultimate (raised viaduct) version of SR-37.

Now maybe I'm just being paranoid, but if you were building a road that you planned to keep at 4 lanes wide, I don't think it would look like this.

Cross section of 114' wide bridge structure with each direction having a 12' outside shoulder and a 10' inside shoulder.

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Old White Nepo Hat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 5d

These people are evil. Never stop saying so. Don’t be intimidated into shutting up.

Kurt @flglchicago.bsky.social · 5d

Here’s video of the incident

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Oren Ben-Joseph @orenbj.bsky.social · 5d

Finally got to go on the Metro HQ helipad!

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