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suburban urbanist, cargo pants aficionado, UAW member, Georgist, YIMBY socialist, geoscientist, Inland Empire respecter, hydrogen hater, 🔰🚰🌹 they/them
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big late breaking news: the market monitor for the largest energy grid in the u.s., covering much of the midwest and mid-atlantic, has called to block new data centers connections to the grid, saying current course of growth assures regular blackouts
No more PJM data centers unless they can be reliably served: market monitor
The PJM Interconnection’s market monitor urged the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to rule that large data centers can only come online if the grid operator can still meet reliability metrics.
www.utilitydive.com
November 27, 2025 at 1:17 AM
big late breaking news: the market monitor for the largest energy grid in the u.s., covering much of the midwest and mid-atlantic, has called to block new data centers connections to the grid, saying current course of growth assures regular blackouts
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Victory! SBCTA is cancelling the ONT Tesla Tunnel project - which would have duplicated BRT with an tunnel for cars - after construction costs escalated to $1-2 B. Time to pivot to electrification and 15 minute service on the San Bernardino line, planning for future multi-use heavy rail to ONT.
November 26, 2025 at 7:57 PM
Victory! SBCTA is cancelling the ONT Tesla Tunnel project - which would have duplicated BRT with an tunnel for cars - after construction costs escalated to $1-2 B. Time to pivot to electrification and 15 minute service on the San Bernardino line, planning for future multi-use heavy rail to ONT.
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Reminder: CBIA isnt just uninterested, it is active enemy to infill housing construction
I can only surmise that CBIA prefers the status quo where only 3% of for-sale housing in California is designed as multi-family, which is more likely to be in urban or 1/2nd ring suburban locations, and 90% is detached homes on the metropolitan periphery or new exurbs.
November 26, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Reminder: CBIA isnt just uninterested, it is active enemy to infill housing construction
Looks like this was a bug in the Amtrak site. The Thruway Bus from Bakersfield to Riverside is back - though it seems to have less service than last year?
Did the powers that be cancel the Thruway Bus from Bakersfield to Riverside/SB/Ontario? I'm unable to select a trip using that one for any upcoming date.
November 26, 2025 at 7:40 PM
Looks like this was a bug in the Amtrak site. The Thruway Bus from Bakersfield to Riverside is back - though it seems to have less service than last year?
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One key thing Zohran can learn from Milwaukee's sewer socialists is that to deliver transformative reforms you need to lean on mass movement pressure
November 26, 2025 at 6:14 PM
One key thing Zohran can learn from Milwaukee's sewer socialists is that to deliver transformative reforms you need to lean on mass movement pressure
Y2K nostalgia has gone too far
Rep. Salazar on Venezuela: "We're about to go in ... we need to go in ... Venezuela for the American oil companies will be a field day"
November 26, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Y2K nostalgia has gone too far
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Fellas is it sustainable to spend as much of you monthly income on transportation as housing? climatecabineteducation.org/az-affordabi...
November 25, 2025 at 10:21 PM
Fellas is it sustainable to spend as much of you monthly income on transportation as housing? climatecabineteducation.org/az-affordabi...
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Successful democracy movements in the modern era basically require student movements to be successful. Liberal institutions like universities and newspapers, as well as the Dem Party itself, have to learn from this
November 25, 2025 at 3:41 AM
Successful democracy movements in the modern era basically require student movements to be successful. Liberal institutions like universities and newspapers, as well as the Dem Party itself, have to learn from this
San Joaquins is called Gold Runner now btw
Did the powers that be cancel the Thruway Bus from Bakersfield to Riverside/SB/Ontario? I'm unable to select a trip using that one for any upcoming date.
November 25, 2025 at 11:59 PM
San Joaquins is called Gold Runner now btw
Did the powers that be cancel the Thruway Bus from Bakersfield to Riverside/SB/Ontario? I'm unable to select a trip using that one for any upcoming date.
November 25, 2025 at 11:53 PM
Did the powers that be cancel the Thruway Bus from Bakersfield to Riverside/SB/Ontario? I'm unable to select a trip using that one for any upcoming date.
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broke: YIMBYs fighting DSA
woke: YIMBYs and DSA forming an alliance to take down realtors
🏘️🤝🏘️
(op ed written by my friend Thomas Irwin from @abundanthousingla.bsky.social's Eastside Housing for All chapter!)
woke: YIMBYs and DSA forming an alliance to take down realtors
🏘️🤝🏘️
(op ed written by my friend Thomas Irwin from @abundanthousingla.bsky.social's Eastside Housing for All chapter!)
Who are the most powerful NIMBYs in California? Realtors
OPINION: “No one should be more invested in expanding creative home sales opportunities than real estate agents, whose job is to help families realize their homeownership dreams.”
www.sfchronicle.com
November 25, 2025 at 6:41 PM
broke: YIMBYs fighting DSA
woke: YIMBYs and DSA forming an alliance to take down realtors
🏘️🤝🏘️
(op ed written by my friend Thomas Irwin from @abundanthousingla.bsky.social's Eastside Housing for All chapter!)
woke: YIMBYs and DSA forming an alliance to take down realtors
🏘️🤝🏘️
(op ed written by my friend Thomas Irwin from @abundanthousingla.bsky.social's Eastside Housing for All chapter!)
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The safety promise of robotaxis is that they will replace private cars
The problem is if you replace a vehicle carrying an average of 1.2 people with one carrying an average of 0.55 people then you need to more than double your road capacity
A robotaxi future is a future without walkable cities
The problem is if you replace a vehicle carrying an average of 1.2 people with one carrying an average of 0.55 people then you need to more than double your road capacity
A robotaxi future is a future without walkable cities
A reminder that cars aren’t a technology problem. They’re a geometry problem.
Waymo privatized another public street:
Chanel approaching 4th, San Francisco
Possibly queued for a Billie Eilish show at Chase Center ~half mile away.
The light rail train on 4th seen passing in front of this roboherd has more passenger capacity than all of them combined.
OP: .tiktok.renaspam18
Chanel approaching 4th, San Francisco
Possibly queued for a Billie Eilish show at Chase Center ~half mile away.
The light rail train on 4th seen passing in front of this roboherd has more passenger capacity than all of them combined.
OP: .tiktok.renaspam18
November 25, 2025 at 4:19 PM
The safety promise of robotaxis is that they will replace private cars
The problem is if you replace a vehicle carrying an average of 1.2 people with one carrying an average of 0.55 people then you need to more than double your road capacity
A robotaxi future is a future without walkable cities
The problem is if you replace a vehicle carrying an average of 1.2 people with one carrying an average of 0.55 people then you need to more than double your road capacity
A robotaxi future is a future without walkable cities
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This Day in Labor History: November 25, 1865. Mississippi created the first of the Black Codes. Designed to recreate slavery in all but name, this signified the South’s resistance to the freeing of their labor force and the lengths to which it would go to tie workers to a place under white control.
November 25, 2025 at 5:55 PM
This Day in Labor History: November 25, 1865. Mississippi created the first of the Black Codes. Designed to recreate slavery in all but name, this signified the South’s resistance to the freeing of their labor force and the lengths to which it would go to tie workers to a place under white control.
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And that’s already happening in some places. I found a NY jurisdiction that is keeping a small solar project in SEQR hell but they let a data center skip SEQR entirely to install six diesel generators in an endangered species habitat area.
November 25, 2025 at 4:20 PM
And that’s already happening in some places. I found a NY jurisdiction that is keeping a small solar project in SEQR hell but they let a data center skip SEQR entirely to install six diesel generators in an endangered species habitat area.
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God this shit makes it so much harder to do permitting reform for actually good things. We’re gonna get permit expediting for data centers while transit projects are still held up in environmental review for a decade.
November 25, 2025 at 4:08 PM
God this shit makes it so much harder to do permitting reform for actually good things. We’re gonna get permit expediting for data centers while transit projects are still held up in environmental review for a decade.
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everyone gets mad at socialists for proposing somewhat unrealistic tax hikes targeted at the rich when they should be getting mad at establishment Democrats for taking broad-based tax hikes off the table every budget season and leaving us socialists as the only revenue-raisers in town
November 25, 2025 at 12:10 AM
everyone gets mad at socialists for proposing somewhat unrealistic tax hikes targeted at the rich when they should be getting mad at establishment Democrats for taking broad-based tax hikes off the table every budget season and leaving us socialists as the only revenue-raisers in town
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If you want to do mass socialist politics, not just talk about it, good to learn from the biggest and most powerful socialist organization ever seen in America: the "sewer socialists" of Wisconsin
www.laborpolitics.com/p/sewer-soci...
www.laborpolitics.com/p/sewer-soci...
Socialists in City Hall? A New Look at Sewer Socialism in Wisconsin
It’s been done before—we can do it again in New York and beyond
www.laborpolitics.com
November 24, 2025 at 8:27 PM
If you want to do mass socialist politics, not just talk about it, good to learn from the biggest and most powerful socialist organization ever seen in America: the "sewer socialists" of Wisconsin
www.laborpolitics.com/p/sewer-soci...
www.laborpolitics.com/p/sewer-soci...
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Today, striking baristas are taking the picket line to Starbucks CEO Brian Niccol's office.
Instead of investing in workers, Starbucks is on a spending spree - notably, on Niccol’s sky-high compensation, his satellite office away from HQ, & a private jet to commute from California to Seattle.
Instead of investing in workers, Starbucks is on a spending spree - notably, on Niccol’s sky-high compensation, his satellite office away from HQ, & a private jet to commute from California to Seattle.
November 24, 2025 at 7:25 PM
Today, striking baristas are taking the picket line to Starbucks CEO Brian Niccol's office.
Instead of investing in workers, Starbucks is on a spending spree - notably, on Niccol’s sky-high compensation, his satellite office away from HQ, & a private jet to commute from California to Seattle.
Instead of investing in workers, Starbucks is on a spending spree - notably, on Niccol’s sky-high compensation, his satellite office away from HQ, & a private jet to commute from California to Seattle.
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You can appreciate the scale of the unusual polar warming in Oct 2025 when you look at both poles at once. Antarctica was not just warmer than average on net, it was anomalously warm almost everywhere & by quite a bit (& this is with a rel. warm ref period, '86/15). Similar for the high Arctic. 🥵🧪⚒️🌊
November 24, 2025 at 4:10 PM
You can appreciate the scale of the unusual polar warming in Oct 2025 when you look at both poles at once. Antarctica was not just warmer than average on net, it was anomalously warm almost everywhere & by quite a bit (& this is with a rel. warm ref period, '86/15). Similar for the high Arctic. 🥵🧪⚒️🌊
Really enjoyed listening! Interesting discussion around the history and politics of resource nationalism, Chinese industrial policy, and more. One thing that strikes me is how political critical minerals and mining writ large, and how thoroughly that's ignored in geoscience education and research.
I’m on @thedigradio.bsky.social. We talk about the intertwined histories of capitalism and extraction; the origins of OPEC & new geopolitics of supply chains; what I think about degrowth; green development in the Global South; green economic populism in US; Chinese industrial policy & much more
November 24, 2025 at 2:33 AM
Really enjoyed listening! Interesting discussion around the history and politics of resource nationalism, Chinese industrial policy, and more. One thing that strikes me is how political critical minerals and mining writ large, and how thoroughly that's ignored in geoscience education and research.
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remember when there were videos that were longer than 2 minutes but shorter than a half hour, and that was most videos worth watching? pepperidge farm remembers
November 23, 2025 at 5:52 PM
remember when there were videos that were longer than 2 minutes but shorter than a half hour, and that was most videos worth watching? pepperidge farm remembers
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75% of VMT is from trips longer than 10 miles. California needs to rapidly expand electrified regional and intercity rail to meet our climate goals. We need commitments today, not vague promises and hydrogen pilots, and real reform to speed up the delivery of rail projects.
I think entirely too much about how California’s climate plan explicitly says that converting to EVs is not nearly enough to meet our greenhouse gas reduction targets so we need to reduce VMT 25% by 2030, and then we do basically nothing to try to achieve that goal
November 22, 2025 at 3:03 AM
75% of VMT is from trips longer than 10 miles. California needs to rapidly expand electrified regional and intercity rail to meet our climate goals. We need commitments today, not vague promises and hydrogen pilots, and real reform to speed up the delivery of rail projects.
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According to his lawyers, Carlos Jimenez had attempted to warn agents of the presence of school children at a nearby bus stop in his community when he was shot by federal agents.
The latest update: lataco.com/ontario-man-...
By Aisha Wallace-Palomares and @eltragon.bsky.social
The latest update: lataco.com/ontario-man-...
By Aisha Wallace-Palomares and @eltragon.bsky.social
November 22, 2025 at 1:38 AM
According to his lawyers, Carlos Jimenez had attempted to warn agents of the presence of school children at a nearby bus stop in his community when he was shot by federal agents.
The latest update: lataco.com/ontario-man-...
By Aisha Wallace-Palomares and @eltragon.bsky.social
The latest update: lataco.com/ontario-man-...
By Aisha Wallace-Palomares and @eltragon.bsky.social
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It's painful to read plans from a century ago that perfectly formulate how to build a world class transit system yet today we still need years of redundant studies to even build a bus lane
November 22, 2025 at 12:36 AM
It's painful to read plans from a century ago that perfectly formulate how to build a world class transit system yet today we still need years of redundant studies to even build a bus lane
One factor behind the alleged preference for suburban living is people psychologically underestimate transport costs relative to rent. Rent is a big ticket item that comes all at once, while the cost of driving comes in dribs and drabs. If you're bad at budgeting, it's easier to ignore.
November 22, 2025 at 12:37 AM
One factor behind the alleged preference for suburban living is people psychologically underestimate transport costs relative to rent. Rent is a big ticket item that comes all at once, while the cost of driving comes in dribs and drabs. If you're bad at budgeting, it's easier to ignore.