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M Mallon || vote by 11/4 🗳️

@monicamallon.bsky.social

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28 y/o advocate from the "bus community" in Santa Clara County, CA

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M Mallon || vote by 11/4 🗳️ @monicamallon.bsky.social · Sep 4

Trump is trying to block progress in California.

We’ve proven we can still do big things for transit — and we’re just getting started.

Mallon: California can still do big things for transit sanjosespotlight.com/mallon-calif...

Mallon: California can still do big things for transit - San José Spotlight

Last September, I took the very first train on Caltrain’s opening day of electric service. After decades of advocacy, hard work, setbacks, and doubts, it finally happened. That moment zooming up the p...

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M Mallon || vote by 11/4 🗳️ @monicamallon.bsky.social · 11m

You know it’s cold in Cali when people are wearing beanies and coats on the train to work 😂

(It’s only 54° right now)

M Mallon || vote by 11/4 🗳️ @monicamallon.bsky.social · 23m

Good morning and happy Monday from the bus 🚌✨

M Mallon || vote by 11/4 🗳️ @monicamallon.bsky.social · 21h

Good morning and happy Sunday from the bus 🚌✨

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Noah, some kind of engineer 🚎💻 @noahsbwilliams.com · 1d

Good morning from

🗣️ King St Rail Station
served by Amtrak and Sounder 🗣️

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M Mallon || vote by 11/4 🗳️ @monicamallon.bsky.social · 1d

Good morning and happy Saturday from the bus 🚌 ✨

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M Mallon || vote by 11/4 🗳️ @monicamallon.bsky.social · 2d

They're the best 😎

Noah, some kind of engineer 🚎💻 @noahsbwilliams.com · 2d

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Night trolleybus vibes 🚎✨

The interior of a King County Metro XT60 at night, with a completely empty rear section. The trolley is well lit but not overwhelming and the yellow steps on the high floor section stand out in sharp relief

M Mallon || vote by 11/4 🗳️ @monicamallon.bsky.social · 2d

I genuinely thought it would be impossible to make up for the lost ridership in the final days, but I still wanted to try to do everything I could to encourage ridership, and I know others did too, and I’m sure it had a positive impact here.

M Mallon || vote by 11/4 🗳️ @monicamallon.bsky.social · 2d

Despite an 18-day service shutdown during the strike, VTA still saw higher overall bus ridership in FY25 than in FY24.

This speaks to how much our riders value the service and perhaps it also speaks to why it’s still important to encourage ridership even when you're frustrated.

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M Mallon || vote by 11/4 🗳️ @monicamallon.bsky.social · 2d

Good morning and happy Friday from the bus 🚌✨

M Mallon || vote by 11/4 🗳️ @monicamallon.bsky.social · 3d

Sometimes, I do when they think I’m a high school boy, but this was during the school day, and I was wearing a company/law firm lanyard lol

M Mallon || vote by 11/4 🗳️ @monicamallon.bsky.social · 3d

I saw this truck earlier today and I wanted to ask the driver some questions to investigate, but then I remembered what I look like and I changed my mind lol

(I voted for the other candidate if that somehow isn't obvious)

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M Mallon || vote by 11/4 🗳️ @monicamallon.bsky.social · 4d

Good morning and happy Thursday from the bus 🚌✨

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Alfred Twu @alfredtwu.com · 4d

Got my ballot and voted Yes on 50! California voters, look for your ballot in your mailboxes this week - many have already arrived!

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M Mallon || vote by 11/4 🗳️ @monicamallon.bsky.social · 4d

I got my ballot and voted today 🗳️☑️

Make sure that by November 4th, if you live in California!!!

M Mallon || vote by 11/4 🗳️ @monicamallon.bsky.social · 4d

This is too real lol

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Kenny Uong @kennyuong.bsky.social · 4d

First @Amtrak.com ride when I still lived on the West Coast: Pacific Surfliner - Glendale to Santa Barbara (August 2017)

First Amtrak ride as an East Coast resident: Hartford Line - Springfield to Hartford (October 2025)

Here’s to many more Amtrak adventures! 🥹🚆🌊

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M Mallon || vote by 11/4 🗳️ @monicamallon.bsky.social · 4d

To see real change we need to be honest about what's going on and why certain strategy decision are being made.

M Mallon || vote by 11/4 🗳️ @monicamallon.bsky.social · 4d

Also, if anyone is confused about what's going on, to put it bluntly, Dems lost racial and ethnic minority voters in 2024 in part because many of these communities are still socially conservative, traditional, and religious.

Now, Dems are using immigration to regain support.

M Mallon || vote by 11/4 🗳️ @monicamallon.bsky.social · 5d

I totally get that Silicon Valley elected officials have bigger issues to worry about right now, including making sure that doctors can keep their $300k salaries.

But their silence on the conversion therapy SCOTUS case and kids being tortured is a new low.

M Mallon || vote by 11/4 🗳️ @monicamallon.bsky.social · 4d

I wasn’t trying to say that doctors don’t have an important job. It’s just been disappointing to see elected officials absorbed in a tax measure that’s being funded by doctors who want to keep their salaries and ignoring other important issues.

M Mallon || vote by 11/4 🗳️ @monicamallon.bsky.social · 4d

The are probably higher tbh

M Mallon || vote by 11/4 🗳️ @monicamallon.bsky.social · 5d

And I’m not saying this to suggest that they support Chiles. Most of them likely support the respondent and maintaining the ban. Some even have compelling stories to tell to that effect.

I’m saying this to get them to rethink their silence.

M Mallon || vote by 11/4 🗳️ @monicamallon.bsky.social · 5d

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M Mallon || vote by 11/4 🗳️ @monicamallon.bsky.social · 5d

Good morning and happy Wednesday from the bus 🚌✨

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Sky Marchini @sky.skymarchini.net · 5d

Supreme Court: of course states can regulate, and restrict access to, medical procedures if there’s a compelling public interest

Colorado: (bans conversion therapy for minors)

Supreme Court: no not like that, we only meant abortion

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M Mallon || vote by 11/4 🗳️ @monicamallon.bsky.social · 6d

As someone who went to a Catholic school a decade ago, I know the pressures that Catholic teachers face and how difficult it can be to speak up.

But I will always have so much respect for people who do.