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· Nov 19
Since my Oakland Mayoral Platform is on the hellsite, here it is on here:
1. Rewild the hills
2. Annex Piedmont
3. Split all new revenue and savings from the first two points between AC Transit and the Oakland Unified School District.
1. Rewild the hills
2. Annex Piedmont
3. Split all new revenue and savings from the first two points between AC Transit and the Oakland Unified School District.
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There are issues with this study that I'm too tired to get into, but when you look at the broad sweep of data around cheese... it's pretty neutral. As in cheese doesn't seem to be bad for us.
"A new study has found that eating 50g or more of high-fat cheese a day correlates with a lower risk of developing dementia. That means all cheeses with more than 20 percent fat content, including brie, gouda, cheddar, parmesan, gruyere, and mozzarella." www.sciencealert.com/cheese-linke...
Cheese Linked to Lower Dementia Risk in 25-Year Study
One of the finest foods available to humanity may carry an unexpected benefit.
www.sciencealert.com
December 21, 2025 at 5:16 AM
There are issues with this study that I'm too tired to get into, but when you look at the broad sweep of data around cheese... it's pretty neutral. As in cheese doesn't seem to be bad for us.
Why does MattY want Dems to win? I want them to win to stop the climate crisis, protect my trans friends and family, and legalize migration.
Does he just like the shape of the letter "D"? Or the color blue? Is Shrek's donkey his favorite cartoon character?
Does he just like the shape of the letter "D"? Or the color blue? Is Shrek's donkey his favorite cartoon character?
December 21, 2025 at 12:29 AM
Why does MattY want Dems to win? I want them to win to stop the climate crisis, protect my trans friends and family, and legalize migration.
Does he just like the shape of the letter "D"? Or the color blue? Is Shrek's donkey his favorite cartoon character?
Does he just like the shape of the letter "D"? Or the color blue? Is Shrek's donkey his favorite cartoon character?
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Yglesias and his ilk reside in a bubble that they accuse Bluesky progressives of being in.
December 20, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Yglesias and his ilk reside in a bubble that they accuse Bluesky progressives of being in.
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21. And before team Yglesias responds by saying "yeah, but it's bad politics to run on climate and energy"... I'd point out that I've won 4 elections in a very purple district running on climate and energy. Pro-tip: leadership is possible! You don't have to be stupid to win!
December 20, 2025 at 4:12 PM
21. And before team Yglesias responds by saying "yeah, but it's bad politics to run on climate and energy"... I'd point out that I've won 4 elections in a very purple district running on climate and energy. Pro-tip: leadership is possible! You don't have to be stupid to win!
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Today is Nonidi the 29th of Frimaire in the year 234.
Frimaire is the month of frost.
Today we celebrate olives.#JacobinDay
More information on olives
Frimaire is the month of frost.
Today we celebrate olives.#JacobinDay
More information on olives
December 18, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Today is Nonidi the 29th of Frimaire in the year 234.
Frimaire is the month of frost.
Today we celebrate olives.#JacobinDay
More information on olives
Frimaire is the month of frost.
Today we celebrate olives.#JacobinDay
More information on olives
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In Sept Oakland PD reps claimed that fatal crashes would skyrocket this year, due to their motorcycle enforcement division being cut. In reality the opposite happened, & not only on International.
It’s very clear that safety design interventions must be the priority.
bsky.app/profile/prin...
It’s very clear that safety design interventions must be the priority.
bsky.app/profile/prin...
It’s also important to remember that in September OPD representatives predicted that fatal crashes would go up after the reassignment of 6 traffic officers, & estimated 40 deaths this year. Right now we’re at 22, incl no bike/walk fatalities since October.
oaklandside.org/2025/09/19/o...
oaklandside.org/2025/09/19/o...
December 19, 2025 at 6:25 AM
In Sept Oakland PD reps claimed that fatal crashes would skyrocket this year, due to their motorcycle enforcement division being cut. In reality the opposite happened, & not only on International.
It’s very clear that safety design interventions must be the priority.
bsky.app/profile/prin...
It’s very clear that safety design interventions must be the priority.
bsky.app/profile/prin...
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Massive congratulations are owed to the folks at @tvrr.bsky.social for their work on International Boulevard.
It is *unquestionable* that their advocacy has saved multiple lives, something not many people can say.
Quick 🧵on their blog post.
www.oakrapidresponse.org/posts/intern...
It is *unquestionable* that their advocacy has saved multiple lives, something not many people can say.
Quick 🧵on their blog post.
www.oakrapidresponse.org/posts/intern...
International Blvd is Now Much Safer
Last week, OakDOT and AC Transit shared the results of the International BRT Safety Project and frankly the results are an eye-popping success! Traffic calming infrastructure saves lives! Please write...
www.oakrapidresponse.org
December 18, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Massive congratulations are owed to the folks at @tvrr.bsky.social for their work on International Boulevard.
It is *unquestionable* that their advocacy has saved multiple lives, something not many people can say.
Quick 🧵on their blog post.
www.oakrapidresponse.org/posts/intern...
It is *unquestionable* that their advocacy has saved multiple lives, something not many people can say.
Quick 🧵on their blog post.
www.oakrapidresponse.org/posts/intern...
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ENOUGH IS ENOUGH
![the "stop doing math" meme except it says "STOP DRIVING CARS". the meme reads:
* PEOPLE WERE NOT SUPPOSED TO BE ISOLATED IN CAGES
* YEARS OF CONSTRUCTION yet NO REAL-WORLD USE FOUND for building ONE MORE LANE
* Wanted to travel large distances anyway for a laugh? We had a tool for that: It was called "TRAINS"
* "Yes please give me NO GREENERY. Please give me INFINITE PAVEMENT" - Statements dreamed up by the utterly Deranged
LOOK at what Civil Engineers have been demanding your Respect for all this time, with all the concrete and asphalt we built for them
(This is REAL Civil Infrastructure, done by REAL Civil Engineers):
? [Image of the infamously hideous Breezewood truck stop]
?? [Image of a gigantic mega parking lot with thousands of cars]
??? [Image of the infamous I-405 gridlock photo with tens of thousands of cars not moving]
"Hello I would like [Image of a graph of global surface temperatures] climate please"
They have played us for absolute fools](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ywbm3iywnhzep3ckt6efhoh7/bafkreihghfkhhhasmr6sn5mj7uxs53v46wu2cns5saeln64grjp3ltfvpm@jpeg)
May 3, 2025 at 6:54 PM
ENOUGH IS ENOUGH
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I have the exact same list but it’s requirements for being friends with me
anyways, who else up getting put on more watchlists?
December 18, 2025 at 10:59 PM
I have the exact same list but it’s requirements for being friends with me
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Every GOP and 16 of 47 Democratic Senators voted to install Jared Isaacman, the billionaire acolyte of neo-Nazi soon-to-be-trillionaire Elon Musk, as NASA Administrator, knowing he plans to dismantle and privatize NASA, in particular its earth science mission.
(2 GOP and Coons were absent)
(2 GOP and Coons were absent)
December 17, 2025 at 11:41 PM
Every GOP and 16 of 47 Democratic Senators voted to install Jared Isaacman, the billionaire acolyte of neo-Nazi soon-to-be-trillionaire Elon Musk, as NASA Administrator, knowing he plans to dismantle and privatize NASA, in particular its earth science mission.
(2 GOP and Coons were absent)
(2 GOP and Coons were absent)
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I had lots of fun writing this one!
walkingspartan.substack.com/p/stranger-t...
walkingspartan.substack.com/p/stranger-t...
Stranger Things and Childhood Mobility
A look at the iconic bikes of Stranger Things
walkingspartan.substack.com
December 18, 2025 at 3:53 PM
I had lots of fun writing this one!
walkingspartan.substack.com/p/stranger-t...
walkingspartan.substack.com/p/stranger-t...
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Reminder that Trump solicited & received a massive bribe from Big Oil & Gas, and our billionaire media treated it as a one-day A12 story never to be mentioned again
Maybe worth mentioning again now that he’s explicitly sending our kids off to die so Big Oil & Gas can profit?
Maybe worth mentioning again now that he’s explicitly sending our kids off to die so Big Oil & Gas can profit?
December 17, 2025 at 10:28 PM
Reminder that Trump solicited & received a massive bribe from Big Oil & Gas, and our billionaire media treated it as a one-day A12 story never to be mentioned again
Maybe worth mentioning again now that he’s explicitly sending our kids off to die so Big Oil & Gas can profit?
Maybe worth mentioning again now that he’s explicitly sending our kids off to die so Big Oil & Gas can profit?
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Still not sure who did this, but it’s really good advice for cities.
December 17, 2025 at 10:09 PM
Still not sure who did this, but it’s really good advice for cities.
Oh no, this was @gavinnewsom.bsky.social 's entire transportation climate plan!
Production of the all-electric Ford F-150 has come to an end. But the next one will be an extended-range electric vehicle, or EREV, with 700 miles of range.
But Ford announced other pivots back to gas today too:
insideevs.com/news/781889/...
But Ford announced other pivots back to gas today too:
insideevs.com/news/781889/...
The Next Ford F-150 Lightning Will Get A Gas Engine
Ford has an answer to the F-150 Lightning's woes: turn it into a 700-mile extended-range electric vehicle (EREV) for the next generation.
insideevs.com
December 16, 2025 at 9:04 AM
Oh no, this was @gavinnewsom.bsky.social 's entire transportation climate plan!
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Wrote a bit about this:
December 15, 2025 at 9:27 PM
Wrote a bit about this:
Let them all fail and then hand their assets over to the workers. It's what Obama should have done.
JUST IN: Ford said it will take a $19.5 billion writedown and is killing several electric-vehicle models, in the most dramatic example yet of the auto industry's retreat from battery-powered models in response to the Trump administration's policies and weakening EV demand reut.rs/4qaTs12
Ford retreats from EVs, takes $19.5 billion charge as Trump policies take hold
Ford Motor said on Monday it will take a $19.5 billion writedown and is killing several electric-vehicle models, in the most dramatic example yet of the auto industry's retreat from battery-powered mo...
reut.rs
December 15, 2025 at 9:32 PM
Let them all fail and then hand their assets over to the workers. It's what Obama should have done.
This statement sounds right unless you think about it for one second and try to come up with a single example of successful de-escalation that occurred by walking into a Nazi bar.
IMO it's hard to combat the dangerousness of the right by participating in a platform where they aren't present.
I think the best way to explain the X vs Bluesky preference is whether a person thinks the left is more annoying than the right is dangerous.
The reason so many Noah Smiths end up on the X side of that equation is that while the left annoys them personally, the right mostly endangers other people.
The reason so many Noah Smiths end up on the X side of that equation is that while the left annoys them personally, the right mostly endangers other people.
December 15, 2025 at 7:01 PM
This statement sounds right unless you think about it for one second and try to come up with a single example of successful de-escalation that occurred by walking into a Nazi bar.
Can you even imagine USian planners reviewing those stepstones?
In the heart of Seoul, a ribbon of water now threads through where an expanse of asphalt once stood. The Cheonggyecheon Stream restoration, which replaced a major elevated motorway with an ecological and recreational corridor, has become a powerful case study in placemaking and traffic evaporation.🧵
December 15, 2025 at 7:14 AM
Can you even imagine USian planners reviewing those stepstones?
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While some cities still say, “That would never work here,” others are setting aside excuses and turning ambition into action—reclaiming streets, reimagining mobility, and shaping safer, more inclusive public spaces.
These are 35 cities in 20 countries we visited this year that are leading the way.🧵
These are 35 cities in 20 countries we visited this year that are leading the way.🧵
December 15, 2025 at 6:48 AM
While some cities still say, “That would never work here,” others are setting aside excuses and turning ambition into action—reclaiming streets, reimagining mobility, and shaping safer, more inclusive public spaces.
These are 35 cities in 20 countries we visited this year that are leading the way.🧵
These are 35 cities in 20 countries we visited this year that are leading the way.🧵
At what point will honorable countries put sanctions the United States? Between our war crimes, failure to uphold climate treaty obligations, and complicity in global corruption, there must be enough grounds.
December 14, 2025 at 11:51 PM
At what point will honorable countries put sanctions the United States? Between our war crimes, failure to uphold climate treaty obligations, and complicity in global corruption, there must be enough grounds.
Turns out that what you need to stop a bad guy with a gun is a good person with courage, no good guy gun necessary.
December 14, 2025 at 11:49 PM
Turns out that what you need to stop a bad guy with a gun is a good person with courage, no good guy gun necessary.
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“Dutch people cycle an average of 2.6km each per day. If this pattern was replicated worldwide, annual carbon emissions would drop by 686 million tonnes.
This mammoth figure exceeds the entire carbon footprint of most countries, including the UK, Canada, Saudi Arabia and Australia.” @euronews.com
This mammoth figure exceeds the entire carbon footprint of most countries, including the UK, Canada, Saudi Arabia and Australia.” @euronews.com
Cycling like the Dutch would slash the world’s carbon footprint
If everybody cycled like the Dutch, we could offset the UK or Australia’s entire carbon footprint.
www.euronews.com
December 13, 2025 at 10:01 PM
“Dutch people cycle an average of 2.6km each per day. If this pattern was replicated worldwide, annual carbon emissions would drop by 686 million tonnes.
This mammoth figure exceeds the entire carbon footprint of most countries, including the UK, Canada, Saudi Arabia and Australia.” @euronews.com
This mammoth figure exceeds the entire carbon footprint of most countries, including the UK, Canada, Saudi Arabia and Australia.” @euronews.com
The Hard Fork hosts (@caseynewton.bsky.social) should really listen to Volts.wtf before talking about iconic energy technology.
There is way more exciting energy tech in 2025 than the Small Nuclear Reactors smokescreen.
There is way more exciting energy tech in 2025 than the Small Nuclear Reactors smokescreen.
Volts | David Roberts | Substack
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Volts.wtf
December 13, 2025 at 8:39 AM
The Hard Fork hosts (@caseynewton.bsky.social) should really listen to Volts.wtf before talking about iconic energy technology.
There is way more exciting energy tech in 2025 than the Small Nuclear Reactors smokescreen.
There is way more exciting energy tech in 2025 than the Small Nuclear Reactors smokescreen.
In a region full of unemployed transit nerd software developers Clipper somehow manages to suck.
Clipper 2.0 status: updated the Android app and the cards are gone and it's generally busted. Watch this space for more Clipper 2.0 news.
December 12, 2025 at 8:05 PM
In a region full of unemployed transit nerd software developers Clipper somehow manages to suck.
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someone tell the California ACLU who is disproportionately more likely to be killed in traffic accidents including those involving people under the influence
The California ACLU is staunchly opposed to the ignition interlock device program and is a big reason that it has not been expanded. Despite the fact that California heavily subsidizes the cost for low-income drunk drivers, the ACLU says that the program is a form of "racialized wealth extraction."
December 12, 2025 at 6:19 PM
someone tell the California ACLU who is disproportionately more likely to be killed in traffic accidents including those involving people under the influence