This might happen in some places, but coalitions for national vs local issues have gotten really weird in San Diego. The median liberal voter wants to impeach Trump, abolish ICE, ban bike lane and apartment construction, and make parking free everywhere. (1/)

Greg Pak@gregpak.net · 17h ago

I suspect the real place for Democrats to solidify this win will be at the state and local level. That's where Ds have the chance of IMMEDIATELY making change and helping people in their everyday lives. Push your local pols to Mamdanify the shit out of the entire country, y'all. And BRAG about it.

I don’t want to overstate it, but LA Times should get some credit for being consistently less terrible at this.

Will Bunch@willbunch.bsky.social · yesterday

NYT: “Muscular” policies USA Today: An “anti-immigration champion”!! France:

ATProto, it’s pretty great 🧳—> @popfeed.social

kottke.org@kottke.org · 2d ago

And in other news, the NY Times is trying to buy Letterboxd for a reported price of $330 million. [nytimes.com]

Pedantic and in no way meant as a dunk, but bears repeating: if you’re in a +30 district then gerrymandering is something that was done to you.

rev. howard arson@theophite.bsky.social · 3d ago

one underrated effect of this election is that the Republican party will be run top to bottom by megachuds from gerrymandered R+30 seats who just won their first real contested election by 4.2% and are scared shitless

Please share. Thanks.

big scary rocks save lives@jtd.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Wrote some more. Top-two is good, the conventional wisdom is wrong.

If Trump doesn't sack him first, use the opportunity to make a Senate rules change: secret ballot for impeachments. R's will take the lifeline and then enough will vote to convict. Then...? Blanche and maybe others, maybe including Trump, are much easier to pick off.

George Pearkes@peark.es · 4d ago

BUH BYE PETE

Been meaning to say something about the lack of directness in reporting about Gloria's unpopularity. Well, now we get some useful idiocy that recall _signers_/voters really just want more humane homelessness policy.

big scary rocks save lives@jtd.bsky.social · 5d ago

"Pay for your own trash pick up" "Parking is an asset" "There will be some bike lanes"

Nithya now ahead in the count!!! I can go to bed.

It will take days to parse out the degree of Republican wipe-out at the local level.

Been meaning to say something about the lack of directness in reporting about Gloria's unpopularity. Well, now we get some useful idiocy that recall _signers_/voters really just want more humane homelessness policy.

big scary rocks save lives@jtd.bsky.social · 5d ago

"Pay for your own trash pick up" "Parking is an asset" "There will be some bike lanes"

One of the reasons that the oligarchs are so desperate to replace art with AI is that genius human artists like McKellen and Shakespeare can cut through the plans of tyrants and reveal the truth

BladeoftheSun@bladeofthes.bsky.social · last wk.

Ian McKellen reciting Shakespeare's writing on racist anti-immigration riots in London during his time. It is excellent. They have been banging the same drum for 400 years.

Nithya supporters: for the next six days, if anyone under 60 says “how are you doing?”, your response should be “I can’t stop thinking about the election! Have you voted yet?”

Sergio Perez@sergioperez.bsky.social · last wk.

Really great piece on the brewing of voter demographics in the LA Mayor’s race. Some telling numbers: Raman leads Bass 74% to 16% among voters ages 30 to 39 BUT as of Wednesday, just 13% of L.A. voters between ages 18 and 34 have submitted their ballots.

We asked Xavier Becerra if he identifies as a NIMBY or a YIMBY and I am still dying over his answer. Great interview by @sophiabollag.bsky.social, who tried to get him to say literally anything substantive.

I think most humans in the U.S. are gonna be shocked by the scale of the bailout we're about to give the car industry. If you thought the $4.5 trillion we already tithe to carmakers every year was a lot, wait til we're rebuilding all the roads destroyed by pollution from their products.

Baselines shifted@tboggia.bsky.social · 2w ago

I love the story behind RAILFAN! It's a film by Ian Daffern about a photographer who documents autistic kids and their love affair with the #NYC subway. There are two more days left in the crowdfunding campaign. You can watch a teaser, and contribute, if the spirit moves you, here:

A film about autistic kids who love trains and the people who love them

A curious, heartwarming documentary following a photographer as he makes a portrait series of autistic kids who love New York City subways.

railfanfilm.com

My new piece about the most interesting race this election year: California insurance commissioner. For real! One candidate wants to socialize the whole system...and everyone wants to know how insurance is going to deal with the new world of climate disasters. www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

The Race for the Worst Job in California Politics

The two candidates for state insurance commissioner want to rework homeowners’ insurance after two devastating wildfires last year.

bloomberg.com

Larry Itliong understood that our greatest strength comes from standing together. His leadership helped unite workers across backgrounds in the fight for dignity and fairness. On Larry Itliong Day, may his legacy inspire us to keep building a more just and equitable future.

Also — Nithya Raman could immediately dismiss the current LA mayoral appointees to the Metro board, like, say, Imelda Padilla, who has no real interest or expertise in transit, and replace these board seats with people who actually ride transit

Metro Board members recommend adding riders to their ranks

Any changes to the composition of L.A. Metro’s Board need to be approved by state lawmakers.

laist.com

Did. "I hope that the manual will prescribe re/building SD streets to their official preferred width, when wider and narrower both."

OB Cycler@obcycler.bsky.social · 3w ago

Please take this quick 5 second survey from the City of San Diego and tell them to prioritize safe streets over car traffic concerns. app.smartsheet.com/b/form/01a04...

“Hanson” content 👍

Los Angeles Times@latimes.com · 3w ago

Who is Billy Evans? Elizabeth Holmes' partner emerges as the villain of 'You Can See Everything'

This is very important not just for Culver City, but for Los Angeles, too. LA had a similar proposal approved by its charter reform commission that was killed by the city council in its last-minute rush. Now LA is reviewing reform proposals & Culver City passing this would boost chances in LA.

Bolts@boltsmag.org · 3w ago

NEW in Bolts: In Culver City, California, students are trying to drum up support for a November ballot measure to let 16- and 17-year-olds participate in city council and school board elections.

The name of New Mexico is funny because it's one of those things that you'd think is really simple (oh, it's it used to be part of old Mexico, so we'll call it New Mexico!), but it's much more complex New Mexico as the name for the area predates Mexico by several hundred years!

Owen Barcala@obarcala.bsky.social · 3w ago

But, like, New America wouldn't make any sense because this is still the original America and... You know what, forget it

This San Diego airport is the nation’s worst lead polluter. Its planes fly past 30 schools. From Environment and Energy Reporter @philipsalata.bsky.social. inewsource.org/2026/10/18/s...

San Diego airport leads U.S. in lead pollution. 30 schools are near.

MYF is the highest lead-polluting general aviation airport in U.S., and no targeted testing is being done in San Diego neighborhoods nearby.

inewsource.org

During my first run for San Diego City Council in 2018 the District 6 boundaries included Clairemont, the neighborhood most affected by lead pollution from nearby Montgomery Field. While unleaded fuel was finally made available there in 2024, there was no requirement to use it. There still isn't.

San Diego airport leads U.S. in lead pollution. 30 schools are near.

MYF is the highest lead-polluting general aviation airport in U.S., and no targeted testing is being done in San Diego neighborhoods nearby.

inewsource.org

ICE arrests alarm California's community colleges: student chased up campus steps, father arrested in campus parking lot San Diego Community College District said ICE agents arrested a student on a public street cutting through campus and chased another student up the steps of the school's Arts…

Striking thing to me about the AES-Tommy vid is that he gives Tommy opportunities to correct but resists the temptation to be sympathetic or save face. Leaves him with ‘go tell your king what happened here.’

cars everywhere killing my neighbors: I sleep remote controlled not-car-but-toaster delivering things: real shit (yes yes I know, still)

PhillyVoice.com@phillyvoice.com · 3w ago

A retired Penn professor has been blocking Uber Eats robots for months in protest. This week, she was arrested for disorderly conduct

whale population boom

𝕁, E-Ink Sicko™@checkwithscience.com · 2y ago

what offbeat but actually useful cause would you hurl your money at if you were an eccentric billionaire

I built a thing. I LOVED making it. It's called TinyLittleOffice. It's a web office suite (word processor, outliner, decks, spreadsheet, calculator, drawing tool, diagram maker, animator, calendar, trip planner) that stores the docs in your URL. tinylittleoffice.com?c=hgmcggn#/v...

This Link Is This Document

QR code:…

tinylittleoffice.com

Take the survey. I might have gotten carried away.

OB Cycler@obcycler.bsky.social · 4w ago

🚨🚨 Please take this survey! (You don't have to be a resident, potential visitor's opinions count) Tell the City of San Diego: Pedestrianize the Cabrillo Bridge on El Prado The beautiful gateway to the Park is hostile to pedestrians with cars going 30+ in a 15 survey123.arcgis.com/share/00136b...