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Alex Wenzel

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Postdoc studying cancer. Academic unionist and transit enthusiast. Trying to make buses less invisible. TF2 Medic main. This account does not represent the positions or opinions of my employer or of my union. he/him

The problems with relying on traffic enforcement are also the problems with treating transportation as an issue separate from other social problems. (1/2)

The War on Cars

We have seen what happens in cities like San Francisco when in-person enforcement just stops because the police decide not to do their jobs. Enforcement has its place. But a system that depends on the work of manned enforcement is problematic, to say the least.

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One of the suggested things it prompted me to submit was "reimagine this location as an accessible transit hub". A lot to unpack there.

Joseph Cox

New from 404 Media: Google Earth has introduced an AI feature that lets anyone fabricate completely bullshit satellite images. In our own tests, we added a “bomb blast and crater” to an area of Los Angeles. This is a misinformation time bomb, will 100% be abused www.404media.co/google-earth...

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University administrations largely accepted the illegal grant terminations. Our unions and faculty associations sued and reversed them. Administrations abandoned the mission, they never actually served a useful purpose, we should remove them.

Henry Farrell

I remember seeing someone (very reasonably) complaining here a few days ago that there seems to be next to no visible thinking on left and center about how to join the dots on administration and democracy. This is the beginnings of an answer to that complaint donmoynihan.substack.com/p/rebuilding...

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$25 million would fill the San Diego Metropolitan Transit System’s annual structural deficit for about 1.8 years. $50 million would fill it for about 3.6 years.

Carl Quintanilla

Four-byline alert: 🚨 “.. no sitting American president has ever raised these amounts for his pet projects. .. Trump has been demanding large checks .. telling executives and lobbyists that their companies should give $25 million or $50 million.” @wsj.com www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

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Given her current university employment, I would be very surprised if there are any issues with her status/work auth in the status adjustment process. Universities tend to be very cautious about those things (sometimes overly cautious).

Aaron Reichlin-Melnick

Wow! ICE’s airport arrests of people seemingly waiting in government immigration backlogs caught up a Fulbright scholar and public health researcher working at Johns Hopkins in their public health department. Not exactly the “worst of the worst”! Yet they threw her in detention anyway.

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I was going to say that realizing he publicly documented the premeditation component of 1st degree murder would be a good reason to rethink some things, but then I checked an actual article and saw that "infant clone for organ-harvesting" actually just means he (techs he paid) made iPSCs. (1/2)

✨queer commie terrorist✨

nothing matters to anyone anymore

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This might be one of the more extreme examples, but whenever you see someone appropriating progressive language to demand that the government keep people car-dependent, you usually don't have to dig too deep to find an extreme hatred for anyone who doesn't drive or is otherwise "lesser" than them.

Sam

this guy (doomloop dispatch) literally killed a biker with his car… and he’s posting on twitter how it just made him even more anti-bike lane. The NIMBYs are not OK.

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All of the B&W sketch profile picture commentary people saying things like this don’t realize that not everyone starts with a final, pre-determined conclusion and molds their evidence around it like they do. There’s no other way to interpret early scientific discussions around covid as a coverup.

Ernie Piper

Zeynep Tufekci is still completely insane over the lab leak idea. "There is a conspiracy to cover this up" is not evidence for "covid was a bioweapon that escaped from a lab". It could also be evidence for my theory, "please stop talking about this stupid idea"

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Both sides being relatively highly likely to excuse attempted vehicular violence is not surprising.

Politico

Americans on both sides are willing to tolerate scandals — up to a point. But Harris voters drew a line, our poll found.👇 🔗 politi.co/4g0TeHs

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They asked for non-healthcare volunteers to help with visitor screening and my job became making families choose who would see their relative on their last day of life, and I usually don’t mention that anymore because I expect people to be dismissive about the circumstances in Spring 2020.

Bill Grueskin

Running out of body bags, using forklifts to transfer corpses into makeshift morgues, a mortician conducting 200 funerals in a month when he usually does 30, crematories running at double capacity… And these senators just want to memory-hole it all www.nytimes.com/2020/04/30/n...

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MTS launched an ad campaign because of how many recent collisions there have been. I got a podcast ad once. But we’re a tourism city and the vast majority of Americans don’t routinely drive around light rail. We should design for that, we’ll be waiting a long time for drivers to stop being careless.

OB Cycler

I've submitted a bunch of reports to traffic engineers about this terrible intersection and the crosswalk between the Trolley and Children's park where cars never yield to pedestrians. They DGAF.

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Being supervisors may make unionizing hard for professors, but that doesn't mean collective action is impossible. When professor salary negotiation is treated like a skill an individual learns and practices in isolation, don't be surprised that union grads/postdocs are winning wages closer to yours.

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It's obvious at this point that the regime is angry at the legal barriers currently preventing them from treating Dr. Fauci like like they are treating Comey, so they are attempting to inspire their supporters to assassinate him.

Alex Wenzel

To anyone not completely ungrounded from reality, this series of headlines paints the picture of a public health official making an extensive effort to provide a safe way for children to gather in person again as soon as possible.

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To anyone not completely ungrounded from reality, this series of headlines paints the picture of a public health official making an extensive effort to provide a safe way for children to gather in person again as soon as possible.

Jess Calarco

To whom do we report the Department of Education for bullying?

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U visas are for crime victims.

L.A. TACO

Diana Ledesma alleges forced pregnancy tests, a potential infectious disease outbreak, and human-sized cages during her nearly four-month imprisonment at the San Diego facility. The full story: lataco.com/otay-mesa-de... By Aisha Wallace-Palomares

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Naturally, he blames the North Park closure on the 30th St bike lanes. His restaurant is a 5 minute walk from the five-story 30th St parking garage, and given that Swami's Cafe on 30th has every table full whenever I walk by, I'd just as easily blame his failure on a *lack* of adjacent bike lanes.

The San Diego Union-Tribune

Popular San Diego breakfast chain announces 3 restaurant closures amid out-of-state expansion

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The newest generation of MTS BEBs (7600s) seem to be slightly better than the original ones based on where I’ve seen them assigned, but it’s probably still the case that ~50% of MTS’s weekday bus blocks are not in a New Flyer BEB’s range. (1/2)

Jarrett Walker

All over the transit industry, zero-emission bus mandates, like those of California, are colliding with Buy America requirements that deny US transit agencies access to a competitive bus market. The result is a wave of lousy buses that are impacting service. 1/ nyc.streetsblog.org/2026/07/27/b...

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Context from in the article if you haven’t heard this term before. Also, I first learned this reading news about CBP when I moved near the border a decade ago. They have always been like this and always will as long as the agency is allowed to exist.

Sergio olmos

‘Pretty sure he’s wet:’ Immigration agents used racial slurs during LA sweeps, court records show. “Yeah, just plug us in wherever you see some tonks and we’ll jump out.” “tonks everywhere selling food.”  W/ @wendyfry.bsky.social calmatters.org/justice/2026...

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