Steve Skripnik

And the interim safety improvements are in! Look what we can do in a single day! How do we make this happen without sacrificing our children

This one highway is projected to cost 85% of what CA has spent on high-speed rail over 15 years and hundreds of miles. If we can afford this, we can afford high-speed rail.

Yep, the Portland (Maine) Jetport is absolutely a great airport!

Unpopular opinion: LA drivers actually aren't the worst and our traffic isn't the worst either. It's actually kind of like every other major city!

This is absolutely unacceptable.

The release, which came in at 7:25 (!) doesn't say anything about transit being impacted, even though "people traveling to and from work" are exempt from the curfew. We can't expect people who rely on buses and trains to find alternatives with 35 minutes notice

Dca?

I’m not sure how to express how intensely personal these raids feel as an Angeleno. Whatever stereotypes you have in your head about La-La-Land, immigrants are the lifeblood of this city. It’s an assault on what we love about this place.

This is a five-alarm fire - it cannot be overstated how important institutions like the USGS Western Ecological Research Center are to landscape and resource management in California. Wetlands, wildfires, endangered species, hunting game, species, climate change… their work covers the gamut.

An audit of L.A.’s program to fix deadly streets outlines its many failures L.A.’s big plan to curb traffic deaths is failing miserably. An independent audit details how.

In 2015, L.A. launched its Vision Zero program, with a goal to end traffic deaths by 2025. But over the first 8 years of the program, the annual death toll rose.

A long-await audit found that city leaders and departments demonstrated a severe lack of political will, coordination and accountability.

This explains the series of terrifying messages we received on Monday as principals warned their schools about what was happening.

Always proud to be an LAUSD family, but especially at this moment, when our public schools are one of the few institutions willing to stand up to this administration

A tricky thing about modern society is that no one has any idea when they don’t die.

Like, the number of lives saved by controlling air pollution in America is probably over 200,000 per year, but the number of people who think their life was saved by controlling air pollution is zero.

Rooftop solar *and* utility-scale solar *and* infill housing *and* transit *and* energy efficiency *and* nuclear *and* permitting reform *and* stronger land stewardship *and* fix democracy *and* fix media *and* more movies about climate *and* carbon tax *and* no I have not contradicted myself.

The absolute devastation that @chuckschumer.com is about to inflict on D.C. by supporting the GOP’s continuing resolution is hard to overstate. Massive cuts to schools and law enforcement. Teachers laid off en masse. Basic city services may grind to a halt because we *cannot spend our own money.*

“We get to determine what kind of apocalypse we’d like to have.” “We get to determine what kind of apocalypse we’d like to have.” – Hanif Abdurraqib I’m obsessed with this quote from the poet and essayist Hanif Abdurraqib in a New Y…

"We can’t just hand off the governing thing to a handful of elected officials in Santa Fe or Washington, D.C., and expect them to manage the apocalypse for us." From @jfleck.bsky.social on water in the West: www.inkstain.net/2025/03/we-g...

I can’t believe it - after years of advocacy, exclusionary zoning has ended in Cambridge.

We just passed the single most comprehensive rezoning in the US—legalizing multifamily housing up to 6 stories citywide in a Paris style

Here’s the details 🧵

Trump’s emergency water order responsible for water dump from Tulare County lakes – SJV Water The sudden announcement Thursday by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers that Kaweah and Success lakes would immediately begin dumping water was in response Trump’s emergency water order responsible for w...

If the reports are correct, Trump will release from these reservoirs, 32,000 acre-ft (~10 billion gals) will be lost. Some will evaporate, some will seep into groundwater. Farmers who had rights to that water are now unlikely to have physical or legal access to it.
sjvwater.org/trumps-emerg...

Hey, Bluesky 👋🏼

A friendly reminder that you can avoid #LAFires disinformation with one simple trick:

Follow the local news organizations + reporters on the ground in affected areas and in direct contact with residents, officials and agencies.

I made this starter list: bsky.app/profile/did:...

Here's the link to get a free Los Angeles Public Library online library card, and with it, access to all kinds of collections and archives you didn't even know would enthrall you. You can use it anywhere in the world -- or live anywhere in the world. lapl.org/about-lapl/c...

SPECIAL | The Klamath River recovery begins This year marked the end of a 20-year struggle to remove four hydroelectric dams from the Klamath River that runs along the California-Oregon state line. The first of the four dams was built in the 19...

ICYMI: After a 20-year battle, the last of four dams along the Klamath River along the California-Oregon border has come down. What's next? Will the salmon and steelhead thrive once more? I joined Dana Taylor on @USATODAY's The Excerpt to share my reporting. art19.com/shows/5-thin...

Victory laps How can LA come together when officials are so averse to people spontaneously gathering that the city's first reaction is to take more public space away?

I reviewed the Dodgers' championship parade. When we have millions more people here, there's got to be a real plan to carve out taco corridors, make room for dance parties, and create dedicated lanes for walking and rolling

www.torched.la/victory-laps/

"What could be more LA than a parade that mostly takes place on a freeway?"