🦫 Libby Lee-Egan 🦫

Come chat with north Berkeley pro-housers today noon-2 at Headlands Berkeley. The Puppy Bowl is playing on the big screen!

A two-column reference chart titled "DOs and DON'Ts: Framing and Terminology" for pro-housing messaging. The left column (green, labeled "Do") recommends everyday, friendly language, while the right column (gray, labeled "Don't") lists jargon, scare tactics, and anti-housing frames to avoid. Examples of preferred vs. avoided terms include: "Housing shortage" instead of "Housing crisis"; "More choices and availability" instead of "Building and construction"; "Homes" instead of "Units"; "Displacement" instead of "Gentrification"; "Duplexes, triplexes, fourplexes, and townhomes" instead of "Missing middle"; "Affordable/unaffordable" instead of "Expensive/inexpensive"; and "Allow homes of all shapes and sizes" instead of "End single-family zoning." The chart contains approximately 20 term pairs total, guiding advocates to use people-centered, accessible language when discussing housing policy.

These DOs and DON'Ts for housing messaging totally slap

welcomingneighbors.us/messaging/

h/t @welcomingneighbors.us

Make everyone irrationally angry and name them Hopkins

It’s true

"Can we adjust to bike lanes in our own neighborhood?

Yes, we can. We can do this. We have to do it. We have to make adjustments that are uncomfortable in our own neighborhoods. Because we have to do our part on this."

- former Berkeley resident Sophie Hahn, May 2022

Too often the City of Berkeley takes action on street safety only after someone has been killed or hurt. Our #visionzero strategy is literally ambulance chasing.

Mayor Mamdani wants to be proactive. Maybe @adenaishii.bsky.social will too. And not just with daylighting, which is already state law.

Save bike and transit improvements on Hopkins Street! In a stunning reversal of an earlier 8-1 council vote, the Berkeley City Council is proposing to move forward on Hopkins Street repaving without any bike or transit infrastructure improvements. There...

If you are also pissed off about Berkeley leaders doing backwards shit when it comes to street safety, send a letter before Monday. Do it now! actionnetwork.org/letters/save...

I was mad but not surprised when Sophie Hahn used her power to keep bike lanes from being installed on my high-injury street but for this to be coming from Rashi feels like a betrayal.

Berkeley will never make progress if its leaders do stupid shit like letting the NIMBYS win.

I'm so disoriented by this, partially because 3/4 of the cosponsors claim to be pro-bike. I voted for 2 of them and helped get them elected partially because of that.

bsky.app/profile/wowi...

As if the dearth of consequences for Trump's misdeeds is not discombobulating enough, I apparently live in a city where our political third rail is putting bike lanes on a high-injury street.

Just over a week ago a kid was hit by a car less than 50 ft from my house. (good news: they walked away)

It’s Second Sunday again! Brave the bitter cold and come chat with your friendly neighborhood urbanists in North Berkeley from noon-2pm at Headlands. Look for the NBNow yard sign

Waterside Needs YOU–to Keep Bikes Turning & Youth Learning We’re raising $50,000 by December 31 to keep youth job training and community open shop running. So far, we've raised $47,038—we're 94% of the way there! Recent grant revenue setbacks put critical opp...

If you have any money burning a hole in your pocket for c3 giving, waterside workshops in Berkeley needs a few more donations to meet their year end goal. Donate now! bit.ly/watersidenee...

Heyo, did you know you do have a chance to get your hands on some YIMBY Action merch designed by me? It's cute as hell and there's a bunch of options to choose from. Don't wait too long, you only have until 12/31! yimbyaction.donorsupport.co/page/FUNYSWP...

As someone who loves beavers, I simply had to visit a Buc-ees. What a place. I am transformed

Welp we moved to another street. 2 drivers still ignored the stop sign and flashing lights to pass the bus today! One of them did it as we started crossing the street 😡

The sun is out, the fire pit is on and Second Sunday has started! We are here at Headlands Berkeley until 2ish

It's still against the law to go when the bus's red lights are flashing right?? I wonder sometimes if the rules have changed because so many drivers act as though stopping for the bus is optional

3 drivers passed the school bus today, with its stop sign out and my kids exiting. A new record. I told the bus driver to go on a side street that is more narrow from now on. Longer walk to the bus stop now but at least my blood pressure won't spike everytime the kids come home

Extremely remote looking highway in the Bay Area (280)

Kinda bonkers that this is what it looks like < 30 min drive outside of San Francisco

One of the biggest drivers of high housing costs is that a small, highly motivated group of incumbent homeowners block new housing in their neighborhoods and almost no one is organized to push back.

Young people bear the brunt of that imbalance.

Be a housing fan.

Libshi

Found the perfect angle between my eyes and the sun to make a rainbow on this sign today

Check out Westbrae Makers Pop-Up and Block Party! 🚲 🧰 🧆 👝 🔪 🪴 ⛺ 📰 📖 💎 🗺️

Sunday, December 7 | 11 am - 4 pm
@gilmandistrict.bsky.social
1306 Gilman Street

Featuring: Blue Heron Bikes; Hida Tool & Hardware Company; Middle East Market and Cafe; North & East Leather; Golden State Sharpening;...

Libby’s stats in the game Capitals. It says skill rating is 2,064, and that I have won 46% out of 39 games played. Libby has won 18 times and lost 21 times

For reference:

Anyone here with an iPhone who wants to play a fun word game with me? I’m running out of random opponents 😫 match.nimblebit.com/play/c2/14NS

The Sierra Club Embraced Social Justice. Then It Tore Itself Apart.

I was at the Sierra Club during the period described in this article and although I have my criticisms, it gets the issues in the Club fundamentally wrong. A 🧵

www.nytimes.com/2025/11/07/u...

Surely one of my East Bay mutuals has a home for Nimbus here and his brother Cirrus. berkeleyhumane.org/adoptable_ca...

Just when I think Berkeley NIMBYs are not the worst, someone proves me wrong. I would say shame on them but it’s clear they don’t have any

Her opinions are bad and she should feel bad