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Javier Panzar

@jpanzar.bsky.social

Doing web, social, comms, this, and that @bart.gov. Erstwhile LAT journalist on the Climate + California teams. Oakland grown. Fiat Lux. Getting around by train, bike and bus! 🌲 🐻 ✨ πŸš†πŸš² Go Bears!

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I appreciate fog a whole lot more after making this Cloud Chasing video with Milo.

07.07.2025 19:57 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I had a lot of fun riding BART with Zayn and his family and sharing their love for transit!

Check out this Behind the Scenes photo it looks like we have no choice but to start a BART band now?!

02.07.2025 17:40 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Very excited to share these today

27.06.2025 01:43 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

We got Peter out cruising the Carquinez Strait!!!

Everyone needs to experience its glory

20.06.2025 15:57 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Trump Shifts Deportation Focus, Pausing Raids on Farms, Hotels and Eateries

SCOOP: The Trump admin has abruptly shifted the focus of its mass deportation campaign, telling ICE officials to largely pause raids and arrests in the agricultural industry, hotels and restaurants, according to an internal email and three officials with knowledge.

www.nytimes.com/2025/06/13/u...

14.06.2025 02:47 β€” πŸ‘ 742    πŸ” 262    πŸ’¬ 151    πŸ“Œ 170

WHAT

14.06.2025 03:07 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Tbh while I was waiting for this train around 8:52 pm last night as it got darker and darker I was thinking … β€œyou know I wonder if the Zodiac ever cruised this road looking for his next victim”

Spooky stuff!

31.05.2025 19:49 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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New summer ritual: The first day it crosses 90 degrees in Martinez I bike along Carquinez Scenic Dr. to see Capitol Corridor Train 548 come around the bend just past Port Costa … magical!

31.05.2025 19:47 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Very bikeable

31.05.2025 03:46 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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The Martinez waterfront along the Carquinez Strait is sort of the tropics of the Bay Area?

31.05.2025 03:46 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Biking, BARTing, and posting

15.05.2025 15:13 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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I showed him this in line and got a β€œright on”

We also commiserated about seeing The Master in 70 at the Grand Lake back in 2012.

The Bay remains such an extremely cool and small place.

13.05.2025 23:30 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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I was in line for coffee and heard this voice. I thought β€œThat dude sounds JUST like Ryan Coogler.”

I turn around, and IT IS Ryan Coogler! People were coming up and singing his praises, so I had to as well. We chatted about Skyline, Saint Mary’s, 70 mm at the Grand Lake, etc. Extremely cool dude.

13.05.2025 23:29 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Bike to Wherever Day 2025 is almost here!

This Thursday, May 15, there will be β€œenergizer stations” popping up throughout the BART system.

Click the thread below to learn more ⬇️

13.05.2025 20:45 β€” πŸ‘ 36    πŸ” 9    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 1

It’s very cool my childhood theater is keeping 70mm film presentations man!!!

Very lucky my first movies ever were here (U.S. Marshals, The Lost World: Jurassic Park, Star Trek: First Contact)

10.05.2025 04:57 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Time for Sinners in 70

10.05.2025 04:48 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Meeting Terence Blanchard on the job a new career high point

09.05.2025 01:02 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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🚨 πŸš‡ TOMORROW, Tuesday May 6th is All Aboard Bay Area Transit Day!

BART staff will be on trains in the morning to offer free stickers to riders. If you are spotted wearing one by staffers later in the afternoon you get a prize!

We want the Bay Area to come ride and experience transit improvements.

05.05.2025 21:01 β€” πŸ‘ 19    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 3

Find me at @bart.gov May The Fourth event if you want to discuss the disastrous state of journalism in the Republic … I used to work at THE DAILY CORUSCANT now I’m a social media guy for the JEDI COUNCIL.

(PLO KOON is a great mentor…
KI-ADI-MUNDI is a glue guy, MACE obvi gr8, KIT FISTO is wild)

04.05.2025 20:48 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

A wild assignment on BART today!

04.05.2025 04:59 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Angel City officially the team of destiny …. ?

03.05.2025 02:42 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Guild statement on more layoffs at the L.A. Times β€” L.A. Times Guild - Los Angeles Times Guild We still believe in the Los Angeles Times and the important role it plays in our community. It is difficult to carry out our mission when our staff has been cut year after year. But we will continue t...

β€œour ranks halved in just three years.”

You could build an incredible newsroom with just the people who have been fired or run off in the last 16 months, it’s truly insane latguild.com/news/2025/5/...

02.05.2025 23:57 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
This is the third round of newsroom layoffs in as many years, and it will leave the Los Angeles Times ever more decimated. Today’s announcement of cuts represent 6% of our newsroom staff.

What was once one of the nation’s most widely read newspapers has become a shadow of its former self, our ranks halved in just three years.

Although our members and their families will feel the burden of sudden job loss, they are not to blame for what led us here: a stubborn reliance on ever-declining print revenue; a leadership team without a business plan; and a subscriber exodus triggered in part by the handling of The Times’ presidential endorsement. 

We urge the ownership to install a publisher from outside the organization to right the ship and build a sustainable business.

We still believe in the Los Angeles Times and the important role it plays in our community. It is difficult to carry out our mission when our staff has been cut year after year. But we will continue to report and we will continue to fight β€” for our members, our readers, our subscribers and our city.

This is the third round of newsroom layoffs in as many years, and it will leave the Los Angeles Times ever more decimated. Today’s announcement of cuts represent 6% of our newsroom staff. What was once one of the nation’s most widely read newspapers has become a shadow of its former self, our ranks halved in just three years. Although our members and their families will feel the burden of sudden job loss, they are not to blame for what led us here: a stubborn reliance on ever-declining print revenue; a leadership team without a business plan; and a subscriber exodus triggered in part by the handling of The Times’ presidential endorsement. We urge the ownership to install a publisher from outside the organization to right the ship and build a sustainable business. We still believe in the Los Angeles Times and the important role it plays in our community. It is difficult to carry out our mission when our staff has been cut year after year. But we will continue to report and we will continue to fight β€” for our members, our readers, our subscribers and our city.

A total shame what’s happening to the LA Times under the current leadership

02.05.2025 23:51 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 2
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Donate to Help support laid-off L.A. Times journalists, organized by Laura Nelson The Los Angeles Times announced plans Friday to lay off 14 journalists, or a… Laura Nelson needs your support for Help support laid-off L.A. Times journalists

The LA Times announced plans to lay off 14 journalists, or about 6% of the newsroom's rank-and-file employees.

Your contributions will go directly to help with their rent/mortgages, medical expenses and other bills.

Ty @laurajnelson.bsky.social for organizing

www.gofundme.com/f/help-suppo...

02.05.2025 23:48 β€” πŸ‘ 49    πŸ” 30    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 3

Birders are kinda magical people huh

28.04.2025 23:09 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Time for a @bart.gov bike ride

26.04.2025 13:52 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Send me here to die

26.04.2025 01:30 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Contemporary Poetry - General Audience
My Aphasic Mother Rides the Rocky Mountaineer
Susan G. Duncan
window seat facing forward
racing westward on rails; every twist a next vista the last passed pivots sweeps past her left shoulder lost.
Oddly,
only as we sit still β€”
an hour into a restaurant mealβ€” where are we?
(the longest remark she can speak.)
our answer seems to appease but did she mean: her restlessness?
her wish to be back on the moving train? where impression leads to impression, where forward thrust is all? there on the train, she avoids the slowing.
there on the train, she outraces the void
Susan G. Duncan made her way from Kansas City to settle in California at 22. She credits her Midwestern mother with a childhood introduction to poetry, and decades later that inspiration finally
emerged, cicada-like.
"My Aphasic Mother Rides the Rocky Mountaineer" is in Short Circuit #08, Short Γ‰dition's quarterly review.
Β© Short Γ‰dition
BART
00
Please enjoy this literary gift!
Recyclable, FS certified, sustainably sourced paper.
Printed on demand with thermal technology
No ink, No cartridge, No waste

Contemporary Poetry - General Audience My Aphasic Mother Rides the Rocky Mountaineer Susan G. Duncan window seat facing forward racing westward on rails; every twist a next vista the last passed pivots sweeps past her left shoulder lost. Oddly, only as we sit still β€” an hour into a restaurant mealβ€” where are we? (the longest remark she can speak.) our answer seems to appease but did she mean: her restlessness? her wish to be back on the moving train? where impression leads to impression, where forward thrust is all? there on the train, she avoids the slowing. there on the train, she outraces the void Susan G. Duncan made her way from Kansas City to settle in California at 22. She credits her Midwestern mother with a childhood introduction to poetry, and decades later that inspiration finally emerged, cicada-like. "My Aphasic Mother Rides the Rocky Mountaineer" is in Short Circuit #08, Short Γ‰dition's quarterly review. Β© Short Γ‰dition BART 00 Please enjoy this literary gift! Recyclable, FS certified, sustainably sourced paper. Printed on demand with thermal technology No ink, No cartridge, No waste

This is pretty spicy

26.04.2025 01:30 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
A busy BART train with BIKES

A busy BART train with BIKES

So this is cool: Yesterday was Earth Day πŸŒŽπŸ’š AND it was also *our first day of 2025 with more than 200,000 riders*!

Bay Area transit agencies have seen increasing ridership in the first 3 months of the year. BART ridership was up almost 6.5% from 2024.

Come ride with us!

23.04.2025 17:21 β€” πŸ‘ 60    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 2
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🚨 ALL ABOARD BAY AREA TRANSIT DAY IS MAY 6 🚨

WE WANT YOU BACK!!!

Bay Area transit agencies in partnership with the Metropolitan Transportation Commission and the Bay Area Air District are encouraging residents to ride transit on Tuesday, May 6, for All Aboard Bay Area Transit Day.

🧡 ⬇️

22.04.2025 17:03 β€” πŸ‘ 56    πŸ” 7    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 7

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