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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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For context

27.11.2025 21:15 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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For context

27.11.2025 21:14 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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It’s the cooler resting on a log that does it for me

27.11.2025 21:14 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0
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New dad mode unlocked

27.11.2025 21:13 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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A Thanksgiving salute to these two hanging out in the Carquinez Strait this morning

27.11.2025 21:12 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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My daughter crashed her first planning commission meeting last night! She wandered in, took a seat and watched dutifully for like 10 minutes, just holding onto her stick!

Love a civic minded kid!

26.11.2025 22:16 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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This post is a spiritual successor to an ancient time when the A’s represented Oakland and I was stirring the pot over at the now shuttered @latimes.com downtown offices

22.11.2025 04:40 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Big Game week really stirs the pot over at @bart.gov HQ!

I spotted @valmenotti.bsky.social from across the floor and came running.

22.11.2025 04:38 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Well my Paternity leave is OVER and I’m back at @bart.gov social duties

I was greeted Monday by a great predawn and sunset Capitol Corridor commute

12.11.2025 19:59 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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This historic town β€” with beer, beavers and a shipwreck β€” is the Bay Area’s secret getaway I knew this Contra Costa town for its imposing row of refinery equipment along the highway. But a train trip downtown changed everything, culture critic Peter Hartlaub writes.

With apologies to Crockett & Sunol, Martinez is my new No. 1 choice if I need to go into witness relocation in the Bay Area.

I went there by bike & train (🫑 @Amtrak Capitol Corridor πŸš†) and built a case to make this your next day trip.

🦫 🍸 πŸ’―

www.sfchronicle.com/totalsf/arti...

16.10.2025 14:54 β€” πŸ‘ 18    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Been watching the 1974 β€œPlanet of the Apes” tv series with my kid. My fav episode is #3 β€œThe Trap” where Gen Ursus & astronaut fall into a BART subway station during an earthquake and need to work together to survive!

@apthornley.bsky.social @transitcenter.bsky.social @2avesag.as

26.09.2025 20:21 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0
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The Quiet Crisis: What’s Driving Gun Suicides Among Older Americans? More and more older Americans are dying by firearm suicide, a new analysis from The Trace and GQ reveals. Older white men and those in rural areas experience alarmingly high rates.

Older Americans have the highest rates of gun suicide of any age group. Not by a little β€” by a lot.

Why? I spent months exploring this question through data, field reporting, and interviews with experts. Our story is up today on @thetrace.org

www.thetrace.org/2025/09/gun-...

18.09.2025 16:00 β€” πŸ‘ 16    πŸ” 17    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 5
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My daughter is hyped for transit month!!

02.09.2025 20:07 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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

07.07.2025 19:57 β€” πŸ‘ 3    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‘ 3    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‘ 739    πŸ” 261    πŸ’¬ 144    πŸ“Œ 164

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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