Andrew Allio

11 billion is just a little under half the amount needed to get High Speed Rail out of the Central Valley and into the Bay Area, transforming mobility in the state.

Or we can spend it so that people can drive from the booming metropolises of Novato and Vallejo.

Tough call.

Why elite colleges aren't pushing back on Trump, and why silence is dangerous Their caution, one expert notes, is "potentially fatal for the university as we know it."

Administrators of the @uofcalifornia.bsky.social can let the Trump administration pick off campuses one by one.

Or they can stand together, resist this abomination, and win the gratitude and support of their state and their >2 million living alumni.

CC: @governor.ca.gov

Santa Clara County and the broader Bay Area. ICE wants to ride the coattails of the Super Bowl to create a spectacle of their own so they can post 4K cruelty-porn videos of "protecting America's Game" to Twitter and Fox News

I understand why people come to this conclusion. Prices are high, travel expensive, etc.

It's not just one event, though. The Super Bowl is a week long spectacle. 14-16,000 work the game itself. And there are concerts and fan fests open to the general public. Not to mention the diversity of...

I was in Portland last night for a soccer match. The only thing I saw burned to the ground was the opposing goalkeeper by this rocket from Olivia Moultrie.

A Land Back Success for the Amah Mutsun Within Its Historical Territory - Bay Nature The tribe has been without a land base for more than 200 years.

The Amah Mutsun are getting #LandBack within their ancestral territory of Juristac, in the Pajaro watershed, for the first time since dispossessed by mission San Juan Bautista.
baynature.org/2025/09/20/t...

For context on what $500M could pay for, that is exactly 3x the amount that California budgeted for its *statewide* grant bike/pedestrian program that only pays out every 2 years.

So it's a sinking highway for 25k people in the North Bay vs 6(!) years of bike/ped funding across the entire state.

The Sad Spectacle of American Comedians Selling Out in Saudi Arabia It turns out that edgy free-speech warriors will scuttle their principles for a check from a brutal autocratic regime.

My new piece, up now @thenation.com: "If only trans activists had known what size check to cut for Chappelle, they could have shut him up years ago and saved themselves all the picketing at Netflix." www.thenation.com/article/cult...

But also, I erase the boards when I leave because I'm not a monster

One of my favorite games is spending the term trying to figure out what class was in the room before I teach. A good way to get folks talking in a general ed class since they'll usually have a better idea than I do.

streaming platforms have robbed us of the randomness that used to be both an essential property of tv watching and a quality that mitigated its addictiveness somewhat. we were wholly beholden to whatever happened to be on! if we didn’t like any of it we were obligated to go do something else!

People occasionally talk about the streetcar conspiracy, but nobody ever really talks about how so thoroughly the private car has become an immovable pillar of American society through decades of propaganda that very few people can imagine society being constructed differently

whoa. Every single one of the Sinclair advert buyers on this list is automotive or automotive related (insurance). That is one aspect of the power in our society held by car companies that I haven't seen studied enough.

One of the biggest things we want readers to take away from “Life After Cars” is that learning to *see* cars is step one on the path to realizing a better world.

This rules

It's a basic point, but one that needs to be repeated:

If right-wingers and their views were popular, they would not be so desperate to control mass media & social media nor to use government power to silence everyone else, and they wouldn't need oligarchs pumping billions into amplifying them.

Bouie don’t miss example #58295

Hakeem Jeffries voted for Charlie Kirk Day but still isn’t sure if he’ll endorse Zohran Mamdani. This is why the approval rating of the Democratic Party is lower than Trump’s or the GOP.

This is what crossings in front of schools should look like.

Raised crossing, short crossing distance, 20mph speed limit, close street trees for calming, protected bike lane, two-way road narrows to a pinch point / cars have to slow down and take turns.

My toxic trait is I absolutely love trick plays that result in gains of less than 10 yards. Can’t get enough.

This nails it. Too many “scholar activists” don’t recognize that the average American isn’t reading Said or Fanon [or are even interested in doing so]. The best are able to be “bilingual” in a way that makes their activism accessible to wider audiences, not just their peers.

Pepper-balls, rifle rounds, drones: UC police get green light for military-grade weapons University of California police departments are required by state law to report use of military equipment and requests for new purchases. On Wednesday, they received approval to buy new rifle rounds, drones and thousands of pepper-balls.

Pepper-balls, rifle rounds, drones: UC police get green light for military-grade weapons

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“Visiona 2” installation at the Cologne Furniture Fair, 1970. Image courtesy of the Vitra Design Museum.

Stop reading the news and normalize lounging inside “Visiona 2” by Verner Panton at the Cologne Furniture Fair in 1970.

In the evenings we will sit right here on this front porch and count the stars.

2015: “oh no, it’s the dystopian future where everyone is playing dumb hypnotic games on their little screen.”
2025: “The dumb hypnotic games are actually best-case scenario; everything else your little screen can do to you is worse.”

i've said before that the US Civil War being primarily formal armies fighting each other in setpiece battles really clouds a lot of americans understanding of what an actual civil war looks like

Putting these sessions in my calendar. LA history from inside The Biltmore? Yes please!

Being overly online seems to be a lifestyle that just fills you with unnecessary anxiety.

How can we forget the famous Marxist Timothy McVeigh