This EIR cover goes hard

Another victim of funding before design:

2. Fix the institutions. Institutions like the Senate, Electoral College, and the supreme court overrepresent America's fascist minority and they need to be reformed. Plenty are talking about this; it's in DSA's platform. program.dsausa.org#demand-democ...

These evening headways are terrible. It's like transit managers want people to a) only go outside when it's maximally hot b) drink and drive. This is one of Riverside's most frequent bus routes btw

Sunrise-affiliated groups popularized art celebrating building stuff. Progressive unions like UE and UAW launched organizing departments dedicated to green manufacturing. It was never an or between care work and green manufacturing.

Trump's nationalist gender politics version of revitalizing American manufacturing has soured a lot of people on the idea, but during the Biden era the idea of green jobs and green manufacturing was widely popular including on the Left. Nuts to say ppl opposed it because of anti-imperialism!

Or, we could adopt the Thin Orange Line flag celebrating street vendors, farmworkers/loggers, and linemen who put their lives on the line every day for America

Been thinking about this bit from @stano.bsky.social a lot in light of Metrolink cuts. Having already banished much of their workforce to "servants quarters" in the IE and High Desert by refusing to build housing, LA and OC now cut their transit. everyoneiswelcome.substack.com/p/everywhere...

It's a bit too on the nose to be forced to watch propaganda videos of our reality star DOT secretary while purchasing car sauce when both record high gas prices and underinvestment in transit are direct consequences of his admin's policies.

Tight race and likely runoff in Riverside Ward 2. Affordable housing champion Luis Hernandez appears to be cruising to a victory in Ward 6; meanwhile Rich Vandenburg and Jessica Qattawi seem to have split the vote against racist NIMBY Chuck Conder in Ward 4.

Incidentally, BNSF wants to double the size of Barstow with an massive rail/warehouse complex, and is offering no mitigations for VMT. No new train service to Barstow for all those workers?

Oh no! The arch NIMBYs, slumlords, and healthcare profiteers at AIDS Healthcare foundation are sponsoring my local Pride. Probably a better use of their money than trying to block zoning reform.

The bill also restricts federal funding to CAHSR through 2028. @schiff.senate.gov @padilla.senate.gov are you going to let MAGA have the last word on CA's signature infrastructure project and 15000 good union jobs?

OCTA headquarters has a big beautiful expensive art installation glorifying freeways. Beyond Parody for the assholes who are spending billions on highway widening while trying to kill Greater LA's regional rail

I'm hosting a bike tour of Riverside Ward 2 with council candidate Aram Ayra on May 16th. Learn about affordable housing, bike and pedestrian infrastructure, the Metrolink crisis, economic development, and how it all ties into the city council race! Come through!

All of this stuff requires institutional support and resources and instead universities are doing official partnerships with LLM companies, undermining individualized instructor attempts to get students to stop outsourcing all their schoolwork to a chatbot

There's some sort of weird beef going on locally where someone is wheatpasting anti-RCA parody posters around

This just makes this worse. These things are bad!

Military helicopters just landed on the UMD campus and are unloading troops wtf @publicuniversal.bsky.social

Post this image to destroy I-5 truthers forever

Newsom is against a gas tax holiday so that's a good sign that SB 1035 is doomed. Rare W for Governor Hair Gel gizmodo.com/gas-prices-a...

Great dissection of why the media keeps pushing the false narrative that union members are going MAGA, despite Harris beating Biden's union vote share. Media needs more labor reporting, less horse race, while declining union density means less political payoff from winning union members.

Great example of how homeownership is not an unallayed good - it can trap people in low-opportunity areas where income and home values are not guaranteed. Juicing sprawl and homeownership above all else encourages these outcomes.

Small rally at Riverside City Hall in support of the University Terrace project, which would provide 91 supportive housing units. Supporters urging the city to reconsider its denial now that a fair housing lawsuit has been filed and the city's (imo undeserved) pro-housing designation is in jeopardy.

As a renter in Riverside, I'm pretty skeptical that new for-sale SFHs in Menifee will meaningfully impact my rent, but the VMT they induce *will* definitely increase the traffic and air pollution I have to deal with.

I don't really think this meme is true. Time and time again, capital chooses to side with land against workers. The threat of homelessness is a powerful tool to discipline workers (as George himself notes). And large businesses often engage in rentiership themselves.

In Munich, bike lanes are part of the *sidewalk* - unlike in the US, where even protected bike lanes are almost always part of the road. I get that painting the road is cheaper than widening the sidewalk, but what would it take for this to be the default?

Appalling ad on the Press Enterprise website. This type of stuff is why I don't subscribe. Serving a majority Latino city

Big rally and march in Riverside today for the National Day of Action. Largest anti-ICE protest I've been to so far. Feels like a popular front is forming, as previously silo'd groups come together - labor, leftists, white boomer resist libs, Latino community groups. Big Amazon Teamster presence.