Brianna
@briannaje.bsky.social
Medical student. Public health nutrition. Community gardener and community organizer. Housing and transit policy. Advocate for healthy and resilient communities. 🌱🚲🩺
📍Southern California ☀️
🏘️🚉 @southbayforward.bsky.social & IE Urbanists
📍Southern California ☀️
🏘️🚉 @southbayforward.bsky.social & IE Urbanists
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People have been out in the streets protesting
Minnesota already started at 7 AM
Minnesota already started at 7 AM
January 8, 2026 at 1:57 PM
People have been out in the streets protesting
Minnesota already started at 7 AM
Minnesota already started at 7 AM
Solidarity with the people of Minneapolis ✊
The sheer number of videos of the shooting is horrific, but in the vein of what @prisonculture.bsky.social has been saying, it proves how many people cared enough to show up where ICE was and record them. It wasn't just one or two legal observers, and when Good was shot, they didn't abandon her.
January 8, 2026 at 2:28 PM
Solidarity with the people of Minneapolis ✊
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Friends, thank you for stepping up! Over $40,000 worth of dash cams have been ordered so far for ICE observers in the Twin Cities!
Early orders are trickling in, but we’re getting them packed and deployed ASAFP - several were installed yesterday, these are ready, and 300+ are on the way!
Early orders are trickling in, but we’re getting them packed and deployed ASAFP - several were installed yesterday, these are ready, and 300+ are on the way!
January 8, 2026 at 11:42 AM
Friends, thank you for stepping up! Over $40,000 worth of dash cams have been ordered so far for ICE observers in the Twin Cities!
Early orders are trickling in, but we’re getting them packed and deployed ASAFP - several were installed yesterday, these are ready, and 300+ are on the way!
Early orders are trickling in, but we’re getting them packed and deployed ASAFP - several were installed yesterday, these are ready, and 300+ are on the way!
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"Rebuilding is possible, but only for those who can negotiate deals, absorb losses or take on risk. Even then, the money often doesn’t add up." (Gift link) www.bloomberg.com/features/202...
One Year After LA Fires, Recovery Is a Battleground
The price tag for the costliest blazes in US history is still climbing and disputes over who will pay are escalating.
www.bloomberg.com
January 7, 2026 at 6:47 PM
"Rebuilding is possible, but only for those who can negotiate deals, absorb losses or take on risk. Even then, the money often doesn’t add up." (Gift link) www.bloomberg.com/features/202...
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Jacob Frey: "To ICE -- get the fuck out of Minneapolis"
January 7, 2026 at 6:40 PM
Jacob Frey: "To ICE -- get the fuck out of Minneapolis"
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Many local groups have begun planning protests and actions against ICE in other cities.
You'll probably feel better joining an action than doom scroling for a snuff video, just saying.
You'll probably feel better joining an action than doom scroling for a snuff video, just saying.
January 7, 2026 at 5:39 PM
Many local groups have begun planning protests and actions against ICE in other cities.
You'll probably feel better joining an action than doom scroling for a snuff video, just saying.
You'll probably feel better joining an action than doom scroling for a snuff video, just saying.
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Abolish and prosecute ICE. They did a murder in broad daylight today. Imagine what they're doing in the closed facilities we're somehow not even allowed to see.
January 7, 2026 at 6:20 PM
Abolish and prosecute ICE. They did a murder in broad daylight today. Imagine what they're doing in the closed facilities we're somehow not even allowed to see.
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Dozens of feds, large MPD response, an observer saying he's a physician and had a gun pointed at him for checking the victim's pulse
January 7, 2026 at 3:54 PM
Dozens of feds, large MPD response, an observer saying he's a physician and had a gun pointed at him for checking the victim's pulse
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I got the AAPI History Museum in Providence to include @ripta.com directions on their Visit page! Yes, the first ever AAPI History Museum in the US!! 👏🏻🚌💙
aapihistorymuseum.org/visit/
aapihistorymuseum.org/visit/
January 7, 2026 at 5:01 AM
I got the AAPI History Museum in Providence to include @ripta.com directions on their Visit page! Yes, the first ever AAPI History Museum in the US!! 👏🏻🚌💙
aapihistorymuseum.org/visit/
aapihistorymuseum.org/visit/
Torrance 🤝 Caltrans
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January 7, 2026 at 7:44 AM
Torrance 🤝 Caltrans
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"About 300,000 more people are riding the subway each day — far more than the 70,000 cars that have been taken off the road in the congestion zone.
People are still coming, just not necessarily by private car"
People are still coming, just not necessarily by private car"
Congestion pricing after one year: How life has changed. (Gift Article)
How life has changed in the New York area, according to data on traffic, transit and the responses of 600 readers.
www.nytimes.com
January 6, 2026 at 12:35 AM
"About 300,000 more people are riding the subway each day — far more than the 70,000 cars that have been taken off the road in the congestion zone.
People are still coming, just not necessarily by private car"
People are still coming, just not necessarily by private car"
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We’ve been relying on extracting resources from other areas, both within America and the Global South, at their economic and public health expenses, when we had the long term solution set up long before cars even became popular. Muni has been powered by water for 90 years. We just need more wire.
Want to reduce US reliance on oil? Fund transit and electrify our trains!
January 4, 2026 at 8:56 AM
We’ve been relying on extracting resources from other areas, both within America and the Global South, at their economic and public health expenses, when we had the long term solution set up long before cars even became popular. Muni has been powered by water for 90 years. We just need more wire.
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We need term limits for US Senators, Congressional representatives, and SCOTUS.
Also, we need leaders who actually enforce the US Constitution.
Also, we need leaders who actually enforce the US Constitution.
January 4, 2026 at 4:36 AM
We need term limits for US Senators, Congressional representatives, and SCOTUS.
Also, we need leaders who actually enforce the US Constitution.
Also, we need leaders who actually enforce the US Constitution.
Hosting dinners as a radical act of community-building
In my personal newsletter: A look back at our 2025 resolution to host dinner every single Saturday.
Great news: We did it! amandalitman.substack.com/p/our-year-o...
Great news: We did it! amandalitman.substack.com/p/our-year-o...
Our year of Saturday dinners
Reporting back on our 2025 resolution and details on what we'll do for 2026
amandalitman.substack.com
January 4, 2026 at 6:50 PM
Hosting dinners as a radical act of community-building
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Instead of whatever this is, we should have a government getting lots of new homes and apartments built, lots of clean energy built, lots of high speed rail and transit and bike lanes built, human rights for everyone, economic & healthcare opportunities for all, & innovation that leads the world.
January 4, 2026 at 2:12 AM
Instead of whatever this is, we should have a government getting lots of new homes and apartments built, lots of clean energy built, lots of high speed rail and transit and bike lanes built, human rights for everyone, economic & healthcare opportunities for all, & innovation that leads the world.
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NEW: Mayor Mamdani chose the third full day of his tenure to announce that he will complete the full safety redesign of deadly McGuinness Boulevard in Greenpoint — a project that was created under Mayor Bill de Blasio, but watered down by Mayor Adams in a corruption scandal. buff.ly/T2rESWz
Mamdani Announces Full McGuinness Road Diet, Finishing a Job Halted by Adams - Streetsblog New York City
Mayor Mamdani chose the third full day of his tenure to announce that he will complete the full safety redesign of deadly McGuinness Boulevard in Greenpoint — a project that was created under Mayor…
nyc.streetsblog.org
January 3, 2026 at 11:12 PM
NEW: Mayor Mamdani chose the third full day of his tenure to announce that he will complete the full safety redesign of deadly McGuinness Boulevard in Greenpoint — a project that was created under Mayor Bill de Blasio, but watered down by Mayor Adams in a corruption scandal. buff.ly/T2rESWz
Have spent most of yesterday and today making and eating rice paper dumplings with my family. Delicious way to start off the new year 🥟 😊
January 4, 2026 at 12:41 AM
Have spent most of yesterday and today making and eating rice paper dumplings with my family. Delicious way to start off the new year 🥟 😊
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16 hours in, my guess this was all intended basically as a coup to put VP Delcy Rodriguez in power (likely without her knowledge but 🤷).
At least for democracy & human rights, that might be even worse than the "opening shots in a war" scenario.
All speculation, but let me explain:
At least for democracy & human rights, that might be even worse than the "opening shots in a war" scenario.
All speculation, but let me explain:
January 3, 2026 at 11:14 PM
16 hours in, my guess this was all intended basically as a coup to put VP Delcy Rodriguez in power (likely without her knowledge but 🤷).
At least for democracy & human rights, that might be even worse than the "opening shots in a war" scenario.
All speculation, but let me explain:
At least for democracy & human rights, that might be even worse than the "opening shots in a war" scenario.
All speculation, but let me explain:
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The mayor says something really important about something that's bugged me for a long time: that we force grieving families to relive their trauma over and over again as they lobby elected officials asking them to do the right thing. I am so glad to hear him say those days are over.
"I'm so sorry that we could not have done this earlier...to have saved the loved ones in your life. But I thank you fopr the work that you have done...to ensure that this pain not be felt by others who call this same city home." — Mayor Mamdani at McGuinness Blvd. presser youtube.com/shorts/uwAYI...
Mayor Mamdani commits to ending traffic violence across NYC on third day in office #safestreets
YouTube video by Streetsblog NYC
youtube.com
January 3, 2026 at 9:13 PM
The mayor says something really important about something that's bugged me for a long time: that we force grieving families to relive their trauma over and over again as they lobby elected officials asking them to do the right thing. I am so glad to hear him say those days are over.
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Just yesterday, IOC president Kirsty Coventry said that Russian athletes can't compete under their flag in next month's Winter Olympics because their country invaded another country.
Sure will be interesting to see how these same guidelines will be applied in 2028
Sure will be interesting to see how these same guidelines will be applied in 2028
Russians won't represent their country at Winter Olympics even if Ukraine war ends, IOC chief says
Russian athletes at the Milano Cortina Winter Olympics will not be able to represent their country even if a peace deal is reached with Ukraine, International Olympic Committee President Kirsty Covent...
www.reuters.com
January 3, 2026 at 5:36 PM
Just yesterday, IOC president Kirsty Coventry said that Russian athletes can't compete under their flag in next month's Winter Olympics because their country invaded another country.
Sure will be interesting to see how these same guidelines will be applied in 2028
Sure will be interesting to see how these same guidelines will be applied in 2028
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Earlier this fall, I noticed something odd going on with rail service on Los Angeles's C line. So, I wrote about it, because I could not have asked for a more perfect encapsulation of how schedule design can drive service outcomes.
homesignalblog.wordpress.com/2026/01/03/a...
homesignalblog.wordpress.com/2026/01/03/a...
A Study in Schedule Design
From time to time, I enjoy browsing the LA Metro subreddit. A creature of the East Coast, I am forever fascinated by the Los Angeles’s preculiar mix of ambition and ambivalence around transit…
homesignalblog.wordpress.com
January 3, 2026 at 5:39 PM
Earlier this fall, I noticed something odd going on with rail service on Los Angeles's C line. So, I wrote about it, because I could not have asked for a more perfect encapsulation of how schedule design can drive service outcomes.
homesignalblog.wordpress.com/2026/01/03/a...
homesignalblog.wordpress.com/2026/01/03/a...
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Good bike parking in downtown Riverside. Covered, spacious, plentiful, good location, thin veneer of security. Only problem: you have to bike through the car's payment booth. Kinda awkward. I've never seen it used. Might be a visibility problem?
January 2, 2026 at 1:06 PM
Good bike parking in downtown Riverside. Covered, spacious, plentiful, good location, thin veneer of security. Only problem: you have to bike through the car's payment booth. Kinda awkward. I've never seen it used. Might be a visibility problem?
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Congestion pricing "has been a striking success. Traffic speeds have increased. Pollution is down. The fee is generating a large amount of revenue for the city’s transit system. And predictions that it would be bad for business have proved completely wrong." Via @pkrugman.bsky.social
Notes on New York
The Big Apple had a pretty good 2025, but …
paulkrugman.substack.com
January 2, 2026 at 2:07 PM
Congestion pricing "has been a striking success. Traffic speeds have increased. Pollution is down. The fee is generating a large amount of revenue for the city’s transit system. And predictions that it would be bad for business have proved completely wrong." Via @pkrugman.bsky.social
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Mamdani setting up a permitting reform and land inventory task force is some real sickos yes stuff.
January 1, 2026 at 10:40 PM
Mamdani setting up a permitting reform and land inventory task force is some real sickos yes stuff.
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The "my mom hasn't gotten a Social Security check in seven weeks, my cousin lost his job at the VA, and my neighbor's kid's cancer drug trial was cancelled right before the treatment went live" voter is the 2026 voter the Dems need to be laying the groundwork for landing right now.
March 7, 2025 at 2:43 PM
The "my mom hasn't gotten a Social Security check in seven weeks, my cousin lost his job at the VA, and my neighbor's kid's cancer drug trial was cancelled right before the treatment went live" voter is the 2026 voter the Dems need to be laying the groundwork for landing right now.