Jonathan Weiss
@jonlaweiss.bsky.social
Pro: transit, active transportation, sustainability, justice, livable cities, native plants, Westwood Greenway. Civil litigator & local historian. 🚲🌿
Overwhelming demand for people wanting not to be stuck driving - but the Air Resources Board kills the program in favor of cars that still pollute our air.
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California quietly kills e-bike voucher program, funnels funds into cars instead
California’s ambitious statewide electric bicycle incentive program is officially dead – and it didn’t even get a funeral. After years...
electrek.co
October 31, 2025 at 1:58 PM
Overwhelming demand for people wanting not to be stuck driving - but the Air Resources Board kills the program in favor of cars that still pollute our air.
electrek.co/2025/10/31/c...
electrek.co/2025/10/31/c...
A different kind of training ride: "Doing the pedaling will be Kayla Hankins, a recent UCLA graduate who is training to qualify for the 2028 Olympics in the track sprint cycling event."
A new bike-lane sweeper, with a set of googly eyes, debuts on Hollywood Boulevard
East Hollywood — Hollywood Boulevard has a new street sweeper, just for the bike lanes.
www.theeastsiderla.com
October 17, 2025 at 1:36 PM
A different kind of training ride: "Doing the pedaling will be Kayla Hankins, a recent UCLA graduate who is training to qualify for the 2028 Olympics in the track sprint cycling event."
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If Mike Johnson is refusing to call the House back into session during the shutdown, then we’ll do the work right here the Bronx.
The New York Essential plan is being eliminated entirely next year due to the GOP healthcare cuts. People’s lives are at stake.
And that’s why we’re fighting back.
The New York Essential plan is being eliminated entirely next year due to the GOP healthcare cuts. People’s lives are at stake.
And that’s why we’re fighting back.
October 14, 2025 at 3:24 PM
If Mike Johnson is refusing to call the House back into session during the shutdown, then we’ll do the work right here the Bronx.
The New York Essential plan is being eliminated entirely next year due to the GOP healthcare cuts. People’s lives are at stake.
And that’s why we’re fighting back.
The New York Essential plan is being eliminated entirely next year due to the GOP healthcare cuts. People’s lives are at stake.
And that’s why we’re fighting back.
Columbus shouldn’t be a blindfold — he should be a bridge.
Indigenous civilizations built cities, calendars, and cultures long before 1492.
Reevaluation isn’t betrayal. It’s connection.
#IndigenousPeoplesDay #ThinkAgainNotAgainst #Cahokia #HistoricalTruth #ReevaluationIsRespect
Indigenous civilizations built cities, calendars, and cultures long before 1492.
Reevaluation isn’t betrayal. It’s connection.
#IndigenousPeoplesDay #ThinkAgainNotAgainst #Cahokia #HistoricalTruth #ReevaluationIsRespect
October 13, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Columbus shouldn’t be a blindfold — he should be a bridge.
Indigenous civilizations built cities, calendars, and cultures long before 1492.
Reevaluation isn’t betrayal. It’s connection.
#IndigenousPeoplesDay #ThinkAgainNotAgainst #Cahokia #HistoricalTruth #ReevaluationIsRespect
Indigenous civilizations built cities, calendars, and cultures long before 1492.
Reevaluation isn’t betrayal. It’s connection.
#IndigenousPeoplesDay #ThinkAgainNotAgainst #Cahokia #HistoricalTruth #ReevaluationIsRespect
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The crash that killed nine year old Nadir Gavarrete two weeks ago in Koreatown was entirely preventable. The city has a plan and has been working to implement it for *14 years*
My latest in the @latimes.com:
www.latimes.com/opinion/stor...
My latest in the @latimes.com:
www.latimes.com/opinion/stor...
Contributor: How many kids must die before L.A. makes streets safer?
After 14 years of meetings and plans, the city failed to upgrade a dangerous Koreatown intersection with enhanced crosswalks and other improvements. Now a 9-year-old boy is dead.
www.latimes.com
August 14, 2025 at 4:12 PM
The crash that killed nine year old Nadir Gavarrete two weeks ago in Koreatown was entirely preventable. The city has a plan and has been working to implement it for *14 years*
My latest in the @latimes.com:
www.latimes.com/opinion/stor...
My latest in the @latimes.com:
www.latimes.com/opinion/stor...
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Reposted by Jonathan Weiss
I grew up near Townships, like Michigan’s Bloomfield Township. LA had townships, too. Midwestern 6x6 mile townships came from the federal Land Ordinance of 1785. California's were created at the county level, like LA County's La Ballona Township. www.cheviothillshistory.org/home/miscell...
La Ballona Township – Cheviot Hills History
www.cheviothillshistory.org
July 13, 2025 at 2:30 PM
I grew up near Townships, like Michigan’s Bloomfield Township. LA had townships, too. Midwestern 6x6 mile townships came from the federal Land Ordinance of 1785. California's were created at the county level, like LA County's La Ballona Township. www.cheviothillshistory.org/home/miscell...
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One of the most frequently misunderstood laws governing bicycling is the right to ride two or more abreast, both by bicyclists and — especially — law enforcemen…
May 5, 2025 at 11:06 PM
One of the most frequently misunderstood laws governing bicycling is the right to ride two or more abreast, both by bicyclists and — especially — law enforcemen…
About time! I've driven an EV across country several times. Most places have nothing we're used to at gas stations. No shade, nothing to clean the windows, no trash cans. It's like they forget we're driving cars - plus were stuck there longer!
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GM’s Gas Station-Like DC Fast Chargers Are Now In Over 25 States
GM Energy partnered with Pilot Company and EVgo to install thousands of 350 kW DC fast chargers on major travel corridors in the U.S.
insideevs.com
March 26, 2025 at 11:22 PM
About time! I've driven an EV across country several times. Most places have nothing we're used to at gas stations. No shade, nothing to clean the windows, no trash cans. It's like they forget we're driving cars - plus were stuck there longer!
insideevs.com/news/754646/...
insideevs.com/news/754646/...
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🔥Rep. Deluzio isn’t buying VA Secretary Doug Collins’ BS.
How do you deliver care while cutting 80,000 staff? You don’t.
This is a blatant push to privatize the VA—costing more, with less oversight, and screwing Veterans out of the specialized care they earned.
How do you deliver care while cutting 80,000 staff? You don’t.
This is a blatant push to privatize the VA—costing more, with less oversight, and screwing Veterans out of the specialized care they earned.
March 17, 2025 at 5:23 PM
🔥Rep. Deluzio isn’t buying VA Secretary Doug Collins’ BS.
How do you deliver care while cutting 80,000 staff? You don’t.
This is a blatant push to privatize the VA—costing more, with less oversight, and screwing Veterans out of the specialized care they earned.
How do you deliver care while cutting 80,000 staff? You don’t.
This is a blatant push to privatize the VA—costing more, with less oversight, and screwing Veterans out of the specialized care they earned.
Cheaters gonna cheat.
One thing that bike folks in LA have taken seriously in the last month is staying the fuck off the closed trails above Pacific Palisades but there always will be douchebags who act like the rules don't apply to them.
March 1, 2025 at 3:56 PM
Cheaters gonna cheat.
Beverly Hills reconfigured a bike lane and sidewalk by a construction site with a K rail barrier protecting people walking but not those cycling.
February 27, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Beverly Hills reconfigured a bike lane and sidewalk by a construction site with a K rail barrier protecting people walking but not those cycling.
Some of the safety issues.
“concerns exist around the safety of other road users or pedestrians if they were involved in a collision with the Cybertruck.”
"sharp edges make the car a pedestrian hazard"
www.forbes.com/sites/peterl...
“concerns exist around the safety of other road users or pedestrians if they were involved in a collision with the Cybertruck.”
"sharp edges make the car a pedestrian hazard"
www.forbes.com/sites/peterl...
Tesla Cybertruck Banned And Seized By Police In The U.K.
The Cybertruck has a cult following in the U.S., but safety issues such as excessive size and acceleration and sharp edges make the Tesla illegal on U.K. roads.
www.forbes.com
February 22, 2025 at 4:16 AM
Some of the safety issues.
“concerns exist around the safety of other road users or pedestrians if they were involved in a collision with the Cybertruck.”
"sharp edges make the car a pedestrian hazard"
www.forbes.com/sites/peterl...
“concerns exist around the safety of other road users or pedestrians if they were involved in a collision with the Cybertruck.”
"sharp edges make the car a pedestrian hazard"
www.forbes.com/sites/peterl...
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Reposted by Jonathan Weiss
Somewhat relieved to be following the weather radar rather than the fire maps.
February 13, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Somewhat relieved to be following the weather radar rather than the fire maps.
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The CFPB is one of the American people’s best defenses against waste, fraud, and abuse.
Demolishing it will, of course, lead to more waste, fraud, and abuse.
Demolishing it will, of course, lead to more waste, fraud, and abuse.
February 11, 2025 at 7:03 PM
The CFPB is one of the American people’s best defenses against waste, fraud, and abuse.
Demolishing it will, of course, lead to more waste, fraud, and abuse.
Demolishing it will, of course, lead to more waste, fraud, and abuse.
Arab Americans for Trump should have changed their name to DUPE: Deceived, Unwitting, Played, and Exploited.
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Pro-Trump Arab American group changes its name after the president's Gaza 'Riviera' comments
The group Arab Americans for Trump is renaming itself Arab Americans for Peace after President Donald Trump said the U.S. would “take over” the Gaza Strip.
apnews.com
February 6, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Arab Americans for Trump should have changed their name to DUPE: Deceived, Unwitting, Played, and Exploited.
apnews.com/article/arab...
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Earnest post, but: a thing I like here is it’s okay to have moments of happiness in public without being broadly scolded, and I believe that sustaining this kind of humanity will be very important as we resist fascism.
We have to sustain each other. Making joy isn’t denial, it’s how we will survive
We have to sustain each other. Making joy isn’t denial, it’s how we will survive
November 12, 2024 at 1:22 AM
Earnest post, but: a thing I like here is it’s okay to have moments of happiness in public without being broadly scolded, and I believe that sustaining this kind of humanity will be very important as we resist fascism.
We have to sustain each other. Making joy isn’t denial, it’s how we will survive
We have to sustain each other. Making joy isn’t denial, it’s how we will survive
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A national tree canopy assessment tool is now available for the first time, making it possible for cities to view the status of their local and regional tree canopy and how it’s changed over time.
New National Tree Canopy Assessment Tool Now Live
The interactive tool reveals the status of tree canopies in U.S. cities.
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February 4, 2025 at 10:48 PM
A national tree canopy assessment tool is now available for the first time, making it possible for cities to view the status of their local and regional tree canopy and how it’s changed over time.