Dr Grace S Peng

Why repost an old shoe flapping racism when you could repost this skeet below about a super cool holiday boutique in Los Angeles on Saturday 11/7⬇️

Online betting was already illegal until the Supreme Court said that PASPA was unconstitutional in 2018. This whole rotten industry sprung up in less than a decade on a technicality. I think it could be a winning platform but it will invite a flood of opposition spending against proponents.

Wow... LAX People Mover flashover was caught on video

Good morning with good news: Solar & batteries cut 2026 summer wholesale prices by 51% in California & by 42% in Texas, compared to 2021! CA saved $2.5 Billion & TX saved $3.55B. Retail generation cost within total retail bill fell by 10% in CA & 4% in TX. seia.org/media/18501/... #energysky

I advocated for the recently-passed laws that exempt environmentally-beneficial projects from CEQA, from bicycle, pedestrian & transit improvements, to new housing within existing cities. But I'm voting NO on Prop 45, because it will make it far easier to build things that harm our communities.

Nithya Raman's campaign just filed this Ethics complaint (w/EXHIBITS!) against Thrive LA, accusing the PAC of spray-painting the floors with "Poop Zone, courtesy of Nithya Raman" w/o disclosure disclaimers, and for AI impersonations of Raman's voice, etc. docs.google.com/document/d/1...

This guy is running to represent me. He’s backed by Apartment Owners, Uber and AirBnB. I have a yard sign for his YIMBY competitor, Sara Deen

When your toddler sees a bus and says “more more bus?”, thinking you can control the number of buses like you can give them more food. I wish.

In other words: this should be a legal place to put a modern electric elevator

Last-minute CA ballot advice for procrastinators like me: "no" on Prop 45. More targeted CEQA reform for renewables and housing could be good, but the Chamber of Commerce's shotgun approach will promote sprawl and freeway expansion. Not the way. www.climatecoloredgoggles.com/p/prop-45-vote

one of the really useful takeaways from fukuyama's political order books is a clear conceptual understanding of what corruption *is* in its fundamental nature. and the answer... is patronage networks organized on personal connections! corruption is *inherent* in these discretionary systems!

And here's the agenda for the super obscure membership meeting (that essentially allows anyone in Los Angeles who says they want to resolve homelessness) where people have the ability to vote on who gets to lead homeless services: www.lahsa.org/documents?id...

How symbolic is that, a bikeway that connects a transit center and downtown Torrance , passing one block from Honda Motor Corp’s USA HQ? www.torranceca.gov/Government/D...

Recent work suggests scope for more road pricing interventions. In a forthcoming article (2nd screenshot), Jonathan Levine and I argue that before widening highways, DOTs should be required to conduct an evaluation of the costs and benefits of road pricing instead. www.nber.org/papers/w35887

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Always love talking to @libbyrainey.bsky.social, in this case about what a mayor could do before July 2028. Not only could Raman change out her Metro board seats, she could also change out her LA28 board seats. Imagine promising full transparency about what's being discussed in those meetings!

Our #KingTides project dates are almost a month away, but California is seeing record high tides already. If you plan to photograph the king tides, or are just thinking of heading to the coast during this El Niño, PLEASE BE SAFE. Here are some tips: www.coastal.ca.gov/kingtides/sa...

NAACP president about the rhetoric being used to target Abdul El-Sayed: "The blatantly racist attacks surrounding the Michigan Senate race are unacceptable and disgusting. It’s the same ugly, divisive tactics we’ve seen used during the darkest chapters of the South’s history"

CalBike was instrumental in assembling Getting There, a playbook produced by ClimatePlan for California’s next governor. Its safe streets deep dive lays out how to turn community priorities into sidewalks, crossings, and bikeways people can use. www.climateplan.org/playbook/wal...

Every time California repairs a road, it has a chance to make biking safer. The next gov should implement the Complete Streets Act, SB 960, increase funding for the Active Transportation Program, and put Caltrans’ expertise to work helping communities build walking and biking projects faster.

Coming up on #KTLA: DoorDash is reportedly close to acquiring rival InstaCart, representing potentially major consolidation among food delivery services (which could mean higher fees)

I'm thrilled to be a winner of the National Academies Eric and Wendy Schmidt Awards for Excellence in Science Communications! Esp heartening as I'm writing book 2, "Roots to Sky." @scicommexcellence.nationalacademies.org Here are the other amazing winners: www.nationalacademies.org/news/nationa...

I'm voting no on Prop 45, because we can't create a situation where highway expansions get a CEQA pass, but high speed rail can still be blocked. All for the environment, lol. It's moronic, and yet that's what this law would do. Handcuff the train to the highway BS. Then we'll talk.

Longyearbyen is warming at between 5 & 7 times the world’s average rate We're getting a glimpse of the chaos to come if the world does not act now on climate change share.google/Fxd4dhTvAVlD...

Levels are expected to be even higher during Neap tides (due in ~28 and 56 days). If we get rain during or just before the Neap tides, tidal rivers like Ballona, Los Angeles, Dominguez and Santa Ana will have water pushing from both directions.

Ascending the Chiricahua Mountains in Arizona, home to the newest national park, takes you through an ancient volcano's innards and transports you from red sage desert to a Douglas fir-dotted mountain peak. Geology shapes ecology here! For NatGeo: www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/...

My heart is heavy. Walter Koenig, our Ensign Pavel Chekov, passed away early today. Walter and I met on the bridge of the Enterprise in the 1960s, and we stayed friends for nearly six decades. When Brad and I married in 2008, Walter stood beside us as our best man.

Get your pumpkin carving kit *now* before it's later tonight and you convince yourself a steak knife will work just fine, but it won't and you'll be posting on Bluesky saying, "I just lacerated myself carving a pumpkin. CPSC is going to be so disappointed in me :( "

People think that IZ requirements force developers to take lower profit margins. In reality, developers have to deliver competitive returns to investors so IZ means nothing gets built until market rate rents are high enough to cover development costs *and* the necessary cross subsidy for BMR units.

I'm old enough to remember the time when two men were convicted of felling a tree and were each sentenced to 4 years and 3 months in prison. A single tree. Don't let Google get away with this.

In his acceptance speech, Lula says he will work to regulate digital platforms in Brazil. “Digital crimes must be dealt with like real-life crimes.” This comes after Meta directly interfered with the Brazilian elections, favouring Flávio Bolsonaro.

Local elected officials like IZ because it lets them kill new housing on behalf of their NIMBY homeowner constituents while posing as friends of the poor who stood up to the hated developers.

The lessons from Brazil and Serbia? Don't concede one inch of ground to the far right. Don't appease. Don't triangulate. Don't grovel. Don't say they have "legitimate concerns". Mobilise your base, and fight them with all the democratic means at your disposal.

The US is not about to have a free and fair election. The state has put its thumb on the scale to favor the ruling party in multiple ways. It's a mostly free, somewhat unfair election. But still one where the ruling party can be overwhelmed by numbers. Hence the term "competitive authoritarianism."

FWIW, I have been posting about it the last few days...it definitely needs more national attention... substack.com/home/post/p-...

The Student List had no party machinery. It operated through university assemblies, protests and hiking between cities & towns. They had 2% of national TV political advertising airtime vs 93% for Vučić. This is one of the most remarkable grassroots democratic victories in modern European history.

The achievement of Serbian students overthrowing Aleksandar Vučić can't be overstated. In 2024, they began protesting. In 2025, they transformed a protest movement into civil dissidence. In 2026, they became a political party — and two months later, crushed a corrupt state-entrenched authoritarian.

Side yard converted from water harvesting to clothes drying

It’s chaos. Bolsonaro’s supporters are doing everything they can to stop people in working-class neighbourhoods from voting. Fewer buses, bus stops spaced further apart, power cuts, polling stations blocked, roadblocks. It’s a scandal. Democracy in Brazil is under threat.

My investigation for @nature.com finds a surge of open records requests from groups with ties to the energy industry targeting climate attribution researchers. They come as the field plays a growing role in lawsuits suing big emitters for climate-related damages. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

This is getting ugly

Brazilian Supreme Court Justice Cristiano Zanin ordered a nationwide two-hour extension of voting in today’s presidential runoff, moving the close of polls from 5pm to 7 pm Brasília time.

That's horrific. "One of the victims was reportedly dragged more than a mile before being left in a residential neighborhood, KTLA’s Jennifer McGraw reported."