Brianna
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
- Reposted by Brianna3. Preserve public ownership of the rail corridor. 4. Push for Metro Board reform to prioritize transit best practices over political dynamics. We remain committed to letting you know where and how you can best support this fight. Read our Open Letter. (3/3) www.southbayforward.org/blog/stateme...
- Reposted by BriannaOur statement on the Jan 22nd Metro Board vote for the C Line Extension to Torrance. Thank you to all who joined to support certification of the Final EIR for Hybrid LPA. We did not expect the Hawthorne motion. It will pose significant delay but there is still hope for rail to the South Bay (1/3)
- Reposted by BriannaTragedy in Playa Del Rey, as a 7-months-pregnant mother was killed by a driver while biking with her family. The baby was delivered by C-section but died in the NICU. The crash took place on Pershing Ave., where safety measures were removed in 2017 after NIMBY backlash. Donate here:
- Reposted by BriannaPeople have been out in the streets protesting 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.
- Reposted by BriannaFriends, 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!
- ICE observers in the Twin Cities are in need of dash cams to prevent further intimidation and frivolous claims. Cams are $110, memory cards $35, and ship to us directly via this wish list: www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/... If you've been looking for a way to help, we'd sure appreciate it!
- Reposted by Brianna"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...
- Reposted by BriannaJacob Frey: "To ICE -- get the fuck out of Minneapolis"
- Reposted by BriannaMany 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.
- Reposted by BriannaAbolish 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.
- Reposted by BriannaDozens 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
- Reposted by BriannaI 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/
- Torrance 🤝 Caltrans bikelanedeathtrap.jpg
- Reposted by Brianna"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"
- Reposted by BriannaWe’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.
- Reposted by BriannaWe need term limits for US Senators, Congressional representatives, and SCOTUS. 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...
- Reposted by BriannaInstead 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.
- Reposted by BriannaNEW: 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 🥟 😊
- Reposted by Brianna16 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:
- Reposted by BriannaThe 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.
- Reposted by BriannaJust 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
- Reposted by BriannaEarlier 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...
- Reposted by BriannaGood 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?
- Reposted by BriannaCongestion 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. - Reposted by BriannaThe "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.
- Left YIMBY is the way
- Reposted by Brianna@zohrankmamdani.bsky.social and Rawa Duwaji on Inauguration Day, January 1, 2035, NYC City Hall! More pictures coming soon - I took a bunch and everyone was beautiful! Happy New Year, friends. We're gonna win.
- Reposted by BriannaCan we just celebrate the (literal) platform devoted to transportation advocates — and trans advocates! — at NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani's inauguration. What would this even look like in LA for the inauguration of our next mayor??? Yes, I am asking for both your suggestions of mayor and advocates 😉
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- Reposted by BriannaIt's striking that progressives like Tim Walz and Zohran Mamdani evoke the middle American attitude that, "Yes, we can fix these social problems because we're Americans and it's the right thing to do!" While the "America first" right only emulates failed and failing nation-states elsewhere.
- Reposted by Briannaa Warrenite with Bernie's message discipline and Obama's charisma is a hell of a thing to watch in action
- Reposted by Briannai am rooting as much as is appropriate for mamdani to be an effective mayor because if he manages it, he will be an important model and national leader for american progressives — one part fiorello la guardia, one part robert la folette
- Reposted by BriannaNEW: Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani will hire Mike Flynn, a longtime presence in New York City transportation planning, as commissioner of the Department of Transportation, the Mamdani transition team confirmed to Streetsblog. buff.ly/f7612wn
- Reposted by BriannaNew York City has a new mayor
- Reposted by BriannaThe retirement of the MetroCard at midnight tonight is bittersweet for me. In 1983, as a young lawyer, I took a year's leave of absence from my law firm to serve as special counsel to Richard Ravitch, chairman of the NY MTA. He gave me the task of leading a study ...
- wholesome. my parents will now finally understand why I run around doing all this advocacy stuff.
- It’s been quite a year! I’ve spent at least 20 hours/week organizing to make my resource-rich coastal hometown more equitable. This on top of 3rd year of med school was quite a balancing act. Listen to our 2025 wins. Here’s to a 2026 with less fighting of NIMBY cities and more progress & champions.
- In Episode 2: 2025 Recap, @ctruman.bsky.social, @thewrongalex.bsky.social, @briannaje.bsky.social, & @ljwalsh.bsky.social recap the year’s organizing wins in housing, transit, & mobility in #SouthBayLA. Apple Podcasts: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/m... Pod Index: podcastindex.org/podcast/7634...
- Hear me yap about my origin story into urbanism and what we’ve been up to at @southbayforward.bsky.social. Many thanks to host/producer @ctruman.bsky.social for turning this idea into reality!
- In Episode 1: Origin Stories, @ctruman.bsky.social, Izzy, @astramateria.bsky.social, & @briannaje.bsky.social share their origin stories in housing, transit, & mobility and the origins of South Bay Forward. Apple Pod: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/m... Pod Index: podcastindex.org/podcast/7634...
- Reposted by BriannaAnnouncing: Moving Forward, a podcast by South Bay Forward. Available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Overcast, and other podcast websites. First two episodes are out now!
- Reposted by BriannaThe California DMV is in deep need of reform. Enraging stuff, uncovered by a team of reporters at @calmatters.org calmatters.org/investigatio...
- The fact that we let county (and subregional) agencies with zero transit expertise determine local transportation spending is a travesty and the main reason why California is perpetually carbrained and traffic-cursed.
- Another highway widening in mid county, meanwhile no progress on rail anytime soon. We are not doing enough to stop road expansion, while high construction costs & car brain hold back any alternative. www.pressenterprise.com/2025/12/27/w...
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- Reposted by BriannaI see three main paths where Donald Trump will attempt to rig elections: 1. Ending the VRA to permanently lock out Black political representation in the South 2. Forcing USPS to stop delivering or accepting mail ballots 3. Military intimidation at voting precincts, especially in swing state cities
- Reposted by BriannaSemi-annual trips to UCSD always remind me that we can think bigger and build amazing things in San Diego if we want to
- Reposted by BriannaJust an incredible amount of new student housing being built at UCSD. A great example of what the world's 4th largest economy can do when it puts its mind and resources to it. Homelessness should be a distant and shameful memory in this state! 😠
- Starting my “stray dogs of Latin America” thread here 🐕🧵 Here is a trio of stray dogs in San Juan La Laguna (Lake Atitlán, Guatemala).
- This is Toby. He is not a stray dog. He is a restaurant dog at the Reserva Atitlán. Senior dog who will live as he pleases. He played dead when I first came to pet him, and then when we were eating lunch he walked over and rested his chin on my lap.
- I’m not great with recognizing dog breeds, but I’m pretty sure most here are mutts. Left: “guardian” dog greeting us at the end of a hike, Nariz del Rostro Maya Right: street dog wearily looking around for food to scavenge
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View full threadNot a dog, but the apparent queen of the Eagle’s Nest yoga studio.
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- Reposted by Briannaif you haven't already, go throw a couple bucks to the reelection campaigns of Mitch Green, Angelita Morillo and Tiffany Koyama-Lane. If you're a portland resident the public match program means even donating $25 to each is a huge boost; we need all three of them to stay on council this next fall
- This is great policy. On pediatric genetics I saw several spina bífida pts in Latino families. I looked into the folic acid fortification connection and found that LatinAm countries like Costa Rica that require masa to be fortified have lower rates of NTDs. This one change can literally save lives.
- Tortillas sold in California are going to have a new ingredient, one that’s intended to help nurture healthy infants. bit.ly/4pjdSnR 📸 Larry Valenzuela
- Reposted by BriannaThis morning I passed 12k miles ridden on my e-bike in hilly #SanFrancisco. That’s 12k miles I didn’t drive in a car. Am I proud? Yes! I never would have dreamt I could lose my total car dependence but life is so much better without it! #bike
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- Reposted by BriannaIf this is an argument for CAHSR or CalTrans to consolidate publicly owned or utilized ROW into a single body that can actually drive an upgrade agenda, you’ll hear no argument from me. CA’s addiction to Joint Powers boards operating assets owned/maintained by counties is worst of all worlds
- Transit organizers know how to win elections.
- Do you wish your local city council had more transit nerds? Well, you're in luck! Follow my campaign account at @evelynforbeaverton.bsky.social. I'm super excited to have a chance to give back to my hometown. Learn more at evelynforbeaverton.com!
- Reposted by BriannaReminder that if you still have FSA funds to spend this year, you can spend them at FSA store: fsastore.com - you can purchase menstrual products for example to donate to your local pantries and homeless shelters. I have $130 left and that's what I did yesterday.
- Reposted by BriannaA small victory for people and direct services organizations who help their unhoused neighbors in California: As of January 1, it should (theoretically!) be illegal to punish people for offering outreach and support.
- Reposted by BriannaA Hampton Inn in Asheville just canceled my family's reservation because our address (incorrectly) showed Asheville—and the hotel bars locals within 50 miles. When I asked why, they said, "because of our homeless population," adding that most hotels here have similar policies. This is outrageous.
- Reposted by BriannaWhen Californians are ready to buy, why do almost all of us buy single-family homes? In part, because weird laws mean that's about the only type of for-sale home we build: "...just 3% of multifamily homes built in #California from 2011 to 2021 were condos, & that compares to nearly 40% in #Canada."
- Reposted by BriannaINBOX: @jkbjournalist.bsky.social, an investigative reporter at @miamiherald.com who has covered Jeffrey Epstein's sex trafficking story for nearly a decade, accuses the Trump Department of Justice for tracking her flight history in 2019 and releasing them partially unredacted in the Epstein files
- Reposted by BriannaPizza by the slice is an indicator species of a walkable neighborhood.
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- Reposted by BriannaMy contribution to today's discourse is that if we passed the reforms necessary for a multiparty system, it would be a net positive for society if political parties occasionally handed out food, clothes and whatever else constitutes mutual aid.
- Reposted by BriannaTransit's main competition is cars. If you raise fares from $2.50 to $3, you're still way more affordable than driving. But if you cut the bus from every 15 to every 20, you're screwed because cars have infinity frequency and 24 hr service span.
