Gas prices are skyrocketing. If California cares about affordability, they need to provide Californians around the state with access to fossil fuel-free transportation: electric regional rail. Accelerate the state rail plan and electrify rail!
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Just offering a positive lifehack on a terrible day:
if you have trouble remembering something about a friend or colleague (like their pronouns, name pronunciation, or kids' names), put it in their contact record (first name field) in your phone.
Like: Malkia (Mal-KEE-uh) (they/them)
the only thing that’s bringing me me any joy are sumo oranges
You should be able to criticize your government anonymously online.
Full stop.
"Age verification" legislation is just a pretty name for "forced online ID checks," meaning everything you post is associated with your government name
We have to stop this.
theintercept.com/2026/03/05/k...
See you there!
Bernard LaFayette, the advance man who did the risky groundwork for the voter registration campaign in Selma, Alabama, that culminated in the passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, has died.
OPINION: "Invalidating someone’s identification documents has immediate and powerful consequences that cascade into all aspects of their life," Jae A. Puckett, L. Zachary DuBois and Noelle Martin write.
Just offering a positive lifehack on a terrible day:
if you have trouble remembering something about a friend or colleague (like their pronouns, name pronunciation, or kids' names), put it in their contact record (first name field) in your phone.
Like: Malkia (Mal-KEE-uh) (they/them)
I truly believe one of the most poisonous ideas of our time is the thought that because someone received something good, *we* are being deprived of something. It’s anti-human, it’s antithetical to a functioning society, it’s selfish and we need to crush it out of our culture.
We use Libby (the library app) for almost all our books on the first read.
1. It's free (and supports the library and authors)
2. It's saves shelf space.
3. We can go buy the book if we love it enough to add to the collection.
Libby has audio books, ebooks, magazines, courses and classes.
I’ve been notified about another death in ICE custody.
This marks a stunning 40 deaths during the second Trump administration.
This cannot continue. There must be real accountability for ICE and DHS.
Big Battery Energy? Yes, America boomed in 2025. 🔋 Batteries are one of the 6 technologies outlined by Sr. Scientist Amanda Smith, PhD. that will make up the cleaner electric grid of the future.
Read more in Wired: https://bit.ly/4tTTk8Z
Read more from Amanda Smith, PhD.: https://bit.ly/4tOZI10
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Put that shit on the cover of National Geographic
Can confirm I read in a book (Because Internet) that for millenials and younger, ending a text with a period can be considered rude.
But what they don't know is that texting, individually, 7-13 thought fragments (making my phone ping-pong 7-13 times) drives me insane.
gretchenmcculloch.com/book/
Once again, in actual democracies, people do not need to engage in permanent litigation & political mobilization to retain the basic right to vote, because none of the major political parties make restricting suffrage the central pillar of their policy platform. We also don't have to live like this.
Imagine that overnight your ability to drive was taken away, and it would take who knows how long to get it back. How much would that fuck with your ability to do basic things like earn money, not get fired from your job, feed yourself, get medical care, see family.
These people are amping up the cruelty to trans people and immigrants because everyone realizes things suck so they have to throw slop to the piggies. It is incumbent upon the rest of us to recognize the weakness that signals and turn it into courage to stand in the gap.
Graphic design with a deep purple background, Shareable logo icon and story title, "As state and corporate surveillance intensifies, a new guide aims to help mutual aid organizations protect themselves" by Nithin Coca. Below the title it features a collage of floral cutouts, butterflies, website pages and phones with locks on them and two illustrated purple hands reaching towards each other.
Graphic design with a deep purple background that features a quote, "“The information in this guide is for mutual aid organizations to protect themselves.” -Elijah Baucom. Director, UC Berkeley Cybersecurity Clinic. Two illustrated purple hands reaching towards each other are at the bottom, the Shareable logo icon and a small floating butterfly.
🚨NEW 🚨: As state and corporate surveillance intensifies, a new guide from UC Berkeley’s Cybersecurity Clinic and @fightforthefuture.org aims to help mutual aid organizations protect themselves.
Check out the story by Nithin Coca! www.shareable.net/as-state-and...
You also need a valid ID to rent a Uhaul, get a new job, get an apartment, open a new bank account, etc. This effectively imprisons trans people in Kansas.
Colorado borders Kansas. Here is a Colorado non-profit that helps trans people relocate, Trans Continental Pipeline.
Please share.
tcpipeline.org
"The winning names join the rest of the named snowplow fleet, which includes... CTRL-SALT-DELETE"
hey some rare good news: the us is installing a SHIT TON of batteries right now!
as you've said, so much climate action is way out of the control of the feds and isn't even billed as climate action
density
good buses
municipal waste management
green infrastructure
safe and sound local elections
city and county procurement
affordable electric bills
innumerable others
A new RMI report does the math & finds that consumers save money by buying used EVs.
As ever when I see a back flip in skating, pour one out for Surya Bonaly.
Should have said, "wrong answers only"
For me it's giving "sworn enemy of the Rainbow Warrior" vibes
lots of good housing bills moving forward so far this year but was bummed to see the right to cooling bill did not make the cut.
just as we require renters have adequate protection from cold - in a warming world we must require it from extreme heat
massive equity issue here
Thanks for those details. If the people behind the ship's name don't speak English as their first language, it surely has a different meaning to them. Still quite ominous/hilarious in English tho
Did you know that a recent Poll shows that 91% of Americans support a New START extension to keep nuclear weapons limits with Russia? SF Bay PSR is fighting to limit and eventually abolish nuclear weapons. rethinkmedia.org/blog/america...
