I am getting very tired of people blaming “private equity” for changing consumer behavior.
Private equity didn’t degrade the quality of the clothes you buy, ultra fast fashion and online shopping where you sort by low price, then buy clothes without ever actually touching them did that.
Did they even modernize LA's power grid first?
San Jose FD, for the CAL FIRE single-stair report, did a simulation of evacuation from a building, both in a stairway segregated from firefighters going up and then shared. It was an interesting Rohrschach test for the group – the FDs thought it looked really bad, the others thought it was fine.
The Texas Supreme Court also just ruled to separate any votes from people not in line by 7 PM, overturning the Dallas County judge that extended the voting hours. This vote count is going to be so messy, and it's all Republicans fault.
Not that I don't think Talarico would've won on his own, but I believe the rule change to precinct voting was set up by Republican election officials to specifically stir up election confusion and legitimacy claims. They only did it for the primary, not early voting or even the general election.
“…significantly reduced the rate at which BART service crews have had to clean up vandalism and what the agency internally refers to as ‘very large messes’…cleanup that generally requires staff to pull in larger bins and different types of cleaning products. The data, Trost said, was ‘shocking’.”
They are literally running with “we have always been at war with Eurasia.” Unreal.
gavin newsom is not an auteur, which is to say that he struggles to project a consistent identity across the large apparatus that is the newsom administration and campaign. this is an advantage and a disadvantage for him as a political candidate
BREAKING: A federal judge on Tuesday ruled that New York’s congestion pricing toll is legal and may continue, handing a major victory to the state in its defense of the first-in-the-nation traffic reduction plan, which the Trump administration had tried for more than a year to kill.
This was posted on Reddit from the other site. Fred Rosen, everyone! (Reminder that Bass left the metro board meeting during public comments to take a personal call from an angry bel air resident who was presumably him and then relayed his concerns to the board)
Ossoff clearly has the juice, is on a glide path to win in Georgia comfortably, and appeal to every faction of the Democratic Party
its only a matter of time till people start thinking of him as a serious contender for 2028
Ayatollah dead oh fuck.
Personally I wouldn't want to endorse anyone in that clusterfuck of a CA Governor race until the herd thins.
Fuuuuckkkk. Pray this doesn't go through and Warner Bros. are banking on that "if the deal falls apart" money, because Paramount has a large amount of debt that makes this a fiscally irresponsible deal.
Senate Bill 79: A Triple Hit: Environmental Degradation, Anti-Democracy, and Declining Affordability
me: building more housing near transit is good because it makes housing more affordable and reduces car ownership
the Sierra club, for some reason: actually this is horrible and must be stopped at all costs.
METRO D LINE OPENING IN MAY!
The People's Republic of Mamdanistan has a nice ring to it.
I surprisingly took something out of it, which was to be more of a "doer" than waiting around for someone or an AI to tell me to. I will definitely not try that in the same way Roy is trying to be "agentic" though.
Shakespeare isn't dead, and this article by Sam Kriss on the end of thinking through AI hype is amazing.
Oh this is not going to end well if the measure fails.
Someone needs to be live tweeting this.
The Roberts Court has a clear set of guidelines: the president can do anything he pleases, so long as it does not violate the rights of the owning class.
I could think of no better last words than to say "I love you" to the people I care about the most. RIP Eric Dane.
Community meme: I CAN EXCUSE FASCISM. BUTI DRAW THE LINE AT MERCANTILISM.
The Supreme Court:
Well this is nice, Trump's tariffs are cooked. Kinda sucks that the American taxpayer will have to pay for rebates after already paying for the marked up products, but at least the Supreme Court was proven somewhat sane.
I appreciate Trump's honesty on this matter. A self aware evil king who knows he's going to hell is not how I saw this going.
This is probably the best outcome for California.
