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CAHSR's Strongest Soldier @emoscientist.bsky.social · 15h

I think they'll weekend at bernie's him as long as possible using AI

CAHSR's Strongest Soldier @emoscientist.bsky.social · 19h

The previous post is from Valenca in northern Portugal and I also went through Galicia which is a fairly rural and underdeveloped part of Spain. Still a lot of TOD even so!

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CAHSR's Strongest Soldier @emoscientist.bsky.social · 19h

The SF crime panic drives me insane, SF is so much safer and cleaner now than it was even 10 years ago but the tech oligarchs still want to create a police state.

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CAHSR's Strongest Soldier @emoscientist.bsky.social · 19h

Orange bell peppers exist to be eaten once a year around Halloween when you make stuffed pepper jack-o-lanterns

CAHSR's Strongest Soldier @emoscientist.bsky.social · 20h

My hot take is a lot of people are using therapy basically for this reason

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Evan Sutton @evansutton.bsky.social · 20h

Folks can say protest is ineffective. You can claim it's not achieving anything. But there's no way Dick Durbin is doing this if courageous protestors aren't out there daily for the last few weeks forcing people in positions of power to take action.

Senator Dick Durbin @durbin.senate.gov · 22h

We’re outside of the Broadview ICE facility.

It’s clearer than ever before.

What’s happening in Illinois is an unprecedented, unlawful abuse of power.

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CAHSR's Strongest Soldier @emoscientist.bsky.social · 21h

Good sign, better not stop here

California Legislative LGBTQ Caucus @calgbtq.bsky.social · 1d

On World Mental Health Day 2025, Governor Newsom signed our first LGBTQ Caucus bill — AB 727 (Mark González)! In the face of federal cuts, this signature signifies that LGBTQ+ students will have adequate access to mental health resources in California. 🦋

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CAHSR's Strongest Soldier @emoscientist.bsky.social · 23h

I recently took the train through the rural Portugal and Spain and you see 10 story buildings near train stations in towns with a population of like 10k. Town in the screenshot is several times smaller than Davis and farther from any city as big as Sac

electrified passenger rail line in front of 7+ story apartment building next to several other multistory apartment buildings from google street view of Valenca, Portugal.

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CAHSR's Strongest Soldier @emoscientist.bsky.social · 22h

Thank you for all your hard work on this bill and big ups to Streets for All for having the courage to move SB 79 forward in the first place.

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CAHSR's Strongest Soldier @emoscientist.bsky.social · 22h

Thank you for all your hard work, particularly in getting Ochoa-Bogh on board early on and keeping SB 79 from dying in committee!

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CAHSR's Strongest Soldier @emoscientist.bsky.social · 22h

A lot of this predates AI tbh. Most of the ads I got on old Twitter were incomprehensible, and there is the classic "One weird trick doctors don't want you to know" *picture of a banana and extreme closeup of the intestine* website ad

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CAHSR's Strongest Soldier @emoscientist.bsky.social · 22h

As always, Sewer Socialism is the way forward. You need to care about getting the policy details right, and you need to be in lockstep with social movements to build the power you need to implement them.

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CAHSR's Strongest Soldier @emoscientist.bsky.social · 22h

Venmo locked me out of my account years ago with no recourse, I'm so afraid for those people

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CAHSR's Strongest Soldier @emoscientist.bsky.social · 22h

Republicans are never going to support policy to bring down the costs and speed up timelines of renewable energy or public transit because they don't support those things! Any progress on these issues at the federal level requires defeating fascism which relies on social movements.

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CAHSR's Strongest Soldier @emoscientist.bsky.social · 22h

Yeah I don't think you can do wonky policy behind the scenes when the party in power doesn't believe in evidence or data and is trying to structurally disempower everyone who does. This is my big issue with Abundance (the book and the donor network)

Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 1d

very curious where the debates are at these days re: "climate politics should be about the wonky details of energy transition" vs "climate politics and advocacy should be vocally connected to all the other progressive issues"

jael holzman @jael.bsky.social · 1d

SCOOP: The Bureau of Land Management says the largest solar project in Nevada — the Esmeralda 7 mega-farm — has been canceled

The news was quietly dropped via a sudden website update with no public word from any of the companies involved or a statement from the agency

@heatmap.news

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CAHSR's Strongest Soldier @emoscientist.bsky.social · 22h

This is a lot of what I'm talking about. Every transaction now involves begging for more money or the pressure to sign up for questionable debt. jacobin.com/2025/10/bank...

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jael holzman @jael.bsky.social · 23h

yeah, pretty sure permitting reform and repealing regulations wouldn’t save a solar farm blocked by a government refusing to issue permits

the final approval for esmeralda 7 was locked and loaded to come in july lol

Ben Schifman of IFP: The largest solar project in North America - 6.2 GW Esmeralda 7 project in NV - has been cancelled.

It takes >2 pages just to list the laws, regulations, & policies it had to comply with to be permitted.

Our permitting system is too complex with *far* too many veto points.

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CAHSR's Strongest Soldier @emoscientist.bsky.social · 23h

Loma Linda might also get a station for Coachella Valley Rail

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CAHSR's Strongest Soldier @emoscientist.bsky.social · 23h

A line to Montclair wouldn't increase the number of stations, because they would share the existing Montclair station.

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CAHSR's Strongest Soldier @emoscientist.bsky.social · 23h

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CAHSR's Strongest Soldier @emoscientist.bsky.social · 1d

The State Rail Plan will push Riverside County into SB 79 eligibility in the future. Brightline might push San Bernardino County as well, though I'm not sure if it counts or not. Other than that the SRP doesn't have much impact on SB 79 afaik.

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CAHSR's Strongest Soldier @emoscientist.bsky.social · 23h

CA moving towards maximum indoor temperature standards, super important for climate adaptation as our planet warms.

Leadership Counsel for Justice & Accountability @leadershipcounsel.bsky.social · 1d

Thank you @governor.ca.gov for signing #SB655! And to all the state leaders who supported this bill, especially Senator Henry Stern for your leadership. We're one step closer to ensuring all Californians live in a home that can maintain a safe indoor temperature.

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CAHSR's Strongest Soldier @emoscientist.bsky.social · 23h

I think the carveouts count as "doing the math"? Some of the bill's previous opponents like Durazo likely voted for it because they did the math and realized it wouldn't impact their district.

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CAHSR's Strongest Soldier @emoscientist.bsky.social · 23h

I disagree kinda - the 15 transit stops thing and the "low resource area" thing seem both carefully designed to limit housing production where all of the bill's main opponents live

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CAHSR's Strongest Soldier @emoscientist.bsky.social · 23h

I recently took the train through the rural Portugal and Spain and you see 10 story buildings near train stations in towns with a population of like 10k. Town in the screenshot is several times smaller than Davis and farther from any city as big as Sac

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CAHSR's Strongest Soldier @emoscientist.bsky.social · 23h

The Nile River has the same amount of rainfall and weather patterns as the rest of Egypt, the water is imported via the river from more humid climates. This is like saying Las Vegas or Phoenix aren't in the desert because they have a river & irrigated landscaping. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egypt#C...

Egypt - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

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