Don Gibson
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Don Gibson
@dongibson.bsky.social
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Plant Scientist PhD. Likes to talk about housing and land use. Strong takes on bike lanes and tomatoes. 📌 Natomas, Sacramento, CA
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A friend of mine in Chicago just shared a video on IG of an ICE operation near her house. The operation happened just minutes before the neighborhood Halloween parade. ICE used tear gas and multiple parents had to wash their kids' (including toddlers) eyes out.
Awful. Here’s a video of it being shared on Reddit

www.reddit.com/r/chicago/s/...
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"no one should make a profit building necessary housing" is one of those things that sounds based and radical... for like half a second, before you finish thinking it through
Phonebanking Yes on 50 today with the California Democratic Party!

Much more rewarding than posting and lots of support from fellow Dems
I love how people vote against housing in a housing shortage based on the vibe of a building. la.urbanize.city/post/glendal...
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My local fruit stand in Davis California has so many varieties of stone fruits that I never see in a traditional grocery store even in Davis.

Stone fruits in California are like India’s mangoes. Potential for endless variety and flavor, but only so many that are shelf stable.
I wonder how many fruits are out there that taste delicious, but just aren’t profitable/stable enough to turn into an industry so we just don’t know about them in America.
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This is a “red peach” it’s absolutely incredible and there is almost 0% chance you’ll ever get to eat one 🫤

-only produces every other year
-easily bruised
-much larger than other peaches/hard to pack
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STOP talking trash about apples.

Cosmic Crisp are DELICIOUS

Gala are SERVICEABLE

Stayman are PERFECTLY CRONCHY AND SWEET

Honeycrisp are EXPENSIVE BUT GREAT

Granny Smith are SOUR IF THAT’S YOUR THING

McIntosh are TASTY BUT OFTEN MUSHY

Red Delicious

Golden Delicious are SERVED IN CAFETERIAS
45 minutes before I go to Sacramento's Active Transportation Commission, a motorcyclist had a serious collision right next to my children's daycare.

Rumor is that the motorcyclist broke their back in the collision.

Our streets are deadly and we do not do enough about it.
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I mean, we don't have to guess how an outlet that sees this regime as a massive breach of public faith would cover it from the right. But pretty much every media outlet has moved to the right of Drudge.
My Yes on Prop 50 mail ballot made it in!
Just found out a friend of mine who’s not even a big USA soccer fan got tickets to the World Cup opener in LA.

Very jealous and also kind of frustrated.
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One reason Dems should be sharing this and talking about it nonstop is because the key to dominating the public mind is media that evokes emotion. It’s how George Floyd started nationwide protests overnight. And it’s impossible to see this without feeling blind rage. Healthcare policy could never.
ICE GOONS crash into car and then point weapons to kidnap man.
Today with the signing of #SB79 has given me the MOST HOPE EVER that California might solve our housing crisis.

A decade and a half of activism as a YIMBY activist (before there even was the term) it fills me with excitement that that our state leaders like @gavinnewsom.bsky.social gets it
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"Pure, uncut apple juice" may be one of the funniest phrases I've heard from a parent.
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Important to remember that not only did we pass #SB79, the biggest transit-oriented upzoning bill ever, we also passed a clean CEQA exemption for new multifamily infill housing.

This is, bar none, the biggest year in state action on housing policy reform in California history. Not even close.
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CHICAGO — WGN News editor/producer Debbie Brockman grabbed by Trump’s ICE goons.. who then intentionally ram a bystander’s car as they peel away.

More: www.fox32chicago.com/news/wgn-new...
Any other millennials get on friends text thread about how their boomer parents will do anything other than going to therapy?

It’s the morning convo for a dozen of my friends rn.
Dear Natomas Landing Instagram ad makers. Your bike trail is too small and pushed a kid and their caregiver off into the grass because the pathways need to be much wider
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[VICTORY ALERT] Governor Newsom has signed SB 79, which will make it legal to build multi-family housing near high quality transit!

Our statement:
cayimby.org/news-events/...
cayimby.org
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Governor Newsom signed SB 79!!!! Well done @scottwiener.bsky.social and thank you all for making calls!!!