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Capital & Main @capitalandmain.bsky.social · 1h

The purging of Black people from government jobs is an expression of deep-rooted antiblackness that says Black people are never qualified to hold the jobs they have, whatever their actual qualifications.

Column by Erin Aubry Kaplan

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Trump’s Purging of Black Officials Makes Latent Racism Official Policy

President Trump's firings send a clear message that white mediocrity is always preferable to Black achievement.

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Capital & Main @capitalandmain.bsky.social · 1d

Over a 32-year span, the San Bernardino City Unified School District went from having no intensely segregated schools to having roughly 70.

Every single one of Santa Ana Unified’s 50-plus schools have, since 2018, been categorized as intensely segregated.
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Deep-Blue California Is a National Leader in De Facto Public-School Segregation. Here’s Why…

The Golden State has surged past the South and other regions in reversing racial and ethnic integration among children.

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Marcus Baram @marcusbaram.bsky.social · 1d

My latest: “I’ve never seen it this bad.”

The perfect storm of climate change, expanding oil and gas production, and costly homeowners insurance is devastating residents of coastal Louisiana.

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On Louisiana’s Gulf Coast, Residents Fume as Insurers Hike Rates and Invest in Fossil Fuel Projects

Locals face a perfect storm — they can’t afford insurance and climate change threatens their livelihood.

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Capital & Main @capitalandmain.bsky.social · 2d

Climate change.
Expanding oil and gas production.
Costly homeowners insurance.

This perfect storm of inextricably linked factors is devastating residents of coastal Louisiana. The trend has only accelerated. Story by @marcusbaram.bsky.social

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On Louisiana’s Gulf Coast, Residents Fume as Insurers Hike Rates and Invest in Fossil Fuel Projects

Locals face a perfect storm — they can’t afford insurance and climate change threatens their livelihood.

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Capital & Main @capitalandmain.bsky.social · 2d

Data Centers & Gas Plants in California: Many of California's data centers are clustered in the Bay Area; however, more than half the gas plants that fuel them are in disadvantaged communities.

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Capital & Main @capitalandmain.bsky.social · 2d

Data Centers & Gas Plants in California: Many of California's data centers are clustered in the Bay Area; however, more than half the gas plants that fuel them are in disadvantaged communities.

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Capital & Main @capitalandmain.bsky.social · 2d

Data Centers & Gas Plants in California: Many of California's data centers are clustered in the Bay Area; however, more than half the gas plants that fuel them are in disadvantaged communities.

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LightHawk Conservation Flying @lighthawk-org.bsky.social · Jun 25

#50in50Challenge Flight 31 follows the Pecos River from the Sangre de Cristo Mtns through New Mexico’s eastern grasslands.

The flight over one of the U.S.’s most endangered rivers, with @capitalandmain and pilot Barry Harper, supports reporting as climate change & development reshape the landscape.

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Threat Advisory Report (TAR) Network @tar-network.bsky.social · Aug 17

DHS and LAPD escalated suppression of Los Angeles anti-ICE protests, arresting demonstrators and clearing encampments to criminalize dissent. #Trump #LosAngeles #ICE #CivilProtest #Authoritarianism #CapitalAndMain

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Federal Officers Continue Arresting Anti-ICE Protesters During 24/7 Demonstrations

As Los Angeles protesters continue to organize against ICE operations, they said they are met with aggression from both DHS and L.A. police.

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The James Irvine Foundation @irvinefdn.bsky.social · 2d

Older Americans are having to continue working, often without enough retirement savings to step away.

By 2030, more than 1 in 5 U.S. residents will be 65+, underscoring the growing need to advance worker protections and programs for older Americans.

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Too Old to Keep Working, Not Enough Money to Stop

As the senior workforce grows, more older Americans are staying in physically demanding jobs, often risking their health.

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Capital & Main @capitalandmain.bsky.social · 2d

Data Centers & Gas Plants in California: Many of California's data centers are clustered in the Bay Area; however, more than half the gas plants that fuel them are in disadvantaged communities.

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Marcus Baram @marcusbaram.bsky.social · 4d

NEW in the DOGE Impact Tracker:
In the wake of the Social Security Administration slashing 12% of its workforce, the agency’s field offices have struggled to adjust to their new normal with overburdened workers + frustrated recipients, reports @nytimes

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Gabriel San Román @gsanroman2.bsky.social · 4d

Capital & Main calls Disney’s $233-million wage theft settlement “a strength in numbers success story.”

On the political side, Anaheim’s electorate had also been so allergic to anything tied to unions until passing the wage law central to the case.
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When Workers Unite, Even Disney Has to Listen

A six-year legal battle ends with a massive payout — and a reminder of what unions can achieve.

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Capital & Main @capitalandmain.bsky.social · 5d

How do you advance Black reparations when the federal government has fully embraced anti-Blackness and is hellbent on wiping out racial justice and Black history?

You just do it — and California is betting on getting it done, writes Erin Aubry Kaplan.

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Repairing the Future

Despite national headwinds of racism and authoritarianism, California’s Black legislators stay on task with reparations.

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Capital & Main @capitalandmain.bsky.social · 5d

More than 60% of the million-plus Californians exposed to an actively producing oil or gas well live in Los Angeles County.

Most of those who live near these wells are Black, Latino or low-income.

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Capital & Main @capitalandmain.bsky.social · 5d

Data Centers & Gas Plants in California: Many of California's data centers are clustered in the Bay Area; more than half the gas plants that fuel them are in disadvantaged communities.

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Jeremy Lindenfeld @jeremotographs.bsky.social · 6d

If you want to better understand the ACA subsidies Democrats are trying to protect, check out this article I wrote about this exact topic almost a year ago. capitalandmain.com/election-may...

Election May Decide Health Coverage Fate for Millions as Some Affordable Care Act Subsidies Are Set to Expire

Chrysa Ostenso — who operates the only optometry practice in Rusk County, Wisconsin — worries about keeping her doors open if Biden-era tax credits end.

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Aarón Cantú @aaroncantu.bsky.social · 6d

NEW INVESTIGATION

California predicts data centers will consume as much power as adding another LA to grid by 2030

A utility anticipates additional emissions equal to 21 gas plants

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The Insatiable Energy Demands of Data Centers Could Increase Fossil Fuel Emissions in California

By 2030, the centers could consume the equivalent of adding another city the size of L.A. to the state’s power grid.

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Canary Media Inc. @canarymedia.com · 5d

Pennsylvania is trying to reclaim its Solar for All funding, but a legislative squabble is adding an extra hurdle.

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Pennsylvania’s solar ambitions face high federal and state hurdles

Even if Pennsylvania can reclaim its share of Solar for All funds clawed back by Trump’s EPA, a bitter impasse in its legislature may block implementation.

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Capital & Main @capitalandmain.bsky.social · 6d

For a state long considered a progressive political force, California’s record on desegregating its own public schools is worsening — and it’s happening faster than just about anywhere else in the country.

Column by @markkreidler.bsky.social

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Deep-Blue California Is a National Leader in De Facto Public-School Segregation. Here’s Why…

The Golden State has surged past the South and other regions in reversing racial and ethnic integration among children.

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Capital & Main @capitalandmain.bsky.social · 6d

California has nearly 300 data centers running around-the-clock power to run AI models like ChatGPT.

But by 2030, data centers in the state could consume the equivalent of adding another city the size of Los Angeles to the grid.

Story by @aaroncantu.bsky.social

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The Insatiable Energy Demands of Data Centers Could Increase Fossil Fuel Emissions in California

By 2030, the centers could consume the equivalent of adding another city the size of L.A. to the state’s power grid.

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Pennsylvania Capital-Star @penncapital-star.com · 7d

It was a Thursday when Pennsylvania energy regulators received a pair of letters. The first let them know that $156 million in solar grant money they’d received in 2024 had been revoked; the second ordered them to stop any work related to that money.

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Is the sun setting on Pennsylvania’s solar future? • Pennsylvania Capital-Star

It was a Thursday when Pennsylvania energy regulators received a pair of letters. The first let them know that $156 million in solar grant money they’d received in 2024 had been revoked.

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Capital & Main @capitalandmain.bsky.social · 9d

Trump's EPA has abruptly frozen or removed billions of dollars that the Biden administration awarded states for solar projects in 2024.

That includes funds for solar projects meant to benefit Pennsylvania's low-income residents exposed to pollution.

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Is the Sun Setting on Pennsylvania’s Solar Future?

Trump administration rescinds $156 million to help power low-income homes; state legislature remains an obstacle if the money is restored.

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Capital & Main @capitalandmain.bsky.social · 9d

As the full effects of Trump 2.0 begin to be felt, union workers could be placed under new pressures and left with fewer allies.

But union strategies in California may nevertheless point a way for other states to weather the approaching storm.

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The American Dream and Other Fairy Tales @americandreamdoc.bsky.social · 12d

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Read the latest from @capitalandmain.bsky.social about the campaign that won 50,000 Disneyland employees payouts for years of underpayment while working at the park!

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When Workers Unite, Even Disney Has to Listen

A six-year legal battle ends with a massive payout — and a reminder of what unions can achieve.

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