工an Monroe 🚰

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replace the California constitution with an assertion of parliamentary sovereignty. https://signal.me/#eu/l0xilq2pPjD/c746iENf6KNApNhIBMZ8bniWD7yZkQ6TSZcFl3BJaKpNf33aVb6k

📍Oakland, California.

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@bskyttrpg.bsky.social chooseAncestry dwarf

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Stop: making live action adaptations of cartoons Start: defaulting to animated adaptations of novels

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For real though it sucks that Britain, a damp rock the size of one of my city's medium sized parks, has a legislature with more representatives than the United States. We deserve better.

No but I love when all you beautiful sickos start posting shit like "Bogroubler flips Hambarn upon Gwynyychlyyrah! A huge result!" It's like hanging out with people being poisoned by carbon monoxide. None of those places are real

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Happy Independence Day

Reminds me a bit of a Islamic Republic, where SCOTUS provides the clerical oversight and the Federalist Society provides their free market doctrine.

SCOTUS is telling us that it has completely signed on to the project of a second Trump administration, which is establishing an elected autocracy.

Really interesting episode about what the 90s can tell us about today pca.st/episode/606b...

The misunderstood 1990s, LA Riots, and the triumph of the Paleoconservatives with John Ganz - Time To Say Goodbyepca.st A newsletter and podcast for all the good kids.

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“new york times columnists say biden should step down, but at this charlotte korean-mexican fusion restaurant, they still love ‘diamond joe’”

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SCOTUS wants to take on every single regulatory lawsuit even though they're already so overworked it takes them months to decide even the easy cases like "should president's be free to attempt coups". Clearly they are going to need more justices to keep up with the new workload.

almost just wrote "rent-wing" instead of "right-wing". Eye opening mistake. #Georgism

> described inflation-weary customers as “increasingly selective and price-sensitive in their purchases.” yet everytime I walk into Walgreens it costs me $40 somehow

Walgreens will close a “significant portion” of its 8,600 U.S. locations over the next three years as it struggles to keep up with a rapidly evolving retail pharmacy industry, the company announced Thursday.

Walgreens to shutter many stores as profits tumblewapo.st The retail pharmacy giant expects to close a “significant portion” of its 8,600 U.S. locations over the next three years.

Deeply unserious city

L.A. City Council declares Marilyn Monroe house a cultural landmark, saving it from destructionwww.latimes.com The L.A. City Council voted to declare Marilyn Monroe's former Brentwood home a historic cultural monument, saving it from being destroyed by its latest owners.

people have studied this stuff, gratuity culture and public corruption are closely linked. SCOTUS saying it's OK to give a tip to your mayor is pretty funny.

You see if you demand bribery payment up front it’s a bribe, but if you do it upon completion of services rendered, it’s a “gratuity.” Like a tip for your bartender.

as someone who lives with two seasons (dry & wet), solidarity with the Sámi for having eight seasons. End the four season hegemony. kirunalapland.se/en/our-eight...

Our eight seasons - Kiruna Lapplandkirunalapland.se We have clear seasons here. Some people reckon we have four seasons, but the Sámi people have taught us there are actually eight. Winter is divided into three seasons; early winter, true winter and sp...

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Victory Alert: #AB2503, our bill to speed up overhead electrification of passenger trains, has passed the Senate Transportation Committee 9-3! One step closer to becoming law.

Broadway Valdez is all large lots (former car dealerships etc), we still don't know how to do something like this with normal sized parcels. They require help in zoning, building codes and financing. But if we ever cracked that nut we could imagine a thousand Broadway Valdezes.

the @cayimby.bsky.social team took a tour of the Broadway Valdez neighborhood in Oakland, one of the most successful specific plan areas in the state which has produced 4500 new homes in the past decade planning focused on public realm improvements instead of micromanaging the new buildings

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Lake Merritt… hi

yep. A common fallacy is trying to make public policy out of what a individual should do. So like if drug use leads someone to homelessness then you think "stop drug use, therefore less homelessness". But then actually if rent was cheaper, drug use wouldn't cause homelessness in the first place.

If you want to understand the origins and solutions of the American homelessness problem, a really important starting point is to understand that the problem mostly exists in places where *there are lots of jobs and the labor market is really strong,* not in economically depressed areas.

overall abortions didn't go down really, but we got this. Great job pro-life movement.

“Among the causes of infant deaths, one increased the most: congenital abnormalities, which increased 22.9% in Texas in children… That trend suggests that at least in some cases, parents were forced to carry a pregnancy to term while knowing their children had little to no chance of survival”

You don't have to hand it to the Shah

Reminder

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SANDAG must not let a tiny, privileged minority in Del Mar/Solana Beach end rail service between California's two largest cities. More and more are saying - build the Del Mar tunnel and electrify the tracks! www.sandiegouniontribune.com/2024/06/22/s...

Solana Beach clashes with Del Mar over train tunnel routewww.sandiegouniontribune.com Neighboring cities differ on whether railroad should be moved to proposed alternative along Interstate 5

New frontiers in car culture

at a neighborhood awards event and this lady and her family is watching from her van parked by the curb… and I guess she got hot because she turned on the car and now it’s just running and this family is stuck sitting next to her tailpipe

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oh no! we're doomed

Rare County Connection in Oakland

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True for trains, true for everything

Electric vs Gas xkcd.com/2948

Brave take: you should be able to unlock and open a car that has a dead battery.

Mom put her kid in the car after a day at the zoo. Then the doors wouldn’t open because the battery died. Sealing the 20-month-old inside in the middle of a national Heat Dome in the Arizona desert. Because Teslas are fucking dumb death traps.

German Chancellor

i’m reading john dickerson’s book on the presidency, which is quite good, and it has me thinking about what jobs would make good training for being president. there are obvious ones like being governor, but i think a less obvious one is director on a big hollywood blockbuster

One nice thing about post-1940s cities is unculverted streams

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Effective Autism?

dude's rock

Wife has plans out so me and my boy* are going to cut lose** *cat **watch PACIFICATION, a nearly three hour long, very slow paced political thriller on Mubi

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Under current law, you really couldn’t do much better than Biden’s FTC and NRLB. New Deal shit.

The Federal Trade Commission, of all entities, is out here writing absolute bangers about AI snake oil. www.ftc.gov/business-gui...