This is true, and it's also so obviously bad faith because you never hear this about any other protest movement. Where are the BLM protestors? Where are the Occupy protestors? Why isn't there a Women's March every weekend?
I think there is a bit of Man Bites Dog aspect to this specific example - NYT and the like loooove Black conservatives, queer conservatives, and other people with "unexpected" political alignments due to the novelty (also Platner-type "white working class" for the same reasons). BUT
I feel like anti-ICE organizing is getting us closer to 2 in some cities but it's not uniform across the country
Let's not forget the inefficiency of using electricity to make hydrogen, and then burning that hydrogen for heat instead of just directly using the electricity for heat. Particularly as electricity prices are also skyrocketing.
Hydrogen embrittles steel, leaks easily, and is far more flammable than fossil gas. It is not safe to transport without specialized infrastructure and leak detection systems. Burning hydrogen has the same air quality impacts as fossil gas. Just electrify buildings!
Hydrogen blending is so stupid and dangerous. Why are CA cities still moving forward with this stuff as natural gas (and fossil hydrogen) prices skyrocket under Trump's imperialism?
A lot of the newer bus companies don't even have bus terminals - they just pick you up off the side of the road. Shoutout to that time I waited for a Megabus for 2 hours in a Walmart parking lot during a snowstorm
See also: universities, corporations, etc.
My longstanding thesis and a hill I'll die on: mayors around the country have been setting up mayoral climate offices that create a splash but accomplish very little. Real local climate policy means reinvigorating existing departments and embedding decarb missions there. cf Depts of Transportation!
Hoping the new GM understands that hydrogen is a distraction from electrification and stops investing in hare-brained hydrogen blending proposals
It's true that Americans have largely been forced into car dependency, but also the nature of the infrastructure in many places leads people to "prefer" car travel over other modes, whether because it is viewed as more efficient or because it is safer. This is a real problem to address!
The Trump admin's campaign of imperialist terror in Venezuela, Iran, and maybe Cuba is right out of the anti-Communist playbook. But it's the 21st century, Communism is dead, and they are litigating beefs from long before many Americans were born. Fitting for gerontocracy.
This is almost the exact amount of money that has been spent trying to build California's high speed rail system since voters approved the project in 2008.
Here are some of my thoughts on AI and "existential risk" or "x-risk," in case anyone cares.
1. I do think that AI poses an existential threat to the future of human thriving. Even just the mass surveillance enabled by machine learning could effectively end human liberty as we know it.
#JustTransitionForCaltrans
Pics of Tehran under bombardment
Photography by B. Tofighi (via Arash Afshar)
Local activists have been trying to shut down Adelanto since the first Trump admin, with no success
“When Patricia Martinez was asked by an employee of the Mexican Consulate in San Bernardino to sit down, she thought her husband had been deported.”
Instead, it was to tell her that her husband had died hours earlier while in ICE custody.
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Independent of the housing angle we are way underinvesting in cleaning up toxic sites.
I think gas being the only thing where prices are displayed on huge signs you see everywhere also plays a role.
Online shopping also impacts VMT
The second Trump administration has yet to sign a single contract to build new transit rail lines under a key grant program — and it's deepening a crisis that's already pushed America out of the ranks of the top rail-builders in the world, a new analysis finds.
> South Pasadena
If this group of extremely vulnerable immigrant workers is willing to go on strike for fair working conditions, what's stopping you?
Meatpacking plant workers in Colorado are set to strike on Monday in what would be the first and largest labor action to hit the industry in decades
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If there's one thing California voters love, it's politicians with sex scandals.
Swalwell answers the question "what if Gavin Newsom had experienced repeated head trauma?"
I feel like a lot of trans people have a knee-jerk belief that everyone is transphobic and out to get them and all allies are fake or lying for clout which is an understandable trauma response to extensive transphobia and rejection but leads to a lot of bad online discourse.
I'd add D line extension and Sepulveda subway (once it gets built).
SF's decades-long refusal to build housing has reduced their concentration of population and thus ability to influence votes in statewide races.
