Weird Al’s “Party in the CIA” hits a little different this week… kind of a strange time for the kids to discover it.

The The Wall Street Journal has analysed 13 other incidents where ICE agents have fired into civilian vehicles & identify a pattern of agents boxing in running vehicles while engaging in escalatory & intrusive tactics which police are trained to avoid. wsj.com/us-news/videos…

Most California thing ever: spending 3/4 of your fire prevention budget complying with regulations to ensure you are not damaging endangered plants etc only for them all to be obliterated in the wildfire you failed to prevent

I know it's hard to track all the threats to democracy out there right now, but this is at the top of the list.

.MacKenzie Scott you have the opportunity to do an extremely funny (and genuinely heroic) thing right now

Credit card swipe fees are a scam that ripoff small businesses and consumers. I would support legislation that introduces actual COMPETITION into the market so we can break the stranglehold Visa and Mastercard have over all of us.

Thanks to Gemini, we built and deployed eisenhowermatrixtool.com in 22 minutes. From conception to deployment, 22 minutes. You can drag and drop. The lists sync to local storage. This would have been two weeks worth of work even 6 months ago. Now it's 22 minutes. AI is insane.

Would have been nice to have an Epstein-Barr vaccine, especially now that it's strongly implicated as the cause of multiple sclerosis.

Whoa, what a cool discovery

It turns out that public transit is extremely important for reducing traffic. Because the relationship of traffic and congestion is extremely non-linear, a shutdown of transit can cause massive increases in congestion -- justifying substantial subsidies for trains and buses. 1/

I was leaning Mahan, but this is a strong argument for Steyer. Prop 13 is grossly unfair and makes property taxes inefficient. Repealing it on commercial properties is one of the best policies I can name.

Developers are willing to pay 50% more for land that already has permits to build in the city of Los Angeles: "Overall, our results suggest permitting is a major barrier to housing supply in Los Angeles"

This is an absolutely spectacular condiment. Maybe even better on rice than chilli crisp. If you see it, buy it.

Talarico should try something unusual that worked for Zohran Mamdani: He should apologize for bad past comments. Mamdani didn't win skeptics over just by being handsome and charming -- he announced that he had changed and said he was sorry. (Kamala should have tried this too!)