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End CEQA and start fresh. Environmental review has its place but not from the POV of some 1970s environmentalists who think any construction needs to be studied and litigated, and projects have to contort themselves to have leeway in case busybodies abuse CEQA like they always do

love telling absolute strangers my favourite magnolia facts: not only did magnolias exist alongside dinosaurs, they existed BEFORE BEES! they used to be pollinated by beetles because bees simply did not exist yet!!!

When Mum and Dad passed away last year, I found this letter in their bedroom. I’m pretty sure it kick-started their 60 year relationship - Mum was clearly besotted.

one of the strangest subplots in the fallout from cesar chavez being revealed as a monster has been the split between conservatives like greg abbot going: “finally a chance to take on the labor movement” and online conservatives like this guy who are just axiomatically pro-rape

I confess I am obsessed with World War Two movies about non front line people who worked their asses off in support areas and never touched a gun but were so vital regardless that without them Hitler would have never blown his brains out

James Medlock I have been saying this.

This is a little known piece of knowledge for the Reels generation, but scenes used to have many other scenes attached to them, and you were required to watch all of them - we called the combination ‘movies,’ and sometimes some scenes were good but more were bad.

I would like to bring Barbara Ehrenreich back to life and give her a gun

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jacobins: no kings! jacobites: only kings! legitimists: only anointed kings! orléanists: only kings operating within a liberal constitutionalist framework! bonapartists: you know, i could be better than any king….

Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart falls to his knees, weeping

B'kdel Test 1) At least two named Klingons, 2) who talk to each other, 3) about something other than honor.

Data on this is highly questionable outside of an n=2 (Harris + Clinton). In the thousands of downballot and gubernatorial elections we have data for, there's no evidence women are less electable. Female candidates do better with women and worse with men, but women vote more.

Every two sentences of this is a golden era Dril tweet

Lyndon Baines Johnson I think there's also an underrecognized enmity among the younger center left who watched and read about many undeniable human rights violations & are offended at being told to accept what's basically Slobodon Milosevic's ideology with the proper nouns changed or be labeled bigots

Perhaps the clearest illustration yet of environmental procedural requirements ≠ good substantive environmental outcomes. (the result of this delay is that a lot of untreated sewage spilled directly into the river)

One of the largest spills of untreated wastewater in American history happened while an environmental review process held up sewer line repairs because they were studying risks to a flower and a bat.

From last year and I could update it, but the story hasn’t changed I’m sure. Population change in Pennsylvania, 2020-2024.

Small break from drawing for a short bit, strained my wrist a little. Here's a small church.