Ken Piguee

OC guy. Views are my own.

[Caucus Redux @CaucusRedux]

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#CALeg

[signüll @signulll]

“can i start you off with an appetizer, maybe 30 tortillas?”

“god no, i can’t eat that many tortillas!”

“how about if cut them up into triangles, fry them in seed oil, & serve them with some salsa?”

“omg that sounds delightful”.

[OCFA @OCFireAuthority]

OCFA Heavy Fire Equipment Operators at the #SandyFire yesterday.

Proud to serve alongside @VCFD, supporting efforts with an OCFA Type 3 strike team and dozer to help defend communities while remaining ready to protect Orange County at home.

[Legislative Analyst @LAO_CA]

[1/7] We have just released our Initial Comments on the Governor's May Revision #cabudget. https://t.co/7Y4E5ofXqy

[Ken Piguee @kpiguee]

@puilokchoi Oh dang!

[Ken Piguee @kpiguee]

The greatest explanation of the Approps committee process!

[Laurel Rosenhall @LaurelRosenhall]

My attempt to explain what the heck a #SuspenseFile is to colleagues new to covering the #CAleg

[Kevin Mullin @RepKevinMullin]

🇺🇸 Disasters don't care whether you live in a red state or a blue state. I'm thrilled that after years of bipartisan advocacy, we've secured $56M for @fema Urban Search & Rescue task forces - a $15M increase and the highest in 20yrs.

These heroic teams are made up of local emergency responders who deploy to crises across America to help communities during their darkest days.
Thank you to @menlofire @OCFireAuthority @FDNY @RepJillTokuda @RepYoungKim & US&R teams across America for their work.

Read more & watch full press conference at: https://t.co/fXfAsNjIsH

[Anaheim Ducks @AnaheimDucks]

It takes everything.

#FlyTogether

[Ken Piguee @kpiguee]

This is a good ad.

[Xavier Becerra @XavierBecerra]

You have the power to put an end to the Tom Steyer ads.

[Ken Piguee @kpiguee]

@rpyers any thoughts on how/if this SCOTUS ruling impacts local city councils that had to redistrict due to CVRA lawsuits?

[Rob Pyers @rpyers]

OUT: Dialysis propositions every 2 years
IN: Redistricting propositions every 2 years

[Ken Piguee @kpiguee]

Isn’t inviting the King of the UK to speak at a joint session of Congress like inviting an ex to give a toast at a family function?

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

If you're under 53 years old, you have never once been alive while a human was farther than 250 miles from Earth. Tonight, four astronauts are heading 252,000 miles out. That's a thousand times farther than any person has gone in your lifetime.

The 250-mile ceiling is where the International Space Station floats. Every astronaut since December 1972 has been stuck in that zone. Spacewalks, science experiments, cool photos from orbit, sure. But nobody left the neighborhood.

The last crew to go farther was Apollo 17. December 1972. Nixon was president. The internet didn't exist. Cell phones were 11 years away. The youngest member of that crew is now 90 years old.

The farthest any human has ever been from Earth is 248,655 miles. The Apollo 13 crew set that number in 1970, and they didn't mean to. Their oxygen tank blew up, and the emergency route home took them farther out than anyone before or since. Tonight's crew will break that record on purpose.

And the crew itself. Victor Glover becomes the first Black astronaut to leave Earth's neighborhood. Christina Koch becomes the first woman. Jeremy Hansen, a Canadian fighter pilot, becomes the first non-American to do so. When they come home, they'll slam into the atmosphere at 25,000 mph, faster than any human has ever traveled.

The Moon's south pole has ice. Water ice, sitting in craters so deep that sunlight hasn't hit them in billions of years. A 2024 NASA study found way more of it than anyone expected. You can split water into hydrogen and oxygen, which gives you rocket fuel, breathable air, and drinking water, all made on the Moon instead of hauled up from Earth. George Sowers at Colorado School of Mines calculated that Moon-made fuel could shave $12 billion off a single trip to Mars. The Moon is a gas station on the road to Mars.

NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman announced last week a $20 billion plan to build a permanent base at the South Pole over the next seven years, with landings every six months. China is developing its own lunar lander and spacesuit, aiming for a crewed landing by 2030. The Artemis program has burned through $93 billion so far, and the first actual surface landing is penciled in for 2028. There's a real question of who gets there first this time around.

Harrison Schmitt walked on the Moon in December 1972 as part of Apollo 17. He's 90. Asked about it this week, he sounded pretty relaxed. "Mars is attainable," he said. "We're humans. That's what we've always done."

[Complex @Complex]

Chick-fil-A is offering free ice cream to families who agree to put their phones away during their meal, as part of an effort to encourage more face-to-face time and less screen use at the table.

[Ken Piguee @kpiguee]

@elonmusk can we take a quick break from awesome future stuff and invent a machine that washes, dries and folds my clothes. Thanks

[Ken Piguee @kpiguee]

If this legislation gets traction the City needs to just put out the land under the existing Surplus Land Act and abandon exemption efforts. Probably won’t get any hits given existing uses and questionable Fair Market Value.

[OC Register Opinion @ocropinion]

Opinion: Avelino Valencia: Bring our Angels home https://t.co/Qr1fWWcRaH

[The🐰FOO @PolitiBunny]

For shits and giggles, I decided to see just how hard it would be to replace my birth certificate, Social Security card, AND my marriage license, since Democrats think women are too stupid to figure it out.

Here's how it went:

1. Birth certificate: Contacted the health department of the county where I was born. They OVERNIGHTED a certified copy to me the next day - total cost, $14.

2. SS Card: Contacted Social Security on their site. They asked if I was sure I needed the card, since I 'won't likely be asked for it.' I went ahead and got it - took five business days to arrive - total cost, $0.

3. Marriage License: Went to the 'vital docs' site of the county where we were hitched. Filled everything out online, arrived in three days - total cost, $5.

It cost less than $20 to obtain all three certified/legal documents, and it took less than five business days to receive them. Note: if I had lived where I was born or married, it would have been a day. Tops.

Anyone telling you this is too hard or unfair is lying and hiding the real reason they want to stop Voter ID.

I know you guys knew that already... lol

[H.D. Palmer @HDatFinance]

February revenues came in $154 million above the month's forecast; for the fiscal year to date, we're up $7 billion.

Details here: https://t.co/dqtGvf7ngc