My first tweet in over a year, but I’m back to give huge props to @cspan for their excellent coverage of the DNC!! There’s something to be said for showing the crowds, hearing the music and not cutting everything off with commentary & loads of ads. Really great job 👏🏽👏🏽 #DNC2024
Probably the best assessment of the SF homeless/addiction/mental health crisis I've ever read. Thanks @sfchronicle
California wants to force drug users into treatment that doesn’t exist. There will be consequences
https://t.co/mc7WjYHAPw
Didn’t think I could be further shocked by man’s cruelty to animals but here you go. @CRiverLabs
Get on this @EPA@DebHaalandNM@Interior
https://t.co/afNVwj6W9t
How is @lprdks responding to this @LawrenceKSTimes? Tragic.
Lawrence community members gather for healing at remnant prairie where flowers are dying from herbicide
https://t.co/gsr9b70XAA
Tragic and angering @usd497 @shannonlkimball @draslewis 😰😡 margainalized children will suffer. You’re lowering quality of life for many kids and families, and directly causing the economic decline of the East and South sides. Way to go.
Across every demographic group, Americans die at younger ages than their counterparts in other wealthy nations. How could this happen? One group of researchers isn't surprised at all.
https://t.co/5VyNTok8KO
Governor Newsom proposed a 2024 ballot initiative to improve how California treats mental illness, substance abuse, and homelessness 👍🏽 Ty @GavinNewsom@SenSusanEggman
https://t.co/dNMLt8l28t
Insanely annoyed @Twitter that I’m now seeing random tweets with zero context. I do not want to see tweets from entities I do not follow (labeled and especially unlabeled)! Over this already, will anyone even read this.
Princeton sociologist Matthew Desmond says if the top 1% of Americans paid the taxes they owed, it would raise $175 billion each year.
"That is just about enough to pull everyone out of poverty," the author says. https://t.co/YU9SfgcKdi
Cleveland leaders zero in on long-simmering frustrations with railroad operators
Great article on federal & local bureaucracy dealing with railroad companies who run through CLE- dangerous conditions in a major metro area
👏🏽 @CourtneyAstolfi
https://t.co/VQJ6GdOs9I
Hilariously honest review of a printer padded out with filler text summoned from Chat GPT in order to demonstrate “authority" to Google shows how broken publishing ecosystem is today https://t.co/5jcSdE4vPW
Around 350,000 tonnes of octopus are caught each yr- more than 10 x that in 1950. If any of you have seen My Octopus 🐙 Teacher you’ll know how sensitive & intelligent these creatures are. These plans to intensively farm them is soul destroying. https://t.co/IGUEhMlVNQ
BREAKING: For the 1st time in more than 3 years, most of the Bay Area has completely wiped out the dry/drought conditions on the latest drought monitor. Nearly 64% of California is now out of the drought (dry category is not considered drought, only moderate or greater).