Jonathan Wicks

Mobility, Poker, Housing, Justice, Peace, Prosperity, Trees 🚵‍♂️ 🃏 🏢 ⚖ 🌍 🍒 🌲

Former Planning Commissioner

[Jonathan Wicks @parkingmaster]

Repeat after me: building any new homes reduces housing costs for all - https://t.co/kvjrUZvTGn via @FT

[CAL FIRE @CAL_FIRE]

🌲 Saving a forest giant.

A section of a 1,500-year-old Giant Sequoia from CAL FIRE's Mountain Home Demonstration State Forest is beginning a new chapter.

The tree was lost in the 2020 SQF Complex Fire that burned through the area and was later felled for public safety. The preserved trunk section carries centuries of visible fire scars, making it a remarkable record of California fire history.

The section of the tree will be cut into two pieces — one going on display at the new California Natural Resources Agency building in Sacramento and the other at the Smithsonian Museum in Washington, D.C.

Thank you to the researchers, foresters, and crew members who worked to preserve it and see this through.

#Sequoia #Forests #Conservation #CALFIRE @MountainHomeDSF @CALFIRETUU

[unusual_whales @unusual_whales]

Artificial intelligence is causing a net U.S. loss of 16,000 jobs per month, per Goldman Sachs.

[Sarah @Sarahjdublin]

The more Palestinian history you read the more pro Palestinian you become

[Jonathan Wicks @parkingmaster]

Company at center of Garden Grove chemical threat paid nearly $1 million to settle 2021 environmental violations https://t.co/8yg6oTGXeM

[Antiwar.com @Antiwarcom]

House Republicans Block Vote on Iran War Powers Resolution That Was Expected To Pass
The effort to pass an Iran War Powers Resolution is gaining momentum in both the House and Senate
#Iran #IranWar #WarPowers
https://t.co/uABvF4TYdm

[kira 👾 @kirawontmiss]

that was his home💔

[The Hotshot Wake Up @HotshotWake]

Its time to change how we look at it:

As Wildfires Get More Intense And Costly, Prescribed Fire And Fuel Mitigation Work Needs To Be Viewed As A Long Term National Investment.

And a new study runs the numbers.

https://t.co/V4irGQaN95

[Drop Site @DropSiteNews]

🎥”There’s a sadism”

Meriem Hadjal, a French activist with the Global Sumud Flotilla, detained and imprisoned by Israel, testified that detainees were stripped of warm clothing and taken individually into a dark shipping container during their detention.

There, Hadjal said she was repeatedly groped and sexually assaulted by multiple Israeli soldiers. She also described being slapped, beaten, kneed in the ribs, and having her hair pulled.

Multiple flotilla activists have now come forward alleging sexual violence in Israeli custody, including claims of sexual assault and rape by Israeli soldiers. Organizers say at least 15 of the 480 detained activists reported sexual assault.

🎥 Meriem shared her testimony live on French TV. Video by @franceinfo. English translations by Drop Site News.

[Ed Zitron @edzitron]

👍

https://t.co/eaG2XI6h5B

[Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald]

The amazing thing about Israel trying to derail the deal by insisting on the right to bomb Lebanon:

Trump announced on April 18 that as part of a deal, he ordered Israel to stop bombing Lebanon, claiming it's "PROHIBITED."

Israel laughed in his face and bombed the next day.

[jasper nathaniel @infinite_jaz]

I wrote about the biggest story in Israel-Palestine that you haven't heard about: a landmark vote in the Knesset that would effectively annex large parts of the West Bank--and potentially Gaza--through antiquities legislation. This is what annexation actually looks like. 🔗👇

[Mike Hudema @MikeHudema]

Forest = For Rest.

The dance of the forest. Nature is amazing. Protect it. #ActOnClimate

#climate #deforestation #amazingnature

[United Farm Workers @UFWupdates]

"Javier" works in Oxnard, CA, harvesting strawberries. "I get paid by the box, so I have to move very fast. By the end of the day, my back and hands ache from all the movement." #WeFeedYou

[Zaid Jilani @ZaidJilani]

The left did not “turn on” Jews. The most popular leftist in America is Bernie Sanders. Jon Ossoff won his primary unopposed a week ago. The next Democratic Senate leader is likely Brian Schatz.

Don’t confuse a right wing Middle Eastern state with American Jews.

[M. Nolan Gray 🥑 @mnolangray]

This insistence that crime and disorder aren't really issues in American cities, when in fact many cities just basically decided to stop doing law enforcement post-2020, just feels very Orwellian and tone deaf.

[Drop Site @DropSiteNews]

🇦🇺 Australian activist Gemma O’Toole says the widely circulated video published by Israeli minister Itamar Ben-Gvir showed only “an infinitesimal amount” of the abuse detainees endured after Israeli forces intercepted the Global Sumud Flotilla headed to Gaza.

In a voice message shared by Free Gaza Australia that O’Toole sent to her mother after first being released from Israeli detention, she described repeated strip searches, sleep deprivation, and sexual assault and humiliation by guards.

“I haven’t seen much of the media reporting… but I gather there is a lot of attention on the Ben-Gvir video which is so insane to me,” O’Toole said.

“Then to think that is what they do to predominantly white people when they are being, relatively, held to account.”

Listen in full ⏬

[Antiwar.com @Antiwarcom]

At Least 20 Killed in Lebanon as Israel Orders More Villages Evacuated
Women and children most of the casualties in Nabatieh attack
#Lebanon #Israel
https://t.co/1vjFAG7jBE

[Earth Hippy 🌎🕊️💚 @hippyygoat]

1.9 million Americans are living in their vehicles right now.

Meanwhile money is extracted out of America to Israel to support 900,000+ Zionist settlers who live in the West Bank and East Jerusalem.
Free healthcare, free schools, subsidised housing etc etc
ALL PAID BY US TAX DOLLARS‼️

[Thomas Massie @RepThomasMassie]

When the swamp and Epstein class couldn’t buy my vote, they bought the most expensive congressional seat ever.

I joined @MeetThePress this morning to talk about putting people & principles over parties.

I’m optimistic because the younger generation understands what’s going on.

[Vivek Sen @Vivek4real_]

BREAKING: MICROSOFT JUST ANNOUNCED TO BAN ITS OWN ENGINEERS FROM USING AI DUE TO THE COST OF USING IT.

VP OF NVIDIA SAID, “THE COST OF AI FOR MY TEAM WAS MORE THAN HUMANS”

“AI CAN COST MORE THAN HUMAN WORKERS NOW”