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Santa Cruz doesn’t have a park downtown, so no central space for a big gathering, just this park on the other side of the San Lorenzo river. This park actually was once a neighborhood, Garfield street, but it flooded frequently and was condemned in the 1950s when the levees were build.

City population is a tad over 60k, so pretty good ratio. #NoKings šŸš«šŸ‘‘

#NoKings Santa Cruz.

10,000 strong (at least) on the streets today in Santa Cruz. santacruzlocal.org/2025/06/14/a...

Imperial Valley is both a major agricultural producer and solar power producer in California. This paper situates the history of solar development in the context of the region's Indigenous history, biodiverse landscapes, and water and agricultural political economies. rdcu.be/epvQW

A cargo ship full of electric cars was burning/smoldering off the coast of Alaska the past week. The crew escaped on a life boat.

Great turnout for #NoKings in Santa Cruz.

Portland, Oregon #NoKings

This time-lapse video of protesters marching down Broadway in Oakland for No Kings Day gives an idea of how many people turned out today @sfchronicle.com

No Kings

Hearing we succeeded in getting one person for every 5 feet along an 7-mile stretch of El Camino from south Palo Alto through Los Altos, Mountain View and Sunnyvale for No Kings

This dragonfly has amazing eyes.

The ephemeral Pacific Spiketail dragonfly spends most of its few years of life and as an aquatic larvae before a few months of being a magnificent dragonfly.

Not yet ready to declare victory, but haven’t had to clean up garbage in about three weeks. šŸ¦

I didn't hear official numbers but this #NoKings protest is Santa Cruz CA is FAR larger than #HandsOff was, which was 8,000

No Kings crowd in San Francisco goes as far as the eye can see in both directions.

Great turnout for #NoKings in Santa Cruz.

No King, Anytime. #NoKings

#NoKings Santa Cruz.

The South Pars is part of the largest natural gas field in the world, and its refinery infrastructure is a major global producer of condensates - feedstock for plastics, naphtha, jet fuel, etc.

As expected, the California Energy Commission approved the 1.15 GW solar plus storage Darden project in Fresno County, the first project approved through California’s Opt-In process that can gain approval via the state instead of local government. www.solarpowerworldonline.com/2025/06/cali...

Great egrets stand on the kelp forest. #Birds #BirdsofBluesky #MontereyBay

Kiddo had ā€œbird campā€ this week. At today’s drop off, we met a maelstrom of swallows. #BirdsofBluesky #Birds

A view from Los Angeles: www.dissentmagazine.org/online_artic...

This will be the largest solar and storage project in the United States. There will be 50% more battery storage here than at Moss Landing. ā˜€ļøšŸ”‹šŸ”ŒšŸ’”

Last month, the CEC rejected the first application to go through this process, which was a wind project in Lassen County that had already been denied by local government and had biological resource - and apparently also land tenure/ownership issues.

As expected, the California Energy Commission approved the 1.15 GW solar plus storage Darden project in Fresno County, the first project approved through California’s Opt-In process that can gain approval via the state instead of local government. www.solarpowerworldonline.com/2025/06/cali...

We are planning a just transition tour of Salton Sea region sometime in the month or two, if you’re interested, keep an eye out.

This paper is now available on ResearchGate, courtesy of Springer. www.researchgate.net/publication/...

ICE is expanding its raids into California’s agricultural heartland—targeting farmworkers mid-season, spreading fear āš ļø This is an assault on families, farms, and food security. This isn’t enforcement—it’s a witch hunt. We stand with immigrant communities. seiu.co/3ZZsCOG

That's @padilla.senate.gov on the ground, cuffed by Trump's neo-Nazis. 6,621,616 Californians voted for him. He represents nearly 40 million people and a $4.1 trillion economy.

*MBTA.. in my defense, for several years earlier in life I cleaned up MTBE groundwater pollution.

Seaside woolly sunflowers, Monterey Bay.

We are once again moving from a no regrets policy back to one of no egrets