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Same interdisciplinary scientist as on the other sites with the same handle. Chemistry, math, physics, meteorology, GIS, data whisperer. Natural resources director, League of Women Voters of Los Angeles Co. She/Her https://badmomgoodmom.blogspot.com/
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There are simply no institutional guardrails. We have inflicted the stupidest dictatorship ever on ourselves

submitted 50 minutes ago • 1 comment

It’s completely insane that US troops are illegally deployed to suppress domestic opposition and it’s not uniformly condemned by the press and political elite.

submitted 1 hour ago • 46 comments

I ran a bunch of errands today. The trains are still running, stores are open, they are still making movies and satellites in my corner of LA. We do have June Gloom, though

submitted 1 hour ago • 1 comment

where do climate models go for their apology

submitted 1 hour ago • 3 comments

Pro-vaccine groups? Really? What’s next? Defining people who accept the laws of gravity as pro-science groups? Pro-gravity groups. This is journalistic malpractice creating a false equivalency between dangerous nut jobs and people who understand medicine.

submitted 5 hours ago • 27 comments

ICE agents pulled this guy out of his car and beat the shit out of him, putting him in the E.R. Then they pulled him out of the hospital saying he was a "violent gang member." (He's a Doordash driver with only a traffic ticket on his record.) Now he's just...gone. What a nightmare.

submitted 7 hours ago • 24 comments

We do not have to be in a reality where you and your family spend half the summer sick. But *you* have to be a part of making that happen. Wearing n95s or kn95s consistently is incredibly effective.

submitted 1 hour ago • 2 comments

Not only are the 4,000 guardsmen Trump sent to LA sleeping on floors, they aren't being paid They haven't received formal activation orders, the paperwork that unlocks pay, Tricare health benefits and eligibility for VA services www.military.com/daily-news/2...

submitted 1 hour ago • 21 comments

And this is why I was driving hardworking farmworkers from work to home in Oxnard yesterday

submitted 1 hour ago • 1 comment

RFK Jr’s ACIP pick, Martin Kulldorff, said one of the most disturbing images from the pandemic was a toddler crying about having to wear a mask. I see toddlers cry about everything all the time, and I found it far more disturbing to see refrigerator trucks full of body bags outside of the hospitals…

submitted 3 hours ago • 114 comments

Guess who has to rent audience members for his parade. With screenshot in case it gets yanked. Hat tip to Aimee V. #NoKings washingtondc.craigslist.org/doc/tlg/d/wa...

submitted 1 hour ago • 2 comments

I promise you that you can talk about immigrants and their importance and the need to protect them without only talking about the jobs they do.

submitted 1 hour ago • 14 comments

President Trump’s federal agents are now chasing migrant farm workers through fields — and circling them with a CBP chopper normally used to track smuggling at the border — in the heart of the nation’s agricultural economy. here’s my report from Ventura County, California.

submitted 4 hours ago • 99 comments

I was thinking how Friday's UCLA Luskin commencement will be the first in a very long time without Shoup on stage. Comforted to see that while his physical presence is no longer with us, the continued momentum from his work is helping elected officials push towards making our cities better

submitted 6 hours ago • 1 comment

In a functional housing market this would have been redeveloped as a small apartment building 30 years ago.

submitted 6 hours ago • 8 comments

Theoretically US citizens are not required to carry papers. In practice, yeah, this happens:

submitted 2 hours ago • 1 comment

Running errands around the Beach Cities. First stop, Goodwill dropoff. I installed the crate @americanfietser.bsky.social

submitted 4 hours ago • 5 comments

mRNA vaccines are basically what scifi from the 1990s promised me, a triumph of US science, and now they're trying to throw it in the trash

submitted 6 hours ago • 6 comments

Great thread. Add on the fact that their evaluation of "cost savings" just straight ignores billions of dollars in annual health and climate damages that would come from repealing the rule.

submitted 5 hours ago • 0 comments

@alsobrooks.senate.gov

submitted 6 hours ago • 0 comments

Feels kinda important to point out that if non-citizens are required to carry proof of legal status, then citizens do too by default. This is absolutely insane.

submitted 6 hours ago • 38 comments

LA wasn't founded by the Dutch or the British. It was founded by 44 Mexican pobladores, the vast majority of whom were mestizo, Indigenous or afro mestizo. What Stephen Miller is trying to do is erase LA history. I explored this many moons ago in Guernica: www.guernicamag.com/remapping-la/

submitted 6 hours ago • 5 comments

Claremont, CA mayor rants for 15 minutes about housing laws, claims state legislators are dictators and extremists, all over 70 homes on an abandoned tennis club. youtu.be/oGxxN0Ampf0 @nextdoorsv.bsky.social @erikgriswold.bsky.social @abundanthousingla.bsky.social

submitted 6 hours ago • 3 comments

Propaganda works.

submitted 6 hours ago • 3 comments