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AB 1070 has been introduced by @AsmChrisWard: 1) No payments to transit board members unless they use transit system at least 1 hour or 4 trips per month 2) Transit boards must add 2 non-voting members, 1 represents riders and 1 represents employees leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTe...

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I’m just going to say it - I think it’s bad to purge the country’s military leadership bsky.app/profile/dbur...

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Reaching new levels of brand affiliation lol

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we wasted an once in a generation opportunity of low interest rates

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Just look at these paragraphs from the AP story. Hegseth called Brown unqualified solely because he's Black. Then they fired him... and replaced him with a white guy so indisputably unqualified that he requires a Presidential waiver. This is what "merit" means to them. apnews.com/article/trum...

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Sources: US negotiators pressing Ukraine for access to its minerals raised the possibility of cutting the country's access to Starlink if a deal is not reached (Reuters) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

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Folks: remember that your iMessages (and text messages) are typically backed up to Apple as part of your iCloud backup. If you don’t have Advanced Data Protection turned on, those may be readable by Apple, governments with warrants, and anyone who hacks Apple.

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I would be so mad if I was the fire chief lmao

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If you have the means you should absolutely look into installing a HRV to continually bring fresh air into your house

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I suspect studying replacement of mainline staff engineers with consultants would correlate with similar cost overruns and schedule delays.

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Everything's happening on X, the everything app.

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Councilmember prerogative is a scourge

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Who could have predicted this?

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“Programs that benefit some ratepayers at the expense of others.” You don’t say. I am hearing this for the first time www.cpuc.ca.gov/-/media/cpuc...

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By a 42-6 vote, the Washington Senate just approved a bill directing the state to adopt standards for passenger and freight elevators that are more reflective of global standards, including a specific requirement to allow smaller elevators in buildings with fewer than 25 units.

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the line about how trump is just trolling or joking about the “king” thing is belied somewhat by the fact that his administration’s explicit position is he can do whatever he wants and that everyone in every branch of government needs to bow to his demands or be banished

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Option A: Ian’s governor Option B: Weird how all the money was snapped up by Sacramento area homeowners in the first hours after it was made available

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Up with the stars and down with the traitors. Long live the Republic. No north, no south. The Union forever. 🇺🇸

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Well I'd like to see ol Donny wriggle his way out of this one!

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362k deliveries would be Tesla's worst quarter since Q3 2022, down from 495k in Q4 2024. kalshi.com/markets/kxte... www.statista.com/statistics/5...

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I think people are outraged by this and should be but also wish these stories would focus on like what these people actually do and how firing them impacts the government's ability to provide services. www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/...

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"being very online" should disqualify you from public office in the same way lunacy did

submitted 5 days ago • 6 comments

lol, if you pay someone more than $2600 per year for house help you are legally required to withhold Social Security, Medicare, provide a W-2 and file a Schedule H this is Care.com's entire business and they don't do it for you - to follow the law you have to pay them extra www.care.com/homepay

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congrats to everyone who opposed permitting reform "from the left"

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Trafficking is a central theme of the QAnon worldview, with the idea that Trump would act to stop it when in office. Instead...

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If your income is below AMI this is the only place in Alamo they let you eat

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Survey of PEPFAR contractors Jan 24-28 suggested 36% of organizations had already shut down by that point. As of February 9, most services remained paused. Of 65 PEPFAR partners surveyed, less than 10% had restarted providing any services. www.amfar.org/wp-content/u...

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Let's travel back in time to 2018 and read what leftists said about these exact same zoning reforms when they were proposed in California!

submitted 6 days ago • 3 comments

congestion pricing works

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