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Somerset, eldorado County, CA 🗺38.6633, -120.7048 🧭73° ⛰2359 ft https://ops.alertcalifornia.org/cam-console/2403

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DO NOT LOOK AWAY ICE arrested a 6yo boy with leukemia at #immigration court

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Happy #626Day! What's your favorite thing about the #SGV?

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Seems like a good day to listen to BRMC.

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Consistent state funding has helped cities and counties all over the state reduce the number of people living on the street. I'm glad we were able to reach an agreement with Gov. Newsom to include $600 million for homelessness in the 2025-26 budget. sd03.senate.ca.gov/news/senator...

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BIG WIN FOR TRANSIT: We fully protected transit funding in our state budget, in addition to providing a $750M loan to Bay Area transit systems to avoid big service cuts. Transit is essential & service cuts would mean people stranded, >traffic, higher costs & a huge setback for our climate goals.

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Judge Orders Lifting of Trump Administration’s Unlawful Freeze of More than A Billion Dollars For Electric Vehicle Charging www.nrdc.org/press-releas...

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A U.S. citizen on their way to work abducted by ICE then locked in a basement, with federal government employees refusing to consider indisputable proof of citizenship. Congress endorses it. SCOTUS keeps thwarting judges from even slowing it. What more is there to say? We live under fascism now.

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Why we need to build more homes in San Francisco in one image

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"Californians take 75M public transit trips per month. Every bus and train ride saves households money, takes cars off our roads and cleans our air. This budget deal will ensure residents continue to have reliable options for getting to work, school and more.” sd11.senate.ca.gov/news/public-...

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Our firm Fearless Advocacy has a policy of not being quoted anonymously. We proudly own our advocacy & our opinions. Props to my colleague @jeanieww.bsky.social for questioning why California wants to “dump half a billion dollars in the ocean” in today’s @sacbee.com: www.sacbee.com/news/local/t...

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Boarding the E Line at 17th Street during PM rush hour tells a story. This line is a workhorse for students, healthcare workers, service workers commuting into Santa Monica. Glad these folks aren’t stuck in traffic.

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what federal agents did to a father of three Marines while he was cutting grass in Orange County on Sunday has happened in some form daily — and deliberately — all over Los Angeles for 18 days.

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ICE has imprisoned the wife of a Marine veteran who was still breastfeeding a 3-month-old baby because her mother failed to attend a hearing in 2018 apnews.com/article/ice-...

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“.. My dad has no criminal history. He wasn’t doing anything bad. He was just working. The way they (federal agents) attacked him, I don’t think it’s right.” @ocregister.bsky.social www.ocregister.com/2025/06/23/v...

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This is the first known aerial photo of L.A. It was taken in 1887 from a hot air balloon as part of a promotional stunt by William Randolph Hearst. The balloon was launched from Agricultural Park (now Exposition Park), and traveled as high as 14,000 feet. www.raremaps.com/gallery/deta...

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In the sci-fi/cli-fi future in Kim Stanley Robinson books, our period of history is referred to as “the dithering” & broadly loathed

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Can you imagine spending $500 million adding lanes to a highway that the agency admits will underwater due to sea level rise in 25 years? And fixing the sea level issue will cost $10B. We're living in a fantasy rather than dealing with climate reality. www.sacbee.com/news/local/t...

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Paris 2019 v. Today: I don’t think people realize how immense @annehidalgo.bsky.social’s legacy will be.

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June Mountain 1, Mono County, CA 🗺37.7482, -119.0599 🧭165° ⛰9957 ft https://ops.alertcalifornia.org/cam-console/16667

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This is a housing-heavy Weekly Update. Take a look!

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Train electrification gets the goods, folks.

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Caltrain up 50% YoY

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The security reason to electrify transport is not about oil imports, it’s economic resilience. Oil powers 90% of US vehicles, so when the price of oil spikes because of a war, people & companies pay more for energy, which hurts the economy. The more transport is electrified, econ security goes up.

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East Quincy, Plumas County, CA 🗺39.9129, -120.8876 🧭355° ⛰4865 ft https://ops.alertcalifornia.org/cam-console/1643

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“Donald Trump stole my car, and that’s why I’m demanding he IMMEDIATELY make the case for why he should get to keep it.”

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This is a defining moment for the Democratic party. We need to stand against war with Iran. I am sending a Dear Colleague letter tonight asking every House member to sponsor my & Rep. Thomas Massie WPR to stop this war.

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Tariffs. Stock market down. Medicaid slashed Secret police throwing anyone who looks Latino in unmarked vans. National guard and marines deployed in LA. No end to the wars in Gaza or Ukraine Bombing Iran This is the worst first six months of any presidential term in my lifetime.

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Donald Trump, a weak and dangerously reckless president, has put the United States on a path to a war in the Middle East that the country does not want, the law does not allow, and our security does not demand.

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AOC: “It is absolutely and clearly grounds for impeachment.”

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👀 Scoop: Trump and Republicans want USPS to sell off its brand new EVs and chargers. That would mean literally ripping up post office parking lots to auction off assets with no private-sector value. It’s buried in the Senate’s “One Big Beautiful Bill.” www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

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If you think it can’t happen here, remember that it already did. In 1942 soldiers came with rifles to our home and ordered us out. They put us in internment camps. Most of us were citizens.

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Incredibly amazing post by @jessrem.bsky.social with an important point about American housing—NY/CA build nothing, TX/AZ sprawl, but only a few American cities like Seattle, Atlanta, & DC are actually building lots of new dense housing in their core neighborhoods

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Reminder that California High Speed Rail a) has built 119 miles of structure, with track-laying starting this year b) has a lower cost premium than many US transit projects c) costs half as much as the equivalent in highways and airports Let's follow through and make the dream a reality! #FundHSR

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“The fear of going out to look for a dream is now a nightmare,” Sophia said in Spanish. “It’s very sad this is all happening.”

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In Los Angeles, "There has been a 10% to 15% decline in bus and rail ridership since immigration enforcement activities began, according to Metro officials."

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One of many reasons the “we need to sell federal lands to improve home affordability” gambit is failing politically is that there’s already 50% tariffs on steel and the Trump admin is prepping tariffs on lumber too—it’s clear they don’t actually care about construction costs!

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Federal agents denied entry to Dodger Stadium

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In my corner of LAX we have the following flights: 9:00 to SFO 9:30 to OAK 10:00 to SJC @cahsra.bsky.social can’t come soon enough

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Batteries are for real

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The guy arresting you shouldn’t look like the guy in a ski mask robbing a liquor store. It’s why we’re advancing legislation to put a stop to secret police-style masked law enforcement.

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