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Huge Sacramento news — the City is proposing a new team of 6 engineers with funding devoted exclusively to safe streets quick build and tactical innovation projects! @arianelange.bsky.social's story here: www.sacbee.com/news/local/a... BUT WE NEED YOUR HELP TO GET THIS PASSED! Here's how:

submitted 11 hours ago • 2 comments

Costco in Natomas, Sacramento, is out of the big packets of eggs

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Quick build traffic calming program at City of Sac might be coming soon! “targeted interventions designed and built within a year. Currently, road safety projects often stall for years or decades.” @arianelange.bsky.social at SacBee www.sacbee.com/news/local/a...

submitted 16 hours ago • 0 comments

Making sure new plant diseases don’t show up in our farm fields is a national security issue. These mass firings are illegal and bad for all Americans

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

Dr. Justine Beaulieu is an excellent Agricultural Scientist who was serving our country evaluating risk for importing plant material into the US. She was illegally fired in Musk's purge just days before giving birth. abcnews.go.com/Politics/vid...

submitted 1 day ago • 4 comments

Earnest post, but: a thing I like here is it’s okay to have moments of happiness in public without being broadly scolded, and I believe that sustaining this kind of humanity will be very important as we resist fascism. We have to sustain each other. Making joy isn’t denial, it’s how we will survive

submitted 104 days ago • 4702 comments

The onion gets it right on traffic violence, far more than our actual legal system youtube.com/shorts/kNJw4...

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Unless you are found to be under the influence of drugs or alcohol, you can get away with killing people in your car without being able to be charged a felony www.sacbee.com/opinion/arti...

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

So if you criticize Elon Musk, Trump’s DOJ will send you this letter. Members of Congress must have the right to forcefully oppose the Trump Administration. I will not be silenced.

submitted 3 days ago • 3450 comments

Morning LA, we are in Union Station at the surprise press event about California High Speed Rail. The area seems to be blocked off but I will attempt to live-tweet as things happen.

submitted 3 days ago • 2 comments

Research to keep America’s growers to be the most productive in the world is being gutted illegally. www.npr.org/2025/02/20/n...

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Tuesday night, the Sacramento city Council in favor of big bridge over the American river for cars, even with a lot of pushback from community members. We will never achieve our climate and transit I continuing to build more car infrastructure www.sacbee.com/news/local/t...

submitted 3 days ago • 2 comments

Without going all Martin Niemöller here, I do think that it's bad not to speak up for immigrants, transgender Americans, civil servants, women, Ukraine, and everyone else the MAGA bullies are going after. We're beyond picking and choosing whom to defend. It's time to stand up and speak out.

submitted 7 days ago • 265 comments

The Atlantic should take notes from The Atlantic podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/a...

submitted 8 days ago • 1 comment

Why has it taken more than 13 years to start construction on a simple 3rd track project critical for more frequent Capitol Corridor service to Roseville? Extortion by big corporations like Union Pacific and Kinder Morgan, plus poor design and funding workflows explains it. Read more here:

submitted 8 days ago • 4 comments

Measles outbreaks make me reconsider visiting Texas for a family wedding in April with my 6 month old son apnews.com/article/meas...

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

I want to see primaries in the Dem strongholds. We need a new generation of leaders

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

Went to voice mail when I called my Rep Bera today for both district and DC office

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

Started my second round of paid paternity leave this week watching my second son Kai. Thankful to have a full eight weeks paid because I live in California. Used that spare time today to place a couple extra phone calls to my senators and my house rep @bera.house.gov to oppose cuts to NIH & NSF

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

On changes to #NIH indirect rates, there is a law in place that prohibits NIH from making such changes without the approval of Congress. See Division D, Title II Section 224 of The Further Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2024 (Public Law No: 118-47) grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...

submitted 16 days ago • 82 comments

This will fire cancer researchers, shut down work for cleaner water and air, stop people from receiving life saving new treatments

submitted 16 days ago • 0 comments

This is a good question. Markets are really bad at pricing binary outcomes, and tend to look past huge risks until they crystallize. COVID a great example. We had cases in the US in January, the first public death Jan 9, the genome was sequenced Jan 10, and markets kept rising until February 19.

submitted 16 days ago • 9 comments

It’s not anywhere near the top 100 of problems right now, but this species of tree is the worst. Bradford Pear smell like ***

submitted 16 days ago • 0 comments

I’ll never forget when text banking for a Democrat for a city council race in 2024 all I got sent back was the helicopter emoji and stunned when I found out what it meant

submitted 16 days ago • 1 comment

JUST IN: Federal judge, Carl Nichols, GRANTS the plaintiffs' request for a temporary restraining order (TRO) of the planned administrative leave for thousands of USAID employees.

submitted 16 days ago • 70 comments

UC Davis is continuing to build on its track record of creating an inclusive environment for faculty, and was today (Feb. 7) recognized with the highest award available for that work from the American Association for the Advancement of Science. (1/3)

submitted 16 days ago • 1 comment

I am just glad I decided to go be Don as opposed to Donald when I was 5

submitted 17 days ago • 0 comments

What flexposts say: "We could use steel bollards but a bollard might scratch a car and that would be a tragedy. So, we're going to use these instead — things literally designed to be run over — because protecting even one car from a scratch is worth thousands of pedestrian deaths every year."

submitted 17 days ago • 27 comments

These dickheads want to think of themselves as gilded age industrialists when in reality they invented some fucking app for short term rentals of birds or some other shit that hemorrhages money every year, will never be profitable, and is kept afloat through constant injections of venture capital.

submitted 17 days ago • 56 comments

*DOT SECRETARY DUFFY: DOGE TEAM TO HELP UPGRADE AVIATION SYSTEM

submitted 18 days ago • 54 comments

Extremely disappointed to see HHMI decide to kill their Inclusive Excellence program, including terminating the current IE3 awards to over a hundred institutions effective this year in the middle of a 6-year grant. I was hoping HHMI (and other private funders) would continue to lead the way.

submitted 18 days ago • 18 comments

Next stage in the crisis has arrived: Trump admin simply ignoring court orders. www.politico.com/news/2025/02...

submitted 18 days ago • 14 comments

🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.

submitted 20 days ago • 1330 comments

Neither the mainstream press nor our political system seem to have digested the fact that the U.S. president is trying to illegally annex a NATO ally using economic coercion.

submitted 20 days ago • 285 comments

south korean politicians were literally scaling fences to protect their government and our senators are sending out pre-scheduled tweets about the super bowl while an unelected foreign billionaire seizes control of the treasury.

submitted 21 days ago • 8 comments

NEW: The board president of a small WV nonprofit says they haven't received their HHS funding since the Trump/Musk budget freeze. They had to lay off 3 of 5 employees on Friday. An 86-yr-old woman is counting on them to take her dialysis tomorrow. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

submitted 21 days ago • 444 comments

I always figured there would be correction at some point after a massive year for stocks. Just didn't think a president would do it on purpose. My guess is down 5% by the end of Feb

submitted 21 days ago • 0 comments

Schumer can just call Thune and say "an unelected Nazi has taken control of the highest level government systems and usurped the role of Congress and until you do something about it we will make life in the Senate hell" and then just do that.

submitted 22 days ago • 17 comments

NEW: Sources tell my office that Treasury Secretary Bessent has granted DOGE full access to this system. Social Security and Medicare benefits, grants, payments to government contractors, including those that compete directly with Musk's own companies. All of it.

submitted 22 days ago • 6200 comments

in addition to musk stealing the data for his own purposes, I imagine that they think they can simply shut off payments to whoever doesn’t comply. I would not be shocked if they tried to turn off Social Security for an entire state of course that’s dissolution of the union territory.

submitted 22 days ago • 356 comments

Yeah. Look, posting is fine and all, but actually going to a meeting and engaging with local elected face to face and taking part in the process produces like a kajillion times more results than posting on average.

submitted 22 days ago • 7 comments

Louisiana has already arrested the mother of the minor here simply for helping her daughter obtain abortion pills. A felony charge with jail time. That should be a scandal and an outage too, but it’s becoming normal in post-Roe America. www.huffpost.com/entry/us-abo...

submitted 23 days ago • 48 comments

if a major politician held an emergency rally about the current ongoing coup by the richest man in the world, I think people would go to it. Shit is well and truly fucked. I can think of a couple of people who should do that right now.

submitted 23 days ago • 659 comments

This is what the government did with 120K+ Japanese Americans in 1942. I know. I was there in those camps.

submitted 23 days ago • 3627 comments

Census.gov appears to be down

submitted 23 days ago • 29 comments