Regarding the debate:
Steyer: Good answers. I still have issues with how he’s spending his money… but then there’s JD Pritzker.
Becerra: Not flashy, but like him using rule law as a guiding light. Sharp teeth at demonizing homeless. Strong Swalwell response. Got better with every question.
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Please read this if it will load for you. Orlins is such a jerk. I’ll screenshot some of it. www.facebook.com/kimberly.cof...
Amidst all the GOP whining tonight, a reminder that the Democrats would currently control the House were it not for the late, illegal GOP gerrymandering in GA & NC in 2024.
Your electricity bills are way too high, and Donald Trump is paying nearly a BILLION dollars of YOUR money to a foreign company to keep them that way.
Yes, you heard that right. The President of the United States is literally spending your tax dollars to make your energy bills more expensive.
Here is @aoc.bsky.social thankfully telling everyone exactly what to do to stop a concentration camp from being built where you live.
Please take it to heart and take action.
Decided to do a little more digging to learn more about those 2020 Biden voters who skipped 2024, why they skipped, and what sort of message might win them back, and found this helpful research by Celinda Lake from last year: waytowin.docsend.com/view/rnv5spt...
We agree with the district court. As explained above, those cases—Fogarty and Buck—recognized in 2008 that shooting a non-threatening protestor with a pepperball when the protestor had committed, at most, a minor offense and was not trying to evade arrest, violated the Fourth Amendment. Those two earlier Tenth Circuit cases are sufficiently analogous to the circumstances presented here to have put a reasonable officer in Officer Christian’s position on notice in May 2020 that shooting Epps with a pepper ball in the context of her peaceful behavior would violate the Fourth Amendment. Our conclusion is bolstered by this court’s recent decision in Budaj, which also relied on Fogarty and Buck to conclude that, at the time of these George Floyd protests in May and June 2020, it was clearly established “that an officer cannot shoot a protestor with pepper balls or other less-lethal munitions when that protestor is committing no crime more serious than a misdemeanor, not threatening anyone, and not attempting to flee.” 86 F.4th at 868‒69 (quotation marks omitted).6
10th Cir. affirms jury verdict against police officer who shot a woman with a less-lethal round while she was filming at a George Floyd protest despite being told by his sergeant not to shoot her.
No QI.
www.ca10.uscourts.gov/sites/ca10/f...
photos of 11 men & two women lost in Operation Epic Fury
47 says, "We lost 13 men"—twice, in this one quote.
Of the 13 troops killed so far in the Iran war, two of them were women.
🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬
Feel like it should be a bigger story that Howard Lutnick's firm (run by his kids) created a financial product to buy up tariff refund claims at a major discount, and will now be cashing in on the higher costs passed onto consumers.
This is your regularly-scheduled reminder that I am sharing multiple job ads in marine biology, conservation, and science communication every day over on my LinkedIn page. Follow or connect with me there to see them. www.linkedin.com/in/david-shi...
X post by Xavier Becerra: "Steve Hilton appears in the Epstein files. I'm sure he'll explain himself." Screen shot of email from July 24, 2011 from Jeffrey Epstein to Ian Osborne, asking if David Cameron could be at a meeting - the email quotes Osborne who asks if Woody Allen could be present at a meeting with Epstein and Rohan Silva, head of then Prime Minister Cameron's policy unit and Steve Hilton, Director of Strategy.
🧵With @becerraforca.bsky.social surging in the polls, & @realtomsteyer.bsky.social doing well also, this is a good time to remind Californians that Brit Steve Hilton, Brexit fan, Fox News personality, & Trump endorsed, also appears in the Epstein files! No MAGA Gov for CA!
A new poll just dropped. We're leading the Democratic field.
Californians are paying attention and they're showing up. We're not slowing down.
Join us: xavierbecerra2026.com
HNL Alert: 10:50 PM 04-19-2026 - The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center reports No Tsunami Threat to Hawaii from 7.4 magnitude earthquake in Japan - Off the East Coast of Honshu.
More info at tsunami.gov
M7.4 #Earthquake #Japan - NO Tsunami expected for US west coast, BC & Alaska.
WOW: A stunning new report in the WSJ reveals that military advisers intentionally excluded Donald Trump from the command room during the recent high-stakes operation to extract a downed U.S. airman in Iran, because they feared his erratic behavior could jeopardize the mission. 1/
"The question isn’t whether we can preserve the world as it is and stop climate change, but whether we can plan for those changes to be as minimally destructive as possible." & doing this requires--for starters--letting go, at every level, of how you thought the future was going to go.
Quite something to see the Trump regime cling to the hem of TR’s coat, when TR fought for a nonpartisan merit-based civil service, created the national forest service, believed in international arbitration, battled corruption his entire career, created new regulatory agencies, & kept us out of war.
It’s as if the Iran war was fought to sustain the Russian economy. Lifting sanctions for Russians does nothing for Americans. It just makes it easier for Russia to continue its war in Ukraine.
Happy ‘Sinners’ Day!
One year ago, Ryan Coogler’s ‘Sinners,’ released in theaters.
The shadow docket is how this Supreme Court steals judicial power from the rest of the federal courts. I’ve been banging this lonely drum for years now. One day people will realize this is true and important.
Photo I took of these wonderful people (the faces of whom I’ve blacked out) singing happy Birthday to their lovely old dog at a bar I was at tonight in Portland
I was at a dog-friendly bar in NW Portland tonight and a table behind me started singing Happy Birthday and then I realized it wasn’t for a person but a really old dog who was wearing a crown and he was old and fucking adorable and I love this city
The NYT story is a useful corrective to a contention that conservatives have frequently made: that the shadow docket was a response to the trend of district courts granting universal/nationwide injunctions. Justice Gorsuch (joined by Justices Thomas & Alito) made that claim expressly in 2024. /2👇
This is a momentous story in a lot of ways. One incredible little detail: the Roberts clerk and the Alito clerk who wrote the key memos creating the shadow docket, Joseph Benjamin Tyson III and Barbara S. Grieco, ended up getting married two years later.
WOW: Jodi Kantor & Adam Liptak have the memos that describe the origins of SCOTUS shadow docket - the 2016 order halting Obama’s Clean Power Plan @jodikantor.bsky.social @adamliptak.bsky.social @nytimes.com
www.nytimes.com/2026/04/18/u...
Isn’t h financed by Peter Theil?
More reasons why #TomSteyer is qualified and ready to be the next CA governor. 🧵
Led the California Task Force on Business and Job Recovery under Governor Gavin Newsom, focusing on COVID-19 economic recovery.
My daily reminder for all of you in CALIFORNIA
PRIMARY is coming up fast.
It is still quite disturbing to see Steve Hilton & Chad Bianco high up in the polls
But there are SO MANY UNDECIDED PEOPLE
Please Talk to Them
CANT STAND THE THOUGHT OF YOU
having a MAGA GOVERNOR
So Choose Wisely 🙏
Me too. Absolutely will support the front runner.
Agreed that we cannot have a Republican.
