I just called Garamendi's number and left a long message, asking him to do whatever he can do to keep this from happening.

Federal cuts may force hundreds of Contra Costa County residents out of homes Contra Costa County is bracing for big cuts to federal funding that helps provide housing for the unsheltered.

Local (Contra Costa) peeps: this is awful news. Time to call/email/reach out to your Congressperson. For me that's @johngaramendi.bsky.social

Hundreds of East Bay residents may lose their homes – NBC Bay Area share.google/6l6OKlYWKe36...

US judge halts Trump admin’s blockade on new wind and solar projects The federal government's "arbitrary" actions caused 57 gigawatts of wind and solar to be canceled or put at risk of delay beyond 2029, clean energy…

Another win for rule of law against Trump derangement.

"A federal judge has ordered the Trump administration to lift its blockade on new U.S. wind and solar projects.."

From Jessica Valenti: "Under SB 1095 in South Carolina, women who have abortions would be punished with misdemeanor criminal charges. Even rape victims and those with nonviable pregnancies would face two years of prison time for having an abortion."

The Mask is Off: Major Anti-Abortion Group Calls for Arrest of Abortion Patients Students for Life says it should be "an easy vote"

Women who choose abortion should/will go to prison...
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Federal Judge Vacates Kennedy Declaration, Permanently Blocks Trump's Trans Youth Care Hospital Threats The judgment overturns the Kennedy Declaration which has been used to force 40 hospitals to drop trans youth care.

GOOD NEWS GOOD NEWS GOOD NEWS!!
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"... Everything is connected, the world is a network of interrelated systems, the isolated individual is at best a fiction, and the natural and social realms run more on collaboration and cooperation than competition."
Rebecca Solnit

Reading Rebecca Solnit. Thinking: the butterfly is the end of a caterpillar. The caterpillar is the beginning of a butterfly.

How Ideology Reinforced Juristocratic Thinking on the Shadow Docket And in what sense is John Roberts an institutionalist?

Plausible; worth reading. For Supreme Court watchers.
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Reposting in agreement, and to encourage all my followers to pay for a subscription to TPM. The reporting is stellar and Josh Marshall is an extraordinary analyst, always worth reading.

Excellent article.

April 19, 2026 On the evening of April 18, 1775, the people who lived in the British colony of Massachusetts had gone to bed with the sun, as usual.

Still relevant. No Kings! No Tyrants!
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Excited to attend the ribbon-cutting for the next segment of California’s solar canal initiative later this month in Hickman. Imagine generating solar power over 4,000 miles or so canals across the state. A lot of Sierra and Colorado River water to save via avoided evaporation.

The best!

Tim Curry in The Rocky Horror Picture Show

Tim Curry in Clue

Tim Curry in The Three Musketeers

Tim Curry in Muppet Treasure Island

Happy 80th birthday to Tim Curry who has always, *always* understood the assignment.

Repost this, please. People need to know about it.

I like this man so much.

You can just say no example # 378,474

In California, It's Either Tax the Billionaires or Face a Health Care "Catastrophe" An interview with the union leaders pushing a state wealth tax.

If you live in California, you need to read this.
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Montana Supreme Court Rules Its Constitution Entirely Protects Trans Citizens In Landmark Ruling The ruling will have enormous impacts for transgender residents in the state.

Good news.
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Agree. Time to get real. Past time, actually. Folks who didn't vote for Kamala Harris because of Gaza or they didn't like her laugh or whatever the reason was owe the rest of us a big sorry.

Dude is serious.

Why Justice Sotomayor's apology to Justice Kavanaugh makes sense There are just nine votes on the court, and each time they cast those votes they’re setting the rules that all of us need to live under for now. Sotomayor knows that.

Worth reading.
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Kevin, the Pope is only infallible when he speaks "ex cathedra" (Google it) on a matter of faith and morals. In the whole history of the Catholic Church it has only happened twice. Even without infallibility, however, Leo is the leader of one and a half billion Catholics.

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Oh, I am so happy.

Cardinal McElroy: "The Catholic faith teaches us there are certain prerequisites for a just war,” he said. “You can’t go for a variety of different aims. You have to have a focused aim, which is to restore justice and restore peace. That’s it.”

THIS IS HOW YOU DO IT

... previously cancelled grants, in keeping with a separate legal ruling last year, and reversed all staff reductions. It also promised not to take any further steps to reduce the agency.”

When we fight, we win!

TPM: The American Library Association and a union of cultural workers have reached a settlement in their lawsuit against the Trump administration that saves the Institute of Museum and Library Services, the NYT reports: “The Trump administration reaffirmed that it had reinstated all...

No more LL Bean for me. ☹️