AG Rob Bonta (yay!) files lawsuit v Poway over CEQA violations (boo!) for failure to address ancestral human remains (yay?) found in the process of building a housing development (yay!) that would include 40 single family homes (boo!) in a greenfield development miles from city center (boo!)
"the vehicle killed"
they use passive voice on purpose to preemptively exonerate the driver
I blogged about this recently where the person on the e-scooter or e-bike is always to blame for the actions of other road users. I don’t understand why our lives are somehow worth less to car-drivers.
If he meant any of this he'd just retire from commentary because that's the only rational response to getting it this wrong, but instead he's just gonna endorse Vance next year because of under-the-hood articles about how he opposed the war
this is important to get your head around the basic shape of water use out West. farmers get the overwhelming majority of it--far more than all industry and cities put together--and pay almost nothing for it
It’s in keeping with the basic idea of the original Colorado River Compact, which was to manage the basin’s water through some negotiation and compromise, rather than strictly following the letter of the law. But the legal foundation of prior appropriation hamstrings negotiations at every turn. Farmers account for the overwhelming majority of Colorado water use—almost a third goes to cattle feed alone—and thanks to how the system was initially designed, their prices are absurdly subsidized. One recent study found that while municipal districts pay an average of $512.01 per acre-foot, agricultural irrigation districts paid an average of $30.32 per acre-foot. Fully a quarter of all Colorado water diversions, all to farmers, cost nothing at all. Such a subsidy is difficult to unwind.
TIL that while Colorado basin municipal water districts pay an average of $512 per acre-foot, irrigation districts pay an average of $30--and fully a quarter of all water diversions, all going to farms, pay nothing at all prospect.org/2026/04/17/w...
There is plenty of water in the American west. We just waste it by giving it to farmers for pennies on the dollar or free.
Remember this next time someone says we can't build new housing in coastal California because "we don't have the water."
They don’t get to do this right? Like, removing the insane limits on density was the direct point of this law. Surely the state will sue the city over failing to implement the law ?
A Forbes article about a father who killed eight children, with an embedded prediction widget inviting people to speculate on whether "Congress will pass new gun safety legislation before 31st December 2026"
ghoulish
a picture is, it turns out, worth a lot more than a thousand words
Every elected official in California: Democrats, Republicans, MAGA people, moderate conservatives, centrists, liberals, progressives, and “socialists” alike are lockstep on this one issue:
“Insurance markets are not facing systemic climate risk, insurance companies are simply too greedy”
Cannabis isn’t allowed to be consumed in public spaces, so this ordinance is effectively a ban on smoking but only for multi-family housing dwellers ?
Rapidly falling teen births since 1991
The provisional fertility rate for teenagers in 2025 was 11.7 births per 1,000 females ages 15–19, down 7% from 2024 (12.6) and another record low for this age group (Table 1, Figure 2) (4,5,9–11). The rate has decreased by 72% since 2007 (41.5), the most recent period of continued decline, and by 81% since 1991 (61.8), the most recent peak. The number of births to females ages 15–19 was 125,933 in 2025, down 8% from 2024
One of the biggest social shifts of our lifetimes
www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/vs...
"More people die in traffic crashes in San Diego than most major crimes combined."
Tell the Mayor not to cut traffic safety funding ⬇️
If this were an ebike, the community would be really upset.
could making a serial rapist the figurehead of the modern right have pushed women left?
no, it's the hysterical broads who went crazy
Ah! Well. Nevertheless,
The moral panic around ebikes is to the distract from the constant death and carnage drivers are allowed to get away with.
“It’s like they’re just hustling us around — it’s like they’re moving cattle.”
voiceofsandiego.org/2026/04/13/c...
Approximately 4,000 people die in CA every year because of car crashes, 25% of which are pedestrians & bicyclists. Prioritizing safety for all road users should be a no-brainer, and the convenience of drivers shouldn’t come before the wellbeing of others.
www.urbanismspeakeasy.com/p/public-inp...
Buffy wicks for governor
“Approximately 4000 people die in CA every year because of car crashes, 25% of which are pedestrians & bicyclists. Prioritizing safety for all road users should be a no-brainer, & the convenience of drivers shouldn’t come before the wellbeing of others” - Buffy Wicks
We need more electeds like her!
“During the Great Recession and in the covid-19 pandemic especially, Keynesian interventions—government spending—proved enormously effective.
And yet, in spite of all the evidence, the political battle continues”
A major blind spot for some progressives is treating car-priority as unavoidable. If that were true, building as much car infrastructure as possible would be a moral imperative. But it's not true, and the entire 20th century undermines any argument that more car infrastructure means more equality.
Trump take beef
I think a lot of podcasters in this vein should be interpreted as “reactionary” in the most literal sense that they are extremely vacuous and form their politics by following trends of resentment against whatever they see on social media
A screenshot of a Hollywood Reporter politics news article. The headline reads, "Dave Chappelle Knocks Republican Party for “Weaponized” Transgender Jokes: “That’s Not What I Was Doing”" The subheadline states, "After being called out for transphobic jokes, the superstar comedian told NPR that Lauren Boebert and other Republicans are politicizing his humor." Below the text is a photo of Chappelle in a black tuxedo speaking at a podium, with a caption noting he is accepting the President's Award at the 2025 NAACP Image Awards.
No, that's exactly what Chappelle was doing and it's why trans people criticized him for doing it.
one of the biggest technological revolutions in history and it has nothing to do with crypto, AI, metaverse or any of the things the media relentlessly hypes
Dear god. Very, very serious allegations of mass civil rights violations at the State of Florida's Everglades immigration detention center (officially known as "Alligator Alcatraz").
Yes