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The next national action should be a general strike.

War on Cars: Confessions of a Foot Soldier I have very mixed feelings about cars.

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From 2019-2024, Lowe's spent $46.6 BILLION on stock buybacks.

That's enough to give each of its 273k employees a $28k bonus for the next six years.

Instead, it paid its CEO 659x what it paid median employees.

And we STILL think corporate tax breaks will magically trickle down?

Please, #BART needs to get it together! Sitting on yellow line due to another "power issue" after being instructed to take this train and transfer because the red line is down due to a power issue. Announcements are inaudible/useless. I left 2.5 hours early for an appointment and I may not make it.

There’s renewable energy ads and there’s mother**cking wind farm ads. This, blissfully, is the latter.

Also includes common grammatical error (me/I). Eric should have someone who can write proof read this.

Quite a tell about their fantasy, since fewer than 10% of current Americans can trace their lineage to the "pioneers" pictured in this image. (Not to mention the parallel displacement and massacre of the native peoples along the way.)

Californians will be getting a lot of the money in tax cuts Republicans have made in Federal programs (and borrowing to the tune of billions of dollars). Our legislature should look at tax policies to recoup some of that money and put it to work to benefit CA and those most hurt by the cuts.

It's true, even in the face of resistance and lies, we (the whole planet) are turning from fossil fuels to solar, wind and batteries, and other renewables. Slower than we need to but faster than you think. Let's do the same with transportation!

The issue isn't enough incentive to build things and do meaningful work. The issue is a system controlled by people with the most resources to be sure they get vastly disproportionate rewards for their work. There is far from a one to one correlation between contribution and compensation.

crashing the economy and starting a war in the Middle East

Donald Trump has finally become a conventional Republican after all

Donald Trump illegally took military action against Iran—without congressional authorization—risking dragging us into another endless war.

I am calling for an immediate emergency session of Congress to vote on the War Powers Resolution.

Netanyahu has spent the better part of two decades trying to strong arm the United States into an unprovoked war against Iran and finally found a president stupid enough to do it for him. Unbelievable.

In a nutshell: Republicans are happy to terrorize and abuse ordinary working people but when corporate interests complain that mass arrests hurt profits maybe we have a problem.

They are trying to create their Reichstag fire moment. Miller definitely has this mind.

This sure looks like their Reichstag fire moment. I kept telling myself they really wouldn't go that far, or that there would be five or six republicans who believe in the constitution l, but apparently not.

I have real reservations about Newsom but his speech is right on and needs to be heard by Republicans who have some grain of respect for our country and the constitution. It's the truth and the veil must be lifted.

'Weakness masquerading as strength': Hear Newsom's blistering speech on Trump as LA protests persist YouTube video by CNN

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I know everyone is stressed about the politics of the Mexican flags at the anti-ice/trump/fascism protests, but consider: Mexico has a progressive woman of Jewish heritage as president. I'll take that.

#Sinners I like the vampire story and the "is any music the devil's music" story and the two guys return from Chicago in 1932 to open a club in Mississippi story but I didn't like how they had a hard time clicking together. Plus I'm feeling a little defensive of Irish music.

Said someone who has never been on public transit.

Gnashing with you. Pro-human land use vs. noise, pollution, pedestrian death?

Screenshot that reads: This California Highway Is Now a Park. The Cars Are Gone, but Not the Anger. The transformation of a two-mile stretch of San Francisco’s Great Highway into a pedestrian promenade has set off a clash over the city’s anti-car culture.

Not usually one to gnash teeth about Times headline framing but saying "anti-car culture" here is a real choice.

Says it all.

In CA school busses died decades ago in suburban districts after prop 13.

Several of my fellow parents at my kids school see putting them on the bus as unacceptably déclassé

Huge problem that needs to be addressed through building pro-pedestrian, pro-bike, pro-transit infrastructure. And messaging.

Fintan O'Toole in NYRoB: