After seeing the aftermath of Abdul El-Sayed asking Olivia Reingold what she meant by a Jewish state, I became convinced it's a question that should be asked more often. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
Passengers wait for Uber ride-share cars at Los Angeles International Airport in Los Angeles, on July 10, 2022. Photo by David Swanson, Reuters. HED: Rideshare drivers sue Uber over being kicked off app in new challenge to California law
Uber has failed to create an appeals system to give drivers due process when they’re kicked off the app, violating the California law it carved out that declared app-based drivers independent contractors, a lawsuit filed Monday alleges. cal.news/4tWVKCC
📷️ David Swanson
After decades of politicians mouthing platitudes about two states while unconditionally supporting Israel, it is reasonable for voters to want candidates to have clear positions on what they would do in office.
35 Years of research time, lost. And now, with this administration, another decade, or more.
Different contract rules?
A little bit???
I'm not disappointed because I never bought into her, but I am disappointed someone running for Governor of California thinks this is a winning message.
“Democracy is a system in which parties lose elections”
Cal State Channel Islands philosophy lecturer Jonathan Caravello has just been ACQUITTED of assaulting ICE/CBP last summer while protesting a brutal Ventura County cannabis farm raid! His defense argued he threw a tear gas canister away to protect protesters. The jury acquitted him in two hours.
HUGE: J Street now backs blocking all aid to Israel, including for “defensive” weapons like iron dome. Just weeks ago this was a controversial position for Democrats, now J Street is backing it. A few years ago a Democrat could get censured for holding this position. @AOC moving on this moved the field.
Sruli Fruchter @SruliFruchter 🚨 SCOOP: J-Street supports ending U.S. aid to Israel — **including** Iron Dome https://jewishinsider.com/2026/04/j-street-support-ending-missile-defense-aid-israel/
HUGE: J Street now backs blocking all aid to Israel, including for “defensive” weapons like iron dome
Just weeks ago this was a controversial position for Dems, now J Street is backing it. A few years ago a Dem could get censured for holding this position. @aoc.bsky.social moving on this moved...
Good followup, AP!
Huge shift in American views of Israel
2022: 55% view Israel favorably, 42% unfavorably
2026: 37% view Israel favorably, 60% unfavorable
Generational divide hits both parties: 57% of *Republicans under 50* are negative on Israel
via Pew Research Center poll: www.pewresearch.org/wp-content/u...
"During the past decade, voters in four Republican-leaning states — Arizona, Florida, Missouri, and Nebraska — enacted big minimum wage increases."
In the four states, "wages rose substantially, while restaurant and retail employment was unaffected." – @arindube.bsky.social
Please stop saying TACO. We’re talking about an ungodly number of people who could die or maimed. It’s not time for cutesy little internet slang. We have to get away from this bizarre desensitization.
BREAKING: Trump announces two week window for Congress to remove him from office
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., attends a news conference in the U.S. Capitol. (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)
AOC: “This is a threat of genocide & merits removal from office. The President’s mental faculties are collapsing & cannot be trusted.
To every individual in the President’s chain of command: You have a duty to refuse illegal orders. That includes carrying out this threat”
That was a fun show. Went to the top of Mount Tamalpais after it was over to watch the sun rise.
"Experts are dubious" 😆
what next? what, are we gonna provide *roads* for the wealthy too? gonna have health inspectors keep contaminants out of their groceries? are we just gonna have gutters and sewer systems around rich people's homes?
"Long COVID received 14% of its disability commensurate funding...
ME/CFS is the most under-funded condition, receiving <1% of its YLD [years lived with disability] proportionate funding."
Plus the LC disability weight of 0.21 likely underestimates its burden.
www.nature.com/articles/s43...
NPR: Trump's VA killed a home loan program. Vets are now losing their homes because of it
Trump was warned this would happen. He did it anyway.
Now, over 10,000 Veterans lost their homes. 90,000 more are on track for foreclosure. On top of cutting jobs, slashing benefits and throwing our heroes into an unnecessary war.
The most anti-Veteran President in history.
Cool use of cell phone location data for every restaurant in the U.S. to track causal effects of CA $20 fast food minimum wages on jobs
irle.berkeley.edu/publications...
The visible app gives a stability score that uses all three variables. To the extent that users moderate activity based on the stability score, it should decrease predictive value of crashes.
Holy New York.
I'm running for Congress because for way too long, working families like yours & mine have been left behind.
I know what it's like to work two jobs just to make ends meet.
That's how hard I'll fight for YOU in Washington.
Join us: secure.actblue.com/donate/kb-twit…
#NoKings Boston where thousands came to say no to Trump and a second time no to monarchy! Let’s go!
#MECFS is not consistently recognized, diagnosed, or safely managed!
Join #Solve and #MEAction in asking State Medical Boards to meet and support questions on national medical licensing exams.
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ME/CFS affects ~9 million Americans. There are no FDA-approved treatments. We need medical research funding to change that.
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It's Calvin Ball all the way down.
