Oh yes to be clear, I think Becerra is the most experienced candidate in the field and he has a record that’s generally good!

The k-hive vibes from the becerra stans are not great tbh! Not how you build a coalition.

I like Becerra but he’s taken a lot of oil money and is fairly weak on climate change, and is much more milquetoast policy-wise than I’d prefer. He’s also been polling far too low (which hopefully changes).

Honestly think I would be fine with either Steyer or Becerra for different reasons.

The tie breaker is likely going to be whoever is polling first at the time of the primary due to the risk of a Republican lockout.

the strait of hormuz needs to have regular, predictable open hours or frankly they are going to lose me as a customer

Gentrification is imo an overly broad umbrella term that includes real and concrete harms like people being unable to live near transit due to rents spiking, and vibe based bullshit like the neighborhood not being “authentic” anymore that you should just be expected to deal with as an adult

lol cool so it’s a shoe sole

Thought it was old lengua

You may not get it, but members of our military signed up to sacrifice their comfort, and if need be, their very lives whenever the President needs to distract the world from his pedophilia and because the Israeli Prime Minister jangled his keys super hard in his face while he was sundowning.

What is the gray thing

As little as I already thought of the man I'm in awe of what he's accomplished in 15 short months. Historic run. Basically threw away all his fire extinguishers and told every firefighter in town to eat shit, and then set his house on fire. We need a separate Mount Rushmore for morons

jd vance at the donut shop saying “just whatever makes sense”

jd vance negotiating with Iran

LOL I literally googled "chef simultaneous" because Chef does actually sound like the name of some forgotten Britpop band I hadn't heard of.

Did not expect what I found.

An mRNA treatment for PANCREATIC CANCER was in trials, among many other uses. Choosing to end this research is choosing to sentence millions to an early, painful death

Washington Post Trump warns ‘a whole civilization will die’ if Iran doesn’t make a deal The president had issued a deadline of 8 p.m. Eastern time for Iran to open up the Strait of Hormuz, pledging destruction by midnight if leaders don’t comply. April 7, 2026 at 9:22 a.m. EDT26 minutes ago 2 min

Completely unstable and perilous. The House must bring up impeachment articles, and the Senate needs to remove a president who wants to commit war crimes. We cannot sit idly by as Donald Trump threatens to end an entire civilization.

This is not a knock on Becerra's overall qualifications but he has not been the California Attorney General for over 5 years now

every political reporter in America understood one of the major stakes of the election to be exactly this — if Trump won there'd be a huge regressive tax cut for the rich and pain for the poor — and then decided to give more coverage to Tim Walz' national guard record. Why?

a graph of year-on-year change in US tech employment

US tech sector employment is down 43k over the last year in data released this morning—that's nearly as bad as the worst of the 2024 tech-cession, and significantly worse than either the 2008 or 2020 recessions

It’s gotta be this one

I understand this is a thing that seems like common sense but a lot of those low quality 2 story buildings are not seismically sound.

Being in earthquake country doesn’t make it impossible to build tall, just look at Tokyo.

NIMBY protest in San Francisco with a variety of signs, including "The Marina Is For Everybody" and "Boycott Greedy Safeway"

The Marina Is For Everybody is an incredible sign in its own right, but especially so when deployed in opposition to a new housing project in a census tract where the median household income is ~$250k/yr, and average home values are $2,000,000+

Love the Tin Lizzie

Red flare for Trump: 'No Kings' rallies a show of political force With a Revolutionary-era slogan, the protests had an historic geographical reach across the country. What does that mean for November?

"The third No Kings protests were an unmistakable display of political force..."

"Two-thirds of participants live in suburban, small town or rural areas, a 40% increase over last time in protesters from outside big cities..."

www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...

My kookiest old man conspiracy theory is that Starbucks is phasing out coffee? I have been like 4x recently and each time the coffee machine was broken and I had to opt for an Americano

Important thread. I saw some posts yesterday saying that the No Kings protests aren’t achieving anything and I don’t agree

Huh I wonder why

This is literally exactly the kind of thinking that lead to RBG not resigning under Obama. Gov. Chad Bianco will be a lot worse for California minorities than seeing Betty Yee's ambitions stymied. Fuck off.

the failure of Merrick Garland in dithering and adhering to norms that were no longer remotely adequate in the face of the threat of a Trump comeback is even more damning after watching what happened with Mueller

People got FIRED for accurately quoting things Charlie Kirk said

so if i have this correctly:

we've substantially increased the value of Iran's primary export

we've made it legal to buy that export for the first time in 30 years

and we've made it such that only safe way through the strait is to make a deal with iran

masterful gambit

For those that missed the metro board committee meeting today: Karen Bass is officially moving full steam ahead on trying to ratfuck what would be the highest ridership light rail line in the country next week, over unscientific tunneling concerns identical to fred rosen's in bel air.