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6 minutes ago, Chad Fuck said:
Linkhttps://www.reddit.com/r/MapPorn/comments/1hpx9hn/map_of_over_200_bomb_threats_that_occurred_during/
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17 minutes ago, wildcat09 said:States under Dem control are preferable in that they're not totalitarian dystopias, but they're not exactly well run. E.g., California and New York Dems are actively sabotaging their own political power because they're such fucking NIMBYs they don't want anyone new moving into their neighborhoods.
You'll get no pushback from me there. I've got lots of problems with the Democratic party and its coupling with big business and NIMBYs. That said, below is a non-exhaustive list of bills passed by the CA legislature in the recent past. I know some of the descriptions are vague, but each is its own bill. If you only read this board, you'd honestly think the Dems are only good at singing kumbaya and crying about Trump. The problem, as I see it, is that the Dems here are trying to shoehorn social-democratic policies into a economic and political framework that is anathema to those principles. Round peg in a square whole, and what not.
✅ Increase pay for health care workers
✅ Clear the way for more housing
✅ Make involuntary treatment easier
✅ Ease college transfers, for some
Increase stipend to diversify juries (Newsome did not sign)
✅ Sort out water rights
✅ Strengthen renters’ rights
✅ Reduce retaliation against workers
Ban caste discrimination (Newsome did not sign)
✅ Ban toxic chemicals in food
Decriminalize psychedelic drugs (Newsome did not sign)
✅ Let legislative staff unionize
✅ Boost clean energy
✅ Add paid sick days
✅ Limit hand vote counts in elections
Give jobless benefits to striking workers (Newsome did not sign)
✅ Give raises to fast food workers
✅ Strengthen abortion access
✅ Tax guns and ammo
✅ Revise concealed-carry laws
✅ Ban book bans
✅ Increase penalties for child trafficking
Consider gender identity in custody cases (Newsome did not sign)
✅ Support LGBTQ students
Regulate driverless trucks (Newsome did not sign)
✅Stop legacy admissions at private colleges
✅Ban book bans in public libraries
✅Stop local voter ID requirements
✅Require state prisons to provide menstrual products
Make undocumented immigrants eligible for homebuyer and jobless aid (Newsome did not sign)
✅Allow tribes to sue cardrooms
Restrict private equity in healthcare (Newsome did not sign)
Regulate middlemen in pharma industry (Newsome did not sign)
✅Protect maternity wards from closures
✅✅Allow more outdoor alcohol and cannabis sales
Expedite gender-affirming care licenses (Newsome did not sign)
✅Shine a light on teen treatment
✅Advance reparations proposals
✅Give doxxing victims the right to sue
✅Exclude medical debt from credit reports
✅Give tenants more time to respond before eviction
Let undocumented students work on campus (Newsome did not sign)
✅Ban more plastic bags
✅Make key changes in campaign laws
✅End single-family zoning, redux
✅Speed up ‘tiny homes’ for homeless people
✅Protect voters from AI
✅ Boosting paid family leave
✅ Limit enforcement of jaywalking
✅ Disciplinary action for COVID disinformation
✅ Introducing rap lyrics at trial
✅ Fewer remedial courses at community colleges
✅ Protecting transgender youth
✅ Clearing criminal records
✅ Cell fee to fund 988 crisis hotline
Water bill help for low-income Californians (Newsome did not sign)
✅ Easier farmworker unionization
✅Build housing on strip malls: Two ways
✅Student housing versus CEQA
✅ Abortion: Protection from prosecution
✅ Funding abortion access
✅ Abortion digital privacy
✅ 'Pink tax:' Gender-based price discrimination
✅ Nursing home licensing reform
✅ Burial option: Human composting
✅ Tackling greenhouse gases
✅ Keeping Diablo Canyon nuclear plant open
✅ Setbacks for oil and gas wells
✅ Interim goals for 100% clean energy
✅ Strategies for carbon removal and capture
✅ Kids’ privacy online
✅ Courts compelling mentally ill people into treatment
✅ Regulating fast food workers’ wages
3 hours ago, Goofyboy said:
Democrats on the federal level vs state. But, hey - keep that energy.The implicit point of my post, which I'll now break down for you, was that the Dems ARE effective at passing legislation and furthering the interests of the common man and securing individual rights. The argument that the party doesn't know how to effectively message or govern operates under the assumption that the messaging from the Democratic party is very effective on a state and local level, but somehow fails when you try to stretch it over arbitrarily drawn state borders. Is that a problem with the party? When they amplify the dangers of Trumpism non-stop on the news, Instagram, Facebook, tik-tok? When they have 3 straight prime-time slots on every TV channel in America breaking down what MAGA and P2025 will do, and laying out specific legislation they will advance to help the working and middle class? At some point you have to just accept that many Americans will never, ever pull the blue lever even when they are actively suffering at the hands of the party they put in power.
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1 minute ago, Guadaloopy said:You post this as if it is out of the ordinary or something related to new policies implemented by the current administration. ICE has been doing this exact same thing for the past 23 years. Congrats on continuing to do the job.
no, he's posting it to justify the forced removal of all immigrants, whether they have TPS status, pending asylum claims, etc.
Unless I missed the post where ChickenSandwhich expressed concern over the ongoing targeting of those groups?
Pretty common tactic throughout history when you want to remove an entire group.
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Just now, Frank Drebin said:Or a public school teacher. They lap the clergy on having sex with the underage.
but not private school teachers, right?
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Came across this map today. Shows the location of all bomb threats directed at polling places on election day, 2024.
Such a coincidence that the 200+ bomb threats occurred exclusively in Democratic strongholds
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https://www.sacbee.com/opinion/article299687669.html
QuoteAgriculture is a form of legalized gambling here in California, our land is prone to deluge or drought. Our farmers, relentlessly adapting, are as innovative as any set of suits in Silicon Valley, learning new ways to grow more food with less water. As sure as the sun, our farmers have always shared their views of California politics as they relentlessly pursue the water necessary to grow much of the nation’s fruits and vegetables.
Yet now, an eerie silence has begun descending over California farming. A candidate many of them undoubtedly supported for president, Donald Trump, has shockingly wasted some of their water in a downright dangerous stunt unlike anything in memory. When I spoke last week before two water conferences in two different states filled with Central Valley farmers, the first question I confronted in Sacramento was basically how to make all this Trump stuff go away. When I theorized at the second conference in Reno that Trump may not know what he’s doing out here, I got no eye contact from more than half the room as we all exited.
When California farmers aren’t vocally fighting for every last drop of water supply, something is not right with our world. “I don’t think they’re willing to speak out,” said Lester Snow, a water veteran of the highest order for decades in both Arizona and California. “Farmers not only want more water, they want more certainty.” How a Trump water promise was dangerously fulfilled Trump wasted no time in issuing two executive orders about California water in his first week. He set the stage to eventually increase water supplies from Northern California’s Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta, site of the state’s two largest water projects. The directives, fueled by a false claim that fire-ravaged Los Angeles had been short on water, signaled a desire to fast-track regulatory changes that took former President Joe Biden nearly his entire presidency to accomplish.
And then suddenly one night last week, Trump said he just sidestepped environmental law and brought in the armed forces instead. On his own social media platform, Trump announced that he had increased California’s water supply. “The United States Military just entered the Great State of California and, under Emergency Powers, TURNED ON THE WATER flowing abundantly from the Pacific Northwest, and beyond,” Trump wrote. Never mind that precious little of California’s water supply originates in a southern Oregon watershed. Trump’s statement was widely analyzed to be untrue by The Bee and elsewhere.
And then the plot took an unexpected twist. Somewhere in the White House, whoever is in charge these days decided to make this fake news story about the military providing water and turn it into reality. But there was only one horrible way to do it. The Army Corps follows an awful order The military in fact does run a handful of the few thousand reservoirs in California. Two of them are in the San Joaquin Valley on the Kaweah and Tule rivers. The names of the dams aren’t exactly household names, Terminus and Lake Success respectively. The southern Sierra, like Los Angeles, has been cursed by a lack of storms for months. Last Thursday morning, there was little snowpack behind the dams to worry about. Releases from the dams had been barely a trickle. And then word began to spread that the Corps was about to release a bunch of water (credit to Bakersfield’s Lois Henry with the scoop). Last Friday, the Corps increased releases from Terminus Dam from 22 gallons a second to about 11,220 gallons. Releases surged from Success Lake as well. The water never had a way to get to the Delta and the water projects to reach Los Angeles. These rivers end in the Tulare basin. Fortunately, this pulse of high flows caused no damage. While some of this water will percolate into the basin’s ground, for farmers upstream, this water for them has been wasted. Credit the Tulare County Farm Bureau for speaking up.
Will California farmers find their voice? Nothing gets California farmers angrier than a government mismanaging water. Had Newsom tried something similar, tractors would have surrounded the state Capitol building in protest. “They would be all over the place saying…LA doesn’t need our water,” Snow said. Instead, there is mostly a silence from the farming community that thunderously speaks for itself.
Maybe Trump catches a break in the San Joaquin Valley. Maybe drought turns into deluge and the farmers upstream of the Tulare basin will get full supplies. At the beginning of February, it’s too soon to predict our water year. Farmers for a generation have been up against some tough political headwinds in Sacramento. The urban Democrats in charge here simply don’t understand farming and rarely take the time to care. Yet now, Trump has betrayed California farmers by placing a political tactic above promised water supply. The release of waters down the Kaweah and Tule rivers is now over. But no California farmer should pretend to forget, or dismiss, how Trump made politics out of some of their precious water.
Read more at: https://www.sacbee.com/opinion/article299687669.html#storylink=cpy
For anyone who's driven through the central valley, its nothing but pro-Trump and anti-Newsom signs. Oops
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Lots of talk about how ineffective Dems are. Which I guess explains why so many of you are desperate to flee Texas to a state under Dem control.
Same, same. Right?
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14 minutes ago, Dahobbs said:
Because the tariffs didn't actually happen.
yeah, weird attempt at a dunk there.
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3 minutes ago, TwiceHorn said:
Sure it will, and well-deserved. But as far as Ds starting up messaging for midterms and later, they're probably going to have a goldmine of shit to attack.
Will anyone care? In a sane world, J6, P2025, etc., would have sunk any candidate and turned off the vast majority of voters. He got MORE votes after all of that.
Trump could start WWIII and all he'll need to do is run some ads in October about the LGTBQ cabal and the American people will fall in line.
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14 hours ago, Sbbruin said:
I finally have an appointment wit( our field adjuster tomorrow. Word is the California Fair Plan is trying to deny smoke “cleaning” remediation vs smoke damage. I read and negotiate contracts (commercial real estate) almost every day for the last 30 years. I see nothing in the language delineating any difference between the 2. If I get any pushback, I’m going to litigate even if it costs me more than the remediation. Fuck all that. I’m pissed off enough that it motivates me. I don’t get angry (well I do inside), but it makes me want to get very serious. And I have some very well placed friends in the legal field who will take this on for me pro bono. Fuck insurance companies who don’t own up to their obligations. I get that this is almost unprecedented, but too fucking bad.
Sorry to hear that. We have Farmer's. Surprisingly easy with them. We had already paid a company about 4k to clean the whole house, and Farmer's cut us a check for 19k
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Trump's lucky that the CIA doesn't have a history of assassinating leaders who get in the way
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Stupid aggie. Even fucks up the murdering thing
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3 minutes ago, Brian Fantana said:I'm not sure "we should deport people who don't vote the way I want" is a good way to separate ourselves from the GQP.
And ensuring that Donald Trump was elected to visit untold harm upon the poor, immigrants, people of color, LGBTQ, unions, and the disabled is?
Because that's what I hear when I hear people say they can't vote for the Dems. Fuck all of those people.
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Politics, how does it work?
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Just now, Js1 said:
No, no, no. You need to think of the national debt like a household with outstanding credit card balances. A SWF is the same as a household, uh, taking out a loan. Wait, that can't be right. Its actually kinda like a household finding a way to put more money aside so that in the future . . . actually this doesn't sound right at all.
Maybe thinking of the national debt as similar to an outstanding balance on a CC was a stupid fucking analogy after all.
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1 minute ago, wild_turkey said:
If this passes, wouldn’t it effectively end IVF in this state?end it and criminalize it.
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1 minute ago, speed817 said:
I thought these guys stopped watching the NFL???
Not so fast!
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18 minutes ago, jimmyjazz said:Dude is apparently having a psychotic break, and he is now added to my ignore list.
no, he's an internet troll. always has been.
See, current protracted discussion over sex-ed in sub-Saharan Africa after getting called out for spreading Russian misinformation about Ukraine Funding. He moved on immediately after being called out and will not address it going further.
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On 2/3/2025 at 5:28 AM, Herbie Hancock said:
I declare fatwa on the next fucking stooge that quotes that idiot. I’ve had him on ignore for years for a fucking reason.
nah, he's the best source of unintentional humor we have.
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8 minutes ago, Anastasis said:AP interview with the president of Ukraine.
Not so much. Rather, that's RT's interpretation of his statement that about $100 billion did not flow directly into the Gov's coffers, but instead went to humanitarian aid orgs, and other related entities, including US companies
its funny though, when you google the "loss of 100 million" the only results are RT and other Russian alligned media sources. Then you come here, and its you and Sack parroting that same line. Curious.
QuoteSince Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, the U.S. has poured tens of billions of dollars into the country’s attempt to survive. For many American voters and commentators, Ukraine aid headlines may evoke images of planes delivering palettes of cash to Kyiv, but this isn’t how the system works.
In reality, only a small percentage of the overall aid package takes the form of cash transfers to Kyiv; the vast majority goes right back into the U.S. economy through several federal government mechanisms.
One of the main mechanisms through which the U.S. provides security assistance to Ukraine is the Ukraine Security Assistance Initiative (USAI)—a funding program led by the Department of Defense. Aimed at bolstering Ukraine’s armed forces, USAI provides funds for training and advising of Ukrainian military personnel, as well as for procurement of weapons. Nearly $32 billion has been allocated to USAI in three years of Russia’s all-out war.
The State Department’s Foreign Military Financing (FMF) program is a similar tool, yet its focus is not only on Ukraine but, rather, U.S. foreign policy goals more broadly. FMF helps American allies like Ukraine buy weapons specifically from U.S. manufacturers, supporting U.S. international interests and its military-industrial complex. FMF funding is not transferred to the recipient and is executed by American government agencies. Congress has allocated roughly $6.3 billion to this program for Ukraine security purposes since 2022.
And then there is the Presidential Drawdown Authority (PDA), which allows the president to authorize the provision of weapons or services from Defense Department stockpiles to partners. This mechanism provides almost immediate help to allies in emergencies, with assistance sometimes arriving within days of presidential approval. Between August 2021 and April 2024, the State Department used PDA 44 times, providing Ukraine with military assistance worth $23.8 billion.
The U.S. also sends direct financial assistance to the Ukrainian government through the United States Agency for International Development (USAID). The majority of USAID funds fill up Ukraine’s budget and keep the country’s government running by paying salaries to state employees. A fraction of those funds address humanitarian projects of one sort or another.
The State Department also supports development initiatives in Ukraine through its Economic Support Funds and provides aid to Ukrainian refugees.
Taken together, these tools form the almost continuous flow of security and financial assistance to Ukraine.
The administration gets money for all these programs mainly through supplemental funding requests to Congress. Since the beginning of Russia’s full-scale invasion in 2022, Congress has approved five Ukraine supplemental appropriation acts, worth a total worth of $174.2 billion.
But that figure can be misleading. Importantly, every supplemental includes many more dollars than end up directly in Ukraine. Things that also fall under the umbrella of “Ukraine aid” include the financing of increased U.S. military presence in Europe, intelligence operations vis-a-vis Ukraine and Russia, support of European states that have also been affected by Russia’s war, and every other activity in any way related to Russia’s war in Ukraine.
The majority of weapons and munitions the U.S. government has sent to Ukraine are pulled from America’s own stockpiles using presidential drawdowns, since this program allows for the quickest delivery. The supplementals then provide the Pentagon with funding to replenish those stockpiles, which it does primarily through the military contractors that build weapons for the U.S. military.
For example, the fifth supplemental covers the costs of the latest assistance package by giving money to the Pentagon to replenish its inventories of the air defense interceptors and artillery shells provided to Ukraine in April. The supplemental will also cover similar assistance packages this upcoming year.
The $62 billion package, however, does nothing to lift some of the key limitations placed on the use and supply of certain American weapons to Ukraine.
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