FYI - Here are 21 pages of racist text messages and death threats sent by Antioch, California cops including the Antioch police union president, about Antioch’s Black mayor Lamar Thorpe and other people in general. Antioch is 45 miles east of San Francisco. https://bit.ly/3GMqYXg
That affects me as a "decline to state" a party voter, because there's zero chance for me to vote for someone whose views and agenda are similar to mine. (Not that I've seen any third party candidates whose views are similar to mine, but if such a candidate ever arose, they aren't likely to be in the Democratic or Republican parties.)
> At the turn of the 20th century, the eugenics movements captivated much of white America, fueled by a zealous faith that the burgeoning field of genetics could socially engineer away America’s “ills”, including poverty, crime and “feeblemindedness”. Thirty-two states had sterilization laws, but California’s program was unrivaled. It contributed to a third of total national sterilizations, and set an example for Nazi Germany’s sterilization laws.
> "California was the second state to pass eugenics laws in 1909," two years after Indiana made it legal to sterilize the "feeble-minded," according to University of Virginia bioethicist Paul Lombardo.
> Lombardo is an expert on eugenics, a school of thought popular around the turn of the 20th century. Eugenicists thought they could improve the human species through selective breeding, which meant preventing habitual criminals, inmates of insane asylums and sexual deviants from having kids.
> Many people who lived in state-run hospitals, homes and institutions through 1979 were sterilized, leaving them unable to have biological children. Additionally, many people who were in custody of a state prison or other correctional facility after 1979 were forcibly or involuntarily sterilized.
> The Forced or Involuntary Sterilization Compensation Program financially compensates survivors of state-sponsored sterilization. The California Victim Compensation Board (CalVCB) administers the program.
It went down to 14f overnight and is curently 18f.
The weather forecast for the Forked Meadow / #DinkeyCreek / #ShaverLake area now has a #BlizzardWarning for Monday through Wednesday and they're saying 3-7 feet of new snow in that time period will fall.
It's time to get out for more diesel for the snow blower and other supplies before the next storm rolls in.
#California food company (companies?) warned after infestation found in their warehouse.
_Warned_ ? Based on what they describe in the article, the company should have been closed immediately and all their products destroyed. And a mandatory recall, of course.
This sort of thing is part of the reason we have federal regulatory agencies in the first place. Do your job!
It's by Dan Sperling, the founding director of the Institute of #Transportation Studies at #UCDavis. He also explains why California's moves on #climatechange reverberate around the world.
A #Tesla spontaneously combusted on a #California freeway. --- RT @metrofirepio Crews arrived to a Tesla Model S engulfed in flames, nothing unusual prior. 2 Fire Engines, a water tender, and a ladder truck were requested to assist. Crews used jacks to access the underside to extinguish and cool the battery. Thousands of gallons were used in extinguishment. https://twitter.com/metrofirepio/status/1619500987349340165
There’s been ‘rumblings’ of the Chicago Bulls seeking 2 first-round picks in a trade to move Alex Caruso, per @JakeLFischer (h/t @TheSteinLine) https://www.rawchili.com/2786096/
?? Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) on Thursday endorsed Rep. #KatiePorter (D-Calif.) for #Senate in #California in #2024, two days after Porter announced her intention to run for the seat.
@gnu2 Both #California (where I live) and #NewYorkState (where I'm getting benefits from) do have a call in option. #NYState has phone people Monday through Friday, but the reporting is due Sunday and I don't want it to be delayed after 5 months without income.