Wesley 🏳️🌈❌👑
@wessaidwords.bsky.social
State and local tax policy for #CAleg
JD candidate at McGeorge School of Law
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JD candidate at McGeorge School of Law
Ask me about my cats
All opinions my own 🏳️🌈
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Lmao I must regretfully concede that on occasion Piers Morgan gets someone’s ass
Also, I think if you are going to have someone like Fuentes on you are obliged to conduct the interview in Classic British Asshole (laudatory)
Also, I think if you are going to have someone like Fuentes on you are obliged to conduct the interview in Classic British Asshole (laudatory)
PIERS: “You’re not gay?”
FUENTES: “No. But women are very difficult to be around.”
P: “Should they vote?”
F: “No.”
PIERS: “They should stay home?”
FUENTES: “Yeah.”
PIERS: “So you’re just a misogynistic dinosaur. Have you ever had sex?”
FUENTES: “No.”
PIERS: “Wow. Says the guy who never got laid.”
FUENTES: “No. But women are very difficult to be around.”
P: “Should they vote?”
F: “No.”
PIERS: “They should stay home?”
FUENTES: “Yeah.”
PIERS: “So you’re just a misogynistic dinosaur. Have you ever had sex?”
FUENTES: “No.”
PIERS: “Wow. Says the guy who never got laid.”
December 10, 2025 at 6:07 AM
Lmao I must regretfully concede that on occasion Piers Morgan gets someone’s ass
Also, I think if you are going to have someone like Fuentes on you are obliged to conduct the interview in Classic British Asshole (laudatory)
Also, I think if you are going to have someone like Fuentes on you are obliged to conduct the interview in Classic British Asshole (laudatory)
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If you've been to a national park lately you know people come in wonder and reverence from all over the world. Wild that the guy who ran on "other countries are laughing at us" is clamping down on the best possible advertising for America.
At least once you get past the border, you can enjoy America's amazing national parks - for an extra $100 per person for foreign visitors in addition to the entry fee.
So if you are a family of four, its a grand for visas, and another $400 for every national park.
www.doi.gov/pressrelease....
So if you are a family of four, its a grand for visas, and another $400 for every national park.
www.doi.gov/pressrelease....
December 10, 2025 at 5:54 AM
If you've been to a national park lately you know people come in wonder and reverence from all over the world. Wild that the guy who ran on "other countries are laughing at us" is clamping down on the best possible advertising for America.
I'm always down to clown on FIRE for their selective attention but this isn't a school!
Remember all those people who claimed Obama's IRS was persecuting Christians and their churches?
Where's the outrage from the American Freedom Law Center and Pacific Legal Foundation folks?
Remember all those people who claimed Obama's IRS was persecuting Christians and their churches?
Where's the outrage from the American Freedom Law Center and Pacific Legal Foundation folks?
December 10, 2025 at 2:07 AM
I'm always down to clown on FIRE for their selective attention but this isn't a school!
Remember all those people who claimed Obama's IRS was persecuting Christians and their churches?
Where's the outrage from the American Freedom Law Center and Pacific Legal Foundation folks?
Remember all those people who claimed Obama's IRS was persecuting Christians and their churches?
Where's the outrage from the American Freedom Law Center and Pacific Legal Foundation folks?
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Comrade Donald knows how many pencils your child needs better than you do.
Trump: "You can give up certain products. You could give up pencils. Because under the China policy, every child can get 37 pencils. They only need 1 or 2. They don't need that many. You always need steel. You don't need 37 dolls for your daughter. 2 or 3 is nice. So we're doing things right."
December 10, 2025 at 1:59 AM
Comrade Donald knows how many pencils your child needs better than you do.
Couldn't agree with this more. I personally work with very few quants and I'm always amazed by how impressed folks are when I make very basic pivot tables. Y'all give me way too much credit lol
I think the toxic current correlation between “studied STEM” and “techbro sociopathy” isn’t really about the subject matter itself but is about how our culture has spent 25 years constantly blowing smoke up the asses of guys who are even passably competent at Computer or Quant
there is not any particularly strong evidence that study of the humanities make people good people. the elites of many brutal empires were extremely well-read!
December 10, 2025 at 12:57 AM
Couldn't agree with this more. I personally work with very few quants and I'm always amazed by how impressed folks are when I make very basic pivot tables. Y'all give me way too much credit lol
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I think the toxic current correlation between “studied STEM” and “techbro sociopathy” isn’t really about the subject matter itself but is about how our culture has spent 25 years constantly blowing smoke up the asses of guys who are even passably competent at Computer or Quant
there is not any particularly strong evidence that study of the humanities make people good people. the elites of many brutal empires were extremely well-read!
December 10, 2025 at 12:15 AM
I think the toxic current correlation between “studied STEM” and “techbro sociopathy” isn’t really about the subject matter itself but is about how our culture has spent 25 years constantly blowing smoke up the asses of guys who are even passably competent at Computer or Quant
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i wish more people understood this dynamic and how deeply it shapes our info environment. people complain and kvetch about how so many of our most popular pundits are lazy hacks; what is less often acknowledged is that the market is quite clear that this is what most ppl want from opinion journalism
This is one of the main reasons I gave up my columnist positions at Guardian U.S. The incentives made me intellectually lazy.
December 9, 2025 at 9:31 PM
i wish more people understood this dynamic and how deeply it shapes our info environment. people complain and kvetch about how so many of our most popular pundits are lazy hacks; what is less often acknowledged is that the market is quite clear that this is what most ppl want from opinion journalism
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The thing that bums me out about this is how much of the student loan debate centered around pushing for unilateral executive action on forgiveness rather than pushing for legislative change moving forward. Helping some people out of a burning building without doing anything to try to put it out.
Congrats again to the people who continuously said Biden did nothing about student loans for four years! www.cnbc.com/2025/12/09/s...
Trump officials move to end student loan payment pause for millions of borrowers
The Trump administration announced a proposed joint settlement with Missouri that would soon force millions of student loan borrowers into repayment.
www.cnbc.com
December 9, 2025 at 5:14 PM
The thing that bums me out about this is how much of the student loan debate centered around pushing for unilateral executive action on forgiveness rather than pushing for legislative change moving forward. Helping some people out of a burning building without doing anything to try to put it out.
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Biden was the best we’re ever going to do on student loans because a very clear lesson there was that there is apparently absolutely no electoral benefit to moving heaven and earth to try and help student debtors
Congrats again to the people who continuously said Biden did nothing about student loans for four years! www.cnbc.com/2025/12/09/s...
Trump officials move to end student loan payment pause for millions of borrowers
The Trump administration announced a proposed joint settlement with Missouri that would soon force millions of student loan borrowers into repayment.
www.cnbc.com
December 9, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Biden was the best we’re ever going to do on student loans because a very clear lesson there was that there is apparently absolutely no electoral benefit to moving heaven and earth to try and help student debtors
Lower level science classes are either weed-out courses for med-school hopefuls OR specifically tailored to students who won't take another science class.
Most schools have these interdisciplinary classes and we should teach more about the history of science in k-12 rather than truly hard science
Most schools have these interdisciplinary classes and we should teach more about the history of science in k-12 rather than truly hard science
Is it too much to ask to get a criminal justice degree without having to also be required to spend $800 to balance chemical equations for some reason? The election valence of Mercury is irrelevant. It’s useful to someone, but it’s not useful to me.
December 9, 2025 at 10:51 PM
Lower level science classes are either weed-out courses for med-school hopefuls OR specifically tailored to students who won't take another science class.
Most schools have these interdisciplinary classes and we should teach more about the history of science in k-12 rather than truly hard science
Most schools have these interdisciplinary classes and we should teach more about the history of science in k-12 rather than truly hard science
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We are in the early innings of people coming to grips with the real cost of building our cities almost exclusively for automobility
LA quietly stopped repaving all streets last July to avoid fulfilling its ADA obligations. The federal govt says when you repave a street, you have to update all the curb ramps. LA has tons of out of date curb ramps, so the rule makes repaving much more expensive. The city's solution: stop repaving!
LA has stopped repaving our streets
The reason why is probably illegal
futureis.la
December 9, 2025 at 9:18 PM
We are in the early innings of people coming to grips with the real cost of building our cities almost exclusively for automobility
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Nightmarish poll rivaling W’s 2008 polling from PPIC in California
December 9, 2025 at 7:48 PM
Nightmarish poll rivaling W’s 2008 polling from PPIC in California
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Another "point" of an educational space (and one the Internet is absolutely attacking) is a time and space in the world for a young person to be free to think rightly ~*and wrongly*~, without risk of the real danger.
And I think the coverage of campus in newspapers (going back to the 60s) has been a damaging campaign against the life of schooling. "You must be free to think rightly and wrongly, and free to appreciate the variousness of the universe undisturbed by its perils."
December 9, 2025 at 10:22 PM
Another "point" of an educational space (and one the Internet is absolutely attacking) is a time and space in the world for a young person to be free to think rightly ~*and wrongly*~, without risk of the real danger.
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did it in four words hemmingway
December 9, 2025 at 10:15 PM
did it in four words hemmingway
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When cameras are installed, they issue many violations in the first month, followed by a steep decline in the second month. This suggests that the cameras effectively deter speeding by changing underlying driver behavior rather than relying on sustained revenue extraction.
December 8, 2025 at 8:19 PM
When cameras are installed, they issue many violations in the first month, followed by a steep decline in the second month. This suggests that the cameras effectively deter speeding by changing underlying driver behavior rather than relying on sustained revenue extraction.
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Our new study provides rare causal evidence about NYC’s speed camera program. We find large reductions in collisions (30%) and injuries (16%) near intersections with cameras. www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1... @astagoff.bsky.social ky.social @brendenbeck.bsky.social nbeck.bsky.social 🧪
Can speed cameras make streets safer? Quasi-experimental evidence from New York City | PNAS
Each year, approximately 40,000 people die in vehicle collisions in the United States,
generating $340 billion in economic costs. To make roads saf...
www.pnas.org
December 8, 2025 at 8:08 PM
Our new study provides rare causal evidence about NYC’s speed camera program. We find large reductions in collisions (30%) and injuries (16%) near intersections with cameras. www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1... @astagoff.bsky.social ky.social @brendenbeck.bsky.social nbeck.bsky.social 🧪
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Finding our shared humanity to stand up against those who seek to deny it is the answer
♥️ “ICE looked at that school, saw a community standing up for families, and decided it wasn’t worth it.”
December 9, 2025 at 2:54 AM
Finding our shared humanity to stand up against those who seek to deny it is the answer
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Grower uses more Colorado River water than the entire Las Vegas metropolitan area.
A wealthy California farmer, a contentious divorce and a fatal shooting
A wealthy California farmer, a contentious divorce and a fatal shooting
Kerri Ann Abatti was shot and killed last month as she divorced her husband, powerful farmer Mike Abatti.
www.latimes.com
December 9, 2025 at 2:20 AM
Grower uses more Colorado River water than the entire Las Vegas metropolitan area.
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Welcome to America, where someone can be arrested 100 times, have 40 traffic citations, and still be allowed to continue to drive. With deadly results.
She is at fault (allegedly), but also the legal system and culture that allowed this lethal menace back on the roads. Outrageous.
She is at fault (allegedly), but also the legal system and culture that allowed this lethal menace back on the roads. Outrageous.
A man is dead after he was struck by an SUV while walking his dogs Saturday morning in Hopkinton, RI. Police say the driver was arrested. She had previously been arrested over 100 times. on.nbcboston.com/XEE5YAX
Man walking his dogs fatally struck by car in Hopkinton, RI; driver arrested
A man was walking his dog Saturday morning when he was hit and killed by an SUV in Hopkinton, Rhode Island, and the driver involved has been arrested
on.nbcboston.com
December 8, 2025 at 2:15 AM
Welcome to America, where someone can be arrested 100 times, have 40 traffic citations, and still be allowed to continue to drive. With deadly results.
She is at fault (allegedly), but also the legal system and culture that allowed this lethal menace back on the roads. Outrageous.
She is at fault (allegedly), but also the legal system and culture that allowed this lethal menace back on the roads. Outrageous.
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trump’s executive order banning wind permits has been ruled illegal @bloomberg.com
Trump Ban on Wind Energy Projects Ruled Illegal by US Judge
Less than a year after President Donald Trump banned new wind projects, a federal judge ruled the president’s executive order was illegal.
www.bloomberg.com
December 8, 2025 at 11:58 PM
trump’s executive order banning wind permits has been ruled illegal @bloomberg.com
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There is already a ban on federal money being used for abortion. Conservatives have demanded a ban on federal money subsidizing any insurance plan that covers abortion using *other funds* www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
December 9, 2025 at 12:24 AM
There is already a ban on federal money being used for abortion. Conservatives have demanded a ban on federal money subsidizing any insurance plan that covers abortion using *other funds* www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
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Seems pretty clear this is meant to bait Democrats into voting against this. It also includes a ban on "Administering, prescribing, or dis2 pensing to an individual medications" including testosterone and puberty blocking drugs.
www.finance.senate.gov/imo/media/do...
www.finance.senate.gov/imo/media/do...
December 9, 2025 at 12:00 AM
Seems pretty clear this is meant to bait Democrats into voting against this. It also includes a ban on "Administering, prescribing, or dis2 pensing to an individual medications" including testosterone and puberty blocking drugs.
www.finance.senate.gov/imo/media/do...
www.finance.senate.gov/imo/media/do...
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Tucked inside the Republican bill for health care subsidies, a clause that would restrict the money from being used for abortion (with exception for rape, incest or life of the mother) or for "any sex trait modification procedure or service."
www.finance.senate.gov/imo/media/do...
www.finance.senate.gov/imo/media/do...
December 8, 2025 at 11:53 PM
Tucked inside the Republican bill for health care subsidies, a clause that would restrict the money from being used for abortion (with exception for rape, incest or life of the mother) or for "any sex trait modification procedure or service."
www.finance.senate.gov/imo/media/do...
www.finance.senate.gov/imo/media/do...
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I love these snapshots of old training dates, it's about as close as you can get to proving objectively that something is very very wrong with the country.
The machine built by feeding it decades of data and news stories is like "shut the fuck up, that shit can't be true."
Immune to frog boiling.
The machine built by feeding it decades of data and news stories is like "shut the fuck up, that shit can't be true."
Immune to frog boiling.
December 8, 2025 at 9:37 PM
I love these snapshots of old training dates, it's about as close as you can get to proving objectively that something is very very wrong with the country.
The machine built by feeding it decades of data and news stories is like "shut the fuck up, that shit can't be true."
Immune to frog boiling.
The machine built by feeding it decades of data and news stories is like "shut the fuck up, that shit can't be true."
Immune to frog boiling.
Ridiculous
NEW: The U.S. Supreme Court has declined to take up a lawsuit over public library books in the Texas Hill Country, leaving in place a ruling that gives local governments & elected officials wide latitude to ban books & ideas from their shelves. #txlege
www.expressnews.com/politics/art...
www.expressnews.com/politics/art...
Supreme Court lets stand ruling that local officials can remove library books
The order means library patrons will have few, if any, avenues to reverse library-book removals in court.
www.expressnews.com
December 8, 2025 at 9:54 PM
Ridiculous