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The Saltwater Oyster Depot, in the town of Inverness in West Marin, is closing over "hundreds of thousands of dollars" of unpaid sales taxes.
Additionally, the story has this *very grim* note about housing in Marin.
Prior to Covid, 1/3rd(!) of the restaurant's employees lived in their cars.
Additionally, the story has this *very grim* note about housing in Marin.
Prior to Covid, 1/3rd(!) of the restaurant's employees lived in their cars.
August 15, 2025 at 2:13 PM
The Saltwater Oyster Depot, in the town of Inverness in West Marin, is closing over "hundreds of thousands of dollars" of unpaid sales taxes.
Additionally, the story has this *very grim* note about housing in Marin.
Prior to Covid, 1/3rd(!) of the restaurant's employees lived in their cars.
Additionally, the story has this *very grim* note about housing in Marin.
Prior to Covid, 1/3rd(!) of the restaurant's employees lived in their cars.
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You have to almost admire the sheer dedication to incompetence this administration has, to go from accusing 643 counties and cities of having "sanctuary policies" to... 22.
A casual 97% drop between lists; indicative of seriously rigorous vetting and careful, fact-based policy-making.
A casual 97% drop between lists; indicative of seriously rigorous vetting and careful, fact-based policy-making.
Wow, after their initial sanctuary jurisdiction list drew widespread criticism & was pulled down within days, the admin has published ANOTHER sanctuary jurisdiction list.
First list by DHS: 14 states, 415 counties & 227 cities
New list by DOJ: 13 states, 4 counties & 18 cities
First list by DHS: 14 states, 415 counties & 227 cities
New list by DOJ: 13 states, 4 counties & 18 cities
August 7, 2025 at 2:19 PM
You have to almost admire the sheer dedication to incompetence this administration has, to go from accusing 643 counties and cities of having "sanctuary policies" to... 22.
A casual 97% drop between lists; indicative of seriously rigorous vetting and careful, fact-based policy-making.
A casual 97% drop between lists; indicative of seriously rigorous vetting and careful, fact-based policy-making.
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We could have had cancer vaccines, and instead the United States will contribute nothing whatsoever to mRNA research, condemning millions of people worldwide to unnecessary illness and death
WASHINGTON (AP) — Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announces he will cancel $500 million in vaccine development projects.
August 5, 2025 at 11:04 PM
We could have had cancer vaccines, and instead the United States will contribute nothing whatsoever to mRNA research, condemning millions of people worldwide to unnecessary illness and death
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We’ve discovered a literal miracle with almost unlimited potential and it’s being scrapped for *no reason whatsoever*. This isn’t even nihilism, it’s outright worship of death and human suffering.
"The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) today announced the beginning of a coordinated wind-down of its mRNA vaccine development activities...."
cc: Sen. Bill Cassidy
cc: Sen. Bill Cassidy
August 5, 2025 at 11:09 PM
We’ve discovered a literal miracle with almost unlimited potential and it’s being scrapped for *no reason whatsoever*. This isn’t even nihilism, it’s outright worship of death and human suffering.
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Every reputable expert I know considers mRNA vaccine technology to be one of the most revolutionary advances in medicine in our lifetimes. Its inventors won the Nobel Prize in 2023. Shutting it down now is pointless self-harm to humanity.
Release from HHS: HHS will wind down its development of the mRNA vaccine development activities under the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA).
August 5, 2025 at 10:54 PM
Every reputable expert I know considers mRNA vaccine technology to be one of the most revolutionary advances in medicine in our lifetimes. Its inventors won the Nobel Prize in 2023. Shutting it down now is pointless self-harm to humanity.
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kennedy is going to kill a lot of people
WASHINGTON (AP) — Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announces he will cancel $500 million in vaccine development projects.
August 5, 2025 at 10:50 PM
kennedy is going to kill a lot of people
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I believe one of the new mRNA vaccines was expected to treat colon cancer, and another had the potential to keep pancreatic cancer from recurring. That’s what they’re taking away.
WHAT, WHAT, WHAT ARE WE DOING!!!
“Vaccine experts and people steeped in pandemic preparedness expressed horror at the news.” www.statnews.com/2025/08/05/m...
“Vaccine experts and people steeped in pandemic preparedness expressed horror at the news.” www.statnews.com/2025/08/05/m...
Health secretary RFK Jr. shuts door on U.S. investment in mRNA vaccine research
Vaccine experts and people steeped in pandemic preparedness expressed horror at the news that RFK Jr. has shut the door in U.S. investment in mRNA vaccine research.
www.statnews.com
August 6, 2025 at 12:02 AM
I believe one of the new mRNA vaccines was expected to treat colon cancer, and another had the potential to keep pancreatic cancer from recurring. That’s what they’re taking away.
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the voting rights act is, in its entirety, obviously constitutional under the 15th amendment, which gives congress broad and proactive authority to stop racial discrimination in voting. and you know it is obviously constitutional because roberts has had to invent entire new doctrines to gut it.
The Supreme Court knocked down one of the two pillars of the Voting Rights Act in 2013 in the Shelby County case. It has now gone out of its way to consider whether it should knock down the other, by rescheduling arguments in a case it could have resolved in June under existing precedent.
****Breaking:**** Supreme Court, in Order Asking for Additional Briefing in Louisiana Voting Case, Appears to Put the Constitutionality of Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act into Question electionlawblog.org?p=151301
August 2, 2025 at 6:07 PM
the voting rights act is, in its entirety, obviously constitutional under the 15th amendment, which gives congress broad and proactive authority to stop racial discrimination in voting. and you know it is obviously constitutional because roberts has had to invent entire new doctrines to gut it.
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The International Residential Code (1&2 family), which controls townhomes, is much lower cost than International Building Code, which controls multifamily.
This isn’t true globally - @stephenjacobsmith.com’s shows building costs per unit decrease with density everywhere but US/Can.
This isn’t true globally - @stephenjacobsmith.com’s shows building costs per unit decrease with density everywhere but US/Can.
July 31, 2025 at 2:21 AM
The International Residential Code (1&2 family), which controls townhomes, is much lower cost than International Building Code, which controls multifamily.
This isn’t true globally - @stephenjacobsmith.com’s shows building costs per unit decrease with density everywhere but US/Can.
This isn’t true globally - @stephenjacobsmith.com’s shows building costs per unit decrease with density everywhere but US/Can.
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American planners used building codes to make stacked flats and apartments costly, complex, and impossible to build. They wanted to socially engineer us into car dependent suburbs and it worked
The International Residential Code (1&2 family), which controls townhomes, is much lower cost than International Building Code, which controls multifamily.
This isn’t true globally - @stephenjacobsmith.com’s shows building costs per unit decrease with density everywhere but US/Can.
This isn’t true globally - @stephenjacobsmith.com’s shows building costs per unit decrease with density everywhere but US/Can.
August 2, 2025 at 6:35 AM
American planners used building codes to make stacked flats and apartments costly, complex, and impossible to build. They wanted to socially engineer us into car dependent suburbs and it worked
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do you ever stare at the ceiling and think about how the worldwide scientific establishment did the impossible and created a COVID vaccine in under a year and the response of the general public has been to go on an unstoppable rampage to destroy science and scientists
July 20, 2025 at 6:46 PM
do you ever stare at the ceiling and think about how the worldwide scientific establishment did the impossible and created a COVID vaccine in under a year and the response of the general public has been to go on an unstoppable rampage to destroy science and scientists
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It’s actually for more economically and environmentally sustainable to urbanize our unurban cities where we already have infrastructure and the demand to live there.
I am sympathetic to the techno-optimists who say the US needs to start building cities again for this reason. It's not sustainable to have 90% of job growth in 10 metro areas. It's also not sustainable to build new suburbs, that land is mined out.
So: new cities.
So: new cities.
July 20, 2025 at 8:02 PM
It’s actually for more economically and environmentally sustainable to urbanize our unurban cities where we already have infrastructure and the demand to live there.
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Florida is sending random undocumented immigrants pulled over in traffic stops to the Everglades detention camp, and because the whole thing was set up haphazardly, they still don’t have any easy way to find out if someone is detained there (like at any normal detention center or jail).
Florida is committing "enforced disappearance," a very serious violation of international human rights law.
www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...
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www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...
www.ohchr.org/en/special-p...
July 13, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Florida is sending random undocumented immigrants pulled over in traffic stops to the Everglades detention camp, and because the whole thing was set up haphazardly, they still don’t have any easy way to find out if someone is detained there (like at any normal detention center or jail).
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Like there is really no disagreement among genuine specialists on this stuff around “we do in fact need more air conditioning access globally AND we need to do these other things.”
But the main point is that you can’t do the other things and skip the AC without causing mass death.
But the main point is that you can’t do the other things and skip the AC without causing mass death.
July 3, 2025 at 12:02 PM
Like there is really no disagreement among genuine specialists on this stuff around “we do in fact need more air conditioning access globally AND we need to do these other things.”
But the main point is that you can’t do the other things and skip the AC without causing mass death.
But the main point is that you can’t do the other things and skip the AC without causing mass death.
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I’ve read a lot of research on air conditioning, heat waves, and mortality, and there’s extremely strong consensus among actual experts about “we need to expand global access to air conditioning at the same time as we engage in other sustainable measures, like better architecture and green spaces.”
July 3, 2025 at 12:02 PM
I’ve read a lot of research on air conditioning, heat waves, and mortality, and there’s extremely strong consensus among actual experts about “we need to expand global access to air conditioning at the same time as we engage in other sustainable measures, like better architecture and green spaces.”
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This is a big win for all the regular folks who volunteer their time to to help craft neighborhood plans. Today, volunteering on planning issues often feels like a waste of time, because even housing that complies flawlessly with every aspect of a plan is so often killed by meritless #CEQA lawsuits.
June 25, 2025 at 11:50 AM
This is a big win for all the regular folks who volunteer their time to to help craft neighborhood plans. Today, volunteering on planning issues often feels like a waste of time, because even housing that complies flawlessly with every aspect of a plan is so often killed by meritless #CEQA lawsuits.
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Donald Trump and his servile Republican Party have destroyed this country
June 24, 2025 at 12:20 PM
Donald Trump and his servile Republican Party have destroyed this country
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It took heroic efforts to get HB 5002 through the CT legislature. CT has some of the most expensive suburbs & most restrictive zoning in the US - 2+ acre minimum lot sizes near excellent transit infrastructure & job access. Deeply frustrating to see Gov. Lamont's veto.
Gov. Lamont says he will *veto* HB 5002, the broad housing bill proponents say would boost affordable housing in the state.
He says he hopes to see an amended version in a special session this fall.
“Veto to me means we can do a lot better.”
He says he hopes to see an amended version in a special session this fall.
“Veto to me means we can do a lot better.”
June 23, 2025 at 5:31 PM
It took heroic efforts to get HB 5002 through the CT legislature. CT has some of the most expensive suburbs & most restrictive zoning in the US - 2+ acre minimum lot sizes near excellent transit infrastructure & job access. Deeply frustrating to see Gov. Lamont's veto.
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Florida child welfare officers found a 17-year-old living in a shed with no food or water. They sent him to a foster home... and then reported him to ICE, whereupon he was handcuffed and shackled and marched to detention.
Not only is that victimizing him again, it violates Florida's own rules.
Not only is that victimizing him again, it violates Florida's own rules.
![The decision to alert immigration authorities to Henry’s status as an undocumented migrant is at odds with decades of child welfare practice in Florida – and it appears to violate a 30-year-old state Department of Children and Families rule that prohibits workers from acting upon a child’s status. Fran Allegra, a children’s attorney who ran Miami-Dade’s private foster care agency from 2004 until 2014, said if DCF’s action in Henry’s case represents a formal change in policy, it “puts Florida children at risk, and introduces a new chilling effect on reports to the [state’s] child abuse hotline. Reports about undocumented families are already low. This shift makes the chance for reporting, and, therefore, rescuing kids, less likely.”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:2vtbmhmrwzbqcfv4we4uxzzt/bafkreifzejzvkh3dka76wm5kctwo2jvthtmawpnyjkxtuzhn7es3fqlcau@jpeg)
June 11, 2025 at 3:54 PM
Florida child welfare officers found a 17-year-old living in a shed with no food or water. They sent him to a foster home... and then reported him to ICE, whereupon he was handcuffed and shackled and marched to detention.
Not only is that victimizing him again, it violates Florida's own rules.
Not only is that victimizing him again, it violates Florida's own rules.
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It’s a fundamentally antisocial and regressive worldview. Nothing can ever be better than it is now and I will oppose any effort to improve to my last breath. With a very strong dose of not wanting to be anywhere near people who are different from them
June 4, 2025 at 5:09 PM
It’s a fundamentally antisocial and regressive worldview. Nothing can ever be better than it is now and I will oppose any effort to improve to my last breath. With a very strong dose of not wanting to be anywhere near people who are different from them
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this story is just a great illustration of NIMBY nihilism. at core, these people have no vision for anything. they simply oppose change for the sake of opposition. (i also think there is an element of death denial here — if i can prevent all physical changes i can deny the reality of my mortality)
Peak NIMBY brain is trying to keep a neighboring airport open, even though the planes that land there are literally spraying toxins over your home, because if the airport closes then they're going to build affordable housing there. lapublicpress.org/2025/06/sant...
Santa Monica's elite are using an airport to block affordable housing
A campaign to build housing on the site of the soon-to-be-shuttered airport is drawing pushback from opponents of new development.
lapublicpress.org
June 4, 2025 at 5:06 PM
this story is just a great illustration of NIMBY nihilism. at core, these people have no vision for anything. they simply oppose change for the sake of opposition. (i also think there is an element of death denial here — if i can prevent all physical changes i can deny the reality of my mortality)
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The state legislature could always give Sound Transit its own permitting authority. www.theurbanist.org/2024/06/27/o...
Op-Ed: Sound Transit Needs Its Own Permitting Authority - The Urbanist
# The Washington State Legislature should exempt Sound Transit from local permitting processes to avoid snags and make it easier to build light rail in public streets. This would expedite transit proj...
www.theurbanist.org
June 4, 2025 at 11:29 PM
The state legislature could always give Sound Transit its own permitting authority. www.theurbanist.org/2024/06/27/o...
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This needs to be passed in the next session with effective start date 30 days after passed (is there a minimum?). No time for “local control” to get out of control
The state legislature could always give Sound Transit its own permitting authority. www.theurbanist.org/2024/06/27/o...
Op-Ed: Sound Transit Needs Its Own Permitting Authority - The Urbanist
# The Washington State Legislature should exempt Sound Transit from local permitting processes to avoid snags and make it easier to build light rail in public streets. This would expedite transit proj...
www.theurbanist.org
June 4, 2025 at 11:41 PM
This needs to be passed in the next session with effective start date 30 days after passed (is there a minimum?). No time for “local control” to get out of control
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As of May 31 (Coristine & Farritor) and April 10 (Shaotran), the trio officially became full-time federal employees. Their roles at the General Services Administration (GSA) are now permanent.
And they’re not exactly entry-level.
And they’re not exactly entry-level.
‘Big Balls’ Is Officially a Full-Time Government Employee
The first wave of DOGE staffers was supposed to be gone after 130 days. Instead, core members of the team have signed on for the long haul.
www.wired.com
June 4, 2025 at 3:13 PM
As of May 31 (Coristine & Farritor) and April 10 (Shaotran), the trio officially became full-time federal employees. Their roles at the General Services Administration (GSA) are now permanent.
And they’re not exactly entry-level.
And they’re not exactly entry-level.
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Went down a rabbit hole of typical elevator peak and average power consumption, and concluded that a modest EV-derived battery pack paired with AC inverter + motor would be an incredibly cost-effective way to power elevators in residential buildings without necessitating any electrical upgrades
talking to a developer last night about cost to install an elevator in a low-rise building in seattle
turns out it's not just the higher direct cost (US elevators are > 3X more expensive than swiss or german ones) - but requires 3-phase power, and SCL costs to get power to site are incredibly high
turns out it's not just the higher direct cost (US elevators are > 3X more expensive than swiss or german ones) - but requires 3-phase power, and SCL costs to get power to site are incredibly high
May 20, 2025 at 10:38 PM
Went down a rabbit hole of typical elevator peak and average power consumption, and concluded that a modest EV-derived battery pack paired with AC inverter + motor would be an incredibly cost-effective way to power elevators in residential buildings without necessitating any electrical upgrades