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This is happening all over the place. The local school district here in Santa Rosa, CA had a similar multi-million dollar shortfall and closed several schools in the area. Following the school closures, they found that it wasn’t a deep enough cut, and were still in the red by several million.
December 3, 2025 at 6:46 PM
I shower every morning but less as a personal hygiene kinda thing and more like a crucial step of my morning ritual. My whole day feels off if I don’t shower first thing after waking up
December 1, 2025 at 9:39 PM
Or at, at least that’s how they view it. I would argue, if you actually believe that capitalism breeds innovation via competition, if the government is a competitor in a market, that would only further discipline the private sector competing in those markets, thus driving innovation.
November 20, 2025 at 7:28 PM
This is why “big government” has been made into a monster for right wingers and libertarians. The more government produces to prop up essential functions of society, the more restricted the profit potential is for those “markets”. Health care, child care, elderly care, food access, housing, etc.
November 20, 2025 at 7:25 PM
Lowering the cost of something like childcare is akin to an attack on the “child care” industries liberty to exploit a needed service in society for profit.
November 20, 2025 at 7:23 PM
Everything is scams
November 15, 2025 at 2:35 AM
Insane
November 14, 2025 at 4:15 PM
They hate democracy
November 13, 2025 at 7:12 PM
Bleak
November 13, 2025 at 7:10 PM
Everything in the US is either a trap, grift, intentionally addictive or actual poison
November 13, 2025 at 4:50 AM
Everything is here and nothing is here
November 13, 2025 at 12:24 AM
It’s sociological whiplash.
November 13, 2025 at 12:20 AM
This city reflects the wealth distribution of our society in a concentrated manner. Conditions swing dramatically block by block. You’ll pass a row of people leaning over on the verge of overdose, and then stumble onto a block of multi-million dollar homes.
November 13, 2025 at 12:20 AM
This city is beautiful and terrible. It’s everything and nothing. My partner has been in the hospital since 930 this morning undergoing a procedure and I’ve walked many miles just waiting for a call
November 13, 2025 at 12:13 AM
That’s pretty crazy. Makes me think of old building deeds with ethnic ownership exclusionary clauses. A lot of people don’t understand that racism was baked directly into law, policy, contracts, doctrine, etc.
November 12, 2025 at 7:30 PM