Love to see a billionaire address coastal California’s housing issues by funding a beachside clinical-depression pen filled with windowless rooms for young people. independent.com/2021/10/28/arc…
“So the campus fronts the Pacific Ocean …”

“… okay?”

“… but we’re short of housing …"

“… right, so …”

“We need a way to help students stuck living in trailers or cars.”

“Got it. I have a brilliant idea. Jeeves, get the blueprints!”
“Hey Siri, show me the problem with a wealth-hoarding gerontocracy?”
Seriously: from Hope Ranch beach earlier this summer, I could see across the water to the site of UCSB (pictured below).

A billionaire wants to put kids who need campus housing into hundreds of windowless rooms _here_? Are people daft?
Previously, in “the UC system should just build some normal d*mned housing”:
Like: just _look_ at this floor plan, people. Gaze at it.

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29 Oct
[Senator Joe MANCHIN:]
(*refuses to push utilities to abandon fossil fuels*)

[ME:]
“Okay, then Biden should use the Clean Air Act to regulate fossil fuels out of the market.”

[SCOTUS:]
(*ahem*)

[ME:]
“… Well, sh*t.”
I expected shenanigans from SCOTUS, because Republicans have packed the Court. But I didn’t expect shenanigans before Biden even gets to #COP26.
[SCOTUS, in a possible future holding:]
“On whatever policy the federal government sets regarding carbon, Congress must take the lead.”

[Senator Joe MANCHIN:]
(*grins widely aboard yacht*)

[ME:]
(*screams until hoarse*)
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The ‘critical race theory’ panic is essentially the upscale companion brand of ‘Great Replacement’ talk. It gives those trying to mobilize people who see themselves as part of the gentry, rather than the rabble, a way to dress racialized fear in safe, khaki-and-fleece garb.
That reality explains why we see the likes of Sully fanning the flames of ‘critical race theory’ panic—and why Fox constantly switches between serving up lite, easier-going CRT messaging on its dayside & Tucker’s uncut white-nationalist rhetoric at night. mediamatters.org/white-national…
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The guy read ‘Ready Player One’ on his wholly owned island, and thought: “yes! I should build this!”
(I make zero apologies.)
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A thought that’s stayed on my mind through the protracted negotiations over BBB is the imperative of driving home to key Dem decision makers that we—despite our educations, our experience, our standardized-test verified wisdom—are not so smart.
What I mean by this: with our big brains, Dem wonks have the brainpower to work up the most byzantine policy designs. But whatever brilliance gets put to paper by Congress — the proposal to run paid leave through private insurance companies, for instance — has to get executed.
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“Nearly 50 years later, things have changed dramatically.”
– Chief Justice Roberts, in an Alabama voting-rights case (Shelby County) in 2013

Alabama Republicans, in 2021:

¯\_(ツ)_/¯
John Roberts might be the wrongest man alive in the United States today — yet he heads a branch of the federal government.
What the GOP proposes in Alabama is ridiculous. Its map splits Jefferson Co. (the state’s most populous) in half, bundles the wealthy Shelby Co. suburbs with lower-income Blount Co. — and stretches the traditional Birmingham district through the Black Belt almost to Mobile.
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I’d have thought at any point in my life before recent times that such deaths would fill the headlines. Instead, they make a mere backdrop for, tonight alone, four stories that depict a country set morally adrift:
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