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Raving lunatic radical. Rheumatoid arthritis makes me bitchy. 🐱 Mom. @FretNaught was my husband. Wallowing in self-pity as a life project. Same at bsky.
Apr 4 19 tweets 3 min read
I had the misfortune to come across this tweet this morning, did a little reading, and am compelled to comment. The tenants had lived there for some years. Indeed if you can bear the fire video, it looks like they’d been there for a long time. The wife suffered from Parkinson’s and dementia, which means that her husband was her caregiver.
May 23, 2021 4 tweets 1 min read
California gets credit for its policies limiting COVID infections. It shouldn’t. It limited them among richer, whiter people. But “essential workers” likely suffered as much infection and death as the same workers in Florida and Texas. CalOSHA was nowhere to be found. We killed grocery workers, line cooks, farm workers, manufacturing workers, warehouse workers, nurses, doctors, hospital cleaners...
Aug 10, 2019 46 tweets 7 min read
Let’s do a quick trek through the proposed Sacramento rent-sort-of-control law. I can’t go to the meeting, so you all are welcome to any of this stuff. Use it well. I will also note that there’s no way that I can pick up on everything that’s wrong with this law. This is a collective gripe session, and additional submissions are welcome.