Science Is Strategic@scienceisstrat1
Terrifying Bloomberg article - The End of Snow Threatens to Upend 76 Million American Lives:
“The Western US is an empire built on snow. And that snow is vanishing.”
Cc: @dwallacewells @MichaelEMann @erikbryn @Noahpinion @ramez
bloomberg.com/graphics/2022-…
2:27 PM · Aug 26, 2022
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Liam Dillon@dillonliam
Incredible. A new California state law allows nonprofits first right to purchase foreclosed homes so a Virginia-based nonprofit started buying homes in California and then flipping them at profit to finance their programs in Virginia.
Erin Baldassari @e_baldi
Last summer, two CA-based house-flipping corps created their own affordable housing nonprofits and began using SB 1079 to purchase and flip foreclosed homes, according to public records.
Learn more:
https://t.co/0NtzjliqCN
5:06 PM · Aug 25, 2022
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Mike Duncan@mikeduncan
Rescheduuuuuuuuuuule it
Ryan Grim @ryangrim
Dark Brandon: Do weed next and all your enemies will be vanquished
4:33 PM · Aug 26, 2022
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Ben Casselman@bencasselman
I didn't do a full chart-a-palooza today (too much other work!), but this is notable: Inflation adjusted spending is falling further below its trend line. That's probably pretty much what the Fed is aiming for: positive but below-trend growth.
2:31 PM · Aug 26, 2022
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Kim-Mai Cutler@kimmaicutler
Honestly just insane that we continue to subsidize demand and not figure out how to increase supply of highly sought after programs like these. https://t.co/ZOEdcTeFv9
Darrell Owens @IDoTheThinking
UC Berkeley to limit Computer Science degrees even harder. Even with intensely hard lower div courses, a 3.3 lower div GPA requirement to declare CS, they could still only weed down +2,000 intro CS courses to 800 a semester. A sad state of education.
https://t.co/o9i135Bx6Y
6:30 PM · Aug 26, 2022
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M.G. Siegler@mgsiegler
Peter Kafka @pkafka
Netflix is making a show about people who work at the last Blockbuster store. No idea if it’s good but it’s a good tweet, at least. https://t.co/EzRkvSeRef
10:03 PM · Aug 26, 2022
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Livable Communities Initiative LA@LCI_LA
Here's why we support @laurafriedman43's #AB2097 and encourage @GavinNewsom to support it as a solution to our state's #HousingCrisis, traffic and #ClimateEmergency. Removing parking minimums on development projects is critical to making housing more affordable in Los Angeles.
9:17 PM · Aug 26, 2022
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Matthew Yglesias@mattyglesias
Yes! Doing things provokes backlash. Doing popular things is better than doing unpopular things, but the best approach now is to bury coverage of the things he's done under a huge wall of blah blah blah.
southpaw @nycsouthpaw
@mattyglesias Pivot from an active popular agenda back to a stultifying do-nothing proceduralism?
10:40 PM · Aug 26, 2022
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Matthew Yglesias@mattyglesias
There's a reason Charlie Baker, Phil Scot, and Larry Hogan are the most popular governors in America and it's not voter appreciation for their extensive record of sweeping policy change.
10:41 PM · Aug 26, 2022
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