Favorites July 15 2021

Kim-Mai Cutler @kimmaicutler

Make sure your masks, filters and fans are ready if this forecast holds. Dry lightning this weekend amid record dry vegetation and fuel load. https://t.co/PFvGWXsDK9

NWS Bay Area @NWSBayArea

This imagery gives an idea of the coverage and direction of the elevated moisture Sunday afternoon. The moisture is expected to rotate in from the SE over Big Sur and rotate out to the NE over the San Francisco Bay Area through the event, potentially impacting a broader area. https://t.co/03mKeMp2Wc

News you can use.

Marcel Dirsus @marceldirsus

What a chart

Wow, and presumably we still have a distance to fall on the red graph

Samuel Hammond 🌐🏛 @hamandcheese

This is so dumb. The IRS is already stretched thin and facing severe workforce shortages from looming retirements. This goes beyond boosting tax enforcement. As my report with @Brrrrrpp details, the IRS is about to reach its breaking point: niskanencenter.org/the-irs-a-brok…

Alayna Treene @alaynatreene

Senators are starting to suggest the IRS provision for tax enforcement in the bipartisan infra package— one of the biggest pay-fors— might be dropped If it's nixed, it's a huge bow to conservatives, many of whom see this as the most controversial aspect https://t.co/Q7JoICil8X

I'll keep saying it: Fund the tax police! While you're at it, automate filing, it has unexpected benefits.

Youyang Gu @youyanggu

Not a single country in the world has vaccinated enough people to stop the Delta variant. Malta, the world’s most vaccinated country (~90% of adults), saw its COVID-19 cases increase from 1 a day in June to 200 yesterday. We must all adapt & learn to live in this new normal.

Yeesh, get vaccinated or get covid. "If Malta had the same population as the US, they’d be reporting 130,000 cases, 5x higher than the current US daily average."

Frida Ghitis @FridaGhitis

France gets serious about vaccines. Beginning Aug. 1, unvaccinated people will not be admitted to restaurants, cafes, theaters, and will not be able to travel long distances by train. After the announcement more than 2.2 million people signed up for shots

nytimes.comMacron to the French: Vaccinate or ElseReversing himself, the president gambles that the birthplace of individual liberties will accept coercion from the top down.

We're going to need a much higher vaccination rate to avoid outbreaks, this kind of thing should be on the table. While we're at it, the delay for approving the vaccines for children seem unacceptable.

Tristan 🌲 @TGrayWrites

If you were wondering if JK Rowling's long twitter silence was an end to her promotion of transphobic hate campaigns - the answer is no. She's back on it. She also considers support of her work to be support of her bigotry.

lgbtqnation.comJ.K. Rowling says 90% of her fans agree with her transphobia but they’re afraid to say so publiclyShe claims that people who oppose trans rights live in a “climate of fear” in a clumsy attempt to paint them as victims.

Yea, Lindsay Ellis' video about the situation is good and still relevant, if you want to get into this.

Kim-Mai Cutler @kimmaicutler

Now do this, but for in-fill housing in climate defensible areas of the country.

Joe Nyangon @DrJoeNyangon

U.S. seeks to speed rooftop solar growth with instant permits https://t.co/WiPeH1lQH5

fry @anniefryman

This is extremely correct and is the guiding logic behind, for example, SB 35. If you want sleazy developers out of politics, take the sleazy politics out of development!

Ian Seabiscuit @ijspurcell

@stephenjudkins @isaiah_bb He's right, insomuch as that particular developer is profiting off of the restricted housing market. The great part about by-right development is that it makes it so you don't need a war chest and connections to be one of the handful of mega-firms allowed to actually build shit.

Legalize housing, get rid of the graft!

Turkey, August 2019