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In last night’s SOTU address, President Joseph R. Biden laid out, in clear contrasts, His vision for our country versus TFG’s dystopian nightmare of a “vision.” And the clear contrasts could NOT be any more evident. Darkness vs light. Past grievances...
by BlackGrannyRising
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on Fri Mar 08, 2024 at 04:15 AM PST
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There’s a lot of positivity on this website about Joe Biden’s polling vs Trump. But let’s be honest. Call those of us who are worried names (“bed-wetters”) if that makes you feel better, but even the most positive assessments are telling us that it’s...
by jmdincali
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on Tue Dec 26, 2023 at 01:06 PM PST
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Los Angeles, CA—While Governor Gavin Newsom has received accolades from the media and environmental NGOs for his recent lawsuit against decades of deception by Big Oil, his administration has at the same time approved a total of 15,722 new and reworked...
by Dan Bacher
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on Thu Oct 05, 2023 at 01:48 PM PDT
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I don’t know what happened but until the last couple of days I’ve been happily reading DK on my mobile devices starting with this link: m.dailykos.com/… However suddenly I can no longer do that and when I enter that link it rolls to what you see above....
by JPH102
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on Sat Jun 03, 2023 at 12:17 PM PDT
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Prisms
by Laura Riding Jackson (1901-1991)
What is beheld through glass seems glass. �
The quality of what I am
Encases what ...
by strawbale
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on Fri Mar 31, 2023 at 07:00 PM PDT
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During a break between the devastating atmospheric rivers hitting California on Friday, Jan. 6, the California state oil regulator CalGEM announced that the emergency regulations to support implementation of SB 1137 were approved by the Office of...
by Dan Bacher
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on Mon Jan 09, 2023 at 02:10 PM PST
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Despite the millions of dollars Big Oil spends on lobbying the California Legislature and contributing to legislators every year, the Senate late last night by a vote of 25 to 10 approved Senate Bill 1137 to create 3200-foot setbacks around new and...
by Dan Bacher
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on Wed Aug 31, 2022 at 10:52 PM PDT
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On August 12, California Governor Gavin Newsom asked the State Legislature to end neighborhood oil drilling as part of a climate package he’s trying to pass before the end of the year’s legislative session on August 31. In language sent to the...
by Dan Bacher
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on Tue Aug 16, 2022 at 04:01 PM PDT
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While many here have been shocked and astonished at the increasingly extreme positions being taken by supposedly “serious” politicians, little of it has come as even the mildest surprise to me personally. As the effects of the rollback of Row v/Wade...
by Phil In Denver
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on Wed Jul 27, 2022 at 01:04 PM PDT
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On Wednesday, dozens of community residents and environmental justice advocates from the Last Chance Alliance and VISION blocked the entrance to the CA Department of Conservation (DOC) headquarters in downtown Sacramento by erecting props, including...
by Dan Bacher
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on Thu Jul 14, 2022 at 10:36 AM PDT
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I am soon to have intraocular lenses implanted b/c my corneas are becoming obscured with cataracts. I’d like to hear from people who have made the choice to get their implants with fixed focus for reading distance, rather than the more common distance...
by pixxer
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on Thu Feb 10, 2022 at 09:27 AM PST
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— Having watched and supported my Mom’s brave fight against this debilitating disease (and eventually losing that battle) — the epic goal that President Biden rolled out today, cannot come soon enough. We put people on the Moon afterall — and that took...
by jamess
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on Wed Feb 02, 2022 at 06:27 PM PST
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Yesterday, December 21, marked the end of the public comment period for the California Department of Conservation’s public health rulemaking process to increase protections for communities on the frontlines of oil drilling in a state where thousands of...
by Dan Bacher
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on Wed Dec 22, 2021 at 12:25 PM PST
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Wilmington— After years of grassroots organizing, protests and political pressure by environmental justice advocates, California Governor Gavin Newsom announced at a press conference today that the Department of Conservation’s Geologic Energy...
by Dan Bacher
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on Thu Oct 21, 2021 at 10:12 AM PDT
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SACRAMENTO — Less than a month after denying all of Aera Energy’s 21 applications for fracking permits, the Geologic Energy Management Division (CalGEM) denied 42 of California Resources Production Corporation’s applications for fracking operations...
by Dan Bacher
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on Sun Aug 08, 2021 at 01:55 PM PDT
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Ventura, CA — More than 250 frontline community members and elected officials from across California rallied in Ventura — the fastest warming county in the U.S., according to rally organizers — to demand action from California Governor Gavin Newsom on...
by Dan Bacher
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on Thu Jul 22, 2021 at 05:53 PM PDT
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SACRAMENTO – On June 21, the California Geologic Energy Management Division (CalGEM), the agency in charge of regulating oil and gas operations, missed yet another deadline to draft public health regulations to protect people living near oil and gas...
by Dan Bacher
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on Thu Jun 24, 2021 at 09:07 AM PDT
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Morning Open Thread is a daily, copyrighted post, from a host of editors and guest writers. We support our community, invite and share ideas, and encourage thoughtful, respectful dialogue in an open forum. This series was conceived as a haven where...
by Otteray Scribe
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on Wed Jun 23, 2021 at 03:30 AM PDT
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Some more big news today :
by poopdogcomedy
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on Mon Jun 21, 2021 at 09:06 AM PDT
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In a follow-up to my article yesterday on the blocking of Senate Bill 467 in the Senate Committee on Natural Resources and the Environment, below my short commentary is a press release from the statewide coalition of environmental, economic, racial...
by Dan Bacher
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on Wed Apr 14, 2021 at 05:40 PM PDT
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