California is the 31st state admitted to the United States.
Related Tags:
| These are the most recent diaries filed under this tag: |
|---|
|
Los Angeles, CA—In a historic first, California oil regulators approved zero new drilling permits in the first quarter of 2024, effectively halting new drilling permit approvals at 5,947 since Governor Newsom came to office in 2019, according to...
by Dan Bacher
 9 comments
on Fri Apr 19, 2024 at 12:31 PM PDT
with 32 Recommends
|
|
This article first appeared in The Paradise Progressive. Review April 19, 2024 by David Silverberg Back on Dec. 13, the independent, boutique movie studio A24 released a horrific-looking trailer for a movie called Civil War. Its premise was that civil...
by Silmedia2
33 comments
on Fri Apr 19, 2024 at 09:33 AM PDT
with 13 Recommends
|
|
It’s 4/20, that solemn stoner holiday when we wake, perhaps bake, look back at how far we’ve come, and take the time to remember why the oven is on and there’s a sheet of raw snickerdoodles in the dryer. We all celebrate 4/20 differently—some prefer...
by Aldous J Pennyfarthing
106 comments
on Sat Apr 20, 2024 at 11:00 AM PDT
with 185 Recommends
|
|
Also: 12 jurors now seated in Trump's NY criminal trial NV Supreme Court approves ballot measure to protect 'reproductive freedoms' OH Republicans still refusing to put Biden on the 2024 ballot... You may be happy to know we don't begin today's...
by TheBradBlog
1 comments
on Thu Apr 18, 2024 at 07:10 PM PDT
with 3 Recommends
|
|
The second time was a charm. Following the disastrous death of 830,000 Chinook salmon fry after the California Department of Fish and Wildlife (CDFW) released them into the river above Iron Gate Dam in March, the agency this month successfully released...
by Dan Bacher
2 comments
on Thu Apr 18, 2024 at 02:49 PM PDT
with 29 Recommends
|
|
From Electrek (Industry blog) : In a major clean energy benchmark, wind, solar, and hydro exceeded 100% of demand on California's main grid for 30 of the past 38 days. Stanford University professor of civil and environmental engineering Mark Z....
by umbra
196 comments
on Wed Apr 17, 2024 at 01:35 PM PDT
with 721 Recommends
|
|
As salmon, steelhead and other fish species move closer to extinction and the Delta smelt is now functionally extinct in the wild, a coalition of environmental groups and the Central Delta Water Agency are demanding that the State Water Board take...
by Dan Bacher
7 comments
on Wed Apr 17, 2024 at 09:38 AM PDT
with 26 Recommends
|
|
President Joe Biden has made it a priority to improve and expand the National Rail Passenger Corporation, better known as Amtrak. What is a problem for many people is that Amtrak does not show a profit, except for particular routes. There are repeated...
by xaxnar
172 comments
on Wed Apr 17, 2024 at 11:23 AM PDT
with 262 Recommends
|
|
On April 10, the Pacific Fishery Management Council (PFMC) voted unanimously for a complete closure of recreational and commercial salmon seasons on the California Coast for the second year in a row, based on a CDFW recommendation. The closure is due...
by Dan Bacher
10 comments
on Wed Apr 10, 2024 at 05:05 PM PDT
with 25 Recommends
|
|
A California three-way! Polls shift toward Biden Republican scam artists pay the price Trump rejected again in NY criminal fraud case, facing trouble for phony $175M bond in NY civil fraud case... Keep hope alive. We've got a bunch of mostly good news...
by TheBradBlog
1 comments
on Tue Apr 09, 2024 at 07:01 PM PDT
with 6 Recommends
|
|
Biden's on a roll, and it's starting to show in the polling Some good news to keep us all from stress eating right up to the election. Trump reveals his true abortion position: Lying to win elections If you had Trump rambling and patting himself on the...
by Daily Kos Staff
7 comments
on Mon Apr 08, 2024 at 01:01 PM PDT
with 86 Recommends
|
|
Summer Lee Live Saturday, April 6, 5pm ET / 2pm PT Click here to join via zoom Click here to join in person/Greater Venice, CA, or to donate now.
by Progressive Democrats of America
1 comments
on Fri Apr 05, 2024 at 08:17 AM PDT
with 2 Recommends
|
|
Philipps Station, CA — At a press event to celebrate the above average snowpack survey in the Sierra Nevada on April 2, Governor Gavin Newsom unveiled the state’s controversial updated California Water Plan to supposedly “protect California’s water...
by Dan Bacher
7 comments
on Thu Apr 04, 2024 at 12:37 PM PDT
with 16 Recommends
|
|
President Joe Biden has a long-term vision for America’s economy—one that’s largely been obscured by the short-term disruptions of our post-pandemic reality. Of course, while inflation has ...
by Aldous J Pennyfarthing
122 comments
on Fri Apr 05, 2024 at 09:20 AM PDT
with 215 Recommends
|
|
The State Water Project (SWP) and Central Valley Project (CVP) Delta “death pumps” have been the biggest killers of salmon, steelhead, Sacramento splittail and other fish species in California for many decades, as I have documented in hundreds of...
by Dan Bacher
3 comments
on Wed Apr 03, 2024 at 06:55 PM PDT
with 12 Recommends
|
|
Anna M. Mangin made a major contribution to household needs in the 19th century. with her invention of the pastry fork. Anna �was born Anna Matilda Barker in October 1844 in the state of Louisiana. ...
by Black Kos
145 comments
on Fri Apr 05, 2024 at 02:00 PM PDT
with 60 Recommends
|
|
Also: AZ Repubs move to end early and mail-in voting Trump coughs up $175M bond in NY, sees gag order expanded FL Supremes approve abortion ban, allow abortion rights ballot measure in November... As it is said, "the arc of the moral universe is long,...
by TheBradBlog
1 comments
on Tue Apr 02, 2024 at 06:37 PM PDT
with 4 Recommends
|
|
Heck of a plan, John, even if your peers are kicking you out of the profession for planning a coup. John Eastman’s two-page memo outlined a six-point plan for Pence, in his role as president of the Senate, to set aside Electoral College votes in seven...
by annieli
7 comments
on Tue Apr 02, 2024 at 12:44 PM PDT
with 57 Recommends
|
|
Media Advisory From the Governor’s Office For immediate release April 1, 2024 Today Governor Gavin Newsom declared a state of emergency for the ecosystem of the San Francisco Bay estuary and its Central Valley watershed, and vowed to provide relief in...
by Dan Bacher
26 comments
on Mon Apr 01, 2024 at 10:33 AM PDT
with 24 Recommends
|
|
Warning: This is a long (c.4,000-word) diary. It is the best I can do to reduce a 128-page survey of Eastman’s corrupt behavior to a manageable length. He is that prolific a miscreant. However, with bolded section headings, I have tried to make it...
by TheCriticalMind
13 comments
on Sun Mar 31, 2024 at 02:15 PM PDT
with 93 Recommends
|
Recommended
- Holy shit I don’t think people are ready for how big of a deal this is: The FTC voted 3 to 2 Tuesday to issue the rule it proposed more than a year ago. The new rule makes it illegal for employers to include the agreements in employment contracts and...48 comments 144 Recs
- An article in the April 4 Süddeutsche Zeitung (byline Michaela Haas) talks about how the American press has reported on Donald Trump. It is truly damning. Here are a few choice excerpts. When Trump said he would pull out of NATO if elected president,...213 comments 642 Recs
- She also defied a subpoena….. But first, Trump’s apparent defense strategy: …….Trump could go scorched earth. He could deny that he ever had sex with Daniels, argue he paid her off because she was extorting him, maintain there’s nothing wrong with the...83 comments 220 Recs
- The Senate voted down a Republican filibuster attempt on the Ukraine aid package today. A final vote is expected later tonight. Bavovna Russian is served with an eviction notice. And their Chinese golf cart didn’t fare too well either. WARNING: Video...21 comments 123 Recs
- JPL announced today that engineering data was successfully received from the Voyager 1 spacecraft on Saturday April 20, the first time since Nov 2023. A new set of commands were sent on Thursday to relocate some code around a failed memory chip in the...247 comments 783 Recs
- And one I have experienced myself, personally. In fact, it forced my early retirement because I couldn’t stay awake at meetings. Trump has been observed to nod off during his Manhattan trial. Some have suggested that he may be deprived of drugs that he...37 comments 56 Recs
- So maybe they knew this ahead of time, had some inkling, or were blindsided completely, one thing we now know is true… Stories about Rubio having a secret love child and Cruz affairs with porn stars came directly from Trump. Of course they did. How...35 comments 86 Recs
- Back in 1967, a friend of mine and I hitchhiked from East Lansing, Michigan to San Francisco to spend the summer in Haight-Ashbury. One ride dropped us off in Sparks, Nevada, and within minutes of putting our thumbs out a city police car stopped and...72 comments 155 Recs
- A gentle reminder of how we do things: 🐱🐶🐦 Do not troll the diary. If you hate pootie diaries, leave now. No harm, no foul. Please do share pics of your fur kids! If you have ...145 comments 101 Recs
- The strange story of Republican Tim Sheehy’s bullet wound just keeps getting stranger. Sheehy, a former Navy SEAL who is seeking to unseat Democratic Sen. Jon Tester in Montana, recently claimed ...28 comments 130 Recs
- A new Axios article details something that I’ve been thinking about for some time now: what a crazy excellent job Hakeem Jeffries has been doing as the House minority leader. In fact, Axios points out how Jeffries has emerged as Congress’ Shadow...54 comments 234 Recs
- For more than two years Arizonans have had to put up with the constant legal challenges to the 2022 election brought by Republicans Kari Lake and Mark Finchem. In a year that saw all of the state-level Trump endorsed candidates in Arizona go down, Lake...94 comments 616 Recs
Recent Diaries
- Stephen A. Smith, the ESPN sports pundit now tries to excite the ‘Blacks for Trump’ audience demo referencing his conservative, single mother. Apologies ensue Stephen A. Smith on Donald Trump: “Black folks find him relatable because of what he is going...3 comments 1 Recs
- Success! JPL announced yesterday that engineering data was successfully received from the Voyager 1 spacecraft on Saturday April 20, the first time since Nov 2023. We wrote about the problem with ...1 comments 2 Recs
- www.patreon.com/keefknight www.keithknightart....1 comments 4 Recs
- Sonnet 64 When I have seen by time's fell hand defaced The rich proud cost of outworn buried age; When sometimes lofty towers I see down-razed, And brass eternal slave�to mortal rage; � � �When ...3 comments 6 Recs
- GET OUT THE VOTE � BIG TIME! HERE ARE THE RESOURCES YOU NEED TO DO THAT! Hope Springs from Field PAC � (background in �6 comments 21 Recs
- The minor arcana of the tarot consists of pips (numbered cards) and court cards (pages, knights, queens and kings) belonging to four different suits. The suits- Pentacles/Disks, Cups/Chalices, Wands/...8 comments 9 Recs
- Thank you, John Legend Commentary by Black Kos Editor Denise Oliver-Velez It’s important to applaud our celebrities when they use their enormous social media platforms to fight for us — and to ...103 comments 35 Recs
- Today the Southern District of New York (SDNY) unsealed an indictment charging Iranian nationals Hossein Harooni (حسین هارونی), Reza Kazemifar (رضاکاظمی فر), Komeil Baradaran Salmani (کمیل برادران سلمانی), and Alireza Shafie Nasab (علیرضا شفیعی نسب)...2 comments 6 Recs
- A patriot loves their country. and just does something about it. A Nationalist loves themselves and the cult of themselves and uses their country to advertise it.. It's just narcissism wrapped in a flag. Noodle and crew2 comments 5 Recs
- Is the Biden/Trump rematch an indication of a declining America? Mark Thompson gives the proper narrative for the ceasefire protests. Liz Cheney warns SCOTUS not to delay. Mark Thompson on Columbia U protests. Podcasts (Video — Audio) Politics Done...4 comments 2 Recs
- Donald Trump may have evaded the Vietnam War because of “bone spurs”, but his uncle played an important role in winning the Second World War. "Hidden History" is a diary series that explores ...10 comments 24 Recs
- Update from Day 2 of the Trump criminal trial. -The day started with a hearing on whether to hold Trump in contempt for his comments about the jury and witnesses. -The contempt hearing for Trump did not go well. Trump's attorney tried to argue that...15 comments 23 Recs
- Earlier this week, The New York Post reported that Michael Avenatti, the man who spent most of 2018 and 2019 as one of Donald Trump’s biggest gadflies, is seriously considering testifying in Trump’s hush money/election interference trial as a witness...14 comments 18 Recs
- And one I have experienced myself, personally. In fact, it forced my early retirement because I couldn’t stay awake at meetings. Trump has been observed to nod off during his Manhattan trial. Some have suggested that he may be deprived of drugs that he...37 comments 56 Recs
- The Senate voted down a Republican filibuster attempt on the Ukraine aid package today. A final vote is expected later tonight. Bavovna Russian is served with an eviction notice. And their Chinese golf cart didn’t fare too well either. WARNING: Video...21 comments 123 Recs
- Trump's trial is putting journalism to the test Will the media meet the moment? Gavin Newsom targets another two states for GOP's draconian abortion laws This is how you make them pay. Cartoon: Gag order Can he be stopped?0 comments 6 Recs
- Holy shit I don’t think people are ready for how big of a deal this is: The FTC voted 3 to 2 Tuesday to issue the rule it proposed more than a year ago. The new rule makes it illegal for employers to include the agreements in employment contracts and...48 comments 144 Recs
- How can it be that we, America, have devolved into a country that has of late become extremely protective of an ally that has clearly committed Human Rights violations? Long before Israel viciously displayed their intent to strip Palestinians/Gaza...3 comments 3 Recs
- So maybe they knew this ahead of time, had some inkling, or were blindsided completely, one thing we now know is true… Stories about Rubio having a secret love child and Cruz affairs with porn stars came directly from Trump. Of course they did. How...35 comments 86 Recs
- By David Glenn Cox Lest we forget, “DEWEY DEFEATS TRUMAN.” The only real threat to Joe Biden’s reelection is voter apathy. “Oh, this thing is in the bag. It won’t matter if I vote.” Now that the polls have turned in our favor, everybody wants to talk...11 comments 18 Recs
