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San Francisco, CA
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Probably the best assessment of the SF homeless/addiction/mental health crisis I've ever read. Thanks @sfchronicle
California wants to force drug users into treatment that doesn’t exist. There will be consequences
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Didn’t think I could be further shocked by man’s cruelty to animals but here you go. @CRiverLabs
Get on this @EPA @DebHaalandNM @Interior
npr.org/2023/06/10/118076144…
So bummed. Fantastic series @ABCNetwork @hulu @HilarySwank @_gracedove #MMIW
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How is @lprdks responding to this @LawrenceKSTimes? Tragic.
Lawrence community members gather for healing at remnant prairie where flowers are dying from herbicide
lawrencekstimes.com/2023/05/…
Tragic and angering @usd497 @shannonlkimball @draslewis 😰😡 margainalized children will suffer. You’re lowering quality of life for many kids and families, and directly causing the economic decline of the East and South sides. Way to go.
The Lawrence school board has voted to close Broken Arrow and Pinckney elementary schools.
lawrenceks.news/3JPN6ke
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Across every demographic group, Americans die at younger ages than their counterparts in other wealthy nations. How could this happen? One group of researchers isn't surprised at all.
n.pr/3TJg9KE
Governor Newsom proposed a 2024 ballot initiative to improve how California treats mental illness, substance abuse, and homelessness 👍🏽 Ty @GavinNewsom @SenSusanEggman
gov.ca.gov/2023/03/19/govern…
Insanely annoyed @Twitter that I’m now seeing random tweets with zero context. I do not want to see tweets from entities I do not follow (labeled and especially unlabeled)! Over this already, will anyone even read this.
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Princeton sociologist Matthew Desmond says if the top 1% of Americans paid the taxes they owed, it would raise $175 billion each year.
"That is just about enough to pull everyone out of poverty," the author says. n.pr/3yT1Olt
Cleveland leaders zero in on long-simmering frustrations with railroad operators
Great article on federal & local bureaucracy dealing with railroad companies who run through CLE- dangerous conditions in a major metro area
👏🏽 @CourtneyAstolfi
cleveland.com/news/2023/03/c…
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Hilariously honest review of a printer padded out with filler text summoned from Chat GPT in order to demonstrate “authority" to Google shows how broken publishing ecosystem is today theverge.com/23642073/best-p…
A sickening prospect
Around 350,000 tonnes of octopus are caught each yr- more than 10 x that in 1950. If any of you have seen My Octopus 🐙 Teacher you’ll know how sensitive & intelligent these creatures are. These plans to intensively farm them is soul destroying. bbc.com/news/science-environ…
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BREAKING: For the 1st time in more than 3 years, most of the Bay Area has completely wiped out the dry/drought conditions on the latest drought monitor. Nearly 64% of California is now out of the drought (dry category is not considered drought, only moderate or greater).
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After oil spill, Keystone pipeline operator faces sharp questions from Kansas lawmakers kansascity.com/news/politics…
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Ted Lasso, big Jayhawks guy 🫡
Shoutout Jason Sudeikis for repping the Crimson & Blue on the @TODAYshow this morning! Rock Chalk
