sandiego_cindy 👣🐾

This is a good thread. There is a huge difference between "the court system is still able to provide some positive outcomes in some cases" and "the court system is capable of providing due process and the system is fair."

gotcha, the last comment makes it sound like we’ve never done anything, and as a californian this riles me up😅

but it’s also weird bc even at its so-called best, u.s. cars have never been exported to europe to any significant degree so i’m not even sure why the original gripe

canadians otoh..

right, however i’m not talking up export of u.s. cars by any means—not sure why you think i am? in fact u.s. cars have failed us so badly i’m welcoming the chinese ev’s

“.. The fundamental problem is that corporations are institutionally ill-equipped to take center stage in policy debates. They are inherently self-interested economic actors with goals that often conflict with those of society.”

@bloomberg.com
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

but our cars operate on a scale within the u.s. that it is imperative we move toward decarbonization along with the rest of the world

especially as we/california STARTED regulating car emissions in the late 60s and early 70s!

reagan has so much to answer for 😫

any way i’m hoping that the chinese ev flood our markets and either our auto industry churns out ev or dies off and either way we transition to ev. this will be rough on employees of the auto industry here but the u.s. auto industry has only itself to blame

will they get a bailout? god i hope not

now of course 🍊💩 is trying to take out the clean air act, kneecap CA, and remove all EV incentives but let’s stay aware of the timelines here

AND europe is backtracking on its 2035 goals so keep an eye out at home, eh?

however CA emissions remained and bc of our position in the u.s. market the emissions regulations stayed; cheaper to make all cars to one standard than have different ones for different states

then the u.s. auto industry needed bailouts and frankly i think we should have let them fail in 2008

however u.s. cars have usually been a little too large for european cities because of simple timelines: more of our cities have larger streets and we have more suburbia bc 1 we built later and 2 we had the sheer SPACE to do so. plus we kept gas cheap and europe didn’t

the oversized car fetish is where the bulk of the unsafe comes from: these cars are people killers and this trend is especially evident from the mid teens of 2000s onward

www.urban.org/urban-wire/m...

but with the 70s oil crisis, we had plenty of small efficient cars thru the 80s and even 90s. my car in college (early 90s) got upwards of 45mpg, for example. i was so mad when my next car was a measly 25 mpg

but the fossil fuel industry was working overtime & you see kuwait and iraq invasions

<rolls my eyes in californian>

we published the first emissions standards in 1966, put CARB together etc. europe 1-7 starts in 1992. canada aqa, 1991

u.s. pivoted away from smaller efficient cars in part from reagan-era efforts and after the early 2000s the stupid SUV/oversized tanks etc started

i remember it being reported at the time l. stopped them in the hallway

and then there’s Post President’s Day…

not restricted to liberals

and 🍊💩 helped things to be far far far FAR worse for gaza than any other liberal politician to date

california is one of those four

if you do not have parental permission you must be 18

if you have parental permission there is no minimum

az, oklahoma and alabama are the three other states

we tried and failed to set a mandatory minimum here a few years back 😫

money talks
overturn citizens united, rule lobbying as bribery and corruption, limit contributions absolutely per individual, and allow zero corporate donations 🤷🏻‍♀️

This is wild.

41 DUI arrests by a Tennessee trooper. All dismissed. 22 drivers were completely sober.

He “resigned”. No explanation. No accountability. No apology. His personnel file doesn’t even mention the cases.

Police departments shouldn’t be in the business of shielding corrupt officers.
1/2

he’s just sucking on his lobbyists money teat

he isn’t. i want him primaried out

that said if he somehow becomes the dem nominee, i WILL vote, and it won’t be for the ‘thugs. so im looking hard at the primaries as everyone who’d rather vote for someone else should be doing

i like the snake path around it

they seem to think they just need to wait their turn 🙄

abolish ice

🤮

should be interesting when it falls apart

(around an image of a masked ICE agent holding a gun) Republicans "One Big Beautiful Bill' nearly tripled funding for ICE. That money came from your benefits: paid for by cuts to reproductive health care paid for by cuts to Medicare & Medicaid paid for by cuts to SNAP paid for by cuts to clean energy projects paid for by cuts to obesity prevention paid for by cuts to disaster response paid for by cuts to energy tax credits

okay that one is 😂😂😂😂😂

The Trump admin argument that masks "are for officer safety reasons" is actually an admission Tom Homan highlights how secrecy aims to block accountability, the immoral lawlessness at the core of the Trump administration. And, for paid subscribers: Closing my tabs.

NEW: The Trump administration's argument that masks "are for officer safety reasons" is actually an admission.

Tom Homan highlights how secrecy aims to block accountability, the immoral lawlessness at the core of the Trump administration.

Tonight, at Law Dork:

we have a nightmare before xmas jack statue who gets dressed up for all seasons in one of the nearby neighborhoods but this is next level for valentines!

a werewolf in front of a house wearing a ‘BE MINE’ heart and holding a sign that reads ‘THE ONLY THING MORE POWERFUL THAN HATE IS LOVE’ above a photo of bad bunny

a neighbor set up this werewolf for halloween and instead of taking it down they just update it with seasonal outfit changes. now it’s dressed for valentine’s day and holding a sign with a picture of bad bunny and his super bowl slogan. i love him.