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Aedes aegypti showing up in more California counties. If you get bit by a mosquito during the day, call vector control!

She’s either…

….disgracefully uninformed about the president’s policies in her area of responsibility.

Or…

…lying.

Thank you for your attention to this matter!

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Let it never again be said that a woman with no real reporting experience who fell for a Twitter account called "Official Antifa" cannot be the head of a huge news organization

Your father would be so disappointed that in this interview you repeated the long-disproven lie that Hamas put babies in ovens.

Bari Weiss Takes Her Grift Mainstream Journalism's biggest fraud takes the reins at CBS

I wrote about the ascendance of Bari Weiss from a hack columnist to media royalty, and what it means for the future of CBS News.

I hate to keep doomposting when I should be spreading geological joy, but I was raised on commissary food. Turning the military food supply over to the private sector is madness.

They don't make the EVs have that annoying spaceship noise like they do here?

After 56 years on air, California TV station abruptly shutters news operations Employees at KION-TV and Telemundo 23 in Salinas were told to pack up on Tuesday.

After 56 years on air, California TV station abruptly shutters news operations

Tenant in Oakland? Your Landlord Probably Can’t Raise Your Rent Much for the Next Year Finally some not bad news.

"Tenant in Oakland? Your Landlord Probably Can’t Raise Your Rent Much for the Next Year" bayareacurrent.com/tenant-in-oa...

How a $5 Billion Federal Project Could Sink the Lower Ninth Ward For Good Decades after Betsy and Katrina, the community faces another threat — a canal proposal promising “progress” that could threaten its survival.

I spent six months walking the Lower Ninth Ward, speaking w/ dozens of neighbors, + combing through 6,000 pages of FOIA docs. My latest reveals what recent documentaries left out. If Katrina’s legacy moved you, don’t miss what’s happening to the community now capitalbnews.org/katrina-anni...

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who cares

It's honestly very funny that these astroturfers are now posting shots that show that the number of media they get to show up to their dumbass press conferences is about the same as the number of "protestors"

Microsoft Now, Microsoft Forever!

Scarborough struggles with ‘gull muggings’ as urban seabird population rises Herring gulls and kittiwakes have learned the easiest meal comes from robbing humans rather than at sea

Scarborough struggles with ‘gull muggings’ as urban seabird population rises

Interested!

The water bottles of the moment

The Mothership Vortex: An Investigation Into the Firm at the Heart of the Democratic Spam Machine How a single consulting firm extracted $282 million from a network of spam PACs while delivering just $11 million to actual campaigns.

I recently complained/asked how to stop (there were no good answers) the Democratic fundraising texts. A friend shared this piece about what a total scam it is: "$11 million of the $678 million raised from individuals has made its way to candidates, campaigns, or the national party committees."

March, 2025 story with headline “Anthropocene CEO says in 3-6 months AI will be writing 90% of code”

You reckon Business Insider will do follow up headline in August: “Dario prediction was wrong”

Most of the internet used to be like this. This is actually the default, it took companies enclosing the internet and adding weird, soul-killing incentives to make people behave the way they do now. In a way, there is truly nothing special about Wikipedia except that it survived longer.

Such a good thread. And kind of the cri de couer that has led to @coyotemedia.org and @bayareacurrent.bsky.social and @oaklandreviewofbooks.org trying to bring back weird words about the world that are fun to write and read.

Criminalizing pregnancy: A record number of women were prosecuted the year after Dobbs They were targeted for substance use, miscarriages, and stillbirths, largely driven by fetal personhood laws.

Today marks the third anniversary of the Supreme Court's decision to overturn Roe v. Wade.

What's happened since?

A record number of women have been prosecuted. Pregnancy loss is now considered extremely suspicious, even when it has nothing to do with abortion.

The Onion NYT ad. The headline of the editorial says “CONGRESS, NOW MORE THAN EVER OUR NATION NEEDS YOUR COWARDICE”

EXCLUSIVE — The Onion has a full-page ad in today’s NYT featuring part of an editorial calling out congressional fecklessness towards Trump. They also sent a copy of their latest issue to every lawmaker.

My report, with an excerpt from the full editorial: www.thehandbasket.co/p/exclusive-...

Our freedom to let our democratically elected leader do whatever he wants

Imagine being Hasret Icsen. You pay $1,015/month for a 3-bedroom apartment in a green, mixed-income building full of amenities. When you touch your home, you're touching climate progress.

This is Vienna's green social housing. As @NPR explains, we could do it here
www.npr.org/2025/06/15/n...

'Peacekeeper' under investigation for role in Salt Lake City protest shooting The Salt Lake City Police Department confirmed it is investigating the role of the “peacekeeper” who fired their weapon at a suspect who now faces murder charges.

“The ‘peacekeeper’ who fired their weapon is not a law enforcement officer or associated with the dept. The dept. said it is not aware of whether the ‘peacekeeper’ was hired by protest organizers or was a volunteer, or acted on their own initiative.“

Also no record of permit for armed security.

An Oakland neighborhood's campaign against sideshows has become a fight with the city Residents say their guerilla speed bumps were working to slow traffic but the city calls them "hazards."

I find it curious that this article doesn't mention how extremely wide E 21st Street is in that area. It refers to it as an arterial, though it isn't in the same way 14th Ave or Foothill Blvd are.
oaklandside.org/2025/06/16/a...

Wikipedia Pauses AI-Generated Summaries After Editor Backlash “This would do immediate and irreversible harm to our readers and to our reputation as a decently trustworthy and serious source,” one Wikipedia editor said.

Wikipedia wanted to use AI summaries at the top of article pages. Editors said please please don't www.404media.co/wikipedia-pa...