Adriana

My mama didn't grow up there, but on both sides of my family, they often went to Juarez b/c it was the closest big border town to where they lived -- a place to get Mexican vanilla and other goods like candies and brandy, dental work, etc. Sad that isn't not convenient for us.

It almost sounds selfish and stupid considering the real consequences of the raids and troops in Southern CA, but a lot of weekend events are being cancelled, including one I was looking forward to attending tomorrow. :(

US evacuates personnel from Middle East in sign of growing regional tension US broadcaster CBS reports White House decision to move staff partly due to Israeli preparations for attack on Iran.

US broadcaster CBS reports White House decision to move staff partly due to Israeli preparations for attack on Iran.

I will allow myself one armchair protest tactics take re: LA

this rules

Cypress deadlocks on seeking info related to allegations against its city manager An effort to have Cypress City Atty. Fred Galante turn over any records related to allegations of 'unlawful acts' made by former Public Works director Doug Dancs against City Manager Peter Grant was u...

Cypress councilmembers can't agree on having their city attorney turn over documents related to misconduct allegations made against City Manager Peter Grant by a former Public Works director.

The swing vote was seen at a Cerritos IHOP during the special meeting.
www.latimes.com/socal/daily-...

Millions of People Depend on the Great Lakes’ Water Supply. Trump Decimated the Lab Protecting It. The Trump administration’s slashing of budgets and staff have Great Lakes scientists concerned that they have lost the ability to protect the public from toxic algal blooms, which can kill animals…

Data generated by the Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory has helped to successfully avoid a repeat of a 2014 crisis in Toledo, Ohio, when nearly half a million people were warned to not drink the water or even touch it.

By @annaleighclark.bsky.social‬

Isn't this a FERPA issue too? #highered

Opinion: Voters in Irvine’s Council District 5 have an opportunity to make a historic choice Voters in Irvine’s Council District 5 have an opportunity to be heard this month by voting in the April 15th special election. One candidate stands out as a historic choice

I have an op-ed on @calonews.bsky.social about an important election tomorrow:

www.calonews.com/opinion/opin...

#OrangeCounty #Irvine

Yes, ChatGPT is based on mass theft (all 4 of my books got ripped off!) & its massive energy requirements will destroy the environment.
But we don't talk enough about how it enables the laziness of ppl who can't be bothered to do their own thinking & writing yet expect high salaries & high office.

Let this be a call to action: our elders are going to need our help.

Here's what they're facing:

- agism in the workforce
- massive public sector layoffs
- gutting of social security
- increasingly sophisticated scams (thanks AI)
- an economic crash that they might not recover from before retiring

Two Republican senators told me tonight this vote shows they can execute the same strategy again — cut Democrats out of the negotiations on a gov’t funding bill, pass it thru the House, and expect Senate Dems to back down and not filibuster it.

“We liked it over here,” one said.

Chuck Schumer Helps Pull Democrats Back From Brink Of Courage

Chuck Schumer Helps Pull Democrats Back From Brink Of Courage

I'm waiting for Elon piñatas like the Trump piñatas from 2016-17.

huge W

YouTube video by Roy Ayers Ubiquity - Topic Everybody Loves The Sunshine

Sad that Ron Ayers has left us.

September 10, 1940 – March 4, 2025

Everybody Loves The Sunshine youtu.be/SSBWiFGzsyU?...

Have an electric stove, but wanted some peanut butter and tortilla... improvised with a lighter to char up the tortilla. Didn't want to bother firing up the gas grill in the yard.

Officers have also struggled to meet their quotas because immigrants are refusing to open their doors when ICE officers knock. The enforcement teams generally do not possess criminal arrest warrants that would allow them to force their way into their targets’ homes. ICE officials say they can’t afford to leave teams of officers waiting around for targeted immigrants to exit their homes.

Stop mass deportations with this one simple trick: wapo.st/41apYFB (gift link)

WIRED is tracking numerous reports of Musk-related shenanigans across the federal govt.

We're looking for fed employees open to discussing the activity they're seeing or to help confirm other reports. Anonymity offered.

Please use @signal.org (contact dell.3030). Do not use work networks/devices.

Bringing a little smoke to your TL.

Smoked some beef ribs today, bone came out clean. So good.

I used to be able to find so much stuff on there, now it's so difficult. I hate it. I just keep that open in case someone else buys it and improves it.... just bring it back to the level it was in say 2017 would help me. 😭

To the surprise of no one.

Thanks, Biden!

Always the Democrats laying the foundation for more cruelty towards migrants.

Part of Obama's and Biden's legacy will be handing this over to Trump.

The state of our world today

how long does this exhibit run?

The intellectual always has a choice either to side with the weaker, the less well represented, the forgotten or ignored, or to side with the more powerful.

—Edward Said

I was thinking he wouldn't do it, but thankful that he did.

Joe Biden Frees Leonard Peltier The ailing Native American rights activist has been in prison for nearly 50 years after the U.S. government lied to put him there.

With literally minutes left in his presidency, Joe Biden has granted clemency to Leonard Peltier

Democracy doesn’t die in the dark. It’s dies in the light of day surrounded by people in suits smiling for a photo.

Change in Paris air quality between 2007 and 2023 using visuals

Air pollution has dropped significantly in #Paris in the last 15 years. Mayor @annehidalgo.bsky.social’s leadership has traded car space for green space, safe bike space, kid space.. and traded pollution for people.

Good trade.