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@wolvesclips.bsky.social really hung in there last night, but for second half of the game I really just spent the whole time thinking, is that a tiny size gavel or a normal size gavel in Shaq’s hand? How does Shaq have a gavel? Why did Shaq have a gavel?

That McDaniels mean mug was everything.

Just a casual Wednesday in America. Preparing for Border Patrol, the Coast Guard, and ICE agents to invade our neighborhoods for literally no reason other than to terrorize and rip families apart while cutting off food and health care for others 🙄

Woohoo! 🎉

The EPA grant to study the health impacts of refinery retirements and retrofits in partnership the incredible leading researchers at UCLA, UC Berkeley, and PSE Healthy Energy has been restored thanks to a class action lawsuit! @apen4ej.bsky.social

Yes, loved this episode w/ @gruberte.bsky.social! If you are confused about what is happening w/ oil refineries in CA right now, listen to this 30 min mini-podcast episode from ~2022~ ! bsky.app/profile/jeff...

Going to print this on a t-shirt for the next EJ convening @kbvale.bsky.social

What if we said one citation to rule them all instead of “policy framework”
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@gruberte.bsky.social @shastingssimon.bsky.social @dave.bzky.team I got you

Astronaut meme for mid transition

The Supreme Court's disdain for Congress, the statutory design of agencies, and the public services they provide to millions truly astounds.

Destroying a 50-year-old Cabinet-level department may be the biggest violation of the Take Care Clause in U.S. history—and six justices simply ... don't care.

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For sure!

So, if folks want to chat for more than two minutes about it, off the record, I’m happy to! 😏

Also, it’s not the CEC per se, it’s actually the Vice Chair’s office. From a purely technical perspective, they *threw down*.

www.politico.com/f/?id=000001...

I was quoted in an article and it was taken out of context. But I think the larger issue is that there’s a battle right now about the future of California climate, environmental, health/ safety protections — and the CEC dropped a super complicated, nuanced framework document…

We’re all humans trying to do complicated things in complicated times. 🤷🏻‍♀️

The oil industry made this mess. Now, they want permission to continue fleecing California taxpayers and consumers – and, as a bonus, slash regulations, cut corners, and endanger Californians. We can’t let Big Oil shake down California on their way out.

And stakeholder engagement is not a dusting of powdered sugar, sprinkles, or buttercream on top. =/= 🍩🧁

We must follow the leadership of EJ groups in the Valley directly impacted by dirty drilling, and the many groups that have spent over a decade facing down threats of unchecked drilling expansion – groups like CRPE, CCEJN and CVAQ.

And for the record: after naming the clear negative health impacts of a Kern drilling-related proposal, I thought I was pretty firmly (but respectfully? I’m Midwestern?) affirmed the need for *more stakeholder engagement.*

I said there’s no way to sugar coat it!

So my lawyer brain wants to explode because I could spend like 20 posts explaining this with graphs and citations, but it is 6PM on a Friday and my partner gets home soon, so I give you these two screenshots of a summary of a summary of a summary:

What’s happening: In the last year, two refineries in CA have announced plans to close – and Big Oil is taking the opportunity to shakedown taxpayers and maximize profits on their way out, making Californians foot the bill for their pollution ❌❌ stoptheoilshakedown.org

🧵🪡 A thread on my attempt to thread the needle at a @calenergy.bsky.social meeting in a two-minute high-level public comment and taken out of context on (to be fair) a complex subject. ⬇️

Who was MN Rep. Melissa Hortman in the MN Legislature? READ about her consequential leadership in this THREAD by @taniel.bsky.social.

Take the time.

Dear lord, the full context of US Senator @padilla.senate.gov being forcibly removed, pinned down, and handcuffed? He tried to ask a question…when this regime rationalized the (unconstitutional) commandeering of National Guard troops as ~liberating~ people from their elected representatives.

Matching up to 2,500 USD to Immigrant Defenders Law Center, for the first people to DM or reply with receipts. They're EIN 47-4473312 for quickly looking up if you have a DAF.

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Adorable small dog (golden with Dorito ears) sits on a Naz Reid towel with her elephant toy in front of a TV playing the NBA playoffs in which the Minnesota Timberwolves beat the LA Lakers. Naz Reid and Anthony Edwards on the screen.

Good night. #NazReid #Timberwolves #wolvesback #wolvesinsix #dogsforwolves

Just replaying this clip of Jaden McDaniels smiling before I go to sleep #wolvesinsix

Columbia student protester Yunseo Chung can’t be detained by feds, judge rules as Trump admin seeks to deport her The Columbia University student facing deportation after she was arrested at an anti-Israel protest can’t be detained by the feds, a judge ruled Tuesday. Manhattan federal court Judge Nao…

Judge Naomi Reice Buchwald said from the bench that she would issue a temporary restraining order blocking immigration authorities from detaining 21-year-old Columbia junior Yunseo Chung for protesting on campus, per NY Post