Adam Buck

I was sent this by a Georgian this morning. 2025 premiums vs 2026 premiums for someone making $65k a year.

Republicans in Washington did this.

This is what I'm fighting to stop. This is what’s at stake in this shutdown fight.

Sb79 upzones around transit oriented development stops, with the definition of that in the screenshot above. The person who wrote sb79 walked me through it.

Just going by what Aaron E told me. See below:

Needs to also be officially a “major transit stop”, which means an intersection with another frequent bus line.

If something happened to be daughter and in response I was told that she is now "with the person who loved her the most," you could not hold me legally liable for what I would do next.

It's a bizarre and frankly alienating feeling realizing that if you know the basic fact that the murder rate has gone down significantly since 1990 you're in the ~90th+ percentile of fact-knowers

$35 per treatment co-pay for dialysis.

$105 a week just to stay alive.

Irredeemable country.

Has Bozeman’s rental market finally flipped? A glut of new ‘upscale’ developments is driving prices down from pandemic highs; city officials hope the surplus will have far-reaching effects in one of the state’s most expensive places to live.

They started building a bunch of apartments in Bozeman. You'll never guess what happened next.

California Democrats wage internal war over Gavin Newsom's late push to build more housing Governor is drawing heavy resistance to his housing development proposal.

Scott Wetch, a lobbyist representing the trade unions, contended that this could be the first time since the Jim Crow era that California is "contemplating a law to suppress wages." Pérez, who represents a Los Angeles district, said the proposal was "incredibly insensitive" amid immigration raids targeting mostly "blue-collar workers who are Latino." And Kevin Ferreira, executive director of the Sacramento-Sierra's Building and Construction Trades Council, told lawmakers the bill "will compel our workers to be shackled and start singing chain gang songs."

Gavin Newsom is actually doing something good by streamlining housing and The Groups are comparing it to mass imprisonment you have got to be kidding me

Deep down, if you think about it, isn’t all of the Bay Area one big valley?

In 1994 at a mostly gay B&B in Seattle, I met a young straight couple who were looking for a house. They were planning a business that would sell books on the Internet. She explained the idea excitedly and had good answers to all my questions. He gazed into his coffee.

A female Western Gull was recorded riding 150km in a garbage truck from San Francisco to a compost facility in Central CA, probably to forage. TWICE. An innovator, an icon, a genius.

This is one of my favorite @waterbirdsociety.bsky.social papers I've ever handled as managing editor #ornithology

Willie Brown Middle School is a San Francisco 6-8 in the Bayview District. For the entire ‘24-‘25 school year, I have been driving the 44 O’Shaughnessy bus that stops there right after school gets out. That trip has been the busiest and most challenging part of my working day.

In that RCT, almost twice as many people got fever in the vaccine group than people who got covid in the placebo group!

Three things made the US a rich and powerful nation: the rule of law, its science & innovation system, and openness to foreign talent. Remarkable how Trump has taken a sledgehammer to all three. No enemy of this country could do more.

Revealed: UnitedHealth secretly paid nursing homes to reduce hospital transfers A Guardian investigation finds insurer quietly paid facilities that helped it gain Medicare enrollees and reduce hospitalizations. Whistleblowers allege harm to residents

Truly horrifying. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

I know it's hard to enforce in the American system, but it's not great when members of Congress, Supreme Court justices (or possibly presidents) die in office from illnesses related to old age. Social and professional norms around SCOTUS should change. Donors should pressure politicians to retire.

Vaccination Trends Vaccination uptake & intent for COVID, flu, and RSV

No. You realize how few adults are choosing to get boosted? 20% www.cdc.gov/respiratory-...

Senator Wiener, I am a huge supporter, but it is absolutely not true that healthy people are dying from covid in any significant amount. I haven’t seen a real case in the hospital for years.

It seems quite possible that a woman who obviously values and connects with children just doesn’t approve of their being shot, bombed, and starved

I read the law, it doesn’t say what this hospital says it says. They are just so afraid of malicious prosecution that they are willfully doing evil. Everyone with a conscience should look for a new job

Absolutely evil. Any doctor who is willing to participate in such a system should be shunned from society.

But you also make divide all existing debt and obligations across more people. That sustainability outweighs almost all else.

YouTube video by HollywoodRecordsVEVO Miley Cyrus - Party In The U.S.A. (Official Video)

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pulling a critique of the bell curve from a university library but not the bell curve is as concise a way i can think of to describe the goal of the speech discourse in the past 15 years

Unless their demands are met

Photo of Senator Chris Van Hollen with Kilmar Abrego Garcia.

I said my main goal of this trip was to meet with Kilmar. Tonight I had that chance. I have called his wife, Jennifer, to pass along his message of love. I look forward to providing a full update upon my return.

Dramatic Air Quality Improvements after the Complete Electrification of a Commuter Rail System To limit the impact of climate change, there is an urgent requirement for infrastructure decarbonization and a transition to lower-emission energy systems. This is expected to result in local air qual...

Most rail services in the US still use polluting diesel locomotives. Recently, our commuter rail system in San Francisco, @caltrain.com, was electrified.

Good news: we found DRAMATIC air quality improvements once the electric trains replaced the diesels.

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i can't believe this is real but it is