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Aron Roberts

@aronro

Consults with @BetterShowers, making great showerheads & @landimprinting, restoring damaged lands. Semi-retired after 31 years in IT @Cal. Opinions mine alone.

California, USA Katılım Mart 2009
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Mike Levin@MikeLevin·
Let me get this straight. The federal government held a legal auction for the right to build offshore wind farms. A company won those auctions fair and square, paying nearly a billion dollars into the U.S. Treasury. The projects went through years of review. Courts repeatedly upheld their legality. Everything was above board. Then the Trump administration tried five separate times to kill other wind projects in federal court and lost every single time. Judges reviewed the administration’s supposed “national security” justification and weren’t persuaded.  So now they’ve landed on a new plan: pay the company nearly ONE BILLION DOLLARS of your tax money to just walk away. Because, and I am not making this up, the president thinks offshore wind turbines are ugly and claims without evidence that they “drive whales crazy.”  He’s been nursing this petty grudge since 2012, when he tried to block a wind farm visible from his golf course in Scotland. Fourteen years later, American taxpayers are footing the bill for it. This is stupid policy. It’s fiscally reckless, strategically blind, and driven entirely by a personal vendetta rather than any coherent vision for American energy or competitiveness. Meanwhile, China is racing ahead, building offshore wind at a staggering pace and positioning itself to dominate the global clean energy economy for decades to come. None of this is America First. nytimes.com/2026/03/17/cli…
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Aron Roberts@aronro·
@JasonMiyaresVA As a center-left Californian, supporting you and @VA_forFairMaps in this effort! No matter how imperfect, independent redistricting commissions create the fairest maps. Tampering with that, for temporary (as here) or permanent partisan advantage, is 🤬. x.com/aronro/status/…
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Partisan gerrymandering is wrong. No matter which party does it, and no matter which state it happens in. Am standing with Jason Miyares and VA Republicans here: Virginians should reject Dems' temporary gerrymandering (akin to CA's Prop. 50) on Apr 21. elections.virginia.gov/election-law/p…

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Jason Miyares
Jason Miyares@JasonMiyaresVA·
Last stop of the day in Roanoke to encourage folks to vote NO by April 21st to stop the unfair and undemocratic power grab. If you want to help stop the Dems effort to silence Virginians, go to VAFairMaps.com and volunteer. We can do this Virginia! Go Vote!!
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(((Charles Fishman))) 💧
(((Charles Fishman))) 💧@cfishman·
I grew up listening to the voices of CBS News Radio, long before NPR, inclu Charles Osgood. I understand the economics. But what a sad benchmark: The shuttering of legendary, century-old live news organization. Too bad the age of podcast/audio can’t find a model for CBS Radio.
Brian Stelter@brianstelter

A second memo from Bari Weiss and Tom Cibrowski says CBS News Radio is shutting down. Here's the memo: Today, we informed our CBS News Radio team and approximately 700 affiliated stations that we will end the service on May 22, 2026. Unfortunately, this decision means that all positions within the CBS News Radio team are being eliminated.  We understand how difficult this news is for our staff and their colleagues, who have worked side by side with us to cover some of the most significant stories of our time. While this was a necessary decision, it was not an easy one.  A shift in radio station programming strategies, coupled with challenging economic realities, has made it impossible to continue the service.  We are sharing this announcement now to fulfill our commitments to our radio partners and affiliates, which require advance notice of the service’s conclusion. For nearly 100 years, CBS News Radio has delivered original reporting to the nation—from Edward R. Murrow’s World War II reports in London to today’s daily White House updates.  Our signature broadcast, “World News Roundup,” remains the longest-running newscast in the country.  CBS News Radio served as the foundation for everything we have built since 1927. The coming weeks will be difficult for the team members who have worked tirelessly at CBS News Radio.  We are committed to supporting these valued colleagues with care and respect as we wind down operations.  They have been critical to our success and remain treasured friends and professionals.  We thank them deeply for their contributions. Thank you all for your dedication and for the compassion you show one another as we move forward. Bari and Tom

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Tim Newman
Tim Newman@whitesundesert·
@aronro @nobodyknows2322 @BDSixsmith @agraybee I researched polyamory in depth for a year and I could never get a proper answer as to who was in charge of changing the bedsheets. I reached the conclusion that they didn't bother.
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Aron Roberts@aronro·
@FiveBestIdeas @betweenthex @AlexNowrasteh Thank you! Truly talented people will always have opportunities. Or make them. <<Often creating far more jobs.>> In contrast to the nativist zero-sum perception that, for highly-skilled workers, there are a fixed number of 'slots' that can be filled by citizens or non-citizens.
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Aron Roberts@aronro·
Partisan gerrymandering is wrong. No matter which party does it, and no matter which state it happens in. Am standing with Jason Miyares and VA Republicans here: Virginians should reject Dems' temporary gerrymandering (akin to CA's Prop. 50) on Apr 21. elections.virginia.gov/election-law/p…
Jason Miyares@JasonMiyaresVA

Last stop of the day in Roanoke to encourage folks to vote NO by April 21st to stop the unfair and undemocratic power grab. If you want to help stop the Dems effort to silence Virginians, go to VAFairMaps.com and volunteer. We can do this Virginia! Go Vote!!

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Aakash Gupta
Aakash Gupta@aakashgupta·
Let me explain exactly why every new subdivision in America looks like the top photo, because the math is wild. A mature tree increases a home's value by 7 to 19 percent. On a $400,000 house, that's $28,000 to $76,000. A single shade tree produces the cooling equivalent of ten room-size air conditioners running 20 hours a day. One tree on the west side of a house cuts energy bills by 12 percent within 15 years. The bottom photo is worth more, costs less to live in, and sells faster. This has been documented by the University of Washington, Clemson, Michigan State, and the USDA. The data is not in dispute. Removing those trees saves the builder roughly $5,000 per lot. Concrete trucks need twice the dripline radius of every standing tree. Utility trenches need flat ground. A bulldozer flattens 200 lots in an afternoon. Preserving trees adds weeks and thousands per home. So the developer pockets $5,000 in savings and the buyer eats $50,000 in lost value for the next two decades. The person making the decision and the person paying for it have never been in the same room. The Woodlands, Texas is the proof of what happens when they are. George Mitchell bought 28,000 acres of Houston timberland in 1974 and preserved 28% as permanent green space. He forced McDonald's to build behind the tree canopy. That McDonald's became one of the highest-volume locations in Texas. The first office building, designed to reflect the surrounding forest so you couldn't see it from the street, leased completely. The Woodlands median home price today: $615,000. Katy, a comparable Houston suburb that clear-cut: $375,000. Named #1 community to live in America two years running. Fifty years of data. The trees are worth more than removing them saves. Developers clear-cut anyway because they sell the house once and leave. You live in it for 30 years.
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we ruined such a good thing

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Aron Roberts@aronro·
@nobodyknows2322 @BDSixsmith @agraybee Haven't read the piece, and perhaps this is just me being aspie and literal, but am assuming any such 'guide' might attempt to cover the nitty-gritty of most human relationships – save for mere transient hookups – with feelings and pragmatic challenges that go far beyond sex?
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Thee Jocelyn Dee 🪷 🖤
Thee Jocelyn Dee 🪷 🖤@jocelyn528·
@realBJP Long Island can claim both. LIU physically on Long Island and Arizona Iced Tea has the Long Island zip code—HQ on The Island.
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Brian Pedersen@realBJP·
Arizona vs. Long Island. The Iced Tea Bowl.
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Mitch Goldich 🐙@mitchgoldich·
The biggest game of the first round is on Friday, when Long Island battles Arizona for iced tea supremacy
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Ben Portnoy
Ben Portnoy@bportnoy15·
Really cool moment tonight postgame after VCU upset UNC. VCU head coach Phil Martelli Jr. made a point to shoutout the student reporters that made the trip. Lots of great stuff this time of year, but this was a really awesome, genuine exchange.
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Matt Jones
Matt Jones@KySportsRadio·
High Point student radio call of the game is what it is all about
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Jessica Riedl 🧀 🇺🇦
Jessica Riedl 🧀 🇺🇦@JessicaBRiedl·
The projected debt for the next 30 years is entirely driven by Social Security and Medicare shortfalls that will leap to 10% of GDP annually. The rest of the budget is balanced over 30 years.
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Jessica Riedl 🧀 🇺🇦@JessicaBRiedl·
No, America's wealthy pay similar effective tax rates to Europe - and even 100% tax rates would not fix the budget. The current debt was heavily influenced by the Great Recession & Pandemic (and the federal response) and persistent, structural spending in excess of revenues.🧵
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