@JaneAFlegal @JesseJenkins Classic delusional liberal navel gazing question with absolute no bearing on reality
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Dan
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I think there’s a threshold question here that isn’t being asked, which is whether this scale of philanthropy is desirable in a democracy to begin with
Nan Ransohoff@nanransohoff
New blog post: The third wave of American philanthropy Hundreds of billions of dollars in new philanthropic capital will soon become liquid. The OpenAI Foundation holds 26% of OpenAI, worth about $220B at today’s valuation. Anthropic’s seven co-founders have pledged to give away 80% of their wealth and have instituted the most aggressive donor matching program for employees in tech history. How much does this all add up to? And how meaningful is that in the context of philanthropy today? I was doing some simple napkin math to wrap my head around the scale of what’s coming, and radicalized myself in the process. I had dramatically underappreciated the scale of the philanthropic capital that’s about to become available and the corresponding gap in talent and organizations that will be needed to make the most of it. This piece aims to directionally sketch the scale of what’s coming, the gap in operational capacity needed to absorb it, and what we can do to fill it. (Link to full post in reply)
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@ChrisBaylor5 @madrid_mike Perception is he’s the only rational adult in the room and can do better job resisting special interest asks. And he’s smart and articulate to boot.
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@madrid_mike Why is Mahan more favored by Sacramento insiders than Becerra or Steyer?
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POLL 🚨🚨California Democratic Party just dropped its last poll results and they’re a doozy.
As I’ve been pointing out there’s a lot of consolidation going on for Dems and Reps:
Hilton 22%
Becerra 21%
Steyer 15%
Bianco 10%
Porter 7%
Mahan 4% (Thread 🧵)
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Keystone cops. Trump and his team are a f’ing joke
Javier Blas@JavierBlas
BREAKING: US Treasury eases oil sanctions on Iran, including permiting the sale of Iranian crude and refined products into the United States. Scott Bessent calls it a "narrowly tailored, short-term authorization permitting the sale of Iranian oil currently stranded at sea."
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@AQMD What about assessing cumulative impacts? Boggles the mind that you’re analyzing pollution from individual facilities in isolation regardless of what is emitted next door. @KevinMcCartyCA
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@officialSCUSD Ahem…when can we believe the district will faithfully implement this AG settlement?
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@lulumeservey 💯 but technically it’s not a bill it’s an initiative that has not yet made it to the ballot.
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Do NOT call it the Billionaire Tax or Wealth Tax
In politics, naming is everything (eg “death tax” vs “estate tax”)
The BILLIONAIRE TAX is named *perfectly*
3/4 of California voters want billionaires to pay more in taxes!
If you oppose this bill, do NOT concede that it is a “tax” on “billionaires”
If you are calling it by the name that its sponsors carefully gave it, you are losing
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holy sh*t. this is hands down the coolest website i have ever found in my life. it's a live feed of the freaking Hubble Telescope AND James Webb Space Telescope. and the resolution is honestly so incredible i didn't think it was real.
unbelievable.
spacetelescopelive.org
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This is what the Mercedes GLS, BMW X7 and Audi Q8 are up against in 🇨🇳.
Huawei AITO M9.
(Video from an official Huawei Showroom WeChat Channel)
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NEW: China is testing a megawatt-scale airborne wind system that captures stronger high-altitude winds, potentially producing up to 10× more energy with 40% less material and 30% lower costs. It could also be quickly deployed to supply emergency power after disasters.
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Not true. PG&E rates are ACTUALLY going UP for most people in 2026. The truth is they are decreasing rates for bundled customers but INCREASING rates, by 20%, for CCA customers (which make up 60% of their ratepayers)!!
sfchronicle.com/bayarea/articl… via @sfchronicle
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After rewatching Home Alone, I couldn’t stop wondering:
how plausible is the oversleep that leaves Kevin behind?
So I wrote a tiny paper and ran the numbers.
Merry Christmas! 🎄
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EVs are not a rich country phenomenon at all anymore.
Viet Nam, Uruguay, Thailand, Costa Rica, Indonesia, have all overtaken the US in terms of EV share of new car sales.
Change comes quickly when costs to ICE vehicles become competitive and policy isn’t prohibitive.
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Unbelievable. This would be a terrible blow to American science, writ large. It would decimate not only climate research, but also the kind of weather, wildfire, & disaster research underpinning half a century of progress in prediction, early warning, & increased resilience.
USA TODAY@USATODAY
Exclusive: The Trump administration is moving to dismantle the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Colorado, according to a senior White House official, taking aim at one of the world's leading climate research labs. usatoday.com/story/news/pol…
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Did you ignore what you posted to your site?
oag.ca.gov/news/press-rel…
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The New Yorker story is chilling: shutting down USAID has already killed 600,000 people, most of them children.
For no reason other than Elon Musk’s ego, Marco Rubio’s complicity, & Republican Members of Congress’ cult-like loyalty to Trump. Devastating.
newyorker.com/culture/the-ne…
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@SteveRattner @JigarShahDC Posting excessive and redundant @HealthNet paperwork as a symbolic point of admin inefficiency and waste which is not an insignificant cost
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The US spends over a sixth of our GDP on healthcare, far more than other similar countries.
America wasn’t always such an outlier, though – back in 1970, we had more similar spending levels.
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