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"It was intended that when Newspeak had been adopted once and for all and Oldspeak forgotten, a heretical thought should be literally unthinkable" — 1984
California, Oceania
Joined June 2013
Between 2010 and 2024, the number of foreigners living in Germany more than doubled, to 14 million. According to a recent study, 63.7% have incomes which put them below the poverty line.
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Sie arbeiten in schlecht bezahlten Jobs oder auch nur in Teilzeit. Einer Studie zufolge ist eine deutliche Mehrheit der Flüchtlinge in Deutschland von Armut betroffen. Forscher sehen fehlende...
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Last week, @JBREC clients got access to a new piece from me and @EricFinnigan on how recent policy changes are reshaping the housing market for non-permanent residents (NPRs). One notable finding: new FHA mortgages to NPRs have dropped to near-zero following a rule change in
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"Great news! The program that gives home loans to random H1Bs over native citizens has been rolled back!" Good? But also I'm now mad this program ever existed in the first place and wish you'd never told me about it?
Last week, @JBREC clients got access to a new piece from me and @EricFinnigan on how recent policy changes are reshaping the housing market for non-permanent residents (NPRs). One notable finding: new FHA mortgages to NPRs have dropped to near-zero following a rule change in
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LA County CEO Fesia Davenport was quietly awarded a $2 million “golden handshake”for emotional distress, approved behind closed doors, eerily similar to past deals involving former CEO Sachi Hamai in 2020. No docs, no due process. Open and shut, and a check issued in
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In liberal cities/bookstores etc, you still see a lot of tributes to RBG, which are hilarious when you consider that she trapped progressives in the Pain Dimension for at least 30 years.
NEW: Tomorrow the Supreme Court will rehear a case that could let the GOP grab 19 new, safe U.S. House seats by gutting Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act. I wrote for @Slate about how the far-right justices seem ready to help Republicans lock in one party rule for decades. ⬇️
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Amazing satellite imagery of the incredible October storm roaring through California. Multiple Tornado Warnings on the Central Coast, flooding in the Bay Area, the first Severe Thunderstorm Watch in the Los Angeles region in 17 years, and heavy snow in the Sierra Nevada.
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As someone who worked with foresters for years I can only marvel at how the indigenous angle is all it took for the Post to get on board with controlled burns, which literally everyone who is not a Greenpeace donor has long understood are critical to preventing wildfires
For thousands of years, Indigenous people stewarded their forests with fire. Burns encourage more variation in the forest landscape, which leads to greater biodiversity — but there are hard limits.
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You will live to see man-made whores beyond your comprehension
ChatGPT to allow ‘erotica for verified adults’ in December https://t.co/BQlQgAdBVC
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How much more evidence do voters need to understand the @LACountyBOS is running a massive criminal enterprise? Sachi Hamai got $1.5 million in similar fashion 5 years ago!
#BREAKING: Los Angeles County CEO Fesia Davenport was quietly paid $2 million in a mysterious settlement two months ago, LAist reports. Full story: https://t.co/gaD3uJrJnt
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In Feb 2022, the Biden Administration, working at the behest of the ATA, created the Entry Level Driver Training initiative which made it so any entity could register to become a driver training school. It seemed like a good way to track the companies and create standards for
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In 2017, gubernatorial candidate Gavin Newsom set a goal to build 3.5 million homes by 2025. Between 2019 and 2025 the state added 713,800 housing units, so I'll take the under on this one.
Gov. Newsom set a goal to build 2.5 million homes by 2030, is that realistic? | CA Politics 360 | Click on the image to read the full story
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A State Department employee is accused of removing classified documents from secure locations and meeting with Chinese officials dating back to 2023. https://t.co/luVn2asLwG
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Ashley Tellis, a State Department employee and Defense Department contractor, is accused of taking classified documents and meeting Chinese officials.
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Former hostage Omer Shem Tov says Hamas was "very scared of" Trump: "They wanted Kamala to be elected." "As soon as Donald Trump was elected, they understood that he wanted to bring us back home," he added. "So immediately, the way they treated me changed"
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Redistricting was OK when New York did it, but it stopped being OK when Texas did it, but it was OK again in California did it, but now it’s bad because North Carolina is doing it. Got it.
This is why we need to vote YES on Prop 50. North Carolina is the latest Republican-led state to bend the knee to Trump and consider redrawing their congressional lines. They want to steal enough seats to control Congress regardless of how the people vote. If Californians
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🚨: The Divorce from China’s Tacit Tech Begins BREAKING news is that the EU is considering rules that would force Chinese companies to hand over technology or localize operations if they want to keep access to European markets. Crazy timing! I am writing a Substack piece on
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As I've said before, the relentless media preaching about an imminent takeover by fascists is simply warmed-over Peoples Temple apocalypticism for the modern professional-managerial class
Heather Cox Richardson has more subscribers than Jimmy Kimmel has viewers. And every night, or thereabouts, she tells her 2.7 million followers that America is sliding into authoritarianism. Trump is a dictator, MAGA is inspired by Nazi political theory, and right-wing violence
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Some factions on the right get flak for engaging in too much conspiratorial slop, and sure, that's a rightful criticism. But at the same time, there exists an entire world of predominantly educated, credentialed professional liberals who engage in nothing but the most utterly
Heather Cox Richardson has more subscribers than Jimmy Kimmel has viewers. And every night, or thereabouts, she tells her 2.7 million followers that America is sliding into authoritarianism. Trump is a dictator, MAGA is inspired by Nazi political theory, and right-wing violence
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