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CalMatters @calmatters.org · 08/10/2026

Five days after signing a law formalizing a state apology for “harms and atrocities” against California’s Native peoples, Gov. Newsom vetoed two additional bills that California tribes had championed, one on water and the other on sacred sites. cal.news/4y50WGl 📸 Loren Elliott

An aerial view of Three mile Slough in the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta near Rio Vista on May 19, 2024. The Delta is formed by the confluence of the Sacramento and San Joaquin rivers before their waters flow into San Francisco Bay. Photo by Loren Elliott for CalMatters

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Kerry @kerrybrowne.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Been over a decade since I first learned of that story but it still sickens me that Bazelon has never been held accountable for her monstrous smearing of Phoebe Prince, the apologia of her xenophobic, slut-shaming bullies and statutory rape apologia, among other faults. She was only awarded for it.

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Kerry @kerrybrowne.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Except when she's defending assholes who bullied a teenaged immigrant to death. She'll put the extra shift in for that.

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Kerry @kerrybrowne.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Typically I dismiss melodramatic, reductive explanations of opposition as cartoonishly evil but the obstructionists & critics at this point are just knowingly defending reckless driving. You don't slow walk this because it's an equitable-yet-profitable policy addressing a public health crisis.

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Kerry @kerrybrowne.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

By all means, use the CA jungle primary as an ex of how it serves reactionary interests, as one should. But there is something so insulting about treating a State this country is plainly reliant on and has been a policy leader on climate for decades as a failed state. Get better at making your point

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Kerry @kerrybrowne.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I hate MA's question 3 as any good Masshole in my beloved home commonwealth should but I am so tired of the "let's beat up on CA" theory of politics that is upheld at every part of the political spectrum. Politics by "let's be better than this group/area we other" is always toxic.

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Kerry @kerrybrowne.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I also think a lot about the "three deaths": "The first is when the soul leaves the body; the second when the body is interred in the earth; and the final is when nobody remembers you."

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Kerry @kerrybrowne.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I can't recall the source interview but the interviewee mocked this sort of obsession with the apocalypse as a form of generational arrogance as the best generation they must be the last to distract from from insecurity about mortality or simply being forgotten. And I think about it a lot.

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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Glad about the result, but I don’t think it speaks well of us as a country that after two years of human rights violations, war crimes, naked gangster corruption, and contempt for the Constitution, he’s finally unpopular because gas got expensive.

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Kerry @kerrybrowne.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

"I saw a dozen bison by the airport in sky" another one that works for both.

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Kerry @kerrybrowne.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

"I went rollerskating on the worldest biggest suspended wooden dance floor at the Catalina casino" works both as the ramblings of someone in a fever dream and a literal thing you can do on Catalina Island

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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

underrated part of El-Sayed’s messaging strategy seems to be shaming journalists who ask dumb questions that play into right-wing frames. you can’t answer these in a way that satisfies them, but you can make it embarrassing enough that you impose a toll on asking.

Abdul El-Sayed: "Weijia, with all due respect, this is the third time you've asked about a Twitch streamer ... their whole game is to make us fight culture wars so that we don't pay attention to the fact the president has made $2.2 billion ... "

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Kerry @kerrybrowne.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

For example, the hill has an article on both, but only the $5k pledge is getting the follow-up "5 things to know" treatment, and tbf it seems Axios doesn't single out the pledge to Trump either.

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Kerry @kerrybrowne.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

There is "coverage" of it, but it's the exception that proves the rule imo: most political media imo has a bias towards novelty, conflict and recency. It's why the $5k dividend pledge is getting so much more attention than this scary-but-predictable escalation in dead-ender cult worship.

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m @keptsimple.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

I feel like the president stealing 9/11 first responder valor is a bigger story than a muslim man having the gall to hold political office on the 9/11 anniversary

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Kerry @kerrybrowne.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

That is such a cultural artifact I associate with post-recession Obama. Genuinely odd to learn that it ended then!

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Perry Bacon @perrybaconjr.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

In my last job (Washington Post Opinion section), I was asked repeatedly to write about the book "Abundance." I kept making excuses. Finally, I just bluntly stated that there are many, many books published about politics and it was strange that the entire political media was obsessed with this one.

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Kerry @kerrybrowne.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

In the other AB645 pilot cities that have since activated systems*

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Kerry @kerrybrowne.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Also fails to mention that speed camera systems have been extremely effective at reducing traffic deaths.

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Kerry @kerrybrowne.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

This article implies that police traffic stops were an effective traffic safety policy but they were not, and it is incurious at best at the public sentiment of the AB645 speed camera programs (overwhelming support) or effectiveness of speed camera system pilots in the other AB645 (highly effective)

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

It’s mind-blowing that we have literal white nationalists in the White House carrying out unfathomably cruel, abusive, white nationalist policies, and the punditariat has spent the last two weeks debating if some people were too intemperate after a Black man was murdered by cops six years ago.

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Kerry @kerrybrowne.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

If you think I'm being alarmist, please recall Californians voted to keep slavery in 2024.

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Kerry @kerrybrowne.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

It speaks to how broken civic literacy is in this state that merely clarifying Prop 39 prohibits voting without ID moved sentiment at least 10 pts against.

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Kerry @kerrybrowne.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

People should be much, much more worried about Prop 39 passing. Yes, the most recent poll is encouraging, but +9 2 months out is basically nothing for a lead.

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CalMatters @calmatters.org · 28/08/2026

Companies backing data center construction are flooding Sacramento with cash, hoping to stop or defang seven bills that would regulate the facilities as they head toward approval in the California Legislature this week. cal.news/45VjSvH 📸 Fred Greaves

Polls show voters are turning sharply against data centers and several bills to regulate the facilities are advancing in the California Legislature. Utilities and tech companies, meanwhile, are spending millions lobbying state officials. A lobbyist talks on his phone at the state Capitol in Sacramento on Sept. 12, 2025. Photo by Fred Greaves for CalMatters

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G Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com · 18/08/2026

at @fiftyplusone.news we vet every pollster before we put "data" from them on our website. we did not include any polls from "median strategies" and have a forthcoming article about this. this is why you should just spam refresh the FiftyPlusOne website, instead of following meme aggregators on X

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Aaron Huertas @aaronhuertas.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

We have a major Democratic law firm, two major party committees, and two media outlets dead to rights suppressing research into how digital fundraising firms scam seniors and barely a peep from the national press corps or elected officials. A goddamn shame.

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Elizabeth Chou @reporterliz.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Nithya Raman, who is running for LA mayor, joined a rally outside the Lineage warehouse in Boyle Heights, saying "Lineage should not be allowed to re-open this warehouse " and that it should become a "safe space for the people who live here."

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Kerry @kerrybrowne.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

I enjoyed the Noah Kahan concert at the Rose Bowl, despite the venu's damndest efforts to ensure no one did.

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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 16/08/2026

Xavier Becerra has gone silent since winning the primary for California governor. But here he is with Peter Thiel protégé Garry Tan—Palantir’s employee #10. “Garry’s List” is an AI-generated right-wing news site. Garry is a top Network State figure & tweeted “die slow” at SF city leaders in 2024.

Photograph of Becerra with Carrie Tan at A Gary’s list event

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Anarcho-Crust Demon Hunter @jamesaskew.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

This person now chairs the Housing Committee for Los Angeles

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Ernest "Dead" Penfold @penfoldsfiv.eurosky.social · 12/08/2026

the media when the centrist loses by 1% vs the media when the leftist loses by (less than) 1%

bluesky post by Politico saying "Progressives didn't get the big election night they wanted" referring to Abdul el-Sayed defeating Haley Stevens in the MI Senate primary and linking to their story with that headline.

bluesky post by Politico with the text "The far left hits a wall" referring to David Crowley defeating Francesca Hong in the WI Governor Primary and linking to their story with that headline

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Spencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Gambling apps partnering with news organizations are the natural endpoint of horserace journalism. What’s the point of a horserace if you can’t bet on it

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Kerry @kerrybrowne.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Never again questioning why LACC/RR will only given certain data requests by CD-ROM after tonight

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Peter Sterne @petersterne.com · 11/08/2026

NEW: NYC-DSA is 60% white, 14% Hispanic, 10% Asian and 9% Black, according to internal demographic data. News outlets have routinely suggested that DSA is 85% white, based on a 2021 demographic survey. But new data shows DSA has become more racially diverse, especially in NYC.

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NYC-DSA is 60% white, internal survey says

But the newest members of the Democratic Socialists of America are (slightly) more racially diverse.

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Kerry @kerrybrowne.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Most relatable thing Bass has done this campaign is have "Nation-leading actions to build more housing faster" as an "accomploshment". I too have applied for jobs I'm not qualified for with some vague padded out bullet points.

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sam delgado @samdelgado.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Since the pandemic, there’s been a decline in third spaces — places where people can connect & feel a sense of belonging. Now, some DC residents are creating ones to fill that gap. I spoke to the organizers behind these newest community hubs for @51st.news ⬇️ 51st.news/dc-third-spa...

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DC is having a third space renaissance

At least half a dozen new community spaces have opened this year.

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

It sometimes feels like we're living in a ridiculously exaggerated folk tale with wildly implausible villains. For example, as the president takes billions for himself and his family and *coats his things in gold,* the soldiers fighting his war can't get toothpaste, hot water, or a clean toilet.

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Moldy showers and no soap: Military families are outraged by conditions on USS Lincoln

The aircraft carrier's long deployment in the Iran war is raising concerns that the sailors and Marines on board are facing poor conditions, low supplies and fatigue.

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Kerry @kerrybrowne.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Okay, my describing the nature of the discount is not me articulating dislike of it. I'll refer you to my other comment i'm actually a big AB645 supporter. I tried to make a polite correction, and you keep assigning malice where there is none. Goodbye.

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Kerry @kerrybrowne.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

I'll add that I am very pro-AB645, by no means subscribe to some Nirvana fallacy notion it's imperfect because it lacks an income-proportionate fine structure and did a lot of work to push for local implementation. I also didn't think you misspoke maliciously, so I phrased it as politely as possible

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Kerry @kerrybrowne.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

You were replying to a comment referring to a lack of income-proportionate ticketing in the US, which is very different to means-tested discounts, and plainly alludes to how speeding fines can be *increased* for the affluent as was famously the case in Finland. www.theguardian.com/world/2023/j...

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Kerry @kerrybrowne.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Okay, it's not my fault you misstated what determines how fines are primarily determined, and then moved the goalposts because you don't wish to concede you misspoke. Don't gaslight me.

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Kerry @kerrybrowne.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

I'm aware of the discount for certain thresholds: that doesn't mean the fines are *based* on income. The bill explicitly lays out different fines for different ranges of speed. The distinction is not trivial, because it implies a degree of severity for the affluent, not just leniency for the poor.

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Kerry @kerrybrowne.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

That's incorrect. Speed cameras in CA have only been authorized in six cities under AB645 and Malibu under SB1297, and all seven will sunset in 2032. The fines are based on speed. Non-financial diversion options exist, but they're means tested and vary by city. Payment plans also an option.

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