California has a GDP of $3.4T, the fifth largest economy globally. The majority of the world’s most influential companies are headquartered here. We have a population of over 39M, produce ⅓ of all vegetables, ⅔ of all fruit and nuts, and 20% of dairy in the US.

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That's it in a nutshell.
Supreme Court in 2022 really is like, “We’re going to force you to have a baby and we want it to spend its whole life suffering” twitter.com/scotusblog/sta…
U.S. News Twitter continues to be utterly terrible, SO… …let’s lighten the mood. 😎🔅 What awesome art / music / writing / software / philanthropic projects are y’all working on these days? Share your “Soundcloud” below!
I’ll also note that with this gutting of the EPA, our country is now negatively impacting every single person on earth.
Thanks to people being unwilling to vote for a woman, we are seeing a historic regression in rights and protections by a fraudulent Supreme Court. Honestly I don’t see a path out of this. At least not for decades, by which time an incredible amount of damage will have been done.
My personal fantasy: 1. Get rid of the filibuster 2. Codify interracial marriage 3. Codify everything else (gay marriage, abortion, access to contraception) #defeatchristiantaliban

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summing up the gop response: “It’s not insurrection when the President does it.”
Former Trump White House lawyer Ty Cobb: "There are many damning facts” (referencing Hutchinson's testimony Trump knew his supporters were armed, riled them up, concu...
“Mutation 6-12x as fast as expected.” livescience.com/monkeypox-muta…
Thanks again @leppert for all those years of running and supporting @reading! 👋🏼😘🙏🏼🥰
The Reading source code is now available. twitter.com/leppert/status…
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Abortion rights protesters in NYC blocking rich guests from getting into a dinner hosted by the right wing Federalist Society, who supported SCOTUS justices’ attack on ...
Ok, the first ep of The Man Who Fell to Earth is pretty damn good
With friends like these, who needs enemies? We are so fucked.
"Biden and officials are concerned that more radical moves would be politically polarizing ahead of November's midterm elections, undermine public trust in institutions l...
New York Magazine https://twitter.com/NYMag
"Contact" defied Hollywood norms and made it big anyway. For this oral history, @rachel_handler spoke to nearly two dozen people involved in its making, including Robert ...
I blocked twitter on friday because ~~reasons~~. Spent time on my IRL activism and community. Bad news keeps happening. twitter is useful - but feeds me things to get mad about right next to the good stuff. Maybe I take a longer break.
This kind of credit-blocking behavior is hitting consumers as well. Have you ever had a perfectly good credit card declined at a merchant? It was probably due to a secret model developed @stripe that looks at your history of contesting charges and rates as you high risk.
This is a thread about the dark side of @shopify, which began destroying our family bookstore and stealing money from our customers one day after our first independently ...
“I think an hourglass is different than quicksand” youtube.com/watch?v=4_suVq…