Some of my suggestions for solving homelessness & lowering rents in Los Angeles. Please reply & share! @MayorOfLA @mhdcd8 @KatyForLA @nithyavraman @adrin_nazarian @TraciParkforLA @CurrenDPriceJr @CD6LosAngeles @MRodCD7 @CW_HeatherHutt @CD12LA larchmontbuzz.com/larchmont-…

Well done California

Trump lies constantly and he is desperate for the Iran war to be over. So desperate that he’s giving Iran 20 times the money Obama did, and getting nothing in return, except an open strait that Iran will charge a “maintenance fee” to all ships. Well done, bozo

🚨🚨🇮🇷🇺🇸 BREAKING | If this is confirmed, we can say that the US has lost the war with Iran. The Iranian news agency Mehr, citing the Iranian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, has published all 14 clauses of the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) signed with the US: 1. Permanent and immediate cessation of war on all fronts, including Lebanon. 2. The US commitment to non-interference in Iran's internal affairs and respect for the sovereignty of the Islamic Republic of Iran. 3. Complete lifting of the naval blockade within 30 days. 4. The US commitment to withdraw its forces from around Iran. 5. Reopening of the Strait of Hormuz within 30 days under Iranian arrangements. 6. Suspension of sanctions on the sale of oil, petrochemical products, and derivatives, and full access of Iran to its financial resources. 7. The necessity for the US and its allies to present reconstruction plans for Iran amounting to at least 300 billion dollars. 8. 60 days of negotiations to reach a final agreement based on nuclear issues and the complete lifting of primary, secondary, US sanctions, and UN Security Council and IAEA Board of Governors resolutions. 9. Reiteration of Iran's commitment under the NPT treaty not to produce nuclear weapons. 10. During the negotiation period, the US has committed not to add forces in the region and not to impose new sanctions. 11. Release of 24 billion dollars of Iran's blocked funds during the 60-day final negotiation period. Half of this amount must be made available to Iran before the start of negotiations. 12. Formation of a supervisory mechanism to implement the agreement. 13. The final agreement will be approved by a UN Security Council resolution. 14. Final negotiations will not begin before the release of half of Iran's blocked funds, suspension of Iran's oil sanctions, and lifting of the naval blockade, and the final agreement will only cover the fate of enriched materials and enrichment, lifting of sanctions, and Iran's economic reconstruction plan. Discussions about Iran's missile program and support for resistance groups are definitively removed from the agenda. As a reminder, the official signing of the memorandum is scheduled for June 19 in Geneva. See the latest updates with us: @visionergeo

Strike after strike by Ukraine's long distance drones on Russia's strategic energy reserves facility in Yaroslavl, with no air defenses of consequence. As all Russian air defenses are now in Moscow or protecting Putin's palaces, Ukraine destroys Russia's entire energy industry.

The Western Left is basically split into two. In Europe, degrowth is the big thing, and climate is still central. In the U.S., it's now all about anti-billionaire and anti-corporate left-populism. Both factions do agree on Palestine, "decolonial" stuff, and the West being Bad.

Nearly 4,000 jobs. 47,000 solar panels a day. Made top-to-bottom on American soil. This is the clean energy promise kept: good jobs, lower bills, and a better future. electrek.co/2026/06/11/georg…

RAND found that LA's 'mansion tax' has reduced large apartment construction by ~30% since 2023 and has cost local, county, and state agencies $452M in revenue. Tenants in buildings that paid measure ULA taxes saw rent increases.

Given how rare large swaths of flat land are to come by on the California Coast and how dire the state is in need of housing its surprising to me that the Salinas Valley hasn't been developed more its only got 390K people!

Heat pumps cheaper to operate than gas boilers in almost all EU countries pv-magazine.com/2026/06/12/h…

People often ask how long a wind turbine takes to "pay back" its construction CO₂. Surprisingly, including mining, steel, concrete, copper, manufacturing, transport, installation, maintenance & decommissioning, a modern turbine repays its entire carbon debt in 5-12 months. After that, it can spend another 20-30 years generating electricity while avoiding far more emissions than were created to build it. Every technology has an upfront footprint. The question isn't whether emissions exist. The question is how quickly they are repaid. For wind, the carbon mortgage is usually measured in months. The carbon savings are measured in decades. That's what disruption looks like when physics and economics start pulling in the same direction.

During the pandemic, NIMBYs online said that San Francisco didn’t need more homes as the city was “losing population”. In 2026, 1200 square foot homes are getting a million dollars over asking. Great planning, everyone!

7 reasons why new small large nuclear reactors useless 12-23 years from plan to operation Costs/kWh 3-4x wind Nuclear weapons proliferation risk Meltdown risk Radioactive waste risk 9-37x CO2e/kWh as wind Mining lung cancer risk web.stanford.edu/group/efmh/… oneearth.org/the-7-reasons-w…

Stop bothering me with facts.

California is one of the most dynamic places on the planet. But it is a case study in how a rich society can spend more and more while producing less and less of what its ordinary citizens need. My take:

California needs to mandate and rebate the installation of 220V outlets for EV charging. Why can’t we get this done? We’re supposed to be the world’s 4th largest economy with all the latest, cutting edge technology! @AsmDawnAddis @AsmAguiarCurry @JuanAlanisCA @AsmJasmeetBains @BauerKahan @asmstevebennett @CASpeakerRivas @CAgovernor @CaliforniaISO @SouthCoastAQMD

Please make all farming in California organic, so we can preserve essential insects. @SenEloiseReyes @SenSusanRubio @SenatorSeyarto @SenHenryStern @SenStricklandCA @SenatorUmberg @SenValladares @SenAishaWahab @Scott_Wiener

"The UFC event captures something about this moment in our history. After all, it’s vulgar, it’s violent, it’s commercial, it’s grandiose, it’s tacky, and it dishonors a place once thought worthy of care and respect. In other words, it’s Donald Trump." open.substack.com/pub/thebul…

This is what I’ve been metaphorically pulling my hair out over for the past ten years. WTF?! The LA City Council is responsible for allowing this blight. FORCE THESE OWNERS TO BUILD OR SELL WITH AGGRESSIVE FINES! THEY ARE CAUSING HOMELESSNESS. @MayorOfLA @mhdcd8 @KatyForLA @nithyavraman @adrin_nazarian @TraciParkforLA @CurrenDPriceJr @CD6LosAngeles @MRodCD7 @CW_HeatherHutt @CD12LA @CD13LosAngeles @TimMcOskerLA @BobBlumenfield @cd1losangeles @ysabeljuradoLA @lacontroller

Google hid a fully working flight simulator inside Google Earth back in 2007 and never told anyone. You unlocked it with a secret keystroke: Ctrl Alt A. No menu, no announcement. One user stumbled onto it, the combo spread, and it got popular enough that Google made it official the next year. Two planes, an F-16 and a Cirrus SR22, flying over real satellite imagery of the entire planet. Then it stayed locked inside the downloadable desktop app for 18 years. The browser version was a stripped-down viewer that couldn't run it. Today that changed. Here is the part that makes it impressive. A flight simulator is the single hardest thing you can ask a 3D map to do. Panning is easy, the software has all the time it wants to load the terrain ahead of you. Flying low and fast strips that away, forcing it to fetch, decompress, and render the world faster than you are crossing it. The hardest possible job for every part of the system at once. So "just for fun" is carrying a lot of weight in that sentence. Getting this to run in a browser tab is the cleanest proof that the web version finally matches what used to need a desktop app. The toy is the benchmark.

American cities need to allow more people But also every time I go to the suburbs it’s just so self evidently absurd any have a housing shortage