This is amazing: @ladwp.com, the Los Angeles utility, has launched a program that will install solar+battery systems on qualifying low-to-moderate-income households, *for free*. Yes: free. If you know someone eligible, tell them to apply!

Self-Generation Incentive Program

The Self-Generation Incentive Program (SGIP) helps qualified LADWP residential customers install solar and battery storage systems by providing financial incentives. This program supports clean energy...

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The Senate bill is terrible, but the calls made to Senators helped get some bad stuff, like the solar tax, removed. The bill is vulnerable in the House. You only have one House Representative*, now is the time to call them. Doesn’t matter who they are, it can help. *void where prohibited 5calls.org

5 Calls

Spend 5 minutes. Make 5 calls. Make your voice heard.

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Costa Samaras@costasamaras.com · last yr.

[🎵 it’s a long way to the top if you wanna rock and roll] Good morning! If you’ve never called your senators, or if you do all the time, today’s the day. Call your Senators, tell them to vote against building a sprawling detention infrastructure and taxing clean energy. Let’s go. 5calls.org

My analysis of this week's major development reforms in California and what it means for homebuilding. In short, those who live across the street from a proposed apartment building will have to find a way other than a 55-year-old environmental law to stop it. www.latimes.com/homeless-hou...

How major new housing reform will affect homebuilding in California

Gov. Gavin Newsom and California legislators passed a major reform of the California Environmental Quality Act on Monday. The new laws remove a key point of leverage for project opponents that has bee...

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This is an excellent article that contextualizes and explains why AB 130 is so important for housing in California.

Ben Christopher@frombenc.bsky.social · last yr.

A decade-spanning political battle between housing developers and defenders of CEQA, California’s preeminent environmental law, came to an end this afternoon with only a smattering of “no” votes. The forces of housing won. calmatters.org/housing/2025...

🎶🎶The abundance agenda is happening 🎶🎶

Governor Gavin Newsom@governor.ca.gov · last yr.

The days of affordable housing and infrastructure in California being blocked by endless delays are finally over. I just signed a historic package of laws that simplifies building, cuts timelines, and will help make it more affordable to live in the greatest state in America.

DISASTROUS. This means they will send people to horrific situations with no due process — in direct violation of promises the Solicitor General made to the Court in previous cases. This greenlights sending people to be enslaved in Libya or tortured in any random foreign country.

Steve Vladeck@stevevladeck.bsky.social · last yr.

#BREAKING: Over a (sharp) public dissent from the three Democratic appointees, #SCOTUS clears the way for the Trump administration to remove migrants to third countries *without* giving them an additional opportunity to contest whether they face persecution or other forms of mistreatment there:

Why do we even have Presidents' Day to begin with? Either rename it George Washington Day or don't have it at all. #noKings

Scenes from/of the first southbound LA Metro K Line train with passengers at Expo/Crenshaw Station to Redondo Beach by ways of the newly opened (at 5 pm PST) LAX/Metro Center Station! So hype! @streetsblogla.bsky.social

This is a vitally important point: our permitting processes are slowing down our progress on housing and climate; and the costs of delay are only getting higher. We need reform now.

Buffy Wicks@buffywicks.bsky.social · 2y ago

CEQA and other permitting regimes, once envisioned as protections for our environment, have morphed into obstacles for meeting our housing and climate goals. This is a perfect opportunity for us to exercise broader permitting reform in the face of our new climate reality.

I refuse to be gaslit into caring about stuff like this. The policy "takes" are already staring you in the face: California made it too easy to live in risky areas, and too hard to live in safe areas.

Was in Montreal for the weekend, and what a wonderful city. I hope to return sometime soon. But I couldn't help but wonder how a city/country that's significantly less wealthy than the US actually feel much more so.

I want to make this into a poster and hang it outside my cubicle.

Will Oremus@willoremus.com · 2y ago

With a fully remote team of just 20 employees, Bluesky has surpassed 20 million users in its first year since opening to the public and is stealing thunder from rivals hundreds of times its size. At a time when conventional wisdom among bosses is that workers must be in-person to be productive.

It's dispiriting times for those of us working to create and disseminate information in the public interest. The best we can do is to continue doing the work for the sake of it and hope for the best.

Jay Rosen@jayrosen.bsky.social · 2y ago

In a sense, says Michael J. Socolow, "journalism didn’t fail us — we failed journalism." www.niemanlab.org/2024/11/what... One thing I am going to do in the months ahead is wrestle with that problem: what should journalists do when the facts don't matter?