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Gavin Newsom has not been great for California, go figure. Never solved the poop problem in SF, so he thinks he can succeed as governor??

On the right, there are two unlikely contenders.  A black man.  And a transsexualWe are living in a movie ( Read more... )

( Under a cut for your acknowledged botherances, yo. )

A Thanksgiving bonfire at dawn: celebrating Native American resistance on Alcatraz

The Indigenous People's Thanksgiving Day is a sunrise ceremony ...
While most people are still asleep, thousands gather each year to remember the occupation that helped inspire the modern Native American protest movement...

Read more at THE GUARDIAN

As climate and land-use change accelerate, so must efforts to preserve California's plants

A team developed a computer model that identifies the high-priority areas in California for preservation in order to save the state's native plants in the face of rapid climate change and habitat destruction. The model is based on three measures of ( Read more... )

'Out! Out!': protests grow in Tijuana against migrant caravan

Tensions have built as nearly 3,000 migrants poured into the Mexican border city in recent days

Hundreds of Tijuana residents have congregated to protest the thousands of Central American migrants who have arrived in the Mexican border city hoping for a new life in the US.

Tensions have ( Read more... )

Americans Are Moving Closer to Nature, and Into Fire Zones

More people in California and other states are living in areas known as the wildland-urban interface. Wildfires in those zones pose the greatest risk.

NOTE: Sounds like bad management to me ( Read more... )

Part of Migrant Caravan Reaches Tijuana

TIJUANA, Mexico - Exhausted migrants in a caravan of Central American asylum-seekers napped on mattresses in a converted municipal gymnasium, while men played soccer and exchanged banter on a crowded, adjoining courtyard. A woman dabbed her crying, naked toddler with a moist cloth.

Nearly 2,000 caravan ( Read more... )

California Wildfires Have Already Claimed 31 Lives and Displaced 150,000 People

This story was originally published by the Guardian and appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration.

The Camp Fire in northern California has become the most destructive wildfire in the state’s history, incinerating the town of Paradise, and displacing more ( Read more... )

Malibu residents ordered to evacuate as California wildfire sweeps towards coast

• Thousand Oaks, scene of gun massacre, also hit by wildfire
• Flames driven by southern California’s Santa Ana winds

Residents of the beachside city of Malibu have been ordered to evacuate as three fast-moving wildfires raged in California on Friday, forcing 175,000 people ( Read more... )