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Don Gibson
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Plant Scientist PhD. Likes to talk about housing and land use. Strong takes on bike lanes and tomatoes. 📌 Natomas, Sacramento, CA
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It's my aspirational goal that the governor stop calling his 2018 campaign pledge to build 3.5 million homes through 2025 an aspirational goal. www.politico.com/newsletters/...
COUNT ‘EM UP: In the interview with Klein, the governor also repeated his claim that his oft-cited 2018 campaign promise of building 3.5 million new homes in the first seven years of his gubernatorial tenure was only an “aspirational goal.” But Newsom was firm in his pledge on the trail, telling the Los Angeles Times early that year that building 3.5 million homes was “not just what I want to do — it’s what we must do to address California’s housing crisis, which worsens every day.” “When I embraced the goal of 3.5 million new units by 2025, I knew it was unprecedented and audacious,” Newsom said in February 2018. “But it’s what must be done.” The state has permitted 665,000 new homes from 2019 through 2024, less than 20 percent of his goal, per U.S. Census data. — Liam Dillon
December 10, 2025 at 9:47 PM
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stano.bsky.social
Incredible we built a society where tens of thousands of people are forced to live in this misery just because the wealthiest people in America want more parking and because left-NIMBY cranks still won't let go of their housing Lysenkoism which insists that new housing causes gentrification.
In L.A., $750 a Month to Live in a Backyard Storage Unit
www.nytimes.com
December 10, 2025 at 12:27 AM
dongibson.bsky.social
Lighted boat parade in Sacramento this last Saturday
December 10, 2025 at 6:07 AM
dongibson.bsky.social
I gotta get me a plug in solar setup. I was quoted $40K for a traditional setup with battery last year. No way I could afford that but $1k or $2k for even a small setup I would love to have

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Small plug-in solar panels gain traction as an affordable way to cut electricity bills
YouTube video by PBS NewsHour
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December 8, 2025 at 8:34 PM
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cnn.com
CDC advisers vote to abandon universal hepatitis B vaccination for newborns.
https://cnn.it/4pV4JCE
December 5, 2025 at 3:58 PM
dongibson.bsky.social
Looking forward to the FIFA peace prize. My money is on Obama to win it
December 5, 2025 at 4:01 PM
dongibson.bsky.social
Enrollment collapse at many CSU could be fixed if California builds more homes for everyone
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Some California universities seeing decline in enrollment: Here's why
YouTube video by ABC7 News Bay Area
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December 5, 2025 at 5:59 AM
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bloomberg.com
President Trump, apparently enamored by the pint-sized Kei cars he saw during his recent trip to Japan, has paved the way for them to be made and sold in the US despite concerns
Trump Wants Asia’s ‘Cute’ Kei Cars to be Made and Sold in US
President Donald Trump, apparently enamored by the pint-sized Kei cars he saw during his recent trip to Japan, has paved the way for them to be made and sold in the US, despite concerns that they’re too small and slow to be driven safely on American roads.
bloom.bg
December 4, 2025 at 4:07 AM
dongibson.bsky.social
I definitely do not watch many videos about AI. YouTube algorithm is definitely off.
December 4, 2025 at 4:22 AM
dongibson.bsky.social
Yesterday, a four-way stop was happening in my neighborhood due to a traffic light being out.

At least 3 drivers took dangerous and life-threatening maneuvers around the light to save maybe 2 minutes of travel time.
mtsw.bsky.social mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 7d
Human beings interacting on foot have a very different dynamic than when they're interacting behind the wheel of a car stuck in traffic. And guess how suburbanites spend most of their time in public?
December 3, 2025 at 7:52 PM
dongibson.bsky.social
The City of Sacramento spent millions and put in years of work. and hundreds if not thousands of hours of public outreach into this plan to fix pedestrian safety.

BUT. THERE. IS. LITTLE. FUNDING. TO. FIX. THE. ROADS.

www.sacbee.com/news/local/t...
Sacramento council OKs plan for better pedestrian safety — will it get funded?
The city lists 612 intersections where safety fixes are needed under a new active transportation plan.
www.sacbee.com
December 3, 2025 at 6:34 PM
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edmondsscanner.bsky.social
Your daily fortune:
Luck is equal parts preparation, hard work, fairy mischief, and goblin wild magic.
December 3, 2025 at 5:00 PM
dongibson.bsky.social
The NFL keeping the Raiders out of the NorCal media market for today’s game is good for my mental health
November 30, 2025 at 9:34 PM
dongibson.bsky.social
I hate that I am so desensitized to gin violence. I am San Jose when I heard the news of the shooting at Valley Fair Mall.

My first reaction, oh only 2 people shot, oh so not a big one.
November 29, 2025 at 6:54 AM
dongibson.bsky.social
Flying with small kids be like:

Me: “Oh no I smell poop!”
Wife: “Is it our kid???”
*I check*
Me: “Thanks god no”
November 29, 2025 at 5:28 AM
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infinata.bsky.social
“I was just following otters.”
chrismohney.bsky.social Chris Mohney @chrismohney.bsky.social · 12d
really went dark for the sequel
A movie marquee advertises for the films Nuremberg in Zootopia 2
November 28, 2025 at 9:09 PM
dongibson.bsky.social
Beautiful then. Beautiful today.

A former colleague from Spain once told me after the national anthem at an NBA game.

“You Americans do a really good job making everyone feel like Americans”

Let’s keep our little superpower
adamrothman.bsky.social Adam Rothman enjoys a good sandwich @adamrothman.bsky.social · 12d
From Frederick Douglass's 1867 "Composite Nation" speech, a defense of Chinese migration to the United States at a time when anti-Chinese sentiment was intensifying.
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If we would reach a degree of civilization higher and grander than any yet attained, we should welcome to our ample continent all the nations, kindreds, tongues and peoples, and as fast as they learn our language and comprehend the duties of citizenship, we should incorporate them into the American body politic. The outspread wings of the American eagle are broad enough to shelter all who are likely to come.
November 29, 2025 at 1:53 AM
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bencollins.bsky.social
Hi everybody,

It's Black Friday, a big day for us at The Onion, since we rely almost entirely on your memberships.

Our goal for 2026? More print subscribers than the Washington Post.

This is, somehow, feasible.

So sign up! A year of print is $75 for the year today. Help us do a very funny thing.
Join The Onion
Don’t just read the news. Feel it. Be among the first to feel the news.
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November 28, 2025 at 4:39 PM
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bencollins.bsky.social
Here's a note I sent to our members about what we did with their money, and why we expect the Onion to outgrow the Washington Post.

We keep doing weird, hard shit — taunting ICE, yelling at Congress for not taunting ICE, buying bad websites — when nobody else does.

Our members keep getting papers.
Hey there Onion members, This is Ben Collins, CEO of America’s Finest News Source™. I am writing today, as we have arrived at a precipice in American life, to thank you. Our government is employing masked oafs to kidnap our neighbors, ziptie our children, and play Call of Duty: Burger King Edition in several American cities. The White House, otherwise occupied with taping an episode of HGTV’s “Help I Wrecked My House,” is hellbent on politically mandated starvation of the indigent. Worst of all, America’s airwaves have been taken over by dull throbbing moans only recently identified by scientists as something known as “Morgan Wallen.” In short, it is not a good time out there, and our captured media has been too scared to call that out. But, because of you, none of that is true at The Onion. For reasons we don’t like or understand, our work has become increasingly important. You and your contribution over the last year have allowed The Onion to thrive in this precarious moment — to take risks and to say sentences mere moments before those thoughts become criminalized. We need your help in the next year to bolster that fight as things get precipitously worse. Because of your support, The Onion is now the 11th-most distributed newspaper in the United States, sandwiched between The Boston Globe and The Chicago Tribune. In the next year, our goal is to crack the top 10, and to surpass the circulation of the propaganda project of a notorious space pervert, Jeff Bezos and The Washington Post. We’re confident we can reach this goal with your help. Unlike other publications, which all appear to have a fetish for caving to an increasingly maniacal and unpopular authoritarian government, The Onion remains unafraid to print the truth, straightforwardly and without favor. Due to your patronage in the last year, we have: Published 13 newspapers since the relaunch of our print edition in September of 2024. Over the summer, by popular demand, we increased the size of the paper by half. Took out a full-page advertisement in the New York Times “calling upon lawmakers in Congress to sit back and do absolutely nothing,” then sent this op-ed to every member of the House and Senate and all 54,000 of our subscribers. Thankfully, they took our advice, and now people are starving. Drove the Onion Newsvan in front of protests and ICE detention centers, blaring headlines about ICE’s one true love: teargassing elementary schools. Released Jeffrey Epstein: Bad Pedophile in over 40 cities across North America and later on YouTube, and let independent theatres keep the ticket sales. It’s still unclear if we can write this off. And, a year ago this week, we successfully bid on InfoWars at a bankruptcy auction, before the judgment was overturned by a judge for — and I’m paraphrasing here — being too cool. Yes, despite a legal bill that rivals the GDP of West Virginia, we are continuing work to acquire InfoWars and evolve it into an galactically sized depot of lies, scams, and miracle cures for all of the world’s awesome new and untracked illnesses. The Supreme Court — yes, this Supreme Court — denied Alex Jones’ appeal just last month, a last gasp at evading justice, and we’re hoping this clears a path to reinventing the dumbest site on the internet very soon. So ahead of this holiday season, please consider subscribing to The Onion for yourself, your friends, your parents, or your infant. People love getting something great in the mail every month amidst their requisite bills and death threats. Look, we’re an independent company, we don’t use AI to write headlines and make art, and we’re one of roughly three publications who are up for the fight. Unlike other places, The Onion is quadrupling down on being a pain in the ass, politically. Are you? If so, I hope you’ll continue to be an Onion member, get the paper, and help us deliver ulcers to those who deserve it. Thank you, and Tu Stultus Es, Ben Collins CEO | The Onion
November 28, 2025 at 4:48 PM
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theonion.com
Report: It Pretty Incredible That Americans Entrusted With Driving Cars https://theonion.com/report-it-pretty-incredible-that-americans-entrusted-w-1819574734/
Report: It Pretty Incredible That Americans Entrusted With Driving Cars
November 25, 2025 at 10:00 PM
dongibson.bsky.social
This is the first time I’ve done flying with a toddler and a one year-old on a major holiday. What have I gotten myself into?
November 26, 2025 at 12:21 AM
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charlescmann.bsky.social
In 1924, Calvin Coolidge's 16-yr-old son played tennis on the White House grounds w/o wearing socks. He got a blister and was dead from infection a week later.

This is unthinkable today—which is why I wrote this series. Cuz the systems that save us from this kind of fate are in urgent need of care.
charlescmann.bsky.social 𝙲𝚑𝚊𝚛𝚕𝚎𝚜 𝙲. 𝙼𝚊𝚗𝚗 @charlescmann.bsky.social · 15d
For a yr, I've been working on a series for The New Atlantis about the vast systems that underlie our lives. Our ancestors built them up over decades to fend off hunger, thirst, darkness and disease. But too few of us know about them—and they're all at risk. The conclusion is now available online:
Why We Are Better Off Than a Century Ago
Our ancestors built grand public systems to conquer hunger, thirst, darkness, and squalor. That progress can be lost if we forget it.
www.thenewatlantis.com
November 25, 2025 at 9:03 PM
dongibson.bsky.social
Parking lot parties!
November 24, 2025 at 4:24 PM
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nicholasgrossman.bsky.social
Really looks like the United States is about to launch a regime change war against Venezuela with:

-No casus belli
-No authorization from Congress
-No allies or international support
-No plan for a post-Maduro Venezuela
-No preparation for any sort of stabilization or containment of the fallout
November 24, 2025 at 3:29 PM