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Sharing this in part because of the delightful term "presumed egg"
Northern California’s first condor egg in 100 years reported in redwood tree https://www.sfchronicle.com/california/article/california-condor-21951147.php
Sharing this in part because of the delightful term "presumed egg"
Northern California’s first condor egg in 100 years reported in redwood tree https://www.sfchronicle.com/california/article/california-condor-21951147.php
RE: https://sfba.social/@lwvsf/116161590795793326
Have you heard about the power grab in San Francisco?
Of course not! Because the elites don’t want us to know how they’re stripping away public oversight and democracy in San Francisco and local governments across the country.
🌁 Come out on March 11 for the Future of San Francisco Commissions to learn how we can take action.
We deserve a city that works for us, not real estate and tech billionaires! ✊🏽
In a victory for Christian parents, SCOTUS blocked a series of #California laws that limit the sharing of a #transgender public school student's gender identity info without the child's permission.
"The justices in a 6-3 decision granted an *emergency request* by the challengers to reinstate a judge's ruling that privacy and anti-discrimination measures at issue undermined their religious & parental rights" under the 1st and 14th Amendments.
RE: https://chaos.social/@sleepyowl/116126002122086149
A must read thread from @sleepyowl, particularly for anyone laughing off the "oh they're trying to enforce age verification at an OS level, well I'll just change my open source operating system settings"
Y'all, this is the game where we get LOCKED OUT of having ANY real FOSS operating system we control AT ALL
The steps have been being put in place for this for over a decade now. And who controls the supply chain?
We have to fight this stuff tooth and nail.
Let ALL the Democrats in California know, they will be primaried, until they are gone. GONE.
Rescind the law. Veto the law, primary the Democrats.
#california #democrats #caldems #ageVerification #fascism #screamingAngry #fools #jackasses
#CaliforniaLaw is written by people who are either very ignorant or very incompetent.
https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billStatusClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB1043
They have assumed that all operating systems are like Microsoft Windows 11, Android, or iOS; and have written legislation for operating systems where people download glorified WWW client 'apps', from 'stores', which use 'accounts' that they have with vendors or Microsoft/Google/Apple.
But the legislation *as worded* *also* covers everything from #Debian and #Ubuntu through #Arch Linux and #MobaXTerm to #FreeBSD and #NetBSD and #OpenBSD; where users anonymously use package managers or ports systems to install applications, written by developers, on operating systems, from 'publicly available internet website' repositories.
There is no age field in the GECOS data in master.passwd(5) of course, and the reality is that no BSD or Linux-based operating system has this concept of apps/stores/accounts.
#MidnightBSD #FreeSoftware #Unix #California #USLaw #AgeVerification #GDPR
#CaliforniaLaw is written by people who are either very ignorant or very incompetent.
https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billStatusClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB1043
They have assumed that all operating systems are like Microsoft Windows 11, Android, or iOS; and have written legislation for operating systems where people download glorified WWW client 'apps', from 'stores', which use 'accounts' that they have with vendors or Microsoft/Google/Apple.
But the legislation *as worded* *also* covers everything from #Debian and #Ubuntu through #Arch Linux and #MobaXTerm to #FreeBSD and #NetBSD and #OpenBSD; where users anonymously use package managers or ports systems to install applications, written by developers, on operating systems, from 'publicly available internet website' repositories.
There is no age field in the GECOS data in master.passwd(5) of course, and the reality is that no BSD or Linux-based operating system has this concept of apps/stores/accounts.
#MidnightBSD #FreeSoftware #Unix #California #USLaw #AgeVerification #GDPR
Missing a good New Mexican sunrise right now. Although California isn’t the worst…🤩
Pete Buttigieg & Robert Garcia join chorus of leaders condemning Donald Trump’s ‘war of choice’ with Iran
Political leaders around the country are expressing outrage over the start of armed conflict between the United States and Iran.
Pete Buttigieg, a Navy Reserve veteran who deployed to Afghanistan in 2014 while serving as mayor of South Bend, Indiana, on Saturday joined a widening chorus of Democratic leaders condemning President Donald Trump’s overnight launch of large-scale military strikes on dozens of targets in Iran. California U.S. Rep. Robert Garcia is demanding an immediate vote on war powers in the U.S. Congress. They join others who say the operation was undertaken without congressional authorization and without a plan for what comes next.
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“The President has launched our nation and our great military into a war of choice, risking American lives and resources, ignoring American law, and endangering our allies and partners,” the former Biden transportation secretary wrote on the social media platform Bluesky. “It does nothing to help with the urgent problems here at home that Americans face every day.”
In a second post, Buttigieg invoked a lesson etched deeply into the political memory of his generation: “This nation learned the hard way that an unnecessary war, with no plan for what comes next, can lead to years of chaos and put America in still greater danger.”
Related: Retired Space Force colonel warns Trump’s Iran strikes are ‘reckless adventurism and distraction’
The criticism followed Trump’s 2:30 a.m. video address on Truth Social, in which he announced that the United States had begun “major combat operations in Iran.” The president described a “massive and ongoing operation” designed to eliminate what he called imminent threats from the Iranian regime, vowed that Tehran “will never have a nuclear weapon,” and acknowledged that “American heroes may be lost.” He also directly urged Iranians to “take over your government” when the operation concludes.
That rationale has been challenged not only by lawmakers but also by veterans’ advocates. In June 2025, following Operation Midnight Hammer, a coordinated U.S. strike targeting Iranian nuclear facilities at Fordow, Natanz, and Isfahan, Trump and his administration declared that Iran’s nuclear program had been “obliterated,” and the White House published a statement insisting that “Iran’s nuclear facilities have been obliterated” and dismissing suggestions otherwise as “fake news.”
Veterans’ advocacy organization VoteVets seized on that history in its own rebuke, calling the latest strikes “reckless and unconstitutional” and suggesting that the administration’s shifting justification highlights a failure of strategy. “When launching wars of choice, especially with American lives in the balance, the president goes to Congress and Congress authorizes it,” VoteVets Senior Advisor, retired U.S. Army Major General Paul Eaton, said in a statement. “That did not happen, and these operations are blatantly unconstitutional.”
Eaton added, “A war without focus is a war with no tangible goals. And a war with no goals ends up a Forever War."
Virginia’s senior U.S. senator, Mark Warner, a Democrat and vice chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee, similarly warned that the strikes extended well beyond nuclear or missile infrastructure and into “a broad set of targets, including senior Iranian leadership,” marking what he called a “deeply consequential decision” that risks pulling the United States into another prolonged conflict.
“The American people have seen this playbook before — claims of urgency, misrepresented intelligence, and military action that pulls the United States into regime change and prolonged, costly nation-building,” Warner wrote on X.
Warner recognized Iran’s long record of regional destabilization and support for terrorism, but insisted that those realities “do not relieve any president of the responsibility to act within the law, with a clear strategy, and with Congress.”
Related: Pete Buttigieg calls Pete Hegseth ‘unfit to lead’ after second bombshell Signal chat leak revelation
“The Constitution is clear: the decision to take this nation to war rests with Congress,” he wrote, adding that launching “large-scale military operations, particularly in the absence of an imminent threat to the United States, raises serious legal and constitutional concerns.” He called for a full briefing and demanded “a clear legal justification, a defined end state, and a plan that avoids dragging the United States into yet another costly and unnecessary war.”
Garcia, a gay Democrat and ranking member of the House Oversight Committee, tied the foreign policy decision directly to domestic pressures.
“The American people deserve lower prices and affordable healthcare, not another war in the Middle East,” Garcia wrote on X. “We can support the people of Iran & their self-determination without this dangerous action that is already costing innocent lives.”
“End this war. We need a War Powers Vote now.”
Earlier Saturday, Virginia congressional candidate and retired Space Force Col. Bree Fram, forced out of the military under Trump’s ban on transgender people’s military service, described the operation, dubbed Operation Epic Fury, as “reckless adventurism. She accused Trump of treating war “as an opportunity to look strong, instead of as a last resort to protect our lives and values.”
Will FreeBSD be available in California in 2027?
MidnightBSD has already decided to change their license to prohibit use in California due to the Digital Age Assurance Act. Will FreeBSD be doing the same?
Pete Buttigieg & Robert Garcia join chorus of leaders condemning Donald Trump’s ‘war of choice’ with Iran
Political leaders around the country are expressing outrage over the start of armed conflict between the United States and Iran.
Pete Buttigieg, a Navy Reserve veteran who deployed to Afghanistan in 2014 while serving as mayor of South Bend, Indiana, on Saturday joined a widening chorus of Democratic leaders condemning President Donald Trump’s overnight launch of large-scale military strikes on dozens of targets in Iran. California U.S. Rep. Robert Garcia is demanding an immediate vote on war powers in the U.S. Congress. They join others who say the operation was undertaken without congressional authorization and without a plan for what comes next.
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“The President has launched our nation and our great military into a war of choice, risking American lives and resources, ignoring American law, and endangering our allies and partners,” the former Biden transportation secretary wrote on the social media platform Bluesky. “It does nothing to help with the urgent problems here at home that Americans face every day.”
In a second post, Buttigieg invoked a lesson etched deeply into the political memory of his generation: “This nation learned the hard way that an unnecessary war, with no plan for what comes next, can lead to years of chaos and put America in still greater danger.”
Related: Retired Space Force colonel warns Trump’s Iran strikes are ‘reckless adventurism and distraction’
The criticism followed Trump’s 2:30 a.m. video address on Truth Social, in which he announced that the United States had begun “major combat operations in Iran.” The president described a “massive and ongoing operation” designed to eliminate what he called imminent threats from the Iranian regime, vowed that Tehran “will never have a nuclear weapon,” and acknowledged that “American heroes may be lost.” He also directly urged Iranians to “take over your government” when the operation concludes.
That rationale has been challenged not only by lawmakers but also by veterans’ advocates. In June 2025, following Operation Midnight Hammer, a coordinated U.S. strike targeting Iranian nuclear facilities at Fordow, Natanz, and Isfahan, Trump and his administration declared that Iran’s nuclear program had been “obliterated,” and the White House published a statement insisting that “Iran’s nuclear facilities have been obliterated” and dismissing suggestions otherwise as “fake news.”
Veterans’ advocacy organization VoteVets seized on that history in its own rebuke, calling the latest strikes “reckless and unconstitutional” and suggesting that the administration’s shifting justification highlights a failure of strategy. “When launching wars of choice, especially with American lives in the balance, the president goes to Congress and Congress authorizes it,” VoteVets Senior Advisor, retired U.S. Army Major General Paul Eaton, said in a statement. “That did not happen, and these operations are blatantly unconstitutional.”
Eaton added, “A war without focus is a war with no tangible goals. And a war with no goals ends up a Forever War."
Virginia’s senior U.S. senator, Mark Warner, a Democrat and vice chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee, similarly warned that the strikes extended well beyond nuclear or missile infrastructure and into “a broad set of targets, including senior Iranian leadership,” marking what he called a “deeply consequential decision” that risks pulling the United States into another prolonged conflict.
“The American people have seen this playbook before — claims of urgency, misrepresented intelligence, and military action that pulls the United States into regime change and prolonged, costly nation-building,” Warner wrote on X.
Warner recognized Iran’s long record of regional destabilization and support for terrorism, but insisted that those realities “do not relieve any president of the responsibility to act within the law, with a clear strategy, and with Congress.”
Related: Pete Buttigieg calls Pete Hegseth ‘unfit to lead’ after second bombshell Signal chat leak revelation
“The Constitution is clear: the decision to take this nation to war rests with Congress,” he wrote, adding that launching “large-scale military operations, particularly in the absence of an imminent threat to the United States, raises serious legal and constitutional concerns.” He called for a full briefing and demanded “a clear legal justification, a defined end state, and a plan that avoids dragging the United States into yet another costly and unnecessary war.”
Garcia, a gay Democrat and ranking member of the House Oversight Committee, tied the foreign policy decision directly to domestic pressures.
“The American people deserve lower prices and affordable healthcare, not another war in the Middle East,” Garcia wrote on X. “We can support the people of Iran & their self-determination without this dangerous action that is already costing innocent lives.”
“End this war. We need a War Powers Vote now.”
Earlier Saturday, Virginia congressional candidate and retired Space Force Col. Bree Fram, forced out of the military under Trump’s ban on transgender people’s military service, described the operation, dubbed Operation Epic Fury, as “reckless adventurism. She accused Trump of treating war “as an opportunity to look strong, instead of as a last resort to protect our lives and values.”
Will FreeBSD be available in California in 2027?
MidnightBSD has already decided to change their license to prohibit use in California due to the Digital Age Assurance Act. Will FreeBSD be doing the same?
