#3GoodThings

1. Walked ...
2. To my local dropbox ...
3. And voted!

Anticipating other good things soon - like no more political texts, phone calls, and mailers.

#USPol #IVoted #VoteEarly

LA Forward not pulling any punches

#uspol #vote #voteEarly #LosAngeles

#California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed the Plug and Play Solar Act, a bill that will allow anyone — renter or homeowner — to set small panels on their patios or fences and plug them directly into wall outlets without having to navigate any utility permissions. #BalconySolar kits will be sold by major retailers.

#LosAngeles Times (possible paywall)
https://www.latimes.com/environment/story/2026-09-30/want-solar-but-dont-own-roof-california-just-legalized-plug-in-panels-no-permission-required

Went to the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art yesterday

#LosAngeles

New York Times: "Top Science Panel Backs Research Linking Extreme Weather to Climate Change"

gift link: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/16/climate/national-academies-extreme-weather-attribution.html?unlocked_article_code=1.yFA.Q5Gy.96ai56KoH8s_&smid=url-share

Meanwhile, republicans in the US House and Senate have introduced bills to give immunity to fossil fuel companies so they won't have to pay for damages (H.R.8330 and S.4340).

#USpol #ClimateActionNow

Reporting by LA Taco: ICE agents have been reported to detain (kidnap) people showing know-your-rights "red cards" on the assumption that the person is undocumented. Do NOT show red cards to agents - but DO memorize the information written on them!

#STFUfriday

https://lataco.com/know-your-rights-card-holders-detained

#Fedle #5 2/6

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https://fedle.fedilab.app/share/123

Día de los Muertos - celebrating the lives of those who have passed

The US Postal Service used to be a reliable known quantity. Now, a postmark date may not be the date that a mail piece was first accepted.

The Informed Delivery email used to identify what mail pieces would be delivered today but now they are just "coming soon."

Increased "holiday rates" for shipping packages went into effect earlier this month, and will last at least through January.

This is all to fund tax cuts for billionaires, right?

https://www.npr.org/2025/10/23/nx-s1-5582370/mail-in-ballot-postmark

#enshittification

If you live in, own, or are otherwise connected to a multi-family residential property in the city of #LosAngeles with a grass lawn and would like to see it converted to a 100% #NativePlant yard with water capture features, this could be your opportunity.

The LA Neighborhood Council #Sustainability Alliance is now taking funding applications. Deadline is November 15. Details in link.

https://www.ncsa.la/lawn_to_habitat_call?utm_campaign=2025_10_03&utm_medium=email&utm_source=ncsa

#California Strong - a human chain along the Southern California coast to demonstrate strength and solidarity - Saturday, September 27

#LosAngeles #LA #OC #BeachCities #LBC
#HoldTheLine

https://mastodon.social/@isbla/115203481200050013

#ScribesAndMakers July 25. Create a multiple choices poll listing 3 #books you personally consider “classics” and ask others to choose the ones they have read. Create a fourth option for None of the Above.

#bookstodon

Today, the #LosAngeles City Council voted unanimously to support the Polluter Pays Climate Superfund Act -#California AB 1243 / SB 684. Taxpayers are currently on the hook for billions of dollars to cover the costs of climate change but it wasn’t us who caused this crisis, it was the big fossil fuel polluters. They should pay their fair share.

#ClimateAction #MakePollutersPay

Everybody's Climate 2025 - virtual and in-person events sponsored by the #SanFrancisco Public #Library. Connect with others to address the #ClimateCrisis
in ways that are meaningful to you, from poetry and music to science and practical action.

https://sfpl.org/locations/main-library/general-collections/everybodys-climate-2025

FBI arrest man who distributed face shields to protesters

https://www.latimes.com/california/live/los-angeles-protests-immigration-raid-live-updates#p=fbi-arrest-man-who-distributed-face-shields-to-protesters

#LosAngeles #NoKings

I don't want you to make a video in front of your burned-to-the-ground house or your flooded business. I want fossil fuel companies to pay their fare share of damages.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N5-fBM9Dpbo

#MakePollutersPay #ClimateAction #California

Reporting by Austyn Gaffney, NY Times: “Attribution science...draws a link between specific activities from a company profiting from fossil fuels and specific harms to states and communities,” per a climate law fellow at Columbia Univ’s Sabin Center. “If you cause harm you should be responsible for cleaning it up, it’s as simple as that.”

Gift link: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/23/climate/climate-science-attribution-vermont.html?unlocked_article_code=1.CE8.w_11.8IKjHQoW85Qr&smid=url-share

Archived version (no paywall): https://archive.is/MJTnN

#MakePollutersPay #ClimateSuperfund #California #ClimateChange

Plan de preparación en caso de una deportación - Bet Tzedek Legal Services & LA Public Library

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RmAvnwaE-Kk

However you participated in #HandsOff yesterday--in person, virtually, or in your heart/mind--read these words from Rebecca Solnit.

"vWe can write the next chapters of this country's history if we stand up, show up, speak up, stick together, stay committed. I don't know how we'll do it, because we have never been in this kind of catastrophe before, and we're maybe going to do things we never did before."

https://www.meditationsinanemergency.com/millions-stood-up-april-5-hands-off-day-of-action/

Just back from #HandsOff in #Torrance, #California (near #LosAngeles). Event organizers were saying between 7500-10,000 people participated. No visible media presence.