Not only has Gov. Gavin Newsom vocally opposed the proposed California billionaire tax, but he also wants to prevent the state from ever passing a wealth tax in the future.

Regulator looks to expand loophole to allow dangerous compounds in food as long as they’re not carcinogenic

ICE official, who was sleeping on man’s lawn and appeared ‘intoxicated’, faces felony charges, California police say

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What did you do?

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I don’t know when I started doing this, but I’ll just put my left hand/arm alongside my cat and kinda just scoop her and carry her around resting on my forearm. She tolerates it very well, and I’ll even take her outside like this for the good sniffs.

Source: Mr. Joshua/The art of pants

This plant was in rehab and she wouldn’t stop munching on the few leaves it had left

Kateryna Rashevska can trace exactly how one Ukrainian child disappears into Russia: the occupied-territory orphanage, the foster placement with a Kremlin-connected family, the re-education camp, the military uniform, the draft notice that arrives at sixteen. A legal expert at Ukraine’s Regional Center for Human Rights, she has filed submissions to the International Criminal Court, documented the cases behind recent EU sanctions, and spent years building the argument that this is not only a war crime but genocide.

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An attorney representing protestors said this infringes on First Amendment rights.

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I love her to bits but I can’t figure out how she though this was a gold idea. It puts fumes into the food

CEO Dana White has long been an ally of President Donald Trump and his administration. Agents would be trained in hand-to-hand combat.

Full Report: Power and Profits: How the AI Data Center Boom Costs Households and Communities(27 page PDF)

Badgers actually team up with coyotes and foxes, not wolves, but whatever, close enough.

Energy policy experts on Friday expressed doubts that a boost in diesel supply from Russia will have a significant impact on oil prices, whether in the U.S. or globally.

The shooting happened shortly after 3 a.m. in the city’s Tower District neighborhood.

A consumer rights champion has explained the rules after one woman had to eat Greek food every day on her Greek holiday

I’ll try again in the morning

The US House of Representatives on Wednesday passed legislation giving Donald Trump broad powers to impose sanctions on Russia and tariffs of up to 100% on countries that buy Russian oil and gas. It will now go to Trump to be signed into law.

Lenny sunning himself in this favorite spot.

Original post: https://mastodon.social/@heyokyay/117418039321475133

cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/68020773

Thieves stole about 30,000 bottles of some of Italy’s most prized wines worth an estimated 5 million euros ($5.8 million) from a winery in Tuscany, in what the producer described Friday as the country’s largest wine theft on record.

[Original in German. This is a paraphrased automated translation with minimal edits.]

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