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Desert Songbirds Move Toward California Protected Status https://biologicaldiversity.org/w/news/press-releases/desert-songbirds-move-toward-california-protected-status-2026-04-16/

Desert Songbirds Move Toward California Protected Status
SACRAMENTO, Calif.— In response to Center for Biological Diversity petitions, the California Fish and Game Commission voted today to protect both the Bendire’s thrasher and LeConte’s thrasher as candidate species under the state’s Endangered Species Act.

California joined 19 other states
on July 16 to take a swing at a Trump administration delay tactic
in approving onshore wind energy projects.
In light of California’s goal for its energy to be 100 percent carbon-free by 2045,
wind plays a large part.
On a hot and humid afternoon like this Friday’s, renewable energy is supplying 70 percent of the 34-gigawatt demand.
Wind makes up 11 percent of that carbon-free renewable energy.
Any project that uses…

California AG Seeks to Intervene in Lawsuit Against Trump Administration over Onshore Wind Projects
Projects nationwide are “frozen” while the Department of Defense conducts “further agency coordination,” said Attorney General Rob Bonta.

Es ist definitiv die most ridiculous timeline.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/18/us/lego-theft-pasta-california.html

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De ‘AI-oorlog’ is begonnen. Staat Europa met lege handen?
Kill switch: Europa kan niet anders dan meedoen in de AI-wapenwedloop met de VS en China, schrijven AI-onderzoekers in een alarmerend toekomstscenario. „Als je afwacht, geef je je hele economische concurrentiepositie op.” Zijn er echt geen alternatieven mogelijk?

arxiv_collab: Scientific collaborations in physics (1995-2005)
Collaboration graphs for scientists, extracted from the Los Alamos e-Print arXiv (physics), for 1995-1999 for three categories, and additionally for 1995-2003 and 1995-2005 for one category. For copyright reasons, the MEDLINE (biomedical research) and NCSTRL (computer science) collaboration graphs from this paper are not publicly available.
This network has 16706 nodes and 121251 edges.
Tags: Social, Collaborati…

Wife of LA Clippers owner and billionaire Steve Ballmer steps in to save NPR with $80M | The Independent
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/npr-donation-steve-ballmer-la-clippers-wife-b2960394.html

Madison Square Garden Kept a List of Gay Celebrities
Their database tracked and categorized hundreds of celebs, famous Knicks superfans, and even some of Taylor Swift’s wedding guests.
Labels included “LGBTQIA,” “DO NOT HOST,” and low to high “risk.”
https://www.wired.com/st…

Madison Square Garden Kept a List of Gay Celebrities
An MSG database tracked and categorized hundreds of celebs, famous Knicks superfans, and even some of Taylor Swift’s wedding guests. Labels included “LGBTQIA,” “DO NOT HOST,” and low to high “risk.”

The Newsom administration is suing five more California cities
— Calexico, Costa Mesa, Half Moon Bay, Ridgecrest and Turlock — for failing to complete state-mandated housing plans, known as the “housing element.”

Huntington Beach was the first city to face such a legal action, and it recently finalized its housing element plans following a court-order and massive fines.
The law, which has been in place since 1969, requires cities and counties every eight years to d…

Newsom continues crackdown on cities over housing plan requirements. 'No city gets a pass,' governor says
Gov. Gavin Newsom and California Atty. Gen. Rob Bonta filed legal actions this week against five small cities that they say are failing to meet benchmarks required for housing planning.

More than 17,000 people were under evacuation orders in southern California on Tuesday as a wildfirethreatened suburban homes.
The wind-driven #Sandy fire was reported Monday in the hills above Simi Valley, about 30 miles (48km) north-west of Los Angeles.
By Tuesday morning, it had consumed more than 2 sq miles of dry brush and destroyed at least one home, according to the Ventura county fire dep…

Overall City Ranking for Biking
Isla Vista (Santa Barbara County)
— 99TH PERCENTILE
OUT OF 3019 CITIES
7th IN THE U.S.
4th IN THE PACIFIC
1st IN CALIFORNIA
https://cityratings.peopleforbikes.org/cities/isla-vista-ca

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