When The Lights Go Out In The ‘City By The Bay’

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Rolling blackouts warned to hit millions in California as California becomes just Another Third World Shithole…

Los Angeles Times–Newsom pledged a full investigation into the cause of the power shortage.

“We’ve always maintained that, a golden oldie, you can’t control the weather, but you can prepare for the weather events,” he said. “And let me just make this crystal clear: We failed to predict and plan [for] these shortages, and that’s simply unacceptable.”

He framed the shortage as a consequence of the state’s transition from polluting gas plants to cleaner sources of energy and said the high demand placed on the grid due to the record heat over the last few days has exposed “gaps in terms of that reliability.”

Journey – Lights (Official Video – 1978)

Something’s Happening Here, But Can Ol’ Joe Biden Understand What It Really Is?

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Some people sat in a room and thought that Billy Porter “For What It’s Worth” cover at the end of the DNC would convince people to vote for them. Anyway, Brandon Morse decided to make it more honest.

Granted it was Buffalo Springfield, not Jimi Hendrix that originally performed “For What It’s Worth”, but both came out of 1967’s ‘Summer of Love.‘

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Safety And Security For Me But Not For Thee

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Mayor Lori Lightfoot defends ban on protesters on her block: ‘I have a right to make sure that my home is secure’ — But you ‘galley slave proles’, not so much.

MSN–Mayor Lori Lightfoot defended the Chicago Police Department’s ban on protesters being able to demonstrate on the block where she lives, telling reporters Thursday that she and her family at times require heightened security because of threats she receives daily.

Lightfoot refused to elaborate on the specific threats, but said she receives them daily against herself, her wife and her home. Comparisons to how the Police Department has protected previous mayors’ homes, such as Rahm Emanuel’s Ravenswood residence, are unfair because “this is a different time like no other,” Lightfoot told reporters.