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You probably don’t realize this on account of you have a real job, but government workers in California are still basically grifting on Covid hours, and they just sued notoriously evil MAGA Republican Gavin Newsom after he attempted toforce them back into the office(four days a week).
Now, thederangement of government unionsisn’t really news, but their novel approach to stealing your money is making headlines: union lawyers allege the carbon released from forcing government workers to actually work, via commuting, violates CEQA, anenvironmental lawtypically just used to paralyze the housing market.
It’s truly an amazing theater of villains, and who do you root for? The public sector unions? The “environmental” law clearly designed to break civilization? The legal industry built upon our ongoing tolerance of frivolous lawsuits? Or the enabling bimbo governor who drove our state into the ground? A tough choice, but I’ll be cheering for an asteroid.
Per the SF Standard, nonprofits are bracing for ~1,050 layoffs as Mayor Lurie trims the city budget. Hundreds of nonprofit orgs across SF rake in ~$1.63 billion annually for, let’s see… hosting street fairs next to open drug markets in the Tenderloin, giving free money to undocumented immigrants, and “repairing historic harms” in black neighborhoods (free money).
Meanwhile, the city is facing a $643 million budget deficit — and most of this nonprofit money goes to staff. (The Dream Keeper Initiative, for example, intended to help black residents, spent ~$6 million on, among other things, trips to Martha’s Vineyard, spa days for execs, and a bulk order of an employee’s children’s book (lol)).
Lurie is the only politician capable of cleaning house here, because he’s rich and won’t need a fake nonprofit job later. (When asked for comment on why nonprofit spendingincreasedduring her term, London Breed was busy… interviewing for “community-centered” $400,000 jobs.)
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Tuesday, STEM faculty across the University of California system released an open letter to the UC regents, in which they beg for the reinstatement of the SAT/ACT requirement for admissions (famously abandoned in 2020).
The 656 signatories said the test-free policy destroyed basic mathematical fluency, concluding that students have “preparation gaps so severe that instructors must reteach middle-school mathematics” (yikes).
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