War in Iran Has India Scrambling to Keep Stoves Lit for Cooking

India relies on huge quantities of cooking gas that is normally shipped from the Persian Gulf.

The New York Times

As worker strike threat looms, #Oakland school district announces broad swath of #edu job cuts to help alleviate $100m worth of consistently mismanaged civic #budget deficit woes

https://www.mercurynews.com/2026/02/26/oakland-school-district-lays-off-hundreds-of-workers-to-balance-100m-deficit/?share=soticooehfttphharnwb #SharedLink #YayArea #Education #BayArea #PublicSector #Schools #PaywallLift

Real People, Real Newz: Guy who was involved in ton of coolest musick sh/t in yr lifetime goneski... #NashvilleCats Guitarist on everything from #StandByYourMan to #HarperValleyPTA to #PrettyWoman ... Roger Miller's King of the Road? .. yep .. Like Elvis, he's everywhere too .. if you didn't know of him then, know him now...the only #Kennedy you really need to know about...
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/15/obituaries/jerry-kennedy-dead.html?unlocked_article_code=1.M1A.Trp7.uvPBkEoIRmvW&smid=url-share #GiftLink #SharedLink #PaywallLift

In typically brutalist #MelonHusk style 500 of his employees were given the ax on Friday Night, and immediately deleted all access to even their email with no warning.

"We no longer need most generalist AI tutor positions and your employment with xAI will conclude."

https://archive.ph/mPRXO #FreeLink #SharedStory #PaywallLift #SFChronicle #ArtificialIntelligence #Twits

#Drumpf demands US #AttorneyGeneral show loyalty to tyranny instead of #Constitution and prosecute his personal political foes in #DJT #DoucheSocial rant

https://wapo.st/46M8nI3 #FreeLink #SharedStory #PaywallLift #WaPo #BezosBrandNews

#FirstAmendment and #CopWatch advocates have condemned #Oakland #Police efforts to begin hiding their #radio communications with new #Encryption techniques which ends decades of public #transparency.

Well, the public access to cop communications continues, but now only because of #OPD technical trouble β€œworking with a vendor” ...

Dozens of #LEO agencies had timed their scanners to go dark to the public throughout the #EastBay β€” the move by many scandal plagued regional #California #LawEnforcement agencies has been widely condemned by #OpenGov advocate groups.

https://www.EastBayExpress.com/2025/09/04/snafu-keeps-oakland-police-radio-traffic-public-as-east-bay-wide-shutdowns-loom/?share=f2scrnrm0oaus9aeoba9 #GiftLink #SharedStory #PaywallLift

After #CDC orders #Covid vaccines off limits to all but only #HighRisk seniors , female director appointed barely a month ago is ousted, yet refuses order to leave and other top offcials resign in protest over #RFKjr directed #Drumpf bass ackward political maneuverings ...

"Director #SusanMonarez refused to rubber-stamp unscientific, reckless directives and fire dedicated #health experts, she chose protecting the public over serving a political agenda,” her lawyers Mark S. Zaid and #AbbeLowell wrote in a statement.

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#Landfill Dumped In Early #EisenhowerEra Through Swinging #SanFrancisco 60s And Supposedly Sealed Off In 7πŸ˜€'s is Leaching Into The #PacificOcean

The site buried under bulldozed boulders at Mussel Rock Beach along the #SanMateo #Seashore gurgles up #garbage including easily read old newspapers from the early 1960s.

The dreaded #CaliforniaCoastalCommission could hit #DalyCity resident #taxpayers with huge fines, but current denizens of this working class enclave object to being blamed for poor planning by bureaucratic buffoons in decades past, putting #toxic heavy metals and ammonia into ground water as well as the sea itself..

https://www.mercurynews.com/2025/08/26/old-landfill-that-closed-47-years-ago-continues-to-leak-trash-into-pacific-ocean/?share=uthrdriocammrpe2uowc

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