#California now has the world’s 4th largest GDP, behind only the entire US, China, and Germany.

But on a per-capita basis, California is far ahead of the pack.

Billion$ per million people:

California: 105.1
US: 85.8
Germany: 55.3
China: 13.1

Only two countries have higher GDP/capita figures:

1. Luxembourg: 140.9
2. Ireland: 108.9

But they have *tiny* GDP compared to California.

EDIT: It appears that readers of this post perceive that I’m citing GDP per capita as a measure of median prosperity, and IT IS NOT. In fact, GDP itself is not a measure of prosperity, only a measure of how much goods and services are made available for sale (i.e. volume of “business”). So take this with the same amount of salt as when the IMF talks about a nation’s GDP. GDP is business, not happiness.

https://abc7news.com/post/california-now-4th-largest-economy-world-new-data-shows/16239057/

You can't just snatch people off the street, lock them up, and throw away the key. Unless you're in a dystopia. Or outside the reach of the Supreme Court's authority.

It’s a good time to understand habeas corpus – a 1000-year old legal principle that requires a judge literally to have the body of any incarcerated person brought physically to court so that the legality of their detention may be assessed.

(And yes, habeas corpus is for non-citizens, too)
https://theconversation.com/habeas-corpus-a-thousand-year-old-legal-principle-for-defending-rights-thats-getting-a-workout-under-the-trump-administration-254525

Team Trump is making a list of Jews, what could go wrong?

#antisemitism #fascism #nazis

https://www.dailykos.com/story/2025/4/24/2318529/-Team-Trump-is-making-a-list-of-Jews-what-could-go-wrong?pm_campaign=blog&pm_medium=rss&pm_source=

Felix hopes everything has a happy Friday. He's enjoying his favorite window perch, though it's a tad small for him (he's quite a big boy).

#CatsOfMastodon #Cats #Mastocats #CatsOfFediverse #Catcontent #Catstodon #Friday

Join People’s CDC Today, April 24 at 8:30 PST / 11:30 EST for a Webinar on Fighting Attacks on Science for Public Health

Speakers Include:

Noha Aboelata, MD, Roots Community Health Center

Theodore Pak, MD, PhD, Clinical and Research Fellow in Infectious Diseases at Massachusetts General Hospital.

Lara Jirmanus, MD, MPH, People’s CDC and Clinical Instructor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School

Andrew Wang, PhD, MPH, CPH, Public Health Professional

Sam Halpert, JD Lawyer and Accessibility Advocate

Rita Valenti, RN People’s CDC and Project South

Webinar registration: https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_e3z4m1F3SneZKwms9jkrlA#/registration #PublicHealth #MaskUp #USpol

How to find your local "tool library":

https://localtools.org/find/

As the name implies, a tool library will lend you things like drills, power washers, saws, etc.

Another approach is to do a search for "Pittsburgh tool library" (plug your city name in there).

It'd be good to update the map above with your local tool library, to create a single resource.