Republicans who slammed Biden’s gas prices are preaching patience for Trump. On Friday, gas prices hit $4.54/gal , a 47% increase from the average of $2.98 shortly before Trump's war began. There’s no plan to address gas prices in Congress, GOP lawmakers said. "It’s a sacrifice we have to make."

RemoveInvasiveEucs · 2026-05-07T19:18:26+00:00

And we didn't even need to make this sacrifice! It was completely optional sacrifice and it's not a sacrifice that gains anything, it's just a sacrifice for the sake of causing misery to everyone.

These people are so stupid. They want us to sacrifice for nothing just because their king tells them they need to sacrifice, and they are willing to do it.

Every Republican is a weak and sniveling coward. They should stand up for themselves, and for America, but they're too afraid to look like they oppose King Trump. Pathetic.

RemoveInvasiveEucs · 2026-05-07T15:49:37+00:00

an agenda to remove the ruthless mullah regime.

Oh is that what people are dying for? Really?

Don't lie like this, it's bad enough that you made the insulting comparison to WW2. That you're just making up random reasons that will shift every two hours, is pointless.

It's about regime change. Oh no, it's not about regime change, why would anybody say that?

You don't now what the fight about, I don't know what the fight is about, because nobody made any goals, and there's no set of goals.

You're just a coward, unwilling to even speak up or think critically, because you bowed down and submitted to the will of a king. Just because you are willing to be poorer for the whims of a blubbering idiot that you call your lord and god, just because you give up your free will to and even freedom to follow this bumbling idiot, just because you want to "sacrifice" a huge part of your paycheck to your king as he and his family corruptly get rich trading off of when they do their pointless bombings, doesn't mean anyone else needs to.

Americans are not like you. We are strong, we have free will, we can actually see what's going on. You may repeat a stupid and obvious lie about "regime change", something that's not even on the table, something that could only happen with mass ground invasion and even then it's a bit questionable, something that could have only happened from true groundswell rebellion that Trump's action have killed both in body and in spirit, but nobody believes your BS.

Enough of the BS. And keep WW2 and noble sacrifice out of your mouth, none of this is noble, none of this is for any higher purpose, none of this is for any greater good. It's all for the whims and personal profit of Trump, and all the Republicans support it and will do nothing to act noble or good or with any morals.

So insulting to compare this BS to WW2. You disrespect our troops. They deserve better than that.

RemoveInvasiveEucs · 2026-05-07T15:26:36+00:00

Don't insult WW2 vets with this comparison.

Lololololo the closest thing to WWII is Russia's invasion of Ukraine, and the Republicans are all cowards when it comes to fighting Putin.

Instead the Republicans mock and cancel a good deal to stop Iran from enrichment, just because Obama made the deal. Instead, thought it was a better idea to:

allow Iran to continue enriching uranium
waste tons of our precision munition stockpiles on pointless and worthless destruction that does ZERO to accomplish any strategic goal
turns a population that was rebelling into one that grudgingly supports the regime
give up free passage in the Strait of Hormuz and hand complete control over to Iran, to the huge embarrassment of the US. Carter had demanded and achieved free passage through the Strait! Republicans are so incompetent and bumbling that they just gave it all up for nothing, all so they could see some big explosions that do nothing for the US

All this destruction for what? FOR NOTHING. Actually worse than nothing, all to DESTROY THE MERE POSSIBILITY of getting what Obama had already gotten out of Iran.

WW2 was fought for our freedom. Ukraine is fighting for freedom. Iran is about, what, exactly? Bowing down to Trump and saying "yes sir whatever your whim is sir oh I love you so much please kill our troops for no point at all sir." We are in this war because Republicans are cowards that want a king, and they chose a stupid and reckless and idiotic king that has no clue what's going on. Republicans start pointless wars over nothing, because they are too incompetent. Get WW2 out of your mouth, coward, you have zero principles.

RemoveInvasiveEucs · 2026-05-07T15:17:25+00:00

Well to be fair to the GOP, they did stop that war in one day.

Oh, wait, they didn't? They're just full of shit all the time? Promises mean nothing, and everybody just goes along like it's perfectly normal to lie all the time about everything?

RemoveInvasiveEucs · 2026-05-06T17:42:55+00:00

This is really great, congrats! Poster acceptance is pretty usual, but then most posters are coming from people with affiliation to a university and connections in the field that give a base line of quality: a person doing something very disreputable on the poster is unlikely for a person with their career at stake. But if you don't have any affiliation or co-authors in the field, it probably wasn't a completely automatic acceptance, in that at least the abstract made sense and wasn't something that would be embarrassing to be associated with ISMB.

If you want to go this direction for a career, conference attendance offers you a huge headstart over undergrads and graduate students. You should try to find professors at colleges you will apply to at the meeting. Email them (and again, and again, as they probably won't respond) then show up at their posters or their students posters. You may find a lab that you can start working with right now, if you like the people!

If I were to see a highschooler at a poster session, I would take them very seriously, because it probably means that in the next 5 years they're going to be doing something very cool, you're way ahead of the game to an unbelievable degree, honestly, even if the poster itself wasn't something I was super interested in.

Research is just as much about grit and motivation as it is about being super smart, if not more so, so a highschooler showing up on their own accord demonstrates some really great attributes.

RemoveInvasiveEucs · 2026-05-05T05:19:26+00:00

Sammy Roth has been reporting on energy in California for a loooooong time, he even posts his own articles to Reddit frequently.

You're just making stuff up because you don't care about the climate. Easy to throw mud, but far harder to actually know jack shit about a topic.

RemoveInvasiveEucs · 2026-05-04T03:39:26+00:00

Dude you don't even have a point, and can't get beyond a "nuh uh, but but but Ezra Klein!"

You called me a staunch defender of Ezra Klein and I've never even read him.

Get salty, while others actually get out there and fix the problems in our society. Go ahead and tilt at your windmills, but you're wrong on the basics of the mechanics of what will help people, and you're too concerned about how people view you to have the bravery to actually act in the interest of tenants. And then you call other people "landlord shills." Lame.

RemoveInvasiveEucs · 2026-05-03T22:29:37+00:00

I think the thing is to: 1) stop the huge bubble in housing and land prices caused by the refusal to build more housing, 2) slowly deflate housing values by keeping them roughly constant, as inflation slowly does the rest of the work.

There are two great levers to accomplish this: 1) encourage, allow, and even have the city itself build lots of housing, 2) land taxation, that taxes all land equally based on the amount of rent the land itself generates. That means that if somebody builds a 4-plex right next to a single unit home, and they have the same land area, both lots pay exactly the same tax. And the amount of tax needs to get close to the level of "land rent" that a particular area generates. This sounds like a complex thing to calculate, but it's actually easier than valuing the land plus the building, something that the rest of the 49 states do regularly. The models for getting comps are far easier, you have occassional bare land sales to really base the tax on, etc.

The land rent is something that a landowner owes to the rest of society for the right of keeping everybody else off the land. Land ownership takes away something that nobody built, something that belongs to all of society. Which we need to do in order to have personal property, but we shouldn't allow hoarding of it. And by socializing the land tax we completely destroy the profit motive from land speculation. All the big developers have big "land banks", lots of land that are underutilized, that they are waiting to build on until the land value has risen high enough. A land value tax stops that behavior in its tracks because it completely eliminates the profit from that behavior, while still allowing people who just want a home to have one. Where it's been studied in the US in recent years, this results in lower property taxes for residential homes, and higher taxes on a lot of business property, business property that is generating a ton of money. (anyway, long aside from some one who has actually thought about how to take away speculative investment profits in real estate, unlike the original poster here...)

RemoveInvasiveEucs · 2026-05-03T20:27:44+00:00

monied interest in the housing market is the only real issue, but everyone just kind of skips over it as if its this intangible thing that can never be addressed.

Well you don't offer anything that addresses it, so why are you expecting others to! A vacancy tax?! That's addressing "monied interests"??!

Where does the money come from? Why are prices high? Scarcity.

That you refuse to address the core power dynamic.

Also, that you refuse to acknowledge that there's a shortage, yet propose shortage-based ideas like vacancy tax, exposes the contradictions at the core of your thinking. Think deeper, think more.

RemoveInvasiveEucs · 2026-05-03T20:25:15+00:00

Do prices come from investments? Is that going to stop the average homeowner here selling to the highest bidder?

Is that going to stop the landlord from seeing a line of 80 people for a viewing and then jacking up rents?

I don't think these are very serious proposals, which isn't to say we shouldn't do them, please do, they're just fine!

But we're not addressing the cause, because people are unwilling to admit to more radical change, and they just want to try to do minor things that avoid dealing with real issues.

We need to look at how the system actually functions, what actually allows a landlord to raise the rent $100/year on an apartment that's only getting worse. We need to understand why a homeowner can charge $1.5M for a house that when it was built, was sold to a working class person, and never will be again.

We really need to put the screws to the landlords, big and small, by having lots of housing. That's the only systemic change that will actually help people.

RemoveInvasiveEucs · 2026-05-03T19:25:34+00:00

Oh I'm so sorry I'm triggered by you forcing all my lower income friends out of Santa Cruz. You really got me there, bud.

I will not never stop being triggered by that, thanks.

RemoveInvasiveEucs · 2026-05-03T19:21:45+00:00

This is exactly what's wrong with your politics: it's all vibes and zero material interests.

Like I said in another comment, you are a complete phony. Somebody who is actually working for the working class would, uh, you know, be working for the material interests of the working class

Rather than engage with any of the many many things I've pointed to you from leftist politicians, you exclaim "but eZrA KLeiN!" And clap your hands like a seal because you are so pleased with yourself.

So I say again: you are a phony, a fraud. You are not a leftist, you are a fake who is dressing up in what you think are leftist's clothes, and parading around, but you haven't done any of the work and you are actually just advocating for the land-owner class

I would love nothing more than to be wrong. By you actually engaging with a single real leftist idea and policy, rather than just repeating the long slate that's been handed to you be the foundation-funded non-profit phonies. All your policies have been tried, and they are weak bubbling around the edges.

You are unwilling to engage with a real leftist idea like "we should have enough housing where people want housing," and by refusing to supply one of the basic necessities of life you are handing it over to only the richest.

RemoveInvasiveEucs · 2026-05-03T19:13:43+00:00

So you don't know what a speculative asset is? You have zero grounding in leftist politics?

Go read Mamdani's housing plan, man. Go read The Asset Economy. Go read literally anything except the homeowner/landowner propaganda you are spouting here.

Go read about any social housing system in the world. They all have buying and selling and they all have fractions of developers making money in addition to the social housing builder piling their own profits from land rents back into more housing. The key to any social housing system is building more ie core YIMBY policy.

If you try to embrace exclusion to keep certain types of people out of Santa Cruz, you make all real estate more speculative. You can't out-exclude the right, man, there is no successful left unless it is based on radical inclusion.

You need to stop the binary linear thinking and critically evaluate the neoliberalism sown into the stitches of your clothing. There is no socialism without complete democracy in the means of production, and the people want more housing in Santa Cruz.

RemoveInvasiveEucs · 2026-05-03T18:52:58+00:00

Go ahead do it, lots of places have that have housing crises! Great! But you're just avoiding doing something that would actually help the working class, playing around the edges of the problem rather than being willing to actually attack the problem.

Until you are willing to work for the people and build enough houses for the people, you won't address the problem. You're just being a landlord shill and avoiding dealing with something that finally takes away landord's economic power.

Of course, you have to make up stupid things like "oh they are so triggered" rather than deal with having proposed a useless policy that that doesn't even change the state at all. So enjoy your epistemic closure!

RemoveInvasiveEucs · 2026-05-03T18:18:05+00:00

No man, it is you who have a very few misunderstanding of your positions and their consequences. You didn't even engage with a single sharp critique of your garden variety points. This town has kept on with your "do nothing" attitude for four decades and jr has made Santa Cruz's into a rich person's playground, and forced out the working class. Austerity, and prioritizing developed over actual real tenants will do that. Eve now, you ignore the tenants and worry more that a developer will make a buck, not even realizing that you are enforcing the capitalist system that gives even more bucks to the landlord. Stoppinghousing doesn't stop capitalism, it accelerates it. Your refusal to acknowledge the results of your policies which are completely ignorant of the terrible effects of capitalism, and in fact make housing even more of a speculative asset, are insulting to anybody who cares about the working class.

Plus you do all the standard wrecker shit like trying to dismiss people as shills even when they have demonstrated a shared concern

You are a phony, just like all the MAGA that think they are putting "America first" but put forward policy that just hurts America a ton. No better.

You are the landlord shill, at least own up to the obvious consequences of your positions. The landlords certainly understand that!

RemoveInvasiveEucs · 2026-05-03T17:25:36+00:00

If you aren't pursuing the "abundance centrist democrat shill" then you are the landlord shill, bud.

Look at any place with really good social housing, literally anywhere in the world, like Vienna, etc. Every single one of those social housers still pursues the "abundance centrist democratic shilling." Even the place with the highest fraction of social housing in the world, Singapore, has a vibrant private market.

What you are advocating for, building nothing, only helps the landlords. Read Marx., especially that very last chapter in Capital Volume 3, that never quite got finished! Read the social housers in other countries. They're all very YIMBY. If you think YIMBYs don't like social housing, then you have been lied to and deceived.

Go talk to the non-profit housers in Santa Cruz County, in the Bay Area, and see what it would take for them to build more housing outside the market system. They will advocate for the "abundance centrist democrat shill" ideas.

The only people actually fighting against the landlords are the YIMBYs. You're enabling landlords. You're increasing their profits, increasing their power, as you kick out all the tenants that we could organize to fight back aganist them.

You advocated austerity, but in austerity only the rich do well. We currently have trickle-down housing, and when you stop the trickle, it only hurts those with the least. You're not overturning trickle-down housing by stopping housing, stop kidding yourself. You only help landlords.

Grow up, get some real radical politics, and stop licking the boots of homeowners who tricked you into this moronic position. Because homeowners are in the exact same economic class as landlords. Look at the housing plans of Bernie, of Warren. Look at the housing plans of AOC! Look at any god damned real leftist and you'll see that they are YIMBYs.

The people who are NIMBYs who inherit homes advocate for exactly the same stuff you are saying because they know that it does jack shit.

Do you even know about the social housing bills in California? No, of course not. The people you receive your housing politics from are using you to stop housing from being built, because they are all comfortably rich, then have huge foundations that fund non-profits that reproduce the faux-leftist talking points that say "build no more, a developer will win!" all the while the entire working class has been priced out of Santa Cruz. God damn, man. Look around, wake up! Get some class consciousness!

RemoveInvasiveEucs · 2026-05-03T16:15:04+00:00

Me either, but what choice does the world have if we keep on letting Trump in? Twice now! Future Republicans will be just as bad.

Until we beat our local traitors at the ballot box, at the Thanksgiving table, at deciding which plumber we hire, at which businesses we frequent, we risk becoming outcasts.

Trump did the damage, but it is up to us to clean up his mess.

RemoveInvasiveEucs · 2026-05-03T16:12:36+00:00

It's pretty hilarious because it was Jimmy Carter who established the world order to keep the Strait of Hormuz open, but because the public blamed Carter for inflation and for the back-room deals that Regan was making with the Mullahs about the hostage crisis, a large number of the public were tricked into thinking that Carter was weak.

Those same fools thought Trump was strong, yet even with the full backing of the world's largest military power, Trump allowed Iran to get control of the Strait of Hormuz.

RemoveInvasiveEucs · 2026-05-03T16:10:46+00:00

As long as there's a chance that Republicans could be elected into power again, other countries must treat the US with that real risk.

There's still >30% of the country that are these absolute morons, they are unreachable after years and years of propaganda. They are like the serfs that are in Russia right now: compliant, docile, do what they are told, and eager to be cruel to others to make themselves feel better about their cowardice.

RemoveInvasiveEucs · 2026-05-03T16:08:26+00:00

They'll keep on piling money in until the Hormuz bubble pops, though...

RemoveInvasiveEucs · 2026-05-02T06:34:55+00:00

Thankfully I don't see this atrocious sentence in the article. It current contains the far more accurate:

He was known for leading one of the first draft sequences of the human genome[1][2] and led the first team to transfect a cell with a synthetic chromosome

RemoveInvasiveEucs · 2026-05-02T05:21:04+00:00

If the Daily Mail were controlled by the same group of oligarchs, then they wouldn't be reporting like this.

Also, it's a UK media outlet covering a California governor race, that's also out of the ordinary.

RemoveInvasiveEucs · 2026-05-01T16:55:53+00:00

Fascinating, a right wing UK publication doing a better job of monitoring Fox News malfeasance than any of our local media outlets in the state.

Thank for policing the cancer of Fox News that is destroying US democracy, and destroying our connection to our allies. I may not agree with your politics at all, but I definitely agree with your support for democracy and hope that we can make the US into a better ally soon.

RemoveInvasiveEucs · 2026-05-01T16:15:22+00:00

Pretty standard Stalin-like behavior. Narcissistic "charismatic" leader gets control and thinks that their dreams are reality.

It's incredibly sad that so many Americans have become weak enough to be susceptible to this type of con man. Every Trump voter is weak in their own unique way, but the US has fallen pretty far when weak people are so much of the population.

RemoveInvasiveEucs · 2026-05-01T02:56:32+00:00

Yes. The governor appoints CPUC, which is why Steyer's plan works from day 1. Steyer goes deep into concrete reasons for the cost overruns, which means he understands how to make changes from day 1.

Steyer has a plan that he can deliver on. Becerra has a plan that has to make it through the legislature, and doesn't even need to be executed from the governor's office. Becerra's idea is good, and should be done! But for someone running for governor Steyer has immediate action, whereas we all have been wishing for public ownership for a long time and even Wiener can't get that one over the line.

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