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Vast majority of giant redwoods in center of Big Basin Redwoods State Park scorched but still standing
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Thread: Black workers at
@tesla
's big Fremont electric-car factory claim that despite a series of lawsuits alleging widespread and egregious anti-Black racism, discrimination and harassment in the flagship California plant, the abuses haven't stopped 1/17
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Can you see Lake Tahoe? I can’t either. It’s 150 feet away
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By no means is there a lot going on in downtown Truckee this Sunday morning, as the Lake Tahoe blizzard keeps dumping snow
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Very big redwood tree stump washed ashore by the storm in front of the Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk amusement park
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@annehelen
Gotta add this one from Bay Area News Group colleague Aric Crabb of CA kids busting out to protest after administration tried to lock them in
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Josh Whitby, co-owner of Zelda’s in Capitola Village, surveys the storm-ravaged wasteland that was once one of the Santa Cruz region’s most popular gathering places. Note the kelp
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A beam from the broken Capitola Wharf smashed by massive seas through the waterfront windows of Zelda’s restaurant in Capitola Village near Santa Cruz
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The two giant redwoods known as the Father and Mother of the Forest look to have lost a bit off their tops and were scorched and lost big limbs but a CA State Parks scientist said today they’d almost certainly survive
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Workers blame CEO
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for purportedly setting a tone tolerant of racism by saying in an all-hands letter to Tesla workers re: 'historically less represented' groups that if someone treats you badly and sincerely apologizes, you should have a thick skin
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FCC just shot down application by Elon Musk's Starlink to get subsidy to provide rural broadband internet, saying Starlink (and another applicant, LTD Broadband) 'failed to demonstrate (they) could deliver the promised service.'
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Fairly intense mushing for dad here at Northstar in the Lake Tahoe-area blizzard just now
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Some redwoods in Big Basin Redwoods State Park we’re burning in their hearts and seemed doomed to fall
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Jonvante Summers said his white boss used to echo those words and to him, the message was, 'Tesla was not going to do anything about all the racist remarks and incidents at the factory — that Black workers were just supposed to endure it.'
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Inside The Sand Bar in Capitola Village near Santa Cruz, and a debris-filled alley with a view of the broken wharf
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Massive waves continue to sweep into the Capitola Wharf near Santa Cruz, tearing up the end of the wharf. Whether the Wharf House restaurant at the end has been damaged couldn’t be seen from land
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In April, a jury awarded $3.2 million to Black former Tesla worker Owen Diaz over 'vitriolic racial harassment.' A Tesla lawyer told the jury what Diaz experienced was indefensible. Musk tweeted, 'If we had been allowed to introduce new evidence, the verdict would’ve been zero.”
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Keyanna Campbell, 29, said she quit Tesla last month after her hopes of advancing through a strong work ethic and appetite for new skills were stymied by a racist workplace. 'We’re working our butts off but still not getting anywhere,' she said. (📷
@karlmondon
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Black workers got the oldest, worst machines, alleged Alvin Patterson, including his, with a chain mended crudely with zip ties. 'The zip-ties broke and the chain crashed down on my head,' he claimed. 'The blow from the chain on my hard hat caused it to crack and leave a hole.”
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Federal government data indicate last year Tesla was fined $112,065 over 19 alleged workplace safety violations — nearly all contested by Tesla — and four accidents at Fremont, including penalties for repeated failure to properly train workers and report serious-injury accidents
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Lake Tahoe blizzard was supposed to taper off this morning ha ha ha this is Truckee, California now
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@gunsnrosesgirl3
heard the buzz on a high mountaintop in the Sierra with a thunderstorm approaching, tracked sound to friend's boot, where little blue spark was sizzling between the sole and upper.. seemed bad, we fled, lightning started hitting all over
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For the story below, I would've liked to hear from Musk about claims by Black workers that his Fremont plant is still full of racism but he didn't respond to my inquiries. Never too late,
@elon
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Alfred Moffett claimed he was warned he might get lynched. Racism in the Fremont plant, often called 'The Plantation,' forced him to quit, he claimed, and said, 'To this day, when I see a Tesla on the street, I often think, ‘Welcome to the Plantation, (n-word).'
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Of 240 Black workers who gave statements for one lawsuit, two-thirds said they saw graffiti including nooses, racial slurs and swastikas and a quarter said higher-ups called them the n-word. Dozens said their complaints of racism drew retaliation, including termination
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Darnell Williams claimed he tore cartilage in his shoulder hoisting car windows, got a doctor’s note prescribing no lifting, but was made to lift his arms up and put stickers on cars 12 hours a day. He said he's on unpaid leave after surgery (📷
@karlmondon
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A storm-swole Soquel Creek meets a moderately aggro Pacific in Capitola, CA
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Gregory Coleman claimed he was hired as a forklift driver, but never given that job. Forklift jobs paid relatively well and were physically easier, but mostly went to non-Black workers; one told him she had no experience driving one and was ‘scared,' he alleged.
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@MrAndyNgo
'After Nearman allowed armed demonstrators inside that morning, video shows them scuffling with police, and at least one person using mace on officers .. some members vandalized the building and assaulted journalists.'
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I just learned at Point Reyes National Seashore: Orc sounds in the Lord of the Rings movies were baby elephant seal noises recorded at the Marine Mammal Center in Marin Headlands. Highly recommended: visit baby elephant seals in Point Reyes! (next tweet: compare
#LOTR
orc sounds
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Virshon Meadows said he buffed Teslas outside paint-baking ovens that heat-blasted workers, nearly all Black. Personal water was banned, no fountains nearby, he claimed. An older Black woman collapsed, he went to help but was ordered, 'Boy, get back to the line,' he alleged.
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What the Donner Party saw (by the shore of Donner Lake just now as the Lake Tahoe blizzard does not relent)
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Meadows grew up in Georgia, he said, and had been excited to land a job at Tesla. 'I didn’t expect there to be that much racism, open racism in the job, even growing up in the South,' he said.
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Tesla has said it it 'strongly opposes all forms of discrimination and harassment' and claimed it 'has always disciplined and terminated employees who engage in misconduct, including those who use racial slurs or harass others in different ways.'
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San Lorenzo River heading into downtown Santa Cruz looks like the Amazon, but rain has stopped and isn’t forecast to resume till tonight
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Some redwoods in Big Basin Redwoods State Park burned to the crown
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Patterson, allegedly hit by the chain, claimed a supervisor began harassing him after he complained to him about Black people getting unequal workloads, worse machines and more scrutiny. Exhausted by 12-hour shifts, he claimed he refused to work more overtime and was fired.
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@falselogic
@jason_wilson
Not necessarily, but the ones that looked deeply burned but still standing were far fewer in number than the ones merely scorched, and there weren't that many that actually fell
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Little Basin camp, part of Big Basin Redwoods State Park: all buildings burned, but nearly all redwoods, even those heavily damaged, expected to benefit
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841 in the 831: Surfboard-stealing otter of Santa Cruz appears with tiny pup
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Getting pretty blizzardy in Truckee, California in the Lake Tahoe area.. much more expected for next three days
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@BrotherNature
Please don't encourage feeding of bears, it leads them to get habituated to humans and they get killed for that.. also bears can be very dangerous to humans and we need to let them be and appreciate them by protecting their habitat
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@oliviasolon
Amazon PR disputing my reporting that the company was trying to automate warehouse jobs ('pickers' and 'stowers') not already taken over by robots, and I had to remind them that Amazon had been running contests to develop grabby-handed robots to do just that
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Waves hitting breakwater pretty hard in front of Zelda’s restaurant in Capitola, CA but not getting in
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California Governor Gavin Newsom is touring the damage and cleanup at Capitola Village near Santa Cruz that was heavily damaged in Thursday’s storm
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Prosecutor Jeff Schenk says Holmes' sentence must send a message that 'the ends don't justify the means' and that her sentence is not 'a punishment for Ms. Holmes' dream' but because she 'made the decision to defraud her investors'
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Scotts Valley, population 12,000, is under evacuation order and almost all the people are gone - but the parking lots are full of vehicles and collectors’ cars parked where fleeing residents hope they’ll be safe if the inferno up the mountain comes to town
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Accused by a robot, savaged by a police dog while complying with police
Ali Badr rented a car to keep getting Uber fares. From a company that caters to rideshare drivers. He was late on a couple payments. The owner reported it stolen, per his lawsuit. An automatic license plate reader alerted cops, leading to traffic stop.
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@gabrielledrolet
@JoAnnunaki
makes incredible photo-based art;
@itsnotaboutwork
has recently promised to start selling prints again, here's my favorite of his:
A3 sized (297 x 420 mm) digital prints of this image ‘Pond Life’ available to buy... Please DM me for details.
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@Amtrak
Disparaging customers while you’re engaged in a crucial ridership recovery is an interesting choice (other choices were available if this is somehow a vital issue to address)
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@aaronsibarium
What’s typically defined as wokeness is recognition that hundreds of years of legal, political, social and economic inequality, especially benefitting straight White guys like me, have produced structures perpetuating inequality, and that the field needs leveling
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The tags that used to mark the growth rings of a cross-cut fallen giant redwood by dates of historical significance in Big Basin Redwoods State Park; tree section burned to ash
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@lolonghi
yikes, ugly... did they get the bonuses? If the company promised them the money if they clicked, the company should pay them no matter if it was a test
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At Capitola Village near Santa Cruz, tidal surge and huge ocean swells are pushing water over the banks of Soquel Creek
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@petapixel
But when the lioness discovered how much dust that lens sucks in when the zoom is operated, she gave the whole rig to a hyena
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'This is a fraud case where an exciting venture went forward with great expectations and hope only to be dashed by untruth, misrepresentations, hubris and plain lies,' Judge Davila says.
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Sentencing hearing for Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes is officially underway in federal court in San Jose, CA. Judge Edward Davila just arrived in courtroom, will sentence her for defrauding investors in her now-dead blood-testing startup out of more than $144 million
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Quick look at Bosch Bahai School In Bonny Doon, California: main buildings looked OK, many cabins burned to ground
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Plowing at all hours, Truckee, California in the Lake Tahoe blizzard
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@michelletandler
'just asking questions' ---> grievance farming --> Tucker Carlson show: you're on the right track!
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In the tourist mecca of Capitola Village just down the coast from Santa Cruz, and very close to sea level, city workers Tuesday morning and afternoon built a five-foot sand berm in front of the three-foot seawall protecting the commercial district
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@erinbiba
Related: If running a snowbound car's engine, gotta make sure area around exhaust is clear so you don't die from carbon monoxide
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@DyjuanTatro
@spiderdayNight
Did cops kill an innocent man (yet again)? Maybe. Can media say they did without any evidence other than what the man's family said? No. Sterilized language in media masking police violence is a problem. This isn't that.
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I'm not seeing the Otter Snatch Team here at Steamer Lane in Santa Cruz at the scene of the critter's crimes, but the otter's been known to range up to 20 miles northward so maybe the op is underway up the coast
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In Paradise Park just north of downtown Santa Cruz, the San Lorenzo River destroyed a section of road, swept a tree trunk into a historic (1872) covered bridge, taking out one of its two support posts, and flooded many houses, including Marty Zimmerman’s yellow cottage
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One of several (maybe all by now) cabins that burned at American Conservation Experience camp near Big Basin Redwoods State Park
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Missed this one from Big Basin Redwoods State Park yesterday, two other redwoods that fell
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@Songstress28
As monstrous as he is, it's good that he can apply for parole - unlike the U.S., Canada doesn't lock people up forever with no chance to ever get out. Some deserve freedom. He never will.
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Josh Whitby, co-owner of Capitola Village’s iconic waterfront restaurant Zelda’s, walks through floodwaters and shows photos of the restaurant, where debris including a beam from the broken wharf smashed through a wall and a window that he’d boarded up before the storm
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More redwoods near Big Basin park, appear to have made it but as Mercury News environment reporter
@PaulRogersSJMN
points out, fire prevention for years means lots of fuel that could threaten even fire-resistant redwoods including ancient ones in park interior
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Celeste Glaser was saved by her daughter this morning from getting swept into the ocean outside the Venetian Apartments in Capitola, CA, and lost her phone and one of her Crocs to the sea - I just found it in front of Zelda’s restaurant
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