In a sense i agree, but the crash was in Summer in North Dakota and they are European honeybees.

Honeybees are quite invasive in North America. They kill and displace native pollinators and they are generally less effective pollinators of native plants. The release of dozens more colonies into the ecosystem is a negative thing no matter how you look at it.

North America has the greatest native bee diversity of any temperate part of the world, but if you go out into habitat and actually start counting insects you will find honeybees outnumber everything else in most places, most times of year.

He was my representative until i recently moved. I’ve met him twice at coffee shops in Fremont just by chance.

He always seemed friendly and normal, if maybe a bit performative. The guy he originally replaced was a very old-guard corporatist Democrat, so i initially had high hopes for Swallwell.

I’m pretty shocked by this. Now the man is going to double down and further embarrass these women and his family by continuing to run and staying in office.

It will be easy to find a better rep for the district than Swallwell. That part of the Bay Area has more progressives and socialists than liberals, and the libertarian Republicans still outnumber the MAGAs

The difference in visual air quality on the mornings of July 3 and July 5 tend to be pretty stark in the Bay Area. I’m not surprised to learn LA is the same.

Fireworks are illegal in most cities but that hardly stops anyone

There is still a great deal of sensitive habitat around Salton Sea. Some of the most beautiful desert spring blooms i have seen in my life were in that area.