Will CA SB79 impede local zoning?

 Governor Newsom just signed SB 79 into law, and it will go into effect July 1, 2026.

1. Will existing and under development, low density neighborhoods pushback in court?

2. Will the passage of SB 79 be helpful or a headwind to the expansion of ACE and other mass transit proposals and expansions throughout the Bay Area and the rest of California?

Protesters rally against California Senate bill that increases housing density near transit hubs

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=1y9SLg-26BY&pp=ygUlY2JzIDggcHJvdGVzdGVycyByYWxseSBhZ2FpbnN0IHNlbmF0ZQ%3D%3D

California ACE train expansion is coming

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=F7iGUZW_sqA&pp=ygUeY2FsaWZvcm5pYSBhY2UgdHJhaW4gZXhwYW5zaW9u

Decline of NSA labs

 American Physical Society Fellows 2025 highlights decline of NNSA labs.

Worse year ever for NNSA labs

LANL 1
Sandia 0
LLNL 0

Comparison

ORNL 4
Fermilab 4
Brookhaven 3
LBNL 2
SLAC 1
ANL 0
PNNL 0

Huge rate hike!

 California FAIR Plan seeks huge rate hike. Map shows which ZIPs hit hardest

“The California FAIR Plan has proposed raising home insurance rates by an average of 35.8% starting next spring - a hike that, if approved in full, would be its largest in at least seven years.”

https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/california-fair-plan-seeks-largest-231104839.html

Earthquake domino-effect

 This is a very interesting claim : that a devastating earthquake in the Pacific Northwest, could also trigger an earthquake on the San Andreas, perhaps one might suppose even affecting the entire West Coast of the United States.

https://phys.org/news/2025-10-cascadia-megathrust-earthquake-trigger-san.html

Q Clearance Question

On September 25, 2025, Antifa was designated as a “domestic terrorist organization.” Under the “Adjudicative Guidelines” to acquire or maintain a security clearance, this may fall under “Allegiance to the United States” as defined by the Guideline.

Are Lab employees, with any past or present association with Antifa, being required to promptly update their “Questionnaire for National Security Positions” as of September 22, 2025?

Embrace MAGA or else...

 Universities are being asked to endorse Trump agenda in order to obtain priority access to funding:

https://www.kjzz.org/politics/2025-10-02/university-of-arizona-among-9-colleges-trump-offered-access-to-funds-to-follow-his-agenda

Retribution, courtesy of the MAGA regime!

 The DOE is killing a number of energy projects:

https://www.npr.org/2025/10/02/nx-s1-5560869/energy-trump-democrats-shutdown

https://www.energy.gov/articles/energy-department-announces-termination-223-projects-saving-over-75-billion