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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The judge might opt to force Google to separate its search engine from other parts of its business. Alternatively, Mehta could order “conduct remedies,” like requiring Google to end legally provocative deals such as the one it has with Apple, making it the default search option on iPhones. Google might also be required to license parts of its search business or present consumers with a “choice screen” that prompts users to consider a different default browser.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Google plans to appeal, according to Kent Walker, president of global affairs. “This decision recognizes that Google offers the best search engine but concludes that we shouldn’t be allowed to make it easily available,” he wrote in a\u003ca href=\"https://x.com/Google_Comms/status/1820558371285508123\"> post on X.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yale School of Management economics professor Fiona Scott Morton said the government’s case has a good chance of holding up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The reliance on the Microsoft decision was a shrewd choice by DOJ,” Scott Morton said. “In many ways, this is a mainstream decision that does not take any risks, so it should be very robust on appeal.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>What experts are watching\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>After the Microsoft ruling, a judge ordered the company to be split in two. Although that remedy was reversed on appeal, it’s being closely watched in the Google case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The remedy must match the Court’s striking verdict in this case,” Lee Hepner, senior legal counsel at the American Economic Liberties Project, said in a\u003ca href=\"https://www.economicliberties.us/press-release/aag-kanters-antitrust-division-beats-google-in-biggest-antitrust-trial-of-the-century/\"> statement\u003c/a> online praising the ruling. “At a minimum, that means an end to Google’s exclusive default agreements and breaking up business lines that have allowed Google to extend its monopoly into every corner of the internet.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The DOJ’s antitrust chief, Jonathan Kanter, has expressed support for so-called structural remedies, which typically mean a break. But many antitrust experts aren’t so sure about that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A structural remedy, like a breakup of Google, is very unlikely,” wrote professor Rebecca Haw Allensworth of Vanderbilt Law School, adding that “whatever happens, it’s going to take a long time – the remedy phase will take a while, then there will be an appeal. It could be years before we know the end of the story.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Driving the story\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>California legislators return from summer recess on Monday, and among the bills they’re considering are several that, piece by piece, aim to regulate generative \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/artificial-intelligence\">artificial intelligence\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Six such bills go before the crucial \u003ca href=\"https://sapro.senate.ca.gov/agenda\">Senate Appropriations Committee\u003c/a> on Monday, and all are expected to be moved to the “suspense file,” meaning the committee will take up their fates on Aug. 15. Lawmakers are optimistic about their chances; none have inspired the same level of industry backlash as SB 1047 by Sen. Scott Wiener (D-San Francisco), which is headed to the Assembly Appropriations Committee later this week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We just need to do the right thing,” said \u003ca href=\"https://a16.asmdc.org/2024-legislation\">Assemblymember Rebecca Bauer-Kahan\u003c/a> (D-Orinda), who chairs the Assembly’s Privacy and Consumer Protection Committee. She is pushing four AI bills this year, including \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB1836\">AB 1836\u003c/a>, which would prohibit using “digital replicas” of a dead person in an expressive audiovisual work or sound recording without prior consent, and \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB2930\">AB 2930\u003c/a>, which would prohibit the use of automated decision tools that pose a “reasonable risk” of algorithmic discrimination.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think the lawmakers are there. The public is there. This is polling at astronomical rates. Communities want to be protected from the risks of AI. And so we’re going to do it,” Bauer-Kahan said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A recent poll by the Pew Research Center found\u003ca href=\"https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2023/08/28/most-americans-havent-used-chatgpt-few-think-it-will-have-a-major-impact-on-their-job/\"> that 67% of Americans familiar with chatbots like ChatGPT\u003c/a> are more worried that government regulations will not go far enough than that they will go too far.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bauer-Kahan added that California lawmakers are open to industry input on their bills and that Silicon Valley knows \u003cem>something\u003c/em> is likely to hit Gov. Gavin Newsom’s desk before this legislative session is over. It’s just a question of what, exactly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think they understand that the public and lawmakers are not going to go for another go-round of no regulation,” Bauer-Kahan said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Industry responses to California bills are all over the place\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>California dominates the\u003ca href=\"https://www.forbes.com/lists/ai50/?sh=555db8aa290f\"> Forbes AI 50 list\u003c/a>. San Francisco alone is home to 20 of what Forbes considers the most promising privately held AI companies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For the most part, Silicon Valley lobbying groups have not aired their concerns about the California bills outside of Sacramento — with one notable exception: Wiener’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11976097/california-lawmakers-take-on-ai-regulation-with-a-host-of-bills\">SB 1047\u003c/a>, which has inspired\u003ca href=\"https://static.politico.com/95/0a/a317efe44616af436ce6a4f32647/founder-led-statement-on-sb1047-june-20-2024-2.pdf\"> open letters\u003c/a> warning gravely that it “could inadvertently threaten the vibrancy of California’s technology economy.” Regardless, that bill is still in the running.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some of the bills enjoy strong or qualified tech industry group support, including \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB2355\">AB 2355\u003c/a>, which would require labeling of political ads made with generative AI, and \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB2839\">AB 2839\u003c/a>, which would prohibit misleading election season communications.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Big-name venture capitalists fighting AI regulation at the state and national levels have claimed they’re\u003ca href=\"https://www.politico.com/news/2024/05/30/little-tech-startup-washington-00160815\"> worried about the little guys\u003c/a> in the AI ecosystem. But AI Tech is not a monolith.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The AI revolution is already underway, and it’s as likely to be happening at your local bike store as it is with the Microsoft products on your desk,” said Morgan Reed, president of the App Association, which represents the companies that make smartphone apps.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the absence of federal regulation, Reed said state lawmakers are attempting to flood the field. Something on the order of 500 bills is pending across the country, he estimated, and he said lawmakers of all stripes need to think about the tiny AI tech deployers as well as the big developers like Google, Apple and Meta.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Tiny companies can have millions of records. And in that case, they’re handling millions of Californians’ data. And they need to take that just as seriously as a really large company,” Reed added.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>California is not in the lead vis-a-vis AI legislation\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>While California has historically taken the global lead in some forms of comprehensive regulation, such as with air pollution and privacy, the same can’t be said when it comes to AI regulation. Other states, like Colorado, and regions, like the European Union, have moved ahead.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">[aside postID=news_11995878 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/008_SanFrancisco_Housing_07292021_qed-1020x680.jpg']\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In light of federal inaction, we have a piecemeal approach because each state is moving legislation along separately,” said Stanford professor Daniel Ho, who focuses on the intersection of law, political science and computer science. Even at the state level in California, he said, the “attempts to plug all sorts of different holes … are not quite the kind of comprehensive approach that you’re seeing in something like the EU AI act.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Colorado, experts say, tried to model its state legislation after the European Union’s AI Act. The state’s new law, which is set to go into effect in 2026, aims to protect the public from bias or discrimination embedded in AI systems and to set guardrails to make sure the technology is used ethically. The law also addresses many of the issues individual bills in California attempt to address one by one.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The philosophical approach underpinning most attempts at regulation\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>“AI is not a thing like a train or even a railway system, right?” said Ryan Calo, a professor at the University of Washington School of Law who is co-director of the UW Tech Policy Lab. “It’s best understood as a set of techniques that are aimed at approximating some aspect of human or animal cognition using machines. So you can’t regulate AI as such.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Whether the legislation is comprehensive, like Colorado’s, or piecemeal, like California’s, Calo explained, lawmakers are looking to dial in on how the use of the software impacts consumers and citizens.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So there may be certain things like \u003ca href=\"https://www.digitalinformationworld.com/2024/05/researchers-from-google-deepmind-found.html\">emotional manipulation\u003c/a>, or trampling on human rights, that are just not allowed,” Calo said, explaining the kind of harm or impact that lawmakers could explicitly prohibit. A second tier of legislation could focus on closely regulating software uses that have the potential to damage consumers, perhaps reducing their access to employment or healthcare.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Finally, Calo said, “There may be a third tier of things like spell check, Spotify playlists that may be subject to very little regulation at all.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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He has also come under increasing scrutiny for allegations of skirting campaign finance limits, like recently using a ballot measure committee backed by the moderate political group TogetherSF Action to bring in donations over the $500 limit on individual contributions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lurie and Farrell \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/DanielLurie/status/1819051324144779343\">traded barbs over fundraising on X\u003c/a>, formerly known as Twitter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_11992943 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240620-AffordableHousingPresser-05-BL_qed-1020x680.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The campaign behind Board of Supervisors President Aaron Peskin, who entered the race in April, raised nearly $469,000 by June 30. 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"content": "\u003cp>A video that uses an \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/artificial-intelligence-elections-disinformation-chatgpt-bc283e7426402f0b4baa7df280a4c3fd\">artificial intelligence\u003c/a> voice-cloning tool to mimic the voice of \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/harris-campaign-fundraising-200-million-5db5d7c5001c87377e4ba11250fff597\">Vice President Kamala Harris\u003c/a> saying things she did not say is raising concerns about the power of AI to mislead with Election Day about three months away.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The video gained attention after \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/hub/elon-musk\">tech billionaire Elon Musk\u003c/a> shared it on his social media platform X on Friday without explicitly noting it was originally released as a parody.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By late Sunday, Musk had clarified the video was intended as satire, pinning the original creator’s post to his profile and using a pun to make the point that parody is not a crime.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The video uses many of the same visuals as a real ad that Harris, \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/projects/election-results-2024/ap-dnc-delegate-survey/\">the likely Democratic presidential nominee\u003c/a>, released launching her campaign. 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It also adds in some authentic past clips of Harris.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mia Ehrenberg, a Harris campaign spokesperson, said in an email to \u003cem>The Associated Press\u003c/em>: “We believe the American people want the real freedom, opportunity and security Vice President Harris is offering; not the fake, manipulated lies of Elon Musk and Donald Trump.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The widely shared video is an example of how lifelike \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/one-tech-tip-spotting-deepfakes-ai-8f7403c7e5a738488d74cf2326382d8c\">AI-generated images, videos or audio clips\u003c/a> have been utilized both to poke fun and to mislead about politics as the United States draws closer to the presidential election. It exposes how, as high-quality AI tools have become far \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/ai-2023-artificial-intelligence-chatgpt-dangers-565ff5b817b5db0d4e74829ae3d68611\">more accessible\u003c/a>, there remains a lack of significant federal action to regulate their use, leaving rules guiding AI in politics largely to states and social media platforms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The video also raises questions about how to best handle content that blurs the lines of what is considered an appropriate use of AI, particularly if it falls into the category of satire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The original user who posted the video, a YouTuber known as Mr Reagan, disclosed from the beginning both on YouTube and on X that the manipulated video is a parody. Yet Musk’s initial post with the video, which had far wider reach with 130 million views on X, according to the platform, only included the caption “This is amazing” with a laughing emoji.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the weekend, before Musk clarified on his profile that the video was a joke, some participants in X’s “community note” feature suggested labeling his post as manipulated. No such label has been added to it, even as Musk has separately posted about the parody video.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some users online have questioned whether his initial post might violate \u003ca href=\"https://help.x.com/en/rules-and-policies/manipulated-media\">X’s policies\u003c/a>, which say users “may not share synthetic, manipulated, or out-of-context media that may deceive or confuse people and lead to harm.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The policy has an exception for memes and satire as long as they do not cause “significant confusion about the authenticity of the media.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chris Kohls, the man behind the Mr Reagan online persona, pointed an AP reporter to a YouTube video he posted early Monday responding to the ordeal. In the YouTube video, he confirmed he used AI to make the fake ad and argued that it was obviously parody, with or without a label.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Musk endorsed Trump, the Republican former president and current nominee, earlier this month. He didn’t respond to an emailed request for comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two experts who specialize in AI-generated media reviewed the fake ad’s audio and confirmed that much of it was generated using AI technology.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of them, University of California, Berkeley, digital forensics expert Hany Farid, said the video shows the power of generative AI and deepfakes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The AI-generated voice is very good,” he said in an email. “Even though most people won’t believe it is VP Harris’ voice, the video is that much more powerful when the words are in her voice.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said generative AI companies that make voice-cloning tools and other AI tools available to the public should do better to ensure their services are not used in ways that could harm people or democracy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rob Weissman, co-president of the advocacy group Public Citizen, disagreed with Farid, saying he thought many people would be fooled by the video.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m certain that most people looking at it don’t assume it’s a joke,” Weissman said in an interview. “The quality isn’t great, but it’s good enough. And precisely because it feeds into preexisting themes that have circulated around her, most people will believe it to be real.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Weissman, whose organization has advocated for Congress, federal agencies and states to regulate generative AI, said the video is “the kind of thing that we’ve been warning about.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other generative AI deepfakes in the U.S. and elsewhere have tried to influence voters with misinformation, humor or both. In Slovakia in 2023, \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/artificial-intelligence-elections-disinformation-chatgpt-bc283e7426402f0b4baa7df280a4c3fd\">fake audio clips\u003c/a> impersonated a candidate discussing plans to rig the election and raise the price of beer days before the vote. In Louisiana in 2022, a political action committee’s \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/artificial-intelligence-local-races-deepfakes-2024-1d5080a5c916d5ff10eadd1d81f43dfd?utm_source=copy&utm_medium=share\">satirical ad\u003c/a> superimposed a Louisiana mayoral candidate’s face onto an actor, portraying him as an underachieving high school student.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Congress has yet to pass legislation on AI in politics, and \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/artificial-intelligence-political-ads-fec-fcc-18080082b2a81b3aad4897b4c4b5c84b\">federal agencies\u003c/a> have only taken limited steps, leaving most existing U.S. regulations to the states. 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"content": "\u003cp>In the spring of 2023, Vice President Kamala Harris gave a speech at a Washington, D.C. event celebrating \u003ca href=\"https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/speeches-remarks/2023/05/10/remarks-by-vice-president-harris-at-swearing-in-ceremony-of-commissioners-for-the-white-house-initiative-on-advancing-educational-equity-excellence-and-economic-opportunity-for-hispanics/\">efforts to advance opportunities for Hispanic Americans\u003c/a>. While her actual remarks were pretty short, one moment from the speech \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2024/07/25/g-s1-13327/kamala-harris-coconut-tree-meme-context-unburdened-in-the-context\">has taken over the internet in the past few days\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As she explained the importance of providing opportunities not just to young people but to everyone around them, Harris shared something that her mother used to tell her:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She would say to us, ‘I don’t know what’s wrong with you young people. You think you just fell out of a coconut tree?’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/evil_female/status/1755948453228683675\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Harris took a moment to laugh and then went on to explain what her mother meant: “You exist in the context of all in which you live and what came before you.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This moment soon made its way to X (formerly Twitter) where it circulated for months in different meme pages — \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/TimesNewJohann/status/1790462287083409561\">usually without the original context\u003c/a> — where users resonated with Harris’ humor and the quirkiness of the “coconut tree” expression.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the clip — now a meme — gained wider recognition this week when Harris became the likely Democratic nominee on Monday \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2024/07/22/g-s1-12804/kamala-harris-delegates-nominee-dnc-vote\">after receiving the support of enough party delegates to secure the nomination\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unsurprisingly, right-leaning pages have used the clip, along with \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/libsoftiktok/status/1815112666924699853\">other videos that show Harris laughing\u003c/a>, to argue that she shouldn’t be president. But many Democrats \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2024/07/25/g-s1-13327/kamala-harris-coconut-tree-meme-context-unburdened-in-the-context\">have embraced the coconut tree imagery\u003c/a> and on TikTok and Instagram, young people are making viral videos that \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/C93K1pVBMUh/\">remix the coconut tree clip with songs from Charli XCX’s latest album, \u003cem>brat\u003c/em>\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s already \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2024-07-24/kamala-harris-memes-coconut-brat-summer\">a plethora of explainers out there\u003c/a> that \u003ca href=\"https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2024/07/24/entertainment/memes-kamala-harris\">try to explain the meaning behind the different coconut tree memes\u003c/a>, along with \u003ca href=\"https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/internet/kamala-harris-brat-meaning-mean-slang-charli-xcx-what-does-hq-rcna163026\">what links Harris with Charli XCX\u003c/a> in the first place. But in the spirit of the original speech that started it all, we wanted to understand the context of all in which these memes live in and what came before them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I spoke with two other KQED journalists with deep experience in covering both politics and Gen Z culture — politics correspondent \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/mlagos\">Marisa Lagos\u003c/a> and host of The California Report \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/mbolanos\">Madi Bolaños\u003c/a> — to talk about how the state of the 2024 race, Harris’ political trajectory and questions of both gender and race brought us some of these viral Harris memes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This conversation has been edited for length and clarity.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Marisa, \u003c/strong>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11996837/who-is-kamala-harris-a-look-back-at-kqeds-coverage\">\u003cstrong>you’ve covered Kamala Harris for a long time\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003cstrong>. Does this image of Harris laughing at herself, being genuine in these moments, square up with what you’ve seen of her over the years?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Lagos:\u003c/strong> Totally. She, in my experience as a reporter, was at her best, off the record when she wasn’t having to think about what she was saying because she is legitimately funny and warm. And I think that’s a hard thing sometimes, especially as a woman of color.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Let’s put a very fine point on it: The reason that Republicans have used her laughing and her persona to attack her [comes with the] subtext that she’s not serious enough to be a leader. It’s very clearly pointed as a dog whistle at some of her identity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the flip side, that is what makes her a good politician. I have seen her in a room with people, and she’s really good at connecting, it’s retail politics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But even for people like me who have covered her for two decades, this seems way more authentic than the “serious Kamala Harris buttoned-down” politician trope. And let’s be real, she has to push [that forward] in certain situations. It is a serious job.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Bolaños:\u003c/strong> Marisa, to your point that Republicans have used her laughter to argue that she’s not serious. That’s what Gen Z loves about her. The word right now for Gen Z is ‘unserious.’ … Gen Z is eating that up for breakfast, lunch and dinner.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They really are big fans of how carefree she is. It’s interesting that what they try to use against her is what’s working in her favor right now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/Annie_Wu_22/status/1815470696719593909\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Let’s talk about “seriousness” more. Part of Donald Trump’s appeal to his supporters is that he does not behave like other politicians. He can say anything he wants and that makes him a man of the people. On the other hand, female politicians who have sought the presidency, like Hillary Clinton and Elizabeth Warren, worked a lot on presenting themselves as very serious politicians to appeal to voters.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>And now, we’re seeing certain voters respond positively to a female politician who embraces her humor and her more authentic self. Could we be seeing a shift in what’s expected of women in politics?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Lagos:\u003c/strong> I hope so. God, I hope so. I do think it’s too early to know because she’d have to win for that shift to really be realized.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If she can win, I do think that this opens new doors and avenues for female leaders to be themselves and not have to just fit in a box. What we’ve seen historically, I feel, is women being expected to act like men.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s women like Nancy Pelosi that have turned some of that on their head, especially just in the way she presents herself. She’s a very feminine person. And I think that in itself is unique because Kamala does not dress the way that Pelosi does. She’s been a prosecutor. She wore dark suits. That’s been her vibe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She loosened it up on the campaign trail four years ago. She’s got that look with the blazer, jeans and Converse tennis shoes going on, which, I will say, is one of my looks when I’m out reporting. I tell people, “This is my Kamala look,” and they know what I mean.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Bolaños:\u003c/strong> Regardless if she wins or not, she is changing the culture of how you can present yourself in these spaces and also engaging a lot of people … who otherwise wouldn’t have cared very much.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>My cousin who’s 18 and has \u003cem>never \u003c/em>talked to me about politics randomly, no context, sent me \u003ca href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTNunEq6o/\">a TikTok, featuring the Charli XCX song ‘Girl, so confusing version with lorde’\u003c/a> and it has different clips of Kamala and Hillary Clinton. And again, we do not talk about anything political, ever.\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote class=\"tiktok-embed\" style=\"max-width: 605px;min-width: 325px\" cite=\"https://www.tiktok.com/@flextillerson/video/7389827831796157739\" data-video-id=\"7389827831796157739\">\n\u003csection>\u003ca title=\"@flextillerson\" href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/@flextillerson?refer=embed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@flextillerson\u003c/a> i hope they work it out on the remix \u003ca title=\"kamalaharris\" href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/tag/kamalaharris?refer=embed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#kamalaharris\u003c/a> \u003ca title=\"kamala\" href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/tag/kamala?refer=embed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#kamala\u003c/a> \u003ca title=\"brat\" href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/tag/brat?refer=embed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#brat\u003c/a> \u003ca title=\"bratsummer\" href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/tag/bratsummer?refer=embed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#bratsummer\u003c/a> \u003ca title=\"coconuttree\" href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/tag/coconuttree?refer=embed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#coconuttree\u003c/a> \u003ca title=\"girlsoconfusing\" href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/tag/girlsoconfusing?refer=embed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#girlsoconfusing\u003c/a> \u003ca title=\"lorde\" href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/tag/lorde?refer=embed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#lorde\u003c/a> \u003ca title=\"hillaryclinton\" href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/tag/hillaryclinton?refer=embed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#hillaryclinton\u003c/a> \u003ca title=\"♬ original sound - aly\" href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/music/original-sound-7389827861015202602?refer=embed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">♬ original sound – aly\u003c/a>\u003c/section>\n\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>[tiktok]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Let’s talk about Charli XCX. There’s so many \u003c/strong>\u003ca href=\"https://www.thecut.com/article/kamala-harris-charli-xcx-brat-memes.html\">\u003cstrong>stories out there that try to explain why young people are making these TikToks\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003cstrong> remixing Harris clips with songs from \u003cem>brat\u003c/em>. Madi, when journalists try to explain Gen Z humor, what do you think is missing?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Bolaños:\u003c/strong> I think that it’s hilarious to see older people try to understand something that is also kind of hard to explain. It’s one of those things that “if you know, you know.” It’s a vibe. You can’t explain a vibe online.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>You have to be online all the time.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Bolaños:\u003c/strong> Exactly. When it’s coming from someone who just exists in that vibe, you’re already there. You don’t have to explain anything. You can just talk about it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Whereas these older people are like 20, 50 chapters behind — they’re still trying to wrap their minds around what this can be — when the conversation could be so much more forward if everyone was just on the same page.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With that being said, even those conversations are being turned into memes and audio sounds. One conversation with a Fox News reporter, \u003ca href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/@megagahubert/video/7394997370238323998\">people are putting that on TikTok\u003c/a> and saying, ‘this is kind of brat.’\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote class=\"tiktok-embed\" style=\"max-width: 605px;min-width: 325px\" cite=\"https://www.tiktok.com/@megagahubert/video/7394997370238323998\" data-video-id=\"7394997370238323998\">\n\u003csection>\u003ca title=\"@megagahubert\" href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/@megagahubert?refer=embed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@megagahubert\u003c/a> the brats are so assembling. Lfg project coconut!!! 💚 \u003ca title=\"brat\" href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/tag/brat?refer=embed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#brat\u003c/a> \u003ca title=\"kamala\" href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/tag/kamala?refer=embed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#kamala\u003c/a> \u003ca title=\"harris2024\" href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/tag/harris2024?refer=embed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#harris2024\u003c/a> \u003ca title=\"kamalaharris\" href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/tag/kamalaharris?refer=embed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#kamalaharris\u003c/a> \u003ca title=\"election\" href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/tag/election?refer=embed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#election\u003c/a> \u003ca title=\"kamalahq\" href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/tag/kamalahq?refer=embed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#kamalahq\u003c/a> \u003ca title=\"♬ brats run the world - megaga\" href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/music/brats-run-the-world-7394997349795351327?refer=embed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">♬ brats run the world – megaga\u003c/a>\u003c/section>\n\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>[tiktok]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>This is also humor that takes the same thing and applies it to a different context, over and over again — which is very much a product of internet culture. And young people now have been online since elementary school.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote class=\"tiktok-embed\" style=\"max-width: 605px;min-width: 325px\" cite=\"https://www.tiktok.com/@anatomyofafall/video/7390902639271169310\" data-video-id=\"7390902639271169310\">\n\u003csection>\u003ca title=\"@anatomyofafall\" href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/@anatomyofafall?refer=embed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@anatomyofafall\u003c/a> this is what will flash before your eyes the moment right before you die \u003ca title=\"foryou\" href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/tag/foryou?refer=embed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#foryou\u003c/a> \u003ca title=\"brat\" href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/tag/brat?refer=embed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#brat\u003c/a> \u003ca title=\"trending\" href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/tag/trending?refer=embed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#trending\u003c/a> \u003ca title=\"popculture\" href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/tag/popculture?refer=embed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#popculture\u003c/a> \u003ca title=\"kamalaharris\" href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/tag/kamalaharris?refer=embed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#kamalaharris\u003c/a> \u003ca title=\"biden\" href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/tag/biden?refer=embed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#biden\u003c/a> \u003ca title=\"2024election\" href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/tag/2024election?refer=embed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#2024election\u003c/a> \u003ca title=\"♬ coconut tree core - m🕺🎞️\" href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/music/coconut-tree-core-7390902669105253150?refer=embed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">♬ coconut tree core – m🕺🎞️\u003c/a>\u003c/section>\n\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>[tiktok]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Let’s stay on the topic of Charli XCX’s support for Harris. It’s been a while since celebrity endorsements made \u003cem>such \u003c/em>a splash — the only other recent example is \u003c/strong>\u003ca href=\"https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2020-election/taylor-swift-endorses-joe-biden-president-n1242483\">\u003cstrong>Taylor Swift endorsing Joe Biden in 2020\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003cstrong>. Celebrity endorsements were such a bigger deal in the 2000s and 2010s as we saw with both Obama campaigns. Marisa, how do celebrity endorsements usually play out for candidates?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Lagos:\u003c/strong> I think like anything in politics, the hope is: It can get you attention.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But it’s not enough to win, right? These things are far more complicated than that. And this isn’t going to be enough for Kamala Harris to win.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I think that there’s ways that you can take these pop culture references — endorsements, things like that — and play them out to engage people or to excite people. Maybe you were going to go vote for her anyway, but now you’re going to volunteer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But it’s not ever going to be the silver bullet to winning the presidency. We have to remember that this is still going to be a race decided in a handful of states by a handful of people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>After \u003c/strong>\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/charli_xcx/status/1815182384066707861\">\u003cstrong>Charli XCX sent out that tweet for Harris\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003cstrong>, we also had some folks react to this with some cringe:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/lllliatttt/status/1815455947814584545\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>We’re having fun right now with this politics-pop culture crossover — at the moment, it feels like a slay — but when does a slay become cringe?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Bolaños:\u003c/strong> I think that it becomes a cringe when they lean into it too hard. I think Hillary [Clinton] leaned into it way too hard. There’s a way to be a part of the joke without being \u003cem>in \u003c/em>the group chat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kamala doing her thing and then having her campaign take these natural moments and make it into more memes, that’s what’s really working right now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If she were to go online and say, “Hey, I’m brat,” that would get a little cringe. I don’t think she can acknowledge it too directly. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003cp>Harris took a moment to laugh and then went on to explain what her mother meant: “You exist in the context of all in which you live and what came before you.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This moment soon made its way to X (formerly Twitter) where it circulated for months in different meme pages — \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/TimesNewJohann/status/1790462287083409561\">usually without the original context\u003c/a> — where users resonated with Harris’ humor and the quirkiness of the “coconut tree” expression.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the clip — now a meme — gained wider recognition this week when Harris became the likely Democratic nominee on Monday \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2024/07/22/g-s1-12804/kamala-harris-delegates-nominee-dnc-vote\">after receiving the support of enough party delegates to secure the nomination\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unsurprisingly, right-leaning pages have used the clip, along with \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/libsoftiktok/status/1815112666924699853\">other videos that show Harris laughing\u003c/a>, to argue that she shouldn’t be president. But many Democrats \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2024/07/25/g-s1-13327/kamala-harris-coconut-tree-meme-context-unburdened-in-the-context\">have embraced the coconut tree imagery\u003c/a> and on TikTok and Instagram, young people are making viral videos that \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/C93K1pVBMUh/\">remix the coconut tree clip with songs from Charli XCX’s latest album, \u003cem>brat\u003c/em>\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s already \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2024-07-24/kamala-harris-memes-coconut-brat-summer\">a plethora of explainers out there\u003c/a> that \u003ca href=\"https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2024/07/24/entertainment/memes-kamala-harris\">try to explain the meaning behind the different coconut tree memes\u003c/a>, along with \u003ca href=\"https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/internet/kamala-harris-brat-meaning-mean-slang-charli-xcx-what-does-hq-rcna163026\">what links Harris with Charli XCX\u003c/a> in the first place. But in the spirit of the original speech that started it all, we wanted to understand the context of all in which these memes live in and what came before them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I spoke with two other KQED journalists with deep experience in covering both politics and Gen Z culture — politics correspondent \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/mlagos\">Marisa Lagos\u003c/a> and host of The California Report \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/mbolanos\">Madi Bolaños\u003c/a> — to talk about how the state of the 2024 race, Harris’ political trajectory and questions of both gender and race brought us some of these viral Harris memes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This conversation has been edited for length and clarity.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Marisa, \u003c/strong>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11996837/who-is-kamala-harris-a-look-back-at-kqeds-coverage\">\u003cstrong>you’ve covered Kamala Harris for a long time\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003cstrong>. Does this image of Harris laughing at herself, being genuine in these moments, square up with what you’ve seen of her over the years?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Lagos:\u003c/strong> Totally. She, in my experience as a reporter, was at her best, off the record when she wasn’t having to think about what she was saying because she is legitimately funny and warm. And I think that’s a hard thing sometimes, especially as a woman of color.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Let’s put a very fine point on it: The reason that Republicans have used her laughing and her persona to attack her [comes with the] subtext that she’s not serious enough to be a leader. It’s very clearly pointed as a dog whistle at some of her identity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the flip side, that is what makes her a good politician. I have seen her in a room with people, and she’s really good at connecting, it’s retail politics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But even for people like me who have covered her for two decades, this seems way more authentic than the “serious Kamala Harris buttoned-down” politician trope. And let’s be real, she has to push [that forward] in certain situations. It is a serious job.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Bolaños:\u003c/strong> Marisa, to your point that Republicans have used her laughter to argue that she’s not serious. That’s what Gen Z loves about her. The word right now for Gen Z is ‘unserious.’ … Gen Z is eating that up for breakfast, lunch and dinner.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They really are big fans of how carefree she is. It’s interesting that what they try to use against her is what’s working in her favor right now.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Let’s talk about “seriousness” more. Part of Donald Trump’s appeal to his supporters is that he does not behave like other politicians. He can say anything he wants and that makes him a man of the people. On the other hand, female politicians who have sought the presidency, like Hillary Clinton and Elizabeth Warren, worked a lot on presenting themselves as very serious politicians to appeal to voters.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>And now, we’re seeing certain voters respond positively to a female politician who embraces her humor and her more authentic self. Could we be seeing a shift in what’s expected of women in politics?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Lagos:\u003c/strong> I hope so. God, I hope so. I do think it’s too early to know because she’d have to win for that shift to really be realized.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If she can win, I do think that this opens new doors and avenues for female leaders to be themselves and not have to just fit in a box. What we’ve seen historically, I feel, is women being expected to act like men.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s women like Nancy Pelosi that have turned some of that on their head, especially just in the way she presents herself. She’s a very feminine person. And I think that in itself is unique because Kamala does not dress the way that Pelosi does. She’s been a prosecutor. She wore dark suits. That’s been her vibe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She loosened it up on the campaign trail four years ago. She’s got that look with the blazer, jeans and Converse tennis shoes going on, which, I will say, is one of my looks when I’m out reporting. I tell people, “This is my Kamala look,” and they know what I mean.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Bolaños:\u003c/strong> Regardless if she wins or not, she is changing the culture of how you can present yourself in these spaces and also engaging a lot of people … who otherwise wouldn’t have cared very much.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>My cousin who’s 18 and has \u003cem>never \u003c/em>talked to me about politics randomly, no context, sent me \u003ca href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTNunEq6o/\">a TikTok, featuring the Charli XCX song ‘Girl, so confusing version with lorde’\u003c/a> and it has different clips of Kamala and Hillary Clinton. And again, we do not talk about anything political, ever.\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote class=\"tiktok-embed\" style=\"max-width: 605px;min-width: 325px\" cite=\"https://www.tiktok.com/@flextillerson/video/7389827831796157739\" data-video-id=\"7389827831796157739\">\n\u003csection>\u003ca title=\"@flextillerson\" href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/@flextillerson?refer=embed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@flextillerson\u003c/a> i hope they work it out on the remix \u003ca title=\"kamalaharris\" href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/tag/kamalaharris?refer=embed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#kamalaharris\u003c/a> \u003ca title=\"kamala\" href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/tag/kamala?refer=embed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#kamala\u003c/a> \u003ca title=\"brat\" href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/tag/brat?refer=embed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#brat\u003c/a> \u003ca title=\"bratsummer\" href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/tag/bratsummer?refer=embed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#bratsummer\u003c/a> \u003ca title=\"coconuttree\" href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/tag/coconuttree?refer=embed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#coconuttree\u003c/a> \u003ca title=\"girlsoconfusing\" href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/tag/girlsoconfusing?refer=embed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#girlsoconfusing\u003c/a> \u003ca title=\"lorde\" href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/tag/lorde?refer=embed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#lorde\u003c/a> \u003ca title=\"hillaryclinton\" href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/tag/hillaryclinton?refer=embed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#hillaryclinton\u003c/a> \u003ca title=\"♬ original sound - aly\" href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/music/original-sound-7389827861015202602?refer=embed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">♬ original sound – aly\u003c/a>\u003c/section>\n\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Let’s talk about Charli XCX. There’s so many \u003c/strong>\u003ca href=\"https://www.thecut.com/article/kamala-harris-charli-xcx-brat-memes.html\">\u003cstrong>stories out there that try to explain why young people are making these TikToks\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003cstrong> remixing Harris clips with songs from \u003cem>brat\u003c/em>. Madi, when journalists try to explain Gen Z humor, what do you think is missing?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Bolaños:\u003c/strong> I think that it’s hilarious to see older people try to understand something that is also kind of hard to explain. It’s one of those things that “if you know, you know.” It’s a vibe. You can’t explain a vibe online.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>You have to be online all the time.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Bolaños:\u003c/strong> Exactly. When it’s coming from someone who just exists in that vibe, you’re already there. You don’t have to explain anything. You can just talk about it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Whereas these older people are like 20, 50 chapters behind — they’re still trying to wrap their minds around what this can be — when the conversation could be so much more forward if everyone was just on the same page.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With that being said, even those conversations are being turned into memes and audio sounds. One conversation with a Fox News reporter, \u003ca href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/@megagahubert/video/7394997370238323998\">people are putting that on TikTok\u003c/a> and saying, ‘this is kind of brat.’\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote class=\"tiktok-embed\" style=\"max-width: 605px;min-width: 325px\" cite=\"https://www.tiktok.com/@megagahubert/video/7394997370238323998\" data-video-id=\"7394997370238323998\">\n\u003csection>\u003ca title=\"@megagahubert\" href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/@megagahubert?refer=embed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@megagahubert\u003c/a> the brats are so assembling. Lfg project coconut!!! 💚 \u003ca title=\"brat\" href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/tag/brat?refer=embed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#brat\u003c/a> \u003ca title=\"kamala\" href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/tag/kamala?refer=embed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#kamala\u003c/a> \u003ca title=\"harris2024\" href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/tag/harris2024?refer=embed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#harris2024\u003c/a> \u003ca title=\"kamalaharris\" href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/tag/kamalaharris?refer=embed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#kamalaharris\u003c/a> \u003ca title=\"election\" href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/tag/election?refer=embed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#election\u003c/a> \u003ca title=\"kamalahq\" href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/tag/kamalahq?refer=embed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#kamalahq\u003c/a> \u003ca title=\"♬ brats run the world - megaga\" href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/music/brats-run-the-world-7394997349795351327?refer=embed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">♬ brats run the world – megaga\u003c/a>\u003c/section>\n\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Let’s stay on the topic of Charli XCX’s support for Harris. It’s been a while since celebrity endorsements made \u003cem>such \u003c/em>a splash — the only other recent example is \u003c/strong>\u003ca href=\"https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2020-election/taylor-swift-endorses-joe-biden-president-n1242483\">\u003cstrong>Taylor Swift endorsing Joe Biden in 2020\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003cstrong>. Celebrity endorsements were such a bigger deal in the 2000s and 2010s as we saw with both Obama campaigns. Marisa, how do celebrity endorsements usually play out for candidates?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Lagos:\u003c/strong> I think like anything in politics, the hope is: It can get you attention.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But it’s not enough to win, right? These things are far more complicated than that. And this isn’t going to be enough for Kamala Harris to win.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I think that there’s ways that you can take these pop culture references — endorsements, things like that — and play them out to engage people or to excite people. Maybe you were going to go vote for her anyway, but now you’re going to volunteer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But it’s not ever going to be the silver bullet to winning the presidency. We have to remember that this is still going to be a race decided in a handful of states by a handful of people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>After \u003c/strong>\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/charli_xcx/status/1815182384066707861\">\u003cstrong>Charli XCX sent out that tweet for Harris\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003cstrong>, we also had some folks react to this with some cringe:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.saforamerica.org/harini-krishnan\">Harini Krishnan\u003c/a> became a Democratic organizer after former President Donald Trump was elected in 2016. When she spoke to KQED on Monday, she wore a T-shirt emblazoned with “KAMALA” in rainbow colors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m proud to call Kamala Harris a friend, and [I’m] ready to do whatever it takes to get her across the finish line,” said Krishnan, an Indian American classical vocalist and Hillsborough resident.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Krishnan is an elected Democratic National Convention delegate and the national director for \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/C9v4guzRDLn/\">South Asians for Harris\u003c/a>. Five days ago, she led South Asians for Biden.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>President Joe Biden exited the presidential race on July 21 and endorsed Harris, who is the Democratic Party’s likely nominee. If Harris becomes the nominee, she will be the first Black woman and the first South Asian American to top a major party’s presidential ticket.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her campaign has energized Democrats, but it has especially galvanized South Asian Democrats in Silicon Valley in ways that 2024 presidential bids by former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley and entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy, both Republicans of South Asian descent, did not.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Krishnan pointed to polls, like the 2022 Asian American Voter Survey, that show a \u003ca href=\"https://apiavote.org/wp-content/uploads/2022-Asian-American-Voter-Survey-Report.pdf\">majority of Indian Americans nationwide (PDF)\u003c/a> identify as Democrats. Harris, who was born in Oakland, is the daughter of Indian and Jamaican immigrants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Representation matters. The first woman. The first South Asian. The first Asian American. The first African American woman. From California. All those things matter to me,” Krishnan said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11997363\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11997363\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/KRISHNANHARRIS1-KQED-800x1067.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"1067\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/KRISHNANHARRIS1-KQED-800x1067.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/KRISHNANHARRIS1-KQED-1020x1360.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/KRISHNANHARRIS1-KQED-160x213.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/KRISHNANHARRIS1-KQED-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/KRISHNANHARRIS1-KQED.jpg 1500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Harini Krishnan (left) with Vice President Kamala Harris at an event in Atherton in 2019. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Harini Krishnan)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>M.R. Rangaswami, a tech executive, angel investor and philanthropist, is originally from Chennai, the same Indian city Harris’ mom emigrated from. Rangaswami, 69, said he has closely followed Harris’ political rise. “Every step of the way, she was a quick study,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rangaswami, a San Francisco resident who first came to the United States in 1982, said he plans to vote for Harris. He is currently working with others to plan a fundraiser.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s no way in my wildest dreams would some scenario like this come true,” he said. “And that’s the beauty of the United States, and that’s why I’m proud to be a U.S. citizen and have my family here. That’s the good side of America. And along with it comes challenges, but net net, it’s a positive thing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tech executive Sunil Mehta has lived in Silicon Valley for 40 years. He co-founded \u003ca href=\"https://www.theyseeblue.org\">They See Blue\u003c/a>, which mobilizes South Asian voters to support Democrats in battleground states. The name is a play on words, pronounced by many Indians and Indian Americans as “Desi” Blue. The word “Desi” means “countryman” in Hindi or Urdu.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are agnostic in terms of who the candidate is,” Mehta said. “We don’t blindly support South Asian candidates just because they are South Asian. Now, if they happen to be South Asian, that’s a bonus.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But what benefits Harris with older South Asian voters — closer to the political center than left on foreign policy, economics and the environment — may complicate her reception among Gen Z South Asian Democrats in tech.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Take Divya Jakatdar, who works in sales at Harmonic, an AI startup. The Los Altos Hills resident is still shaking off her dread at the prospect of Biden losing in November. Her first reaction upon hearing Harris will top the ticket?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was such a confusing feeling, because I felt relief and also stress at the same time. There was a little bit of a sigh, like, ‘OK, they’re listening,’” said Jakatdar, 21, referring to Democratic Party leaders who initially supported Biden staying in the race.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jakatdar is not a single-issue voter, but she says she knows a lot of young progressive voters are. Whether the topic is abortion, Gaza or police brutality, she’s worried they’ll sit this election out or vote for Trump as a protest against another four years of a Biden-like president.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I can envision all of the new rights that are going to be taken away in a couple months should we not go with her,” she said. “So I hope people remember that you would be voting against a lot of Black and brown people in the United States as well.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump may have chosen J.D. 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All those things matter to me,” Krishnan said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11997363\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11997363\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/KRISHNANHARRIS1-KQED-800x1067.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"1067\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/KRISHNANHARRIS1-KQED-800x1067.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/KRISHNANHARRIS1-KQED-1020x1360.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/KRISHNANHARRIS1-KQED-160x213.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/KRISHNANHARRIS1-KQED-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/KRISHNANHARRIS1-KQED.jpg 1500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Harini Krishnan (left) with Vice President Kamala Harris at an event in Atherton in 2019. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Harini Krishnan)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>M.R. Rangaswami, a tech executive, angel investor and philanthropist, is originally from Chennai, the same Indian city Harris’ mom emigrated from. Rangaswami, 69, said he has closely followed Harris’ political rise. “Every step of the way, she was a quick study,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rangaswami, a San Francisco resident who first came to the United States in 1982, said he plans to vote for Harris. He is currently working with others to plan a fundraiser.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s no way in my wildest dreams would some scenario like this come true,” he said. “And that’s the beauty of the United States, and that’s why I’m proud to be a U.S. citizen and have my family here. That’s the good side of America. And along with it comes challenges, but net net, it’s a positive thing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tech executive Sunil Mehta has lived in Silicon Valley for 40 years. He co-founded \u003ca href=\"https://www.theyseeblue.org\">They See Blue\u003c/a>, which mobilizes South Asian voters to support Democrats in battleground states. The name is a play on words, pronounced by many Indians and Indian Americans as “Desi” Blue. The word “Desi” means “countryman” in Hindi or Urdu.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are agnostic in terms of who the candidate is,” Mehta said. “We don’t blindly support South Asian candidates just because they are South Asian. Now, if they happen to be South Asian, that’s a bonus.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But what benefits Harris with older South Asian voters — closer to the political center than left on foreign policy, economics and the environment — may complicate her reception among Gen Z South Asian Democrats in tech.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Take Divya Jakatdar, who works in sales at Harmonic, an AI startup. The Los Altos Hills resident is still shaking off her dread at the prospect of Biden losing in November. 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Buttigieg said his agency had received “hundreds of complaints” about Delta, and he expects the airline to provide hotels and meals for travelers who are delayed and to issue quick refunds to customers who don’t want to be rebooked on a later flight.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“No one should be stranded at an airport overnight or stuck on hold for hours waiting to talk to a customer service agent,” Buttigieg said. He vowed to help Delta passengers by enforcing air travel \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/airline-refunds-congress-faa-cb8ccaa66e25e5af30d852f3411bcc10\">consumer-protection rules\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bastian said in a video for employees that he told Buttigieg, “You do not need to remind me. I know because we do our very best, particularly in tough times, taking care of our customers.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Delta has canceled more than 5,500 flights since \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11996430/what-happened-to-crowdstrike-huge-outage-a-wake-up-call-for-tech-reliant-world\">the outage started early Friday morning\u003c/a>, including at least 700 flights canceled on Monday, according to aviation data provider Cirium. Delta and its regional affiliates accounted for about two-thirds of all cancellations worldwide Monday, including nearly all the ones in the United States.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>United Airlines was the next-worst performer since the onset of the outage, canceling nearly 1,500 flights. United canceled only 17 Monday flights by late morning, however.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other airlines caught up in the first round of groundings also returned mostly to normal operations by Monday. That included American Airlines, Spirit Airlines, Frontier Airlines and Allegiant Air.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bastian, the Delta CEO, said in a message to customers Sunday that the airline was continuing to restore operations that were disrupted. One of the tools Delta uses to track crews was affected and could not process the high number of changes triggered by the outage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The technology issue occurred on the busiest travel weekend of the summer, with our booked loads exceeding 90%, limiting our re-accommodation capabilities,” Bastian wrote. Loads are the percentage of sold seats on each flight.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Airlines have large, layered technology systems, and crew-tracking programs are often among the oldest systems. When the outage began Friday, it also affected systems used to check in passengers and make pre-flight calculations about aircraft weight and balance, airlines reported. United and American reported intermittent problems communicating with crews in the air, contributing to their decisions to \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/microsoft-crowdstrike-outage-australia-internet-banks-media-0a5f792b6571b37a35181d64028fefc4\">briefly ground all flights\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some airlines, including Southwest and Alaska, do not use CrowdStrike, the provider of \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/crowdstrike-microsoft-outage-software-update-ebcba985600530a4689289eae38619bf\">cybersecurity software\u003c/a> whose faulty upgrade to Microsoft Windows triggered the outages. Those carriers saw relatively few cancellations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Delta, however, said that “upward of half” its IT systems are Windows-based. The airline said the outage forced IT employees to manually repair and reboot each affected system and synchronize applications so they start working together.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is going to take another couple of days before we are in a position to say that … the worst is clearly behind us,” Bastian told employees Monday. “Today will be a better day than yesterday, and hopefully, Tuesday and Wednesday will be that much better again.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the same video, Delta Chief Information Officer Rahul Samant said two applications were particularly difficult to restart on Friday: One that manages traffic at Hartsfield–Jackson Atlanta International Airport, Delta’s biggest hub, and another that assigns pilots and flight attendants to flights.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Technicians had gotten the crew-scheduling program running, “but we have a catch-up to do,” and new issues keep arising, Samant said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Atlanta-based Delta said it \u003cspan style=\"margin: 0px;padding: 0px\">\u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/outage-airlines-flights-canceled-crowdstrike-microsoft-044954aada0fa4f95c0119233c6316a6\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">offers\u003c/a>\u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/outage-airlines-flights-canceled-crowdstrike-microsoft-044954aada0fa4f95c0119233c6316a6\"> waivers\u003c/a> to make it easier for customers to reschedule trips.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That was of little help to Jason Helmes, a fitness coach trying to get home to Detroit from Denver. His flight on Sunday was delayed three times before it was canceled; by the time the plane finally pushed back from the gate, the pilots were at the end of their legally allowed shift.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Everyone was just stranded. No information on hotels. No information on what to do next,” Helmes said. “They said, ‘Go down to the luggage carousel; your luggage should be there.’ There were thousands of bags down there. I found my luggage — I got lucky.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Helmes said Delta offered to rebook him on Wednesday, but he worried that flight would also be canceled. He booked a Tuesday flight home on Frontier Airlines — one of the carriers that has largely recovered. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Delta Air Lines struggled for a fourth straight day to recover from \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/what-is-crowdstrike-worldwide-outage-94b4fc5ac6eed46ddcd565a5f1e4b916\">a worldwide technology outage\u003c/a> caused by a \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/crowdstrike-tech-outage-connected-ecosystem-b7b9c47b28ed65a5fbf050086834de4f\">faulty software update\u003c/a>, stranding tens of thousands of passengers and drawing unwanted attention from the federal government.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The airline’s chief executive said it would take “another couple days” before “the worst is clearly behind us.” Delta’s chief information officer said Monday that the airline was still trying to fix a vital crew-scheduling program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other carriers were returning to nearly normal levels of service disruptions, intensifying the glare on \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/delta-crowdstrike-waiver-bc470d7ae7c1627b2b590d2cb01b2b4a\">Delta’s relatively weaker\u003c/a> response to the outage that hit airlines, hospitals and businesses around the world.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Transportation Secretary \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/hub/pete-buttigieg\">Pete Buttigieg\u003c/a> spoke to \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/hub/delta-air-lines-inc\">Delta\u003c/a> CEO Ed Bastian on Sunday about the airline’s high number of cancellations since Friday. Buttigieg said his agency had received “hundreds of complaints” about Delta, and he expects the airline to provide hotels and meals for travelers who are delayed and to issue quick refunds to customers who don’t want to be rebooked on a later flight.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“No one should be stranded at an airport overnight or stuck on hold for hours waiting to talk to a customer service agent,” Buttigieg said. He vowed to help Delta passengers by enforcing air travel \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/airline-refunds-congress-faa-cb8ccaa66e25e5af30d852f3411bcc10\">consumer-protection rules\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bastian said in a video for employees that he told Buttigieg, “You do not need to remind me. I know because we do our very best, particularly in tough times, taking care of our customers.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Delta has canceled more than 5,500 flights since \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11996430/what-happened-to-crowdstrike-huge-outage-a-wake-up-call-for-tech-reliant-world\">the outage started early Friday morning\u003c/a>, including at least 700 flights canceled on Monday, according to aviation data provider Cirium. Delta and its regional affiliates accounted for about two-thirds of all cancellations worldwide Monday, including nearly all the ones in the United States.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>United Airlines was the next-worst performer since the onset of the outage, canceling nearly 1,500 flights. United canceled only 17 Monday flights by late morning, however.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other airlines caught up in the first round of groundings also returned mostly to normal operations by Monday. That included American Airlines, Spirit Airlines, Frontier Airlines and Allegiant Air.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bastian, the Delta CEO, said in a message to customers Sunday that the airline was continuing to restore operations that were disrupted. One of the tools Delta uses to track crews was affected and could not process the high number of changes triggered by the outage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The technology issue occurred on the busiest travel weekend of the summer, with our booked loads exceeding 90%, limiting our re-accommodation capabilities,” Bastian wrote. Loads are the percentage of sold seats on each flight.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Airlines have large, layered technology systems, and crew-tracking programs are often among the oldest systems. When the outage began Friday, it also affected systems used to check in passengers and make pre-flight calculations about aircraft weight and balance, airlines reported. United and American reported intermittent problems communicating with crews in the air, contributing to their decisions to \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/microsoft-crowdstrike-outage-australia-internet-banks-media-0a5f792b6571b37a35181d64028fefc4\">briefly ground all flights\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some airlines, including Southwest and Alaska, do not use CrowdStrike, the provider of \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/crowdstrike-microsoft-outage-software-update-ebcba985600530a4689289eae38619bf\">cybersecurity software\u003c/a> whose faulty upgrade to Microsoft Windows triggered the outages. Those carriers saw relatively few cancellations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Delta, however, said that “upward of half” its IT systems are Windows-based. The airline said the outage forced IT employees to manually repair and reboot each affected system and synchronize applications so they start working together.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is going to take another couple of days before we are in a position to say that … the worst is clearly behind us,” Bastian told employees Monday. “Today will be a better day than yesterday, and hopefully, Tuesday and Wednesday will be that much better again.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the same video, Delta Chief Information Officer Rahul Samant said two applications were particularly difficult to restart on Friday: One that manages traffic at Hartsfield–Jackson Atlanta International Airport, Delta’s biggest hub, and another that assigns pilots and flight attendants to flights.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Technicians had gotten the crew-scheduling program running, “but we have a catch-up to do,” and new issues keep arising, Samant said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Atlanta-based Delta said it \u003cspan style=\"margin: 0px;padding: 0px\">\u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/outage-airlines-flights-canceled-crowdstrike-microsoft-044954aada0fa4f95c0119233c6316a6\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">offers\u003c/a>\u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/outage-airlines-flights-canceled-crowdstrike-microsoft-044954aada0fa4f95c0119233c6316a6\"> waivers\u003c/a> to make it easier for customers to reschedule trips.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That was of little help to Jason Helmes, a fitness coach trying to get home to Detroit from Denver. His flight on Sunday was delayed three times before it was canceled; by the time the plane finally pushed back from the gate, the pilots were at the end of their legally allowed shift.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Everyone was just stranded. No information on hotels. No information on what to do next,” Helmes said. “They said, ‘Go down to the luggage carousel; your luggage should be there.’ There were thousands of bags down there. I found my luggage — I got lucky.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Helmes said Delta offered to rebook him on Wednesday, but he worried that flight would also be canceled. He booked a Tuesday flight home on Frontier Airlines — one of the carriers that has largely recovered. He is saving his receipts, including a hotel room, hoping Delta will reimburse him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For the last 10 years, I’ve been exclusively on Delta,” he said. “This has me double-thinking about that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Delta’s meltdown is reminiscent of the \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/business-transportation-us-department-of-0925834b8cfcf1150358f874334d16d7\">December 2022 debacle\u003c/a> that caused Southwest Airlines to cancel nearly 17,000 flights over a 15-day stretch. After a federal investigation of Southwest’s compliance with consumer-protection rules, the airline agreed to pay a $35 million fine as part of a \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/southwest-airlines-settlement-canceled-flights-4c2a6bc25b52019a5966f6d5ef702fc6\">$140 million settlement\u003c/a> with the Transportation Department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Southwest’s breakdown started during a winter storm, but the airline’s \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/business-texas-arizona-california-da3b72f2350b0f77498f7f67316facb5\">recovery took unusually long\u003c/a> because of problems with a crew-scheduling system — a striking similarity to Delta’s current mess.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/airlines-complaints-transportation-department-7c6ddcec4ebadd4d7222350f6513e6be\">airline industry\u003c/a> might be the most visible victim of the worldwide tech problems caused by the faulty software update from Texas-based cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike. Microsoft said the glitch affected 8.5 million machines. CrowdStrike says it has deployed a fix, but experts say it could take days or even weeks to repair \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/microsoft-crowdstrike-small-businesses-ad1e4f964d1560d50d08564cce9513d7\">every affected computer\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Will Brazelton holds many jobs: He runs a company that fixes farm fences, operates heavy machinery on construction sites, manages wildlife and pests on nearby farms, and even occasionally manages fruit stands.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He does it all to keep running Brazelton Ranch, a generations-old stone fruit and citrus orchard.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Farming’s in my blood, I can’t really turn away from it,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Just a few miles north from Brazelton’s 80-acre orchard, Rob Nickelson runs KMS Farm, named after his three daughters: Keeley, Molly and Samantha. His farm is not as old as Brazelton’s, but he loves his job. He started growing walnuts there in the late 1990s and hopes to expand his offerings to other types of nuts someday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You have to have farms,” he said. “It’s the basics of our society.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11996541\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11996541\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240604_CaliforniaForeverFarms_GC-62_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240604_CaliforniaForeverFarms_GC-62_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240604_CaliforniaForeverFarms_GC-62_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240604_CaliforniaForeverFarms_GC-62_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240604_CaliforniaForeverFarms_GC-62_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240604_CaliforniaForeverFarms_GC-62_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240604_CaliforniaForeverFarms_GC-62_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">William Brazelton, president of the Solano County Farm Bureau, poses for a photo in Vacaville on June 4, 2024. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The two farmers share many of the same priorities for their businesses, but they’re split on how they see a billionaire-backed company’s proposal to build a city from scratch and what it means for the future of farming in their county.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nickelson is optimistic the plan will add desperately-needed housing to the area and bring a more diverse array of jobs. But Brazelton and many other skeptics worry a new city would impact his farm, along with many others.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11996544\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1925px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11996544\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240604_CaliforniaForeverFarms_GC-64_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1925\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240604_CaliforniaForeverFarms_GC-64_qed.jpg 1925w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240604_CaliforniaForeverFarms_GC-64_qed-800x554.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240604_CaliforniaForeverFarms_GC-64_qed-1020x706.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240604_CaliforniaForeverFarms_GC-64_qed-160x111.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240604_CaliforniaForeverFarms_GC-64_qed-1536x1064.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240604_CaliforniaForeverFarms_GC-64_qed-1920x1330.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1925px) 100vw, 1925px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The entrance to Brazelton Ranch in Vacaville on June 4, 2024. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11996551\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11996551\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240604_CaliforniaForeverFarms_GC-53_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240604_CaliforniaForeverFarms_GC-53_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240604_CaliforniaForeverFarms_GC-53_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240604_CaliforniaForeverFarms_GC-53_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240604_CaliforniaForeverFarms_GC-53_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240604_CaliforniaForeverFarms_GC-53_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240604_CaliforniaForeverFarms_GC-53_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Brazelton poses for a photo with his dog Troy in Vacaville on June 4, 2024. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Our community is actually a pretty small one, believe it or not, and many of the families that have been here a long time have been friends with each other for generations,” he said, adding that the company behind the plan, California Forever, didn’t make a great first impression. “They don’t actually care about the community that they’re essentially pushing out.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California Forever’s ambitious development promises to house up to 400,000 people once it’s fully built, effectively doubling the county’s population. Earlier this year, the company announced the project would also add an estimated 15,000 jobs, some of which will come from 15 companies and start-ups that recently \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11986569/california-forever-says-12-start-ups-will-open-workplaces-in-its-new-city\">pledged to open offices\u003c/a> there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11996550\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11996550\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240604_CaliforniaForeverFarms_GC-47_qed-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240604_CaliforniaForeverFarms_GC-47_qed-1.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240604_CaliforniaForeverFarms_GC-47_qed-1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240604_CaliforniaForeverFarms_GC-47_qed-1-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240604_CaliforniaForeverFarms_GC-47_qed-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240604_CaliforniaForeverFarms_GC-47_qed-1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240604_CaliforniaForeverFarms_GC-47_qed-1-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Brazelton opens a gate to apricot trees at Brazelton Ranch in Vacaville on June 4, 2024. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>According to a \u003ca href=\"https://www.bayareaeconomy.org/report/evaluating-the-case-for-the-east-solano-plan/\">recent study\u003c/a> from business advocacy organization Bay Area Council, Solano County has the lowest ratio of jobs per resident out of the region’s nine counties. Nickelson hopes California Forever’s plan could change those statistics. He is so supportive of the company’s ballot measure, called the \u003ca href=\"https://eastsolanoplan.com/\">East Solano Plan\u003c/a>, that he volunteered to appear in a campaign ad.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m not for growth for growth’s sake — I’m an environmentalist — but sometimes you gotta build,” he said. “I’ve never seen any developer put that much on the table.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To Brazelton, it all sounds too good to be true. He has concerns about how the new city will get its water, whether the new housing will truly be affordable and whether the endangered species in the Jepson Prairie and vernal pools will be protected.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11996552\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11996552\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240604_CaliforniaForeverFarms_GC-51_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240604_CaliforniaForeverFarms_GC-51_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240604_CaliforniaForeverFarms_GC-51_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240604_CaliforniaForeverFarms_GC-51_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240604_CaliforniaForeverFarms_GC-51_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240604_CaliforniaForeverFarms_GC-51_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240604_CaliforniaForeverFarms_GC-51_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Apricots hang in an apricot tree at Brazelton Ranch in Vacaville on June 4, 2024. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>It hasn’t helped, either, that California Forever’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11970610/farmers-see-uncertain-future-with-plans-for-new-city-in-solano-county\">lengthy legal fight\u003c/a> against a group of farmers who currently own some of the land it sought to purchase in 2017 has left a bitter taste in the mouth of Brazelton and many others, who have watched the families struggle financially through the expensive case. It’s what drove Brazelton’s organization, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.solanofarmbureau.org/\">Solano Farm Bureau\u003c/a>, to officially oppose the plan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alexis Koefoed felt the same way and joined \u003ca href=\"https://www.solanotogether.org/\">Solano Together\u003c/a>, the most prominent organization campaigning against the plan. She owns Soul Food Farm, where she grows olives and nursery plants like chamomile, sunflowers and poppies, just a few miles away from Brazelton Ranch.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a much bigger loss than just the loss of land,” Koefoed said in reference to the more than 60,000 acres California Forever has accumulated since it started buying land secretly in 2017. “It’s that the whole system of food security and food availability is now diminished.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11996542\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11996542\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240604_CaliforniaForeverFarms_GC-26_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240604_CaliforniaForeverFarms_GC-26_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240604_CaliforniaForeverFarms_GC-26_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240604_CaliforniaForeverFarms_GC-26_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240604_CaliforniaForeverFarms_GC-26_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240604_CaliforniaForeverFarms_GC-26_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240604_CaliforniaForeverFarms_GC-26_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Soul Food Farm’s farm stand in Vacaville on June 4, 2024. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>According to the \u003ca href=\"https://www.conservation.ca.gov/dlrp/fmmp/Pages/Fast-Facts.aspx\">state’s Department of Conservation\u003c/a>, farm and grazing lands across California have decreased by about 4% between 1984 and 2018, in large part due to urbanization. And thanks to new \u003ca href=\"https://www.edf.org/ecosystems/advancing-strategic-land-repurposing-and-groundwater-sustainability-california\">groundwater regulations\u003c/a>, another 500,000 to 1 million acres are projected to go out of production by 2040. Solano County’s agricultural production makes up a little less than 1% of the state’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdfa.ca.gov/Statistics/\">$59 billion industry\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Daniel Sumner, a professor of agriculture and resource economics at UC Davis, said Koefoed’s fears aren’t borne out in the data. Most of the land California Forever purchased is located in the Montezuma Hills and used primarily as pasture land for grazing sheep or to grow alfalfa and wheat, mostly to feed livestock.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11996553\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11996553\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240604_CaliforniaForeverFarms_GC-24_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240604_CaliforniaForeverFarms_GC-24_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240604_CaliforniaForeverFarms_GC-24_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240604_CaliforniaForeverFarms_GC-24_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240604_CaliforniaForeverFarms_GC-24_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240604_CaliforniaForeverFarms_GC-24_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240604_CaliforniaForeverFarms_GC-24_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rows of olive trees at Soul Food Farm in Vacaville on June 4, 2024. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11996546\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1831px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11996546\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240604_CaliforniaForeverFarms_GC-33_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1831\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240604_CaliforniaForeverFarms_GC-33_qed.jpg 1831w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240604_CaliforniaForeverFarms_GC-33_qed-800x582.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240604_CaliforniaForeverFarms_GC-33_qed-1020x743.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240604_CaliforniaForeverFarms_GC-33_qed-160x116.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240604_CaliforniaForeverFarms_GC-33_qed-1536x1118.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1831px) 100vw, 1831px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Alexis Koefoed, owner of Soul Food Farm, reaches for baby olives at the farm in Vacaville on June 4, 2024. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>According to the county’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.solanocounty.com/civicax/filebank/blobdload.aspx?BlobID=41365\">2022 crop and livestock report\u003c/a>, processed tomatoes and nursery products — grown in other parts of the county — brought in the most money. Moreover, demand for wool and sheep meat has declined because it’s become cheaper to import those products.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve paved over some of the richest, most productive farmland in the world to make Silicon Valley, which used to be considered the ‘fruit valley’ not too long ago,” he said. “But there’s no question that [the land California Forever bought] is the least agriculturally productive flat land.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11996545\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11996545\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240604_CaliforniaForeverFarms_GC-38_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240604_CaliforniaForeverFarms_GC-38_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240604_CaliforniaForeverFarms_GC-38_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240604_CaliforniaForeverFarms_GC-38_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240604_CaliforniaForeverFarms_GC-38_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240604_CaliforniaForeverFarms_GC-38_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240604_CaliforniaForeverFarms_GC-38_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Koefoed tends to her rabbits at the farm in Vacaville on June 4, 2024. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Still, the loss of agricultural land in Solano County has been much more severe over the past decade than across the state as a whole. Between \u003ca href=\"https://agcensus.library.cornell.edu/wp-content/uploads/2012-California-st06_2_001_001.pdf\">2012 (PDF)\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.nass.usda.gov/Publications/AgCensus/2022/Full_Report/Volume_1,_Chapter_2_County_Level/California/st06_2_001_001.pdf\">2022 (PDF)\u003c/a>, the county lost about 20% of its farmland. If voters in November approve the East Solano Plan, Koefoed worries other farmland in Solano, including hers, could be next.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have a lot of good work we need to do, which is to support all the other small farmers in this community and build better protections so this doesn’t happen again with another developer and they start looking at other land in Solano,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11996547\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11996547\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240604_CaliforniaForeverFarms_GC-25_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240604_CaliforniaForeverFarms_GC-25_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240604_CaliforniaForeverFarms_GC-25_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240604_CaliforniaForeverFarms_GC-25_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240604_CaliforniaForeverFarms_GC-25_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240604_CaliforniaForeverFarms_GC-25_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240604_CaliforniaForeverFarms_GC-25_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A greenhouse at Soul Food Farm in Vacaville on June 4, 2024. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Sumner, who was born and raised on a farm in Solano County, said the arguments against California Forever are perhaps rooted in a desire to uphold the county’s cultural values.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s an emotional question for people who like the way they live. I understand that, we all understand that,” he said. “Now, do you let those people block development for everybody else? Because people are going to live somewhere.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Will Brazelton holds many jobs: He runs a company that fixes farm fences, operates heavy machinery on construction sites, manages wildlife and pests on nearby farms, and even occasionally manages fruit stands.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He does it all to keep running Brazelton Ranch, a generations-old stone fruit and citrus orchard.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Farming’s in my blood, I can’t really turn away from it,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Just a few miles north from Brazelton’s 80-acre orchard, Rob Nickelson runs KMS Farm, named after his three daughters: Keeley, Molly and Samantha. His farm is not as old as Brazelton’s, but he loves his job. He started growing walnuts there in the late 1990s and hopes to expand his offerings to other types of nuts someday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You have to have farms,” he said. “It’s the basics of our society.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11996541\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11996541\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240604_CaliforniaForeverFarms_GC-62_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240604_CaliforniaForeverFarms_GC-62_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240604_CaliforniaForeverFarms_GC-62_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240604_CaliforniaForeverFarms_GC-62_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240604_CaliforniaForeverFarms_GC-62_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240604_CaliforniaForeverFarms_GC-62_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240604_CaliforniaForeverFarms_GC-62_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">William Brazelton, president of the Solano County Farm Bureau, poses for a photo in Vacaville on June 4, 2024. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The two farmers share many of the same priorities for their businesses, but they’re split on how they see a billionaire-backed company’s proposal to build a city from scratch and what it means for the future of farming in their county.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nickelson is optimistic the plan will add desperately-needed housing to the area and bring a more diverse array of jobs. But Brazelton and many other skeptics worry a new city would impact his farm, along with many others.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11996544\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1925px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11996544\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240604_CaliforniaForeverFarms_GC-64_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1925\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240604_CaliforniaForeverFarms_GC-64_qed.jpg 1925w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240604_CaliforniaForeverFarms_GC-64_qed-800x554.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240604_CaliforniaForeverFarms_GC-64_qed-1020x706.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240604_CaliforniaForeverFarms_GC-64_qed-160x111.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240604_CaliforniaForeverFarms_GC-64_qed-1536x1064.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240604_CaliforniaForeverFarms_GC-64_qed-1920x1330.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1925px) 100vw, 1925px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The entrance to Brazelton Ranch in Vacaville on June 4, 2024. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11996551\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11996551\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240604_CaliforniaForeverFarms_GC-53_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240604_CaliforniaForeverFarms_GC-53_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240604_CaliforniaForeverFarms_GC-53_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240604_CaliforniaForeverFarms_GC-53_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240604_CaliforniaForeverFarms_GC-53_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240604_CaliforniaForeverFarms_GC-53_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240604_CaliforniaForeverFarms_GC-53_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Brazelton poses for a photo with his dog Troy in Vacaville on June 4, 2024. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Our community is actually a pretty small one, believe it or not, and many of the families that have been here a long time have been friends with each other for generations,” he said, adding that the company behind the plan, California Forever, didn’t make a great first impression. “They don’t actually care about the community that they’re essentially pushing out.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California Forever’s ambitious development promises to house up to 400,000 people once it’s fully built, effectively doubling the county’s population. Earlier this year, the company announced the project would also add an estimated 15,000 jobs, some of which will come from 15 companies and start-ups that recently \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11986569/california-forever-says-12-start-ups-will-open-workplaces-in-its-new-city\">pledged to open offices\u003c/a> there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11996550\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11996550\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240604_CaliforniaForeverFarms_GC-47_qed-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240604_CaliforniaForeverFarms_GC-47_qed-1.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240604_CaliforniaForeverFarms_GC-47_qed-1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240604_CaliforniaForeverFarms_GC-47_qed-1-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240604_CaliforniaForeverFarms_GC-47_qed-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240604_CaliforniaForeverFarms_GC-47_qed-1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240604_CaliforniaForeverFarms_GC-47_qed-1-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Brazelton opens a gate to apricot trees at Brazelton Ranch in Vacaville on June 4, 2024. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>According to a \u003ca href=\"https://www.bayareaeconomy.org/report/evaluating-the-case-for-the-east-solano-plan/\">recent study\u003c/a> from business advocacy organization Bay Area Council, Solano County has the lowest ratio of jobs per resident out of the region’s nine counties. Nickelson hopes California Forever’s plan could change those statistics. He is so supportive of the company’s ballot measure, called the \u003ca href=\"https://eastsolanoplan.com/\">East Solano Plan\u003c/a>, that he volunteered to appear in a campaign ad.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m not for growth for growth’s sake — I’m an environmentalist — but sometimes you gotta build,” he said. “I’ve never seen any developer put that much on the table.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To Brazelton, it all sounds too good to be true. He has concerns about how the new city will get its water, whether the new housing will truly be affordable and whether the endangered species in the Jepson Prairie and vernal pools will be protected.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11996552\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11996552\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240604_CaliforniaForeverFarms_GC-51_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240604_CaliforniaForeverFarms_GC-51_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240604_CaliforniaForeverFarms_GC-51_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240604_CaliforniaForeverFarms_GC-51_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240604_CaliforniaForeverFarms_GC-51_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240604_CaliforniaForeverFarms_GC-51_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240604_CaliforniaForeverFarms_GC-51_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Apricots hang in an apricot tree at Brazelton Ranch in Vacaville on June 4, 2024. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>It hasn’t helped, either, that California Forever’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11970610/farmers-see-uncertain-future-with-plans-for-new-city-in-solano-county\">lengthy legal fight\u003c/a> against a group of farmers who currently own some of the land it sought to purchase in 2017 has left a bitter taste in the mouth of Brazelton and many others, who have watched the families struggle financially through the expensive case. It’s what drove Brazelton’s organization, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.solanofarmbureau.org/\">Solano Farm Bureau\u003c/a>, to officially oppose the plan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alexis Koefoed felt the same way and joined \u003ca href=\"https://www.solanotogether.org/\">Solano Together\u003c/a>, the most prominent organization campaigning against the plan. She owns Soul Food Farm, where she grows olives and nursery plants like chamomile, sunflowers and poppies, just a few miles away from Brazelton Ranch.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a much bigger loss than just the loss of land,” Koefoed said in reference to the more than 60,000 acres California Forever has accumulated since it started buying land secretly in 2017. “It’s that the whole system of food security and food availability is now diminished.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11996542\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11996542\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240604_CaliforniaForeverFarms_GC-26_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240604_CaliforniaForeverFarms_GC-26_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240604_CaliforniaForeverFarms_GC-26_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240604_CaliforniaForeverFarms_GC-26_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240604_CaliforniaForeverFarms_GC-26_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240604_CaliforniaForeverFarms_GC-26_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240604_CaliforniaForeverFarms_GC-26_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Soul Food Farm’s farm stand in Vacaville on June 4, 2024. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>According to the \u003ca href=\"https://www.conservation.ca.gov/dlrp/fmmp/Pages/Fast-Facts.aspx\">state’s Department of Conservation\u003c/a>, farm and grazing lands across California have decreased by about 4% between 1984 and 2018, in large part due to urbanization. And thanks to new \u003ca href=\"https://www.edf.org/ecosystems/advancing-strategic-land-repurposing-and-groundwater-sustainability-california\">groundwater regulations\u003c/a>, another 500,000 to 1 million acres are projected to go out of production by 2040. Solano County’s agricultural production makes up a little less than 1% of the state’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdfa.ca.gov/Statistics/\">$59 billion industry\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Daniel Sumner, a professor of agriculture and resource economics at UC Davis, said Koefoed’s fears aren’t borne out in the data. Most of the land California Forever purchased is located in the Montezuma Hills and used primarily as pasture land for grazing sheep or to grow alfalfa and wheat, mostly to feed livestock.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11996553\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11996553\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240604_CaliforniaForeverFarms_GC-24_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240604_CaliforniaForeverFarms_GC-24_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240604_CaliforniaForeverFarms_GC-24_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240604_CaliforniaForeverFarms_GC-24_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240604_CaliforniaForeverFarms_GC-24_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240604_CaliforniaForeverFarms_GC-24_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240604_CaliforniaForeverFarms_GC-24_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rows of olive trees at Soul Food Farm in Vacaville on June 4, 2024. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11996546\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1831px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11996546\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240604_CaliforniaForeverFarms_GC-33_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1831\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240604_CaliforniaForeverFarms_GC-33_qed.jpg 1831w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240604_CaliforniaForeverFarms_GC-33_qed-800x582.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240604_CaliforniaForeverFarms_GC-33_qed-1020x743.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240604_CaliforniaForeverFarms_GC-33_qed-160x116.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240604_CaliforniaForeverFarms_GC-33_qed-1536x1118.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1831px) 100vw, 1831px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Alexis Koefoed, owner of Soul Food Farm, reaches for baby olives at the farm in Vacaville on June 4, 2024. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>According to the county’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.solanocounty.com/civicax/filebank/blobdload.aspx?BlobID=41365\">2022 crop and livestock report\u003c/a>, processed tomatoes and nursery products — grown in other parts of the county — brought in the most money. Moreover, demand for wool and sheep meat has declined because it’s become cheaper to import those products.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve paved over some of the richest, most productive farmland in the world to make Silicon Valley, which used to be considered the ‘fruit valley’ not too long ago,” he said. “But there’s no question that [the land California Forever bought] is the least agriculturally productive flat land.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11996545\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11996545\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240604_CaliforniaForeverFarms_GC-38_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240604_CaliforniaForeverFarms_GC-38_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240604_CaliforniaForeverFarms_GC-38_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240604_CaliforniaForeverFarms_GC-38_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240604_CaliforniaForeverFarms_GC-38_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240604_CaliforniaForeverFarms_GC-38_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240604_CaliforniaForeverFarms_GC-38_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Koefoed tends to her rabbits at the farm in Vacaville on June 4, 2024. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Still, the loss of agricultural land in Solano County has been much more severe over the past decade than across the state as a whole. Between \u003ca href=\"https://agcensus.library.cornell.edu/wp-content/uploads/2012-California-st06_2_001_001.pdf\">2012 (PDF)\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.nass.usda.gov/Publications/AgCensus/2022/Full_Report/Volume_1,_Chapter_2_County_Level/California/st06_2_001_001.pdf\">2022 (PDF)\u003c/a>, the county lost about 20% of its farmland. If voters in November approve the East Solano Plan, Koefoed worries other farmland in Solano, including hers, could be next.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have a lot of good work we need to do, which is to support all the other small farmers in this community and build better protections so this doesn’t happen again with another developer and they start looking at other land in Solano,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11996547\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11996547\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240604_CaliforniaForeverFarms_GC-25_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240604_CaliforniaForeverFarms_GC-25_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240604_CaliforniaForeverFarms_GC-25_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240604_CaliforniaForeverFarms_GC-25_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240604_CaliforniaForeverFarms_GC-25_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240604_CaliforniaForeverFarms_GC-25_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240604_CaliforniaForeverFarms_GC-25_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A greenhouse at Soul Food Farm in Vacaville on June 4, 2024. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Sumner, who was born and raised on a farm in Solano County, said the arguments against California Forever are perhaps rooted in a desire to uphold the county’s cultural values.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s an emotional question for people who like the way they live. I understand that, we all understand that,” he said. “Now, do you let those people block development for everybody else? Because people are going to live somewhere.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>People around the world \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11996382/massive-global-crowdstrike-outage-causes-chaos-at-bay-area-airports-businesses\">woke up Friday to IT chaos\u003c/a> as Windows machines doomed to “boot loops” and Microsoft’s infamous blue error screen disrupted airports, hospitals, banks and many other systems for hours.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It wasn’t the work of a shadowy hacking group but the result of a faulty system update from cybersecurity giant CrowdStrike. Still, experts have long been wary of such a massive disruption in a world that leans so heavily on technology, and now they are warning organizations of all kinds to prepare for more in the future.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s quite a wake-up call to companies, to industry, to governments and to nonprofits for how you need to be ready to handle this sort of catastrophic change in the way your systems work,” said Betsy Cooper, the director of the Aspen Tech Policy Hub.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The massive outage has been traced back to a “single content update,” CrowdStrike CEO George Kurtz said in a \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/George_Kurtz/status/1814316045185822981\">post\u003c/a> on social media platform X. Though the company said a fix for the issue had been deployed shortly before 3 a.m., many banks, private and public sector companies, airports and hospitals were still scrambling to resume normal operations midday on Friday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here’s what to know:\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>What is CrowdStrike?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>CrowdStrike provides cybersecurity software to more than 29,000 customers, including nearly 300 Fortune 500 companies such as Amazon, Google, and Target, according to \u003ca href=\"https://www.reuters.com/technology/what-is-crowdstrike-cybersecurity-firm-behind-global-tech-outage-2024-07-19/#:~:text=CrowdStrike%20offers%20cloud-based%20security,from%20threats%20such%20as%20malware.\">Reuters\u003c/a>. Its services include protection from malware and ransomware threats, firewall management, cloud security and tracking down and identifying hackers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The company made news and became the subject of right-wing conspiracy theories for assisting in a government investigation in 2016, \u003ca href=\"https://www.crowdstrike.com/blog/bears-midst-intrusion-democratic-national-committee/\">working with\u003c/a> the Democratic National Committee to determine that Russian-affiliated intelligence hacked the party.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Friday’s outage was not a cyberattack, CrowdStrike said. 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The first is you see how we are all dependent on technology; our lives depend on technology. And the second is how fragile that technology is,” he told KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Why does this matter?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Concern about a widespread outage isn’t new — experts have been wary of this kind of disruption for almost a decade, Cooper said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For a very long time, we have had in the back of our heads the possibility that a major service disruption like this could occur,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But how widespread the effects of an outage might be has grown as technology has advanced, even within the last few years. Whereas email and digital storage systems, for example, used to be separate, now they are often connected. 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Her flight was supposed to leave Thursday around 11 p.m.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We boarded and took forever and we taxied, and then they turned us around and said we had to deplane because there was a technical issue.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her flight was repeatedly delayed and eventually canceled around 5 a.m.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The lines were already crazy long — we got in one line and they sent us to a different line,” Pyle told KQED. She said that she was also in a virtual queue to speak with a Delta representative on the phone, but the wait time was estimated at over eight hours.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some planes still stalled around 10 a.m. were waiting on in-flight staff. 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IT personnel were still working to get desktop computers back online, and Rosynski expected all to be up and running before Monday morning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A spokesperson for Santa Clara County Superior Court said desktop computers across all courthouses were affected, and IT personnel were working on its networks. The teams were prioritizing courtrooms with morning schedules to minimize delays.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco’s Superior Court is not affected, a spokesperson said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Oakland, the outages “have caused many computers to become inaccessible and are being evaluated and responded to now,” according to \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/Oakland/status/1814214917282484550\">a statement\u003c/a> on X.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Across the state, some incarcerated people are also unable to contact their loved ones, as the California Department of Corrections’ communication provider ViaPath is experiencing outages on all Windows-based services. 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