He’s not exactly uninvolved in this case. The governor of California is an ex-officio member of the board of regents, and he did appoint 10 of the current regents.

But that said, we can do better than Newsom. His primary goal is to be elected to higher office no matter what he has to say or do.

Only if they have underground utilities. Otherwise the equivalent units are on poles.

The 20 of us who looked up the vote record for his confirmation?

Democrats do bad things, but let’s at least complain about the bad things they actually did.

This is totally false. No Democrat voted to confirm him. It was 52 R for, 45 D, 2 I, and 1 R against. See https://ballotpedia.org/Confirmation_process_for_Robert_F._Kennedy_Jr._for_secretary_of_health_and_human_services#Confirmation_vote_roll_call for more details.

trisomy-21 isn’t present in sperm or eggs, it’s a mistake in cell division early in fetal development

This is incorrect. Non-disjunction (where chromosomes incorrectly separate) typically happens during the formation of egg or sperm. (We know this because most everyone with down syndrome has three different chromosome 21 instead of two identical copies of one chromosome.)

I hear you, but let’s not forget that Newsom is doing the bare minimum here.

I’m certain we can find a better nominee in 2028.

A related more general mnemonic works for the running lights too. Red has fewer letters than green, so it goes with left which has fewer letters than right and port which has fewer letters than starboard.