David Bonowitz
@dbonowitz.bsky.social
Buildings. Earthquakes. Public policy.
Functional Recovery <--> Community Resilience.
Giants baseball. Princeton hoops.
contact: djbonowitz (with a 'j') at gmail
Functional Recovery <--> Community Resilience.
Giants baseball. Princeton hoops.
contact: djbonowitz (with a 'j') at gmail
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Oh, also:
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December 27, 2025 at 1:44 AM
Oh, also:
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This is a grassroots campaign and we can only do all of this with your support: secure.actblue.com/donate/abu-b...
If you want to help us prove this model works, please chip in any small dollar amount!
This is a grassroots campaign and we can only do all of this with your support: secure.actblue.com/donate/abu-b...
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Earlier in 2025, I discussed with members of European Parliament how organized crime syndicates seem to have hijacked nation states to collusively deploy cognitive hybrid war tactics to undermine sovereignty, democracy, and potential accountability.
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Prof Jagolinzer discusses the concept of Mafia States. Audio from testimony to EU Parliament
YouTube video by Cambridge Disinformation Summit
youtu.be
December 26, 2025 at 10:41 AM
Earlier in 2025, I discussed with members of European Parliament how organized crime syndicates seem to have hijacked nation states to collusively deploy cognitive hybrid war tactics to undermine sovereignty, democracy, and potential accountability.
youtu.be/y3QKtwFis-o?...
youtu.be/y3QKtwFis-o?...
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Smith (and Asa Carter's) central insight was that the best way to message American fascism, was to call oneself a Christian Patriot who hated Communism, and who was a brave and persecuted truth teller about the vast conspiracy in the media, education, and gov't that was about to destroy America.
December 26, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Smith (and Asa Carter's) central insight was that the best way to message American fascism, was to call oneself a Christian Patriot who hated Communism, and who was a brave and persecuted truth teller about the vast conspiracy in the media, education, and gov't that was about to destroy America.
Thank you for spotlighting local businesses.
Disaster planners & researchers: Mission Local has given you the head start, but this should also be documented academically for comparison with similar events in So Cal, planned power shutoffs, etc. Many opportunities here.
bsky.app/profile/dbon...
Disaster planners & researchers: Mission Local has given you the head start, but this should also be documented academically for comparison with similar events in So Cal, planned power shutoffs, etc. Many opportunities here.
bsky.app/profile/dbon...
The PG&E blackout was devastating for Richmond District merchants: bakeries tossed their product, walk-in refrigerators were emptied, reservations were canceled.
“PG&E fucked us."
Our latest "Richmond Buzz" column on goings-on in the neighborhood.
missionlocal.org/2025/12/sf-r...
“PG&E fucked us."
Our latest "Richmond Buzz" column on goings-on in the neighborhood.
missionlocal.org/2025/12/sf-r...
Richmond Buzz: An 'absolutely brutal' blackout weekend
“Richmond Buzz” will be a recurring column on the neighborhood. This edition: Businesses are devastated after the weekend blackout.
missionlocal.org
December 25, 2025 at 11:06 PM
Thank you for spotlighting local businesses.
Disaster planners & researchers: Mission Local has given you the head start, but this should also be documented academically for comparison with similar events in So Cal, planned power shutoffs, etc. Many opportunities here.
bsky.app/profile/dbon...
Disaster planners & researchers: Mission Local has given you the head start, but this should also be documented academically for comparison with similar events in So Cal, planned power shutoffs, etc. Many opportunities here.
bsky.app/profile/dbon...
Use, if frustrating, survey data going into 2026. Also, a little hard to parse. If I understand, 10% for "Stand Ground" does NOT mean only 10% of Dems think this. It means this was actually one of the top answers, and 10% put it in their top 2 or 3, right?
Most Americans don’t have faith that their political leaders care what they have to say. So, we asked them what messages they'd have for Trump and Democratic leaders if they did have the chance to speak their mind.
New polling here: www.cnn.com/2025/12/24/p...
New polling here: www.cnn.com/2025/12/24/p...
What Americans would tell Donald Trump or Democratic leaders if they could | CNN Politics
Most Americans don’t have faith that their political leaders care what they have to say. But if they had the chance to tell Washington something, a new CNN poll conducted by SSRS finds, they’d say ple...
www.cnn.com
December 25, 2025 at 7:28 PM
Use, if frustrating, survey data going into 2026. Also, a little hard to parse. If I understand, 10% for "Stand Ground" does NOT mean only 10% of Dems think this. It means this was actually one of the top answers, and 10% put it in their top 2 or 3, right?
OMG, history and disaster-themed candles. Went here looking for the Great Chicago Fire ... and was Not Disappointed. Could have used these in last week's SF blackout.
(Also Cuyahoga & Nakatomi, lol. Not seeing San Francisco 1906 or Loma Prieta 1989, which I admit could burn a little close to home.)
(Also Cuyahoga & Nakatomi, lol. Not seeing San Francisco 1906 or Loma Prieta 1989, which I admit could burn a little close to home.)
December 25, 2025 at 4:41 PM
OMG, history and disaster-themed candles. Went here looking for the Great Chicago Fire ... and was Not Disappointed. Could have used these in last week's SF blackout.
(Also Cuyahoga & Nakatomi, lol. Not seeing San Francisco 1906 or Loma Prieta 1989, which I admit could burn a little close to home.)
(Also Cuyahoga & Nakatomi, lol. Not seeing San Francisco 1906 or Loma Prieta 1989, which I admit could burn a little close to home.)
oh, now THIS is interesting ...
Georgia vs. Damon Wilson NIL case could determine whether schools can obtain NIL damages from transfers
Georgia vs. Damon Wilson NIL case could determine whether schools can obtain NIL damages from transfers
Edge rusher Damon Wilson II responded to Georgia suing him for a 'liquidated damage fee' of $390,000 after he transferred to Missouri by filing a countersuit.
www.latimes.com
December 24, 2025 at 7:34 PM
oh, now THIS is interesting ...
For sports-politics fans, this is excellent -- a smarter take than the old "T fell into wrestling because he failed as a pro football owner." Elrod shows it's less about sport, more aligned w/ other dishonest hallmarks of new conservatism: male supremacy & grifting, n.b.:
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"MMA doesn’t by default have to be a lurid exercise in alpha male bravado, exploitation, and bloodlust. But that is exactly how it’s touted by right-wing figures like Andrew Tate and Conor McGregor. And, of course, that’s precisely its function in Trumpian terms."
Merry Christmas, I Don’t Want to Fight: Trump’s White House UFC Event and the Politics of Violence
Donald Trump is seeking to elevate America’s most violent professional sport to an emblem of national identity.
www.liberalcurrents.com
December 24, 2025 at 3:43 PM
For sports-politics fans, this is excellent -- a smarter take than the old "T fell into wrestling because he failed as a pro football owner." Elrod shows it's less about sport, more aligned w/ other dishonest hallmarks of new conservatism: male supremacy & grifting, n.b.:
bsky.app/profile/dani...
bsky.app/profile/dani...
Hey @shakespeare.lol , do you have a side hustle you're not telling us about?
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More than 100 moons were discovered in our own solar system in 2025
More than 100 moons were discovered in our own solar system in 2025
www.newscientist.com
December 24, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Hey @shakespeare.lol , do you have a side hustle you're not telling us about?
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The blackout is officially over: PG&E said Tuesday morning that power was fully restored.
And it's making amends: Residential customers will get $200 bill credits, automatically. Businesses, $2,500.
For more, you can file a claim.
missionlocal.org/2025/12/sf-p...
And it's making amends: Residential customers will get $200 bill credits, automatically. Businesses, $2,500.
For more, you can file a claim.
missionlocal.org/2025/12/sf-p...
PG&E fully restores power in S.F., offers $200-$2,500 credits to customers
Residential customers would get $200 and business customers $2,500, automatically, after San Francisco's worst blackout in years.
missionlocal.org
December 23, 2025 at 6:13 PM
The blackout is officially over: PG&E said Tuesday morning that power was fully restored.
And it's making amends: Residential customers will get $200 bill credits, automatically. Businesses, $2,500.
For more, you can file a claim.
missionlocal.org/2025/12/sf-p...
And it's making amends: Residential customers will get $200 bill credits, automatically. Businesses, $2,500.
For more, you can file a claim.
missionlocal.org/2025/12/sf-p...
America does not need -- or anymore want! -- the death penalty.
GIFTS ARE QUADRUPLED. I'm giving $180.
(Disclosure: yes, it's my brother's org.)
GIFTS ARE QUADRUPLED. I'm giving $180.
(Disclosure: yes, it's my brother's org.)
Even in the darkest moments, we know this: the death penalty is losing ground. Public support is at an all-time low, and juries continue to reject it.
Thank you for standing with the most vulnerable, ensuring no one faces this alone. All gifts are QUADRUPLED: secure.actblue.com/donate/dpaem...
Thank you for standing with the most vulnerable, ensuring no one faces this alone. All gifts are QUADRUPLED: secure.actblue.com/donate/dpaem...
December 22, 2025 at 7:33 PM
America does not need -- or anymore want! -- the death penalty.
GIFTS ARE QUADRUPLED. I'm giving $180.
(Disclosure: yes, it's my brother's org.)
GIFTS ARE QUADRUPLED. I'm giving $180.
(Disclosure: yes, it's my brother's org.)
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This is a big opportunity for a natural experiment in housing recovery & resilience planning: who is staying put, who is taking the voucher, and why? What is the tipping point -- heat? comms/internet? food? kids? elderly or disabled residents? cost of hotel? Who stuck it out for 1 night, but not 2?
UPDATE: Power is expected to return fully across San Francisco by 2PM Monday.
Some 13,000 customers were still affected as of Sunday later afternoon. PG&E stood up a community resource center in the Richmond, & is offering free hotel vouchers.
missionlocal.org/2025/12/sf-r...
Some 13,000 customers were still affected as of Sunday later afternoon. PG&E stood up a community resource center in the Richmond, & is offering free hotel vouchers.
missionlocal.org/2025/12/sf-r...
PG&E outage: 13,000 still without power in S.F. — restoration expected Monday
Almost all of the homes and businesses affected are in the Richmond District. Power is expected to return by 2 p.m. Monday.
missionlocal.org
December 22, 2025 at 1:38 AM
This is a big opportunity for a natural experiment in housing recovery & resilience planning: who is staying put, who is taking the voucher, and why? What is the tipping point -- heat? comms/internet? food? kids? elderly or disabled residents? cost of hotel? Who stuck it out for 1 night, but not 2?
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Trump denies disaster declarations for Colorado fires, flooding: ‘We won’t stop fighting’ trib.al/wfmTdLL
Trump denies disaster declarations for Colorado fires, flooding: ‘We won’t stop fighting’
President Donald Trump denied two disaster declaration requests from Colorado that would have allowed the state to receive federal assistance — a move the state’s members of Congress plan to …
trib.al
December 22, 2025 at 12:35 AM
Trump denies disaster declarations for Colorado fires, flooding: ‘We won’t stop fighting’ trib.al/wfmTdLL
This is a big opportunity for a natural experiment in housing recovery & resilience planning: who is staying put, who is taking the voucher, and why? What is the tipping point -- heat? comms/internet? food? kids? elderly or disabled residents? cost of hotel? Who stuck it out for 1 night, but not 2?
UPDATE: Power is expected to return fully across San Francisco by 2PM Monday.
Some 13,000 customers were still affected as of Sunday later afternoon. PG&E stood up a community resource center in the Richmond, & is offering free hotel vouchers.
missionlocal.org/2025/12/sf-r...
Some 13,000 customers were still affected as of Sunday later afternoon. PG&E stood up a community resource center in the Richmond, & is offering free hotel vouchers.
missionlocal.org/2025/12/sf-r...
PG&E outage: 13,000 still without power in S.F. — restoration expected Monday
Almost all of the homes and businesses affected are in the Richmond District. Power is expected to return by 2 p.m. Monday.
missionlocal.org
December 22, 2025 at 1:38 AM
This is a big opportunity for a natural experiment in housing recovery & resilience planning: who is staying put, who is taking the voucher, and why? What is the tipping point -- heat? comms/internet? food? kids? elderly or disabled residents? cost of hotel? Who stuck it out for 1 night, but not 2?
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What are earthquake swarms? I explain in this short video. 🧪
December 21, 2025 at 7:06 PM
What are earthquake swarms? I explain in this short video. 🧪
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Stein: What is typical after a storm like this is that the federal government provides about 50, 60, even 70 percent of the damages in relief dollars to help a region recover from a massive hit. So far, North Carolina has received about 11 percent.
December 21, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Stein: What is typical after a storm like this is that the federal government provides about 50, 60, even 70 percent of the damages in relief dollars to help a region recover from a massive hit. So far, North Carolina has received about 11 percent.
“Why did homes get so unaffordable? Because we had 20 million illegal aliens in this country taking homes that ought by right to go to American citizens.” -- JD Vance, 12/2/25
"The time is long overdue...to stop the flood of aliens, or we are going to have another Civil War to help free the white slaves. I am referring to the Americans who are being squeezed out on all sides by the alien "refugee" jews who are buying mortgages & property right over our heads." --G Wick
December 20, 2025 at 9:00 PM
“Why did homes get so unaffordable? Because we had 20 million illegal aliens in this country taking homes that ought by right to go to American citizens.” -- JD Vance, 12/2/25
A good thread. If I understand it, it seems very much like what I've been moaning about since last year: For campaigning Dems & advocates, the most important part of #HeLiedToYOU is not fact-checking the lie, but focusing on the fact that he took advantage of YOU, the normie I'm talking to.
Misinformation *is* central to democratic problems today, but the solution is *not* to correct such epistemic failures directly. Instead, we must address them at their roots, in social identity.
Or so I argue in a new post for @apaphilosophy.bsky.social.
blog.apaonline.org/2025/11/12/t...
Or so I argue in a new post for @apaphilosophy.bsky.social.
blog.apaonline.org/2025/11/12/t...
The Problem is Epistemic. The Solution is Not. | Blog of the APA
Doubts about the wisdom of the masses are as old as philosophy itself. Yet interest in democracy’s “epistemic” merits has surged in the last decade—and it is no mystery why. Democracy is collapsing ar...
blog.apaonline.org
December 20, 2025 at 6:06 PM
A good thread. If I understand it, it seems very much like what I've been moaning about since last year: For campaigning Dems & advocates, the most important part of #HeLiedToYOU is not fact-checking the lie, but focusing on the fact that he took advantage of YOU, the normie I'm talking to.
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When an extreme event hits a place that has no built resilience, that place, is more often than not taken below a tipping point from which complete recovery is not possible.
This leads to permanent loss.
We see this playing out everywhere.
news.un.org/en/story...
#ClimateCrisis
This leads to permanent loss.
We see this playing out everywhere.
news.un.org/en/story...
#ClimateCrisis
Fifty days on, Jamaica struggles to rebuild after Hurricane Melissa’s unprecedented destruction
Fifty days have passed since Hurricane Melissa ravaged Jamaica, leaving behind an unprecedented trail of destruction.
news.un.org
December 20, 2025 at 3:13 PM
When an extreme event hits a place that has no built resilience, that place, is more often than not taken below a tipping point from which complete recovery is not possible.
This leads to permanent loss.
We see this playing out everywhere.
news.un.org/en/story...
#ClimateCrisis
This leads to permanent loss.
We see this playing out everywhere.
news.un.org/en/story...
#ClimateCrisis
This piece does a fair, if naive, job of pointing out how unlikely it is that Altman et al. will replace what's being lost with the dismantling and corrupting of NSF, NIH, CDC, DOE, FEMA, etc.
But a few sentences are just laughable. At the top of the list: ...
But a few sentences are just laughable. At the top of the list: ...
Silicon Valley bets on science—without strings
Silicon Valley bets on science—without strings
Billionaire-backed Episteme aims to free research from bureaucracy, but history shows reinventing science is hard
www.science.org
December 19, 2025 at 5:47 PM
This piece does a fair, if naive, job of pointing out how unlikely it is that Altman et al. will replace what's being lost with the dismantling and corrupting of NSF, NIH, CDC, DOE, FEMA, etc.
But a few sentences are just laughable. At the top of the list: ...
But a few sentences are just laughable. At the top of the list: ...
As an #earthquake guy, I can't tell if a cheesequake is something darth would love or a legit disaster like the Great Molasses Flood of 1919.
The United States of terrible town names
There’s still time to order my book before Christmas. Nothing says “I care” like gifting someone a map that reminds them they live near Buttztown or Monkey’s Eyebrow 🎁
Link in the comments ⬇️
There’s still time to order my book before Christmas. Nothing says “I care” like gifting someone a map that reminds them they live near Buttztown or Monkey’s Eyebrow 🎁
Link in the comments ⬇️
December 18, 2025 at 10:02 PM
As an #earthquake guy, I can't tell if a cheesequake is something darth would love or a legit disaster like the Great Molasses Flood of 1919.
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Harvard WBB head coach Carrie Moore began her media call today by discussing the recent shooting at Brown & her sympathy for Brown, Brown WBB & HC Monique LeBlanc. She added later that the shooter being at large is unsettling; she's asked her team to use buddy system. @theixbasketball.bsky.social
![“Really feeling and thinking of Mo and Brown and just their program, their athletic department, their university. … Monday morning, we had a film session, and [I] just really started it with, you know, it's our sister school. Our players have a lot of friends on that campus. I would call Mo a friend, and our assistants are close with some of their assistants. And so to just think of that being their reality right now is just really hard to swallow. And it … happened in an econ[omics] study session, and Gabby Anderson on our team constantly talks about her econ class and just how difficult it is, and she's constantly going to those type of things to prepare for her class. So I just — I don't know. It just really hit me pretty hard and just kind of shook me over the weekend, and just praying for them and really hoping that their campus community can recover from something like this.”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:nx3cp4xoyz4kftjwyio7wj2g/bafkreihle4qqajiwwf6jymbyfvjmf5c7agwaqxkhabz72c3hswkyrzic3i@jpeg)
December 18, 2025 at 1:02 AM
Harvard WBB head coach Carrie Moore began her media call today by discussing the recent shooting at Brown & her sympathy for Brown, Brown WBB & HC Monique LeBlanc. She added later that the shooter being at large is unsettling; she's asked her team to use buddy system. @theixbasketball.bsky.social
Kinda disappointed this post didn't get any engagement.
Nevertheless, you should all read the article linked in Edwards' post, if only to be fully informed on the issue.
Nevertheless, you should all read the article linked in Edwards' post, if only to be fully informed on the issue.
Right on schedule, these legal academics are at it again.
Originalist or not, they'll say anything to get on Hannity.
Law professors can't help sanewashing Trump.
Like our Constitution is just a game to them, an acrostic.
Every professor now thinks he's the next Turley or
Dershowitz.
Originalist or not, they'll say anything to get on Hannity.
Law professors can't help sanewashing Trump.
Like our Constitution is just a game to them, an acrostic.
Every professor now thinks he's the next Turley or
Dershowitz.
December 18, 2025 at 1:12 AM
Kinda disappointed this post didn't get any engagement.
Nevertheless, you should all read the article linked in Edwards' post, if only to be fully informed on the issue.
Nevertheless, you should all read the article linked in Edwards' post, if only to be fully informed on the issue.
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SCOTUS made it clear over 20 years ago: people with intellectual disabilities cannot be executed. Florida plans to ignore that ruling and execute #FrankWalls on Thursday.
It's not too late to call on Gov. DeSantis to STOP THE KILLING SPREE!
☎️ 850-717-9337
🖋️ actionnetwork.org/petitions/st...
It's not too late to call on Gov. DeSantis to STOP THE KILLING SPREE!
☎️ 850-717-9337
🖋️ actionnetwork.org/petitions/st...
Stop the Execution of Frank Walls in Florida
Despite a complete failure of due process and significant intellectual disability, Florida has scheduled a December 18, 2025 execution for Frank Walls, sentenced to death for the 1987 murders of…
actionnetwork.org
December 17, 2025 at 7:17 PM
SCOTUS made it clear over 20 years ago: people with intellectual disabilities cannot be executed. Florida plans to ignore that ruling and execute #FrankWalls on Thursday.
It's not too late to call on Gov. DeSantis to STOP THE KILLING SPREE!
☎️ 850-717-9337
🖋️ actionnetwork.org/petitions/st...
It's not too late to call on Gov. DeSantis to STOP THE KILLING SPREE!
☎️ 850-717-9337
🖋️ actionnetwork.org/petitions/st...