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Paul Haahr
@haahr.bsky.social
San Franciscan, raised in New York. Father of two, husband of one. Software engineer and recovering manager who works on Search at Google. Old time liberal, missing the days when Silicon Valley was thought of as too progressive rather than fascist.
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I'm another Twitter refugee. I'd used Twitter as my main news source for about a dozen years – by curating who I followed, I got links to journalism that worked well for me. But, between the platform changes since Musk took over and the exodus they've caused, Twitter just isn't that anymore.
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Tatiana Schlossberg, the daughter of Caroline Kennedy, had just given birth when she was diagnosed with a rare form of leukemia. She writes about her fear of adding another tragedy to her family’s life. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/LKMkhZ
A Battle with My Blood
When I was diagnosed with leukemia, my first thought was that this couldn’t be happening to me, to my family.
newyorkermag.visitlink.me
November 22, 2025 at 9:30 PM
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THREAD: Judge Ellis is the first federal judge to review extensive body cam video of DHS's actions in Chicago. She finds that DHS *repeatedly* misled the public and made claims that were disproven by agents' own videos.

I'll go through some of the most egregious ones here.
November 20, 2025 at 11:04 PM
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Was the first gay kiss in film history in the 1927 film Wings? It depends on what you mean by that question. We use AI Mode explore both the evidence and definitional concerns, and come to better understandings of the issues involved with such assertions. www.youtube.com/watch?v=8vxM...
Critical Thinking with AI Mode #41: First gay kiss in film history?
YouTube video by Mike Caulfield
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November 20, 2025 at 4:15 AM
An Evening With David Byrne, Bill Graham Auditorium, San Francisco
November 17, 2025 at 6:17 AM
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The fact that Summers remained so popular after questioning the intellectual abilities of women is really a pretty harsh indictment of US society as a whole and particularly the elite circles Summers travels in, and Democrats should have kicked him to the curb for that shit.
November 16, 2025 at 12:19 AM
One more delayed flight story: we were supposed to fly from El Paso to Phoenix to San Francisco on Southwest today. Flights delayed and cancelled, so the airline rebooked us via LAX. Delays pushed our arrival past midnight, but we were able to rebook on a direct flight to San Jose. 🤞🏻
November 10, 2025 at 12:46 AM
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NoKings 2 - San Francisco
100 to 150 thousand people in the street for democracy.

Photo: thank you to Dan Dunn for 50501

#NoKIngs #NoKings2
October 19, 2025 at 11:30 PM
Waiting to start marching in San Francisco #nokings
October 18, 2025 at 9:06 PM
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Protesters formed a human banner Saturday morning at S.F.'s Ocean Beach, spelling out “NO KINGS” and “YES ON 50,” encouraging the passage of a measure on the November ballot to redraw California’s congressional districts in response to Texas’ GOP-focused remapping.

📸: Laure Andrillon / AFP
October 18, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Ocean Beach, San Francisco #nokings
October 18, 2025 at 7:14 PM
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I was commissioned to make a zine for the No Kings 2 protest on Saturday Oct 18th!

If you wonder “what can I do?” this zine is for you. It’s packed with things that you can do from wearing a “no ICE” pin to organizing a visibility brigade with your friends.

drive.google.com/file/d/1TJnH...
October 12, 2025 at 5:45 PM
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"Unlike Trump and Hegseth, fascist leaders are fanatically militaristic. And there is nothing fanatical about throwing a military parade, renaming the Department of Defense the 'Department of War,' or purging non-MAGA generals."
We Are Not Fascists, and If You Call Us Fascists, We Will Arrest You
President Trump had another successful week of what is already the greatest presidency of all time, and yet, the woke leftist mob continues to deli...
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October 5, 2025 at 12:40 PM
Paul McCartney in Palm Desert
September 30, 2025 at 7:59 AM
I just (re)read Deborah Tannen's /New York Jewish Conversational Style/ and it's amazing how well it describes me in conversation. And captures exactly the annoyance people have expressed with me. (Originally shared with me by a friend who shares my style.) static1.squarespace.com/static/5523f...
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September 29, 2025 at 3:14 PM
I've been getting a couple of spam texts most days for the past couple of weeks, probably from some pig butchering scheme, but many of the recent ones, coming from different phone numbers, seem to have been created with LLM instructions to sound Australian. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
July 19, 2025 at 9:53 PM
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for Bills Week I decided to read the new 1000 page Buckley biography
William F. Buckley's Bill Never Came Due | Defector
Perhaps the highest praise I can offer a book that took 27 years to complete and runs over 1,000 pages is that I can see why, and that it doesn’t feel like it. Sam Tanenhaus’s extremely long and anxio...
defector.com
July 18, 2025 at 7:32 PM
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It's hard to avoid recalling this passage from the English historian Tony Judt:
July 2, 2025 at 3:51 PM
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I didn’t believe this, but looked for myself. Two headlines about the parade … and zero about two percent of all Americans taking to the streets yesterday to protest Trump.
I count 49 news headlines on the NYT mobile app home page right now, not including opinion, sports or cooking. None of them are about the massive protests yesterday.
June 15, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Civic Center, San Francisco
June 14, 2025 at 8:23 PM
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From Ocean Beach, San Francisco
📸: Santiago Mejia
#nokings
June 14, 2025 at 6:43 PM
Ocean Beach in San Francisco
June 14, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Some days, I need to read @rexparker.bsky.social to reassure myself that it isn't just me
May 31, 2025 at 10:28 PM
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Our experiences over the past 3 years suggest it may be valuable to understand these attacks on science as extensions of the Big Lie (of election fraud), Covid denialism, & Jim Crow 2.0 — part of a collective effort to bend reality, science & values to align with the central fantasies of Trumpism.
May 29, 2025 at 4:56 AM
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Three things made the US a rich and powerful nation: the rule of law, its science & innovation system, and openness to foreign talent. Remarkable how Trump has taken a sledgehammer to all three. No enemy of this country could do more.
May 22, 2025 at 11:09 PM
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I just left a comment.

If you are concerned that RFK Jr.'s FDA chief Marty Makary is limiting the Novavax COVID booster to those over 65 or with underlying conditions, and may do the same for Pfizer/Moderna as well, consider leaving a comment as well.
You have three days, starting today, to leave a public comment with the FDA about, say, why COVID-19 boosters should remain available to everyone and also free. "Individual consumer" is the category you most likely want (unless you are one of the other categories; if so, choose that).
Regulations.gov
www.regulations.gov
May 21, 2025 at 4:05 AM