Miriam Pawel
@miriampawel.bsky.social
Writer, reader, thinker, hiker
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So this is not just any small county elected official engaging in good old gutter racism.
This is an official who wields enormous power over people’s lives and a community. Who gets charged, who gets held in a cage, how many years should be taken from a life…
www.sanluisobispo.com/news/local/a...
This is an official who wields enormous power over people’s lives and a community. Who gets charged, who gets held in a cage, how many years should be taken from a life…
www.sanluisobispo.com/news/local/a...
SLO County DA shares posts linking New York’s first Muslim mayor to 9/11 attacks
When asked why he shared the posts, Dan Dow called Zohran Mamdani “an un-American socialist who wants to trample on the values and freedoms that millions of Americans have fought and died for.”
www.sanluisobispo.com
November 8, 2025 at 1:34 AM
So this is not just any small county elected official engaging in good old gutter racism.
This is an official who wields enormous power over people’s lives and a community. Who gets charged, who gets held in a cage, how many years should be taken from a life…
www.sanluisobispo.com/news/local/a...
This is an official who wields enormous power over people’s lives and a community. Who gets charged, who gets held in a cage, how many years should be taken from a life…
www.sanluisobispo.com/news/local/a...
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Wait, Gavin Newsom's new CARB chair says the board will "rethink" the state's 2305 mandate to end sales of gas-only vehicles? As in, Newsom's crowning climate achievement and the biggest thing CA has done on climate in years?
This was reported a week ago and has gotten very little attention?
This was reported a week ago and has gotten very little attention?
November 6, 2025 at 7:30 AM
Wait, Gavin Newsom's new CARB chair says the board will "rethink" the state's 2305 mandate to end sales of gas-only vehicles? As in, Newsom's crowning climate achievement and the biggest thing CA has done on climate in years?
This was reported a week ago and has gotten very little attention?
This was reported a week ago and has gotten very little attention?
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This is wild egregious shit.
June 24, 2025 at 10:50 PM
This is wild egregious shit.
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A Guatemalan immigrant with no Massachusetts criminal record was arrested Monday on Tallman Street after federal agents shattered the glass on his vehicle as he and his wife waited inside the car for their lawyer to arrive.
Read story and view full video: newbedfordlight.org/lawyer-feder...
Read story and view full video: newbedfordlight.org/lawyer-feder...
April 16, 2025 at 1:55 AM
A Guatemalan immigrant with no Massachusetts criminal record was arrested Monday on Tallman Street after federal agents shattered the glass on his vehicle as he and his wife waited inside the car for their lawyer to arrive.
Read story and view full video: newbedfordlight.org/lawyer-feder...
Read story and view full video: newbedfordlight.org/lawyer-feder...
“We are only in great national trouble when people violate or circumvent the Constitution ... Our country will survive this tragedy and will do so if an enlightened citizenry will give its attention to the affairs of government on all its levels.”
Earl Warren, May 1974
Earl Warren, May 1974
April 12, 2025 at 12:57 AM
“We are only in great national trouble when people violate or circumvent the Constitution ... Our country will survive this tragedy and will do so if an enlightened citizenry will give its attention to the affairs of government on all its levels.”
Earl Warren, May 1974
Earl Warren, May 1974
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Such great and revealing reporting by @sergioolmos.bsky.social & @wendyfry.bsky.social: calmatters.org/economy/2025...
Border Patrol said it targeted known criminals in Kern County. But it had no record on 77 of 78 arrestees
Border Patrol said it had a list of targets for its high-profile January raid, but it had a record for just one of the 78 people it arrested.
calmatters.org
April 9, 2025 at 12:43 AM
Such great and revealing reporting by @sergioolmos.bsky.social & @wendyfry.bsky.social: calmatters.org/economy/2025...
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What a powerful testimony of how small investments from NEH lead to transformative outcomes. Read Chris’s entire thread (I appreciated the shout-out to NEH’s K12 teaching resource, Edsitement, which is where I first started working at NEH).
1/ I need to say something a little more personal about the NEH. A 🧵
April 4, 2025 at 7:12 PM
What a powerful testimony of how small investments from NEH lead to transformative outcomes. Read Chris’s entire thread (I appreciated the shout-out to NEH’s K12 teaching resource, Edsitement, which is where I first started working at NEH).
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To quote MAGA's favorite attack on Gavin Newsom: You can't trust a guy who screwed his best friend's wife.
Now, with his pivot to MAGA, Newsom is trying to screw the Democratic base that fueled his rise.
My take on Newsom's desperate, cynical & doomed strategy
www.theframelab.org/why-gavin-ne...
Now, with his pivot to MAGA, Newsom is trying to screw the Democratic base that fueled his rise.
My take on Newsom's desperate, cynical & doomed strategy
www.theframelab.org/why-gavin-ne...
Why Gavin Newsom’s MAGA Play Is a Losing Game for Democrats
Newsom cozies up to far-right extremists like Charlie Kirk. It's a deliberate strategy to alienate Democrats and boost MAGA extremism
www.theframelab.org
March 7, 2025 at 10:32 PM
To quote MAGA's favorite attack on Gavin Newsom: You can't trust a guy who screwed his best friend's wife.
Now, with his pivot to MAGA, Newsom is trying to screw the Democratic base that fueled his rise.
My take on Newsom's desperate, cynical & doomed strategy
www.theframelab.org/why-gavin-ne...
Now, with his pivot to MAGA, Newsom is trying to screw the Democratic base that fueled his rise.
My take on Newsom's desperate, cynical & doomed strategy
www.theframelab.org/why-gavin-ne...
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"Leaders in civil society shouldn’t be “demure” in the face of authoritarian attempts to align all power with a president’s agenda, civil society be damned…when they see the missions of their institutions—not to speak of the health of their country—compromised."
Chancellors: It’s time to speak up.
Chancellors: It’s time to speak up.
From Michael Roth, president of Wesleyan University: slate.com/life/2025/02...
Dear Fellow College Presidents: We Need to Do More Than Wait This One Out
Why civil society needs university leaders to speak up.
slate.com
February 8, 2025 at 9:19 PM
"Leaders in civil society shouldn’t be “demure” in the face of authoritarian attempts to align all power with a president’s agenda, civil society be damned…when they see the missions of their institutions—not to speak of the health of their country—compromised."
Chancellors: It’s time to speak up.
Chancellors: It’s time to speak up.
Anyone looking to understand the homeless count numbers in CA, officially released today, should read this excellent @calmatters.org story from *September* (and beware of fuzzy math being thrown around-mixing percents/percentages/numbers/ etc)
calmatters.org/housing/home...
calmatters.org/housing/home...
Exclusive: California's homeless population grew again this year, especially in these counties
CalMatters found that while California’s homeless population grew again, the rate has slowed. But there are questions about the data.
calmatters.org
December 28, 2024 at 7:04 AM
Anyone looking to understand the homeless count numbers in CA, officially released today, should read this excellent @calmatters.org story from *September* (and beware of fuzzy math being thrown around-mixing percents/percentages/numbers/ etc)
calmatters.org/housing/home...
calmatters.org/housing/home...
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Here's the link to get a free Los Angeles Public Library online library card, and with it, access to all kinds of collections and archives you didn't even know would enthrall you. You can use it anywhere in the world -- or live anywhere in the world. lapl.org/about-lapl/c...
December 23, 2024 at 1:15 AM
Here's the link to get a free Los Angeles Public Library online library card, and with it, access to all kinds of collections and archives you didn't even know would enthrall you. You can use it anywhere in the world -- or live anywhere in the world. lapl.org/about-lapl/c...
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Mayor London Breed has named San Francisco's next District 2 supervisor: Stephen Sherill, a Michael Bloomberg protégé unknown to many D2 denizens.
Bloomberg put $1.5M into Breed's re-election. And come Jan. 8, she'll need a job.
via @esksf.bsky.social
missionlocal.org/2024/12/step...
Bloomberg put $1.5M into Breed's re-election. And come Jan. 8, she'll need a job.
via @esksf.bsky.social
missionlocal.org/2024/12/step...
Stephen Sherrill named D2 supervisor: Mayor Breed's parting shot
Most District 2 residents are likely asking "Who's Stephen Sherrill?" But the more relevant question is "Why Stephen Sherrill?"
missionlocal.org
December 18, 2024 at 6:01 PM
Mayor London Breed has named San Francisco's next District 2 supervisor: Stephen Sherill, a Michael Bloomberg protégé unknown to many D2 denizens.
Bloomberg put $1.5M into Breed's re-election. And come Jan. 8, she'll need a job.
via @esksf.bsky.social
missionlocal.org/2024/12/step...
Bloomberg put $1.5M into Breed's re-election. And come Jan. 8, she'll need a job.
via @esksf.bsky.social
missionlocal.org/2024/12/step...
Somebody did some great organizing in Merced — Dem’s winning margin comes down to UC Merced college kids who registered to vote *on election day*!
December 7, 2024 at 10:02 PM
Somebody did some great organizing in Merced — Dem’s winning margin comes down to UC Merced college kids who registered to vote *on election day*!
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Trump just named David Sacks his “czar” for crypto and AI.
Read all about this “prophet of urban doom” in this excellent @jacobsilverman.com piece in @newrepublic.com
newrepublic.com/article/1681...
Read all about this “prophet of urban doom” in this excellent @jacobsilverman.com piece in @newrepublic.com
newrepublic.com/article/1681...
The Quiet Political Rise of David Sacks, Silicon Valley’s Prophet of Urban Doom
Like his pals Elon Musk and Peter Thiel, Sacks is using his wealth and online clout to unite conservatives and former leftists in a reactionary movement against liberalism.
newrepublic.com
December 6, 2024 at 1:09 AM
Trump just named David Sacks his “czar” for crypto and AI.
Read all about this “prophet of urban doom” in this excellent @jacobsilverman.com piece in @newrepublic.com
newrepublic.com/article/1681...
Read all about this “prophet of urban doom” in this excellent @jacobsilverman.com piece in @newrepublic.com
newrepublic.com/article/1681...
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Let me talk to California's state and local leaders as if they were my three sons on a long car trip.
"Knock off all the stupid fighting. This is going to be a long, hard journey, and we need to stick together."
My new column. www.zocalopublicsquare.org/fight-trump-...
"Knock off all the stupid fighting. This is going to be a long, hard journey, and we need to stick together."
My new column. www.zocalopublicsquare.org/fight-trump-...
To Fight Trump, California Must Stop Fighting With Itself | Connecting California
Top State and Local Officials Need 'War Zooms,' Weekly Barbecues—And Constant Cooperation
www.zocalopublicsquare.org
December 4, 2024 at 4:26 PM
Let me talk to California's state and local leaders as if they were my three sons on a long car trip.
"Knock off all the stupid fighting. This is going to be a long, hard journey, and we need to stick together."
My new column. www.zocalopublicsquare.org/fight-trump-...
"Knock off all the stupid fighting. This is going to be a long, hard journey, and we need to stick together."
My new column. www.zocalopublicsquare.org/fight-trump-...
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News: GOP Rep. John Duarte has conceded to Democrat Adam Gray in the #CA13 Congressional race in California's Central Valley. This is the final House race to be decided, and the third House seat that Democrats flipped in California this year.
More: www.latimes.com/california/s...
More: www.latimes.com/california/s...
Democrats flip seat in California's Central Valley in nation's final outstanding House race
Democrat Adam Gray has narrowly defeated Republican Rep. John Duarte in the race for California's 13th Congressional District
www.latimes.com
December 4, 2024 at 3:23 AM
News: GOP Rep. John Duarte has conceded to Democrat Adam Gray in the #CA13 Congressional race in California's Central Valley. This is the final House race to be decided, and the third House seat that Democrats flipped in California this year.
More: www.latimes.com/california/s...
More: www.latimes.com/california/s...
So in her home state, Harris polled so much worse than Biden/2020 that Trump flipped Fresno with fewer votes than he received four years ago. The drop in Dem supports crosses all geo/pol/economic lines. Interesting implications going forward.
Gift link:
www.sfchronicle.com/election/art...
Gift link:
www.sfchronicle.com/election/art...
December 1, 2024 at 8:57 PM
So in her home state, Harris polled so much worse than Biden/2020 that Trump flipped Fresno with fewer votes than he received four years ago. The drop in Dem supports crosses all geo/pol/economic lines. Interesting implications going forward.
Gift link:
www.sfchronicle.com/election/art...
Gift link:
www.sfchronicle.com/election/art...
Looks like Dems are on track to flip the third CA seat, CA13 in the central valley. Will be interesting to see the final results, but some reports suggest ballot curing in Merced helped push Adam Gray into the lead
New update: Adam Gray's lead over John Duarte (Rep incumbent) in CA-13 has just grown from 182 votes to 234. I think we've got this thing.
November 28, 2024 at 12:21 AM
Looks like Dems are on track to flip the third CA seat, CA13 in the central valley. Will be interesting to see the final results, but some reports suggest ballot curing in Merced helped push Adam Gray into the lead
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Gavin Newsom is apparently publishing a memoir next May, tracing his familial roots from County Cork to his parents' divorce, his tenure as mayor of SF, and becoming governor: www.barnesandnoble.com/w/young-man-...
Young Man in a Hurry: A Memoir of Discovery (Signed Book)|Hardcover
From California Governor Gavin Newsom comes an intimate and poignant account of identity, belonging, and the defining moments that inspired a life in politics “Go slow,” his political el...
www.barnesandnoble.com
November 27, 2024 at 12:13 AM
Gavin Newsom is apparently publishing a memoir next May, tracing his familial roots from County Cork to his parents' divorce, his tenure as mayor of SF, and becoming governor: www.barnesandnoble.com/w/young-man-...
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Well now. Adam Gray has taken a 182-vote lead over Republican incumbent John Duarte in California’s CD13. If Gray were to win and Derek Tran holds on to his lead over Michelle Steel, now 613 votes, Democrats will have flipped three congressional seats in California.
November 27, 2024 at 4:43 AM
Well now. Adam Gray has taken a 182-vote lead over Republican incumbent John Duarte in California’s CD13. If Gray were to win and Derek Tran holds on to his lead over Michelle Steel, now 613 votes, Democrats will have flipped three congressional seats in California.
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It sure looks like close to 2 million fewer votes in California for the major party candidates, combined, than four years ago. And yes, almost all of that deficit seems to be for the Democrat, a Californian.
I can’t imagine a better task for the state’s political press corps than examining why.
I can’t imagine a better task for the state’s political press corps than examining why.
November 24, 2024 at 6:59 PM
It sure looks like close to 2 million fewer votes in California for the major party candidates, combined, than four years ago. And yes, almost all of that deficit seems to be for the Democrat, a Californian.
I can’t imagine a better task for the state’s political press corps than examining why.
I can’t imagine a better task for the state’s political press corps than examining why.
Blue skies ahead for @davidlauter.bsky.social 🦆🦜🕊️🦅
David is a pro’s pro and offers great insight in this final column for where we’ve been and (maybe) where we’re headed. It was a privilege to have been his colleague.
David Lauter, a former editor of
mine, has been among the best journalists of his generation. His farewell column offers all sorts of insights. www.latimes.com/politics/new...
mine, has been among the best journalists of his generation. His farewell column offers all sorts of insights. www.latimes.com/politics/new...
November 23, 2024 at 7:19 PM
Blue skies ahead for @davidlauter.bsky.social 🦆🦜🕊️🦅
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The California Academy of Sciences this year abruptly ended a climate action youth program after its teenage members expressed solidarity w/the museum's union.
Cal Academy fired their staff coordinator, & told the teens to stop coming in.
missionlocal.org/2024/11/cali...
Cal Academy fired their staff coordinator, & told the teens to stop coming in.
missionlocal.org/2024/11/cali...
Cal Academy of Sciences cuts youth program after teens show solidarity with union
The Cal Academy of Sciences dissolved a youth group for climate change after teens supported the museum workers' union with flyers.
missionlocal.org
November 21, 2024 at 9:51 PM
The California Academy of Sciences this year abruptly ended a climate action youth program after its teenage members expressed solidarity w/the museum's union.
Cal Academy fired their staff coordinator, & told the teens to stop coming in.
missionlocal.org/2024/11/cali...
Cal Academy fired their staff coordinator, & told the teens to stop coming in.
missionlocal.org/2024/11/cali...