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“the earth laughs in flowers” installation at historic Dome center for Art music dance, 2024.
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Several hundred kids just marched past my house because John Marshall High is doing an anti-ICE walk out.
LA's tradition of high schoolers using their voices to push back on racism and inequality is really an inspiring thing.
LA's tradition of high schoolers using their voices to push back on racism and inequality is really an inspiring thing.
November 4, 2025 at 6:43 PM
Several hundred kids just marched past my house because John Marshall High is doing an anti-ICE walk out.
LA's tradition of high schoolers using their voices to push back on racism and inequality is really an inspiring thing.
LA's tradition of high schoolers using their voices to push back on racism and inequality is really an inspiring thing.
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it's time for journos to start asking Johnson meta questions
"Speaker, on 5 occasions last week you said 'I haven't seen it' when asked about news events w/big implications for public policy. Do you ever read the news, and do you agree it's problematic for the Speaker to be so woefully uninformed?"
"Speaker, on 5 occasions last week you said 'I haven't seen it' when asked about news events w/big implications for public policy. Do you ever read the news, and do you agree it's problematic for the Speaker to be so woefully uninformed?"
November 3, 2025 at 3:36 PM
it's time for journos to start asking Johnson meta questions
"Speaker, on 5 occasions last week you said 'I haven't seen it' when asked about news events w/big implications for public policy. Do you ever read the news, and do you agree it's problematic for the Speaker to be so woefully uninformed?"
"Speaker, on 5 occasions last week you said 'I haven't seen it' when asked about news events w/big implications for public policy. Do you ever read the news, and do you agree it's problematic for the Speaker to be so woefully uninformed?"
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Yoshinobu Yamamoto is the 2025 World Series MVP 🏆
He joins Hideki Matsui (2009) as the only Japanese-born winners of the award.
He joins Hideki Matsui (2009) as the only Japanese-born winners of the award.
November 2, 2025 at 4:42 AM
Yoshinobu Yamamoto is the 2025 World Series MVP 🏆
He joins Hideki Matsui (2009) as the only Japanese-born winners of the award.
He joins Hideki Matsui (2009) as the only Japanese-born winners of the award.
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Donald Trump is weaponizing the Department of Justice against his political opponents. This is just the latest example. Everyone who cares about democracy and the rule of law needs to speak out loudly and clearly that this is wrong. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
DOJ Indicts Congressional Candidate Amid Threats to Arrest Dems Over ICE Accountability Efforts
Read more here.
www.democracydocket.com
October 30, 2025 at 10:26 PM
Donald Trump is weaponizing the Department of Justice against his political opponents. This is just the latest example. Everyone who cares about democracy and the rule of law needs to speak out loudly and clearly that this is wrong. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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Houston, Texas ICE GOONS hospitalized a 16-year-old U.S. citizen on his way to school. The teen, a star football and soccer player, was violently detained alongside his father. Despite his cries for help, “I’m underage!” the agents tackled him, resulting in severe neck and back injuries.
October 28, 2025 at 2:16 AM
Houston, Texas ICE GOONS hospitalized a 16-year-old U.S. citizen on his way to school. The teen, a star football and soccer player, was violently detained alongside his father. Despite his cries for help, “I’m underage!” the agents tackled him, resulting in severe neck and back injuries.
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The Israeli military has killed more than 200 journalists and media workers. The latest strike killed 5 journalists, including a prominent Al Jazeera journalist. The US must stop providing weapons for this genocide. www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/8/...
Anas al-Sharif among five Al Jazeera journalists killed by Israel in Gaza
Al Jazeera staff killed in targeted Israeli attack on a tent housing journalists near al-Shifa Hospital, Gaza City.
www.aljazeera.com
August 11, 2025 at 2:44 AM
The Israeli military has killed more than 200 journalists and media workers. The latest strike killed 5 journalists, including a prominent Al Jazeera journalist. The US must stop providing weapons for this genocide. www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/8/...
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La Resistencia, an art gallery curated by Adrian Villalobos-Cabral, celebrated its opening night August 1st with vendors, Mariachi and spoken word poetry. The proceeds of the celebration went to CHIRLA and Los Angelitos. The gallery will stay up until August 22nd.
August 6, 2025 at 12:51 AM
La Resistencia, an art gallery curated by Adrian Villalobos-Cabral, celebrated its opening night August 1st with vendors, Mariachi and spoken word poetry. The proceeds of the celebration went to CHIRLA and Los Angelitos. The gallery will stay up until August 22nd.
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"Designed as Death Traps": Former Green Beret Who Worked at Gaza Food Sites Reveals Rampant War Crimes, Calls It "Un-American" for U.S. to Back Israel's Starvation
“Designed as Death Traps”: U.S. Veteran Reveals Rampant War Crimes at GHF Sites in Gaza
As more than 1,000 Palestinians have been killed seeking aid at militarized aid distribution sites run by the U.S.- and Israel-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, a former GHF security contractor tells...
www.democracynow.org
July 29, 2025 at 3:45 PM
"Designed as Death Traps": Former Green Beret Who Worked at Gaza Food Sites Reveals Rampant War Crimes, Calls It "Un-American" for U.S. to Back Israel's Starvation
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“People think the Bay Area never harbored redwoods the size of those found in the northern part of the state,” Lanman says. “Not true. Some of the largest redwoods were right here...These trees are a gift.” www.sierraclub.org/sierra/2025-...
This Ecologist Is Rewriting the Story of California Landscapes
Redwood trees hold secrets in "fairy rings"
www.sierraclub.org
July 21, 2025 at 10:13 PM
“People think the Bay Area never harbored redwoods the size of those found in the northern part of the state,” Lanman says. “Not true. Some of the largest redwoods were right here...These trees are a gift.” www.sierraclub.org/sierra/2025-...
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Wow—the Lemkin Institute for Genocide Prevention (named after Raphael Lemkin, a Holocaust survivor who coined the term genocide) says plainly:
"No more discussions, meetings, reports, sessions, summits…IF YOU HAVE THE POWER, YOU MUST USE IT."
"HISTORY WILL DETERMINE THE RECTITUDE OF YOUR ACTIONS."
"No more discussions, meetings, reports, sessions, summits…IF YOU HAVE THE POWER, YOU MUST USE IT."
"HISTORY WILL DETERMINE THE RECTITUDE OF YOUR ACTIONS."
July 21, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Wow—the Lemkin Institute for Genocide Prevention (named after Raphael Lemkin, a Holocaust survivor who coined the term genocide) says plainly:
"No more discussions, meetings, reports, sessions, summits…IF YOU HAVE THE POWER, YOU MUST USE IT."
"HISTORY WILL DETERMINE THE RECTITUDE OF YOUR ACTIONS."
"No more discussions, meetings, reports, sessions, summits…IF YOU HAVE THE POWER, YOU MUST USE IT."
"HISTORY WILL DETERMINE THE RECTITUDE OF YOUR ACTIONS."
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“People dare to be comfortable with uncertainty if they are in solidarity with each other… There is almost no limit to what we can do for the sake of each other.”
Rest in power, Joanna Macy💔
truthout.org/articles/lea...
Rest in power, Joanna Macy💔
truthout.org/articles/lea...
Learning to See in the Dark Amid Catastrophe: An Interview With Deep Ecologist Joanna Macy
Theorist Joanna Macy discusses the necessity of perceiving the full reality of the current ecological situation, difficult as that may be.
truthout.org
July 20, 2025 at 10:48 PM
“People dare to be comfortable with uncertainty if they are in solidarity with each other… There is almost no limit to what we can do for the sake of each other.”
Rest in power, Joanna Macy💔
truthout.org/articles/lea...
Rest in power, Joanna Macy💔
truthout.org/articles/lea...
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It’s been a while since I shared this.
She’s so amazing. Every word is true.
She’s so amazing. Every word is true.
July 17, 2025 at 12:08 PM
It’s been a while since I shared this.
She’s so amazing. Every word is true.
She’s so amazing. Every word is true.
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Among all the big bad things happening on our planet, there's one Big Good Thing, the sudden, startling rise of solar energy.
It changes the power dynamic, in every sense of the word 'power.'
www.newyorker.com/news/annals-...
It changes the power dynamic, in every sense of the word 'power.'
www.newyorker.com/news/annals-...
4.6 Billion Years On, the Sun Is Having a Moment
In the past two years, without much notice, solar power has begun to truly transform the world’s energy system.
www.newyorker.com
July 9, 2025 at 1:36 PM
Among all the big bad things happening on our planet, there's one Big Good Thing, the sudden, startling rise of solar energy.
It changes the power dynamic, in every sense of the word 'power.'
www.newyorker.com/news/annals-...
It changes the power dynamic, in every sense of the word 'power.'
www.newyorker.com/news/annals-...
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The "unitary executive theory" is a fancy name for a strategy used by authoritarians worldwide, rebranded for the US. It’s a legal blueprint for a power grab, and my new article explains how it turns the law itself into a tool for undermining democracy:
How to Dismantle a Democracy, Legally
The unitary executive theory is a masterclass in autocratic legalism.
open.substack.com
July 9, 2025 at 9:18 PM
The "unitary executive theory" is a fancy name for a strategy used by authoritarians worldwide, rebranded for the US. It’s a legal blueprint for a power grab, and my new article explains how it turns the law itself into a tool for undermining democracy:
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Wonderfully insightful interview from @jamellebouie.net with @ztameez.bsky.social about his new biography of Charles Sumner. Immediately jumped to the top of my TBR list. A mostly forgotten figure who deserves a closer look w so many parallels and lessons for today: 🎁 link
Opinion | The Civil War That Never Ended
www.nytimes.com
July 5, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Wonderfully insightful interview from @jamellebouie.net with @ztameez.bsky.social about his new biography of Charles Sumner. Immediately jumped to the top of my TBR list. A mostly forgotten figure who deserves a closer look w so many parallels and lessons for today: 🎁 link
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“Many Americans know Tubman for her courage and sacrifice as conductor of the Underground Railroad, but fewer recognize her as a Civil War spy and military leader.”
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
Opinion | Actually, Secretary Hegseth, Harriet Tubman was a war hero
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is wrong to consider stripping her name from the USNS Harriet Tubman.
www.washingtonpost.com
July 2, 2025 at 8:29 PM
“Many Americans know Tubman for her courage and sacrifice as conductor of the Underground Railroad, but fewer recognize her as a Civil War spy and military leader.”
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
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I am grieving the barbarism that is going to unfurl from all this. People are going to die. Livelihoods gone. All to feed a corrupt kleptocracy.
I see every day up close how different it is from the first time around. There are no guardrails. A disaster. I’m sorry we have to live through this.
I see every day up close how different it is from the first time around. There are no guardrails. A disaster. I’m sorry we have to live through this.
July 3, 2025 at 8:00 PM
I am grieving the barbarism that is going to unfurl from all this. People are going to die. Livelihoods gone. All to feed a corrupt kleptocracy.
I see every day up close how different it is from the first time around. There are no guardrails. A disaster. I’m sorry we have to live through this.
I see every day up close how different it is from the first time around. There are no guardrails. A disaster. I’m sorry we have to live through this.
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Never before in the history of this nation has such a large redistribution of income been directed upward, for no reason at all
July 3, 2025 at 8:01 PM
Never before in the history of this nation has such a large redistribution of income been directed upward, for no reason at all
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GOP Budget Bill Would Make ICE "Largest Federal Law Enforcement Agency in the History of the Nation"
GOP Budget Bill Would Make ICE “Largest Federal Law Enforcement Agency” in U.S. History
The budget bill just passed by the Senate provides more than $170 billion in new funding for immigration enforcement and detention. Aaron Reichlin-Melnick, who worked on an analysis published by the American...
www.democracynow.org
July 2, 2025 at 3:45 PM
GOP Budget Bill Would Make ICE "Largest Federal Law Enforcement Agency in the History of the Nation"
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An honest and brilliant takedown of the SCOTUS majority in Trump v CASA from @sifill.bsky.social
These are hard and depressing times to be in the trenches. But it beats surrender.
open.substack.com/pub/sherrily...
These are hard and depressing times to be in the trenches. But it beats surrender.
open.substack.com/pub/sherrily...
A Court Without the Range
The Reconstruction Court 2.0
open.substack.com
July 1, 2025 at 3:27 AM
An honest and brilliant takedown of the SCOTUS majority in Trump v CASA from @sifill.bsky.social
These are hard and depressing times to be in the trenches. But it beats surrender.
open.substack.com/pub/sherrily...
These are hard and depressing times to be in the trenches. But it beats surrender.
open.substack.com/pub/sherrily...