While this federal administration has been busy empowering ICE to become, essentially, an extrajudicial militia allowed to disappear people from our streets, the Bay has been organizing. We will not be beaten down.

D’Angelo’s Black Messiah dropped at the perfect time for me and my political awakening. the album beautifully captured the human experience - the richness of emotion, the humanity, the revolutionary spirit - all vital to feeling truly alive and being part of something bigger than yourself.

effective altruism ethos in a nutshell. Wimpy-from-Popeye-ass thinking.

ICE and BP are heavily targeting people in their vehicles right now. You can’t attempt to use your rights if you don’t know what they are. Knowing them may protect you against a forced abduction, search, or seizure when being pulled over.

Here’s what to know. lataco.com/car-ice-rights

This is hands down the best, most enjoyable, and far-ranging discussion that I have had in recent memory. Katie brought so much to this interview about vibecessions, “finance guy” memes as politics of social reproduction in casino capitalism, Bama Rush and DSA.

moneywithkatie.com/status-power...

“Despite UCSF’s claim of financial strain...UPTE criticized the university for allowing management ranks to grow by over 40% in the past five years, while the growth of frontline professional staff has lagged behind.”✊ www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/u... @uptecwa.bsky.social @ucaft.bsky.social

brad lander primary chuck schumer

ICE pretended to arrest a 21 yo in order to force her to call her undocumented mother to come leave the house (where she was safe from ICE arrest) to care for her baby. When the mother came, she was abducted and the daughter was suddenly of no interest to ICE.

www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

I'm biased, but this report is a must-read for anyone looking to understand the state of AI in 2025.

It explains how AI is entrenching power for big tech and the oligarch class, speeding deregulation, dislodging human expertise and threatening workers—and how there's still time to refuse all that.

"We are up against an ideology that has given up not only on the premise and promise of liberal democracy but on the livability of our shared world... The forces we are up against have made peace with mass death. They are treasonous to this world and its human and non-human inhabitants."

told ya

fascism is here. rightwingers do not believe in laws. they must be punished for this

episode with… who?!

In preview of my Monday morning piece, I'm going to say a little bit about why this is so concerning. This is not some "economy" thing. Its first & foremost the possibility that our legal order is modified so the law of the land is defined by Elon Musk at Treasury

www.nytimes.com/2025/02/01/u...