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Massive Bay Area transit cuts likely as Newsom backtracks on $750M loan, lawmakers warn www.sfchronicle.com/politics/art...
Massive Bay Area transit cuts likely as Newsom backtracks on $750M loan, lawmakers warn
Bay Area lawmakers and transit advocates say Gov. Gavin Newsom’s reneging on a critical $750 million loan will have devastating consequences for BART, Muni and other agencies in the region.
www.sfchronicle.com
September 7, 2025 at 1:51 AM
Massive Bay Area transit cuts likely as Newsom backtracks on $750M loan, lawmakers warn www.sfchronicle.com/politics/art...
RIP Malcolm Margolin. A great man. www.berkeleyside.org/2025/08/20/m...
‘A mighty redwood of a man has fallen.’ Remembering Malcolm Margolin, founder of Heyday books
Writer, editor and publisher Malcolm Margolin, who promoted Indigenous cultural renewal across California, died Wednesday. He was 84.
www.berkeleyside.org
August 21, 2025 at 4:19 AM
RIP Malcolm Margolin. A great man. www.berkeleyside.org/2025/08/20/m...
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After Dan Pelzer died this month at 92, his children uploaded the handwritten reading list to what-dan-read.com, hoping to inspire readers everywhere.
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/26/b...
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/26/b...
He Read (at Least) 3,599 Books in His Lifetime. Now Anyone Can See His List.
www.nytimes.com
July 26, 2025 at 6:49 PM
After Dan Pelzer died this month at 92, his children uploaded the handwritten reading list to what-dan-read.com, hoping to inspire readers everywhere.
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/26/b...
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/26/b...
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Only about $1.60 of tax dollars per US citizen per year was spent on the public broadcasting budget.
If you donate $20 a year, you're covering what your tax dollars would have done. If you do a monthly donation of $7, your donation can equal the tax dollars of 54 people spent on PBS per year.
If you donate $20 a year, you're covering what your tax dollars would have done. If you do a monthly donation of $7, your donation can equal the tax dollars of 54 people spent on PBS per year.
Did you know that for $5/month, you can get PBS Passport, a service that unlocks the vastness of the @pbs.org libraries?
Feed your mind while you help PBS stay on the air.
Feed your mind while you help PBS stay on the air.
Getting started with PBS Passport
PBS Passport is a member benefit from participating PBS stations that gives eligible donors and supporters extended access to an on-demand library of quality public television programming online. If ...
help.pbs.org
July 21, 2025 at 1:08 PM
Only about $1.60 of tax dollars per US citizen per year was spent on the public broadcasting budget.
If you donate $20 a year, you're covering what your tax dollars would have done. If you do a monthly donation of $7, your donation can equal the tax dollars of 54 people spent on PBS per year.
If you donate $20 a year, you're covering what your tax dollars would have done. If you do a monthly donation of $7, your donation can equal the tax dollars of 54 people spent on PBS per year.
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They grow our food, care for the ill, manufacture goods, and build homes.
PLEASE GIVE AS YOU ARE ABLE
PLEASE GIVE AS YOU ARE ABLE
This week chaotic federal immigration sweeps occurred in fields across CA-including Ventura, Kern & Tulare counties. You may have seen videos of agents chasing farm workers thru the field. Workers are terrorized.
Your gift can help us fight back.
ufw.org/immigrationr... #WeFeedYou
Your gift can help us fight back.
ufw.org/immigrationr... #WeFeedYou
July 13, 2025 at 2:35 AM
They grow our food, care for the ill, manufacture goods, and build homes.
PLEASE GIVE AS YOU ARE ABLE
PLEASE GIVE AS YOU ARE ABLE
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I just left the Everglades Immigrant Interment Camp. No, I’m not using their ridiculous name. It was a very tough to witness humans in those cages. Every Floridian should be ashamed that our taxpayer money is being used for this.
July 12, 2025 at 11:28 PM
I just left the Everglades Immigrant Interment Camp. No, I’m not using their ridiculous name. It was a very tough to witness humans in those cages. Every Floridian should be ashamed that our taxpayer money is being used for this.
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Once again, this is a massive public jobs program for fascists.
This bill was never just about tax cuts and gutting social services. It's about investing our collective resources in violence and using state power to spread fear and destroy solidarity. We need to resist this with all we've got.
This bill was never just about tax cuts and gutting social services. It's about investing our collective resources in violence and using state power to spread fear and destroy solidarity. We need to resist this with all we've got.
I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE.
This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.
It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.
This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.
It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.
July 3, 2025 at 7:54 PM
Once again, this is a massive public jobs program for fascists.
This bill was never just about tax cuts and gutting social services. It's about investing our collective resources in violence and using state power to spread fear and destroy solidarity. We need to resist this with all we've got.
This bill was never just about tax cuts and gutting social services. It's about investing our collective resources in violence and using state power to spread fear and destroy solidarity. We need to resist this with all we've got.
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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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“‘The approach is to throw as much as you can at the wall and see what sticks,’ O’Dea said. ‘There’s only so much you can mobilize opposition to. There’s a huge risk that some of these things could fly under the radar.’”
I truly believe this is where the #AltCitizen plays a role.
#Resist
#AllOfUs
I truly believe this is where the #AltCitizen plays a role.
#Resist
#AllOfUs
Though Utah Sen. Mike Lee's public land sales proposal was defeated, experts say federal lands face a slew of other threats from President Donald Trump’s administration.
Read more from @stateline.org
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Battles over public lands loom even after sell-off proposal fails • Utah News Dispatch
After a public land sales proposal was defeated, experts say federal lands face other threats from President Donald Trump’s administration.
utahnewsdispatch.com
July 3, 2025 at 1:23 AM
“‘The approach is to throw as much as you can at the wall and see what sticks,’ O’Dea said. ‘There’s only so much you can mobilize opposition to. There’s a huge risk that some of these things could fly under the radar.’”
I truly believe this is where the #AltCitizen plays a role.
#Resist
#AllOfUs
I truly believe this is where the #AltCitizen plays a role.
#Resist
#AllOfUs
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Keep it up— items are still there but there are fewer.
We need collective effort! Report as offensive and leave feedback for the seller!
We need collective effort! Report as offensive and leave feedback for the seller!
ACTION NEEDED:
If you have an Amazon, Etsy or other similar shopping account, please go search for “Alligator Alcatraz” merchandise and report it as suspicious.
Promoting a concentration camp is offensive (and the impact to Tribes and Conservation is problematic).
Thanks for your help!
If you have an Amazon, Etsy or other similar shopping account, please go search for “Alligator Alcatraz” merchandise and report it as suspicious.
Promoting a concentration camp is offensive (and the impact to Tribes and Conservation is problematic).
Thanks for your help!
The Grand Opening of an American Concentration Camp
The Republicans are proudly calling it “Alligator Alcatraz.” Let’s call it what it is.
newrepublic.com
July 2, 2025 at 10:15 PM
Keep it up— items are still there but there are fewer.
We need collective effort! Report as offensive and leave feedback for the seller!
We need collective effort! Report as offensive and leave feedback for the seller!
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“No right is safe in the new legal regime the Court creates.” –Justice Sonia Sotomayor.
One of the most chilling sentences I have ever read.
One of the most chilling sentences I have ever read.
June 27, 2025 at 2:06 PM
“No right is safe in the new legal regime the Court creates.” –Justice Sonia Sotomayor.
One of the most chilling sentences I have ever read.
One of the most chilling sentences I have ever read.
She always expresses "concern" and then votes for whatever concerns her anyway. That's as disingenuous and lazy as could possibly be.
June 24, 2025 at 8:23 PM
She always expresses "concern" and then votes for whatever concerns her anyway. That's as disingenuous and lazy as could possibly be.
Thank you to the Wilderness Society for this.
Re-sharing this thread with a link to an interactive map of federal lands at risk of being sold, along with the representative whose district each property falls within.
The Wilderness Society did a nice job with this map.
www.arcgis.com/apps/instant...
The Wilderness Society did a nice job with this map.
www.arcgis.com/apps/instant...
June 20, 2025 at 4:34 PM
Thank you to the Wilderness Society for this.
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Just some creepy armed Mad Max guys trying to gain entry to Dodgers Stadium.
ICE says it wasn’t them. DHS says they were Border Patrol. But honestly who the hell knows? They’ve given permission for any psycho to put on a ski mask, point a gun, grab people & throw them into an unmarked vehicle.
ICE says it wasn’t them. DHS says they were Border Patrol. But honestly who the hell knows? They’ve given permission for any psycho to put on a ski mask, point a gun, grab people & throw them into an unmarked vehicle.
June 19, 2025 at 9:52 PM
Just some creepy armed Mad Max guys trying to gain entry to Dodgers Stadium.
ICE says it wasn’t them. DHS says they were Border Patrol. But honestly who the hell knows? They’ve given permission for any psycho to put on a ski mask, point a gun, grab people & throw them into an unmarked vehicle.
ICE says it wasn’t them. DHS says they were Border Patrol. But honestly who the hell knows? They’ve given permission for any psycho to put on a ski mask, point a gun, grab people & throw them into an unmarked vehicle.
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A Reminder of how dangerous Parasite Trump is.
June 20, 2025 at 4:03 PM
A Reminder of how dangerous Parasite Trump is.
Just this in the NYT: While President Trump appears to be offering one more off ramp to the Iranians, he also is bolstering his own military options. He is bolstering HIS OWN military options? Whatever does that imply? Who has authority for military options? Has congress authorized any of this???
June 19, 2025 at 11:16 PM
Just this in the NYT: While President Trump appears to be offering one more off ramp to the Iranians, he also is bolstering his own military options. He is bolstering HIS OWN military options? Whatever does that imply? Who has authority for military options? Has congress authorized any of this???
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We could see one of the largest fire sales of public lands in our nation’s history affecting nearly 3 million acres and 120 national parks. The Senate reconciliation bill also slashes funding for park staffing and prioritizes oil & gas drilling. Act now: www.npca.org/notforsale
June 19, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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When it’s gone, it’s gone. We’ll never get it back. We don’t need this money this way. We can’t undo the environmental damage that will follow. This is a bad idea.
"The bill directs what is likely the largest single sale of national public lands in modern history..."
www.wilderness.org/articles/med...
www.wilderness.org/articles/med...
250+ million acres of public lands eligible for sale in SENR bill
The bill mandates disposal of over 2 million acres of BLM and National Forest lands; public lands eligible for sale in the bill encompass over 250 million acres, including local recreation areas, wild...
www.wilderness.org
June 19, 2025 at 12:47 PM
When it’s gone, it’s gone. We’ll never get it back. We don’t need this money this way. We can’t undo the environmental damage that will follow. This is a bad idea.
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DON'T TAKE THE BAIT
Good advice, whether they show up or not.
Agents provocateurs are always ready
Good advice, whether they show up or not.
Agents provocateurs are always ready
June 11, 2025 at 9:59 PM
DON'T TAKE THE BAIT
Good advice, whether they show up or not.
Agents provocateurs are always ready
Good advice, whether they show up or not.
Agents provocateurs are always ready
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“Currently, there is no plan for where everyone is sleeping tonight,” the source said, adding that there was an urgent need to find more portable bathrooms and dumpsters for garbage.
June 9, 2025 at 7:20 PM
“Currently, there is no plan for where everyone is sleeping tonight,” the source said, adding that there was an urgent need to find more portable bathrooms and dumpsters for garbage.
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Today, WH Border Czar Homan said California's Governor and LA Mayor Bass could be arrested if they interfered with ICE. This, after the arrest of a NJ Congresswoman & a Wisconsin Judge. This isn't what democracy is supposed to look like. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
Trump deploys National Guard in L.A. amid protests over immigration raids
Trump signed a memo to federalize 2,000 National Guardsmen, arguing the deployment is necessary to combat the “lawlessness” in Los Angeles.
www.nbcnews.com
June 8, 2025 at 5:10 PM
Today, WH Border Czar Homan said California's Governor and LA Mayor Bass could be arrested if they interfered with ICE. This, after the arrest of a NJ Congresswoman & a Wisconsin Judge. This isn't what democracy is supposed to look like. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
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Judge in the lower federal courts are trying to play a role that are not used to, trying to wake up the public to what's going on, while remaining true to their constitutional role.
NEW: I analyzed nearly 300 federal cases involving the Trump administration. Federal judges—across the political spectrum—are using language I’ve never seen before. One called government actions “unconscionable.” Another quoted Kafka. They’re begging us to pay attention.
Federal Judges Are Begging Us to Pay Attention
A Data-Driven Analysis of nearly 300 Federal Cases Reveals Judges Quoting Kafka and Warning of Democracy in Peril
open.substack.com
June 8, 2025 at 5:12 PM
Judge in the lower federal courts are trying to play a role that are not used to, trying to wake up the public to what's going on, while remaining true to their constitutional role.
He lies for attention and to try and increase tensions and anxiety. Seems he would like to create a situation that would “allow “ him to declare martial law and take over all governors and states. This isn’t delusional, it’s evil personified. It’s important to keep protests non-violent, peaceful.
👇 Hearing the same from a lot of friends and family in LA
This is beyond delusional insanity, it needs its own new terminology for how devoid of reality it is. This man is a deranged lunatic.
I live in L.A., am out doing errands. L.A. is exactly like it is on any other day, with a few hundred protestors in a couple of spots in a city of nearly 10,000,000
I live in L.A., am out doing errands. L.A. is exactly like it is on any other day, with a few hundred protestors in a couple of spots in a city of nearly 10,000,000
June 8, 2025 at 9:51 PM
He lies for attention and to try and increase tensions and anxiety. Seems he would like to create a situation that would “allow “ him to declare martial law and take over all governors and states. This isn’t delusional, it’s evil personified. It’s important to keep protests non-violent, peaceful.