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Louise Auerhahn 🏳️‍🌈
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policy wonk for worker justice.

Mostly posting about local (South Bay / Bay Area) politics, policy, workers and community organizing. And some plants and critters 🌱 […]

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Reposted by Louise Auerhahn 🏳️‍🌈
Earlier this year, Matt Yglesias and Hakeem Jeffries urged progressives to shut up about immigration and Kilmar Abrego Garcia. Yglesias said "bad groups" were pushing Dems left on immigration and would help Trump's numbers.
How did they get this so wrong? www.gelliottmorris.com/p/the-cost-o...
The cost of playing defense on immigration
What Matt Yglesias, Hakeem Jeffries, and Keir Starmer got wrong about the politics of immigration
www.gelliottmorris.com
December 16, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Reposted by Louise Auerhahn 🏳️‍🌈
There's always interesting things on display at San Jose's MLK library.

I'm really going to need to go check this one out.

https://www.metrosiliconvalley.com/silicon-alleys-san-jose-history-gary-singh-interstate-280/
Exhibit Resurrects Neighborhoods Lost to I-280 Construction
Thanks to a remarkable exhibit at the main library, we can now look at former houses that used to sit where the I-280 freeway now exists.
www.metrosiliconvalley.com
December 15, 2025 at 7:54 PM
Reposted by Louise Auerhahn 🏳️‍🌈
Nine former DoJ attorneys investigating University of California antisemitism have told The Los Angeles Times they felt pressured to conclude that campuses had violated the civil rights of Jewish students and staff […]
Original post on journa.host
journa.host
December 14, 2025 at 1:45 AM
Reposted by Louise Auerhahn 🏳️‍🌈
I did something exciting this week! I relaunched my company website: https://futureethics.ai

It says, boldly, that we want to build ethical and sustainable pro-labor businesses that are pro people and the earth. It's scary to put that out in words because I feel like such an optimistic or naive […]
Original post on hachyderm.io
hachyderm.io
December 12, 2025 at 7:47 PM
Santa Clara County joint lawsuit halts federal grant guidelines
President Donald Trump’s administration has backed off from upending federal grants to permanent housing programs — for now. A lawsuit filed by Santa Clara County and 10 other governments and nonprofits against the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) last week has pushed the department to revise federal grant guidelines for homeless funding “in order to assess the issues raised by plaintiffs in their suits,” according to a response filed by HUD’s attorneys. The lawsuit alleges HUD’s new point system for rewarding Continuum of Care grants — where projects that align with Trump’s agenda will be ranked higher and others that don’t meet certain requirements will be rejected from receiving funding — is illegal. “This latest turn of events is a turn in the right direction,” District 2 Santa Clara County Supervisor Betty Duong told San José Spotlight. “It’s what we originally wanted with our lawsuit … because it would have eroded the bedrock of how we’re able to respond, address and alleviate homelessness.” HUD unveiled plans last month to shift Continuum of Care grants away from permanent housing to temporary housing. The grants have historically been used for permanent housing programs — including rental subsidies and supportive services at permanent supportive housing developments. HUD’s proposed changes would cap funds for permanent housing at 30%, leaving more than 1,800 Santa Clara County households at risk of losing their homes. Congressman Sam Liccardo, who advocated for the reversal of HUD’s changes, called the rescinding of the funding guidelines a “win for common sense.” “We must keep treating our housing crisis like the crisis it is,” Liccardo said in a statement. “Keeping this program intact is a critical step in the right direction, and I’ll continue holding this administration accountable to protect proven solutions.” ### Related Stories December 9, 2025 #### Hundreds of Santa Clara County families face displacement December 7, 2025 #### Homelessness no longer top issue for Bay Area residents December 3, 2025 #### Santa Clara County sues over federal housing grant changes Despite HUD promising to revise some guidelines, the department has indicated it intends to change the way it addresses homelessness. “The department remains fully committed to make long overdue reforms to its homelessness assistance programs,” a HUD spokesperson said in a statement. Plaintiffs in the lawsuit — which include the National Alliance to End Homelessness, National Low Income Housing Coalition and the cities of San Francisco and Tucson, Arizona —are seeking an injunction to stop the rules from being implemented. An hour before the scheduled court hearing Monday, HUD rescinded its funding guidelines, arguing that removing them and rescinding the notice of funding opportunity makes the injunction “now moot.” Santa Clara County Counsel Tony LoPresti disagrees. “HUD is making a mockery out of a well-established system of providing funding to local governments that is vital to keeping people housed,” LoPresti told San José Spotlight. “Our coalition will continue to hold HUD accountable and do what’s necessary to get this funding to the folks who depend on it.” Removing the notice of funding opportunity would cause further delays to the grant application process, National Alliance to End Homelessness CEO Ann Olivia said in a statement. The judge presiding over the court hearing gave HUD officials until Dec. 15 to explain why they rescinded the funding opportunity. A final ruling is expected Dec. 19. “The dust hasn’t settled yet,” District 5 Santa Clara County Supervisor Margaret Abe-Koga told San José Spotlight. “Monday’s action by HUD to withdraw the funding notice is a relief, but (the judge) said it best: ‘It feels like intentional chaos.'” This year, the county has filed nine lawsuits against the Trump administration, including one blocking an executive order ending birthright citizenship. So far, the county has prevailed in seven of its lawsuits. “Santa Clara County, along with our coalition of counties, stand ready to take on this fight on behalf of our most vulnerable,” Duong said. “Whenever we prevail, it’s not a judge arbitrating which side has a more righteous argument, but the judge is prevailing on the side that is acting in accordance with the actual letter of the law.” _Contact Joyce Chu at[email protected] or @joyce_speaks on X. _ *[December 9, 2025]: December 9, 2025 *[December 7, 2025]: December 7, 2025 *[December 3, 2025]: December 3, 2025
sanjosespotlight.com
December 11, 2025 at 5:35 PM
Reposted by Louise Auerhahn 🏳️‍🌈
"They keep saying how Mt. Everest doesn't care about your goals or plans. But it's a big rock. It doesn't care about anything!"

Until, one crystal clear night, it did.

For years after, those of us who were there strove to convey a shadow of it through words, music, paint, dance. To feel again […]
Original post on mastodon.social
mastodon.social
December 11, 2025 at 5:00 AM
RE: https://flipboard.com/@mercnews/education-in-the-bay-area-ietertt1z/-/a-dLTihhohSNKDcbpgFmoh6g%3Aa%3A2034191127-%2F0

This news is for charges being brought against student protestors, who occupied the Stanford President's office calling for their university to stop supporting genocide in […]
Original post on sfba.social
sfba.social
December 10, 2025 at 1:55 AM
Reposted by Louise Auerhahn 🏳️‍🌈
"we're seeing an insane push for LLM adoption in all lines of work, however inappropriate, because they directly exploit a cognitive bias to which senior management is vulnerable."
December 10, 2025 at 12:08 AM
Reposted by Louise Auerhahn 🏳️‍🌈
It bothers me that before they show the footage of the murder of these people, the news man never says "We are about to show footage where people were killed some viewers might find this disturbing." As they would for other disasters, so when the bile rises in my throat, because I really did […]
Original post on sauropods.win
sauropods.win
December 5, 2025 at 11:44 PM
Reposted by Louise Auerhahn 🏳️‍🌈
This is what every police chief in America should be saying and enforcing.

Minneapolis police chief warns officers: Stop unlawful force by ICE or lose your job
https://www.ms.now/news/minneapolis-police-chief-unlawful-force-ice-jobs
Minneapolis police chief warns officers: Stop unlawful force by ICE or lose your job
Chief Brian O’Hara says he’ll fire city police officers if they don’t intervene when immigration agents use unlawful force. The post Minneapolis police chief warns officers: Stop unlawful force by ICE or lose your job appeared first on MS NOW.
www.ms.now
December 6, 2025 at 1:03 AM
Reposted by Louise Auerhahn 🏳️‍🌈
3,150-year-old papyrus reveals the world’s earliest recorded labour strike. New analysis of the Turin Strike Papyrus—a detailed account from 1157 BCE—shows how artisans building the royal tombs at Deir el-Medina staged a coordinated walkout after going 18 days without grain rations. The document […]
Original post on wandering.shop
wandering.shop
December 8, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Reposted by Louise Auerhahn 🏳️‍🌈
Resale values of Teslas are in the depths for all kinds of reasons, but the central one -- apart from the taint of Musk -- is that the cars are ridiculously crappy and unreliable as they age. https://futurism.com/advanced-transport/old-teslas-falling-apart

Just one more reason to avoid this […]
Original post on mastodon.social
mastodon.social
December 8, 2025 at 12:03 AM
Reposted by Louise Auerhahn 🏳️‍🌈
He served his country; now it's 'turning its back': Georgia veteran stuck in ICE detention after policy shift

Godfrey Wade is a wartime U.S. Army veteran who served overseas and received commendations upon his honorable discharge. Now he's set for deportation.

"...

Shortly after he arrived in […]
Original post on ai6yr.org
m.ai6yr.org
December 7, 2025 at 9:15 PM
Reposted by Louise Auerhahn 🏳️‍🌈
Without a total reconstruction of the institution, the United States simply does not have a legitimate high court for the federal judicial system. Without that, the entire federal judiciary cannot function as a legitimate way of adjudicating within U.S. Constitutional terms. 3/3
December 5, 2025 at 1:37 AM
Reposted by Louise Auerhahn 🏳️‍🌈
There is nothing law-like or court-like about the latest shadow docket decision from the Roberts Court, which stays a district court decision throwing out Texas’s mid-decade gerrymander due to racial basis.

The majority simply ignored: the lower court, its own precedents re deference to lower […]
Original post on mastodon.social
mastodon.social
December 5, 2025 at 1:22 AM
Reposted by Louise Auerhahn 🏳️‍🌈
We have to apply pressure. Give Johnson a choice between being a hero or someone who has failed us, rather than simply casting him as a villain and accepting defeat. If you live in Chicago, share this piece with everyone you know and tell them to reach out to their alderman and the mayor's office.
You Can’t Fight Fascism While Defunding Libraries
“Libraries embody everything that we need right now to fight back against fascism," says Sara Heymann.
organizingmythoughts.org
December 3, 2025 at 6:56 PM
Reposted by Louise Auerhahn 🏳️‍🌈
Poets and Writers magazine, a 501(c)3 nonprofit that does pretty much what it says on the tin, turned down a $70,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Arts rather than renounce their antiracism commitment […]
Original post on wandering.shop
wandering.shop
December 2, 2025 at 7:12 PM
Reposted by Louise Auerhahn 🏳️‍🌈
My cousin's boyfriend works as an Amazon delivery driver and, I learned over Thanksgiving, drivers *very* much still pee in bottles - they're just expected to do a better job of hiding it to give Amazon plausible deniability. Delightful! I love capitalism.
December 2, 2025 at 3:18 AM
Reposted by Louise Auerhahn 🏳️‍🌈
Back out today to #TeslaTakedown with a new puppy attendee for morale!
November 30, 2025 at 12:30 AM
Reposted by Louise Auerhahn 🏳️‍🌈
There's legislation before the Virginia General Assembly that would create a paid family & medical leave program, but it will live or die on the fiscal impact statement. Will agency staff draw on states that have taken charge of their enabling software (Maryland), or those that have spent a fortune?
SB2: Paid family and medical leave insurance program; definitions, notice requirements, civil action.
Paid family and medical leave insurance program; notice requirements; civil action. Requires the Virginia Employment Commission to establish and administer a paid family and medical leave insurance pr...
www.richmondsunlight.com
November 29, 2025 at 8:02 PM
Reposted by Louise Auerhahn 🏳️‍🌈
The president has illegally declared war to stop fentanyl trafficking from a country that does not traffic that drug, claiming its leader is trafficking drugs himself, the day after pardoning a former leader of a country who is a convicted drug trafficker.
Just to level set
November 29, 2025 at 4:47 PM
Reposted by Louise Auerhahn 🏳️‍🌈
Now that it's officially Christmas season, I can post this vintage photo from San Jose.

I looked forward to seeing the saN jOse stEeL co sign lit up this way every year as a child on the way to Grandma and Grandpa's house in Hayward.

Later, Lori and I bought a […]

[Original post on sfba.social]
November 28, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Reposted by Louise Auerhahn 🏳️‍🌈
With the holidays upon us, it's easy to default to giving the tech gifts that retailers tend to push on us this time of year:
smart speakers, video doorbells, bluetooth trackers, fitness trackers, and other connected gadgets are all very popular gifts.
But before you give one, think twice about […]
Original post on c.im
c.im
November 29, 2025 at 2:13 AM