S. S. Newbery
@ssnewbery.bsky.social
Photographer. San Francisco Bay Area. Author of *Los Caprichos: after Goya* (2020), an artist's book of palladium prints and homage to Goya's 1799 *Caprichos*. Doing lots of watercolor these days.
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In #Berkeley, traffic crashes “injure nearly 700 motorists, cyclists, and pedestrians each year, on average. This injury rate far exceeds the two persons injured each year on average in structure fires in Berkeley.”
This is pretty typical for American cities.
This is pretty typical for American cities.
It’s Time for the Fire Service to Join Communities in Preventing Street Trauma
By Mike Wilson
medium.com
November 5, 2025 at 2:10 AM
In #Berkeley, traffic crashes “injure nearly 700 motorists, cyclists, and pedestrians each year, on average. This injury rate far exceeds the two persons injured each year on average in structure fires in Berkeley.”
This is pretty typical for American cities.
This is pretty typical for American cities.
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Update: In 3 recent editorials, WaPo failed to disclose owner Jeff Bezos's interest in the matter under discussion.
WaPo added one disclosure after @bgrueskin.bsky.social called it out.
Two weeks after my story, the other two editorials still have none. And the paper still won't say why
WaPo added one disclosure after @bgrueskin.bsky.social called it out.
Two weeks after my story, the other two editorials still have none. And the paper still won't say why
'Washington Post' editorials omit a key disclosure: Bezos' financial ties
Three times in the past two weeks, editorials at the 'Washington Post' failed to disclose that they focused on matters in which owner Jeff Bezos had a material interest.
www.npr.org
November 10, 2025 at 10:56 PM
Update: In 3 recent editorials, WaPo failed to disclose owner Jeff Bezos's interest in the matter under discussion.
WaPo added one disclosure after @bgrueskin.bsky.social called it out.
Two weeks after my story, the other two editorials still have none. And the paper still won't say why
WaPo added one disclosure after @bgrueskin.bsky.social called it out.
Two weeks after my story, the other two editorials still have none. And the paper still won't say why
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Neon-clad protesters stage '80s aerobics demonstration outside Portland ICE facility. They called it “Sweatin’ Out the Fascists.”
https://www.oregonlive.com/portland/2025/11/neon-clad-protesters-stage-80s-aerobics-demonstration-outside-portland-ice-facility.html
https://www.oregonlive.com/portland/2025/11/neon-clad-protesters-stage-80s-aerobics-demonstration-outside-portland-ice-facility.html
November 10, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Neon-clad protesters stage '80s aerobics demonstration outside Portland ICE facility. They called it “Sweatin’ Out the Fascists.”
https://www.oregonlive.com/portland/2025/11/neon-clad-protesters-stage-80s-aerobics-demonstration-outside-portland-ice-facility.html
https://www.oregonlive.com/portland/2025/11/neon-clad-protesters-stage-80s-aerobics-demonstration-outside-portland-ice-facility.html
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Eight Senate Dems Caved, and Caved Too Early
With one more week, Trump would have owned far more of the responsibility for SNAP and flight cutbacks.
www.emptywheel.net/2025/11/10/e...
With one more week, Trump would have owned far more of the responsibility for SNAP and flight cutbacks.
www.emptywheel.net/2025/11/10/e...
Eight Senate Dems Caved, and Caved Too Early - emptywheel
The eight Democrats who voted for a deal to reopen government not just caved, but caved at least a week too early.
www.emptywheel.net
November 10, 2025 at 12:29 PM
Eight Senate Dems Caved, and Caved Too Early
With one more week, Trump would have owned far more of the responsibility for SNAP and flight cutbacks.
www.emptywheel.net/2025/11/10/e...
With one more week, Trump would have owned far more of the responsibility for SNAP and flight cutbacks.
www.emptywheel.net/2025/11/10/e...
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You can say those 20M are fucked, and they are. Which is precisely where they were after Big Ugly passed.
But please don't forget that 40M people were going to go hungry.
Worse comes to worse govt shuts down on Jan30 and SNAP can't be used as hostages.
www.emptywheel.net/2025/11/10/e...
But please don't forget that 40M people were going to go hungry.
Worse comes to worse govt shuts down on Jan30 and SNAP can't be used as hostages.
www.emptywheel.net/2025/11/10/e...
Eight Senate Dems Caved, and Caved Too Early - emptywheel
With one more week, Trump would have owned far more of the responsibility for SNAP and flight cutbacks.
www.emptywheel.net
November 10, 2025 at 1:42 PM
You can say those 20M are fucked, and they are. Which is precisely where they were after Big Ugly passed.
But please don't forget that 40M people were going to go hungry.
Worse comes to worse govt shuts down on Jan30 and SNAP can't be used as hostages.
www.emptywheel.net/2025/11/10/e...
But please don't forget that 40M people were going to go hungry.
Worse comes to worse govt shuts down on Jan30 and SNAP can't be used as hostages.
www.emptywheel.net/2025/11/10/e...
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This, from @americalabs.org (one of the smartest people abt leg procedure), counters what a lot of people are claiming about this cave. But the follow-on adds to what I noted abt setting up opportunities in January.
5) Dems showed (a) it's possible to get something out of "shutting down the government" despite what the pundits said, and (b) that they could hold together for 40 days. It's not a policy win, but it changes expectations for what they can do in the future, strengthening their negotiating position.
November 10, 2025 at 2:06 PM
This, from @americalabs.org (one of the smartest people abt leg procedure), counters what a lot of people are claiming about this cave. But the follow-on adds to what I noted abt setting up opportunities in January.
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I feel silly publicizing a book in these times BUT my book describes how constitutional structures allowed the accumulation of generational wealth + rights for settlers and white people. These are the same advantages MAGA is trying to preserve today. Pre-order page:
November 10, 2025 at 2:07 PM
I feel silly publicizing a book in these times BUT my book describes how constitutional structures allowed the accumulation of generational wealth + rights for settlers and white people. These are the same advantages MAGA is trying to preserve today. Pre-order page:
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New: The Supreme Court DENIES Kim Davis' request to overturn Obergefell, the marriage equality decision. No noted dissents. www.supremecourt.gov/orders/court...
November 10, 2025 at 2:31 PM
New: The Supreme Court DENIES Kim Davis' request to overturn Obergefell, the marriage equality decision. No noted dissents. www.supremecourt.gov/orders/court...
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The Supreme Court will review an objectively insane 5th Circuit decision that prohibited states from counting ballots that were mailed before Election Day but arrive shortly after. (More than half the states have such laws.)
www.supremecourt.gov/orders/court...
www.supremecourt.gov/orders/court...
November 10, 2025 at 2:44 PM
The Supreme Court will review an objectively insane 5th Circuit decision that prohibited states from counting ballots that were mailed before Election Day but arrive shortly after. (More than half the states have such laws.)
www.supremecourt.gov/orders/court...
www.supremecourt.gov/orders/court...
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Also, there's another thing I considered.
IF they end the shutdown on a CR now though January, that may nullify Trump's plans to end mail in voting and the like, because states will be able to go the courts and say that it's an election year so they dont have the time to change their systems.
IF they end the shutdown on a CR now though January, that may nullify Trump's plans to end mail in voting and the like, because states will be able to go the courts and say that it's an election year so they dont have the time to change their systems.
November 9, 2025 at 10:08 PM
Also, there's another thing I considered.
IF they end the shutdown on a CR now though January, that may nullify Trump's plans to end mail in voting and the like, because states will be able to go the courts and say that it's an election year so they dont have the time to change their systems.
IF they end the shutdown on a CR now though January, that may nullify Trump's plans to end mail in voting and the like, because states will be able to go the courts and say that it's an election year so they dont have the time to change their systems.
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Folks, we need to have a little Civics #101 chat, because apparently the media no longer seems fit to explain to you whats happening.
So quick review:
The House passed a clean CR.
The senate has not passed anything.
So quick review:
The House passed a clean CR.
The senate has not passed anything.
November 9, 2025 at 8:32 PM
Folks, we need to have a little Civics #101 chat, because apparently the media no longer seems fit to explain to you whats happening.
So quick review:
The House passed a clean CR.
The senate has not passed anything.
So quick review:
The House passed a clean CR.
The senate has not passed anything.
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Dems backed Trump into a corner where he’s advocating for starving Americans and hemorrhaging support. If they vote to let him off the hook in exchange for nothing it’s a cataclysmic failure. I know people are in pain but insulating Republicans from political consequences is not the answer.
November 9, 2025 at 10:58 PM
Dems backed Trump into a corner where he’s advocating for starving Americans and hemorrhaging support. If they vote to let him off the hook in exchange for nothing it’s a cataclysmic failure. I know people are in pain but insulating Republicans from political consequences is not the answer.
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As I explained in my Round Up this week, the admin screwed up and a handful of states were able to access SNAP funding to pay full benefits for their constituents. The gov has represented in court that they can’t get it back, so it’s become an equity issue open.substack.com/pub/asharang...
November 9, 2025 at 4:47 PM
As I explained in my Round Up this week, the admin screwed up and a handful of states were able to access SNAP funding to pay full benefits for their constituents. The gov has represented in court that they can’t get it back, so it’s become an equity issue open.substack.com/pub/asharang...
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People need to understand that Chicago is a preview, not a culmination.
I have been actively watching contracts and surge funding over the last few days and what I would say to my friends in Baltimore is “be absolutely ready, right now.”
ICE poised to ramp up raids in Baltimore by Thanksgiving
The Trump administration has rush-ordered infrastructure to conduct raids, abduct residents, and detain people for months.
open.substack.com
November 9, 2025 at 1:51 PM
People need to understand that Chicago is a preview, not a culmination.
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The "pro-family" party, ladies and gentlemen.
TAPPER: Do you have any numerical idea of how many Americans will not be able to be with their families for Thanksgiving because of this?
DUFFY: I think the number is going to be substantial
DUFFY: I think the number is going to be substantial
November 9, 2025 at 3:47 PM
The "pro-family" party, ladies and gentlemen.
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one thing Chicago did is use Little Free Libraries as an easy way to distribute flyers with info on how to use whistles to alert neighbors, how to organize, etc - those LFLs are all over Baltimore as well
November 9, 2025 at 3:54 PM
one thing Chicago did is use Little Free Libraries as an easy way to distribute flyers with info on how to use whistles to alert neighbors, how to organize, etc - those LFLs are all over Baltimore as well
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Brewster Kahle says that in the aftermath of the copyright attacks on the Archive, “the world became stupider.” I agree.
Internet Archive’s legal fights are over, but its founder mourns what was lost
arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...
Internet Archive’s legal fights are over, but its founder mourns what was lost
arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...
Internet Archive’s legal fights are over, but its founder mourns what was lost
“We survived, but it wiped out the library,” Internet Archive’s founder says.
arstechnica.com
November 9, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Brewster Kahle says that in the aftermath of the copyright attacks on the Archive, “the world became stupider.” I agree.
Internet Archive’s legal fights are over, but its founder mourns what was lost
arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...
Internet Archive’s legal fights are over, but its founder mourns what was lost
arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...
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Every sector of the 🇺🇸 economy & polity is exactly like this. Ronald Reagan & his lazy, selfish, juvenile talking point & his acolytes’ worn copies of Atlas Shrugged have done untold damage to our politics & society.
So it turns out... the US air travel system was incredibly, deeply dependent on federal funding to just run day-to-day all this time, to the benefit of private airline shareholders, when everyone thinks that state-run trains are leeching off the government. Weird!
November 9, 2025 at 2:58 AM
Every sector of the 🇺🇸 economy & polity is exactly like this. Ronald Reagan & his lazy, selfish, juvenile talking point & his acolytes’ worn copies of Atlas Shrugged have done untold damage to our politics & society.
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This is really good.
A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death.
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
James Watson, dead at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers
James Watson, the co-discoverer of the structure of DNA who died Thursday at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers.
www.statnews.com
November 9, 2025 at 4:55 AM
This is really good.
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All This Could Be Different, a novel about how the failures of individualism can be met with mutual aid, is a great tonic to this.
November 9, 2025 at 5:06 AM
All This Could Be Different, a novel about how the failures of individualism can be met with mutual aid, is a great tonic to this.
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I think that superhero movies have done a number of human beings conditioning some people to believe that extraordinary actions are what matter. And if one can't be a superhero, then simple, ordinary efforts aren't worth doing.
November 9, 2025 at 3:47 AM
I think that superhero movies have done a number of human beings conditioning some people to believe that extraordinary actions are what matter. And if one can't be a superhero, then simple, ordinary efforts aren't worth doing.
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Glad to see Jenny focused on JD Vance as Vance becomes de factor leader of the party while Trump sundowns or lame ducks. Though what Jenny focuses on rarely gets enough attention.
Vance has revealed himself in bed with fiends who favor genocidal politics. And somehow this is happening quietly!
Vance has revealed himself in bed with fiends who favor genocidal politics. And somehow this is happening quietly!
William Wolfe—a friend of Kevin Roberts & co-editor of the explicit “Statement on Christian Nationalism” manifesto—wants his fellow right wingers to know that “If you’re attacking @JDVance” (whose deputy press secretary is Tucker Carlson’s son), then “you’re not on the team.” Replies are brutal. 1/
November 8, 2025 at 8:34 PM
Glad to see Jenny focused on JD Vance as Vance becomes de factor leader of the party while Trump sundowns or lame ducks. Though what Jenny focuses on rarely gets enough attention.
Vance has revealed himself in bed with fiends who favor genocidal politics. And somehow this is happening quietly!
Vance has revealed himself in bed with fiends who favor genocidal politics. And somehow this is happening quietly!
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There's a sea if people who argue that headlines don't matter, just read the story. I am not one of those people.
This was an actual headline by the nation's most influential news outlet. It's now been changed multiple times but every update is unacceptable & the conversation itself in BS.
This was an actual headline by the nation's most influential news outlet. It's now been changed multiple times but every update is unacceptable & the conversation itself in BS.
November 8, 2025 at 8:11 PM
There's a sea if people who argue that headlines don't matter, just read the story. I am not one of those people.
This was an actual headline by the nation's most influential news outlet. It's now been changed multiple times but every update is unacceptable & the conversation itself in BS.
This was an actual headline by the nation's most influential news outlet. It's now been changed multiple times but every update is unacceptable & the conversation itself in BS.
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Some context from @stevevladeck.bsky.social on what KBJ is doing www.stevevladeck.com/p/190-snap-w...
190. SNAP WTF?
A very quick explainer on why Justice Jackson issued an "administrative stay" in the SNAP case late on Friday night, and on what's likely to happen next
www.stevevladeck.com
November 8, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Some context from @stevevladeck.bsky.social on what KBJ is doing www.stevevladeck.com/p/190-snap-w...