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I live in Pacifica's fogbelt. Redwoods need the fog.

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Hey folks:

I'm organizing my YouTube channel & just added the course I'm teaching w/colleagues David Blight & Beverly Gage, as well as my "What the Heck Just Happened?" conversations w/Heather Cox Richardson, & my Friday AM podcast "History Matters."

Take a look!
www.youtube.com/@joannefreem...
Dr. Joanne Freeman
Professor Joanne Freeman is an award-winning historian who studies the politics and culture of America's past to better understand our history as a nation, and the roads and choices that have led us t...
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November 16, 2025 at 10:31 PM
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“The State of Water” is a book that explores what has led to California’s current water crisis, “exposing a history of unlimited growth in spite of finite natural resources."

Trump banned it from Yosemite National Park www.sfgate.com/national-par...
Trump admin to ban book from Yosemite National Park, says author
The Trump administration's censorship directive has reportedly targeted Obi Kaufmann.
www.sfgate.com
November 16, 2025 at 7:50 AM
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Archiving the web is more important and more challenging than ever before. https://cnn.it/4phKzlW
November 16, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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we need a department of kerning
November 13, 2025 at 2:54 AM
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Goodnight peeps.

I’m utterly pooped.

See you tomorrow AM on my podcast.

10AM ET
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November 14, 2025 at 2:51 AM
Music Heals: Grief
On the air at 90.3 FM Seattle + 92.7 FM San Francisco // worldwide at KEXP.ORG

Join KEXP for Music Heals: Grief on Thursday, November 13th.
www.kexp.org/events/kexp-...
KEXP Events
www.kexp.org
November 13, 2025 at 9:04 PM
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In Japan, tourism to Portland, Oregon, is promoted by a grinning blue monster named Odnarodude. He’s at a Portland artisan event in Jiyugaoka De Aone this weekend.
November 8, 2025 at 2:34 AM
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"JPMorgan on Monday said building AI infrastructure will cost more than $5tn"

Crazy idea: Why not, rather than spending $5 TRILLION dollars to pay for data centers to create fake brains, just pay actual human beings with real brains that same $5 trillion?
"Investors have been selling off the debt of US tech heavyweights, showing how jitters over Silicon Valley’s boom in spending on artificial intelligence have spilled into the bond market."
Investor angst over Big Tech’s AI spending spills into bond market
Debt issued by groups building data centres has been hit in recent weeks
www.ft.com
November 11, 2025 at 1:03 PM
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🚨 BONUS EARLY EDITION #ThursdayFilmRec 🗃️🎥🍿🎬 #HATM

Watch (or Rewatch) this classic, outstanding film: "The Best Years of Our Lives" (1946) - Dir. William Wyler

Available free on YouTube ⬇️

www.youtube.com/watch?v=mAfM...
The Best Years of Our Lives
YouTube video by YouTube Movies
www.youtube.com
November 11, 2025 at 5:14 PM
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Tiny urban forests can help #rewild urban settings and help fight #climatechange. The brainchild of the Japanese botanist Miyawaki is taking his idea global.

We have so many solutions. Implement them. #ActOnClimate

#climate #forests #nature #biodiversity
November 10, 2025 at 7:07 PM
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🎙️ON AIR:

We're talking to @superwuster.bsky.social, a former technology advisor to President Biden, about how we can take back power from Big Tech.

❓ Have you changed your actions online because of the way tech platforms have evolved?

📻 Listen:
Click. Scroll. Surrender. Tim Wu Warns Against The Rise of Big Data in 'The Age of Extraction' | KQED
Airdate: Monday, November 10 at 10 AM Our digital lives are increasingly dominated by a handful of powerful tech platforms. Once promising prosperity and democracy, the internet has instead allowed…
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November 10, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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Even Canada's Onion is drawing blood
News In Photo:
November 10, 2025 at 2:31 PM
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Trump’s plan is for people to pay his banker friends hundreds of thousands more in interest on mortgages while they own a piece of your home until you die.
November 9, 2025 at 1:55 AM
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Former Chair of the Republican House Freedom Caucus.
November 9, 2025 at 11:28 AM
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The US is the world's largest oil and gas producer. Yet, "China is now making more money from exporting green technology than America makes from exporting fossil fuels."
China’s clean-energy revolution will reshape markets and politics
The world’s biggest manufacturer now has an interest in the world decarbonising
www.economist.com
November 7, 2025 at 11:05 AM
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Happy 82nd birthday to Joni Mitchell!

Celebrate the occasion by checking out the legendary singer-songwriter's 50 greatest songs.

🎂 www.rollingstone.com/music/music-...
November 7, 2025 at 6:47 PM
Yes, Traveling is a great book about Joni Mitchell!
thank you!
Joni is 82 today! A true pioneer.
Great to see her in better health, out and about, and even performing again.

If you looking for a good read on Joni, last year a really interesting take on her career came out by the great writer Ann Powers. It’s called “Traveling on the Path with Joni Mitchell”
November 7, 2025 at 8:22 PM
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EXCELLENT Zeteo with Mehdi Hasan this morning, whose guest, Saikat Chakrabart, is a U.S. House candidate & #primary challenger to Nancy Pelosi in San Francisco!

@zeteo.com
@mehdirhasan.bsky.social
@saikatforcongress.bsky.social

Btw: Saikat was 1️⃣ year old when Pelosi took office for the first time!
Meet the Multimillionaire Leftist Primarying Nancy Pelosi
YouTube video by Zeteo
youtu.be
November 3, 2025 at 2:10 PM
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Grateful to spend two days on the Klamath watching chinook, liberated by dam removal, return to streams from which they’d been precluded since the Titanic sank. Fish are everywhere, in numbers that stagger the mind & locations that biologists figured would take years to repopulate. Too beautiful.
November 5, 2025 at 9:17 PM
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The same is true for other age groups and other candidates/causes. Whether it’s Boomer post card parties or places like Manny’s in the Mission: connect people, give them something to do. People are desperate for both, politically and otherwise.
here is my story about how Zohran's focus on community amid the loneliness epidemic helped young people connect their politics to an organizing infrastructure, that interviewed ZM, and does not use the NYT's framing of "they don't know how to make friends" :-) and also ran 4 days before NYT's lol
Zohran Mamdani's Establishment-Fighting Campaign Built Community for Young People
“What Mamdani has done is not only inspire and mobilize young people, but he has exposed the establishment and some of their calcified views of participation and inclusion.”
www.teenvogue.com
November 5, 2025 at 3:23 PM
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Reposting to correct an error: trump admin is quietly gutting 13 buildings and about 100 laboratories at Goddard campus that has been instrumental to Hubble and James Webb telescope missions. Staff say they’ve be locked and told to move equipment. Anything left behind will be thrown away.
NASA may be quietly gutting an iconic campus with what it calls strategic closures, workers fear
(CNN) — Alarm is growing among federal workers at NASA’s iconic Goddard Space Flight Center’s main campus in Greenbelt, Maryland — the nerve center for groundbreaking missions like the Hubble
www.wkow.com
November 5, 2025 at 3:54 PM
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Hey folks--

I've been asked to pin this link here, so here you go.

The lectures and podcast episodes for "America at 250," the lecture course that I'm teaching with David Blight and Beverly Gage are at this link.

www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
America at 250: A History - YouTube
This one-time-only course examines U.S. history from 1776 to the present, in advance of the nation's semiquincentennial (or 250th birthday) in 2026. Taught j...
www.youtube.com
November 3, 2025 at 9:26 PM
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Some late night informal thoughts about one important lesson from today's electoral results.

It's not over.
People stepped up and stood up and voted for what they want.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=tu9b...
A Few Thoughts About Today's Electoral Results
YouTube video by Dr. Joanne Freeman
www.youtube.com
November 5, 2025 at 4:01 AM