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Red light running in the East Bay has become so frequent that now I just expect it. But this afternoon I saw three cars in a row run a red light through Broadway to get on a highway in downtown Oakland. How can we keep people safe when we’ve normalized such flagrantly dangerous driving?

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hey lovelies, I finally got around to publicly sharing my compilation of big tech energy and emissions data. I'll be using it in articles, posts etc but it's yours too, free to use (w/ attribution is nice) ketanjoshi.co/2025/05/23/d...

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Man Feared to Be Cognitively Slipping After Writing Book About Wrong President

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In MAGA’s unending quest to dehumanize & eliminate trans people, the Republican budget eliminates coverage of gender-affirming care for all trans people — including adults — under both Medicaid & Obamacare. Their effort to eradicate trans folks will go down in history as a shameful atrocity.

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Detained Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil was allowed to hold his one-month-old son for the first time after a federal judge blocked the Trump administration’s efforts to keep the father and infant separated by a plexiglass divider.

submitted 7 days ago • 30 comments

Trump told us these people were so dangerous they couldn't afford due process to prove how dangerous they were. They had to go straight to the foreign concentration camp. Turns out at least one in five of them didn't even break US immigration law

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Injured DC police officer Dan Hodges on Justice Dept settlement with estate of Ashli Babbitt: “…Trump wants to pay the insurrectionists so that he'll have them on retainer for the next time he wants to influence the course of history with mass violence.”

submitted 9 days ago • 70 comments

The Rules Committee meets at 1 AM on Tuesday night/ Wednesday morning to ram through this disastrous bill. Why? Because they don't want you to see them ripping healthcare from millions of Americans. You do not hold a hearing for a bill at 1 AM unless you're completely ashamed of it.

submitted 10 days ago • 705 comments

NEW footage of Mahmoud Khalil's arrest shows the Trump admin is lying. First they said they had a warrant. Then they admitted they didn't—saying they didn't need one, because Mahmoud wasn't cooperating & was going to flee. They said he was a "flight risk." But video shows that's not true either.

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NEW: Israeli Court Refuses Release of Palestinian Journalist Held Hostage For 100 Days Without Charge Mohammed Arab, a 42-year-old Palestinian journalist and correspondent for Al Araby TV, was abducted by Israeli forces from Al-Shifa Medical Complex in Gaza during Israel’s March 2024 assault.

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BREAKING: The Supreme Court holds that the Trump administration violated the due process rights of Venezuelan migrants last month in its rushed effort to expel them to El Salvador in the middle of the night (which SCOTUS blocked). Alito and Thomas dissent. www.documentcloud.org/documents/25...

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The NYPD admitted to Streetsblog yesterday that the agency's criminalization of cycling is not driven by data. Instead it's driven by complaining at public forums, which are not representative of the entire city.

submitted 15 days ago • 4 comments

This war is not just about death. It is about making life impossible.

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Here is the grad speech that NYU is now withholding the student's diploma for: "As I search my heart today in addressing you all…the only thing that is appropriate to say in this time and to a group this large is a recognition of the atrocities currently happening in Palestine."

submitted 14 days ago • 124 comments

6 pedestrians have died this year, and still the City has no #VisionZeroSF policy or plan for traffic safety. We need you at City Hall on Monday to demand real commitments & actions to keep us safe. RSVP now at walksf.org/may19 @sdaction.org #VisionZeroSF

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BREAKING: Court orders Georgetown scholar Badar Khan Suri to be freed from ICE detention. Dr. Khan Suri — whose research focuses on peace building — was detained by the Trump administration two months ago. Follows the freeing of Mohsen Mahdawi & Rumeysa Ozturk.

submitted 15 days ago • 21 comments

Ben of Ben & Jerry’s arrested after confronting RFK Jr. & Congress: "They need to let food into Gaza. They need to let food to starving kids! Congress is paying to bomb poor kids in Gaza, and paying for it by kicking poor kids off Medicaid in the US!"

submitted 15 days ago • 365 comments

Working on a mapping project to show Berkeley's retail & commercial vacancies. It uses openstreetmap data extracted to geojson. You can try it here. Just press filter. jw997.github.io/osm-vacancies/

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HAPPENING NOW: Hearing in the case of Kaseniia Petrova, the Harvard scientist from Russia who was detained by ICE after she failed to declare scientific samples when she returned to the US from France. The hearing is before a federal judge in Vermont. 🧵

submitted 15 days ago • 54 comments

BREAKING: Israeli Forces Kill 12-Year-Old Eyewitness to Rafah Paramedic Massacre Mohammed Bardawil, 12, was shot and killed by Israeli forces in the Mawasi area of Gaza this week.

submitted 16 days ago • 4 comments

This is a death sentence for the brave Afghanis who supported our war against the Taliban. It will also pose grave risk to our servicemen and women in future conflicts b/c locals will never trust or work with us again. thehill.com/policy/natio...

submitted 16 days ago • 10 comments

the wave.

submitted 17 days ago • 5 comments

Abolish ICE. I am having nightmares about these incidents and waking up absolutely frozen in fear... and I'm not the one living them. This is terror, this is fascism. We must end this nightmare.

submitted 18 days ago • 48 comments

Israel is preventing the WHO from sending incubators into Gaza. Think about how savage, how barbaric, how evil, you have to be to defend that and defend the government doing that.

submitted 19 days ago • 109 comments

Newark Mayor Ras Baraka has been released after he was arrested for allegedly trespassing at an ICE facility in New Jersey pix11.com/news/local-n...

submitted 19 days ago • 306 comments