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My Tenderloin SF food guide. Don’t come if you’re an anti-homeless weirdo. This is for good people. 1. Estrellita Snacks My favorite Salvadoran-Oaxacan restaurant. They have BIRRIA PUPUSA. Their pupusas are all great. I like them more than the well known ones in the Mission. I also like […]

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RE: #ICE using courthouses as a useful stalking ground to ambush American residents. Did the old #SlavePatrols do this also inside courthouses, or would that have been considered a violation of the social rules of the enslavement system? I haven’t yet read the book […]

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Holy sh*t. This is a real xkcd, not funny, disturbing, and also one that must be shared https://xkcd.com/3081/

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https://www.androidauthority.com/google-nest-thermostats-eol-3548272/ I was expecting this as soon as #Google purchased #Nest . I liked the promise of a relationship with a company that would make the hardware I bought from them better over time. That has not been my experience. #SmartHome

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https://www.trains.com/trn/news-reviews/news-wire/virginia-marks-groundbreaking-for-amtrak-extension-to-new-river-valley/ #VirginiaTech #Amtrak #rail #NRV

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Today, Senator Deeds and I penned a letter to Albemarle County requesting more information regarding the presence of plain-clothed Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) agents operating at the Albemarle County Courthouse.

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https://virginiamercury.com/2025/03/25/youngkin-unleashes-veto-storm-to-drown-progressive-legislation/ Complicated legislative year here in #Virginia . I wish we had made more substantive progress in making #housing more affordable in the places it is most needed, but I remain hopeful that we […]

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Is this a cherry tree? I'm pathetically clueless. 😅 #BlossomScrolling #Spring #Nature #Seattle

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A friend told me he was flying to Europe soon. I was shocked and told him I was worried for his safety. He smiled and told me he wasn’t coming back.

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A very pleasant #puppet parade tonight at #UVa in honor of the great #StanWinston . I say more puppets.

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https://dailyboulder.com/ice-can-now-enter-your-home-without-a-warrant-to-find-migrants-doj-memo-says/ “immigration officers can sign their own administrative warrants. The bar for action is low — a “reasonable belief” that someone might be part of a Venezuelan gang is enough.” #USPolitics #privacy

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https://www.cbs19news.com/news/uva-board-of-visitors-to-consider-buying-fei/article_4bcfde9d-01c1-4613-8014-91847b0beb19.html “The agenda does not specify what UVA would use the facility for” #UVa #FederalExecutiveInstitute #cville

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https://apnews.com/article/international-student-status-restored-9e8a7cb90f4193ec52bf06edc5094cd9 “ICE is developing a policy that will provide a framework for SEVIS record terminations. Until such a policy is issued, the SEVIS records for plaintiff(s) in this case (and other similarly situated […]

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https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/duke-university-warning-international-students-b2737198.html “increased risks involved in re-entering into the United States” #travel #HigherEd #detention #Duke #USPolitics

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For my fellow #StarWars #Andor fans who want to hear that last song on loop for the next week and happen to have Spotify https://open.spotify.com/album/7nkWo0ZBZFhxZZhS6fIhVT

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Brief mention on the #Maddow of a protest in #charlottesville over the recent disappearance of two local house painters from the lovely historic courthouse by large anonymous men. I think I talked to them once, they were very funny. They sang Mexican ballads while they worked […]

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https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/24/barnard-college-texts-jewish-faculty “this survey in effect creates a list of Jewish faculty, staff and students at Barnard” #HigherEd #Barnard #USPolitics

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https://cardinalnews.org/2025/04/23/virginias-state-flag-stirred-controversy-in-the-1930s-too-but-not-for-nudity/ “Keck had also designed two statues for Charlottesville: one of the Confederate general Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson and another of the explorers Meriwether Lewis and William Clark […]

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I got in my Time Machine to deliver those who need it an important message from OPSEC of the before time. Long, long ago, when we had OPSEC.

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https://bsky.app/profile/ncoxbarrett.bsky.social/post/3lnlb752r2s23 Dallas is permitting some #MissingMiddle homes to trade costly but important sprinklers for other less expensive fire safety tools. Difficult area for regulatory reform given rising #housing costs and #wildfire risk l. #BuildingCode

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https://gothamist.com/news/feds-accidentally-publish-secret-plan-to-kill-nyc-congestion-pricing “We have been unable to identify a compelling legal argument to support this position” #nyc #CongestionPricing #USPolitics

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"The law, in its majestic equality, forbids rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal their bread." -Anatole France

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🚦Cville/Albemarle survey about proposed changes to 5th Street (eliminating southbound lane for protected bike lane, and various intersection changes between Downtown and Wegmans). Closes 4/30.🚦 docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

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https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/tariff-trade-war-china-beijing-trump-washington-us-economy-markets-rcna202535 classic he said/she said Trade War.

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Just like Apple and Costco, Levi Strauss & Co. was targeted by conservative think tank the National Center for Public Policy Research to drop its DEI programs. And just like those other companies, Levi's said no — more than 99% of shareholders voted against the proposal, a position also taken by […]

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Goldman Sachs shareholders have voted today to reject proposals that their diversity programmes are rolled back, by 98%.

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https://missionlocal.org/2025/04/sf-car-crashes-cost-billions/ one of the challenges in getting funding for safety projects in the U.S. is that the costs of doing nothing are generally unreported and assumed to be zero. Extremely no. Normal is expensive and dangerous. #WarOnCars #SafeStreets

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Like a lot of Gen Xers, I had insufficient MMR vaccination as a baby. I did a blood test a few weeks ago and found out I'm not immune to measles. So I got a booster today. My fellow middle agers: let's make it to old age together. Get tested. Get boosted. 💉

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https://www.retailbrew.com/stories/2025/04/22/target-foot-traffic-down-for-11th-straight-week-after-caving-on-dei “Also just in is traffic data for the full month of February, with Target down 6.5% YoY for the month and Costco—beginning to see a pattern here?—up 7.5%” #Target #Costco #DEI […]

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https://c-ville.com/local-lgbtq-organizers-are-moving-full-steam-ahead-on-a-queer-community-center/ interesting, challenging effort to establish a new public #queer community space in costly #cville on #WestMain years after the last queer clubs and restaurants folded

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Inbox: #CharlottesvilleSchools is formally working to take over the #FederalExecutiveInstitute campus recently vacated by executive order. They would like to use it for preschool and admin space. #cville

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A lot going on in this headline. "Two of the world’s leading battery developers are locked in a technological race that has brought the charging time for an electric vehicle to just five minutes...both of the technological leaders are Chinese." The article is paywalled.

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https://www.cracked.com/article_46285_no-middle-class-family-can-live-like-the-simpsons-anymore-census-shows.html “While the median income of families has risen, inequality means that fewer people have that amount of money.” #Simpsons #housing #inequality #shortage

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There have been many sad and shocking things this year, but also #AskANinja reappeared from the darkness https://youtube.com/@askaninja

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Moynihan Train Hall, Pennsylvania Station, NYC, 2021. Too many pixels, not enough platform space, at https://www.flickr.com/photos/mattblaze/51205135362/ #photography

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https://dailyprogress.com/news/local/crime-courts/article_9ce921d6-5f61-4546-b0c9-ea2287d8bf16.html “It would be unjust should federal enforcement activities in and around local courtrooms have a chilling effect on the appearance of undocumented victims and witnesses” #justice #USPolitics #cville

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https://www.aacu.org/newsroom/a-call-for-constructive-engagement “As leaders of America’s colleges, universities, and scholarly societies, we speak with one voice against the unprecedented government overreach and political interference now endangering American higher education.” #AACU #HigherEd […]

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If you heard about that hacking of the voices of traffic light crosswalks in the US recently, the root cause is the devices all had the password '1234' and an app to reprogram the devices was on the Apple app store. https://www.theregister.com/2025/04/19/us_crosswalk_button_hacking/

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