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Former Cali girl and Business School professor. Consultant and innovation/entrepreneurship mentor.
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More people went to DC to see the Red Bull demonstration.

“This spring, Vienna passed a historic climate law, outlining a plan to get its climate pollution down to zero by 2040. Leaders see the city's vast social housing program as a critical tool. Vienna has two types of social housing: city-owned & city-subsidized.” @npr.org www.npr.org/2025/06/15/n...

You’re seeing a lot on TV rn about force and misconduct in Los Angeles sheriff department's role. Well, here’s what happened when someone tried to get serious about bringing accountability to the department: she faced huge pushback… and now she faces criminal charges. boltsmag.org/the-curious-...

It is clear that there is something about the configuration of modern society - how we communicate, how we gain attention, the way ideas gain popularity - that leads to the continual advancement of extremist beliefs, especially on the right. Our job is to figure out what that is, and shut it down.

Asking one more time: How does a newspaper with such a high level of self-esteem so regularly fail to meet the moment?

Just received this encouraging update from Senator Hoffman's wife, Yvette, on their recovery in the hospital. Grateful for their progress and will continue to keep them in our prayers.

Mike Lee's bullshit serves multiple purposes. In one fell swoop, he is refocusing the discourse on whether this was RW violence as opposed to what we do about RW violence; avoiding condemning right-wing violence without openly approving it; and justifying criminalization of left-wing dissent.

This bill is not about the American people, it’s about the millionaires and billionaires and enriching themselves! l.smartnews.com/p-lLqSpPH/u8...

Finally, someone noticed that Medicaid dollars go to healthcare providers, not patients. EVEN patients "who play video games." www.healthaffairs.org/content/fore...

We weren’t protesting the Army.

The strategy that Paris and Mayor @annehidalgo.bsky.social have used since her 2014 election has been a master class. Step by step, reflective of conditions & context (most in the city don’t drive), focused on quality of life, avoiding polarizing slogans, using referendums, proving it works. Smart.

Geese for Peace ❤️

The president of a meat-processing plant in Nebraska says there's "no playbook" on how to move forward after 76 workers were arrested.

Minnesota noice

The Hortman family helped raise and train dogs to partner with veterans. One of the many reasons we will miss Melissa and Mark.

I was looking for a good overhead shot of the crowd in NYC. This would explain why we literally couldn’t move for ages! Good job neighbors!

Also, the way that every event, no matter how shocking or horrible or unprecedented, gets fed into the far-right social media hallucination machine, and twisted beyond recognition until it supports the far-right's own nonsensical worldview, is the very core of why we are where we are as a society.

If there’s one thing I learned from the war in Afghanistan that’s relevant today, it’s this: The US Army is very good at poorly doing things it doesn’t want to do

This is how it’s done! 👊🏿👊🏾👊🏽👊🏼👊🏻

Several hundred people in Baraboo, Wisconsin. A little town with some intense tensions around race and politics... #nokinga

LAPD radio comms. Can't make this up, y'all.

#nokingsday #nokings #savedemocracy

I understand why Democrats are being restrained about this but the right's effort to lie about what happened here is incredibly disrespectful to the victims and requires vociferous pushback. The shooter appears to have been an anti-abortion zealot and a Trump voter. Don't let them avoid this.

This is my favorite sign from Seattle #NoKings March. It’s 100% Pacific Northwest mood 😁

Quick, if not sooner.

Excellent job, Ocala Officers. They arrested a Proud Boy who was trying to mess with protesters

The @startribune.com has lifted its paywall on its coverage of the lawmakers being fatally shot in Minnesota. Link below: startribune.com/brooklyn-par...

There’s been a big resurgence of interest in “natural law” among evangelicals in the past few years, and it seems part of a larger ongoing effort to freeze us to a static and permanent societal order that is highly resistant to change—all biblically mandated, of course…

spoken like a diehard White Sox fan

One last post tonight: 34 arrests were made today involving MAGA individuals. Thank you to everyone who helped keep watch.

political press is doing a real disservice by basically not reporting the nuances of public opinion on deportations, and creating the appearance that most americans support the stephen miller-style gestapo tactics

Home is here. Dreamers enrich our communities, contribute to our economy, and make our country better. They’re Americans in every way that counts.   For 13 years, DACA has changed lives. We must continue fighting for permanent protections and pathways to citizenship.

I hope every elected official, business owner, university president, and media executive sees the millions of people out in the streets today and understands: If we fight back, this is the power on our side.

I doubt anyone will see me post, but this needs to be known... if you have a visible following please repost 💙🔥💙 Admitting he wants "his people... aka US " to behave like north Korea for Kim Jong Un.🤬

This is a United States Senator mocking the assassination of a Minnesota legislator and her husband. He pretends to be a good Mormon. He’s a sick fuck.

So it’s just going to be every cops everywhere now that uses excessive force upon people and violates their constitutional rights. This is Charleston, SC and they did this for all of 10 people just exercising their first amendment.

If Noem doesn’t know who the California senator is, what else doesn’t she know?

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Israel Is Destroying The Largest Gas Field In The World… Share. youtu.be/T-B0ZlvvKvY?...

𝐈𝐭 𝐢𝐬 𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐰𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐛𝐞𝐭𝐰𝐞𝐞𝐧 𝟖 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝟏𝟏 𝐦𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐭𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐬 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐞𝐞𝐭𝐬 𝐲𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐝𝐚𝐲.

Wow. I was minutes away from being in this. 😳 It was peaceful. That bridge had protesters showing signs & flags they were getting solidarity honks from the cars on the freeway below. This is a violation of 1st Amendment rights.

Some of the media overestimation of public support for Trump’s deportation spectacle of cruelty is likely due to xenophobic journalists projecting their own feelings onto the public. They see the world the way they are.

“When they slaughtered Congress, we didn't wake up. When they blamed terrorists and suspended the constitution, we didn't wake up then, either. Nothing changes instantaneously. In a gradually heating bathtub, you'd be boiled to death before you knew it.” —Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale

Since this article was published in 2018, billionaires have increased their wealth by $7 trillion, and an estimated 254,000 people in the U.S. have died because they couldn’t access or afford healthcare. Healthcare shouldn’t be for-profit.

Bizarrely, it appears that Trump’s nominee to lead the FAA has been lying about holding a commercial pilot license www.politico.com/news/2025/06... #aviation

Even Mother Nature is done with Felon47’s bullshit.