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Progressive. Wide interests. Mostly posting about politics (including follow the money), climate change, funny stuff. ME/CFS, MCAS, Fibro.
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This! Photos: ‘Distress flag’ towers over Yosemite to protest cuts as crowds view firefall www.sfchronicle.com/outdoors/art...

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California regulators suggest ending rooftop solar subsidies for homeowners 😠 ““Why are we trying to punish customers we asked to do a good deed?” McCann said. “ www.sfchronicle.com/climate/arti...

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California’s almond crop threatened by ‘catastrophic’ honeybee losses 1/2 www.sfchronicle.com/climate/arti...

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One of my tools as a critic had been a Twitter list called, "Top Journalism Linkers." Designed so that I could survey the space. It was the first thing I read in the morning. When I left it had 6.8K users. Over the weekend I rebuilt it for Bluesky. You can subscribe. bsky.app/profile/jayr...

submitted 2 days ago • 35 comments

Pay attention to this. Replacing JAGs with loyalists enables whatever orders Trump and Hegseth issue to be interpreted as lawful.

submitted 1 day ago • 448 comments

Wow. All happening fast.

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Piece on how our key economic indicators don’t reflect reality for many. “The bottom line is that, for 20 years or more, including the months prior to the election, voter perception was more reflective of reality than the incumbent statistics.”🧵 www.politico.com/news/magazin...

submitted 2 days ago • 6 comments

Keep scrolling if you’ve already watched a baby flamingo splashing his feet in the water today 🦩

submitted 3 days ago • 151 comments

“Researchers from UC Riverside and Caltech project that AI-induced pollution will exceed that of cars by the end of the decade.” www.sfexaminer.com/news/technol...

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🧵 www.latimes.com/politics/sto...

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Link to post with good research highlights about non-violent resistance.

submitted 4 days ago • 2 comments

👏 “A small team of data librarians has been actively searching for data assumed at risk and sending the datasets and documentation to …a crowd-sourced repository for government data. In the past week, they have sent data from IMLS, the Department of Education, FEMA, HUD, SAMSHA, and more.”

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We can overcome fascism! Please watch scholar & expert, Dr. Chenoweth, explain her findings showing sustained nonviolent civil resistance is far more successful than violent campaigns. We only need 3.5% (11.7 million) of our population to achieve our objectives. youtu.be/YJSehRlU34w?...

submitted 5 days ago • 19 comments

Stay active, friends. Nolite Te Bastardes Carborundorum. #USProtests #50501Protests #FightFacism

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🧵 A quarter of US shoppers have dumped favorite stores over political stances

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Elon Musk’s X blocks links to Signal, the encrypted messaging service Signal has been a primary method of communication for federal workers looking to blow the whistle on DOGE www.disruptionist.com/p/elon-musks...

submitted 6 days ago • 59 comments

Irvine, CA Trump protest march today. Good turnout, maybe 200 people. Lots of vigor, met some great people. Thanks, Jewel, for organizing. #protests #protest

submitted 5 days ago • 2 comments

Excellent turnout in Santa Rosa, Ca. today. Heartening. #Protests #NotMyPresidentDay #VeteransForPeace

submitted 5 days ago • 13 comments

‘No kings on Presidents Day’: Hundreds protest Trump and Musk at S.F. City Hall, Tesla dealership www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/p...

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FANTASTIC ICPSR at U Mich is coordinating the archiving of at-risk federal data (all of it?) You can upload data you have & search for data you don’t have www.datalumos.org/datalumos/

submitted 9 days ago • 9 comments

🧵Who is opposing the Trump administration? I analysed 76 actions of the administration since inauguration and then searched for *meaningful* opposition to each. I grouped the types of opposition and considered what we can learn from both them & actions where opposition has been lacking 1/24

submitted 6 days ago • 82 comments

My favorite from today’s 50501 March in Boston.

submitted 6 days ago • 134 comments

We just published our first feed! Please share to amplify credible Black voices in national politics. #AddToBlacksky

submitted 17 days ago • 13 comments

There hasn’t been much national news of today’s protests, but I want to shout out the ones that acknowledged us @usatoday.com www.usatoday.com/story/news/n... @apnews.com apnews.com/article/pres... 1/2

submitted 6 days ago • 11 comments

Protest photos from Berkeley, CA today.

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment