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interesting insight about why our electricity rates keep going up & so do utility profits every $1 they invest in infrastructure, their stock market value increases by $2, incentivized by lack of state action on this to spend $$$ -- which could change in March www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/open...

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my first little neighborhood in SF :’)

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I'll never forget visiting Manzanar, and wish every American could visit sites like this

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Of the $26m for extra help at schools this year, just $1m has been spent as of September One big reason, that SFUSD & DCYF won’t acknowledge publicly? The state imposed hiring freeze that has tied up pretty much all grant spending this year — even when the money is there

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The way democracy functions has shifted. The internet has changed it forever. There is no going back. The Trump administration understands this. And the only way to beat them is to accept this, as well. Happy President's Day. www.garbageday.email/p/you-can-ne...

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As a political scientist who studies countries that managed to stop the slide into authoritarianism, I can assure you that refraining from provoking the authoritarian is not how it works. Without further ado, I will now go tear out another chunk of hair.

submitted 7 days ago • 274 comments

you can look at this and say we're divided or you can look at this and say that a majority of americans oppose every one of these things

submitted 9 days ago • 112 comments

Cool Zone intensifying

submitted 8 days ago • 46 comments

masking sometimes is better than never! this is a great and actionable recommendation

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Yes, people dislike wearing face masks but reality is that with all the viruses circulating (COVID, bird flu, regular flu, RSV) you can choose to be a little uncomfortable wearing a mask in public -or- you can choose to be sick constantly. That's what our options are really coming down to.

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JUST IN: MAGA hat and DOGE t-shirt clad men demanded access to files at San Francisco City Hall today. They were refused and fled. Sheriff's department says they believe the men were impersonators. via @miss-elenius.bsky.social missionlocal.org/2025/02/sf-m...

submitted 9 days ago • 4 comments

Teachers hiding Harriet Tubman posters, origami paper cranes, and rainbows from schools bc they were terrified that Hegseths would see them as “signs of Black, Japanese and gay culture” in violation “of the new rules from Washington.” This is so beyond dark. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/13/w...

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One of those cases where no amount of consistent stories and investigative reporting and advocacy pointing to this being a dicey idea was going to sway voters

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This is unreal.

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Actually, this is exactly the kind of thing I was thinking about. There were a thousand little complex procedural things that happened after the night of martial law, and conservatives were successfully dragging their heels on impeachment. The opposition party fought them tooth and nail in comms —

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last year was the deadliest year for journalists, by @pressfreedom.bsky.social's count "At least 124 journalists and media workers were killed last year, nearly two-thirds of them Palestinians killed by Israel." cpj.org/special-repo...

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“If a married woman hasn’t paid $130 to update her passport —assuming she has one, which only about half of Americans do— she may not be able to vote in the next election if the SAVE Act becomes law,” @wendyweiser.bsky.social tells Glamour

submitted 11 days ago • 81 comments

this tech PR guy got his first tattoo predicting an AI breakthrough based on cryptic hints from Sam Altman and put it in an op-ed lmao

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My latest. As journalists and writers, we have a duty to use language that is accurate and describes our current reality. I’m no longer going to talk about DEI/Anti-DEI. Let’s be clear. We are facing racial purges and re-segregation. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

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what I love about using my mom’s car is I never have to adjust the seat and mirrors or hear her say “looks like a little gnome got in here again” when she gets back in the drivers seat

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Just imagine if that had happened to an American, French, not to mention Israeli pregnant woman. It would have been headline news - rightly so - everywhere. But not so when a Palestinian 8-month pregnant woman is shot dead. Then it is not newsworthy... www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/2/...

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I can’t remember putting this many dog ears on a book @anatosaurus.bsky.social in The Persuaders by @anandwrites.bsky.social

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Incredible to think how hard Merrick Garland worked for four years to avoid even the remotest appearance of partisanship or ideological commitments, and literally on her first day as AG Pam Bondi is like "Diversity is now illegal, we will be putting all the libs in prison"

submitted 18 days ago • 237 comments

it would be very cheesy to quote post something like "welcome to bsky SPJ NorCal!" since i am currently the one running this new ship but i would like to call your attention here to give us a follow and help us find our people again :)

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they are mostly targeting black employees so this is quite literally just a repeat of woodrow wilson’s segregationist purge of the federal government

submitted 19 days ago • 1280 comments

Very serious Democratic strategists advise the party to allow Trump to illegally dismantle USAID -- a decision that will result in the unnecessary deaths of people around the world. www.politico.com/news/magazin...

submitted 19 days ago • 1076 comments

You should print out your Social Security Statement. Elon and who knows how many countless others now have access to your private information, so it'd be wise to have a record of it.

submitted 19 days ago • 286 comments

controversial as in "consistently called attention to issues of police misconduct and racial profiling" and exposing Breed's practice of forcing appointees to sign undated resignation letters

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“At least some DOGE staffers have gained access to multiple sensitive internal systems, the people said, including a financial aid dataset that contains the personal information for millions of students enrolled in the federal student aid program.”

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There are literally not enough journalists employed in the US to cover the bad shit that is happening right now. We are now going to experience the social consequences of a weakened news industry--which are the same as the benefits of a weakened news industry, to those who weakened it.

submitted 21 days ago • 329 comments

This is a really great guide on making Signal more secure!

submitted 21 days ago • 5 comments

I want to spell out the basic reason it’s so dangerous for Elon to have control of the U.S. payments system. It may seem like a technical matter, but the dynamics are simple. 1/x

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hey so now that god knows what is happening to our sensitive data at the behest of our own govt, it's as good a time as ever to freeze your credit to limit identity theft you can easily freeze & unfreeze as needed through the 3 main credit bureaus www.usa.gov/credit-freeze

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A man who has shown himself to be deeply sympathetic to Nazism might now have all of our Social Security numbers. That is a statement that would have seemed like absurd liberal hyperbole a few years ago, but is now just a neutral statement of fact.

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I sound like a broken record, but to understand what's happening in government look to Musk's Twitter purchase. Before Musk officially closed his deal for Twitter in Oct. 2022, his team demanded that the company freeze all payments to outside contractors and vendors. bsky.app/profile/eric...

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NEW: Elon Musk's team has hijacked massive datasets of government worker DOBs, home addresses, social security numbers, length of service, and performance evals - revoking the access of OPM career officials. www.reuters.com/world/us/mus...

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For a photo op & a bragging media post, Trump minions at the USACoE have thrown away millions of gals of #water farmers were relying on for later this year. This water will not be captured, will not be useful for cities or farms or firefighting. It is now lost. www.latimes.com/environment/...

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my outsider perspective on US politics is that it seems like i spend 4 years getting told the democrats can't do the thing because they need just one more vote, and then the republicans get in and can do whatever they want because half of the democrats vote with them

submitted 23 days ago • 190 comments

"I had not touched a cat in 15 years when an orange kitten wandered over to sit with me in the grass one day. I was left without adequate words to describe that experience. It reminded me that I am alive."

submitted 24 days ago • 31 comments

one good thing going for me personally during this wretched month is that my 10-year-old cat has suddenly decided to be an angel through the night instead of walking around my head at 4am for food an automatic feeder would give her at 4:30am 🎉 never too late to change our ways y’all

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No criminal record, married to a U.S. citizen, and was already going through the long and difficult process of getting a green card. Currently locked in ICE detention.

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