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Artist focused on democracy and the environment • former environmental prosecutor and prof • art posted here ©️ all rights reserved Gallery: The Grand Gallery Oakland https://helenjungsun.wixsite.com/helenjungsun
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An immigrant who has committed a crime can be prosecuted and removed, says the @aclu.org‬’s Lee Gelernt, but “It does not mean they can be subjected to a potentially lifetime sentence in a foreign gulag.” With @texastribune.org‬, @cazadoresdefakenews.info‬ & Alianza Rebelde Investiga

“the private prison company … has a contract with the Trump administration worth $1 billion over 15 years” www.nytimes.com/2025/06/03/n...

I’ll be at Grand Gallery Oakland three days of the two upcoming weekends. When: Saturday May 31, Sunday June 1, and Saturday June 7, from 11 to 5 Where: 560 2d Street, Oakland (Jack London Square) What: The gallery is participating in East Bay Open Studios. I have some new works to show.

Border Patrol is conducting legally dubious raids across California — and bragging about it online www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/arti...

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Trump administration is terminating $2.7 billion in research funding to Harvard: Work on breast cancer, impact of nutrition on fertility, antibiotic resistance and hundreds of other topics all dead “It feels like the academic equivalent of nuclear war" www.wbur.org/news/2025/05...

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The American democratic republic has died. It was 236 years old www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/open...

MEMBERS OF THE DC BAR: THIS MESSAGE IS FOR YOU—PLEASE VOTE FOR DIANE SELTZER (@whatajlp.bsky.social) 👉👉👉👉👉

wrote about the importance of ambition and political leadership

We've updated Drilled's guide to global climate disinformation: drilled.media/news/disinfo... Let me know what we're missing!

And if people don't die, their homes will be destroyed. Everyone remember the 2021 TX freeze? $27bn+ adjusted for inflation, much of it from burst pipes in a power outage? www.ncei.noaa.gov/access/billi... Pro tips: This ⬇️ is bad for houses.

Trump promised a golden age. Instead we are in a #GrotesqueAge: -The Trump Administration is assaulting due process -Violent criminals receiving pardons -American companies like Mack Trucks laying off workers due to Trump’s tariffs. Make your voices heard on April 19.

The Trumpies -- and, in this case, a supportive chorus of Very Serious Centrists -- are horny to export more natural gas as LNG. A new report finds that, as exports rise, so does the price of domestic natural gas, which fucks over US consumers.

This is a bummer: the Minnesota legislature, which has done so much great stuff the last few years, is contemplating a bill that would have devastating effects on distributed solar in the state.

California fines oil company $18 million for defying orders to stop pipeline work www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/arti...

New ‘distress flag’ hung atop a prominent peak in Tahoe National Forest www.sfchronicle.com/outdoors/art...

NEW: Federal immigration enforcement moved through western Kansas and detained several people this week. This region has a large immigrant population that is vital to the agriculture sector.

Email from campus admin says F-1 visas were revoked for 12 San Jose State University students.

For 75 years, every time any U.S. state has requested epidemiologic assistance (an “Epi-Aid”), CDC sent disease detectives. Now, Wisconsin has asked for help to address newly discovered lead poisoning in Milwaukee. But all CDC experts in lead poisoning were just fired.

The House just passed its budget resolution, so reconciliation is now officially underway. This is their bill to destroy Medicaid and SNAP while cutting taxes disproportionately for the rich. THIS IS VERY REAL and can be enacted even if all Ds vote no. Thread on what's to come and WHERE TO FIGHT.

🚨BREAKING: U.S. House passed GOP voter suppression law. 220-208. Every Republican voted to disenfranchise millions. It now goes onto the Senate where Democrats will be able to block it.

JUST IN: Trump must face defamation lawsuit from 'Central Park Five' defendants reut.rs/4j3QVm5

NEW: At least 2,700 employees — roughly 17% of its staff — have applied to resign from the US Department of Energy. The departures could gut the agency’s in-house bank, as well as its offices focused on bolstering the power grid and U.S. manufacturing. heatmap.news/politics/doe...

Princeton President Chris Eisgruber continues to be such a crucial voice - podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

JUST IN: Three days after a judge awarded $6.6 million to whistleblowers fired for reporting him to the FBI for allegedly using his office to protect a prominent real estate developer in exchange for helping him cheat on his state senator wife, Ken Paxton announces he is running for US Senate.