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Wrote about Briana Loewinsohn's super-nostalgic East Bay graphic novel for teens, which is about about the power and magic of handwritten notes! (Ideally, in my experience, written on cute Sanrio stationery and folded up into a little triangle.) www.kqed.org/arts/1397213...

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“If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.” A classic quote from Malcolm X, who was assassinated 60 years ago today.

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Federal workers launch a new site to share inside information about DOGE

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The thing about social media is that when you open an app and see good news, you should repost it, stop scrolling, and close your browser. Don't keep putting money in the slot machine once you've won the jackpot. Take your cute dog photos and go before you get 5 more planes falling out of the sky.

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I’m old. I had a strange experience recently trying to explain to a young self proclaimed activist what a phone tree was. that way if any one person’s phone records were caught up they only got 5 or 10 other names and numbers at most. That also is how my name rarely if ever showed up in press.

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that normalcy bias gets em every time.

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Wait wait here me out sometimes news can be good

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Another way to put this: Musk and his twerps have exposed us to pandemics, broken science, stolen all your data, endangered the U.S. payments system, threatened air traffic control, and cut off HIV medication to 20m people in order to save ::checks notes:: 2/10th of a percent of the federal budget.

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Happy Black History Month

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Fictional villains: my motivation involves a complex backstory around lost love and a deep yearning to be understood Real life villains: being cruel makes me feel like a big strong man

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What is in your psychological go-bag for surviving resilience targeting? www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/flip...

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REVEALED: we identified the operator of an overtly racist X account, "GlomarResponder," as ICE Assistant Chief Counsel James Rodden, based on an overwhelming number of biographical details matched through publicly available documents, other social media activity, and courtroom observation.

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"We've added A.I. to--" me:

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NEW: DOGE put a $1 spending limit on government employee credit cards. Employees say overspending and fraud in the program was exceedingly rare. www.wired.com/story/doge-g...

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NEW: Pregnancy became far more dangerous in Texas after the state banned abortion, according to ProPublica’s first-of-its-kind analysis, which found the sepsis rate for women hospitalized as they miscarried in the 2nd trimester shot up by more than 50%. https://propub.li/43487Tj

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All—and i mean ALL—Democrats need to do is say "Republicans don't like Dolly Parton teaching kids how to read" and yet...here we wait

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The very idea of an under-taxed billionaire slashing and burning vital government programs and agencies to “save money” is obscene.

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Stand by this: www.politico.com/newsletters/...

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Tomorrow, join us from 5:30-6:30 pm for a free event about the extent and impact of Oakland's lead crisis and how to fix it. RSVP link below! 👇

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As they solemnly commemorate the incarceration of their ancestors, Japanese Americans, including leading figures in the Bay Area, are calling for solidarity with Latinos and other communities' advocates against Donald Trump's immigration policies. oaklandside.org/2025/02/19/w...

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I think most people are intuitively aware of this but something like the official White House account posting an “ASMR” video of shackled immigrants is not just cruel for its own sake, it’s intentional envelope-pushing to ramp up to desensitization over inhumane detention, camps, and deaths

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Brazil shows that it can be done. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/18/w...

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This is an extraordinary document of a moment of extraordinary clarity and courage. We’ve read stories about the people who are impacted, but precious few accounts from the people who have been impacted.

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What's in your "psychological go-bag" these days? www.psychologytoday.com/intl/blog/fl...

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"the ongoing war in the Gaza Strip generated a life expectancy loss of more than 30 years during the first 12 months of the war, nearly halving prewar levels. Actual losses are likely to be higher." Horrifying findings by demographics experts in The Lancet. www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

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Even if your strategy is "let's win the midterms" (living in delusion there will be legit elections), we do that by making Trump and MAGA unpopular. That means denying them any and every "win," from nominees to any legislation. Anything that affirms their actions, affirms them.

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All they do is blow up rockets - why is this even being allowed or contemplated

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How many other billionaire tech robber barons with Big Data agendas are seething from the jealous realization that they could have taken this shortcut? Just buy an election to access previously unpillaged federal systems and acquire all the data they need to sell and/or train their clunky AI models

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(Online) @covidisntover.bsky.social has a community calendar with lots of free weekly virtual events and hangouts! ⬇️⬇️ sites.google.com/view/covidis...

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Your latest reminder to move all your group chats to signal if you haven't already 🫡

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I have been teaching in higher ed for almost a decade, and I have not gone one semester without a student telling me I’m the first Black professor (sometimes Black teacher period) they have ever had. But yet “DEI”, “affirmative action”, etc are supposedly taking all the jobs away from white people.

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Another way the dictatorship might kill you. This is from a friend who is a retired air traffic controller.

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