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Longtime Bay Area arts journalist and occasional playwright turned mailman. I could tell you stories.

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he means Jews and Catholics too, he just doesn’t feel as empowered to say it

not to mention even the most Evangelical-churchgoing Black and brown people

10.03.2026 00:37 πŸ‘ 21 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

According to DOGE flunky, a documentary about the experiences of Jewish women's slave labor during the Holocaust is "inherently discriminatory." Come ON.

09.03.2026 15:52 πŸ‘ 668 πŸ” 229 πŸ’¬ 35 πŸ“Œ 28

Trump's a genocidal lying fascist who is also an incompetent dolt. You cannot go wrong by simply opposing everything he does.

09.03.2026 05:03 πŸ‘ 427 πŸ” 101 πŸ’¬ 5 πŸ“Œ 3

The Discourse has become sort of numb to the fact that the richest guy on earth and owner of a major social media platform just routinely spits out the kind of nakedly white supremacist shit that until a decade ago you rarely saw outside of places like Stormfront.

09.03.2026 04:04 πŸ‘ 3625 πŸ” 898 πŸ’¬ 24 πŸ“Œ 25
Book cover: The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms by N.K. Jemisin

Book cover: The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms by N.K. Jemisin

11. I dunno if it was the best idea to read the first book of a Jemisin trilogy and then immediately start reading an entirely different Jemisin trilogy, but I dug it anyway. This intricate fantasy involves a floating city, captive gods, and a young woman uncovering buried secrets. #booksky

09.03.2026 02:12 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Audiobook cover: Divisadero by Michael Ondaatje, read by Hope Davis

Audiobook cover: Divisadero by Michael Ondaatje, read by Hope Davis

10. Despite the title, this pleasantly convoluted novel doesn't spend all that much time in San Francisco. It follows several characters all over the place--wandering gamblers, thieves, academics and poets--from a Northern California farm to literary France and Nevada gambling dens. #booksky

09.03.2026 01:27 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Book cover: Penguin Classics edition of Lucretius: On the Nature of the Universe. Image is an ancient fresco of a young woman looking thoughtful.

Book cover: Penguin Classics edition of Lucretius: On the Nature of the Universe. Image is an ancient fresco of a young woman looking thoughtful.

I read this for a class in college in my teens, setting me up for a lifetime of gender confusion every time I see that fresco.

08.03.2026 21:06 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Real answer: This way it’s smaller and harder to read.

08.03.2026 19:14 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Living in the Bay Area, my first thought seeing that picture was wow, that’s like it was here last week! It had already gone up a lot recently, and this week of course it’s much worse.

08.03.2026 19:13 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

USUALLY presidents getting blame or taking credit for gas prices (or local crime rates, or etc etc) is dumb, because it’s a commodity whose price is set on a global market, USUALLY for reasons having little to do with the White House’s occupant. But this is 100% directly Trump’s fault.

08.03.2026 14:36 πŸ‘ 3268 πŸ” 726 πŸ’¬ 7 πŸ“Œ 12

It's extremely clear that the US doesn't really have an objective here except to inflict maximum pain, and attacking water supply is going to end catastrophically for the entire region. It's not just a war crime, it's approaching a crime against humanity.

08.03.2026 09:40 πŸ‘ 1587 πŸ” 485 πŸ’¬ 24 πŸ“Œ 13

Fox ran older footage but labeled it as happening Saturday.

08.03.2026 14:00 πŸ‘ 4645 πŸ” 1358 πŸ’¬ 207 πŸ“Œ 91

The constituency of Americans who see DEI as detrimental to the country is vanishingly small, the sort of constituency that can easily be ignored if politicians want to ignore it.

08.03.2026 13:33 πŸ‘ 1768 πŸ” 457 πŸ’¬ 39 πŸ“Œ 47

It's wild how there are at least 20-30 people in the Trump administration who are each,, somehow, the most contemptible person you've ever seen in your life. Just an M.C. Escher staircase of loathsomeness.

07.03.2026 02:33 πŸ‘ 418 πŸ” 61 πŸ’¬ 7 πŸ“Œ 1

Worth watching the whole clip, but purely in propaganda terms it seems to me, admittedly just an amateur observer when it comes to war fighting, that it may be useful to send the message to the 91+ million Iranian civilians that we are not trying to kill them.

07.03.2026 02:19 πŸ‘ 4334 πŸ” 788 πŸ’¬ 329 πŸ“Œ 39
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BREAKING: The US has bombed Tehran’s main refinery and burning oil is now flooding down the streets into the city’s sewers.

This is a vision from hell, unleashed by the US tonight.

(πŸŽ₯ Vahid Online)

08.03.2026 01:10 πŸ‘ 9453 πŸ” 5691 πŸ’¬ 961 πŸ“Œ 1053
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08.03.2026 00:57 πŸ‘ 8030 πŸ” 3659 πŸ’¬ 454 πŸ“Œ 253

Did that (from
Oakland) for a couple years circa 83. NEVER AGAIN.

08.03.2026 05:00 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Chlorine Dioxide, Raw Camel Milk: The FDA No Longer Warns Against These and Other Ineffective Autism Treatments The FDA has taken down a webpage warning about therapies and products making β€œfalse claims” of treating autism. It’s part of a series of actions the agency has taken under Secretary Robert F. Kennedy ...

The FDA webpage had a stark warning: Some purported autism β€œcures” or treatments, including chlorine dioxide and raw camel milk, are dangerous and make misleading claims.

Now, under RFK Jr.’s leadership, that advisory is gone.

06.03.2026 04:00 πŸ‘ 1091 πŸ” 479 πŸ’¬ 74 πŸ“Œ 51
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Exclusive: US investigation points to likely US responsibility in Iran school strike, sources say Military investigators believe it is likely that U.S. forces were responsible for an apparent strike on an Iranian girls' school that killed scores of children on Saturday, two U.S. officials told Reu...

Reuters Exclusive

"U.S. military investigators believe it is likely that U.S. forces were responsible for an apparent strike on an Iranian girls' school."

"The strike would rank among the worst cases of civilian casualties in decades of U.S. conflicts in the ​Middle East."

06.03.2026 02:50 πŸ‘ 10011 πŸ” 5278 πŸ’¬ 628 πŸ“Œ 639
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πŸ‘€ gulf states pulling back from the warner bros deal to pressure Trump

P.S. why would anyone come to the World Cup here after all this?

06.03.2026 03:32 πŸ‘ 914 πŸ” 265 πŸ’¬ 45 πŸ“Œ 22

Kristi Noem has done a stunning amount of damage and it’s good she’s gone.

But this doesn’t change the fact that we need a complete overhaul of DHS, impartial investigations into the killings of two American citizens, and information on children that were taken from Minnesota.

05.03.2026 19:38 πŸ‘ 40361 πŸ” 9114 πŸ’¬ 1493 πŸ“Œ 307
A Reductress post features a photo of Kristi Noem with the headline, β€œKristi Noem Put Down for Being Too Hard to Train”

A Reductress post features a photo of Kristi Noem with the headline, β€œKristi Noem Put Down for Being Too Hard to Train”

Screaming

05.03.2026 22:00 πŸ‘ 16540 πŸ” 3359 πŸ’¬ 259 πŸ“Œ 175

We don’t have the cards.

06.03.2026 03:15 πŸ‘ 11 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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US asked Ukraine for help fighting Iranian drones, Zelensky says Ukraine's president says Kyiv will only help if doing so does not deplete its own air defences.

w e a s k e d w h o f o r w h a t n o w

06.03.2026 01:13 πŸ‘ 1353 πŸ” 302 πŸ’¬ 32 πŸ“Œ 112
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β€œHe had a feeling” is a crazy reason to start a war

04.03.2026 20:22 πŸ‘ 4078 πŸ” 1096 πŸ’¬ 333 πŸ“Œ 108

Republican Senator Tim Sheehy lied, claiming he jumped in to help β€œdeescalate the situation”

In reality, he ran in and grabbed the man’s legs-forcibly trying to drag him out

It looks like Sheehy helped break this Marine’s arm

Just because-like most MAGA-he wanted to silence an opponent’s voice

05.03.2026 03:41 πŸ‘ 1244 πŸ” 584 πŸ’¬ 106 πŸ“Œ 27

It is so damning of US news media that so many outlets refuse to just straight up say that Senator Tim Sheehy assaulted an activist.

He did not "help" Capitol police. They did not need his help. He wanted to assault the guy and did. He should resign.

05.03.2026 03:28 πŸ‘ 20124 πŸ” 5699 πŸ’¬ 512 πŸ“Œ 220

This keeps happening

05.03.2026 03:45 πŸ‘ 2014 πŸ” 613 πŸ’¬ 90 πŸ“Œ 23
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Florence ICE detainee dead after untreated tooth infection, official says An ICE detainee, who had been at a Florence detention center for four months, died Monday following an untreated tooth infection.

An ICE detainee in Arizona has died of a TOOTH INFECTION after it went untreated for weeks, a local official says. He was a Haitian asylum seeker imprisoned in Florence, Arizona. @emilybregel.bsky.social reports.
tucson.com/news/local/b...

04.03.2026 16:24 πŸ‘ 2932 πŸ” 1782 πŸ’¬ 168 πŸ“Œ 339