I think a lot of us millennials & older really take it for granted that we were the last of only a couple generations where there was an all-encompassing campaign to encourage literacy. Everyone used to agree upon it. There were commercials with your favorite celebrities just being like, "READ!"

State Medicaid budgets will decline by $665 billion under new federal law, report finds ohiocapitaljournal.com/2026/03/06/r...

Big birb/little birb #hummingbirds #herons #birbs #oakland

Unfunded inclusionary zoning mandates are de-facto taxes on new housing that worsen the housing shortage because they require homebuilders to rent or sell a percentage of their new homes at a loss. Funded inclusionary zoning, on the other hand, is a great tool to economically integrate new housing.

Use alt text.

Preliminary Pentagon cost estimate of the war in Iran is $1 BILLION a day. So far.

Hey that’s about the cost of the SSI Restoration Act, which would cut recipient poverty by 60%, eliminate marriage penalties, and modernize draconian asset limits.

Ban the fucking polymarkets. Betting on death. Betting on war while Incentivizing death and war. Shaping foreign/domestic policy by rewarding the rich people already in the know and encouraging them to make decisions that destroy the world while padding their pockets. Burn it down.

The media and academia have an obligation to not remain neutral in the face of authoritarianism. These institutions need liberal institutions to exist in any meaningful way. Authoritarianism is an existential threat. Our devotion to "neutrality" will keep us from fighting for our own survival.

Investigative Post obtained this video of Border Patrol abandoning Nurul Shah Alam, the nearly blind Burmese refugee who was found dead www.investigativepost.org/2026/02/26/t...

A cornerstone of fascism is the devaluing and intentional, malicious discarding of #disabled lives. Alam's death is tragic and abhorrent – and yet another sociopathic homicide in a larger war on people with #disabilities.

Arrest them.

if you’re a leftist, you need to understand how widespread it is for white supremacists & fascist conspiracy theorists to use populist language to advance their violent, bigoted agendas. they are not on your side. they do not get grace or uplifted due to being a broken clock.

Hi everyone! I've put my 2014 Surgical Self Portrait on Fine Art America, where you can buy prints and items with the piece on them (from mugs to pillows to T-shirts). I'd love it if you visit the product page and, if you like the piece, purchase a print or share the link with your friends. 1/3

I see lots of people here noting this is part of a part of a larger war on Minnesota... But what I haven't seen so far is that it's part of a larger war on #disabled people (which it is)

Because of the National driver register, since their licenses are suspended, trans folks cannot move to another state and get a new license until they remove the suspension on their existing Kansas license. They can't even escape this by moving to another state.

We obtained the Dilley detention center’s 911 call logs. Among them are pleas for help for toddlers having trouble breathing, a pregnant woman who passed out and an elementary-school-aged girl having seizures.

It is difficult to overstate how quickly & thoroughly & shamefully we have normalized “the president can use federal funding as a cudgel to punish blue states & only blue states on his whim” in our polity & society. Yet another thing that would have ended any other presidency in the modern era.

Abortion was phase I, trans healthcare was phase II, birth control is phase III

If California and other relatively LGBT-friendly states want to be helpful, they're going to need to build a lot more housing.

It's pretty amazing that I'm almost middle-aged and still can't avoid biting the inside of my mouth while eating.

No judgement on his potential success as governor... But it sure would be nice to watch TV without a Tom Steyer commercial nearly every commercial break

So-called “inclusionary zoning” acts as a tax on new housing by requiring home builders to sell or rent a %age of the new homes at a loss. Without funding, IZ only “works” when the market price of new housing is significantly higher than construction costs. I am glad to see Oregon rolling it back.

congrats to everyone, well done, no notes

What a great trio of posts on my feed

Yes. They could have moved much faster to this point and allowed Trump to destroy our alliances and bankrupt small US businesses in the meantime

Trump should be ordered to personally reimburse us all instead of having the Treasury do it.

The left tried for decades to pass green energy subsidies, passed them, the subsidies worked, and now literally the entire planet's electricity grid is going to convert to solar+battery. It just doesn't feel like "tech" because it mostly produces kinda boring blue collar jobs instead of billionaires

Don Huffines and family changed the name and address of Jeffrey Epstein’s sprawling 10,000 acre ranch in New Mexico after using an LLC to purchase it anonymously. The ranch has reportedly never been searched as part of any criminal investigation related to Epstein (www.krtv.com/us-news/crim...).

I just love it that DoorDash's #1 Chinese food restaurant in #Oakland (a customer favorite, rated 4.8* w/ 20,000+ reviews) has a storefront that looks like this. Just an ultimate hole in the wall Chinese food restaurant with a giant menu of delicious food. www.doordash.com/store/shando...

Some photos of today's storm (and birbs) #Oakland #BayAarea

Solar exploded across Africa in 2025: apnews.com/article/sola...

This is the second account - the first being in Chicago - of DHS agents mass detaining people and then *sorting them by race*.

I'm just constantly thinking of the threat all this *waves hands* poses to people with #disabilities. Now, a new one: as investment funds abandon t-notes and the dollar ceases to become the international reserve currency, how exactly is the government supposed to fund sufficient social services?

You cant buy a house because our president is really mad he didn’t get a Nobel peace prize and so he is threatening Greenland.

EVERCORE: “.. This is ‘sell America’ again within a much broader global risk off ..” @cnbc.com www.cnbc.com/2026/01/20/s...

And so it begins. If/once the dollar ceases to be the reserve currency, we are in for a world of pain

We’re the bad guys now.

How much more in your face can it be? "Why are you asking me for my paperwork?" "Because of your accent." "You have an accent too." "Where were you born sir?" "Where were you born at?" "Put your hands behind your back."

Today in Oakland USPS graffiti: a sad, exhausted clown

When NIMBYs say that California is full and their cities can’t accommodate more housing, they are saying that queer people trying to get out of red states are on their own.

Not sure this captures the nature of the posts.

Year 1 data on congestion pricing in Manhattan… * Vehicle traffic: -11% * Foot traffic: +3.4% * Storefront vacancy: -0.9% * Pollution: -22% * Revenue for mass transit: $548M So YES this has been a huge success.

Reductions in particulate pollution will disproportionately benefit people with respiratory conditions and limited lung capacity, and those who are immunocompromised. Congestion pricing is a huge win for public health and an especially huge win for people with disabilities.

Particulate pollution in the air down a whopping 22% in NYC’s congestion pricing zone. Not only are the streets less congested, but so are our lungs. e360.yale.edu/digest/new-y...

Researchers found a 22 percent reduction in heavy particulate matter from the projected average without congestion pricing. hellgatenyc.com/new-yorkers-...

Ed Roberts & the Rolling Quads established the key concept of independent living for ppl with #disabilities. Among other things, successful independent living creates a foundation for personal climate resilience & gives people with disabilities agency over their own sustainability & planning. 1/4

Big news! My consultancy @accessibleclimate.com is finally on Bluesky! Follow us for insights & announcements on the intersections between #disability and #climatechange. People with #disabilities are especially hard-hit by climate change and get disproportionate benefits from climate action. 1/4

Heavy-industry sectors like cement have long struggled to decarbonise because their processes require very high temperatures. That’s why the new Rondo Energy heat-battery project in Thailand is such a big deal - powering a cement plant with low-carbon steam. www.energy-storage.news/rondo-energy...