While this federal administration has been busy empowering ICE to become, essentially, an extrajudicial militia allowed to disappear people from our streets, the Bay has been organizing. We will not be beaten down.

had to put this one together from the archives but: called it again

The U.S. government has often lied about things but I think it’s genuinely remarkable that we’re in an era where almost every public statement contains at least one lie.

Each county in the Bay Area has its own hotline for reporting and verifying ICE activity. In Alameda County, it's ACILEP at (510) 241-4011, in San Francisco, it's Rapid Response at 415-200-1548. For other counties see immigrants.sf.gov/help/rapid-r...

Watch one movie. Any movie. Half a movie. Come on.

Worth noting: After the end of the three-year pilot program this year, the Irish government found that for every pound invested, they got 43% profit. Keeping artists alive and financially safe is not just for moral good, it's also beneficial in terms of economics. Just let artists keep making art.

NEW: Four of the top five cattle-producing states voted for Donald Trump. Cattle ranchers are overwhelmingly Republican, and they HATE Trump's plan to bring in beef from Argentina. But Republicans are still afraid to criticize Trump's policies on it. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

Cuomo can say Kościuszko but not Mamdani?

absolutely shameful that the university has embraced the administration’s demand that it discriminate against its students. this is the board of visitors telling UVA students that if they aren’t white and cisgendered then they don’t belong.

In the audience tonight is Charlotte Bennett, one of the 13 women that Andrew Cuomo is credibly alleged to have sexually harassed while they worked in his government. She can't speak for herself because Cuomo's lawyers have hounded her. So I confronted him.

A huge story is which Democrat campaign consultants were in charge of vetting Platner. They raised millions from donors, large and small, got paid handsomely for it, then promptly delivered to those donors a non-viable candidate.

every debate question is like “zohran, you want to make life better for all new yorkers. number one, is that realistic? and two, are you fucking stupid?”

Andrew Cuomo’s campaign just posted — and quickly deleted — this AI-generated ad depicting “criminals for Zohran Mamdani.” Features a Black man in a keffiyeh shoplifting, an abuser, a trespasser, a trafficker, a drug dealer, and a drunk driver all declaring support for Mamdani.

Protesters have blocked the westbound side of Canal. They are chanting "ICE out of New York now!" and "Liberation, not deportation!"

If you want a Mayor who tells you everything that he can't do, Andrew Cuomo should be your choice. But if you want a Mayor who will use every tool at their disposal to lower the cost of living, I am the candidate for you.

Very excited for this, but I can only hear the title with that spelling in her voice.

It was a treat to speak to Rev. Rachel Griffin-Allison of Oak Lawn UMC in Dallas. After Greg Abbott's order over pride crosswalks, UMC is painting rainbows on its front steps. "They're not just paint on steps, but a way to say that God's love will not be silenced." www.chron.com/culture/arti...

Ursula Le Guin's 1999 letter to Michael Powell, the owner of Powell's Books in Portland. Powell's workers unionized in 2000 and have faced some union-busting measures since, but were the first contract in ILWU Local 5.

NEW: Lauren Stokes, the University of Mississippi employee who lost her job for resharing a social media post criticizing Charlie Kirk, is suing Chancellor Glen Boyce. After her firing, she says she and her husband had to close their restaurant and flee Oxford for weeks due to threats.

Sigh.

For my fellow Canadians, if you received this email (or a notification on Twitch), you should do it at your earliest convenience. It will ask to verify your tax details and social insurance number. Link to form (Canadians only): dashboard.twitch.tv/monetization...

My husbands cell phone occasionally gets text for a Pennsylvania Republican named Betty, and uh, they’ve recently become…somewhat aggressive…

In Ghost of Yōtei: Gēmuchenjā, Atsu finds herself on a hellish gameshow where the only way to learn is by playing, the only way to win is by learning, and the only way to begin is by beginning. paletteswap.site/dif...

I'm grateful to my brothers and sisters in @teamsters.bsky.social 808, a union of MetroNorth and building service workers across the metro region. "Your unapologetic stand in solidarity with the working class resonates with this Local." - F. Christophe Silvera, Secretary-Treasurer

My slumlord made the news! Pinnacle isn’t paying its mortgages or ConEd bills, but it *IS* paying Israeli bond-holders. 11 buildings out of 80+ in bankruptcy proceedings got power shut-off notices for common areas, which includes the elevators

yep, that's what woody did. didn't talk about the darkness

HAPPY INTERNATIONAL CAPS LOCK DAY SORRY FOR OUR DELAY WE DIDN'T EVEN KNOW THIS WAS A REAL DAY.

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Been stalled at $135/$850 for two hours, please help! 💕💸

Tesla’s net income fell 37%, even as American shoppers raced to buy electric vehicles before a $7,500 federal tax credit expired last month.

Basically all US policy is at this point about indulging Trump’s irrational obsessions, petty grudges, and corrupt grifts, and then taking secondary and tertiary measures to mask the consequences of those policies.

As of June, Cuomo’s legal bills cost NY’s taxpayers $19 million and counting www.thecity.nyc/2025/06/02/c...

What? An "AI" browser that totally tracks every single thing you do, almost certainly to train its AI model? Unpossible!

Dozens of Philadelphia-area Catholics rallied outside the Center City ICE office on Wednesday, joining a pro-immigrant push undertaken by fellow church groups around the country.

A REMINDER TO CHECK YOUR HALLOWEEN CANDY! Last year, I cut open a Snickers bar to inspect it, and I found the MST3K episode The Castle of Fu Manchu.

one of the interesting thing i have seen in the platner discourse is a refusal to confront a thing on its own terms. to his pundit supporters, platner isn’t a novice candidate with perhaps questionable judgment to be evaluated on his ability to win, but a symbol to wield against rivals

Paul Skenes is definitely trans they figured it out. No one that good at anything can be cis.

"Every young man had a Nazi phase." The only regrettable phase I had was my Jncos phase. I was rocking denim circus tents from the knees down. I was a danger to anything within 5 feet when I walked. I managed growing up without flirting with fascism, because I was raised right. Fuck outta here.

wow, "determined" is doing a whole lot of work in that piece

One thing about our cursed era is that people who don’t like Trump are often told to consider the feelings of those who do while Trump et al insist that the feelings of his critics either don’t matter or are fake

Logan Webb reacts to the hiring of Tony Vitello: "I think Tony will bring a ton of energy and passion to our team and organization. As players we’re all excited to see what he brings to S.F."

Journalists reported the records disappeared practically in front of their eyes. newrepublic.com/post/202130/...

I only even felt the need to address this because the guy in Maine who just got his Nazi tattoo covered, which means It’s Fine Now was perpetuating this stereotype online after allegedly doing totally normal stuff like conducting field studies on Black people back when he used to bartend.

when trans people take HRT to feel normal: “look at these depraved sex freaks performing their sick fetish in public, we should bully them out of existence” when cis ppl take HRT so they can fuck real good:

Eyes up, Bay Area.

The Trump administration has dispatched more than 100 federal agents to Coast Guard Base Alameda and they will begin to arrive Thursday, according to a source familiar with the operation.

You know, "lots of people in the military have these types of tattoos" is also bad.

I wrote about the degrading choices our political system forces on us, the importance of respecting yourself, and the time I experienced a mild Oliver Stone moment at Sammy's Deluxe in Rockland, Maine. defector.com/what-job-is-...