I don’t want to formulate words yet, but my friend Alice Wong, @sfdirewolf.bsky.social of the Disability Visibility Project, has passed. Here are the words she left behind: www.instagram.com/p/DREMDNBjnq...

oh dear lord

Almost every major news story this week is about how the entire economy is now gambling, scams, bribes and theft.

BREAKING NEWS: Coast Guard Security Forces opened fire on a U-Haul van advancing through their barricade just before 10pm during protests at Alameda Coast Guard Island in Oakland.

And the force is coming from the CHP – Gavin Newsom's state police. California Democrats have surrendered and pledged submission before they were even challenged. They are worse than useless. They are complicit.

Coast Guard Island in Alameda/Oakland 25.10.23 in the AM

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just the dumbest, dullest people imaginable

Calling Center for American Progress nonpartisan is a bit absurd.

Here's a great one...the building with with Martuni's on the ground floor that happens to have 32 units of rent controlled housing is also getting a height bump to 140'.

These ridiculous leftovers from the Iraq war. This one has a driver's side windshield with 10% visibility, and they have to put a pan under it because it's leaking oil.

Someone finally wrote the data-center/electricity inflation story. @nytimes.com #CPI www.nytimes.com/2025/08/14/b...

A passionate embrace by the two worst comb-overs on the planet.

Get off our streets! Washington, DC

This is exactly one block from the sandwich throwing incident. The neighborhood is being collectively punished for it.

Apocalypse Six Months Ago

Oakland gets a shoutout from Trump for being “so far gone” www.reddit.com/r/oakland/co...

Should I just use this site?

It gets worse.

"Y Combinator funded its first defense start-up in August 2024. A decade ago, tech companies brandished mottos such as “connecting the world” and “do no evil” and pledged that their technology would not be used for military purposes." www.nytimes.com/2025/08/04/t...

you should expect an ass beating for doing shit like this

Burn it all down.

Jesus Christ this is bleak. Philz is selling to a private equity firm and screwing over all their employees so they can pay bonuses to "Summit Partners" and "TPG Growth," and Phil and his son can take all the money and run.

This might be journaliatic malpractice. Has all the tired, bad-faith tropes too: - No-context outrage fuel of needles, addiction, crime, homelessness - Paints SF as permissive of aforementioned - Punches down on someone on society's bottom rungs - Calls SF a dystopia hellscape (it isn't, wasn't)

Do people realize that everything happening to Palestinians will eventually happen to you? The entire Geneva convention is in the trash, all it takes is one massive climate event or an even bigger pandemic than Covid and those rogue, lawless governments will sacrifice whoever they need to. Wake up.

the eff turning 35 would be a good moment for a reckoning on how it enabled the building of this tech dystopia in the first place and still advocates some pretty shitty cyberlibertarian positions that protect the power of major tech companies

You can never bend the knee enough to appease an authoritarian bully. This is a devastating blow to academic freedom & freedom of speech at Columbia. Never in the history of this nation has there been an administration so intent on the utter destruction of higher education as we know it.

ICE was created with a single law. Why do we need incremental steps to get rid of it?

"Thomas Chatterton Williams, a public intellectual of some standing in the US, dislikes the Trumpian right for its erratic authoritarianism. But he dislikes its hysterical leftwing critics too – arguably with more vehemence." What an opening.

I was forced to use Nextdoor today for the first time since peak pandemic.

RIP to Roy Ayers. Absolute musical hero of mine. www.youtube.com/watch?v=8oHQ...

This will end well. They don't work, but I promised millions of them. It's safer to be in one than be the pedestrians they collide with. They can't have liability. That's a human concept.

“I happen to believe that there are actual superheroes in real life who walk among us, and these superheroes are called trans people,” he said. www.them.us/story/alan-c...

Reading Trump's AI action plan, and there are some gems in here: "AI will enable a wide range of new innovations in the physical world: autonomous drones, self-driving cars, robotics, and other inventions for which terminology does not yet exist."

I spoke to Breakthrough News about the resistance in Gaza youtube.com/watch?v=xerNRi7F4Qc

this week on DYA: the first of a new series on the bonus feed with Roqayah and Lebanese war reporter @hadihtt.bsky.social of @freepalestinetv.bsky.social

What are we even doing here?

Again

Francesca Albanese, the UN Special Rapporteur on the occupied Palestinian territory, encourages activists to join initiatives that attempt to break the Israeli siege on Gaza, such as the Handala Freedom Flotilla that will take off on July 13.

A cartoon by Maddie Dai

Al Jazeera is now reporting on Ventura County as a war-torn, repressive place. I could never have imagined this.

jfc

Very good and correct thread!!

The shirt is ok, but the original New Yorker cartoon is better.

But I already am on Bluesky.

The San Francisco chapter of the JCRC endorsed military action in Iran by Israel. How can they claim to be a progressive org when they support starting war and continuing genocide?