Super awake now! Very long and rumbly up on Ivy Hill

Windows open, listening to Portola from my couch in Oakland

I’m in Vermont this week soaking up New England fall and I’ve already had a couple from Montreal offer to adopt me and just in general people are so nice (and reasonable!) here in the Land of Bernie

She co-founded the organization after she was outraged to learn that children were starving after World War I, when the British blocked aid to several countries www.nytimes.com/2025/09/12/o...

The far-right commentator didn’t pull his punches when discussing his bigoted views on current events www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

What I Learned Today: Immunotherapy drug clinical trial results: half of tumors shrink or disappear www.rockefeller.edu/news/38120-i...

Listening: Baxter Dury, Kassa Overall, Metronomy, Robin Kester, Joviale, Peyton, Rafiq Bhatia, The Hidden Cameras, Modeselektor, Blue Earth Sound

The acclaimed documentary The Last Class, will screen at Zellerbach on 10/8. Robert Reich and W. Kamau Bell will also appear in person for a conversation about media, education, and democracy. For event details

9/12/1891 Pedro Albizu Campos, leader of Puerto Rican independence movement, born

Truth windows en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truth_w...

Last night's show! Available to stream for two weeks spinitron.com/KALX/pl/2121...

Next Sunday at The Chapel, Sonido Gallo Negro comes to town. Learn more: buff.ly/MLAyItH

Do you know why being part of our community matters? 👉 We advocate for change, backed by the mandate that your signature creates. That’s why every petition matters. Every signature builds the mandate that makes our advocacy unstoppable. ✊ Check out our campaigns at avaaz.org and add your voice!

9/11/2001 Suicide pilots fly jets into World Trade Center (NYC) and Pentagon killing thousands. Bush regime invades Afghanistan, then Iraq; curtails civil liberties

9/11/1973 Nixon's CIA overthrows elected Socialist Salvador Allende of Chile. Coup leader Pinochet kills or "disappears" thousands

In Oval Office address, Trump vows retribution, but neglects to mention murder of Melissa Hortman, attack on Paul Pelosi and threats to Mike Pence www.theguardian.com/us-news/live...

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Unsupervised and perilous, a new crop of recreation spaces aims to banish helicopter parenting and set up children for life in the real world reasonstobecheerful.world/anarchic-pla...

10 years ago - Government-run egg board waged high-price, secret PSYOPS war on vegan egg-replacement www.theguardian.com/business/201...

Fall Student Recruitment starts tomorrow at 8pm at Genetics & Plant Biology Building, Room 100. Here's what you need to know buff.ly/TgjtcAC

Congress alone has constitutional authority over the federal budget. Lawmakers must now use this vital point of leverage on the 2026 budget deal to rein in Trump's ongoing lawlessness and abuses of power. No more blank checks that enable this dictator regime. 🔥📞🔥 > 5calls.org/issue/federa...

Trump's desire for the next Nobel Peace is seriously in bad taste. We think Francesca Albanese and the doctors saving lives in Gaza are the ones who deserve the peace prize… Are you with us? If so, go to avaaz.org/nobel to sign & share. 🕊 𝘐𝘮𝘢𝘨𝘦𝘴 𝘧𝘳𝘰𝘮 𝘢𝘯 𝘈𝘐-𝘨𝘦𝘯𝘦𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘷𝘪𝘥𝘦𝘰 𝘴𝘩𝘢𝘳𝘦𝘥 𝘣𝘺 𝘋𝘰𝘯𝘢𝘭𝘥 𝘛𝘳𝘶𝘮𝘱.

9/10/1983 Thousands demonstrate for restoration of democracy in Chile

9/10/1967 CBS censors Pete Seeger's anti-war song "Big Muddy" on Smothers Brothers Hour

Move is expansion of existing program that has helped lift tens of thousands of people out of poverty www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

The state, which has long ranked worst in the US for child wellbeing, became the first and only in the country to offer free childcare to a majority of families www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

From bank robber to scholar: A new generation of addiction scientists use their personal experiences to inform their research www.theguardian.com/news/2025/se...

This Saturday, Oakland Chinatown is running back the very popular night market that debuted last year. www.kqed.org/arts/1398121...

Coming up at 2pm: Jon The Reptilian welcomes Moonlight Benjamin for a live performance and interview before hitting The Freight later tonight

New Long COVID clinical trials from RECOVER-TLC thesicktimes.org/2025/09/09/r...

"Imagine yourself as a gentle whirlwind of love that spreads interesting beauty and bestows useful blessings. Be a relentless dispenser of catalytic gifts."

For the first time in history, 270 media outlets from over 70 countries joined together to make themselves heard. Front pages, websites, social media profiles, and broadcasts went dark to demand a stop to the killing of journalists and call for press freedom in Gaza.

9/9/1994 Term "reproductive justice" coined by Black women after International Conf on Population and Development, Cairo, Egypt

Back on @kalxberkeley.bsky.social tomorrow night, my last 2 hour show before Bear Talk returns! Please tune in!

9/9/1981 Anti-nuclear activists enter GE plant and hammer ICBM in act of disarmament. First Plowshares action, King of Prussia, PA

I love many many of Altman’s films but I REALLY love Nashville and also now I need a GooGoo Cluster

10 years ago - NZ bans award-winning YA novel after complaints from conservative Christian group www.theguardian.com/world/2015/s...

Today at 4pm: Ears of Maize catches up with John McCrea CAKE before the band heads up Mt. Tam for Sound Summit on Saturday

Call to action! At the end of the Epstein survivor's news conference this morning, Rep Thomas Massie made a call to action for all citizens: Call your reps and demand they sign the discharge petition to release the Epstein files! 5calls.org has guidance on this: 5calls.org/issue/releas...

9/8/1974 President Ford pardons Richard Nixon

9/8/1965 Filipino American Larry Dulay Itliong leads Delano (CA) Grape Strike, first successful farmworker strike. Later joins Cesar Chavez to form United Farm Workers

Got Wordle in two, good omen for a Monday morning

“Now at last, the wait’s over, the secret’s out. Fumiko Takano, manga poet and pioneer, has reached our shores. One of her most daring, delightful manga, acclaimed in Japan and Europe, is here, thanks to Alexa Frank’s sparkling translation of Miss Ruki.” www.tcj.com/fifty-eight-...

I love that SF's oldest monument isn't from a wealthy dude who earned his money in extractive ways and wanted to stoke his ego: it's a fountain (once very useful!) from an actress who started her career here. www.kqed.org/arts/1398104...

Ready to join the KALX ranks, UC Berkeley students can fill out this form to learn more buff.ly/wPGy8X7

Successfully got the Covid jab in California AMA

What I Learned Today: “This telegram must be closely paraphrased before being communicated to anyone” history.stackexchange.com/questions/79...

Surfer Todd Weaver takes magical pictures of the Golden State – from ombre skies reflected in the sea to crashing waves and rising full moons www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

Listening: David Byrne, Saint Etienne, Curtis Harding, Joni Mitchell, Shrunken Elvis, Harold López-Nussa, Arvo Pärt: Lente