Well, it's a little clearer now why billionaires are so invested in technology that produces better written emails.

proper opsec says most of these emails should have been a meeting

When I teach students organizing I teach them that every tactic must both 1) move you closer to your goal, and 2) build up your organization for the long term. Dem senators are doing neither.

Americans have spoken and they demand wokeness

Riding the bus and looking out the window as we pass a string of local businesses just in time to see one place's Roomba wander out the front door and continue its journey on the sidewalk

Here's a photo of my friend and colleague, Jorge Bautista, getting shot in the face with a flashbang grenade. The ICE Agent is so afraid of Jorge (who was posing no threat) that he has wet himself. Please share this photo. Everyone needs to know what cowards ICE agents are.

AWS having issues means my work phone and my task list app are down. I have never been so free.

give the nobel peace prize to dolly parton

I was so excited to be able to easily haul a 7x9 rug home on my small cargo bike last weekend that I forgot to take a picture for @americanfietser.bsky.social 😮‍💨

though it would be hilarious for me to invite like a conservative think tanker, so they can see how little universities pay people for talks here's a $250 honorarium and reimbursement for your flight that you'll get 6 months later

"I think it's worth to have a cost of, unfortunately, some gun deaths every single year so that we can have the Second Amendment to protect our other God-given rights" - Charlie Kirk, 2023 www.mediamatters.org/charlie-kirk...

The last 100 years of US politics

Most NIMBYs aren't Neoplatonists. (probably)

I’m heartened to see this.

After thinking about it for a long time I panic bought a wine fridge/beverage center during the first tariff freakout and a few months in I am firmly on team @notalawyer.bsky.social, a good purchase and a real appliance, also bougie as all hell

Is Day 2 of packing to move too early to start labeling every box as "misc"

Good morning to everyone who wonders why they didn't just use paint and plastic flex posts to protect this fire hydrant.

Cargo bike friends! I'm moving to a building with good bike storage, but I'll be upstairs and across the building from said storage. Is there any pannier bag with features of a rolling suitcase, ie wheels and a pop-up handle when needed? Cc: @americanfietser.bsky.social @thewaroncars.bsky.social

Nothing makes you realize you actually did have an impact on your graduating students more than starting over with a new group of students

#NoKings in Santa Barbara went for 1.5 miles down Cabrillo Blvd

We feed you. They hunt us.

Seeing a massive divide online between Angelenos of all political stripes who understand that the protests in LA yesterday were mostly peaceful and any violence was ICE-initiated and East Coast establishment liberals lecturing “the left” on how riots just amplify right wing talking points.

Even if we imagine him powerless before this action, he could be explaining what’s happening more clearly. He should be reminding California Guard members of their real role, as well as their legal and ethical responsibilities. He should be advising communities on what comes next and how to respond.

Same channel with two different feeds going re: ICE raids in LA, two very different framings. Notice which has more viewers.

omg I got off bean club wait-list, I'm officially in bean club ☺️

The first episode was SO GOOD. It's so helpful to have sources like @drilledmedia.bsky.social that go beyond the most publicly visible parts of protest movements and into the slog of organizing and legal battles that accompany them

I'm looking through lists of books referenced in workshops and talks I've found helpful to see if there's anything I should buy with a small amount of leftover end-of-the-year funding, but @ifbookspod.bsky.social has me convinced they're all probably terrible

‼️BREAKING: A CA Superior Court Judge signaled an intent to grant an injunction forcing Sable to cease work in its pipeline restart. While @governor.ca.gov talks tough on Big Oil, he’s done NOTHING to shut down the pipeline and fight Trump’s fossil fuel agenda.

I was flipping through books with students today to select next year's book club read and opened up to @kendrawrites.com's interview in @ayanaeliza.bsky.social's "What If We Get It Right?", right to a paragraph where they discuss my UCSB students from 3 years ago and our campaign against Exxon!

Last week the CA State Lands Commission Chair implied that Sable Offshore is deceiving the public and its investors by claiming it started oil production when it had not, and does not have a permit to do so. Yesterday a judge issued an injunction against Sable. @gavinnewsom.bsky.social is silent.

I think removing one of the police's biggest pretext for illegal warrant-less searches, the traffic stop, and replacing it with automated/robotic traffic enforcement, is actual anti-surveillance.

Just saw the guy who a month back took my order from the lunch takeout counter only to come back and yell at the girl at the counter for giving him the wrong thing. Full nemesis energy.

Just bought something from a local retailer's website-- they never changed their covid online ordering message reading "in these uncertain times, it's important to stock up early" and hey I guess it's nice it's up to date again

Every day i have people tell me a theory of change that, on questioning, turns out to be a theory of personal emotional regulation

Ok not to detract from the excellent joke but what was happening between 882 and 928 that popes were just getting murdered left and right

ICE targeting elementary school children is child abuse, period.

126 people signed up for public comment at a Coastal Commission hearing re: Sable Offshore's repeated violations of the Coastal Act. A $15 million fine, full restoration of, and a non-expiring cease and desist are under consideration.

At this rate MAGA will only be able to afford to rent the libs.

Getting through the day by looking up the stock prices of companies I hate and giggling like it's an isolated drop that only impacts them

I have tariffed the penguins that are on Heard Island and which you were probably assuming did not export goods forgive me they were taking advantage of us so cunning and so cold

We simply had to intentionally destroy the world’s strongest economy while dismantling our scientific and educational infrastructure to ensure that a team with a trans girl would never finish second place in the Mountain West volleyball standings again

I am still wrapping my head around the fact that the Navajo Code Talkers, who, y'know, SUCCESSFULLY KEPT WAR SECRETS Secret apparently needed to be memory-holed to make room for the true glory of sharing war plans with a journalist you *invited* into the group chat

At a massive public meeting about Sable Offshore's efforts to restart an old defunct pipeline in Santa Barbara County. 8 state agencies came to discuss their roles; this type of meeting with this many agencies is very unusual. Everyone is mad.

I didn't watch the Trump speech because I was in a meeting with student organizers working against bad local oil projects. That's going to be my survival strategy for the rest of all of this.

The things for Dems to ask for before any votes for appropriations: 1) compliance with past federal laws before any new appropriations law 2) Elon Musk out of government 3) only a 1-2 month funding bill to ensure Trump has to come back to Congress regularly and thus Congress can ensure compliance.

I raised the tarrif But I did not raise the price of tea

As a comfortable adult with a stable job and no children I absolutely get the sense of boredom but like I dealt with it by signing up for a ceramics class, I didn't get radicalized into fascism. People need to get some better hobbies.

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