Our students are California’s future—our nurses, engineers, scientists, teachers, and more. UC-Merced students recently shared their thoughts with me on our state’s direction and how Donald Trump’s decisions are hurting their classmates and campus.

Prop 50 is about deciding that Donald Trump is going to be accountable to the democracy—to each one of us. Polls close in just over 5 hours! Find your polling place: www.sos.ca.gov/elections/po...

@audiosand.bsky.social and another colleague realized they are dressing as Diane Keaton to mourn her, aka “Keatoning.”

#OnThisDay in 1998, American college student Matthew Shepherd died five days after he was beaten and tortured by two men, then tied to a post and left to die near Laramie, Wyoming. He was murdered because he was gay. He was 21 years old. Photo credit: Gina Van Hoof. #OTD #MatthewShepherd

Still waiting for a solution that protects family owned, small businesses in the Castro.

Litquake Festival 2025 schedule + ticketing are now LIVE! 🥳 www.litquake.org/2025-schedule

I thought this was a joke, but I just watched a video of Mike Johnson saying this, omg. This country is wearing me out.

First Bernie Sanders. Then the CDC directors. Now, more than 1,000 current and former HHS staffers are demanding he step down.

RFK Jr. is to us what an asteroid was to the dinosaurs.

I know Ted Cruz isn’t trying to talk shit about someone else’s weight.

Netflix co-founder and Democratic megadonor Reed Hastings has given $2 million to help California redraw its House maps in the latest indication of the campaign’s outsize stakes.

Writing two books at once is so fun. Highly recommend.

Went whale watching off of PTown today instead of watching the Orioles game. A+, no notes, would watch whales instead of the Orioles lose again.

Sometimes when you see a professional troll talking nonsense, it can be… elucidating to look up their book sales.

"Childish? Yes. But the point isn’t that this is the answer. The point is that Newsom is systematically pushing every button on the console and trying to see if any of them work." How about more folks than Newsom doing this?

Man fleeing Home Depot immigration raid is hit and killed by a car on the 210 Freeway

I’ve had my complaints with Newsom over the years, but he’s handling this moment exactly right. And Ted Cruz is throwing an absolute fit about California redistricting. 🤣🤣🤣

Loving ‘Gloves-Off Gavin’… 👊🏻

Cuomo seems hellbent on running the worst campaign possible. It’s textbook “what not to do,” and yet! Fascinating.

I did this tonight for my work in progress, choosing texts for students who were doing this exercise, and my husband kept asking "Why are you laughing so much," which I was because the choices were dramatically perfect.

"And if the word integration means anything, this is what it means: that we, with love, shall force our brothers to see themselves as they are, to cease fleeing from reality and begin to change it." Happy birthday James.

We are losing the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which has helped educate, inform, and entertain millions of Americans. Instead, we’re getting a vulgar new gold ballroom, which none of us will ever see.

Our state faces serious challenges, and Californians know that everything from healthcare to housing is way too expensive. Donald Trump is doing everything in his power to make things even harder.

You cannot govern California without understanding it, and that means years of listening and learning here in our state. I loved touring the new Valley Natural Beverages milk processing plant in Bakersfield.

I really resent having to show ID to buy DayQuil.

NEW EPISODE: We got Tom Ammiano! The SF political legend came on to talk about Matt Dorsey threatening his landmark domestic partner benefits and other rightwing attacks on the progress he helped make. @dscotmiller.bsky.social youtu.be/uKVTZwK-ssA?...

Moby Dick was most likely inspired by a real life whale named… Mocha Dick. open.substack.com/pub/laphamsq...

MAGA 101: Stab your voters, give them a bandaid. They’ll say thank you every time.

‘That is not a body suit.’ And I hate to even use these terms, but I said, ‘Those are her nipples.’ And then I was looking closer, and I got a full-body view, and I was like, ‘That is pubic hair.’ Even right now, I couldn’t even tell you what I was watching.”

Those South Park guys just showed us how politics is downstream of culture

Everyone needs to understand that the defunding of public broadcasting this week is part of a broader effort to dismantle the free press and control the means of reality production itself. www.thedissident.news/the-oligarch...

She’s confused. And so am I. This is nuts! My wife just said this is straight out of The Handmaid’s Tale. Anyone know more about this?

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I’m going to go way out on a limb and predict 3 things after this takes place: 1. DOJ will announce Maxwell completely exonerated Trump. 2. They will lie and announce they made no deals or promises to her. 3. The deal they made with her will happen at the end of Trump’s term.

Sad your BS lines at the end of the hagiography, admitting to your felonies, don’t also include the NLRB judgment against you in San Francisco. Not fulsome or sincere You’re self-serving and slick to the end. How many folks will regret the purchase when they read your laughable rationale for crime?

“ nor had I understood til then how the shameless vanity of utter fools can so strongly determine the fate of others” Philip Roth, The Plot Against America

Sadly, you’ve ignored his felonious choices following the 1960s. The small paragraph at the end, admitting to his illegality, is laughable spin befitting the auto-hagiography you’ve published. So very sad. Talk about white privilege. At least you’re helping him recoup the fines he had to pay.

The new @cbsnews.com.web.brid.gy @cbstvstudios.bsky.social logo created by Roger Groth.

Just remembered Mercury retrograde kicks off today, with many secrets typically revealed through the accidents the season supplies. I guess I mean, this is just the beginning.

Our editorial board opines on the imbroglio between @apeconcerts, the Nasser family and the coffee shop and nail salon on Castro St., asking Mayor Daniel Lurie to remain involved.

Donald Trump wants to GUT already approved funds for public media like Sesame Street, NPR, and your local stations. If he gets away with this, next time he’ll going after your community’s funding for education, housing, climate, you name it. We've got to sound the alarm.

I spend a lot of time contemplating what's happening politically and trying to interpret/make sense of it. But I also take time off for pleasure. And then come back to the work. We're all in the fog of civil war, and it behooves us to go to whatever gives us back the clearer, bigger vision.

“California is so far using forty per cent less natural gas to generate electricity than it did in 2023, which is the single most hopeful statistic I’ve seen in four decades of writing about the climate crisis.” www.newyorker.com/news/annals-...

I've known and admired J.B. Pritzker for years. He is a true warrior for democracy. I think you will enjoy watching this conversation as much as I did recording it. youtu.be/wwxFVHCTvAA

Another Planet Entertainment (APE) is using non-union electricians at the Castro Theatre. The union is protesting and rightfully so.

Thanks @illuminatethearts.bsky.social Loving these “same time next queer” hookups with @karlthefog.bsky.social

Thanks @illuminatethearts.bsky.social Loving these “same time next queer” hookups with @karlthefog.bsky.social

This is good and important www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...