Another consequence of low birth rates: the decline of family businesses. Without family labor, a neighborhood-serving operation can be harder to form and sustain.

Timeline cleanse 🐸💚 American Exceptionalism

"Many of the most important executive-curbing, corruption-fighting pillars have become virtually meaningless as the American republic shrinks into an autocratic plaything." I cannot recognize America any more, nor would my WWII-veteran uncles. Trump & his GOP enablers must be stopped. 🇺🇸

This is insanely illegal and incredibly fucking dangerous.

He doesn’t fucking know who he pardoned. Completely unfit to lead this country 🤦🏽‍♀️

“.. They describe the legions of masked immigration officers operating in near-total anonymity on the orders of the president as the crossing of a line that had long set the United States apart from the world’s most repressive regimes.” @propublica.org www.propublica.org/article/trum...

"Once you elect or appoint someone who has no moral core — who then appoints people with no moral core and fires those who do — nothing else in the system of checks-and-balances turns out to matter."

Just a criminal President stealing (more) from the taxpayers after said taxpayers had to pay to legitimately investigate him for his criming during his last term bc some Americans voted thrice for a criminal. Well fucking done America. 🙄

Senator Wiener took up the cause of ending the California housing crisis a decade before it was cool, took a lot of body blows advancing real solutions, and never gave up on the cause. That's leadership.

youtu.be/ba4J6umbbp0?... “When you’re old, you ain’t never well. My feet’s dreadful, and me bladder. On the other hand, it has great advantages. You don’t have the same worries. No truck with women, and that’s a great thing, you know. You can just sit, and think of nothing.”

Abortion bans aren't pro-life, they are anti-life, anti-choice, and anti-woman.

Toxic ass.

Disassociation? “When I’m alone, I get to do whatever I want in the moment, whether that’s going to get a drink or being right at the front where the DJ is. You just act on pure instinct. I feel like a little video game character in a funny story.”

Watching my friends — leftists, hippies, veterans, retirees, freelancers, teachers, scientists — carry on with generating AI slop for their public posts, booking multiple international flights a year, and proceeding as if we're not actually in a climate emergency is very disheartening.

“There’s no retreat from the ‘California experience…’ It’s like a furnace which uses you up, leaving nothing but a spoonful of fine ash and the record of enormous fantasies.”

I think I understand the many reasons why people believe it's not worth it to phase out fossil fuels, but I also feel exhausted and vaguely insane living my life knowing that while the world seems normal on the surface, the fossil-fuel economy is, right now, breaking the world forever.

In my dreams, it's October 2025. My homegirl Kamala Harris is President and everyone's cool with it. Good things are happening. Also, Prince is still alive and his global hit of the summer (which created eternal world peace, Nobel level) is titled SAVN ALL MY FUNKS 4 U and it's a fuckin banger. 💜🇺🇸

At this point, I don’t even trust Trump to defend the West Coast of the United States from foreign invasion. He might predicate a defense of California on acquiring our mineral rights or some insane “deal.”

At some point, Republicans are going to have to start saying, "Look, I can't do this anymore. It's, it's not me. It's you. You're... you're just a toxic idiot." And the rest of us can warmly respond with, "No shit, jackass. About god-damned time."

as far as just messaging goes that video is probably the most embarrassing thing any president has done on the world stage in my life and the fact that the sunday shows wont even describe it? total abdication of their responsibility

My day job is having a day job.

“Like Elon Musk himself, the vehicle is awkward, easily bruised, and disturbingly volatile—a professional promise-breaker.”

There’s no worthy upside to paying for Spotify, and there’s a lot of downside. I recommend not-Spotify.

Knowing history is useful & important, but also insufficient. Our predicament now is the unique ecological condition of the planet: overrun with wildly destructive human forces like capitalism, war-making, and population numbers. We started falling decades ago when our ways became unsustainable.

No Kings on San Francisco Bay!

Good morning, America. Nice work yesterday. I love you.

"I refuse to believe..." that's fucking chef's kiss perfect for the entirety of the maga movement's thought process (or lack thereof!).

We have a supreme Constitution, not a supreme leader. Donald Trump, we have no kings here. We are not your subjects. We are free citizens. We will never be your subjects.

This is what democracy looks like. #NoKings

It’s absurd that there aren’t several dive bars on Market Street in downtown San Francisco.

"The public is unaware of just how atrophied the mechanisms of accountability have become for DHS agents, at a time when the war they’re waging in U.S. cities—sometimes against Americans—is boiling over daily."

I learned about the 6-7 meme just in time to appreciate this new South Park episode:

"We know microplastics are in almost every tissue that has been looked at, and recent studies suggest we’re accumulating far more plastic now than 20 years ago."

Just as a reminder, this is what happened the last time I asked who's behind the Trump administration's new troll-heavy social media strategy: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Protest is American. Trump is terror.

Pam Bondi is afraid of people all holding the same sign? What? Hasn’t she seen pictures of a Trump rally?

Spectacular, intricate, disconnected, profound: One Battle After Another is an immense experience that's best experienced twice: www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

Why do you think they call it hopium?

"The human ability to adapt is the key to our spectacular success on this planet. Our problem is that the people who lead our public conversations, our elites of wealth and opinion, are often some of the least adaptable people on earth."

digital.fandm.edu/object/schol... Actually, it can happen here. NO KINGS march, Saturday October 18. Show your face and join your voices!

On the 18th we need to be vigilant for increased violence and provocation by both law enforcement and counter-protestors, both of which will be used to try to justify more violence and authoritarianism.

Get out and march: NO KINGS, Saturday October 18, 2025.

The private home insurance market in California is not functioning.… The math doesn’t work.

"We took away all the habitat… There’s just so many things we’re taking and taking and not giving back.” "Clear Lake has lost up to 90 percent of its wetlands, and creeks that might once have provided an infusion of oxygen-rich water into the lake now run dry in May and June. “

The same thing is happening to healthcare. First, the enterprise builds something useful, even necessary. Then, it grows, due to the sheer utility. The final step is this: attention turns from utility to profiteering. Quality goes down while costs go up. www.newyorker.com/culture/infi...

“You must be communicating with your eyes to the other riders in the street. Your decisions must be based on what is best for the flow of traffic, not what is best for your trip in particular.”

The purpose of leaf blowers is to give people a sense that they’re doing useful work, not to blow leaves.

Timeline cleanse 🐸💚 Alcatraz Island seen from San Francisco, California

"Once network effects had made them indispensable, they squeezed sellers, served ads, and otherwise extracted value from users while making exit ever costlier. They bought out rivals and turned into monopolies."