Tonight's Milky Way taken from Point Reyes, California. The frames were taken about 33 miles, as the pelican flies, from San francisco. Light the curvature of the Earth is weird!

I’m in Vienna right now. A city which went from being the intellectual and cultural capital of the world to a “provincial backwater” (to quote Brian Barry) in a couple of decades due to nationalism, anti-semitism and fascism which drove away the leading scholars and artists it didn’t murder.

The first public media station to go dark thanks to Trump’s cutoff of federal funding to public media is a 70 year old station in Pennsylvania. https://loom.ly/IjOHdzI

"Existing evidence also shows that azelastine is one of several drugs that can stop SARS-CoV-2 from replicating itself, halting the virus in its tracks. However it works, though, the drug is clearly effective at preventing COVID-19." www.sciencealert.com/over-the-cou...

Many downtown SF streets resemble this. I wish anyone in power here would consider widening sidewalks, adding protected bike lanes, and carving new parks and plazas out of overwide roads as ways to revitalize downtown... instead of constantly cutting corporate taxes and developer fees.

"How Are the Very Rich Feeling About New York’s Next Mayor?" A Dramatic Reading of The Recent New York Times Dispatch from the Hamptons. Presented by The Gilded Age's Morgan Spector.

To put this loan amount in perspective: California is spending $500 million to widen a 10-mile stretch of Highway 37 in the northern Bay Area (through a wetland, no less). But $750 million to save the *entire* Bay Area’s transit systems is apparently infeasible.

being trans is not a negative outcome and neither is being autistic

This is a generational talent at work

This tactic - pressuring corporations financially until they put a regime friendly voice in charge - is exactly how Orbán took over the free press in Hungary

“The rise in high-fronted SUVs poses a clear and growing threat to public safety, especially for children,” states the report. “With no benefit to society, it’s time for lawmakers at all levels to act.” Via @carltonreid.com in @forbes.com. Cap SUV/truck hood heights. And ban unsafe designs.

"the threat of homelessness is most acute not in the poorest regions of the country, but in the richest, fastest-growing ones. In places like these, a low-wage job is homelessness waiting to happen." There's no housing in Marin for those who earn less than $65K, which is more than most workers earn.

Got to speak with @weatherwest.bsky.social for KWMR about a lot of things, like the warm autumn ahead and how the NWS apparently requires loyalty oaths for forecasters.. Stream at KWMR.org

When you think of how much normalized harm we once took for granted—like smoking in restaurants—that has since vanished, and how much good that once seemed impossible—like car-free streets in Paris—you realize how much “impossibility” is a social construct designed to perpetuate monopolies & profit

Induction stoves are quieter, cooler, and produce less toxic pollution than gas. On the other hand, they also cook better, as a growing number of professional chefs recognize.

There's a bike type for nearly everyone. All they need is the infrastructure to enable them.

anyway www.youtube.com/watch?v=e4Xz...

Jiminy Glick interview of JD Vance

Unbelievably bad. “The CDC you knew is over. Unless someone takes radical action, there is nothing there that can be salvaged.” www.advocate.com/politics/dem...

Robert E. Lee killed more U.S. troops in battle than Adolph Hitler and Osama bin Laden combined

What a fantastic development. Historical icon Amoeba Music will build housing on its site and remain a music store (and preserve the famous People's Park mural). Pretty A+ all around. Thankfully, no CEQA for infill means this project can't be fucked with. www.berkeleyside.org/2025/08/28/a...

Love on the Beat… spinning an hour of tracks that run hot and cold on KWMR now… KWMR.org 😎

🌧️ The Chronicle on why a cold summer could push into autumn and extend fire season: “Northern California may still get rain, but in more erratic patterns, with a later start and longer dry gaps between storms.”

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Remember this picture, & others like it, every time you hear someone in your city say "we're not Amsterdam." This was #Amsterdam in the 1970s. Many of the cities we admire made better choices regarding cars in the past. and are still making better choices today. Better choices instead of excuses.

This is like. Two steps removed from the plot of Twelfth Night

Bravo @johnericksonwh.bsky.social 👏👏 “Across our state, commonsense projects that would make communities safer, greener, and more livable are caught in an endless tangle of redundant approvals, over-engineered reviews, and bureaucratic inertia.” www.losangelesblade.com/2025/08/12/w...

Journalist Anas al-Sharif with his daughter Sham and son Salah. Today's assassination of al-Sharif and four other Al Jazeera staff brings the number of journalists killed by Israel to 237. www.middleeasteye.net/news/al-jaze...

Fifty-one years ago today.

I got a flu booster today and it made me reflect on the sense of national accomplishment I felt when I drove to a public facility, waited in my car until my number was called on an app, and got my first covid jab. It's fucked the right gets to erase what a moment of technological liberation that was

If you cannot go to the bathroom at work, you cannot go to work. If you cannot go to the bathroom at school, you cannot go to school. This effectively bans transgender people from a broad swath of public life in the UK

It's kind of amazing to me how many billion-plus-dollar product categories are basically fraudulent. Americans are constantly complaining about the cost of living but constantly spending money on useless, pointless shit they've been sold by swindlers.

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A growing number of the new victims of Trump’s cruel, illegal ICE terror are young Asian Americans with LEGAL STATUS who have grown up their entire lives in this country and are being swept up for minor infractions or technicalities.

Stand by this: www.politico.com/newsletters/...

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Democrats should indeed come up with a plan. All public servants should. That plan must involve rethinking the business model of investor-owned utility monopolies: heatmap.news/politics/ele...

Happy 15th anniversary of the peak achievement of literary criticism, to all who celebrate

I’m old enough to remember when we didn’t know if you could transmit HIV by touch or by a kiss. This is a miracle.

The two college age women flirting next to me at Vesuvio quoting Kerouac and critiquing income inequality are giving me hope for humanity. I wish we could give up our fears and hang ups about young people. They need affordable housing they don’t need your op ed about screens etc

a better world is possible

New York is about to make all prison phone calls free. This move will make it easier for the state’s over 30,000 prisoners to stay connected to loved ones, saving them over $13 million a year. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/22/n...

We have always made delightful little guys.

“I was threatened with being referred to the FBI... They also threatened to stain my record so I would never get a job again. They also threatened with an extended detention if I didn’t give them the passwords to the student information or to my district files."

And sometimes it's as simple as a good headline—The NYPD Spent $150 Million to Catch Farebeaters Who Cost the MTA $104,000. hellgatenyc.com/the-nypd-spe...