OPENING at East Bay Photo Collective—April 3, 6–9 PM: The Oakland Photo Workshop presents 23 artists' capture of the often overlooked jobs that keep society running. Curated by @eastbayyesterday.bsky.social! www.ebpco.org #Oakland #labor

Friday: Come see this cool gallery space (312 8th Street), and my contribution to the Visible Labor show curated by @eastbayyesterday.bsky.social!

I've been drawn into a number of pieces on the Black geographies of Oakland this week. @drbrandi.bsky.social's piece here fits with @oaklandreviewofbooks.org review of Freaky Tales. dr. brandi writes, "what I remember most about Oakland is what I call 'the lost years', the 1980s and ’90s".

Urban renewal and its aftermath in Oakland were neither natural nor inevitable but purposeful intensifications of precarity in Black life — a de facto murder of place. Today, a specter of Blackness haunts the city, lingering in cultural & material landscapes shaped by generations of Oaklanders.

I have not read all 12K words, but I agree with the thesis, which is that this movie was too awesome to get as little coverage as it did. I saw it at the Grand Lake, which was of course the correct thing to do, but it's worth checking out if you like the Dubs, Too Short, and punks kicking Nazi ass.

The prophecy is fulfilled. www.oaklandreviewofbooks.org/freaky-tales... bsky.app/profile/zung...

I’m sorry but be serious www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Social movement scholar here to comment on No King again. a 🧵: These protests are important b/c: 1.) as sustained image events, protests offer evidence of continued disapproval of the direction the country is going and disavowal of the country's leadership.

What’s the difference between a Ford Bronco and a golf ball? Tiger Woods can drive a golf ball 300 yards. (Nothing good comes out of Stanford.)

For COYOTE, I wrote about hanging out with a bunch of nice geographers during a decidedly terrible time for academia.

Today, I'm introducing my wealth tax — and more than 50 members of Congress are joining me. It’s time for the government to start working for American families, not just the ultra-rich.

Incredible that the Democratic party is embracing neoliberal deregulation. I never would have expected that.

Oakland Marathon photos, mostly from Piedmont Avenue and the steep two-way hill on Monte Vista. Beautiful day in the Town! #oaklandmarathon #running #thetown www.flickr.com/photos/tholu...

John Janosko & Freeway, 2 organizers of the Wood Street Commons encampment in Oakland plus the director, @caroncreighton.bsky.social, of feature length documentary on the struggle to stop eviction, share lessons & skills learned during the organizing thefinalstrawradio.noblogs.org/post/2026/03...

It’s a little implausible that a landscape architecture consulting firm has employees whose last names are “Brownfield” and “Sharrow”. www.migcom.com/about-us

I've got a piece in this show, from backstage at a Prescott Circus performance at Mosswood Park. Come on by the reception!

Hate to tell you, there's an awful lot of misogyny and toxic masculinity in bike culture, too.

We are so lucky in CA-12 to have had decades of representatives who say the things that need to be said. oaklandside.org/2026/03/18/o... "It means asking...what’s the right thing to do? How do we protect our young people, our elders, and our sick?"

The vibes on Berkeley Copwatch's bike tour of Berkeley Flock cameras: www.oaklandreviewofbooks.org/flock-of-bic...

Happy St. Patrick's Day, New York.

Antizionist Jew here to say explicitly: they're gonna kill Jews over this. American Jews who have no ties to Israel. And some of that blood will be on the hands of Jewish zionists who allowed themselves to be used as shields by Christian Nationalist Zionists.

"The VMT of people going to Starbucks in our greenfield development is very low. We're not responsible for the fact that we built it 60 miles from anything interesting."

Geology by transit… @tsch.uy

Taking the vibes at Berkeley Copwatch's "Flock Bike Tour" yesterday: www.oaklandreviewofbooks.org/flock-of-bic...

We even got a visual tribute to Sister Rosetta Thorpe with that guitar.

@ebbp.bsky.social Bike Party! Huge ride from del Norte. "elegance" set: Taco, Parliament, Green Day (rolling by Gilman), Bad Bunny, Willie Colón (RIP), The Cars, Captain & Tennille (RIP Neil Sedaka). Best in set: ZZ Top! #bikeparty open.spotify.com/playlist/4Xn...

I don't ride over in the West Bay much, but this is great.

www.rockridgevoice.com/a-sustainabl... Interesting from James Rojas. "Nearly every conversation about sustainability and wealth-building centered on homeowners: solar panels, retrofits, EV chargers, tax credits, equity gains. The sustainable future was framed as something you *own*."

introducing my new AI startup called Your Boss's Shitty Nephew Jeremy. it can do anything a normal coworker can do, but worse, and it's obligatory. management is going to spend way more on it than they should and then blame you for its fuckups. if you have any complaints, don't let us know! Or Else

This puts me at 10 people released. I filed my 1st habeas petition 29 days ago. I am an incredibly small-time, nobody lawyer who knew nothing about immigration law the day I submitted that case. I barely know any more today. I had never sued the federal government and now I've beaten them 10 times.

I just sent this email to the news director at NBC4 Washington about the unprofessional and disrespectful way they handled publishing the body camera footage of the DOGE raid on the US Institute of Peace that was obtained via my FOIA lawsuit:

When someone says „Scientists do not want you to know“ you can dismiss everything from there on. Scientists want you to know. They are desperate that you know. They can’t shut up about what they found out and want you to know.

new mcmansion hell to cleanse the horrors: mcmansionhell.com/post/8099372...

This is disgusting on the part of @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social. (MCC admin is probably not at fault).

GM: Charisma check. Mamdani: [rolls natural 20] GM: that’s a d6 how did you Mamdani: [direct to camera] Did you know you can check out board games at your local public library? 😊

norcalapa.org/2026/02/ride... My friends over at Norcal APA asked me to write about the history of Bay Area Bike Rides, and how it led to my Bike Lab work and support of community orgs like @scraperbiketeam.com and RICH CITY Rides. Any tool can work on social justice issues; the bike is mine.

Dudes police other dudes for dudeness. Some of the dudes in that room were laughing because they'd be punished for not laughing. Maybe even most of them. Our task is to raise the voices of the guys who aren't comfortable with the toxicity. That's why "woke" is threatening to the toxic dudes.

Black Joy Parade shots: www.flickr.com/photos/tholu... Wonderful day in Oakland supporting @scraperbiketeam.com. Also spent some time with the Prescott Circus and Red, Bike and Green. Too much beauty, too many photos! #blackjoy

For women, one of the very difficult things about the Epstein emails is having all our worst professional suspicions confirmed. You wonder in darker moments if men say this kind of awful stuff about us (individually, and as a class) to each other, and here it is all confirmed in writing.

Mayor Brandon Johnson announced “Abolish ICE” as the winner of a citywide snow plow name contest. He had earlier given it a “full and complete” endorsement.

NJ keeping up that rep as the Bite Me State.

I listened to an interview with Alysa Liu yesterday and I can see that the interviewers are unsettled by her and do not know what to do with her responses. She challenges so much of what USians are taught about competition and frankly about how to live a life.

Week 4 of Black History Month! 5 exhibits, 4 craft workshops, a double dutch extravaganza, and still more! Don't forget to stop by our table at the Black Joy Parade today for FREE books! Find booklists, event details, and history blog here ➡️ https://bit.ly/4qT9CMq

Yeah, this guy for example is 40 and he's still not smart.

Across the US, people fed up with Flock cameras surveilling their communities, and with local governments that are often unwilling to listen to concerns over privacy violations and ICE data sharing practices, are taking matters into their own hands—and tearing them down.

DOCTOR Rümeysa Öztürk has earned her PhD!!

Push poll on phone from Buffy Wicks, eww.

Definitely check out Asúkar, one of the businesses supported by Open Test Kitchen. Palestinian/Cuban fusion, a beautifully done relic of resistance to American imperialism. www.instagram.com/palestinianc...

I'm not as interested in the accuracy as much I am interested in the direction the AI chooses to go when it gets things wrong. That's the tell. It's no coincidence that the AI chose to go in the direction that has me placing a white woman in a pioneering position of making people of color visible.