This is Brighton Park, the neighborhood where a U.S. Border Patrol agent also shot a woman earlier today. It is a predominantly Latine community on the southwest side.

Even when immigrants are being detained, we see the impact of know your rights information. The family detained at Millenium Park refused to answer questions about their status and also asked for a warrant. Once at Broadview processing center, they also refused to sign a voluntary departure form.

ICE attempted and failed to disappear a food delivery guy. It needed to be scored.

First day of #WeekWithoutDriving 2025, are you ready? disabilityrightswa.org/how-would-yo...

As I told @newrepublic.com, "Once last week, twice today, ICE has picked me up and thrown me on the ground. Honestly, it doesn’t compare to what our neighbors who are trapped inside the Broadview processing facility are going through. They’re committing crimes against humanity there."

This is the playbook, folks. If you're not paying attention now and doing something about it, then you're going to have to sit down the rest of your life because democracy is being taken away. Do not be quiet in this moment.

Fascism is never full. It eats laws, neighbors, memory, until there’s nothing left but the chewing. It will never stop on its own—only when enough people say “no” together, loudly, stubbornly, even stupidly, refusing to be swallowed. Mass noncompliance is the only diet fascism can’t stomach.

The U.S. has blocked a number of U.N. resolutions calling for a ceasefire in Gaza despite an overwhelming majority because of its veto power as a member of the Security Council. “The political bodies that are at the heart of what was created in 1948...are unable to perform their role.”

Too many of us were too quiet for too long. Whatever fear prevented you from being heard is nothing compared to the fear you will now experience. Hiding and appeasement do not work against the bully tyrant.

For the record. My posts were not even about Kirk directly, but about America's apathy towards political violence, and the coddling of white male shooters and hate peddlers. I was fired because I mentioned race: white men and violence-- that was my "gross misconduct."

Alright, so I've been afraid to say this out loud, but I think after today, I can say it: In the first Battle of Los Angeles, the good people of LA County have prevailed. We beat ICE back. 1/

Last night, yet another person died on Rikers Island — the fifth New Yorker to lose their life in City custody within the last two weeks and the 13th this year. These deaths are a result of Eric Adams' failure to reckon with the crisis of violence and neglect in our jails.

As a survivor, I can't think of a more fitting metaphor than a rapist creating loud noises with planes as a survivor tries to tell her story. I mean... just wow. Nevertheless, she persisted.

It’s wonderful that, 30+ years after the invention of internet spam, that our hyper-brilliant AI overlords still can’t figure out that an email about Ozempic, coming from “[email protected]” might be spam.

I spoke with the hosts of Memoir Nation about the costs of cultural criticism and my new book Poppy State! 🥳🦝 lithub.com/myriam-gurba...

Friends, I'm back here because it's almost time for me to put a book in your hands. More here about The Defying Gentrification Playbook, its December 16, 2025, release date, and a major health update that's affected it's process over the decades -- theblackurbanist.com/im-autistic-...

We're at the stage that if you have a better idea of what people need to do, then you have to do it. And maybe it starts with a couple of people and grows. YOU really have to do it.

I wrote this five years ago. Today we heard the screams. lithub.com/in-patriarch...

So helpful of Insta to break web notifications so you can't see which post people are responding to.

And here it is

Bike For California is back! A low-key tailgate for Texas Southern, with BBQ and brews. Rolling from Macarthur around 1:00 PM Saturday. www.facebook.com/events/80531...

'[the DNC] unanimously passed a resolution in support of the much-maligned “diversity, equity, and inclusion.”' Much-maligned by who? Third Way's BS is that if we cede not only rhetorical ground but also policy to the fascists, that the people who vote for fascists will vote for Dems instead. Woo.

The Brookpark Rapid Station is half a mile from the nearest house. The stadium site is an industrial wasteland next to the airport. At best you'd get a few thousand people, eight days a year. Total grift.

Just updated: Tunnel Road in Oakland is undergoing construction to fix slides, and is closed to bikes (and cars) on weekdays at Buckingham Place from 7AM-5PM. It will be that way for weeks. Use Claremont, Shepherd Canyon or Butters if you are riding during the week. bayareabikerides.net

One of the worst academic concepts to break containment and go mainstream is the notion that you can plot political preferences as coordinates on a cartesian line

This has been a thing in tech forever; whatever some dude's specialty is, there's a tendency to believe everything not part of that specialty is both unimportant, and easy to do.

So this is straight-up eugenics, but a lot of folks don't get *why* this sort of rhetoric is- after all, she's not saying eliminate trans *people*, just *genes*...right? Your friendly neighbor trans geneticist reporting in for a quick explanation.

ICE is abducting people from immigration court this morning in San Francisco, a source onsite tells me. 100 Montgomery Street. There is resistance but I'm sure reinforcements today and every day would be valuable.

New blog post: a geomorphologist's ramble across Oakland's midsection.

Local fans, my next Geologist's Walk Around Lake Merritt is coming up in a week.

Happening tomorrow! @higheredlabor.bsky.social is hosting an academic library worker organizing session to talk about issues we're collectively facing. 8/20, 7pm EST. higheredlaborunited.org/2025/07/24/a... #LibraryWorkers #HigherEd #OrganizeIt

OPD is attempting to expand its surveillance system to be able to easily integrate footage from public and private security cameras into one centralized database under the Flock system, a massive AI-powered tracking system that has been metastasizing across the country in the past two years. 1/x

It really is SimCity.

The population density of the tracts surrounding Golden Gate Park is 10K/km^2. That's denser than Singapore, Hong Kong, Copenhagen, Amsterdam, Vienna, Mexico City, Bogotá. To these failed Sim City players, urbanism is just an aesthetic.

Self-Care Sunday with Rich City Rides. Beautiful day out there on a ride through Richmond and along the shoreline. Highlight for me was riding with 8-year-old Muhammad, who was inspired by the unicycle to do "look ma, no hands!" www.flickr.com/photos/tholu...

Rode Tamalpais the best way: up Old Railroad Grade, down the road. Panoramic Highway has too much traffic these days for the climb to be nice, but the descent is still awesome. The climb on Old Railroad is fine on a road bike. flic.kr/s/aHBqjCrae6

A number of people who have read "Let This Radicalize You" are unaware that we made numerous resources and tools to accompany the book. You can find all of them here including a workbook, discussion guide, zines and more. www.interruptingcriminalization.com/resources-al...

@ebbp.bsky.social August 2025: Hawaiian. Warm night in Concord and Clayton. Hits included Sudden Rush, The Clash, Surfaris, Beach Boys, Rebirth, Cimafunk, Incredible Bongo Band, and Elton John. Best in set, Crazy Train (RIP Ozzy). Also love for Tom Lehrer. open.spotify.com/playlist/4jG...

Yesterday, on 79th Ave. "A minor was among those arrested, and it is the first ICE sighting in Oakland verified by the Alameda County rapid response hotline." That is, first ICE sighting *in the wild* outside of people getting snatched at their appearances. oaklandside.org/2025/08/13/s...

God. God. God. Anas al-Sharif was one of the best humans this world has ever produced. So kind, so brave, so relentless. The occupation has killed so many of his relatives and tried so hard to kill him, and they finally fucking did it, and he kept reporting right up until his last breath.

Another oddity about rebranding of Ferran's anti-RCV to Black Action Alliance. New CEO, Sinclair Ridley-Thomas, is son of LA politician who was indicted for a pay to play scheme last year; brother an assemblyman who resigned ahead of a sexual harassment scandal, is now MAGA👀

A new entry in the "most mystifying enshittification": Now when insta notifies you that someone liked your post, you can't see which post it was.

"We find opportunities to create and improve public access to the Bay and its shoreline." "Except when we have an opportunity to destroy and reduce public access to the Bay and its shoreline." #richmondbridge www.bcdc.ca.gov/what-we-do/

Some Glasgow unicyclists need to take care of this.

Took 60C from him and Hilfinger back in, what, 1989? Really a great educator and advocate for students.

In this week's People of ACM we interview Brian Harvey, professor emeritus, UC Berkeley, co-creator of the popular Beauty and Joy of Computing curriculum. Harvey and Dan Garcia received this year's ACM Karl V. Karlstrom Outstanding Educator Award. Read the article here: www.acm.org/articles/peo...

Never seen evidence that he's anything but a McKinsey consultant.

New blog post on a local attraction and its stonework