Particularly relevant on this Fred Korematsu Day.

"NBA Star Stephen Curry's Ties To Israeli Military Intelligence"... www.donotpanic.news/p/nba-star-s...

This was the purpose of the carceral media's VC and hedge fund-supported effort to get rid of progressive DA's in San Francisco and Alameda County. Reducing the friction against a centralized fascist regime. GrowSF is still at work; Empower Oakland appears to be moribund (thankfully).

Bay Resistance march to Emeryville Target and Home Depot in protest of their cooperation with ICE tomorrow evening , part of a nation-wide mobilization.

I have no interest in using “current events” to sell books. Certainly when those events are so horrific. I don’t much care how/where you come by this exceptional book centering our current fascism within that which has existed (& been resisted) for far too long. ebbooksellers.com/item/UfU8gx4...

Very much aligned with what @prisonculture.bsky.social has been saying for months; be around creative people, because creativity will end up being important.

I interviewed two queer activists in Minneapolis who are modeling what community defense can look like. We have so much to learn from them.

Renee Good was killed in broad daylight by an ICE agent. The administration moved quickly to disparage her character, a tactic historically weaponized against Black victims of police violence. Last week I cosponsored the Qualified Immunity Abolition Act of 2026.

I don’t believe in hell but these people really make me wish I did.

Oakland Observer picked up corporate and non-profit media slack during the Council's assault against the independence of the Oakland Police Commission. The articles are gathered with links here. I've got you covered, you will, as always get the full story

The Comical in two stories today shows who it's writing for. On a proposed tiny home village for homeless in San Rafael: "[T]heir neighborhood, where time is marked by Easter egg hunts, twinkling Christmas horse-and-carriage rides, ice cream socials and barbecues, could change for good."

Latest musings on DJing @ebbp.bsky.social and other events, and how joy in creative communities in generative. Like a hive, we communicate by dancing. Includes my Best of 2025 playlist if you need something to dance to. bike-lab.org/2026/01/20/a...

friendly neighborhood barred attorney telling you to never put your ID on your phone

Gee, I didn't see Schumer's proposals for free child care, free buses, and rent control. Only more of the same neoliberal bullshit he's been pushing for years.

Houston Texans’ Azeez Al-Shaair has reportedly been fined $11,593 for wearing eye black that contained the message "stop the genocide” The report says he was fined for violating NFL uniform and equipment rules www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/...

I’m the dude in the photo. And yes, I threw leica. It landed on the bass plate with hardly a scratch. I’m back out today photographing an anti-Islam protest from a far right extremist in a couple hours. IG john_abernathy_ more information on Facebook

Good morning. I read this dispatch from a comrade in Minneapolis this morning and thought that some of you might appreciate it too.

My band, Varmints, played a show in South Minneapolis tonight. It was a hardcore punk show giving out free whistles and every band said Fuck ICE between songs. It’s important right now, if you can, to play music and make art that stands on 10 toes telling fascists to fuck off.

Bro, people are going to build entire lives around the neighbors they’ve found in these anti-ICE signal chats. Marriages, lifelong friendships, weird hobbies. It is actually breaking my brain. I am almost crying in the club (chat).

This is just calling back to the early days of Faux News, where their slogan was "We report, you decide": framing the rest of the media as slanted, and Fox's intentionally slanted reporting as balanced.

This is why no chase policies are important and it is important to point out the police regulalry violate them. www.washingtoninformer.com/dc-photograp...

i hope all the people resisting ICE on the ground know how fucking inspiring they are. minneapolis right now, and chicago and LA and charlotte and DC and portland before them, you’re setting the blueprint for the future battles sure to come. thank you.

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Democrats officially going all in on the mealy mouthed “ICE needs training” narrative. No. ABOLISH ICE.

i believe the photographer who is taking the photo is Christopher Katsarov of the Canadian Press, and here is his photo

While I was in D.C., I did some field work to follow up on some commentary I'd made back when the City of Oakland was trying to use a failed underpass project in D.C. as a model for what we should do on the waterfront. It's still failed, but now bike infra is complicit. bike-lab.org/2026/01/10/m...

Faculty, librarians, and staff at UC Berkeley call upon EVCP Hermalin to rescind the suspension of Computer Science Lecturer Peyrin Kao and to reinstate him in his position. actionnetwork.org/petitions/re... @ucaft.bsky.social

Remembering today that having your heart broken is a necessary step on the path to becoming fully human. Whichever heartbreak is your first, it’s probably critical that a state break your heart so that you can develop a political imagination. If this is your first, I’m sorry and also welcome.

in these moments, in my view, it is a political and spiritual DUTY for my outrage and anger to be as fresh as if I'd never heard how they shot Fred Hampton in his bed. As fresh as if I didn't know Bobby Hutton was surrendering when they shot him. 1/2

Surprisingly, I'd never seen this image or known this artist. Very cool.

Whenever I correctly point out that there is no opposition party in US politics, the usual suspects swarm to screech about Dems having no power. If these folks are correct (they are not), then they should BUILD POWER. They aren't doing that.

Barbara Lee was correct in 2001, and Lateefah Simon is correct now. Fortunate to live in probably the most anti-imperialist district in the country.

And the rich man in his summer home Singing just leave well enough alone But his pants are down, his cover's blown And the politicians throwin' stones So the kids they dance And shake their bones 'Cause it's all too clear we're on our own Singing ashes, ashes, all fall down youtu.be/7kHnoBnsY40?...

What do these vintage aerial photographs reveal about the Bay Area’s ongoing transformation? Come find out... www.eventbrite.com/e/east-bay-y...

Told a very well-known to many customer today: “I’m less inclined always to save space for everything that WILL sell than I am to make space for things that I WANT to sell.” Not to say we are the best bookstore, but I desperately believe this is the key to any such aim or measure.

Dean Martin, born Dino Paul Crocetti, son of Italian immigrant Gaetano Crocetti Frank Sinatra, son of Italian immigrants Antonino Sinatra and Natalina Garavanta Merry Christmas to everyone except Stephen Miller and his enablers and handlers

Recently became aware of the similarity between Sound and Vision (Bowie, 1977) and Fantastic Man (William Onyeabor, 1979). Both great songs. Not clear whether the two ever worked together. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fzf0... www.youtube.com/watch?v=q-cU...

As always, nothing good comes out of Stanford.

SCOOP: Flock left at least 60 of its AI-powered, people-tracking surveillance cameras exposed and livestreaming to the open internet. We tracked ourselves. The exposure highlights the power of these cameras and types of things they're tracking. Not just cars. www.404media.co/flock-expose...

"In suspending Peyrin Kao, UC Berkeley has not simply violated an instructor’s freedom of political expression. It has shown itself to be a willing proponent of the brave new world for which the genocide in Gaza stands as testament and warning. " www.dailycal.org/opinion/op-e...

"We invented a nonexistent Plan, and They not only believed it was real but convinced themselves that They had been part of it for ages." (Umberto Eco)

We express our outrage at EVCP Benjamin Hermalin’s recommendation to suspend UC Berkeley lecturer Peyrin Kao for his free speech and expression. We call on Hermalin to immediately reverse it. Read the full letter from the UC-AFT Bay Area Chapter: ucaft.org/news/letter-... @ucaft.bsky.social

Ever looked at our High Quality Transit Stops dataset and wondered why a particular major transit stop was identified? These maps go step by step and explain our spatial methodology for identifying bus intersection major transit stops. Hoping this helps clarify a complex process, feedback welcome!

Missed this? Is it an evil overlay? How can you tell? https://www.joedolson.com/2025/12/is-it-an-evil-overlay-how-can-you-tell/

it's taken me a while to put this together. but I hope, if you've never heard of her, or even if you have, this tribute to Alice Wong buoys your heart and gives you a good sense of who this incredible person was. www.coyotemedia.org/remembering-...

@ebbp.bsky.social #bikeparty, Christmas K-Pop Demon Hunters. Includes requests from a friend's daughter in a Rumi wig. open.spotify.com/playlist/7Bh... Hits included Harder They Come, Elvis, Relax, What It Sounds Like, Golden, Psy, Tavares, and December 1963 (Best in set!).

One thing this reporting confirms: the University of California President and high level administration leaders have done little to nothing to protect research funding at the UC. The fight is being brought – and won – by faculty, union workers, and students. www.chronicle.com/article/the-...

So this is pretty straightforward attempted murder, and I'd be very unsurprised if any of the ICE involved turned out to be familiar with the term "starlight tour": en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saskato...

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