One of the more incredible stories out of LA this year has been how a taco review blog became the best on-the-ground coverage of ICE raids in the city. They do a dispatch every day, follow-up on the kidnapped people (which almost no media outlet has done), and fact-check government claims.

We told you we're always watching Big Brother 👀 and now you can watch 1984 with us! EFF is teaming up with the Roxie Theater for a screening of this classic film. Use code BIGBROTHER25 for discounted tickets 🎬 www.eff.org/event/eff-r...

"Rainforest that has been regenerating for 30 years after being used as cattle pasture showed a remarkable increase in butterfly colour diversity." It turns out rewilding even has the power to restore the colours human activities are draining from the natural world. share.google/0cifnGipUkG5...

I'll be with @interruptcrim.bsky.social for a conversation about how to advance narratives that undermine authoritarianism and increase solidarity. Join me, @dreanyc123.bsky.social and Lewis Wallen on October 15th, 3pm est! ❤️ ❤️

In a video she said could only be aired after she died, Jane Goodall says she wants to put Trump, Musk, Netanyahu and Putin onto a spaceship and send them all into space. 😂 "Send them all off to the planet [Musk is] sure he’s going to discover.” www.huffpost.com/entry/jane-g...

REMINDER: Arson is a crime, particularly when you are burning a whole planet and threatening our collective future. The new Climate Criminals Directory names all the arsonists driving the Trump regime's petrofascism. #ClimateSky 🔌💡 www.climatecriminals.org/climatecrimi...

👀 Following #BroEnergy along with #BigBalls, who still works for the federal government. Blatant bro-mancing requires our push-back:

Jane Goodall Will Live Forever -- by @johnrplatt.bsky.social https://therevelator.org/jane-goodall-will-live-forever/

Preserve all #Nature for our interconnectedness to #Earth ☎️💵🗳️🌎 www.science.org/content/arti...

My fave assignment for #OaklandMagazine was writing a piece on Oakland’s 7th Street history as simulated by #Cal architecture & journalism students. Rereading now while writing a #creativenonfiction book. Have you played this game? If so, LMK: projects.journalism.berkeley.edu/7thstreet-ar... 🎶🎷🌳

“‘Democrats have got to be over what I have named — I call — “The Savior Complex,”’ she said. ‘There are many stars.’ “She was just there to remind the Democrats she could be the brightest one, for now.” Contrary to punditry, #KamalaHarris is not done. #2028 🗳️ sfstandard.com/2025/10/05/k...

Nerve to Write is open for nonfiction submissions until November 1st! Send us your flash nonfiction, lyric essays, memoir, and more!

If you're looking for some Sunday night reading, here's the Oakland Observer run down of what happened at this week's committee meetings and at Rules. Some unusually dramatic arcs here...

The Oakland Ballers victory parade brought folks from Sacramento, yet the vibe was all Yay Area. Cannot WAIT until they open their recovered BART car as a fan lounge. Not pictured here: a fire truck with Mayor Barbara Lee and Alameda County Board Supervisor Nikki Fortunato Bas on board! SO FUN ⚾️

Making great memories with the Oakland Ballers, Pioneer League Champions! #Hyphy #Ball

More pirate cinema 👏

“Oakland Mayor Barbara Lee announced Friday that she partnered with Assemblymember Mia Bonta and state Senator Jesse Arreguín to secure the funding through the state budget process.” Barbara Lee continues to speak for me! Grateful for her influence 🌞🌳

Saddle up and head to the Black Cowboy Parade on Saturday in West Oakland! 🐎 Lines 14, 22, 36 & 88 will be on detour: https://www.actransit.org/node/28498

Developpers deny the Trump administration's accusations that the app put ICE agents at risk, pledging to 'resist'.

The City of Emeryville will kick off Art & Culture month tonight with the annual Art Exhibition at PME followed by tomorrow’s Harvest Festival at Huchiun Park then a host of walking tours and events spotlighting the city’s deep connection to the arts. evilleeye.com/in-the-neigh...

We’re proud to announce that we've successfully hired and trained additional hotline operators – increasing our hotline capacity and support by 75% during our call hours. Your donations have and will continue to sustain our ongoing work and support employment for trans people! Thank you.

“While the growing mutualism between tech and government strengthens, it may leave some consumers behind, particularly women concerned about surveillance and the exploitation of reproductive health data.”

I wrote a wee bit about #neuroscience for #Elle magazine, about my application of #cannabis for #anxiety, that remains true for me today. Given the latest research on synapse messaging, I’ll adapt my neuro-nonfiction in progress. My article: www.elle.com/beauty/healt...

“…Researchers documented a network of tubes, each about 3 micrometers long and just a few hundred nanometers thick, connecting neurons to one another. In mouse cells, the team found evidence of neuron-to-neuron transfer of electrical signals via these nanotubes.” 🤯 #neuroscience #synapse #messenger

#OaklandArtMurmur writes: Oakland Art Murmur is thrilled to partner with the Museum of African Diaspora for their annual Nexus: SF/Bay Area Black Art Week that honors the vibrant creativity and cultural impact of Black artists across the region. nexus2025.sched.com/2025-10-03/v... #FirstFriday

super paywalled SF Business Times www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco...

An exclusive excerpt from Kevin Van Tighem's new book: In Understory, An Ecologist Reflects on the Grief of Losing Nature https://therevelator.org/understory-ecologist-grief/

New book OCEAN with @thamesandhudson.bsky.social release date is January 2026! Edited by @ashadevos.bsky.social with chapter authors @rebeccarhelm.bsky.social, @helenscales.bsky.social, @drandrewthaler.bsky.social, @petergs.bsky.social, & me. Preorder: www.thamesandhudson.com/products/oce... 🧪🌊🪸🐟

Exclusive: Bay Area university to open $240 million downtown Oakland campus. Here’s a look inside— Samuel Merritt University will bring 2,000 in-person Oakland students and hundreds of faculty and staff to a massive building… www.sfchronicle.com/eastbay/arti... Roland Li @sfchronicle.com

Happy @theflytrapmedia.com Friday everyone! Every Friday this month we're publishing a spooky post, starting with mine on Millennial housing anxiety and a new generation of horror novels.

‘Planetary health diet’ could save 40,000 deaths a day, landmark report finds - Diet allows modest meat consumption and would also slash food-related climate emissions by half, says report by 70 leading experts from 35 countries Story by me www.theguardian.com/environment/...

BREAKING 🚨 Greta Thunberg and 15 Irish citizens were kidnapped by Israel in international waters while trying to deliver humanitarian aid to Gaza. www.bbc.com/news/article... #BreakTheSiege #StopTheGenocide #FreePalestine

Crash #oilpainting #art

In MY LOVE IS WATER, Rob Macaisa Colgate “writes in rigorous and experimental verse to upend our understandings of desire, race, disability, and care.” Read a multi-genre collection from @uglyducklingpresse.bsky.social this #FilipinoAmericanHistoryMonth: uglyducklingpresse.org/product/my-l...

Peace #KidLitArtPostcard day! My name is Rob and I'm an illustrator/author from Oakland. I'm looking for middle grade, early reader, and picture book illustration work. Check out my work at Robdontstop.com #kidLitArt #childrensIllustration #middleGrade #ArtOfRobertLiuTrujillo

Join us this Saturday at San Francisco's @cartoonart.bsky.social to celebrate the bringing-back-to-print of The Very Fine Clock, written by Muriel Spark, illustrated by Edward Gorey! This panel will be my last U.S. event before I scuttle off to Japan again. www.cartoonart.org/calendar/202...

Be excellent to each other.

This kid threw a Nazi salute and shouted racist slurs inside a class. Let what happened next be a good reminder that they are vastly outnumbered, and also that accountability looks like the masses rising up. (countdown to Trump threatening UDub in 3, 2, 1 . . .)

The rising tide of AI is not lifting all boats. In fact, 86% of the U.S. data workers behind AI worry about meeting their financial responsibilities, according to a new survey by @alphabetworkersunion.org and TechEquity.

I can’t begin to tell you how damaging “the world isn’t fair, get used to it” line has been to every child’s psyche growing up and therefore has led to a world that stays unfair. If we teach children to get used to an unfair world, we are destroying the possibility of a better world.

Thank you Madeline Dean. We need media showing all these interactions.

It’s a shame Jane Goodall has to trend with Stephen Miller, but maybe it’s a good reminder that there are chimpanzees out there with more love and humanity in their hearts than that wretched anal wart could ever hold or produce. R.I.P. good doctor. Thank you for showing us how we’re all connected

“It’s hard to gauge the exact reach of the meme, but a dubiously scientific video from 2020 ranking the most popular memes estimated it at 400 million impressions (for context, Spiderman Pointing clocked 230 million, Nyan Cat 350 million, and Distracted Boyfriend a whopping 1.35 billion).“

The lineup is here for Oakland Grown: Student Art & Music Festival!🎶🎨 📅 Saturday, Oct. 25 | 12–4 p.m. | Oakland Museum of California From jazz and orchestra to spoken word, dance, visual art, ceramics, and more — this festival will be... Read more 👉🏽 www.instagram.com/p/DPRJ_3JkW9...

RIP, animal ambassador and genius 👑 I saw #JaneGoodall speak in #Oakland at the Calvin Simmons Theatre—and only JUST mentioned this to someone today, not knowing one of my childhood heroines had passed. A trailblazer in science and humanity ✨ Rest in power, JG 🦍

At a @cityofoakland workshop, I met an organizer for #Oaklash and learned about a December 5th event including original musical compositions, the lovely viola instrument, and drag. Love me some #Oakland

WATCH — @aoc.bsky.social : “At some point we’ve gotta call these people’s B.S. for what it is. You can’t believe everything a con man is gonna tell you. We cannot live in perpetual fear of these clowns.” #TrumpShutdown

“The lawsuit claims the defendants fired the apartment manager immediately after he disclosed CCTV footage to Balaji’s parents, installed an exhaust fan in the apartment without notice, and provided only two days of video surveillance footage despite requests for seven days.”