Reel Work 2026 May Day Labor Film Festival Santa Cruz & Monterey Counties Live & Virtual Events April 22 thru May 16, 2026 reelwork.org/schedule.htm

1/ We had a huge investigation on glyphosate (aka Roundup) drop yesterday showing that Monsanto (owned by Bayer) warped the science for decades leading the National Forest Service and timber companies to douse forests in herbicide. You want to watch this: www.youtube.com/watch?v=il75...

LISTEN. I worked in a diner, a sports bar, and countless restaurants through high school and college. 86 means you’re out of something. It’s off the menu, because you’ve run out. It does not mean “kill” something. These idiots are so removed from regular working people & also assume we’re stupid!

South Korean artist Jee Young Lee creates surreal and dreamlike spaces in her small studio #WomensArt

Margaret Oomen, contemporary Canadian textile artist who creates 'Little Urchin Crochet Covered Sea Stones' #WomensArt

A Trump quote without his voice or face - It's Trump without Trump This quote is unedited and 100% accurate its from the Healthcare Affordability Event on April 23, 2026 - My Crowd Was Bigger

WHCA Chief Weijia Jiang says they donated the dinners from the White House Correspondents' Dinner to shelters for abused women and children.

Good grief. I used to live near Ft. Belvoir as a teen alongside many military officers who were quite serious. These folks act like they are 12 years old.

A little more than a year ago, @paperwords.bsky.social received a letter from the US Forest Service detailing plans for a new wildfire recovery project. But a single word caught his eye—and alerted him to a secret, Big Tobacco-style campaign with ramifications for our forests.

Read the whole thing but this paragraph from @willbunch.bsky.social is 👌... 🎁🔗 www.inquirer.com/opinion/trum...

An America destroyed by madness was on full display after the chaos of an assassination attempt at the WCHA dinner, in a nation so numb to gun violence and so drunk on corruption that Trump and journalists wanted to party on Gunfire of the Vanities: My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/trum...

1. A tiny California tribe, the Yocha Dehe Wintun Nation, just donated $2 MILLION to MAGA Inc, Trump's Super PAC. I decided to find out why. It's an illustration of exactly how business is done in Trump’s Washington. Follow along for details. 🧵

Join us - online or in person, in NYC - for a probing conversation about race and racism in the founding ideas of Thomas Jefferson. events.leapevents.com/tickets/anne...

I’m going to wait to post until one of their books comes out and tells what actually happened tonight.

Hey folks: Tomorrow morning on my live webcast "History Matters:" Polymarket Gambling and the Sliding Scale of Corruption What happens when high-level political insiders feel entitled to bank on their insider knowledge? It spreads. Friday 10AM ET www.youtube.com/watch?v=9_21...

Jazz Fest Thursday, April 23, 2026 - 11:00am to 7:00pm Tune in to WWOZ to hear the sounds from all eight days of Jazz Fest 2026! Listen locally at 90.7 FM in New Orleans or from anywhere in the world at this link. www.wwoz.org/calendar/liv...

Let's Get Planting. This Earth Day, plant something that lasts. For people. For the planet. APRIL 20-22: DONATIONS MATCHED FOR EARTH DAY trees.org

Join us this evening at 6 p.m. for an important webinar to hear about the latest on our efforts to keep the coal industry off our public lands, and to learn what you can do to support these efforts!

Very cool: Rivian sends old batteries to Redwood, who hooks them all up via its special sauce, and now the batteries are helping power a Rivian manufacturing plant! Closed loop starting to come into sight ...

This dude converted this into an EV for $6k:

Excited to attend the ribbon-cutting for the next segment of California’s solar canal initiative later this month in Hickman. Imagine generating solar power over 4,000 miles or so canals across the state. A lot of Sierra and Colorado River water to save via avoided evaporation.

The oldest known image of Keith Richards, published around 1140 AD ...

As seen on the Weather Channel's weekly Pattrn program: www.youtube.com/watch?v=9trm...

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Twenty years ago I went to the 100th anniversary of this event on Market St. www.youtube.com/watch?v=O1cW... “The Story of An Eyewitness” by Jack London and read by Elaine Hamby

The NYT big expose on SCOTUS today pairs well with @ariberman.bsky.social and @pemalevy.bsky.social's cover story on how ~everything wrong with this country today can be laid at the feet of John Roberts: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

There are fewer than a dozen trans people in professional sports. But there are 62 million straight men visiting a “How To Rape” website… Guess which group conservatives are worried about… Guess?!

It's good to see that my Rep. Sam Liccardo is pursuing these suspicious trades.

“bees are sold by weight, like cheese or cocaine.” (via @thecity.nyc)

Take Back California and The Democratic Party From Perverts and Oligarchs! The California race for Governor serves as a national bellwether for the Democratic Party's direction and for whether Silicon Valley billionaires will continue to buy our democracy. thelefthook.substack.com/p/take-back-...

He literally says he has reached this conclusion from talking to CEOs.

We're also chatting about the CA gov race and why #XavierBecerra is not yet on bluesky.

🎁 The @sfchronicle.com details how it got the Swalwel story, how it worked to get the accuser to come forward, how it raced CNN... Really interesting account of how journalism actually works. Gift link: 🎁 www.sfchronicle.com/politics/art...

A dark money group funded in the past by Peter Thiel has given nearly $9 million to a GOP-led PAC that is blanketing Virginia with mailers comparing the upcoming redistricting referendum to Jim Crow www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Republicans just handed the Boundary Waters to a foreign corporation. For the GOP, it’s foreign billionaires first, America last.

“Amid growing evidence of fungi’s key role in ecosystems and storing carbon, African scientists are championing the need to preserve ‘funga’ as much as flora and fauna.” #fungifriends 🍄

For decades, Aadam Jacobs recorded live music shows. His collection of over 10,000 shows since 1984 features Nirvana, R.E.M., The Pixies, Björk, Depeche Mode, The Cure, and so many more — and they're now available on the Internet Archive for free. [kottke.org]

#MusicChallenge Day 15: Body Part (Not Heart or Eyes) www.youtube.com/watch?v=olyF...

new bucket list unlocked for my adhd craft friends:

It's a start. www.sciencenews.org/article/hawa...

The Wayback Machine archive is, like Wikipedia, one of the last corners of the internet that hasn't been killed by greed & slop. That ... may not last long.