Mikel Arteta has finally got his tactics right (Bukayo Saka playing soccer instead of being injured)

Alito's clerks working on a memo explaining how Title VI requires every white child of a family with two registered Republican parents who can complete grade 12 and fog up a mirror to be given a full ride to the Ivy League school of their choice

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Not much of a second half, but that's because we did everything we needed to in the first 45 mins. No need to go hell for leather, just keep them at arm's length and we did that really well. MLS in midfield an impressive aspect of today, beyond Saka and Gyok. All in all, a really good day.

In celebration of #WomensHistoryMonth, we’re honoring our favorite trailblazers in media justice! Brandi Collins-Dexter was recognized posthumously with the 2025 Parker Award for a lifetime of work dedicated to pursuing justice and the public interest in media.

A bike rider struck by a hit-run driver succumbed to their injuries, following the previously reported crash at E 22nd St and 23rd Ave in Oakland. The victim was a 38-year-old man named Bartholomew Fitzgerald Drawsand. www.sfchronicle.com/crime/articl...

USMNT is toast.

The court has simply recreated the pre-Brown world in allowing racial discrimination across a broad number fields as long as it is “facially neutral,” gutting the Reconstruction Amendments in the process.

Pack the Court.

I would say that I genuinely don't think it's possible for me to have more contempt for a man than I do for the president. Except it would be wrong, because then I remember all the media and politicians who refuse to stop pretending this transparently halfwitted clod of a man is coherent and savvy.

If you live on the West Side of Manhattan here's your ranked choice gameplan today Boylan Wilson Murphy Leave off Law-Gisiko, crazy NIMBY

Liberalism is the unrelentingly radical belief that humans stand equal as brothers and sisters in a shared and open society, governed by laws and leaders of their own choosing, free to live lives of their own choosing, finding their own truth and fortune, vested with rights universal and inalienable

A great thing about America is that as much as our leaders want to dismiss it, our noble and enlightened Constitution entitles you and I to hold those leaders in absolute contempt, and no one from quisling media all the way to the drunken disgrace running the FBI can take that from you

fuck yeah. we’re about to remember some guys

Declan Rice is, to my mind, the only player league-wide who deserves to win the league.

have muppets always served in integrated units or did Truman have to integrate Muppets into white units

it is important to emphasize that this was *the point*. this was *intentional*. elon musk is a vicious white supremacist who thinks poor african children ought to die, so that the world can be whiter

"What we need is to embrace power and to embrace responsibility for the exercise of that power. This includes everything from the sewer socialism of Zohran Mamdani to the constitutional hardball of Virginia's recent successful gerrymander." www.liberalcurrents.com/what-is-woke...

Send everyone involved in this to a gulag.

just to underline—the mass protest in Minneapolis fighting for brown people, immigrants, non-citizens—is one of the most remarkable demonstrations in favor of multi-racial democracy in US history.

Holy shit

At the root of California's perpetual budget crises is, of course, prop 13 but sitting right there next to it are the trillions of dollars of subsidies we throw at car-oriented suburbs who thank us by destroying the entire state. We should stop letting them do that.

you get: the astounding power of the supreme court of the united states of america we get: some vague modicum of ethical behavior apparently this bargain was a bridge too far, so I propose a new one, which involves impeachment and jail

let's make a cultural value judgment: palantir are a bunch of execrable fascist shitheads and their ideas go against the basis of every civilized country on earth, from which they should be extirpated like the intellectual cancer they are

Well, how can you not love this narrative? The plucky underdogs finally fought their way back in.

I love soccer the sport that brings me only joy and not morning tummy aches

Roots preview! Featuring more of my art that critics laud as “utterly inappropriate for public display.” oaklandrootsblog.com/2026/04/18/o...

So much of city budgets is vaporized by overtime to make cops semi-rich & by compensation for their rampant criminality & misconduct.

I really struggle with the question of how much malfeasance I’d tolerate to have my policy agenda implemented, but it’s really aggravating that for the GOP it appears to include “open theft.” I think in part because they all know he’s irreplaceable to them.

Approximately 4,000 people die in CA every year because of car crashes, 25% of which are pedestrians & bicyclists. Prioritizing safety for all road users should be a no-brainer, and the convenience of drivers shouldn’t come before the wellbeing of others. www.urbanismspeakeasy.com/p/public-inp...

I have done a lot of work to fast-track much-needed housing, and through that work I have seen another area in desperate need of streamlining: transportation projects to increase bicycle and pedestrian safety.

I for one believed this to be a Ralph Lauren ad due to the nearly identical logo and overall aesthetics. This belief made me think less of and be less inclined to purchase Ralph Lauren.

it just lifts my heart to feel heard. thanks, ICE lawyer. 💜

My god. Essential, horrifying reporting here.

Every time I walk my dog I think about how much nicer my neighborhood would be with less through-traffic and more parks. Setting aside the Oakland’s coffers aren’t overflowing, I’d be very curious to know the feasibility of turning a bunch of intersections into parks.

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Approaching the 20th minute of this 10 minute delay.

My friends in other cities always text me when they see people in Oakland Roots gear, assuming I want to know. 100% of the time they are correct that I want to know.

Posted some renderings a couple weeks ago, but I just finished assembling my mini Lego Al Lang Stadium…home of the @tampabayrowdies.bsky.social. A super fun project that came out better than I even hoped.

that's ok, the Wing Gundam Zero behind him will take care of this

i will vote for any candidate who offers up this slogan

They are going to get mad at you for existing, because they don't like your politics, but importantly politics isn't about whether your feelings are hurt when people are mad at you, it's about whether you win and wield power.

Game day Roots fans! oaklandrootsblog.com/2026/04/11/t...