Saturday 6/20: Public Memorial: Nellie Wong – ¡Presente!

Producers of Obsession (in their 40s making their 40th feature) had nearly 1 million but paid their early 20s crew min wage, no profit share or gas money & worked them to the bone. Some were volunteers. Should be a scandal but abuse is normal in indie film. www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...

Members of the American Diabetes Association were kicked out by police during the organization's annual for distributing an editorial criticizing Trump administration changes to U.S. biomedical research www.medpagetoday.com/special-repo... Here’s the editorial: diabetesjournals.org/care/article...

I hope a lot of people look at this whole Platner mess, from its contrived beginnings as a hastily assembled “Rogan of the left” character to the batshit defenses offered by pundits who want their strategy to work & start asking themselves hard questions about how the ballot truly relates to fascism

This may seem super petty but it’s very much a part of the “working class” fiction of the Platner campaign: dude tried to bullshit a reason why he went to an expensive elite prep school that wasn’t “just” having the money and we all know a loser poseur like this themainemonitor.org/graham-platn...

This mode of white male identity politics often gets conflated with class politics. It happens because signifiers of working-class identity are inherently ambiguous, and underspecified populist discursive categories like "the people" and the "establishment" strategically enable this conflation.

I am going to make so many harm reduction themed crafts this summer.

Hey everyone, need a recommendation. We’re covering this protest Sunday and want to talk to an expert on anti-trans hate groups and get a rundown on these speakers and the involved groups before the event. DM us here or reach out at [email protected]

Experts say reproductive coercion more often occurs when a partner forces someone to get or remain pregnant. The anti-abortion movement is seizing on rare instances of forced abortions as a justification to ban telehealth pill prescriptions. The woman's lawyer here is the notorious Jonathan Mitchell

Grace is only ever extended to the people whose lives we already value.

Around 80% of the psychiatric hospitals in the U.S. that have violated the Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act in the past 15 years are owned by for-profit corporations. Only a few have faced any repercussions from regulators. (Published Sept. 2025)

Has anyone gone through Fetlife to see if Platner has an account there?

Imagine doing contortions like these to carry water for Graham Platner.

I’m really looking forward to Ken Klippenstein explaining to all of us smooth groins why “hatchet wound” is actually a term of respect.

It was a hung jury but it was closer to a not guilty on all counts than a conviction. We’ll know next week if the case will be refiled.

The jury is deliberating on a verdict for Anastasia Rogers. There is supposed to be an update today and I’m very curious how a San Francisco based jury is going to rule on abortion clinic harassment.

Marjane Satrapi (1969-2026), the French-Iranian author and illustrator behind the popular graphic novel series and film “Persopolis,” RIP 🙏

Very bad news. Screwworm appears to have made it to Texas, as was predicted. These parasites eat the living flesh of cattle, cause horrible pain, and can ultimately kill them. Yesterday, USDA Chief Brooke Rollins categorically denied that screwworm was close to the border.

No joke, it would be cheaper to pay every coal miner $5m every year to not mine coal. There are only 40,000 coal miners, while the coal industry produces >$500 billion in external costs every year, including by routinely burning coal just to burn it despite it costing more ("uneconomic dispatch").

People experiencing miscarriages in states with abortion bans told us they wished they had known what to expect and how to advocate for themselves. We created this guide for anyone who finds themselves in the same position.

Supervised consumption sites are being closed and defunded across Canada. Join HRNA for a critical conversation with Tara Gomes, Gillian Kolla & Elaine Hyshka on impacts, misinformation, and the risks of policy driven by flawed research. 🗓️ June 11 at 12pm PST us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Call in sick for the rest of the afternoon, San Francisco

NEW at @autonomynews.co: The nation's largest abortion fund and support service went dark for a day last week because workers went on strike over management's refusal to bargain with them on AI protections. This ongoing dispute could lead to tremendous disruptions in the abortion access landscape:

Apparently @ddosecrets.org's work won some Emmys (and other awards) emma.best/2026/06/02/a...

CARE, NOT CUFFS! In March 2026, the LA County Department of Health Services released a policy for all county public hospitals asserting the rights of detained patients & instructing hospital staff how to handle interactions with ICE. 1/9

A DOJ report now frames LGBTQ+ protections and abortion clinic access laws as examples of “anti-Christian bias.” The document reads less like a civil rights investigation and more like an effort to institutionalize Christian nationalist ideology inside the federal government. Read more:

Wait. How did I miss that @reason.com gave Jay Bhattacharya a free speech award. Maybe I can write an article for them updating the state of science and free speech with their hero in charge. What do you say @nickgillespie.bsky.social

I’m a lifelong Californian but I think it’s still important to stop and actively denounce the practice of conditioning people to accept the idea that one can innocently get Nazi symbols tattooed onto their bodies and leave it there for decades. Don’t condition people to ignore what they see.

Camping in the Marin Headlands was such a great way to get hyped and field test new gear for my upcoming trip to Yosemite.

A Washington state jury found three protesters guilty of federal conspiracy charges for sitting in front of an ICE bus that was attempting to relocate prisoners last year. They face a maximum sentence of six years in prison and/or $250,000 in fines. Important reporting from @rangemedia.co:

Louise Michel was a 40-year-old schoolteacher when the Paris Commune broke out. She fought in the front lines, was sentenced to life in exile, supported an anti-colonial uprising in New Caledonia, and dedicated her life to anarchist resistance. Today is her birthday. crimethinc.com/MichelCaledo...

I know that the Millennium Tower is putting a lot of money into PR because all of the owners & investors are under water with their infamously leaning & sinking skyscraper and I get the feeling that this restaurant move is part of that.

After a Wisconsin town did this, the mayor said: “The fact that they didn’t take the cameras down shows that we are the product. They were never really selling to us in the first place. They're selling to much bigger agencies the ability to spy on a ton of people.” (via boltsmag.org/verona-wisco...)

"In some cities, your car is an encumbrance. If you've ever been stuck in traffic on a busy street while pedestrians + cyclists flow past you + subway trains zoom beneath you, you know that your car can become your prison." —Jarrett Walker @humantransit.bsky.social 🖌️ by @bikeyface.bsky.social

Copyright is not a sacred dogma. It’s not even real. If you’re spending your precious time on this earth telling people how reasonable, magnanimous, and ultimately kind a litigious corporation is without any compensation whatsoever from them then you need a more fulfilling hobby or relationship.

Saturday 6/6: Santa Cruz Dyke Trans March

MIT's social science library is closing, the entire book collection will be no longer available to browse or immediately check out, the space to become additional B-school classrooms? 🤬

With all due respect to BAS, my eyes rolled out of my head as I read this essay by the author of “The Tribes of Burning Man” about how gentrification has “forced” a burning man art studio to move to a new location in Hunter’s Point. brokeassstuart.com/p/without-th...

If someone you care about is having a mental health crisis please consider any other option than the police for help. A man in San Leandro is now dead after the cops performing a welfare check on him wound up shooting him to death. www.ktvu.com/news/san-lea...

"Nurse Albert" has been pedaling through the Tenderloin and Mission, handing out $15 in cash. He takes people’s blood pressure in exchange for their Medi-Cal numbers. "It horrifies me," an outreach worker said. "They’re getting people’s information." missionlocal.org/2026/05/san-...

Thanks to Daniel Spielberger at Study Hall for a fun written Q&A to delve into what it's like to work on a large and sprawling investigation with a major newsroom as a freelancer. studyhall.xyz/free-newslet...

When I taught global health, Ebola was my example of how wealth (of nations) determines health: Because if you’re evacuated and treated in a wealthy country, you will almost survive Ebola. Those 50-90% mortality rates are driven by lack of access to the intense levels of supportive care people need

California - WATCHDOGS Legal observers from the Marin Rapid Response Network have documented increased ICE activity in the county over the last two months pacificsun.com/legal-observ...

Mosy of these “why hasn’t the left done xyz, it must be the fault of people on the left who annoy me” articles and takes are unserious because they barely ever grapple with violent state repression.

San Francisco is the first major city to be left without a primary immigration court and this is no accident apnews.com/article/san-...

I’ll just reiterate that the entire concept of ‘bubbles’ is a right-wing talking point invented to try to make people feel bad for not wanting to be incessantly exposed to right-wing horseshit. it’s the same as the whining about people not wanting to date them

Damn, I knew I was missing one

Presentació del libro «Putas rebeldes» 🗓️ Jueves 28 de mayo 🏙️ Barcelona 🕡 18:30 📍 @laraposapoblesec (C/ Tapioles 47) CC: @DescontrolEditorial 🐘 Sobre el libro: https://kolektiva.social/@yenndc/116246524776208284 #trabajosexual #putasrebeldes #PresentaciónDeLibro #eventosts #barcelona #2026w22

NYC friends - I’m doing a fundraiser panel for the clinic, @pregnancyjust.bsky.social and @msfchoice.bsky.social Thursday night that you won’t want to miss… givebutter.com/m2m2026NYC