@kurtandersen.bsky.social YES, agree @mashagessen.bsky.social today brilliant. Also @newyorker.com #radiohour, interview w #paveltalankin re #MeNobodyAgainstPutin.

Not ONE article about #mamdani and his #mayorality the #nyt has written has an iota of positivity. It is the most #preprejudiced coverage I have ever read in the #oldgraylady. FU, #nyt, #getwiththetimes….. Mayor Mamdani Is Moving On Up to Gracie Mansion www.nytimes.com/2026/01/11/n...

open.substack.com/pub/heatherc... Heather Cox Richardson is always right at the crux of how events from the past mirror events today. Today’s read is chilling.

The root of all #conservative bullshit started with #reagan, and #scalia.

I am piping hot mad that mod Dems sold out the rest

Blue Jays, #bluejays, hope you win tonight.

Are We Losing Our Democracy? www.nytimes.com/interactive/... The only problem here is “Trump has started to” which is false. Trump IS, is correct.

So, if we get clean thru 18, can’t we skip today’s game because the guys already played two???

I work on #Alameda. We do not want or need #ICE #detention here. FURIOUS.

Fucking destroying the Wast Wing is a red flag, doing Putin’s bidding to destroy symbols of American democracy oh and BTW this is what Real estate developers do to history EVERYWHERE

Artillery Shell Detonated Over Interstate 5 During Marines’ Celebration, California Officials Say www.nytimes.com/2025/10/19/u... … like I was saying

We the people are just now realizing the shiny phones and cameras and on-line conveniences that have become our crutches - are all distractions from the brilliant tools they are for destroying our rights and privacies.

Today’s thought I woke up to: Solidarity is the way through trauma

Go @tommyorange.bsky.social ! Congrats on that special prize!

It’s Not Government They Don’t Like www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/o... @jamellebouie.net best piece in the @nytimes.com today.

This is so fucked up. Go @GavinNewsom, sue, sue, sue Trump Administration Live Updates: California National Guard Sent to Oregon, Newsom Says www.nytimes.com/live/2025/10...

In between stress reading comments here and watching @yankees.com not doing enuf, plus weedi, I just gotta say, Gardening will help me survive (for scale, the clementine is 5/8 in.).

A life well lived. We need more Gingers in the world, today Ann Fagan Ginger, Tireless Defender of Civil Liberties, Dies at 100 www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/u...

Where’s the photo Of drawing Trump made for Epstein?

Nothing good for the US democracy today, and so many bad things against democratic norms, my head spins.

Today’s East Bay Times, out in favor of #GovGav and the new plans to be made re redistricting: California can’t afford to allow Texas to rig ’26 edition.pagesuite.com/popovers/dyn...

Smithsonian Institutions are meant to tell the stories of all Americans, taken across locations, periods and peoples. They represent US. Not meant to tell only one kind of story to one kind of people.

Call this period in time for America what historians will call it in the future: The Great Regression. Regressive tariffs, policies; racial, familial and sexual political UNdoings. We will survive this time, barely, and emerge from it like the lemurs, gasping for oxygen. #thegreatregression

@roger1952.bsky.social inadvertently coming up with the perfect imagery for today’s #tsunami imagery.

Hearts out to @NYC - it’s such a huge city with such a low murder rate. What the hell is a guy doing carrying such a weapon out on the open?!

2/2 Also, re #TrumpTariffs: ports of Oakland and Richmond are dead, there will be huge layoffs of dockworkers who last year thru AFL CIO got new contracts for no robots at piers. No freight = no labor needed = no jobs. California is the canary in the coal mine.

What’s on mind as the #OBBB -One Big Beautiful Blunder? Here is the Bay Area, we are in a two pronged economy: earn $500k a year and more - everything is swell. Not involved w LLMs and AI? You just lost yr job. Everyone else white knuckling it everyday 1/2

Don’t know if anyone cares, but #ubertopasolini’s the 2024 movie of #theodyssey With #ralphfiennes amd #juliettebinoche is fab.

“Nothing to see here,” to be filed under “How the US democracy continued to spiral from democracy to autocracy.”

MLB came up with something totally fun to kill the tie game ::: HR swing off— absolutely brilliant idea, and wonderful fun for us all. Congrats, NL!

What the fuck?

We in #california - the world’s 4th largest economy, and a state that pays more into twxes than it takes - are well aware this administration hates us.

Maybe you’re right, I didn’t have #elmo bringing all the fire today

I hope we live to explain how the USA went from being a great place to live in, move to and be from, to a complete authoritarian nightmare, before I turn 75. USA has a long history of “crazy seizure” type neo-religio political swings… like All the way through the 1800s.

Decorative arts historian here, to say that the 19th and 20th centuries both began with upheaval, wars and multiple changes in which party/person/group was going to take charge: #frrev #warof1812 #communards #assasinationattemptonQueenV #ww1 #ww2 #crimeanassasination 1/2

Everything awful all at once is making me want to … make sure all these selfish, cruel and heinous individuals trying to ruin everything I love abt my country, go down in ruins.

Fave painting of #shrooms at a client call in #sf this week. Who doesn’t love miconia?

This is exactly how I feel!

The downside and upside of the #drygarden

Our son still in @nyc and voted for @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social … I am thrilled That the youngs found a #socialist #dem who cares abt cityfolk more than the 1%. This is the path forward, USA @blue

Where TF is Congress???

We have to get rid of the boneheads from Drumpf to the lowliest, newest congress members. Dropping bombs: easy. Now what????!!! This will be Drumpf s Afghanistan

The #personalproperty #appraiser says: #auction world is super cool, when #davidgilhooly, a playful #ceramicartist, makes #art that’s good enough to eat, @michaans, #alameda #california

Bad maps make western protests like sparse - anything but so is the truth. ‘No Kings’ Protests Across the United States www.nytimes.com/2025/06/14/u...

First #pinkrose from the deck,

If we took away the #youngfolks’ phones, maybe they’d look up long enuf to see what’s up and protest, but til then, we oldsters will wait and do the work for them.

Hurrah, #elcerrito #ca about 1,000 of

Here at #elcerritodelnorte there are ahout 1000 of us standing against this damn autocrat wanna be

Re Pres w Loss of Mental Accuity: Nancy Reagan and C of S, secty, also circled the wagons around Ronald Reagan. What Biden COULD have done: given green light to reins for Kamala to take over early in 2023. But no, Biden and co too small.

All the folks and press so mad about the Biden coverup re his state of health, shoulda been around when Woodrow Wilson had a stroke, 110 years ago, and his wife and secty st impeded the truth from coming out 1/2