After years of having their belongings destroyed by city workers while homeless in SF, Apple Cronk and her partner fought back through the courts. Their victory now protects ALL unhoused San Franciscans from routine property destruction. Read Apple's story here: www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/open...

Breaking: Gov. Newsom signs laws to resist Trump's immigration crackdown, including ban on masks for ICE agents. Will the state be able to enforce them? https://cal.news/4gyQyiT 📸 Ted Soqui

Respectfully disagree: 1) in fact it is unusual for a democracy w/ this level of GDP to turn authoritarian & so quickly; 2) the weakness of both institutions (congress & courts) and individuals (Schumer etc) is shocking. Would take less than 10 people in congress or 2 SC justices to stop all this.

Reporting members of the UC Berkeley community to the government is reminiscent of the McCarthy era, when lives and careers were ruined merely because a person’s name showed up on a list.

Notable study was published today regarding political violence. cvp.ucdavis.edu/research/fea...

New PEN America statement: “The firing and suspension of multiple journalists after the fatal shooting of Charlie Kirk should alarm anyone who cares about free speech and a free press. Taken together, these measures risk creating a chilling effect that extends beyond those directly targeted..."

WE'RE LIVE!! 11 months ago this idea was born in the corner of a corporate newsroom. I quit my job, we rallied this rad dream team, and dove into the fun and tough parts of building a worker-owned media company from scratch. Today, we have 10 stories we can't wait for you to read: coyotemedia.org

Once again, a quick post here led to an hour of writing it up as a full piece at CAMPAIGN TRAILS. Here it is:

Transgender people are owed a retraction and apology from @wsj.com. The lie has already become canon to millions and it seems the least they could do.

Yesterday, a court blocked DHS from brutalizing journalists, protestors, and legal observers. A judge found federal agents used excessive force against members of the press and public during immigrants' rights protests in Southern California this summer. This is a win for the First Amendment.

Always read Will's columns Gift Link share.inquirer.com/NSfMtr

BREAKING: Federal judge in Los Angeles issues preliminary injunction against Department of Homeland Security to restrict use of force against press, legal observers and protesters. Judge in LA Press Club v. Noem calls out "surprising savagery" of DHS officers: "The First Amendment demands better."

The New Yorker asked me “how bad” today’s Supreme Court ruling was. I boiled it down to one paragraph: link.newyorker.com/view/5bda429...

Highest level of support since Gallup started asking this question a quarter century ago

Important to remember that everyone involved in renaming the DoD to the Department of War is afraid to take the subway.

A HUGE WIN! “From Day 1, Secretary Noem acted with a sole intent of stripping TPS holders of their legal status whether or not there was a basis for it. This decision recognizes the illegality of that. As a result, TPS protections should go back into effect immediately.” — Emi MacLean, ACLU NorCal

I'm looking for pitches for @MotherJones' print culture section, Mixed Media! These are ~2,000-word essays that combine reporting, cultural criticism, historical research, and/or personal narrative. More details in our pitch guidelines here: www.motherjones.com/contribute/w...

SCOTUS, like the US, has a lot of accumulated social capital. But it is not infinite. If they continue not even seriously pretending they’re interpeting the law rather than aiding partisan allies, the deference they treat as a given is going to start fracturing.

From helping carry out deportations to tracking people who have an abortion, police are using automatic license plate readers to surveil us more and more. State lawmakers need to enact strong, meaningful, and enforceable privacy protections.

The president is sending the military to control American cities and if you're a reporter who's framing that illegal power grab as "pushing the boundaries of constitutionality" or "acting boldly to fight crime" or whatever, please go find another line of work where you won't get us all killed.

Okay. I just came back to this and you aren’t calling these efforts resegregation yet, you absolutely should be

A dramatic, extremely worrying moment; over 61,000 people held in ICE detention. That is the highest number ever on record in United States history; roughly 6,000 higher than the previous record set under Trump six years ago, and over 21,000 higher than when Trump took office just seven months ago.

The Bizerkeley Food Fest is expanding from a single-day festival to a handful of events, including speed dating and a documentary screening, over the first week of September.

Jim O’Neill is a tech investor, former CEO of the Thiel Foundation, and co-founder with Peter Thiel of the Thiel fellowship. He has no direct medical education or experience. It’s hard to get away from the feeling that they really are trying to kill us.

I want to see every Democratic senator and representative exhibit, at the very least, the level of courage being shown by the CDC staffers who are walking out in protest.

Seems like we’re crossing a lot of rubicons.

Now this is a journalist who deserves respect.

Correct. It’s insane that anyone is standing for this. We need people in the streets, campus protests, a general strike. Democrats should be holding rallies and press events constantly. The apathy in the face of all this is astounding.

Without explanation, the Ninth Circuit has allowed DHS to terminate TPS for 60,000 residents from Honduras, Nepal, and Nicaragua, many of whom have lived in the US for more than two decades. "Today’s ruling is a devastating setback, but it is not the end of this fight.” — Emi MacLean, ACLU NorCal

"How bad slavery was" is worse. Much worse. Much worse than you think, much worse than you're taught, much worse than museums depict. Worse.

Hello. I wrote a nice long essay about AI and this very strange moment where we're constantly told we're living in the dawn of a strange new future but the only thing that's actually clear is that everyone feels pretty unmoored and uncertain. I hope you'll read it

Here's where you really accelerate: "What if generative AI isn’t God in the machine or vaporware?" Well done, Charlie Warzel.

The White House is mobilizing red state military forces to occupy a Democratic stronghold and let me tell you: No one has ever pretended something isn't happening harder than Democratic leaders are pretending this isn't happening right now.

Please: DO NOT NORMALIZE OR EXPLAIN AWAY ARMED MILITARY ENGAGED IN LAW ENFORCEMENT IN AN AMERICAN CITY. If it doesn’t seem that off base or unusual to you, perhaps it’s because you are not the target of this.

I HATED reading Faulkner in high school, but this is brilliant! "August, that devil in cargo shorts..." 😆

This is one of the most beautiful things I have witnessed, the craft here is impeccable.

I see you NYT Spelling Bee.

Today, the president foreshadowed that if these heavy-handed tactics take root in D.C., they will be rolled out to other majority-Black and Brown cities, like Chicago, Oakland and Baltimore, across the country. That should alarm everyone, not just Washingtonians.

For any wavering supporters of Israel, there have been off-ramps to take to avoid being (staying) on the side of a genocide basically every day. Here’s another, killing an entire team of journalists and claiming they were terrorists.

BBC International Editor Jeremy Bowen has confirmed that the entire Al Jazeera team in Gaza City has been killed.

Israel has killed 240+ journalists. People who'd cover a strike that killed their kids and go on to cover the next strike, in the pursuit of convincing the world to act, of the hope of tomorrow being different. How many more murders will it take for the mainstream media's cowardly fever to break?

Just spitballing here, but cryptobros throwing sex toys at WNBA players on the court and other cryptobros and male sports commentators calling it funny and telling the women and their coaches to 'lighten up' both explains the 'male loneliness epidemic' and why I don't care about it.

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I’m glad that the woman at the center of this story was able to make the choice she felt was right for her and her family. But what’s happening here is horrifying: conservatives are valorizing these stories strategically—they want to make the skyrocketing maternal mortality rate *positive*

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The Constituion prevails.