Breadward of Oakland, CA

Bayer warns it may stop selling Roundup in the U.S. over lawsuits Bayer has told U.S. lawmakers it may pull its glyphosate-based Roundup weedkiller from the market if it does not receive stronger legal protections against lawsuits claiming the product causes cancer....

Bayer might stop selling RoundUp. Great news for all species!!
We should urge U.S. lawmakers not to provide legal protections~
www.ehn.org/bayer-warns-...

With love, from Oakland.

Reimagine everything.

www.reimaginerpe.org/19-2/boggs

A dear friend of mine penned this perspective...
pressreader.com/article/2822...

Billions in profits while your workers can't afford housing or groceries isn't success. That's called exploitation.

Success should be shared, not hoarded by those at the top.

HOW YOU CAN HELP:
✅ Spend your money at small businesses, especially those owned by underrepresented entrepreneurs
✅ Share this message with your networks—word of mouth is powerful
✅ Stand together in financial solidarity to create real economic change

Tomorrow, February 28, let’s disrupt the status quo by spending ONLY at businesses that uplift our communities.

That means:
🚫 No gas from corporate giants
🚫 No fast food chains
🚫 No big-box retailers (Target, Walmart, Amazon, etc.)

@workingfamilies.org card carrying member here.
www.wfpus.org
Check us out.

Hit em where it hurts.

Nobody wants an emergency, but perhaps we should want some of the remarkable things that can happen during them. On the top of my list of those things is how in the immediate aftermath of a hurricane, a fire, an earthquake,  people take care of each other and work together without the kind of vetting and fretting whether they agree entirely about politics or religion or other matters. We are in an unprecedented emergency in the United States with fallout that poses threats to environments, economies, human rights and even survival beyond our borders, and we could use some of that energy. As political scientist Erica Chenoweth said in Saturday's Meditations in an Emergency interview, "The best study on the subject in my opinion suggests that in the long term, institutions really can’t save us; that civil society and mass mobilization are a more potent check on a backsliding democracy in the long term than relying on institutional checks and balances alone."  Right now the courts are doing important business as they render verdict after verdict against Trump and Musk thanks to lawsuits brought by states, federal employees, and others with standing. Some of the Democrats in office are being amazing, and others in the opposition party are being waffles, milquetoasts, cookies that crumble, and other  refined-carbohydrate items. As is now clear, the administrative branch of the federal government of the United States is engaging in a coup attempt against the legislative and judicial branches, against the law and constitution itself, and against your rights and mine and the security and stability of the world. They can be defeated and at a minimum held in check, and the sooner they are the more limited the damage. But as Chenoweth points out, it's up to us. Are we up to it?

In this emergency, I think it likely that we are going to need to pitch a very big tent and invite everyone in who doesn't want to live in a dictatorship... www.meditationsinanemergency.com/big-tents-an...

Conformity as a long hot shower.

A generous host, even as it drops the proverbial mic.

Join the Oaklandside for a mayoral candidates forum in East Oakland We will be asking those running for mayor the hard questions about issues Oakland residents care most about.

Oakland mayor candidates forum🗳️🇺🇸🌳

Oaklandside is convening the candidates on Feb. 26 at Castlemont High to discuss the most pressing issues facing the city.

All Oakland residents are invited to this free event. Registration required.

More info soon.

oaklandside.org/2025/02/05/o...

Your heart is a weapon the size of your fist.
Keep Fighting.
Keep Loving.

I'm glad that there are protests being planned for this week! Some gentle reminders from our shared past (esp. '20)-- 1. Single day protests are easier to ignore than multiple days of action. 2. We don't have to wait for nonprofits or national Dems to lead. Protests don't need permits or permission

Sourdough togarashi | black sesame

Spread love and butter~

Preparing to portion this beautiful blob of sourdough flaxseed-wheat dough. Enough for ~11 loaves.

Spread love and butter.

"Strike back against The Empire we must " - Yoda

Clouds above San Francisco Bay on my run this morning.

A full wheat-rye loaf, ear shadow-casting, sprung.

Spread love and butter~

Love always.

Wheat rye half loaf and a quarter loaf of pain aux graines (sourdough flaxseed-wheat topped with anise and fennel seeds).

Crescent moon pulling
Tidal churn
Exposing
Submerging
Forever repeating
Gaia's bellows
Cycles
Life

Love always!

This silo echoes too...
Are our bubbles problematic?

Sourdough flaxseed-wheat in morning sunlight.

That's a good thing.

Spread love and butter.

📢 Bluesky 1.96.7 for Android is rolling out now

This update should fix some issues people have experienced with scrolling feeds on certain Android devices

Yep, you guessed it, inauguration picture with statue and puddinghead.

Ulysses S. Grant: I am in this troublesome moment a mere statue and cannot smite this Confederate pudding with the sword I have in hand. #oafofoffice

Focus Courtney Martin's words Wendy MacNaughton's art

A clarion call.

Godspeed to you, humanity.

Teabag wisdom~

Good night.

Mushroom

Pine tree rings

A wonderful mushroom rising from the duff and the rings of a tree just off the trail along the hillside above Lake Temescal in Oakland, California.

Hikes with family are medicinal.

Spread love and butter~

Remember: no mandate, no majority. 37.75% of the electorate didn't vote; 31.5% voted for him; 30.6% voted for her.

Divested from Meta this morning.
Posted a farewell message to the 700+ followers, saying the shoes looked nice, but they never felt right on my feet.

Attention is the most valuable currency. Where we focus intentions says a lot about our values, longings, and hopes for the future.

spread 🫀 & 🧈