The Battle for People’s Park, Berkeley 1969: when Vietnam came home A year before Kent State, police shot at protesters in California, killing one. A new oral history of the clash is a searing read

Pathetic - Governor Reagan sent the Guard to UC Berkeley to crush Vietnam protestors: www.theguardian.com/books/2019/j...

"the story"

Will the Supreme Court overturn precedent allowing fed officers to be sued for conspiracy to violate civil rights?

and not pay Lexis? smh

true - also true - 3 mil docs withheld; blanche said, without any explanation,

Images of Death or Violence: Any materials depicting or containing images of death, physical abuse, or injury were not produced.

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A+++ Appalachian protest sign:

mustard seed footbath is really a thing🤓

I hope you are finding ways to stay strong.

A beautiful tribute to those who care through the long night.
For the nurses.

Million (Wo)Man March Minneapolis
Who's gonna organize it?

is that your obituary?

Here the rot starts at the top.

Staying alive is also a good idea. There is a large difference between what black people are taught regarding interacting with police as thugs and what white people are taught about interacting with police as saviors.

Thank you for posting that. A conviction in this case would need a fair amount of luck.

2020 Academy of American Poets Prize On Learning to Dissect Fetal Pigs by Renée Nicole Macklin

Nicole Good's Poetry

This won an award in 2020:

poets.org/2020-on-lear...

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The Situation: A Legal Puzzle to Ponder What if I wanted to project an unflattering image of Kash Patel on the FBI building?

www.lawfaremedia.org/article/the-...

do the Newsom fans think he can beat Youngkin?

Wiener’s housing laws stir local rule debates Congressional candidate's work could influence multiple 2026 elections, including his own.

there are still good, smart, bold politicians…

www.sfexaminer.com/news/politic...

You can do that work on your own; much easier to criticize though.

Stephen Miller Is an Immigration Hypocrite. I Know Because I’m His Uncle. If my nephew’s ideas on immigration had been in force a century ago, our family would have been wiped out.

Since Stephen Miller is in the midst of another of his Aryans-only trantrums, we should note that his family are 20th century immigrants from the shtetl of Antopol (Антопаль) then in the Hrodna gubernia of Russia. Applying his immigration rules, they would all have perished in the Holocaust.

so sad what these electeds must go through; wish I could make things easier; feel so powerless tho

overused trope…successful movie star left lonely by the price of fame; why should we care?

This kind of argument just gives the other side ammunition.

“chief,” “king,” where are the queens?

Can Anyone Rescue the Trafficked Girls of L.A.’s Figueroa Street?

the unglamorous problems that Newsom will not solve:

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/26/m...

Lobel also writes that this painting is in the Smithsonian (Hirshhorn) collection, but likely won’t be displayed in the near future (but we get to display it here.)

Painted scene of an early 20th-century dining or drawing room, with a family - father, mother, daughter - around a table (father reading the newspaper, mother knitting and reading), while a young boy holds a machine gun in the foreground

These days I think a lot about artist George Grosz, who barely escaped from Germany to the US in 1930s as the Nazis rose to power. His scathing critiques of the rise of a fascist society put him at real risk of retribution. This is his "A Little Child Shall Lead Them (Family)" from 1932

Drawing of a heraldic device consisting of an escutcheon with a hot dog being knighted by a man, in place of standard helmet is a jar of mustard, labeled "sinapi," supported by two wiener dogs on either side. Banderole below reads "CALIDUS CANIS"

Hot dog coat-of-arms, created for the 50th anniversary of the invention of the hot dog, at Coney Island in 1939. Shows a hot dog being knighted, flanked by two wiener dogs, crowned by mustard. (They took some liberties with the Latin, but do you expect a hot dog place to have an in-house Latinist?)

I read that as “I’ve got win10 and it’s an anus.” (would agree with the sentiment.)