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Teacher Strike Closes Schools Amid Negotiations Over Health Care Costs For the first time in 47 years, San Francisco public school teachers struck on Monday as schools closed to the district’s 48,000 students.

Some notable movement in the SF teacher’s strike: SFUSD tonight proposed fully funded dependent care by Jan 2027, according to the teacher’s union

Strike enters its 5th day tomorrow www.sfpublicpress.org/teacher-stri...

‘He’s not the same’: Father of Liam Conejo Ramos says 5-year-old continues to suffer Some people thought they say the 5-year-old during the Super Bowl halftime show. But Liam is still in hiding with his family, after he and his father were detained and then released from a Texas deten...

Super Bowl viewers Sunday speculated that 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos appeared in the halftime show. In fact, he has been in hiding with his family.

“He can’t sleep well at night. He wakes up three or four times a night screaming, ‘Daddy, Daddy,’” Liam's father Adrian Conejo Arias, said.

‘I Didn’t Make a Mistake’: Trump Declines to Apologize for Racist Video of Obamas

Trump says he was the one who decided to post the video with racist imagery of the Obamas, not an anonymous aide, but says he didn't watch to the end before sending it to "the people" to post for him. But he has no regrets. "No, I didn’t make a mistake." www.nytimes.com/2026/02/06/u...

not quite, though she indeed reported on it independently and paid for it with her life www.usatoday.com/story/news/f...

"A city turned to ash before our eyes, and we burned with it"

No easy feat to reconstruct this massacre, one of many still being tallied..

They watched Israel do this with every Palestinian they killed for two years and so they never imagined it wouldn't work

Opinion | ICE is clearly out of control. This week the Senate can actually do something about it. Alex Pretti's shooting in Minneapolis turned Senate Democrats against ICE and DHS funding at a pivotal moment, with another shutdown looming.

more re: the real test of Congress this week:

"The question is not whether to use government funding as leverage to accomplish a policy aim. The question is whether the funding Congress is considering for DHS will be used to violate the law, and our rights." www.ms.now/opinion/ice-...

NYT editorial board wrote on Jan 25: The Trump Administration Is Lying to Our Faces. Congress Must Act.

NYT has been toying with the headline but should absolutely keep and blast this one www.nytimes.com/2026/01/25/o...

Uncanny valley of reality.

Protest breaks out at Dilley immigration detention facility holding 5-year-old Liam Ramos A protest broke out Saturday at the ICE-run South Texas family detention complex in Dilley, where five-year-old Liam Ramos is being detained.

Protest breaks out at Dilley immigration detention facility holding 5-year-old Liam Ramos

www.tpr.org/border-immig...

Since July, I've tracked at least 2,300 cases in which federal judges have ruled ICE has illegally detained people without bond or due process.

This is one that stands out:
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

There's an episode of Black Mirror in which soldiers are unwittingly programmed to see humans as mutants they call roaches who are actually victims of genocide. I think about that episode a lot more these days. That and Vampire Diaries, the recurring plotlines about their humanity being switched off

“Children have been falling asleep in the middle of class or bursting into tears. When Silvia’s school was under a “code yellow” – meaning ICE agents had been sighted nearby, the school was under a lockdown and outdoor recess was cancelled – some elementary school-aged children peed themselves.”

i do not know how this goes on for three more years

"They say they're coming to save us from some evil? They're talking about our neighbors who take care of us ... Alex was murdered while he was helping. Mr Rogers said look for the helpers, & right now the helpers have a target on our forehead ... Mr Rogers would be here right now too, so I'm here."

if it makes anyone feel better about…everything else, it’s looking like the coming robot war is not focused on humans at the moment

In the Dark: Who’s Really to Blame for the Great SF Blackout? ‘The fish rots from the head,’ says one expert — and the smell is coming from the governor’s mansion.

ICYMI: It’s too simple to cast PG&E as the villain in SF’s recent blackout, argues @idamoj.bsky.social.

The CPUC is supposed to regulate the utility — but commissioners are appointed by the governor and, as one expert put it, “the fish rots from the head.” www.coyotemedia.org/in-the-dark-...

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Especially stoked to do this with COYOTE, working with the great @emmaruthless.bsky.social and again with @nuala.bsky.social. Give it a read and support COYOTE!!

loved getting edited by you finally !!

loved editing this piece by @idamoj.bsky.social about a topic that could seem really wonky and dry but boy did she bring it to life. “The fish rots from the head”!!

"“They specifically asked me if I knew where the Hmong families lived on my street & in the neighborhood.” Lugert-Thom responded, “I don’t know anything about that” & she said they then asked, “Well, what about the Asian families?”"

"“I was a bit shaken & a bit shocked of what I was asked to do.”"

A young protester narrowly avoided being killed but was left permanently blind after a Department of Homeland Security agent fired a nonlethal round at close range during a Santa Ana protest last week, according to family of the victim. Jeri Rees said her 21-year-old nephew, Kaden Rummler, underwent six hours of surgery and that doctors found shards of plastic, glass and metal embedded in his eyes and around his face, including a metal piece lodged 7 millimeters from a carotid artery.

Horrible violence against a protester in California: www.latimes.com/california/s...

new SF publication alert! huge fan of the concept, and also the neon logo they came up with

Death toll in crackdown on protests in Iran spikes to at least 538, activists say A crackdown on nationwide protests in Iran has killed at least 538 people and even more are feared dead, activists said Sunday, while Tehran warned that the U.S. military and Israel would be “legitima...

links from top posts www.pbs.org/newshour/wor...

iranhr.net/en/articles/...

Iran medics describe hospitals overwhelmed with dead and injured protesters Hundreds of people are believed to have been killed or injured by the security forces, with more than 70 bodies brought to one hospital.

BBC verified at least one morgue is overflowing, hospitals overwhelmed

"A medic at one Tehran hospital said there were "direct shots to the heads of the young people, to their hearts as well", while a doctor said an eye hospital in the capital had gone into crisis mode." www.bbc.com/news/article...

Iran Human Rights (IHRNGO); September 15, 2023: A year after the state-murder of Jina (Mahsa) Amini and the start of the nationwide “Woman, Life, Freedom” protests, there has been no accountability for the hundreds of protesters killed. Iran Human Rights has verified the killing of 551 protesters including 68 children and 49 women. Additionally, at least 22 protesters including four children and eight women have died by suicide or under suspicious circumstances.

A crackdown on nationwide protests in Iran has killed at least 538 people and even more are feared dead, activists said Sunday, while Tehran warned that the U.S. military and Israel would be "legitimate targets" if America uses force to protect demonstrators. READ MORE: Protests in Iran reach 2-week mark as authorities intensify crackdown on demonstrators Another over 10,600 people have been detained over the two weeks of protests, said the U.S.-based Human Rights Activists News Agency, which has been accurate in previous rounds of unrest in Iran in recent years. It relies on activists in Iran crosschecking information. With the internet down in Iran and phone lines cut off, gauging the demonstrations from abroad has grown more difficult.

at least 538 estimated killed in Iran amid mass protests, internet, international phone calls and electricity shut offs.

it was about the same number but within a year of the 2022 protests. please don't treat these numbers as normal, just like we wouldn't here.

Iran protests are the biggest in years to challenge the regime. Here's what to know. Many Iranian opposition activists are hoping the current unrest could be the beginning of the end of the country's hardline Islamic regime.

to be clear though they are not the same www.cbsnews.com/news/iran-pr...

during Trump 1.0 an Iranian elder told me the US is looking more like what she left behind, what my parents left behind. Today, it’s not lost on me that there are protests raging in both countries, both fueled by anger over state violence