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Sound and Vision: Yuan Goang-Ming, Isaac Julian, Ruth Asawa exhibit reviews Toplining, Lessons of the Hour, 2019, Isaac Julian This year three of the major art museums in San Francisco had toplining shows of contemporary artists of color. While this might seem unremarkable in the 21st century it has in fact been a long time coming, especially here in the Bay. Despite the diverse demographics of the city, SF museums have a bit of a history of not exhibiting contemporary BIPOC artists.

Sound and Vision: Yuan Goang-Ming, Isaac Julian, Ruth Asawa exhibit reviews

Toplining, Lessons of the Hour, 2019, Isaac Julian This year three of the major art museums in San Francisco had toplining shows of contemporary artists of color. While this might seem unremarkable in the 21st century it…

Last night, a minyan of T'ruah rabbis wearing tallitot and holding sacks of flour and rice blocked 2nd Avenue in New York City, in front of the Israeli consulate. We held signs that said "Food --> Gaza" and posters with images of starving Gazan children. 🧵

Jews and NYPD

Monotone of photos from the action - white guy in kippah getting arrested, person with red shirt and sign, people with sign that says JEWS SAY NO MORE, and blurry photo

In NYC, 40+ Jews arrested calling to LET GAZA LIVE

This is what Torah looks like.

Second photo, top left, that’s the incredible Rabbi Ari Lev Fonari getting arrested.

w00t!

Underground Zero (2002) A collection of shorts made by various directors in response to 9/11.

Not many omnibus films in the National Film Registry, beyond Disney’s Fantasia. This year I’m nominating my favorite 21st Century example of the form, which would be the first Registry entry for segment directors Caveh Zahedi, Jay Rosenblatt, @vsoe.bsky.social, Paul Harrill, Ira Sachs & many others.

Sound and Vision: Yuan Goang-Ming, Isaac Julian, Ruth Asawa exhibit reviews Toplining, Lessons of the Hour, 2019, Isaac Julian This year three of the major art museums in San Francisco had toplining shows of contemporary artists of color. While this might seem unremarkable in the 21st century it has in fact been a long time coming, especially here in the Bay. Despite the diverse demographics of the city, SF museums have a bit of a history of not exhibiting contemporary BIPOC artists.

Sound and Vision: Yuan Goang-Ming, Isaac Julian, Ruth Asawa exhibit reviews

Toplining, Lessons of the Hour, 2019, Isaac Julian This year three of the major art museums in San Francisco had toplining shows of contemporary artists of color. While this might seem unremarkable in the 21st century it…

Marine Combat Veterans & US Citizens confront ICE bounty hunters as they leave work, after a long day of kidnapping people.

Please Shout Fire. This Theater Is Burning The United States is being destroyed from within, and mainstream journalism isn't making that clear. When I was a kid, there was a popular phrase--"what if they had a war and no one came?" What if we ...

It's when you assemble the whole picture that you have to raise the question if the intention is to destroy this country and whether this country is in fact being destroyed.

Is it time for your right-wing family to stop snubbing the Bill of Rights, the Constitution, and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights?

I spend a lot of time contemplating what's happening politically and trying to interpret/make sense of it. But I also take time off for pleasure. And then come back to the work. We're all in the fog of civil war, and it behooves us to go to whatever gives us back the clearer, bigger vision.

But the eggs.

Worker-owned news outlet makes ‘pipe dream’ real Bay Area journos want to revive alt-weekly style.

awww hi lol www.sfexaminer.com/news/busines...

"Apologize to every tree for wasting oxygen they worked so hard to make and to your mother for the 9 months she spent making a little bitch"

#SNAP

Dear Press: it's not a "clash." "Protestors CLASH with ICE agents blah blah blah"

One side (cops, ICE, CPB) is heavily armored and armed, and starts violence at every opportunity. The other side (protestors) is hardly ever armed, and shows up with signs. It's not a "clash."

Bipartisan group of senators posing with Benjamin Netanyahu

Democrats who posed in Washington with Benjamin Netanyahu, a war criminal wanted by the ICC:

Adam Schiff
Jacky Rosen
Amy Klobuchar
Chuck Schumer
Maria Cantwell
Chris Coons
Cory Booker

Did I miss anybody?

And they sprayed the damn fields while community members could only run and then watch through tears. Like something out of Vietnam. All so they could break us. All so they could steal the very people who work the hardest to keep our county going.

This is positively medieval when rulers go after the food chain. Those protesters are literally trying to defend our farm workers that feed us.

a couple of hours before my keynote, I went through an intense negotiation with the organisers (for over a hour) where we went through my slides and had to remove anything that mentions 'Palestine' 'Israel' and replace 'genocide' with 'war crimes'

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Happening now in Camarillo, protesters are desperately facing off against ICE to try to defend America’s farm workers.

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it’s a good time to speak up.

might not have the chance in a few years if you don’t do it now.

Rise Up: Frameline San Francisco International LGBTQ+ Film Festival review Edgy, Queerpanorama, 2025 Because shit is so chaotic in the US right now I almost forgot about the Frameline LGBTQ+ film festival this year, but fortunately a friend reminded me that it was happening. I was lucky enough to do a quick pivot and catch a few select films at the festival. The Hong Kong indie film Queerpanorama, directed by Jun Li, was definitely the edgeist of the films I saw.

Rise Up: Frameline San Francisco International LGBTQ+ Film Festival review

Edgy, Queerpanorama, 2025 Because shit is so chaotic in the US right now I almost forgot about the Frameline LGBTQ+ film festival this year, but fortunately a friend reminded me that it was happening. I was lucky enough to…

Photo of the screen of a parking validation machine that says "please pay displayed amount: five dollars", and underneath that, "change is possible."

I appreciate the optimism of this parking validation machine

Jackson seems to be one of the few non MAGA public servants who realizes that the rules of engagement have changed. Decorum is a joke, there is no respect, hypocrisy is accepted, the loudest/first/most entertaining POV is the right one, and the needs of citizens are unimportant to the new rules.

In the past 24 hours, Hakeem Jeffries has threatened Zohran Mamdani's political allies with primary challenges, but has said nothing about Grok's neo-Nazi outburst. He still uses X.

What if Democratic leaders fought against actual antisemitism as hard as they fight against the left?

I've said this a lot in recent essays but not as often here: Yes, we're witnessing the expansion and entrenchment of a police state in the US. But unlike the vast majority of concentration camp regimes I've studied, most Americans still have countless opportunities to resist. We can stop it.

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Totally unscientific observation based on three plane trips but the flight I was on from Taiwan to the US this spring was half empty. Same with two of my friends from Germany to the US this summer. Anyone else anecdotally noticed a decrease in inbound international travel to the US or nah?

I repeat: what kind of educator, and what kind of unionist cannot see how "AI" will be used to automate and dehumanize education at all levels?
It is a THREAT to labor, it is environmentally disastrous and built on the theft of the labor of artists and authors.
For shame.

I'm an "A.i." abolitionist.

No consumer-facing LLMs or generative "A.i." in anything.

Sure, machine learning in science and a few other limited applications is fine.

But consumer-facing LLMs and generative "A.i." that are based on theft, push disinfo, and can be manipulated by billionaires?

No.

All Out Against ICE, Sat. July 19, Dublin, CA
Come through!