Julie Sinai

1/5: A Statement From Berkeley Mayor Adena Ishii and Councilmembers Rashi Kesarwani, Igor Tregub, and Mark Humbert Regarding the Antisemetic Shooting in Australia

I Tried To Write This, But Couldn't… This Substack project of mine was supposed to push me to do more long-form writing.

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WOW! Protesters created a HUGE human sign on San Francisco’s Ocean Beach reading “No Kings YES on 50” to support California’s Prop 50 and stand up against Donald Trump’s fascist regime

MMWR published a report in 1981 about five men with unusual cases of pneumonia in Los Angeles. In retrospect, it was the first publication to detect and inform the wider scientific community of the presence of HIV.

Last night, everyone working on MMWR was fired.

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CBS parent company Paramount canceled Colbert to win approval from Trump's FCC to merge with Skydance.

Now ABC parent company Disney suspends Kimmel as it seeks DOJ approval to buy Fubo — and its affiliate Nexstar seeks FCC approval to buy Tegna.

See how this works?

Just now, 11 state and city lawmakers were arrested by DHS police on the 10th floor of 26 Federal Plaza after a hour of demanding access to the ICE lock up on the same floor. @thecity.nyc

San Francisco developer turns stalled housing project into 425 affordable apartments The developer said that, while it’s not giving up on market-rate projects, its current strategy is to pivot some of its planned developments to affordable projects.

The developer said that, while it’s not giving up on market-rate projects, its current strategy is to pivot some of its planned developments to affordable projects.

Israel pounds Gaza; Hamas seeks changes to US ceasefire proposal US envoy dismisses Hamas’s calls for amendments to ceasefire proposal.

US envoy dismisses Hamas’s calls for amendments to ceasefire proposal.

Focus on 2026, NOT 2028.

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The House passed legislation to prohibit federal district judges from issuing nationwide injunctions, marking a significant step in an escalating Republican campaign targeting judges who have blocked some of Trump’s executive orders.

1,187 Hands Off! protests across EVERY state this Saturday.

117 in CA.
61 in NY.
55 in MI
51 in OH.
42 in TX
17 in MT.
14 in AK
5 in HI!

And in Ottawa. Guadalajara. Amsterdam. Berlin. London. Lisbon. Lyon.

Saturday is gonna be historic. Are you showing up? What's your sign gonna say?

SCOOP: ICE Revoking Students’ Immigration Statuses Without Their or the University’s Knowledge “Never seen something like this,” say university officials about the secret targeting of Middle Eastern students.

SCOOP: The Trump admin appears to be going into a visa database to quietly change students' immigration status. It's coming entirely by surprise — setting students up to be detained without warning.

It's Mahmoud Khalil & Rumeysa Ozturk — on a wider scale.

We are sending people for indefinite detention without trial at a foreign gulag because they have tattoos about soccer teams and about loving their mothers.

YouTube video by MSNBC Idaho teacher fights back after order to remove ‘Everyone is Welcome Here’ poster

The good news is that there *are* people meeting the moment.

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Must read: Mahmoud Khalil speaks out for the first time since his arrest by the Trump administration in an exclusive letter, dictated over the phone to his family, from ICE detention in Louisiana.

From the filmmakers of the award winning film Disturbing the Peace.

Why is Trump waging a war on the Department of Education?

Because he knows that his biggest enemies are educators and younger generations of learners who are unafraid to speak truth to power.

Attacks on education are central to the fascist playbook.

Amplify this.

AOC Rips “Tyrannical and Un-American” Arrest of Mahmoud Khalil Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez had a serious warning about the ICE arrest of Palestinian activist (and U.S. green card holder) Mahmoud Khalil.

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortex condemned ICE’s detainment of Mahmoud Khalil, calling it a “tyrannical” move.

“If the federal government can disappear a legal US permanent resident without reason or warrant, then they can disappear US citizens too."

The White House, not even DHS, the White House itself apparently, is directly deciding which permanent residents should be detained and deported based on their political speech.

If this doesn’t scare you about the state of our democracy and liberties, I don’t know what will.

*Also more than most of the Democratic Party has in the past three months

Opinion | America Has a Rogue President The firing of three judge advocate generals is one more element of this administration’s attack on the rule of law.

www.nytimes.com/2025/02/24/o...

Berkeley stands up and shuts Tesla store down. Stop Elon- he belongs behind bars.

Good news!

Update:

Axios Hill Leaders

News from @stephenneukam.bsky.social: Senate Democrats will hold the Senate floor for the full 30 hours of debate over Russ Vought’s nomination. They’ll hold the floor Wednesday evening into Thursday morning.

You did this, y’all.

Judge Blocks Trump Effort to Move Trans Women to Men’s Prisons A temporary restraining order blocked the administration from transferring transgender women and from ending gender-transition treatment for prisoners.

A federal judge issued a temporary restraining order blocking the Bureau of Prisons from enacting President Trump’s executive order to house transgender women with male inmates and stop medical treatment related to gender transitions.

JUST IN: Judge Lamberth has blocked the Trump administration from enforcing provisions of Trump executive order that would require moving transgender inmates from women's to men's prisons.

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During the campaign you’d hear “there’s no difference between Trump and Biden”… really?
President Donald Trump said on Tuesday that the United States will take over and own the Gaza Strip, adding that "the same people" should not be in charge of re…

It's a kind of coup, for sure. One we're not used to, and haven't experienced before, but it's definitely in the vicinity of a coup. An unelected billionaire literally taking over our government and our data and our secrets.