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S.F. police ask for help locating missing 10-year-old boy last seen in Forest Hill neighborhood A 10-year-old boy was reported missing Monday morning in San Francisco.

SF: Please be on the lookout for this missing boy, esp in the Forest Hills area: www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/m...

Abolish ICE is not an absurdity statement. ICE was created in 2003 as a response to 9/11 - we do not need it. We already established that following orders isn't an excuse.

Nobody who behaves this way can possibly be intending to let the opposition ever again have their hands on the levers of power.

There’s a word for a person and a movement who has that attitude toward the opposition.

Erik Baker @erikmbaker • 8h All of 21st century American history has been leading towards this moment, the War on Terror as the beginning of the end of constitutional government in the United States Marco Rubio @marcorubio • 11h We will be revoking the visas and/or green cards of Hamas supporters in America so they can be deported apnews.com/article/columb... @ 49 セ 2K © 15K Ill 421K 贝 Erik Baker @erikmbaker Everything the Trump administration is doing right now depends on three key innovations of the Bush administration - the unitary executive, a shadow criminal legal system, the "terrorism" exception to the Constitution - that Obama could have but chose not to roll back.

Trump is the author of this hell but he writex it with tools preserved, expanded, and ultimately sustained by first Obama and later Biden. Detaining a legal permanent resident for campus protest, under the flimsy pretense of aiding terror, can only be done with tools Bush built & Obama sustained.

Valentine’s Day Guide for the Huberman Lab Listener in Your Life Ladies, are you ready for your man to commit to you with the same diligence and enthusiasm he pours into his intermittent fasting regimen? Then opt...

"Ladies, are you ready for your man to commit to you with the same diligence and enthusiasm he pours into his intermittent fasting regimen? Then optimize your relationship this Valentine’s Day with the only Huberman-approved date-night guide."

Finally, My Tax Dollars Are Being Used to Uncover Publicly Available Government Information Under President Trump’s bold leadership, his administration is ushering in a new era of financial transparency in government. I’ve long wondered wh...

"I've long wondered where my tax dollars are going but haven’t bothered to do the five minutes of research it would take to learn that all that information is already meticulously documented and tracked in numerous publicly available reports and websites."

Major media have found a soft and tidy term for Republican attempts to steal elections: “reversal.”
WaPo says Trump engaged in “election-reversal efforts” in the Jan. 6 coup attempt. NYT says when NC Republicans try to nullify 60K votes to steal a court seat, they just want to “reverse” their loss.

This advice is important now, and will be even more important in two weeks, when the next administration is going to flood the zone with horribleness, with the intent of overwhelming everyone into compliance. Pick your battles and keep your focus. Trust others are doing the same elsewhere.

Wired is doing really good work these days. If you're looking for independent media to support, check them out.

The Things Around Us opens tonight at @lamamaetc.bsky.social as part of the Under the Radar Festival. I saw it at the TBA Festival in Portland in September and it is gorgeous and it broke me and I can’t recommend it enough.

BREAKING NEWS: META AND MARK ZUCKERBERG REMOVE LONG-STANDING ANTI-LGBTQ HATE SPEECH POLICIES AFTER ANNOUNCING END OF FACT-CHECKING PROGRAM | GLAAD Meta Quietly Removes Major Sections of Hateful Conduct Policies Protecting LGBTQ People and Other Marginalized People GLAAD: “Zuckerberg’s removal of fact-checking programs and industry-standard hate ...

Meta has quietly removed major sections of its hate speech policy protecting LGBTQ people, people of color, women, immigrants, and other marginalized groups. Today’s alarming policy changes will allow anti-LGBTQ rhetoric, and cease to protect LGBTQ users from being targeted with such attacks

The Arctic Plague Ship That Disabled A Best Selling Author In August more than one hundred writers, musicians and artists converged on Longyearbyen, the world’s northernmost town, before setting sail around Svalbard, a group of islands in the Arctic circle.

In August 100 writers and artists set sail on a trip to the Arctic circle. The ship turned into a hot bed of covid. Over half of passengers contracted the virus, including the best selling author Isabel Kaplan, who now has serious long covid. I spoke to her www.donotpanic.news/p/the-arctic...

Look bringing back polio sounds bad. But it’s a small price to pay to get rid of pronouns in email signatures and black women in star wars.

Folks, *please* take this chance to materially support Palestinian work + voices + dreams. Dreams on a Pillow could not be more necessary. I'm so moved by Rasheed's creativity, perseverance, ingenuity. This industry and this world don't deserve him, but I'm so grateful that he's here with us 💪🍉

Love “booster shot for the revolutionary imagination” as a description of our book.

Society of the Psyop, Part 1: UFOs and the Future of Media - Journal #147 Part 1 of Trevor Paglen’s series on the history of psyops.

I wrote about PSYOP and the present/future of media. A three-part series about AI, Magic, Magick, UFOs, Mind Control and much more www.e-flux.com/journal/147/...

One more performance to add. The Things Around Us by Ahamefule J. Oluo. I saw this at the TBA festival in Portland in September and it’ll be at the Under the Radar Festival in January & at the Intiman Theatre in April/May in Seattle. #2amt utrfest.org/program/the-...

Woman of Flowers, Kaite O’Reilly; Whose Your Baghdaddy: Or How I Started the Iraq War, Marshall Pailet; I’m Gonna Marry You Tobey McGuire, Samantha Hurley; The Last Thing I’ll Ever Write, Adam Lauver; Amelie; Janet Planet (Annie Baker movie), Illinoise, Noah Kahan Live @ Fenway Park Concert #2amt

There is no revolution without a memory. - Heiner Müller

Opinion | There Is No Way to Live a Life Without Regret The panic over transgender children is driven by the fear that they’ll regret transitioning. But freedom to make mistakes is core to being human.

this beautiful, nuanced, deeply clarifying essay by @polgreen.bsky.social on gender, selfhood, regret, choices, what makes a life and what gives it meaning made me weep this morning. I can’t recommend enough you stop what you’re doing and read the whole thing. gift link here:

Univision, the Spanish-language news giant, shifts its approach to Trump The presence of corporate executives at Mar a Lago raises alarm among Democrats who are used to Latino media criticism of the former president’s policies.

If I'm the editor on the Media News' desk, I have "what's going on at Univision" as the number one story right now.

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All. The. Time.

"But a creative life cannot be sustained by approval, any more than it can be destroyed by criticism – you learn this as you go on."
- Will Self

Jezebel to shut down after 16 years as parent company lays off staff Chief executive of parent company G/O Media Jim Spanfeller says in staff memo ‘our business model … did not align with Jezebel’s’

reading between the lines of this memo, traffic was fine, production was fine, the business side was too lazy to sell ads for a women's site
www.theguardian.com/media/2023/n...

I did this and my booklist recommendations were 100% right on 🍍. Thank you @nplusonemag.bsky.social.

The military has become the police, the police mimic the movies, the movies are all for children, and the children have no future. www.nplusonemag.com/issue-46/ess...

A man fires an arrow at Elon musk’s dumb cybertruck

main thing I want in a vehicle? hmm well it has to deflect arrows, that’s job 1, almost goes without saying; other than that I think it would be good if it could resemble an industrial oven hood as much as possible, and …. that’s about it

An Appropriate Anger On the Christian fascists who want the world to end in fire and their seamless alignment with a system that serves profit and consumes people

All people have an intrinsic and indestructible worth that cannot be measured.

That’s not true of everything. If a car stops functioning properly, it’s no longer as valuable as it was when it was functioning properly.

Not so with people.

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