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Striking Kaiser Permanente workers hold signs as they march in front of the Kaiser Permanente Oakland Medical Center in Oakland on Oct. 14, 2025. Photo by Justin Sullivan, Getty Images

At 7 a.m. sharp Tuesday, tens of thousands of Kaiser Permanente employees across California walked off the job, starting the largest strike in their union’s history.
https://cal.news/4hwnE3L

📸 Justin Sullivan, Getty

Losing Bowie, Prince and George Michael told me we were on a downward spiral and it just keeps getting worse.

A classic case of irresponsible both-sidesism from the NYT. The story is that Trump and MAGA propagandists are lying about Portland to incite a conflict, not that there are different views of the matter.

The editors of the CDC’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR) were apparently fired today.

The precursor to MMWR began in 1878 to address emerging public health threats rapidly.

We are not “great” without it. We are vulnerable to threats from sporadic foodborne illness to bioterrorism.

Home - Sudan Solidarity Collective Solidarity with Sudan! Support the Emergency Response Rooms doing life saving work in Sudan by donating to the Sudan Solidarity Fund. Workshops4Sudan is a new fundraising initiative of the Sudan Solid...

The Sudan Solidarity Collective is doing a big fundraising push to support our partners in El Fashir to support food distribution, evacuation and medications.

Please help us boost our support. Please share and donate 👇🏾 .

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What Is Colonial Williamsburg For? Telling the full story of the town’s past is an easy way to make a lot of people mad.

Thirty-one years ago, there was a slave auction reenacted at Colonial Williamsburg.

Some thought it powerful, many thought it insulting.

This summer, I traveled to Williamsburg myself to see how the country’s largest living history museum today tells the story of Black life at America’s founding.

A truncated version of the press release available at the link

CFA today filed a lawsuit against the CSU. We seek an order prohibiting the CSU from disclosing CFA members’ personal info in response to federal subpoenas without providing notice to workers and an opportunity for them to object. Read more in our press release:

www.calfac.org/cfa-sues-csu...

Bill Gates: $106B | Microsoft: $3.9T
Jeff Bezos: $232.5B | Amazon: $2.3T
Larry Page: $204.2B | Google: $2.84T
Mark Zuckerberg: $243.5B | Meta: $1.8T

Can someone please explain why on earth we’re paying the power & water bills for their data centers?

ICE getting tailed like it’s a heist movie. Chicago is turning the tables.

This is so damn scary. The book claimed that Jeffrey Epstein was the one who introduced Donald and Melania. Now the CEO of Harper UK is out.

Let’s go Chi!!!

“A study, published on Wednesday in the New England Journal of Medicine, showed that last season’s 2024–2025 mRNA COVID vaccines reduced people’s risk of emergency department visits by 29 percent, their risk of hospitalizations by 39 percent and their risk of death by 64 percent.”

had never before considered that the inflatable costumes offer pepper ball protection

Harvard College Will Ignore Student Magazine Article Echoing Hitler Unless It Faces Complaints, Deming Says | News | The Harvard Crimson Harvard College Dean David J. Deming said during an interview on Friday that he would not review or comment on an article in a conservative student publication that echoed language from an Adolf…

Dean of Harvard College says that he will not investigate a conservative student publication that echoes Hitler because he has not yet received complaints. (Guess it's time to complain.) buff.ly/jb1cghb

Show Me, Howard Hewitt

I’ll Dip, Aretha Franklin

Show Me What Cha Got, Jay-Z. The song and video just sounds and looks rich. lol

Everything Is Everything, Lauryn Hill

The last section of the long version of “When Doves Cry.” Right where the lead guitar comes in underneath and then takes over. Makes me cry sometimes.

Jasmine Guy, Try Me. Sorry but she ate and yall slept.

Lisa Stansfield, This is the Right Time

Chameleon, Labelle

Groove Os In The Heart, Dee-Lite

For the Love of You (pts 1&2), The Isley Bros

Siyajola, Brenda Fassie

Erotic City, Prince

“Never Stop,” Brand New Heavies

Many. But “Children’s Story” by Slick Rick comes to mind.

If you see a “Sora” logo in a video it’s ai full stop. Sora is Open ai’s new text to video model that turns prompts into video and they look realistic as hell! Educate your gullible friends on how to identify ai from “real” content.

Federal Agents Storm South Shore Building, Detaining Families and Children Families were woken by flashbangs and helicopters as hundreds of federal agents raided their homes. Days later, neighbors are still searching for the missing.

Good reporting on the South Shore raid from South Side weekly here.

Confirms one thing I was told but didn't put in my own piece because I didn't have a second source and it seemed too insane: border agents segregated arrested residents by race

southsideweekly.com/federal-agen...