Malice Walker

Have once again been passed over for a MacArthur genius grant for my contributions to public health with New Toothbrush Day and to sports fandom and discourse with my “is that good” skeets.

Someday I’ll be recognized but that day is not today.

I am Black American. My people were enslaved, segregated, and degraded for hundreds of years. There was a time when it was considered politically untenable to abolish slavery and legally dismantle Jim Crow. It got done. So, yes, a free Palestine is a political possibility. It is inevitable.

Company Encourages More Disabled Candidates to Apply So It Can Weed Them Out Later with Irrelevant Hiring Assessments

"We are all about empowerment. I’d go as far as to say that in our offices, we don’t even see disability.” thesqueakywheel.org/company-enco...

Tommy Orange Illuminating the richness and complexity of contemporary, urban Native Peoples’ lives.

Tommy Orange got a MacArthur! HELL YEAH!
www.macfound.org/fellows/clas...

As a disabled person it’s also a mixed blessing: you really get to witness a particularly ugly breed of ableism accelerated through social media but you also get to talk to so many disabled people around the world and learn from them

other way around

frickin finally

lol @ the idea of “becoming the Serial Mom.” what a perfect gender-specific alternative to becoming the Joker.

Reminds me of the time a certain EIC of a well-known progressive magazine bemoaned the lack of a conservative counterweight *in San Francisco* of all places.

This was also in 2023.

this feels like forty years ago but it was 2023

www.newsweek.com/nancy-pelosi...

it only Tuesday

Why S.F. residents say the city is finally undergoing a major vibe shift San Franciscans say they now feel optimistic about the city’s future despite years of news about empty downtown offices, widespread public drug use, rampant stolen-goods sales and other concerns.

Compare how, across the Bay, the Chron lauded the comparatively meager "vibe-shifting" achievements of our rich white male moderate mayor.

Crime is down and scandals have faded, but can Barbara Lee turn Oakland around? The mayor recently completed 100 days in office and gives her State of the City speech Tuesday. Oakland experts credit her with bringing steadiness to the job, but the challenges remain acute.

What a weird headline: "Crime is down and scandals have faded, but can Barbara Lee turn Oakland around?" Sounds like she has.

oh boy.

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One of the more incredible stories out of LA this year has been how a taco review blog became the best on-the-ground coverage of ICE raids in the city.

They do a dispatch every day, follow-up on the kidnapped people (which almost no media outlet has done), and fact-check government claims.

One of those nights where you totally get why people would worship this thing.

Moon big.

YouTube video by American Experience | PBS Fannie Lou Hamer's Powerful Testimony | Freedom Summer

6 October is Fannie Lou Hamer's birthday.

"Former sharecropper Fannie Lou Hamer's Congressional testimony is so powerful that President Johnson calls an impromptu press conference to get her off the air. But his plan backfires."

correct

Awake from my nap but still cranky. Is this what being a baby feels like?

An AI image of Oakland City Hall is missing some stuff…can you spot it? A press release announcing Oakland Mayor Barbara Lee’s State of the City speech included a curious picture of a civic landmark.

Contest!

How many inaccuracies can you spot in the AI-generated image of Oakland City Hall that was sent to media in a press release from the mayor's office today?

Send us your list and you could win some Oaklandside merch.

oaklandside.org/2025/10/06/o...

the best answer i got for this:

Enough of this day. I’m going back to sleep.

Bay Area Co-ops: ‘A Bunch of Weirdos’ Run a Grocery Store Staff at San Francisco’s Rainbow Grocery reflect on collectivity, retail personhood, and an aesthetic disagreement that ended in a fistfight.

Check out our new series of spotlights on Bay Area worker coops! In our first installment, @soleilho.com drops in on the 50-year-old Rainbow Grocery Cooperative in SF to find out what makes it work — and to hear some tasty lore (including a fistfight over what color to paint the store building! 👀)

none of my business!

Greta Thunberg On Her Detention: I'm "Not The Story" — It's Israel Violating International Humanitarian Law “I could talk for a very, very long time about our mistreatment and abuses in our imprisonment. Trust me. But that is not the story.”

Greta Thunberg, deported to Greece, says the targeting of the Sumud Flotilla is "not the story" @teenvogue.com — instead, she says:

"Israel once again violated international humanitarian law by preventing aid from getting into Gaza while people are being starved.”

knew I shouldn’t have woken up this morning

Monday is really Monday-ing.