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'Hazardous' cold may bring temps as low as the mid-20s to Bay Area At least two more weeks of bone-chilling temperatures are headed for the San Francisco Bay Area.

20 degrees in the coldest hit areas statting 1am tonight through Thursday, we usually get 35 degrees when that happens???

I wonder if they'll open up emergency warming stations and shelters.

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Newsom Suspends State Environmental Rules for Rebuilding After Fires (Gift Article) California is one of America’s most difficult and costly places to build — a driving factor behind the state’s longstanding affordable housing shortage.

Not paying attention to the screamingly obvious risks of building heavily in the wilderness urban interface is PRECISELY HOW WE ENDED UP HERE
www.nytimes.com/2025/01/12/u...

Oakland firefighters are helping Los Angeles fight deadly wildfires At least 36 firefighters from Alameda County — including 12 from Oakland — are responding to the fires in Southern California.

At least 36 Alameda County firefighters — including a dozen from Oakland — are responding to the wildfires in Los Angeles.

My latest story for The Oaklandside: oaklandside.org/2025/01/08/o...

A goat I drew at a punk bar 🌿

- Mechanical pencil & Micron Pen -

When we are stressed, we eat chocolate, ice cream and sweets.
Why?
Because stressed spelled backwards is desserts.
🍨🍫🎂🍬

Gov. Newsom comes to Oakland to pressure city to scale back pursuit policy, allow more police chases in town Gov. Gavin Newsom came to Oakland to make the announcement, promising that CHP resources will be directed to other Bay Area cities as well.

An absolutely idiotic demand. Police shootings are way down since OPD adopted this policy a decade ago. Murders and shootings are down double digits this year.

There’s nothing else to this other than Gav preening for his 2028 bid

www.eastbaytimes.com/2024/12/27/n...

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This is by far one of the worst picks for trans people this year. She will weapons the DOJ against schools and doctors in accepting states.

I killed a spider Not a murderous brown recluse Nor even a black widow And if the truth were told this Was only a small spider Sort of papery spider Who should have run When I picked up the book But she didn't And she scared me And I smashed her I don't think I'm allowed To kill something Because I am Frightened.

"I don't think I'm allowed to kill something because I am frightened."
—Nikki Giovanni 💔

#poem #poems #poetry

Oakland's Murder rate could end up around the same number as 2019, before Covid, this year. It's very likely to end lower than 2013 through 2016, Oakland's historically low murder years. No press coverage, all the opposite in fact.

Luigi Mangione's Hawaiʻi Friends Shocked By Arrest In UnitedHealthcare CEO Shooting

Interesting article from a journalist in Hawaii about Luigi Mangione that touches on his back pain and relationships with people there. All the people the reporter interviewed had nice things to say about him...

www.civilbeat.org/2024/12/luig...

Trump Picks Chloe Cole's Anti-Trans Lawyer Harmeet Dhillon To Lead DOJ Civil Rights Post The attorney represents one of the most aggressive anti-trans picks yet from the Trump administration. Her history includes targeting safe refuge states for trans people and suing hospitals.

Trump has picked Harmeet Dhillon as Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights.

She has stated that it must be "made unsafe" for hospitals to provide trans care, and frequently shares Libs of TikTok posts.

She intends to target trans people in blue states.

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"It is not wildfires, but from winter weather making our typical urban and agricultural pollution more apparent."

Black boys and young men make up 48% of gun homicide victims in Alameda County, report finds A new 84-page study from District Attorney Pamela Price’s office highlights the rise in gun violence countywide from 2019 to 2023.

Gun violence in Alameda County killed on average three people and wounded 12 per week from 2019-2023, according to a new report from the Alameda County District Attorney’s Office.

I summarized the report’s key findings in my latest story for The Oaklandside. oaklandside.org/2024/12/05/g...

Causa Justa closing after 22 years of tenant organizing in Oakland and SF The nonprofit advocated on behalf of low-income communities of color in an era of exploding housing insecurity and displacement in the East Bay.

Causa Justa closing after 22 years of tenant organizing in Oakland and SF.

The nonprofit advocated on behalf of low-income communities of color in an era of exploding housing insecurity and displacement in the East Bay.

oaklandside.org/2024/12/06/c...

Find Out Why Health Insurance Denied Your Claim You likely have the right to access records that explain why your insurer denied your claim or prior authorization request. Use ProPublica’s free tool to generate a letter requesting your claim file f...

I don't know who needs to know this, but Pro Publica has an online thing that will format a letter to your US health insurance company to demand the records behind a claim denial. (which the insurance is then legally required to provide in most cases)

projects.propublica.org/claimfile/

myshake.berkeley.edu

myshake.berkeley.edu

MyShake is a free earthquake alert app. It went off 30 min ago, 7.0 quake by Ferndale, CA plus tsunami warnings for coastal areas.

Amy Coney Barrett Surprised By History Of Cross-Dressing Laws Targeting Trans People The justice is a potential wild card in the recent Skrimetti case around transgender rights.

1. Today at the Supreme Court, Amy Coney Barrett emerged as a potential wild card, with at least one attorney in other LGBTQ+ cases expressing her questioning was curious.

In particular, she seemed surprised to learn about the history of anti-crossdressing laws.

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I have so much to say about today’s case, legal analysis, and more.

But the most powerful thing today was watching Chase Strangio argue in front of the court as the first trans attorney to do so.

You could feel history, and nobody will ever take that away.

Healthcare CEOs are responsible for the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people through claim denials to make a line on a chart go up and I’m supposed to feel bad one got domed? Be so fucking fr.

2 county education board candidates broke campaign finance law Records show Daniel Nathan-Heiss of Richmond and Yazmin Llama of Martinez didn't report a combined $83,950 in charter school contributions.

Both winners of Contra Costa County's Board of Ed races broke state law by failing to report or improperly reporting over $80K in donations from a charter school lobbying group.

My latest for @richmondside.bsky.social...

richmondside.org/2024/12/02/d...

The highly funded misinformation campaign from Loren Taylor's Empower Oakland astroturf group is itself a story. The fallacies and falsehoods in its missives are not a matter of opinion, but fact that can be reported as deliberate intentional deceptions

With several weeks left in 2024, Oakland is headed back to the Ceasefire era of homicides that began in 2013, with a bigger drop in homicides with Thao's revived Ceasefire than there were during the first years of CF's implementation

Ohio Rep: Ending Trans Care Will Make Trans Youth "Less Of An Issue" The Republican Representative, who was the prime sponsor of Ohio's bathroom ban targeting trans youth and some adults, implied that a gender affirming care ban would mean fewer trans youth.

1. This weekend, Representative Adam Bird in Ohio, when asked about the new trans bathroom ban on CNN, said that transgender youth will be "less of an issue" in the state after banning their care.

The implication is chilling.

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A man who doesn’t understand biology will be in charge of public health. #RFK #publichealth #vaccines #foodsafety #healthcareaccess

Is it just me or does celebrating colonialism feel especially not the vibe this year? 👀