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Federal review could weaken California’s power to block offshore drilling near the Coastside

The NOAA review of California’s coastal management program could weaken the state’s authority to block offshore oil drilling and industrial development near the Coastside. Residents have until Aug. 22...

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This is Loki, our Maine Coon and the cat of our hearts, and he went missing today. We have no idea how he got out, but he’s an elder, indoor cat, the whole region’s in an intense heat wave, and we’re really scared. I doubt I have any followers here in Martinez, CA, but if so, help? It’s SO hot

Wrote about this. www.offmessage.net/p/andrew-tat...

The Tate Brothers' Should Be The Trumps' Second Epstein Scandal

The truth is much worse than most people realize, and they knew a lot of it.

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Brian Beutler@brianbeutler.bsky.social · 6d ago

Had the tab open for weeks but finally read the New Yorker's Tate brothers expose. Among many thoughts: that reporting ought to be an existential emergency for MAGA and the international far right, but the reaction is eerily mute due (perhaps) to the decline of reading and weak political opposition.

Thank you! —a constituent

Rep. Sam Liccardo@liccardo.house.gov · 6d ago

Children at the Dilley Trailer Prison report unsafe water, a lack of basic medical care, moldy food, and months of detention. No child should suffer in ICE custody. I joined more than 110 colleagues demanding the Trump administration shut down Dilley and free these families.

Trump absolutely cratering by many metrics in new CNN poll: 66% say he puts himself over country 61% disapprove of ballroom, arch, etc 57% say lacks sharpness to serve (!) 73% say he's out of touch w/regular people (!!) His personalist project is over. New piece: newrepublic.com/article/2137...

We’ve Officially Entered the Twilight of Late-Stage Trumpism

It’s all there in a new CNN poll, and it’s heartening to see: Large majorities are sick of Donald Trump’s vanity, venality, and megalomania.

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As of this week, hundreds of thousands of Haitians lost their legal status. Most have lost work permits as well. That's left many people unable to support themselves. Here is a verified link to a fundraiser supporting Haitians in Springfield. Please drop links to other fundraisers in the replies.

Stand with Haitian Families in Crisis

Build the Emergency Fund that protects families when everything feels uncertain. The end of TPS. Increasing ICE actions. Families losing work authorization overnight. For Haitian parents and children ...

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"If there is a question to ask, then, it is this: Why does Musk get a pass? Why do politicians, journalists and commentators treat his far-right racist radicalism as a sideshow rather than the core of his political, ideological and industrial project..." www.nytimes.com/2026/07/29/o...

Opinion | Elon Musk Is a Menace to Society (Gift Article)

Why does the owner of X get a pass for what he says and does there?

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Bay Area people, please share this with anybody in your life who loves puppets. There is an estate sale coming up that has a ton of old puppets and if they don't sell they'll probably go in the trash and that makes me sad estatesales.org/estate-sales... I need these puppets to be saved!!!!!

Pull On Every String: Puppets, Precision & Prose in Palo Alto | EstateSales.org

View photos, items for sale, dates and address for this online auction in Palo Alto, CA. Online bidding ends on Thu. Jul 23 at 5:30PM US/Pacific. Sale conducted by Caring Transitions of Central San ...

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“t has to be accessible to that kind of reader and not follow Russian syntax, word order, or grammar.” Ian Battaglia’s interview with Michael Katz on his translation of “The Idiot” by Fyodor Dostoevsky (@liveright.bsky.social) is out now. chireviewofbooks.com/2026/07/22/m...

The Translator’s Voice — Michael Katz on Translating Fyodor Dostoevsky’s “The Idiot” - Chicago Review of Books

An interview with Michael Katz about his translation of Fyodor Dostoevsky's "The Idiot."

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I've interviewed almost every battleground Senate/House candidate of the cycle. They are a courageous and inspiring crew doing everything they can to take power back from MAGA. Come meet them here 👇, support them, and let's do this people! 5/ www.hopiumchronicles.com/p/our-2026-w...

Our Winning The House Campaigns - The Original Twelve And Now The Second Wave Too

7/21/26 - For many months now we’ve been supporting twelve intrepid candidates working to flip Republican held House seats blue in 2026, and reclaim the US House for us this year.

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Very summery in Half Moon Bay today

Bulb Culture does such a great job rejuvenating work other journals couldn’t sustain. So good to work with this team!

Bulb Culture Collective@bulbculture.bsky.social · 2w ago

Hi, everyone! Just a reminder that we are OPEN for your previously published writing! We want to read your fiction, your poetry, your CNF—anything! 💡 We’ll be temporarily closing our general subs in September, but we’re still open now!

No, I did not buy a “fanny pack,” it is a Hip Pack, completely different

The Tarp Administration

FactPost@factpostnews.bsky.social · 2w ago

A black tarp seemingly intended to obscure the Reflecting Pool from public view flaps in the wind

A black tarp seemingly intended to obscure the Reflecting Pool from public view flaps in the wind

I'm not kidding when I said that Trump specifically looks for people with some of this in their past to serve in his administration because he knows they too have all the reasons in the world to protect pedophiles

Phil Lewis@phillewis.bsky.social · 2w ago

Tulsi Gabbard’s brother was arrested and charged after he allegedly tried to lure several children into his hotel room in Waikiki

The fact that VP JD Vance and Richard Grenell went to Romania—on behalf of the Trump Administration— to advocate for Andrew and Tristan Tate, who by all accounts, were rapists running a coercive sex ring, then permitted them to come to Florida, should be a crazy, crazy scandal.

I said long ago that ICE specifically looks for guys with a history of domestic violence/violence against kids to hire because the administration knows they're asking them to ignore all the laws in the name of hurting and torturing people and that requires a piece of trash to have the stomach for it

Jacqueline Sweet@jsweetli.bsky.social · 3w ago

NEW: A second ex-wife of David Brouillette, the ICE agent who killed Joan Durán Guerrero in Maine, Lucinda Brouillette, issued a statement this morning. "If you were to ask me whether I believe David Brouillette is capable of this level of extreme violence, my answer is unequivocally yes." /

The re-photo project is a map of what time used to be.

On Mount Shasta, a photographic record outlasts living memory - High Country News

The re-photo project maps what used to be.

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NEW: A second ex-wife of David Brouillette, the ICE agent who killed Joan Durán Guerrero in Maine, Lucinda Brouillette, issued a statement this morning. "If you were to ask me whether I believe David Brouillette is capable of this level of extreme violence, my answer is unequivocally yes." /

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A Sitting Judge Just Delivered the Most Scathing Critique of This Supreme Court Term

The Supreme Court has veered so far off track that even the harshest language can feel inadequate to capture the damage wrought by its most recent term.

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He’s going for it. And we know ahead of time. So….there’s time to prepare. It probably won’t work. But that doesn’t meant we shouldn’t prepare in advance.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 3w ago

My takeaway from that speech is that we are headed down the road of Trump trying to outright rig elections. It probably won't work, but he's going for it.

Some absolutely wild photos from my new Sprocket Rocket camera.

Summer colors in Half Moon Bay

Wayne “Chick” Shower Caddy

Matthew Jackson@awalrusdarkly.bsky.social · 3w ago

Claud Popcorn comin to the mound.

for years, I have been using "draw the bike" as a metaphor for "attempt to recreate your knowledge thereby revealing invisible lack of understanding". TIL there was a paper about it

Incidentally, this is also why it’s a bad idea to have AI “write up your results.” (Or summarize for you, or brainstorm for you)

tbabb@tbabb.bsky.social · 3w ago

for years, I have been using "draw the bike" as a metaphor for "attempt to recreate your knowledge thereby revealing invisible lack of understanding". TIL there was a paper about it

I’ve wanted to see more elected Democrats and other prominent opponents of the Trump regime take this sort of approach. Address it on a human level. A basic what’s wrong with you, why do you debase yourself like this. Or as Sen. Ossoff put it: “isn’t it humiliating to be unable to answer this?”

Bill Grueskin@bgrueskin.bsky.social · 3w ago

In the realm of questions posed during Senate hearings, this one from Ossoff -- "Isn't it humiliating to be unable to answer this?" -- ranks right up there with "Have you no sense of decency, sir, at long last?"

Epstein survivor Dani Bensky and Liz Oyer, a former U.S. pardon attorney who was fired by Todd Blanche, will be witnesses at day two of confirmation hearings tomorrow

I keep thinking about this.

The Upshot@upshot.nytimes.com · 3w ago

How Regimes Rely on ‘Loyal Losers’ New research sheds light on how low academic performers with poor career options tend to be assigned the most brutal tasks, including torture and murder. (Gift link) www.nytimes.com/2026/05/18/w...