Speaking with strength and dignity, asking if we are the America of hope or of fear; another voice speaks out for our democracy: youtube.com/shorts/AW-M3...

Jane Fonda STUNS Trump, GOES VIRAL!🚨

YouTube video by Occupy Democrats

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Welcome to beautiful San Francisco City Hall where marriages take place and are celebrated, including for two dinosaurs (not affiliated with the rock band).

SFGATE@sfgate.com · yesterday

Two dinosaurs tied the knot at San Francisco City Hall yesterday afternoon. The bride wore a dainty white veil and somehow managed to carry a bouquet of pink flowers despite her famously limited reach. The groom, also a T. rex, let his natural charm speak for itself.

The Equal Rights Amendment, anyone? Are you a survivor of a 'glass ceiling'? Have you been a target of sexual harassment, unwanted sex / rape, or grabbed by a body part? Professor Reich writes to us: Cornell, Rape, and Misogyny in the Age of Trump robertreich.substack.com/p/cornell-ra...

Cornell, Rape, and Misogyny in the Age of Trump

Friends,

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My life isn't a video game. Is yours? As Professor Robert Reich points out what is proposed is a nightmare he can't wake up from, and neither can any of us. robertreich.substack.com/p/autowar?r=...

AutoWar

The nightmare

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Deep in Confederate flag waving, maga hat wearing, illiterate, dumbed down county of the feeble minded, another person has succumbed to an avoidable death all bc getting vaccinated for measles is somehow twisted into a ridiculous excuse for hatred, of your own child, which is just plain stupid.

Social Media Lab@socialmedialab.ca · 2w ago

"An unvaccinated Lancaster County resident with confirmed measles has died. Pennsylvania Department of Health Confirms Fifth Measles-Associated Death, Provides Statewide Update on Outbreak as Cases Reach 943 in 39 Counties." www.pa.gov/agencies/hea...

...Violation of Stanford University policy to erase a face and replace it; same switch for marketing ploy at college in York, PA to encourage 'minority students'... www.kqed.org/news/1210119...

Stanford AI Usage, ‘Face Swaps’ on Campus Banner Spark National Backlash | KQED

Amid criticism from students and national coverage of the incident, Stanford has removed all banners with the image and pledged to conduct a proper review.

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Are you located in the San Francisco Bay Area, in the East Bay, and if you are a writer, a historian, a professor / teacher / instructor, technical advisor, this invitation is meant especially for you:

Internet Archive@archive.org · 2w ago

🗂️ Ever seen those tiny images of old documents on sheets of film? That’s microfiche! So, how do they go from film to the Internet Archive? See how these and more are digitized at the Physical Archive tour! 📆 Tues, Oct 20 🕕 6–8 PM 📍 IN-PERSON: Richmond, CA 🎟️ www.eventbrite.com/e/1997613506...

Never underestimate the power of people determined to set something straight and make it right:

The New York Times@nytimes.com · 3w ago

Demonstrators locked arms to form a human chain around the Kennedy Center on Friday evening to protest President Trump’s efforts to close and remake the center in his image, amid speculation about a possible effort to demolish the building. Read more: www.nytimes.com/2026/09/18/u...

The ground is uneven making it dangerous to walk safely.The trees will be replaced by redwoods, among other species, that will thrive in the location. Nearly 100 trees to be removed from San Francisco's Embarcadero www.sfgate.com/local/articl...

Nearly 100 trees to be removed from San Francisco's Embarcadero

"Expect construction noise, temporary sidewalk closures, and pedestrian detours."

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You may want to wait before visiting upvalley during crush, or later, until the water in St. Helena is cleaned up; now it is not fit to drink or bathe in. 'It's a s—t show': St. Helena residents enraged by brown tap water www.sfgate.com/bayarea/arti...

'It's a s—t show': St. Helena residents enraged by brown tap water

The city has not said when the dirty water problem will be fixed.

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Here's Jimmy Kimmel's interview with James Talarico, Democrat running for Senate against Ken Paxton in Texas, which brings laughter and wonderful energy to YouTube: youtu.be/WLDE9LrGpNk

Jimmy Kimmel’s Interview with James Talarico That the FCC Doesn’t Want You To See

YouTube video by Jimmy Kimmel Live

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Can't read, can't write, cannot write their own signature in cursive; cannot spell, cannot add, subtract, divide or make change from one dollar; these are all very real, alarming concerns facing parents, educators and citizens at large when our model for education should be Finland:

KQED News@kqednews.kqed.org · 4w ago

As long as that notorious family name is banished forever and hurled into oblivion I will not complain. South Park changes name to South America in response to Trump changes www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...

South Park changes name to South America in response to Trump changes

Satirical program’s new title is ‘inspired by bravery and patriotism’ of Apple and Google, who capitulated to Trump’s requests to change Lake Ontario to ‘Lake America’

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The French painter Renoir whose subjects were women and children lived outside of Nice, France. His home there is now a museum, beautiful, as you can imagine. Two paintings were stolen by thieves from the museum meaning visitors can no longer see them. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/s...

Artworks stolen from Renoir Museum on French Riviera in latest heist

Thieves took four artworks but it is thought they dropped two in museum garden as they fled

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The Eiffel Tower in Paris, France forced women staff to be out of sight from Hindu visitors, and the employees revolted, shutting it down. The employees want to ensure the outrage, the discrimination, never happens again, a feeling of anger and injustice not confined to France.

EUwatch 🇪🇺@euwatch.live · last mo.

Eiffel Tower shut after female staff were moved out of sight for a Hindu delegation

This day is not a holiday for the lungs of our country, trees. We must protect them from slaughter:

Scott Dworkin@dworkin.bsky.social · last mo.

🌲 45 MILLION ACRES 45,000,000 acres of public land. $4.6 million a year for the timber industry. That's ten cents an acre. 👇 Tell Congress no: actionnetwork.org/letters/tell...

Look back in time and consider this. There is no refuge. Release ##TheEpsteinFiles

@darren32359.bsky.social · last mo.

Your ability to breathe clean, sweet air is as vital to your well being as the clean, sweet water available for you to affordably drink - for you and for everyone else because what is best for you is smart for our entire environment, wherever you might be. Our time to wait has expended:

IngerAndersen.bsky.social@ingerandersen.bsky.social · last mo.

For too long, we have treated #ClimateAction as a cost to be managed and air pollution as the unfortunate outcome of development. Today, on #CleanAirDay, we can - and must - reframe the conversation around climate and air pollution. New @unep.org report explains how: www.unep.org/news-and-sto...

From the perspective of one, that we belong to one another and that we are all together, this torture is happening to me, just as it is happening to you because it is allowed to be done: ICE given permission to force-feed Cuban hunger striker with gastric tube www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

ICE given permission to force-feed Cuban hunger striker with gastric tube

Exclusive: court orders seen by Guardian show agency given approval to fit Texas detainee with tube without his consent

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This is a breathtaking example of sheer artistry as a book is carefully / lovingly restored and brought back to elegant life. I think of the hands that have held that book, and now the beautiful hands making it whole again.

𝕯𝖆𝖓🍂🎃🕸️@arepublic86.bsky.social · last mo.

Charlotte Wainwright restoring and saving old/ancient books. www.wainwrightbookbinding.com

There was a time when I spent my lunch hour visiting this painting, because the colors are entrancing, and because art you care about does many positive things; this review is like a room w/o air, suffocating, and my hope is you will see the beauty there. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

Matisse’s Ugliest Painting

More than a century after its incendiary début, “Woman with a Hat” remains wonderfully resistant to the dictates of beauty and taste.

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A forever chemical, a dangerous carcinogin that should never have been created in the first place: www.centerforfoodsafety.org/press-releas...

Center for Food Safety | Press Releases | | Trump Administration Sued for Approving 'Forever Chemical' Pesticide Trifludimoxazi

<p>WASHINGTON, D.C.  — Center for Food Safety, Center for Biological Diversity, and Pesticide Action & Agroecology Network North...

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Save it, share it, before it disappears. They will show you / us how in the coming weeks; please get involved and help:

Internet Archive@archive.org · last mo.

The Internet Archive isn't just a place to find things. You can: 🔖 Save something before it disappears. 🔎 Discover something you didn't know existed. ✍️ Contribute to a collection. 🤝 Connect with people doing preservation. SAVE. DISCOVER. CONTRIBUTE. CONNECT. ➡️ blog.archive.org/2026/08/17/r... 🧵

...At last the ladder, which had been built slowly, slowly, one hope at a time, reached up to the clouds. And the dreamer began to climb...

'Good Night and Good Luck' is a film partially written by, directed & starring George Clooney. It was released in 2020, but remains ageless as it dramatizes the conflict between #CBS / Edward R. Murrow and Senator Joe McCarthy in the 1950's. The film is so vital it might have been released now.

One of the most breathtaking areas of N. California, Big Sur, is under threat of fire; it is impossible not to feel tremendous losses, from earthquakes, from floods, from fire, all of which are punctuating losses of life. Big Sur threatened by fire is terrifying. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Famed tourist destinations evacuated as wildfire threatens California’s Big Sur

Nearly 500 personnel battle Timber fire in Los Padres national forest as blaze grows to 2,000 acres

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A history lesson circa 1972 brought to you by Robert Redford & including Dustin Hoffman, Jack Warden, Martin Balsam, Jason Robards and Hal Holbrook, work together to recreate The Washington Post, bringing to life the toppling of Richard Nixon in the film 'All The President's Men'; stream it.

"Peace begins with a smile." - Mother Teresa "If you smile at me I will understand 'cause that is something everybody everywhere does in the same language." - David Crosby, 'Wooden Ships'

This contains excellent resources to end / minimize your personal online data, and how to protect yourself from those who would sell your information and / or use it against you:

Freedom of the Press Foundation@freedom.press · 2mo ago

So, you’re about to publish something that you just know is going to be met with harassment, or worse. There’s a lot you can do to make an attacker’s job harder, and it all starts with understanding your online footprint. Read our advice column to learn more.

If you are unfamiliar with The Brennan Center I think you might be impressed with what their goals are and what they aim to achieve, such as term limits for judges:

Brennan Center@brennancenter.org · 2mo ago

State lawmakers have a role to play in Supreme Court reform. They should pass resolutions urging Congress to pass term limits for justices and help restore democratic accountability to the nation's highest court. bit.ly/3Tdzl7e