Taj Herzer-Baptiste
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EMT | Advocating for Public Safety 🗳️ Sharing stories and driving change Make good trouble | EDM enjoyer 🚑🏥 → Paramedic, RN, FP-C, CRNA
Thank you Oakland DOT for painting speed limit markings on the pavement at 7th St & on Broadway around the speed cameras, per my suggestion. The purpose of the camera program is to slow drivers, not to write tickets. So this helps make the 20 mph limit much more visible & hopefully help calm speeds
Move over zucchini lady, this guy calling 'bike lanes white lanes' and calling the Terner Center the 'Gentrification Center' is my new favorite Berkeley Council moment. #berkmtg
📢News: BART’s schedule will change on August 10, 2026, with longer trains and big improvements and efficiencies that will reduce delays and crowding! Longer trains will actually come to the Red, Yellow, Blue and Green lines during peak commute hours starting July 20! Thread 👇
After a months-long occupation, Minnesota is still recovering from a retribution campaign waged by the federal government. Now, Minnesota stands with Houston in demanding accountability for the fatal shooting of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo. This bloodshed cannot be normalized.
If this isn't for your family, it might be for someone you know. Free summer lunches and snacks are available for every child 18 and under in Berkeley. Sharing this could help someone.
Free summer lunches for Berkeley kids | City of Berkeley
Children 18 and younger can get free lunches and snacks in Berkeley this summer. No registration or income check is required. Kids 18 and under can get free lunches and snacks across Berkeley this summer at parks, a community center, the pool, and the Central Library.You don’t need to apply, show proof of income, or sign up. Children just need to go to any participating spot during mealtimes and eat the meals there.Free summer lunches make sure kids still get healthy food even when school is out.
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Its free, it's fun, and it's fire safety all in one, the Berkeley Chipper Program!
City of Berkeley@berkeleyca.gov · 4w agoRemove shrubs, brush, limbs, and other flammable vegetation with Berkeley's free Chipper Program. 🌿 🍃 🌳 Some higher-risk Berkeley Hills residents may also qualify for a vegetation debris bin. 🚛 ♻️ Read our Community Newsletter:
Houston Birth Workers Respond to the Black Maternal Health Crisis “It’s a matter of life or death” scalawagmagazine.org/2026/06/hous...
Houston Birth Workers Respond to the Black Maternal Health Crisis – Scalawag
Harris County has reported rising maternal and infant mortality and maternal morbidity rates that exceed both Texas and national averages.
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Today is National Graham Cracker Day, so how best to celebrate? How about donating to the Democratic nominee for South Carolina Senate, Dr. Annie Andrews, who is only 3 points behind and could become the ultimate Graham cracker, crumbling Lindsay’s Senate career once and for all! drannieandrews.com
Dr. Annie Andrews for Senate
Dr. Annie Andrews is a pediatrician and mom who has dedicated her career to fighting for a brighter future for all children...
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created a law, for an instant speck of time
tomwellborn3rd@wellborn.net · last mo.A jury already found that Fuckface raped E. Jean Carroll and he's still out here insisting he never met her, as if his own photograph with her doesn't exist, while the Supreme Court he packed declined to rescue him from the consequences.
Nervously watching what's unfolding in Belfast as racist bigots use a stabbing as an excuse to wreck havoc and mayhem, burning cars & buses, homes, and businesses of ethnic minority residents Meanwhile, Elon Musk is doing his best to escalate the violence. This is a good 🧵 of his efforts on Twitter
Justin@sitkaworldsfair.bsky.social · 2mo agoElon Musk is unambiguously calling for a violent race war. This is far from unprecedented. The Rwandan Genocide was stoked and enabled by Felicien Kabuga, the wealthy owner of the RTLM radio station that helped coordinate the genocide and used euphemisms like "go to work" to signal attacks.
WHERE IS LAW DORK? Now back in DC, on this Zoom hearing over the Stanford grand jury subpoena —>
Chris Geidner@chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 2mo agoBREAKING: A federal judge in California has, as a very interim step, blocked Stanford children's hospital (LPCH) from turning over patient records responsive to the N.D. Texas trans care grand jury subpoena and barred DOJ from taking any action to enforce it while he considers a new TRO request.
“Everyone is going through something,” one California teen said about the prevalence of mental health concerns among his peers. Youth advocates are urging the state to expand access to treatment. cal.news/4okCtJR 📸 Jules Hotz
they’re shooting crowd control munitions at crowds that include multiple members of congress, the governor, and a sitting united states senator. they fired pepper balls at the senator. they cannot and will not be reigned in by democracy, whatever’s left of it.
David Ho@davidho.bsky.social · 2mo agoICE agents pepper-sprayed Senator Andy Kim of New Jersey.
This Georgia supreme court has been issuing major voting rulings. It mostly shot down changes proposed by the GOP-run election board, while also denying relief to thousands of Atlanta-area voters in the final stretch of the 2024 election.
GOP-Backed Justices Prevail in Georgia in Unusually Spirited Supreme Court Elections - Bolts
No sitting justice has lost reelection here in over a century, but two liberal attorneys aimed for an upset while stressing the importance of state courts for voting and abortion rights.
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HOUSE Rs just pulled vote on ending the war in Iran; appears they lacked the votes to block it today because too many of their members were on vacay
Shoot a turkey with Don Jr. and get to run the FDA. What could go wrong? www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
Trump Taps Don Jr.'s 38-Year-Old Turkey-Hunting Pal to Lead FDA
Kyle Diamantas, a hunting buddy of Donald Trump Jr., has been tapped to lead the Food and Drug Administration on an acting basis.
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We should start calling the slush fund "Nazi Party favors" If you're worried that would be controversial, that's the point People need to hear about this and confront exactly what it is: rewarding/bribing people to be treasonous and fascist
Maybe a dumb question, but can DOJ just fork over $1.7 bn dollars to a slush fund without congress appropriating that money? Maybe it's already appropriated for some other purpose? Geninely not clear to me how they actually do it.
In 2017, Criselda Vasquez painted this portrait of her parents and titled it "The New American Gothic." Last month, her father, the man in this portrait, was abducted by ICE after being in the US for 30+ years. The family is now struggling with bills. A GoFundMe has been started: gofund.me/456d8a193
I am not an expert on these things but it seems politically fraught for the president to use our tax dollars to pay off the people who stormed the U.S. Capital at the same time his tariffs and war are making everything we buy more expensive.
They're stealing billions of your money to pay off violent right-wing psychos while doing everything in their power to spike gas up to $5 a gallon, make groceries into a luxury and hand the country over to the oligarchs who want to permanently replace you.
The results tonight so far are very much a continuation of the post-Brexit 'realignment' - with Reform doing better in wards with fewer university graduates. @skynewsrss.bsky.social w
C'mon Berkeley please do this too tonight. 4 council members already said they will vote to extend, so it's not looking good, but I'm holding out hope.
Rebecca Saltzman@rebeccaforec.bsky.social · 3mo agoLast night the El Cerrito City Council voted to end our Flock contract! Huge thanks to the hundreds of El Cerritans who organized to make this happen. They met with councilmembers multiple times, shared research, sent emails, circulated petitions and dozens spoke at our meeting that ended at 1 am.
Last night the El Cerrito City Council voted to end our Flock contract! Huge thanks to the hundreds of El Cerritans who organized to make this happen. They met with councilmembers multiple times, shared research, sent emails, circulated petitions and dozens spoke at our meeting that ended at 1 am.
thread of my fave #MetGala looks from this year, theme being "Fashion is Art" Emma Chamberlain in Mugler inspired by Van Gogh and Munch's brush strokes
The Supreme Court decision in Callais v. Louisiana didn’t just undermine the Voting Rights Act—it foreclosed the possibility of any new Voting Rights Act in the future, too, Duncan Hosie argues:
The Last Voting Rights Act
Last week’s Supreme Court decision didn’t just undermine the Voting Rights Act. It foreclosed the possibility of any new Voting Rights Act in the future, too.
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