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I just published Eureka — a free verse novel set at the destruction of Eureka’s Chinatown in 1885 - my review medium.com/@ericvkirk/e...
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Humboldt County Kinetic Sculpture Race - the original - start from the Plaza youtu.be/KDctS2iCTSU?...
Good news! Iran's nuclear facilities have been obliterated! It happened last June. Says so on an official White House site. Trump wasn't lying, was he? He wouldn't lie on an official government site. www.whitehouse.gov/releases/202...
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Someone to mention to one's Trumpster relatives over Thanksgiving dinner:
Do not forget: Trump's former spiritual advisor was arrested in March for molesting a 12-year-old girl. The abuse lasted for years. Robert Morris pleaded guilty last month to sexually abusing the 12-year-old. This who Trump is. This is who he surrounds himself with. Trump is the Epstein files.
Most of the Eureka demo was on 5th Street, but some of it spilled onto 4th. youtu.be/H2Y7pCsUaQM?...
Eureka today. Biggest of the three so far. youtu.be/KqqsxXaiBOU?...
I'm old enough to remember when the Republicans shrieked for months at President Carter about the mere possibility that he might push some policy that might possibly benefit his peanut factory, and demanded that he sell it. This after he put it into a blind trust – something Trump refuses to do.
Trump was caught on a hot mic arranging a meeting between a foreign head of state and Eric Trump, who runs the Republican's family business. Isn’t this exactly the sort of thing GOP members of Congress used to care about? www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...
Still waiting for the names of the hundreds of FBI agents who infiltrated Jan. 6. Are any of them going to be charged? www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...
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“If the person is a U. S. citizen or otherwise lawfully in the United States, that individual will be free to go after the brief encounter.” -Brett Kavanaugh bsky.app/profile/orig...
A musician, Oriana Korol, was peacefully playing clarinet with her protest band outside ICE facilities in Portland, OR. When the band started playing “Ghostbusters,” ICE thugs suddenly poured outside, slammed her into the mud, arrested her and took her to a jail 9 miles away in Vancouver, WA.
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Nice to hear MAGA folks complaining about violent rhetoric. Surely, then, we'll hear an apology for all of this stuff: www.thebulwark.com/p/donald-tru...
She argues that if the shooter actually has a transpartner, it's actually evidence of groyper influence. youtu.be/CJ7RWsbebp0?...
On this date in 1963. Let's try not to forget these events. www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/16...
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An Iowa official defied the governor’s orders to fly flags at half-staff for Charlie Kirk, writing he wouldn't honor a man who "did so much harm"
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A #BlueskyLullaby for tonight: Yo-Yo Ma accompanied by pianist Kathryn Stott in this arrangement for cello of Gabriel Fauré's "Après un rêve" ("After a dream"). See you around. www.youtube.com/watch?v=11Wi...
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In honor of families being separated by oceans without due process. youtu.be/TxGckWETzdE?...
I completely agree with Bill, but it doesn't help when you do a fawning "dinner" interview with a would-be dictator which helps to normalize him. youtu.be/VdPDRfOs6tg?...
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The plan - mass deportations and threaten poor people. Replace the rest with machines. Like something out of a low budget 1970s dystopian science fiction movie. youtu.be/QH24MjCnwm4?...
If you're in the Bay Area next Saturday, I strongly encourage you to join Gifford Hartman for this Oakland walk/presentation of one of the most significant labor events in U.S. history. laborfest.net/2025/event/b...
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Hours after @pbump.com posted this today, ICE updated its figure to 500%.
I asked ICE where the “413% increase in assaults” justification for its officers using masks came from. They didn’t answer. So I dug into it, and what I found … did not boost their argument. Gift link: wapo.st/4l7a1ch
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Justice Jackson taking on Gorsuch's "pure textualism" and arguing for a more holistic reading of Congress' handiwork—worth reading in full. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...
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Meanwhile another Trumper attempted to murder protestors in San Francisco. www.sfgate.com/bayarea/arti...
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Good points
The 45-year-old director has spent his time jetting around to sporting events, social events, and Mar-a-Lago. He's also suspended an FBI analyst who worked on two Trump-related investigations. But, there are more signs that Patel is mainly interested in recreation rather than retribution.