Given geopolitics (and baseball!), some CanCon. This is the Phineas & Ferb episode Sidetracked, in which Perry teams up with Canada's Lyla Lolliberry (voiced by Samantha Bee) to protect Albert the Moose.
I also love the home scenes from Perry's perspective, & whatever book Buford + Baljeet discuss
Tungsten bomb, as it were. It will end up being the first WS HR by someone who also pitched in the series since [whoever], yet it turned an 11-2 margin into an 11-4 margin.
Some of that will read weird to people. Josh Donaldson & Matt Chapman both (years apart) coincidentally went from our local Oakland A's to the Toronto Blue Jays. Then the A's themselves abandoned Oakland (but not for Toronto).
7M did not get much Oakland A's experience, yet somehow is the biggest baseball fan of the 3. He's been to 2 Ballers & 2 Giants games. He bats & throws L. I'd been promoting Jung Hoo Lee to him but (if specific team is no big deal) Josh Naylor might be the better fit for both L/L and personality.
17F has been a Blue Jays fan for years. She went to the Coliseum a lot in Josh Donaldson's best (but last) OAK season. She became a Vlad Jr fan, learning today Vlad moved to 1B.
12M saw a lot of Matt Chapman's last A's season. But instead of TOR fandom he is aggressively indifferent to pro teams
Baseball (& Russian): Going by the scoreboard graphic, Fox is treating the Blue Jays as goluboy & the Dodgers as siniy. (Blue is two different colors pa rooski, with goluboy as the lighter shade)
Collectively figuring things out as we go is a deeply underrated societal concept and a critical part of being a decent person. Still, my educated guess is that the more frequently there are directly responsible individuals, the less risk of the party petering out.
Though I haven't spent much time over there (e.g. missed yesterday's CHP raid, never been there at night), I have seen both ends of the spectrum between specific organizations visibly running the show and people collectively figuring it out as they go.
My *instinct* (again, not someone with notable protest experience!) is that the Denisson Bridge party would greatly benefit from a rotation (24/7) of 1 "buck stops here" person at a time, who knows what to do if cops come (& what to tell people to do), who can ensure stuff gets done.
I suspect that barriers to entry for leadership are also low, like the final season of The Good Place when the committee that ran the good place eagerly delegated its duties. BUT I COULD BE WRONG and am absolutely not disparaging people who already do lead, who put in the work.
You can, of course, make that slightly less of a problem if you are local and have available time! Maybe there's better advicing involving a mailing list or a group chat but happening to be in the neighborhood + stopping by always has been a thing many real people do & always will be.
Over both the next few hours & next few days, directly responsible individuals (who will change from time to time!) may need to figure out if there's still a critical mass of pedestrians (or how to make that call) & what to do (what are the goals) when a lot fewer people are on hand.
Despite rumors, apparently no LEO made any effort to break up the party today at least not before 3p. In other news I had a specifically uneventful day.
I know of 4 "incidents": 1. Feds pepper-sprayed a minister up close yesterday morning 2. CHP w/riot shields broke up the party yesterday around 2:30p 3. Feds shot at a UHaul in the dead of night 4. Feds teargassed the car of an old woman who just wanted her meds
(In case anyone worried, it's easy to go around unless your destination is specifically CGI. Proof of concept, do Google Maps from Quinn's Lighthouse to Pump It Up. Note you can take Livingston & Kennedy to avoid Denisson.)
To recap, after hearing reports that ICE would use CGI for staging, people turned out, whether because they got the word or spontaneously. Yesterday for several hours cars could not get through the intersection at all. Today, just the bridge-side crosswalk had heavy pedestrian traffic.
My thoughts about the party near Denisson Bridge (Oakland: Embarcadero & Denisson, at the bridge to Coast Guard Island). Caveat that I am by no means a protest expert & have no reason to gainsay anyone who has the experience & has done the work!
Tear gas, apparently landed in front of her (no signs of it on her car), she was in distress. Helpers (& press) briefly thronged her car. Then she left. She had conveyed to protestors she's her for her meds but somehow the feds didn't or wouldn't hear that
