janinsanfran
@janinsanfran.bsky.social
Will work for justice and compassion. Read books. Work campaigns with labor. Episcopalian. Ordered around by cats. Blogs at https://happening-here.blogspot.com
Unhappily, it's time for this rogue nation to learn the lessons of international crime. happening-here.blogspot.com/2025/12/like...
Like Western civilization, international law would be a very good idea (apologies to M Gandhi)
The most fascinating book I read in 2025 was Phillipe Sands' East West Street: On the Origins of "Genocide" and "Crimes Against Humanity" . ...
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December 19, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Unhappily, it's time for this rogue nation to learn the lessons of international crime. happening-here.blogspot.com/2025/12/like...
Could not come to more deserving people. happening-here.blogspot.com/2025/12/how-...
How soon will the rats start to jump?
Are we getting to the stage of the Trump regime when we might begin seeing preparation for a rat exodus? The vermin that jump off a sinking ...
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December 17, 2025 at 2:01 AM
Could not come to more deserving people. happening-here.blogspot.com/2025/12/how-...
Time to get over it! happening-here.blogspot.com/2025/12/on-b...
On Bondi Beach: in the land of “I hope he wasn’t one of ours.”
Human rights defender Jay Kuo managed to write something sensible and even a little useful about this latest demonstration of the power of...
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December 15, 2025 at 8:59 PM
Time to get over it! happening-here.blogspot.com/2025/12/on-b...
Beauty. Terror. happening-here.blogspot.com/2025/12/suda...
Sudan and us
Erudite Partner has attempted something nearly impossible in her latest article for the aggregation site, TomDispatch : she's tried to alert...
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December 15, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Beauty. Terror. happening-here.blogspot.com/2025/12/suda...
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Masked men wearing ICE vests—but who refused to present a warrant or identify themselves—roped off a construction site, trapping two men on a roof for hours in subzero temps. Protesters gathered. Masked men eventually left, and one man on the roof was taken away by ambulance kstp.com/kstp-news/to...
December 14, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Masked men wearing ICE vests—but who refused to present a warrant or identify themselves—roped off a construction site, trapping two men on a roof for hours in subzero temps. Protesters gathered. Masked men eventually left, and one man on the roof was taken away by ambulance kstp.com/kstp-news/to...
An assessment. happening-here.blogspot.com/2025/12/wher...
Where are we now? A precipice of violence or a better season?
As we approach the end of 2025, I think we can begin to believe that the Trump regime has lost most of its democratic (small "d") legitimacy...
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December 14, 2025 at 4:47 PM
An assessment. happening-here.blogspot.com/2025/12/wher...
DEI makes our lives better. Period. happening-here.blogspot.com/2025/12/maga...
MAGA sells a fiction of unearned ease and familiarity to its people
I genuinely don't understand why liberals/progressives/Democrats run away from defending what's called D.E.I. Diversity, equity and inclusio...
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December 11, 2025 at 5:51 PM
DEI makes our lives better. Period. happening-here.blogspot.com/2025/12/maga...
They are losing their white supremacy. happening-here.blogspot.com/2025/12/what...
What's wrong with MAGA?
This morning I took a swing at the President's preposterous personal insecurity . Let's also take a swing at what ails MAGA, at what has som...
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December 9, 2025 at 6:35 PM
They are losing their white supremacy. happening-here.blogspot.com/2025/12/what...
Way out there ... happening-here.blogspot.com/2025/12/on-g...
On governing from an alternative reality
For many years, Harry Litman contributed legal commentary to the Los Angeles Times. He had the biography for the job, as a federal prosecuto...
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December 9, 2025 at 6:33 PM
Way out there ... happening-here.blogspot.com/2025/12/on-g...
Maybe if we'd had more teachers like this. happening-here.blogspot.com/2025/12/what...
What's wrong with this guy?
The Donald (or perhaps some adoring minion) has seen fit to stick his ugly mug on National Park passes. Civil War historian Kevin M. Levi...
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December 8, 2025 at 2:27 PM
Maybe if we'd had more teachers like this. happening-here.blogspot.com/2025/12/what...
happening-here.blogspot.com/2025/12/no-e... Big problem, that Constitution.
No easy fix for democracy
Maybe the US Constitution once worked for democracy at least for many, but it sure doesn't today as an autocratic chief executive, cowardly ...
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December 6, 2025 at 8:39 PM
happening-here.blogspot.com/2025/12/no-e... Big problem, that Constitution.
I guess we'll see what Texas makes of this gent. happening-here.blogspot.com/2025/12/an-u...
An unexpectedly articulate Christian politician
Every once in a while a politician says something so intriguing that I perk up and take notice. (Yes, the contrary is also true: most of the...
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December 6, 2025 at 3:04 PM
I guess we'll see what Texas makes of this gent. happening-here.blogspot.com/2025/12/an-u...
Testimony. happening-here.blogspot.com/2025/12/who-...
Who are these Somalis?
That vile old racist who is polluting the Presidency let his freak flag fly in a Cabinet meeting on Tuesday: via Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) ...
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December 4, 2025 at 1:32 AM
Testimony. happening-here.blogspot.com/2025/12/who-...
This is the world we live in, along with all the other forces that surround us. happening-here.blogspot.com/2025/12/an-a...
An advent of a "messy non-linear process"
When it comes to AI, I'm a Luddite, perfectly happy to use my own good brain to do my thinking. Take your fancy, energy-hogging chips and sh...
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December 1, 2025 at 5:06 PM
This is the world we live in, along with all the other forces that surround us. happening-here.blogspot.com/2025/12/an-a...
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during Thanksgiving dinner this year with my wife's extended family her 96 year old Georgia born and raised great-aunt started telling us excitedly about how people in Chicago are blowing whistles when they see ICE agents and make them leave their neighborhood and she just thought it was wonderful
November 29, 2025 at 10:15 PM
during Thanksgiving dinner this year with my wife's extended family her 96 year old Georgia born and raised great-aunt started telling us excitedly about how people in Chicago are blowing whistles when they see ICE agents and make them leave their neighborhood and she just thought it was wonderful
One more atrocity. happening-here.blogspot.com/2025/11/they...
They hate women
No more spending money on professional training for women if the Trump administration gets its way. In particular, they apparently don't thi...
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November 28, 2025 at 2:27 PM
One more atrocity. happening-here.blogspot.com/2025/11/they...
On with the circus. happening-here.blogspot.com/2025/11/one-...
One woman drops away: where's she off to?
Tressie McMillan Cottom's dissection of Marjorie Taylor Greene's split from the Orange Toddler and his MAGA fiefdom is delicious. Don't miss...
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November 26, 2025 at 8:25 PM
On with the circus. happening-here.blogspot.com/2025/11/one-...
Tired but thankful. happening-here.blogspot.com/2025/11/i-am...
I am thankful for our rising rage ...
As we come into the Thanksgiving season, I realize that I am heartened by growing rage against the offenses against our country by the Trump...
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November 22, 2025 at 4:34 PM
Tired but thankful. happening-here.blogspot.com/2025/11/i-am...
Let's not forget. happening-here.blogspot.com/2025/11/all-...
All together now ...
On the annual Transgender Day of Remembrance, the Human Rights Campaign writes: The Human Rights Campaign is both saddened and infuriated b...
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November 20, 2025 at 9:57 PM
Let's not forget. happening-here.blogspot.com/2025/11/all-...
Not time to celebrate yet ... tough passage ahead ... but still ... happening-here.blogspot.com/2025/11/dona...
Donald is sure taking a lot of hits
The pundit class consensus today seems to be that "the tide is turning" against the Donald. So opines JVL at the Bulwark and he's no cockey...
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November 19, 2025 at 11:08 PM
Not time to celebrate yet ... tough passage ahead ... but still ... happening-here.blogspot.com/2025/11/dona...
It's some kind of commentary on our national decline that we can't unravel this ... happening-here.blogspot.com/2025/11/comi...
Comically overcomplicated healthcare -- that can also be cruel
A heck of a way to get to a napkin ... I know I don't understand US healthcare policy. That's in part because I am personally fortunate enou...
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November 17, 2025 at 5:08 PM
It's some kind of commentary on our national decline that we can't unravel this ... happening-here.blogspot.com/2025/11/comi...
They know what to do. happening-here.blogspot.com/2025/11/prep...
Preparations for a looming invasion
Indivisible Brooklyn volunteers with the Hands Off NYC campaign handing out materials to defend neighborhoods from ICE. I love this photo....
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November 16, 2025 at 8:28 PM
They know what to do. happening-here.blogspot.com/2025/11/prep...
This is worth actually watching. What a crew... happening-here.blogspot.com/2025/11/roma...
Roman Catholic bishops do right by immigrants
As pastors, we the bishops of the United States are bound to our people by ties of communion and compassion in Our Lord Jesus Christ. We ...
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November 14, 2025 at 5:54 PM
This is worth actually watching. What a crew... happening-here.blogspot.com/2025/11/roma...
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What Would Jesus [Not] Do?
November 13, 2025 at 6:25 PM
What Would Jesus [Not] Do?
If past is prologue ... happening-here.blogspot.com/2025/11/the-...
The fury to come
Even the complicated, partial release of the Epstein files has revealed and confirmed enough to make decent women (and men) see red -- an...
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November 13, 2025 at 6:26 PM
If past is prologue ... happening-here.blogspot.com/2025/11/the-...