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How Politics Is Changing the Way History Is Taught www.nytimes.com/2025/10/27/u...
How Politics Is Changing the Way History Is Taught
www.nytimes.com
October 27, 2025 at 12:45 PM
The SF Chronicle documents the masked anonymous Secret Police already at work in California while the Governor and others dither about whether Trump may use the national guard. 
Too late, folks. Hitler already has arrived

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Exclusive: Major federal immigration operation headed to San Francisco Bay Area
The Trump administration has dispatched more than 100 federal agents, including from U.S. Customs and Border Protection, to Coast Guard Base Alameda and they’ll begin to arrive Thursday.
www.sfchronicle.com
October 22, 2025 at 9:18 PM
Yesterday, the FDA’s “expert” panel on antidepressants during pregnancy was so filled w/ misinformation that Amer College of Obstetricians & Gynecologists put out a statement calling the panel “alarmingly unbalanced “.
HHS under lunatic RFK, Jr. He is dangerous.

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ACOG Statement on the Benefit of Access to SSRIs During Pregnancy
“It is dangerous to minimize the real effects from mental health conditions during pregnancy and postpartum. For the sake of our patients, ACOG continues to assert that all treatment options should be...
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July 23, 2025 at 4:02 PM
@chrisrauber.bsky.social Checking in. You may me right, FB more and more just revenue for Z
July 22, 2025 at 6:16 AM
I'm attending No Kings's event, “NO KINGS San Francisco” - sign up now to join me! www.mobilize.us/nokings/even...
NO KINGS San Francisco · No Kings
Indivisible SF and 50501SF are hosting a No Kings mass mobilization on June 14, 2025. We will gather at Dolores Park at 11:30 AM, and March at 12 NOON SHARP to Civic Center Plaza via Market St. There,...
www.mobilize.us
June 7, 2025 at 4:56 PM
So here’s the next step:
A Trumpista arrests you.
You’re a gangbanger, they say.
“Never!” you say. “I’ve been good my whole life.”
How do you prove that?
There is no due process
There is no Rule of Law
You’re going to prison.
April 21, 2025 at 2:11 AM
The late great public info chief at Berkeley—who wrote a book about clark Kerr and the history of free speech at UC —quoted here on how Reagan tried to squish the academe

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The Trump-Harvard showdown is the latest front in a long conservative war against academia
President’s attack on universities echoes efforts by Reagan and McCarthy – but experts say ‘we’re seeing much worse’
www.theguardian.com
April 20, 2025 at 5:14 PM
Several million peaceful protesters.
Several times a month.
Count the crowds.
April 7, 2025 at 8:16 PM
Thanks to Chris Rauber for passing this along: 20th Century. Before and after vaccines in the US
April 7, 2025 at 8:10 PM
apnews.com/article/myan... In the race to save lives after the Myanmar quake, US rescuers are notable by their absence
In the race to save lives after the Myanmar quake, US rescuers are notable by their absence
Day after day, Chinese rescue teams haul children and elderly people from collapsed buildings. Cameras beam the thanks of grateful survivors around the world.
apnews.com
April 6, 2025 at 10:42 AM
Busy day in DC
February 28, 2025 at 6:36 PM
THIS WILL END SUPPORT FOR THE DISABLED BY STOPPING SECTION 504. CALL CONGRESS DO NOT LET MUSK, TRUMP OR TEXAS STOP 504
February 16, 2025 at 7:01 AM
February 8, 2025 at 5:53 PM
On social media, Heather Thomas wrote: “So when all was said and done, the only country that opened [its] prisons and sent crazy murderous criminals to prey upon innocent American citizens, was us.”
Heather Cox Richardson, quoting Heather Thomas
January 25, 2025 at 5:10 PM
Lots of journalists agree
America, I have discovered your biggest troll. [Ominous pause.] Its name is...the New York Times. "Attempts to punish the fossil fuel industry by limiting leases or permits for export facilities or blocking projects often backfire..."
December 8, 2024 at 5:01 PM
New to bsky. Is this a good place?
November 13, 2024 at 2:34 PM