Karen Andrews
@karenandrews.bsky.social
Former College Prof ➡️ Certified Life and Career Coach for midlife professionals
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Power outages reported in the Bay Area. Check here for real-time updates.
PG&E outage map: Bay Area shut-off details by address
Enter your address in this PG&E outage map to see real-time updates on how your area is affected by power shut-offs — plus see how outage areas line up with fire risk zones.
bit.ly
December 25, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Power outages reported in the Bay Area. Check here for real-time updates.
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Waymo has halted service in San Francisco after numerous videos & images showed its autonomous cars snarling traffic during the blackout.
With traffic lights down, Waymos across the city stopped dead in their tracks at intersections.
missionlocal.org/2025/12/sf-w...
With traffic lights down, Waymos across the city stopped dead in their tracks at intersections.
missionlocal.org/2025/12/sf-w...
Waymo halts service during massive S.F. blackout after causing traffic jams
Waymo stopped its service across San Francisco on Saturday after numerous autonomous vehicles caused traffic jams in the city.
missionlocal.org
December 21, 2025 at 3:49 AM
Waymo has halted service in San Francisco after numerous videos & images showed its autonomous cars snarling traffic during the blackout.
With traffic lights down, Waymos across the city stopped dead in their tracks at intersections.
missionlocal.org/2025/12/sf-w...
With traffic lights down, Waymos across the city stopped dead in their tracks at intersections.
missionlocal.org/2025/12/sf-w...
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A massive outage knocked out power to 130,000 homes and businesses in San Francisco on Saturday, Pacific Gas and Electric Co. said.
San Francisco outages leaves 130,000 without power
A massive outage has knocked out power to 130,000 homes and businesses in San Francisco. The outage Saturday represents roughly one-third of Pacific Gas and Electric Co's customers in the city.
bit.ly
December 21, 2025 at 2:31 AM
A massive outage knocked out power to 130,000 homes and businesses in San Francisco on Saturday, Pacific Gas and Electric Co. said.
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Several of Jeffrey Epstein’s victims said that they were frustrated by the heavy redactions of photos and documents that the Justice Department released on Friday.
Epstein Victims Upset About Lack of Transparency in Newly Released Files
Several victims said they were frustrated by the heavy redactions of photos and documents that the Justice Department released on Friday.
nyti.ms
December 21, 2025 at 1:45 AM
Several of Jeffrey Epstein’s victims said that they were frustrated by the heavy redactions of photos and documents that the Justice Department released on Friday.
December 20, 2025 at 10:33 PM
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It was such a joy to celebrate Hanukkah with Mandy, Kathryn and their son, Gideon. As Jewish New Yorkers across our city prepare to light candles and mark the seventh night today, I wish you and your families a Hanukkah full of light and love.
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youtu.be/KIxAKyioXng
Happy Hanukkah
YouTube video by Zohran Mamdani for NYC
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December 20, 2025 at 1:58 PM
It was such a joy to celebrate Hanukkah with Mandy, Kathryn and their son, Gideon. As Jewish New Yorkers across our city prepare to light candles and mark the seventh night today, I wish you and your families a Hanukkah full of light and love.
youtu.be/KIxAKyioXng
youtu.be/KIxAKyioXng
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As patches set upon a little breach
Discredit more in hiding of the fault
Than did the fault before it was so patch’d.
Discredit more in hiding of the fault
Than did the fault before it was so patch’d.
December 20, 2025 at 1:35 AM
As patches set upon a little breach
Discredit more in hiding of the fault
Than did the fault before it was so patch’d.
Discredit more in hiding of the fault
Than did the fault before it was so patch’d.
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Will it be ever thus?
December 13, 2025 at 10:12 PM
Will it be ever thus?
Tragic
The Senate on Thursday rejected legislation to extend Affordable Care Act tax credits, essentially guaranteeing that millions of Americans will see a steep rise in costs at the beginning of the year. https://to.pbs.org/4j0q4Z6
WATCH LIVE: Senate rejects both bills on ACA subsidies, all but ensuring premium hike in 2026
Senators rejected a Democratic bill to extend the subsidies for three years and a Republican alternative that would have created new health savings accounts — an unceremonious end to a monthslong effo...
to.pbs.org
December 11, 2025 at 7:34 PM
Tragic
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Since we can’t ever expect Mike Johnson to do the right thing, we’re forcing a vote on extending ACA tax credits. And we only need four more members to sign the petition to make it happen.
Help us move the needle! actionnetwork.org/letters/tell...
Help us move the needle! actionnetwork.org/letters/tell...
Tell Congress: Support discharge petition to force vote on ACA tax credits
Contact Congress today!
actionnetwork.org
December 10, 2025 at 12:14 AM
Since we can’t ever expect Mike Johnson to do the right thing, we’re forcing a vote on extending ACA tax credits. And we only need four more members to sign the petition to make it happen.
Help us move the needle! actionnetwork.org/letters/tell...
Help us move the needle! actionnetwork.org/letters/tell...
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One cannot go to Hannah Arendt’s work for comfort, Jennifer Szalai writes of the German-born political thinker. What she offers instead is “the company of someone who had direct experience of the horrors of the 20th century yet never relinquished what she called amor mundi, or ‘love of the world.’”
Hannah Arendt Is Not Your Icon
www.nytimes.com
December 6, 2025 at 7:03 PM
One cannot go to Hannah Arendt’s work for comfort, Jennifer Szalai writes of the German-born political thinker. What she offers instead is “the company of someone who had direct experience of the horrors of the 20th century yet never relinquished what she called amor mundi, or ‘love of the world.’”
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The acclaimed writer Tom Stoppard has died, at 88. For the award-winning playwright, “art is a game within a game—the larger game being life itself,” Kenneth Tynan wrote, in 1977.
www.newyorker.com/magazine/197...
www.newyorker.com/magazine/197...
Tom Stoppard, Withdrawing with Style from the Chaos
From 1977: For the playwright, art is a game within a game—the larger game being life itself, an absurd mosaic of incidents and accidents.
www.newyorker.com
November 29, 2025 at 7:33 PM
The acclaimed writer Tom Stoppard has died, at 88. For the award-winning playwright, “art is a game within a game—the larger game being life itself,” Kenneth Tynan wrote, in 1977.
www.newyorker.com/magazine/197...
www.newyorker.com/magazine/197...
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JUST IN: Acclaimed playwright Tom Stoppard dies at 88
Acclaimed playwright Tom Stoppard dies at 88
The Czech-born British playwright is known for Arcadia, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead and The Coast of Utopia. Stoppard also wrote screenplays for Brazil and Shakespeare in Love.
n.pr
November 29, 2025 at 6:16 PM
JUST IN: Acclaimed playwright Tom Stoppard dies at 88
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this is just gutter racism
Stephen Miller is now arguing that assimilation is fundamentally impossible and that certain cultures are not compatible with Western civilization
November 28, 2025 at 12:59 PM
this is just gutter racism
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If you want to talk about climate change, here’s how:
Connect climate impact to what already matters to the people you’re speaking with. Kids, health, sports, beer wine!
And talk about positive solutions rather than polar bears.
Looking for talking points? I have you covered:
Connect climate impact to what already matters to the people you’re speaking with. Kids, health, sports, beer wine!
And talk about positive solutions rather than polar bears.
Looking for talking points? I have you covered:
A weekful of climate solutions - thanks NPR!
A week of positive climate stories, warmest September on record, and an inspirational climate voice
www.talkingclimate.ca
November 26, 2025 at 4:07 PM
If you want to talk about climate change, here’s how:
Connect climate impact to what already matters to the people you’re speaking with. Kids, health, sports, beer wine!
And talk about positive solutions rather than polar bears.
Looking for talking points? I have you covered:
Connect climate impact to what already matters to the people you’re speaking with. Kids, health, sports, beer wine!
And talk about positive solutions rather than polar bears.
Looking for talking points? I have you covered:
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New York City helped my mother become the artist she is today. The next generation deserves a City Hall that lifts up tomorrow's artists as well.
November 26, 2025 at 1:49 AM
New York City helped my mother become the artist she is today. The next generation deserves a City Hall that lifts up tomorrow's artists as well.
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NEW: Earlier this month, I spent the day with the Luhmanns — a family rooted in theologically conservative Christianity.
In the morning, the homeschooled teenage sons tracked ICE.
In the afternoon, the mother aided an immigrant mother whose partner was deported. religionnews.com/2025/11/25/h...
In the morning, the homeschooled teenage sons tracked ICE.
In the afternoon, the mother aided an immigrant mother whose partner was deported. religionnews.com/2025/11/25/h...
How one conservative Christian family is pushing back against ICE
A coalition of activists, everyday citizens and people of faith — including theologically conservative Christians — who have pooled resources and learned new technologies to mount an effort they say i...
religionnews.com
November 25, 2025 at 11:48 PM
NEW: Earlier this month, I spent the day with the Luhmanns — a family rooted in theologically conservative Christianity.
In the morning, the homeschooled teenage sons tracked ICE.
In the afternoon, the mother aided an immigrant mother whose partner was deported. religionnews.com/2025/11/25/h...
In the morning, the homeschooled teenage sons tracked ICE.
In the afternoon, the mother aided an immigrant mother whose partner was deported. religionnews.com/2025/11/25/h...
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yes, hello, I would like to place an order for everyone’s funniest stories of holiday food-related family grudges / drama / chaotic incidents / lore
I feel like we need this
I feel like we need this
November 24, 2025 at 11:39 PM
yes, hello, I would like to place an order for everyone’s funniest stories of holiday food-related family grudges / drama / chaotic incidents / lore
I feel like we need this
I feel like we need this
A relaxed body cannot feel stress. Do something fun and relaxing today!
November 22, 2025 at 9:28 PM
A relaxed body cannot feel stress. Do something fun and relaxing today!
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hey guys i made a seasonal meme
November 22, 2025 at 5:41 AM
hey guys i made a seasonal meme
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After two weeks of #COP30 negotiations, countries agreed to BEGIN DISCUSSIONS on fossil fuel phase out. And as the article says, "they achieved this incremental progress only in the teeth of implacable opposition from oil-producing countries."
THIS is the problem with requiring unanimous decisions.
THIS is the problem with requiring unanimous decisions.
End of fossil fuel era inches closer as Cop30 deal agreed after bitter standoff
Wealthy countries agree to triple funds for countries to tackle climate impacts, but deforestation and critical minerals blocked from final deal
www.theguardian.com
November 22, 2025 at 6:52 PM
After two weeks of #COP30 negotiations, countries agreed to BEGIN DISCUSSIONS on fossil fuel phase out. And as the article says, "they achieved this incremental progress only in the teeth of implacable opposition from oil-producing countries."
THIS is the problem with requiring unanimous decisions.
THIS is the problem with requiring unanimous decisions.
November 22, 2025 at 4:48 PM
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Before the midterms of 1866, President Andrew Johnson called his congressional opponents traitors and said they should be hanged.
Voters were so profoundly moved by his words... that they gave his opponents a supermajority in Congress, and the nation got the Fourteenth Amendment.
Voters were so profoundly moved by his words... that they gave his opponents a supermajority in Congress, and the nation got the Fourteenth Amendment.
November 20, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Before the midterms of 1866, President Andrew Johnson called his congressional opponents traitors and said they should be hanged.
Voters were so profoundly moved by his words... that they gave his opponents a supermajority in Congress, and the nation got the Fourteenth Amendment.
Voters were so profoundly moved by his words... that they gave his opponents a supermajority in Congress, and the nation got the Fourteenth Amendment.
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We want to speak directly to members of the Military and the Intelligence Community.
The American people need you to stand up for our laws and our Constitution.
Don’t give up the ship.
The American people need you to stand up for our laws and our Constitution.
Don’t give up the ship.
November 18, 2025 at 1:31 PM
We want to speak directly to members of the Military and the Intelligence Community.
The American people need you to stand up for our laws and our Constitution.
Don’t give up the ship.
The American people need you to stand up for our laws and our Constitution.
Don’t give up the ship.