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Steve (Works at public land grant university UC Berkeley) Katz

@stevenkatz.bsky.social

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Twenty five years or so raising money for indy and nonprofit journalism and now at UC Berkeley doing the same for the Journalism School. Picked up a PhD in sociology along the way. Pals with a fish named Bob.

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Steve (Works at public land grant university UC Berkeley) Katz @stevenkatz.bsky.social · Nov 18

"…Hold these hearts courageously
As we walk into this dark place
Stand steadfast beside me and see
That love is the province of the brave"
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TV on the Radio-Province

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laura olin @lauraolin.bsky.social · 2d

I find this encouraging, from @indivisible.org:

A defining feature of an emerging authoritarian regime is that it makes the opposition feel like shit on a daily basis. Every day, there is some new atrocity committed; some new institution attacked; some new democratic norm demolished. Some of it -- much of it -- we have little ability to stop in the moment.

But that’s not how to measure the health of an anti-authoritarian movement. Instead, we should measure it this way:

Are we more unified than we were before?
Are we bigger than we were before?
Are our tactics proliferating?
Is the regime’s popularity falling?

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Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 3d

Judge: That's what I'll do. Prohibit federalization or deployment of any NG troops into Oregon. For all reasons in prior opinion. Deployment of federalized military is ultra vires and contrary to law, violating Title 10, section 12406. I also find it's likely that defendants violate 10th Amendment.

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 3d

If you watch closely, you'll see they're doing this opposite an actual funeral procession.

Cristian Farias @cristianfarias.com · 3d

This video of Chicagoans intervening to save a man from being abducted off the streets by ICE is making the rounds on Instagram.

Community action works.

Source: www.instagram.com/reel/DPZL2AL...

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Steve (Works at public land grant university UC Berkeley) Katz @stevenkatz.bsky.social · 3d

When the cars are characters in the film, too. Especially that purple Nissan B13 Sentra SE-R with the tacked on spoiler. Brilliant.

Max Read @maxread.info · 5d

today's newsletter: a consideration of the many wonderful cars in One Battle After Another, in particular Willa's 2005 Yaris, Sensei's T-Bird Super Coupe and Bob's boosted 1991 Nissan Sentra SE-R

The Oscar Should Go to Bob Ferguson's 1991 Nissan Sentra SE-R

'One Battle After Another' as a car movie

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Steve (Works at public land grant university UC Berkeley) Katz @stevenkatz.bsky.social · 4d

Good advice fr @pressforward.social. to local newsrooms on words + phrases to tell their story And an indicator of just how effective decades of rightwing attacks on “journalism” and “democracy” have been that these are keywords to be avoided at all costs.

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Reality Winner @reazlepuff.bsky.social · 5d

What the fuck do you mean I got a longer prison sentence than Diddy

Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 5d

NEW YORK (AP) — Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs sentenced to 4 years and 2 months in prison in case involving sex workers, violence and ‘freak-offs’.

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Steve (Works at public land grant university UC Berkeley) Katz @stevenkatz.bsky.social · 6d

ANd the instructor leading the way - courage!

Glenn Fleishman @glennf.com · 6d

The kids are alright

Spooky Scott Kelley Ernest, BSPH 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ #mtpol @mxscottkernest.bsky.social · 6d

Mob of students chases person accused of Nazi salute at UW | FOX 13 Seattle
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Jaweed Kaleem @jaweedkaleem.bsky.social · 6d

“If any California university signs this radical agreement, they’ll lose billions in state funding — including Cal Grants — instantly,” Newsom said.

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Newsom threatens to cut state funding to universities that sign Trump’s political compact

The White House asked nine major universities, including USC, to commit to President Trump’s political priorities in exchange for more favorable access to federal money. Gov. Gavin Newsom said Califor...

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Steve (Works at public land grant university UC Berkeley) Katz @stevenkatz.bsky.social · 6d

Please tell me this is true.

Enigma8750 @enigma8750.bsky.social · 7d

Lt. General tells his troops about the why they are going to the War Torn City of Portland OR.

OPEN THE EPSTEIN FILES.

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 7d

New York City, I can see a future with you. And it’s one we can afford.

Our new ad just aired during The Golden Bachelor.

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Steve (Works at public land grant university UC Berkeley) Katz @stevenkatz.bsky.social · 7d

Autumn

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maimonides nutz @maimonidesnutz.bsky.social · 7d

Remembering the year my friend ordered cakes for the break fast and they asked her if she wanted to write anything on them 🥲

Two round cakes in their boxes. One is brown and the other is pink. Both of them say “Happy Yom Kippur”

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Steve (Works at public land grant university UC Berkeley) Katz @stevenkatz.bsky.social · 7d

Chickens coming home to roost all the time

Reuters @reuters.com · 7d

FBI cuts ties with Anti-Defamation League reut.rs/48715Qp

FBI cuts ties with Anti-Defamation League

The FBI has cut ties with advocacy group Anti-Defamation League, Kash Patel, the bureau's director, said on Wednesday.

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 7d

Like Scandinavian...but brown.

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Steve (Works at public land grant university UC Berkeley) Katz @stevenkatz.bsky.social · 7d

EPIC thread on ag, dictatorship, soybeans, and sandy soil. A master class on how soybeans explain the world. Thank you @sarahtaber.bsky.social

Sarah Taber @sarahtaber.bsky.social · 8d

US farmers are saying they "just need temporary help, until things get better."

Here's the thing. US farm exports- which are mostly soy- CANNOT get better.

Other countries expanded their soy industries to fill China's demand.

We've walled ourselves out of the global market, folks. This is it.

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Steve (Works at public land grant university UC Berkeley) Katz @stevenkatz.bsky.social · 8d

We had a couple of visitors today. #birds #Fairfax

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 8d

AOC: I think there's two things that are happening at once: One, there absolutely is an unprecedented abuse of power, destruction of norms, erosion of our government and our democracy in order to prop up an authoritarian style of governance

However, they are weaker than they look…

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Steve (Works at public land grant university UC Berkeley) Katz @stevenkatz.bsky.social · 8d

Really loving this list of nonprofit newsrooms. THEY’RE ALL GOOD! Read and support them!

Nieman Lab @niemanlab.org · 8d

The common denominator among all three: Google Discover, the increasingly important boom-or-bust driver of audience to news outlets. www.niemanlab.org/2025/09/vtdi...

VTDigger, Chicago Reader, and Honolulu Civil Beat see big traffic gains

As is increasingly the case for news outlets, the quirks of the Google Discover algorithm get a lot of the credit. Here’s our latest monthly ranking of the top 25 nonprofit news sites in the United…

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Steve (Works at public land grant university UC Berkeley) Katz @stevenkatz.bsky.social · 8d

ok one good thing from a shutdown thanks.

www.marinij.com/2025/09/30/f...

Federal shutdown would likely yank Blue Angels from San Francisco Fleet Week

A long federal government shutdown would scrub the Blue Angels from Fleet Week, as well as Navy ships.

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Steve (Works at public land grant university UC Berkeley) Katz @stevenkatz.bsky.social · 9d

Another Trump attack on California higher ed, this time the targets the CSU’s. Maybe it’s time for the heads of all 3 higher ed units to sit down together, hmmm? www.sfchronicle.com/california/a...

Trump administration launches probe of alleged antisemitism at CSU system

The Trump administration has launched an investigation into alleged antisemitism at the California State University system and has reached out to CSU faculty about their experiences on campus.

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 10d

Trump and his billionaire donors might be able to determine Adams and Cuomo’s actions. But they won't decide this election.

In just over 5 weeks, we'll turn the page on the politics of big money and small ideas — and deliver a government every New Yorker can be proud of.

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Steve (Works at public land grant university UC Berkeley) Katz @stevenkatz.bsky.social · 11d

Re UC Berkeley’s response to Trump threats and news blackout fr UC system boss James “JB” Millken: If you fight you (might) win. If you don’t fight, you for sure lose. Litigation, protest, dissent “complicates things for the feds.”
Journalists, here’s your chance.
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‘Command and control’: University of California institutes information blackout amid federal negotiations

Over the past two weeks, leadership at UC Berkeley and the UC Office of the President, or UCOP, has come under fire following the disclosure that roughly 160 names of

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 12d

UNTIL IT'S DONE, Ep. 2

When the Brownsville Clinic opened in 1916, it was the first birth control center in America. Its very existence felt impossible. For young women, it was a lifeline.

109 years later, the Clinic is long closed—but Brownsville mothers are still struggling.