Probably in two weeks ..
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Probably in two weeks ..
May be an interesting week ..
Gaping mouth redux, yep.. and the droopy left eye is new.. if this image is legit
Smuggled some smokes, some folks from Mexico ..
Sue them for plagiarism ..
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I biked University at 7am a few Sundays ago to confirm time & distance from the Crescent to the Pier. Took me 17.5 mins to go the 2.9 miles on a beater bike with an AARP card in my wallet. 19 mins back. Uni is Berkeley’s road to and from the Bay. It’s safe multimodality would transform the city.
Great idea
My introduction to her work!.. 🙏☮️
Happy Labor Day, good people.. Organize, organize, organize!
“And what did Knoller do with this hard-earned gold mine of statistics and numbers (he compiled)?.. (He) shared it with anyone who asked – reporters on deadline, historians, even White House aides filling gaps in their own administration's records.” www.cbsnews.com/news/mark-kn...
There’s an element of willing here..
So, it’s a coup. What have we all got to say about it?
The heroine we needed this weekend. And in this sick era, heroics are grounded in decency.
Someone with a star or two on their epaulets, some time soon, is going to say, “Nuts” to all this. It would help if we were in the streets.
Nothing changes until someone representing the president sees the inside of a jail cell for trying to roll over the judicial branch. That much is certain.
Henri Matisse (1943)
July 4, 2026 - Independence Day
Click your heels three times and you’ll be skating at Iceland. Lotta good vibes still bouncing off those walls..
Sunday *Bette Davis photographed by Alfred Eisenstaedt
Whose? is the outstanding question.
The worst available version of the truth.
Rather than winning signage cred, I hope folks come to organize and delegate community responsibility and rapid response. We’re in next phase.
My kids are about to open a lemonade stand to raise money to fight Nazis. Grandpa would be disappointed.
Truth be told, we would maintain a landline today if it weren’t inundated with robo calls. There’s a metaphor in there somewhere ..
Correct. And also a fiduciary obligation to promote and protect public safety and welfare.
Not only would Americans be astounded to see this kind of infrastructure. We would be astounded to see it as *recyclable* infrastructure. A chronic municipal failing here is our inability to deploy infrastructure to quickly address a need while more permanent solutions are financed and built.
Affordable, safe, reliable and efficient transportation— like affordable housing— is a core personal concern, particularly for under-40s for whom car reliance is a financial burden and an ecological hypocrisy. Great to see you out front (as usual)!
And also, mail-in is USPS, with a newly-minted, Trump-approved postmaster-general. www.msn.com/en-us/money/...
Their first clue was when Trump kept the Cup for himself and stationed it on the Resolute Desk.
These prevaricating, obsequious, swivel-hipped headlines are piling up so numerously that are betraying the personality of a department, something akin to censor’s office. Is the New York Times a censored newspaper? Is there a style guide for Trump administration headline writing? Language police?
Femi Kuti, “Wonder Wonder,” from Femi Kuti, 1995. m.youtube.com/watch?v=uph_...
Joaquin Sorolla "Maria habillée en paysanne" Valencienne - 1906 #Sorolla #Art
Hülya Özdemir from 2017 Turkish painter and illustrator
Head of woman (1920) by Emilio Pettoruti
Gleaming Sun over Heuwagen by Marianne von Werefkin
Red Flower (1929) by Joseph Stella
Some of the names have changed since I wrote this last November, but the central reality is, sadly, upon us. snyder.substack.com/p/decapitati...
This nomenclature has rattled me since you first coined it, and it remains the best distilled description I’ve seen of Trump’s m.o.
Vine (Detail) by Maria Filopoulou, 1996. Greek, b. 1964- oil on canvas
I hadn’t considered this efficiency at the loftier heights.
We as citizens, as well as our representatives, are massively under-utilizing our resignation demands. Broad resignation demands stick to the heels of the recipients. Eventually, you see the toilet paper before you see the perps trying to get it off their shoes. They are soiled in your mind.
The relationship unraveled because Trump is insane. Trump’s transactional because that’s all the action he can get. But now his foreign policy is to blow-up transactions with tariffs. That leaves him with blackmail and extortion in relationship-building arsenal. As his health deteriorates …
Whenever I go to Frankfurt I have to post this subway stop
The Charmer, the sailor passed out on the stairs, ..
This is what I mean when I talk about how Google is actively deciding to bake energy-intensive text generation into the basic infrastructure of the internet. They are *choosing* to make the digital world absurdly, eye-wateringly more energy hungry whether you request it or not. And it'll get worse
Charles River and Beacon Hill, Childe Hassam 1892
Like serfs.
Extortion is a felony, and a high crime. Yet it simultaneously is the guiding principle of this administration’s economic strategy and conduct. Can’t think of the last time I heard or read the word in the press.
Un jour, une photo #photography
Diritto di sognare (2025) by Nora Nikolova Ficcadenti. Acrylic on canvas.
YLTSI
Invading Greenland now would be to invade a founding NATO ally. Not beyond this administration, but it would .. ruffle some feathers in DoD.
Fire RFK Jr. If value your life, the lives of children, he has gotta go. 🩺
Could have legs .. unlike the death panel.
This story has it all: aquaculture, Black Flag, Bernie Sanders, Star Trek as policy, John Hodgman, male tears, and a candidate citing Luthen’s monologue from Andor. Meet Graham Platner, the Maine oysterman trying to crack the senate. @grahamformaine.bsky.social newrepublic.com/article/1996...
Hilarious tease, superb read, compelling subject. Thx for nationalizing. The gentleman’s on to something..
These good people had their windows shot out in a brazen, sustained attack by a maniac just two weeks ago.
Cropped, digitally sharpened and defined image (using iPhone tools) of photo by Alyssa Poynter of Reuters, showing uniformed US Public Health Service personnel saluting superiors forced to resign by HHS Sec’y Kennedy and Pres. Trump for defending the country’s vaccination program.
Tx for reposting here
The last shovelful of dirt, as it were?
That would yield about six million people—good enough for our 10th largest metro area— in a country more than twice the size of France. They get two senators. CA gets their eight leftovers. Then we’ll talk.
Please demand his immediate resignation in the strongest possible terms, as your colleague Sen. Murray did.
With my Cracker Jack law degree, I’ve been long-convinced the 2nd Amendment (as read) and the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment are fundamentally incompatible, based on perpetrator/victim inequities..
This is why I spend £795 / month on my FT subscription..
How about red ties?
ianal, but I think there’s some question as to whether executive gets to override Congress’s confirmation vote w/o cause (this also comes up with Powell). Whether Trump wants to defend personally firing the CDC director for upholding the nation’s vaccination program seems to be giving him pause.
You’d think from the press coverage she was finished. She’s Senate-confirmed, and “the White House” is not the president. Not only will Trump have to fire her personally, but then five Supremes to fire her, and then *they* will be overstepping their Constitutionally proscribed role.
Charles Seliger, Natural History: Form within Rock, 1946 #artbots #moma https://botfrens.com/collections/14377/contents/1134926
Terrific.. i’ll ring CMs in support
It would be a 20-story Vietnam War Memorial
🎁 tinyurl.com/mr3484b5 (SF Chron) “Employment for workers aged 22-25 in the most AI-exposed jobs, including software development and customer service, has dropped by 13%.. “By contrast, older employees in those same occupations have seen employment remain steady or even grow.”
Quite so ✅
Artist and subject were incarcerated by the US Government at Colorado’s Amache concentration camp for Japanese citizens at the time of the sitting.
Weathered, meticulous spirals carved into hip-high, probably granodiorite rock face. Origin of artists and dates of creation unknown. Alpine County, CA, Aug. ‘17. 📷 -gw
Paul Gauguin : Marquesan Landscape with Horses, 1901 Oil on canvas 72.5 × 54.5 cm | 28.5 × 21.5 in Private collection
Q. Mr. Trump, is Barron vaccinated? Pres. Trump: Who?
That’s the lead.
Hell, international. Solar systemic.
Helluva statement by Sen. Murray demanding RFK Jr.’s immediate firing. This is our autumn template for mortally wounding this regime. Immediate resignation demands suit the lot of them, the arguments are sound, and the taste for it will rally the people. www.murray.senate.gov/senator-murr...
We can make it pretty damned painful for them. Parents listen to their pediatricians on vaccine matters far more than RFKjr, and the science has for generations proved overwhelmingly supportive of extremely high efficacy. Kennedy already looks and sounds like a mummy. A spotlight will damage DJT.
Not really interested in what the shooter identified as or what mentally ill nonsense was written on their gun and more interested in why 40,000 Americans die from guns every year.
This is an under-appreciated truism.
The news media reflex to report out what the White House states as fact must stop. It is *never*, to borrow Carl Bernstein’s aphorism, the best available version of the truth.
(Congrats on your APSA Carey McWilliams award! Were I to have my name attached to any American journalist, McWilliams would be on that short list. A worthy honoree!)
Tx for putting this on radar..
“The gift wasn’t meant to be purely decorative but of utility..The fountain’s basins originally had tin cups on chains. The provision of accessible drinking water, not a given in all parts of the city..was rightfully considered a generous public benefit in the nineteenth century.”
Good pickup ..
He’s nuts. Three clubs short of a flush.
Thomas Dolby, “The Flat Earth,” 2009 remaster, from album by same name orig. released 1984. “And if love is all you're missing Look into your heart Is anybody home? Please remember ... The Earth can be any shape you want it Any in the world …” m.youtube.com/watch?v=S5cW...
I feel like we need to cherish and celebrate a free and fair heartland election. The better to defend the next ones.
He’s reading it from his talking points. It’s an initiative: conditioning Americans for his dictatorship.
The retired officer corps needs to intercede in unison to decry this misuse of our servicemen and women.
That’s not fair.. the garbage and recycling workers in our city aren’t armed with M17 pistols. Where’s the equity?
Marco might be Khrushchev, Miller Beria… but yes, the silence from the retired and forcibly separated brass is deafening. They’ll need to see hundreds of thousands sustained in DC to get their courage up.
A tentacle of fog extends eastward from beneath the Gate. 📷 -gw, oct. ‘22
Revelatory to get a peak inside the Burning Man Orgy Room before the haboob knocked it down..
I like a hard deadline of July 4, 2026, the 250th anniversary of our Declaration of Independence from tyranny. I propose we start by demanding, en masse, the interloper’s immediate resignation, as Frederick Douglass might have advised. Broad, vociferous resignation demands will self-reinforce.
Make July 4th a hard deadline again. He has declared we want a dictatorship two days running.