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Statement from Montanans for Immigrant Justice and Missoula Rises re: Trump’s Pending Executive Order to Stop Separating Families
Trump has indicated that he will be signing an Executive Order today to stop separating families when they initially cross the border. While this is movement in the right direction, DO NOT BE FOOLED by what this Order does. Here are the facts thus far:
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Taking Over “Public School”
As public schools are being decimated through corporate takeovers by charters, the idea of “public schools” seems to have become a new hipster relic.
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Alice Johnson is Out, but what about Street Dealers?
I’m glad that Alice Johnson is out of prison. I don’t like the way the press are saying she’s a “first time nonviolent drug offender”. Please. She was operating up a the executive level. She wasn’t some lady selling small bags of coke to friends.
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California Migration Trends and Dianne Feinstein
This article starts out about Dianne Feinstein, but gets into California economic demographics and history. Source: Why California Hasn’t Moved On From Dianne Feinstein
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Tech Bazillionaires Paid for Anti-Unhoused Anti-Camping Law in San Francisco in 2016
I didn’t know about this law, but I think Los Angeles folks should learn about it. It’s called Proposition Q, and it was passed in 2016. The law prohibits tents on public property.
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Ethnic and Unhoused
I’m not sure if people still believe this, but there used to be a bit of “common wisdom” or racial stereotyping that said there aren’t Asian or Latino homeless.
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Civil Rights Unionism
Jacobin has published a good article about the organizing of Local 22 at the Reynold’s tobacco company, and how the union had originated and combined the civil rights struggle for African Americans with the union, and with the participation by the Communist party organization. Civil Rights Unionism by Robert Korstad
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Gubernatorial Candidate Villaraigosa Should Love Ranked Choice Voting (Upd. Jun. 7)
Things are looking pretty rough for Antonio Villaraigosa. Here are the latest polls. These are from Real Clear Politics. I have to wonder, if the voters for Chiang and Eastin were to choose Villaraigosa as their second choice, and the polls used “ranked choice voting”, what would the numbers look like? Ranked choice voting allows …
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Downshiftism
This came across the LA Indymedia newswire. I’m interested in the reduction of consumption and production, but not so sure about the three postulates… but will consider them. Downshiftism – a philosophy established on the theoretical bases of the economic decrease. According to Jean-François Jaudon, this contemporary philosophy is defined by the three following postulates:…
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Redlining was Part of the System of Segregated, Whites-Only Communities
Most narratives about HOLC/FHA redlining focus on the redlined areas. The narrative goes something like this: redlined communities were created, and Black people were forced to live there. While that’s generally accurate, it ignores all the other groups that suffered from the HOLC grading of communities. This post excerpts some of the Los Angeles County…
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Little Tokyo Urban Renewal 1972, Urban Renewal Researcher from Japan 1968, Gentrification Notes
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Dead Pages, Alpine, Docker, Cloud
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Protected: ULA: United to House LA
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Everyone Hates ICE
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How to Remove Rusty Scale From Your Toilet Bowl
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Changing Emails is Hard
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About This Blog
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Machine Learning Notes 2
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California Cogged Stones: International Trade and Exchange
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On High Rates of Infection in the Latino Communities
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Misunderstanding the Purpose of the Model Minority
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Run a Shiny Server with the rocker/shiny and Docker-Compose on Debian or Ubuntu
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Commissar-General Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez at the End of America
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AB715
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Getting Meta’s AI, Imagine, to Produce NSFW Images
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The New Normal – Fresh Food Costs More
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Gin and Tonic, Imperialism, and COVID-19
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Problems Importing CSV into Google Contacts
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Crossword Puzzle Tool
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Meta-Assisted WordPress Plugin: Corrections 5
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Facebook 2009, Part 1
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Some Yelp Reviews
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Trolling and Gloating: Masks for COVID-19
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Umeboshi Misadventures
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Mossad Pager Bomb Murder Plots; Sanders Arms Block Speech
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Text of Vladimir Putin’s Speech on Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine, and Text of Zelensky’s Address to the Russian People (all Translated to English)
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Directory Structure Checking Script
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IP Address Change, DNS, Icecast2, Ezstream
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Justice for the Roques
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Beauty Calculator Results show AI Training Bias
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My Top Favorite Conspiracy Theories
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On the Precipice of Another Great Depression
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ChatGPT Polemics with Style
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SARS-CoV-2 on a Fishing Boat, Seroprevalence in Spain
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Political Nerdmaxing: Q: Why Are Asians so Right Wing?
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PHP Attributes Overview, plus Symfony, Doctrine ORM, laravel-php-attributes
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Fruit Updates