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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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WordPress AntiSpam Plugin, Configuring Alpine Linux to Send Mail
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Fixing a Broken Rattan Chair
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Down the Rabbit Hole: Traditionalism, Nationalism, Falun Gong, Shen Yun
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Linux Nautilus Trash Folder Stopped Working
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Civil Rights Unionism
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Old Articles about anti-Zionism and Zionism by Jewish Communists
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Debian and Ubuntu Networking Configuration /etc/network/interfaces with a Static IP Address
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The Purpose of Antisemitism in White Supremacy
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Trump’s ICE War on Los Angeles
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ChatGPT Polemics with Style
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Umeboshi and Maesil Rot
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DALL-E has Problems with “Race Mixing”
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The Lotto and Voting Machine Meme is Bugging Me
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The KKK of the 1920s, and Fascism
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The End of Facebook
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My Home Backup System (Triple Backups)
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The New Normal – Fresh Food Costs More
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Little Tokyo Urban Renewal 1972, Urban Renewal Researcher from Japan 1968, Gentrification Notes
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Chili History
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Programming Assistant LLMs
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Selected Facebook Posts from March 2020
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Mass Narcolepsy
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How to Remove Rusty Scale From Your Toilet Bowl
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Do All Asian American Political Orgs Look the Same? (Bing AI confuses two organizations)
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Protected: Who Killed Vincent Chin, Blaming Gascon or any District Attorney, and Lame Politics
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Facebook 2009, Part 1
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A simple refutation of the “Supply and Demand” argument about how new apartment construction will lower rents.
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Erasing Racism with Revisionist History about Ichimatsu Dolls
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Village Scale Epidemic Management in Japan
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Copyright, “Copyleft”, Creative Commons, Public Domain, Anti-Copyright
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Rosemead Police/HSI/or ICE Bust
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DALL-E and Commas that Matter, “young people fighting the war on drugs”, SFW->NSFW
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Hikes, Walks, and Bookstores
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Turn Audio Links into inline audio players
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Responsive Design + Mobile First = Automated Layouts
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COVID-19 Vaccination Inequality
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1966 Denial of a Conditional Use for 11339 Dronfield, Pacoima, for Yoshito R. and Michiko Matsuda