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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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YIMBY is Anti Rent Control; Polio in Gaza; Archive.org Lawsuit Effects; Chol Soo Lee; Sergio Mendez
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The Murder of Ee Lee
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What are Lateral Violence and Vertical Violence?
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Etsy Helps Create Microbusiness Caucus, a Challenge to Labor Organizing
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More Little Tokyo Redevelopment, 1969
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How do I fix the buzzing and electricity sound when recording on my iPhone?
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On the Precipice of Another Great Depression
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Configuring Regolith i3xrocks
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Crossplatform Keyboard Mappings for MacOS, GNOME, and Windows
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Selected Posts from Facebook from January 2020
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Should Prisoners Have the Vote?
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There Are No Urban Design Courses on Race and Justice, So We Made Our Own Syllabus
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Workstyles and Productivity
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Set Up an HP P1102w Printer on Ubuntu Linux
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China and Least Developed Countries Free Trade; Cal Gig Worker Law; Running Down the Walls
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Art Spiegelman: golden age superheroes were shaped by the rise of fascism
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Old Articles about anti-Zionism and Zionism by Jewish Communists
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Kats Kunitsugu in the Kashu Mainichi
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That “A cluster randomised trial of cloth masks compared with medical masks in healthcare workers” Article the Anti-Mask People are Passing Around, and Getting it Wrong
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How to Buy Windows 10 Cheap
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Exiting Amazon (Again)
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Selected Posts from Facebook from April 2020
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Two Errors I’ve Made Interpreting COVID-19 Data, that Others are Also Making
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Jimmy Dore Coddles Fascists
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The End of Facebook
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Programming Assistant LLMs
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Brief Review of Migrating from Gmail and Outlook.com to Proton
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WordPress and JSON Schemas Noob Notes
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Social Media
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Re: Oakland’s Homeless Americans Die Uncounted As Mayor Protects Illegal Immigrants
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New COVID Vax; Oceans Overflowing; Tech Ain’t Fixing the Climate; 4Chan->GOP
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How to Use the New AI Chatbots, ChatGPT and Bing Chat AI
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Down the Rabbit Hole: Traditionalism, Nationalism, Falun Gong, Shen Yun
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Adding Google OAuth Authentication to the Symfony HWI OAuth Bundle
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December 18, 2018 Update
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Letter to Garcetti about Shipping Container Homes
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Run a Shiny Server with the rocker/shiny and Docker-Compose on Debian or Ubuntu