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Steve Rhodes @steverhodes.bsky.social · 17h

California state senator Scott Wiener who will soon announce he is running in 2026 in Nancy Pelosi’s district (he previously said he was going to wait til she announced her retirement)

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Scott Wiener (center) in the San Francisco No Kings march

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Steve Rhodes @steverhodes.bsky.social · 18h

Brad Newsham has organized 28 human banners since 2006

hahttps://richmondsunsetnews.com/2025/07/02/political-activists-create-human-banner-at-ocean-beach/

Political Activists Create Human Banner at Ocean Beach

Last month, in light of President Donald Trump’s military parade in Washington, D.C., an estimated 50,000 people took to the Mission District and Civic Center to call for “No Kings.” In the western…

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Steve Rhodes @steverhodes.bsky.social · 18h

This was January 2007

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Impeach on the Beach

YouTube video by SamRubinPictures

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Steve Rhodes @steverhodes.bsky.social · 18h

Brad Newsham started organizing human banners on Ocean Beach in San Francisco in 2006 when he was a taxi driver (and writer)

Back then it was a lot more difficult & expensive (using a helicopter instead drones)

They use tape as a guide to spell out the letters

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Annalee Newitz @annaleen.bsky.social · 18h

I joined the "human banner" at San Francisco's Ocean Beach. This flag was at the center. It was a gorgeous day with enormous waves. #nokings

The image is taken from an angle, and you can see the ocean tilting 30 degrees in the distance, with a huge crowd in front of it. In the foreground, you can see the giant American flag that is being held up by hundreds of protesters clustered around its edges.

This is the human banner from the air. It's sign made from masses of people standing together to form letters. It reads "No Kings Yes on 50." There is an American flag in the middle and a thick border around the banner. (Prop 50 is a California state proposition to gerrymander the state to create more blue districts, in order to combat the Texas law that gerrymanders their state to create more red districts.)

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Steve Rhodes @steverhodes.bsky.social · 1d

Trump (who only cares about himself & how media cover him) was fine hurting hard working Americans when he shut down the government for over a month in 2018

www.washingtonpost.com/politics/pri...

Inside Trump’s shutdown turnaround

Elected as a self-proclaimed master dealmaker and business wizard, the president risks being exposed as ineffective.

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Steve Rhodes @steverhodes.bsky.social · 1d

Trump (who only cares about himself & watching fellow former reality tv stars praise him on tv) was fine not paying air traffic controllers when he shut down the government for over a month in 2018

www.washingtonpost.com/politics/pri...

Inside Trump’s shutdown turnaround

Elected as a self-proclaimed master dealmaker and business wizard, the president risks being exposed as ineffective.

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Tim Dickinson @timdickinson.bsky.social · 3d

5. In the meantime…

I want to stay connected to folks who care about my journalism.

Share your email with me at timdickinson.co — I’d be most grateful.

Tim Dickinson

Sign up to stay connected

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Tim Dickinson @timdickinson.bsky.social · 3d

4. That’s the bitter. The sweet?

I have an incredible new gig lined up that I’ll be able to talk about soon!

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Tim Dickinson @timdickinson.bsky.social · 3d

3. It has been a incredible 20-year run, in the company of brilliant colleagues. And I’m so proud of the work.

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Tim Dickinson @timdickinson.bsky.social · 3d

2. Rolling Stone is owned by a large media conglomerate, which is ending remote work across its brands.

My home is Portland, Oregon, ~1,000 miles from the nearest office, so this marks the end of the line for me at RS.

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Tim Dickinson @timdickinson.bsky.social · 3d

1. Friends, I have a major career update. And it is bittersweet.

My time at Rolling Stone is coming to a close this week.

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Josh Sternberg @joshsternberg.com · 3d

Layoffs at the WSJ, NBC News, and Penske Media this week. All the while these companies continue to tout 'record' quarters/years. Funny, that.

www.thewrap.com/wall-street-...

Wall Street Journal Lays Off a Dozen Reporters, Editors From Health and Science News Team

The Wall Street Journal has laid off around a dozen reporters and editors from its health, science and education verticals.

www.thewrap.com

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Julianne McShane @juliannemcshane.bsky.social · 3d

NEW @motherjones.com: Nobody in that GOP group chat praising Hitler or making racist comments was a “kid,” as JD Vance claimed today

I tracked down their ages. (Weirdly, it seems nobody else did.)

Eight of the 11 in the group chat range from 24 to 35. Ages of others are unclear.

But… no “kids”!

No one in the GOP Hitler chat was a "kid"

We checked. Sorry, JD Vance.

www.motherjones.com

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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 3d

1/ The first excerpt of Virginia Giuffre's posthumus memoir is out and it is gutting: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

‘Prince Andrew believed having sex with me was his birthright’: Virginia Giuffre on her abuse at the hands of Epstein, Maxwell and the king’s brother

In an extract from her posthumous memoir, Virginia Roberts Giuffre remembers the day an ‘apex predator’ recruited her from Mar-a-Lago, aged just 16; how she was trafficked to a succession of wealthy a...

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Peter Hartlaub @peterhartlaub.bsky.social · 10d

The real #1 reason to read today's @sfchronicle.com exploration of San Francisco's new perimeter trail:

The @jachristian.bsky.social photos. No one captures the city's quiet beauty like Jessica.

Gift link for everyone who's here for the photography.

🎁 📸 ⬇️

www.sfchronicle.com/projects/202...

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Tanvi Misra @tanvi.bsky.social · 27d

All summer, I’ve been speaking to a Nigerian mom of two kids who won fear-based protection in an immigration court. Under a previous admin, she would have likely been released, but ICE refused to let her out and tried to deport her to Ghana -> @motherjones.com www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

They’ve won in court, but ICE is still detaining and trying to deport them

Inside the “psychological torture” regime targeting migrants who can't be sent home.

www.motherjones.com

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Tanvi Misra @tanvi.bsky.social · 5d

his summer, I went to Panama and met Jharana, a 33-year-old from Nepal who had been deported there in a group of 300 others — the 1st group to be sent to a third country. I wrote about what happened to her and others over the year for
@nymag.com -->

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What Happened to The Migrants The U.S. Dumped In Panama?

Nearly 300 people were sent to a country they’d never lived in. The journey didn’t end there.

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 5d

Amanda Moore (@noturtlesoup17.bsky.social) has been on this "far right extremists taking over the Young Republicans" beat for quite a while now. The Politico story adds new facts to the story, but it's hardly a new revelation. www.thenation.com/article/poli...

The War Within the Young Republican Party

At the Young Republican National Convention, far-right figures made few inroads—but they did read my Nation investigation.

www.thenation.com

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 5d

Anyone familiar with the political culture of the Trumpian GOP will not be surprised by this reporting on today's Young Republicans, but all decent human beings will be appalled by it.

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 5d

POLITICO: “.. They referred to Black people as monkeys and ‘the watermelon people’ and mused about putting their political opponents in gas chambers. They talked about raping their enemies .. and lauded Republicans who they believed support slavery.

@politico.com
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Andrew Weissmann @weissmann.substack.com · 5d

A conversation with Jack Smith: youtu.be/DR79GW6SvxE?...

The State of the United States: A Conversation with Jack Smith

YouTube video by UCL Laws

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Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 6d

The search on Mar-a-Lago happened in August 2022. Jack Smith was appointed Special Counsel in November 2022.

Time, how does it work

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 6d

Eric Trump: "Sure enough, we find out that Jack Smith is planting manilla folders on the office of my father ... "

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Aaron Huertas @aaronhuertas.bsky.social · 6d

In any case appreciate that this term remains useful even in film reviews! And shout out to @michaelhobbes.bsky.social for popularizing the term and consistently crediting my old essay. cc: @michellegoldberg.bsky.social

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Aaron Huertas @aaronhuertas.bsky.social · 6d

Also minor point: I’m a former strategist turned carpenter though I guess at the time of writing one could have described me as a strategist. I still do some long form editing, but I’ve moved on in my career.

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Aaron Huertas @aaronhuertas.bsky.social · 6d

It’s not my fault or intention that reactionary centrists don’t like being called reactionary centrists. If there is another term they would like someone to deploy to describe this same orientation and set of behaviors, I’m all ears!

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