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Neil Mackenzie
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San Francisco, CA
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The Overton Window has shifted and increasingly wanton overt bigotry and evil are mainstream. Don’t accept it. Fight and defy people like this.

www.middleeasteye.net/news/uk-colu...
British columnist Melanie Phillips lashes out at Palestinians at pro-Israel NYC event
The controversial columnist and broadcaster also mocked Christianity and claimed the West is facing a 'death cult' in 'forces of Islam'
www.middleeasteye.net
November 25, 2025 at 5:18 AM
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Every person deserves to be treated with both dignity and respect, and with due process. Due process is not optional; it is a constitutional requirement. Humane detention standards should not be optional either.
November 25, 2025 at 3:20 AM
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ponte vecchio

firenze, it
November 14, 2025 at 12:10 AM
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This is an official statement from Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, who is the top civilian at the Pentagon, and thus the link in the chain of command between the President and the SOUTHCOM commander, and thus the key civilian who would be giving orders in what may soon be a war with Venezuela.
Hegseth is now threatening to recall Sen. Mark Kelly to active duty in order to court martial him.
November 24, 2025 at 5:14 PM
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A robbery suspect posing as a delivery person forced their way into a victim's home Saturday morning at gunpoint, and made off with a major crypto haul. buff.ly/37ZBTn2
Thief Steals a Reported $11M In Cryptocurrency, Plus Laptop, In Home Invasion Near Dolores Park
A robbery suspect posing as a delivery person forced their way into a victim's home Saturday morning at gunpoint, and made off with a major crypto haul.
buff.ly
November 24, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Time’s arrows
San Francisco, CA
November 24, 2025 at 4:20 PM
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Rewatching Shane Meadows’ Made Of Stone for a thing. It’s more love letter than documentary and works within those parameters but, man, that 2012 Heaton Park version of Fool’s Gold is utterly astonishing.

youtu.be/jRswxxT3HQ8?...
The Stone Roses, Fools Gold Live at Heaton Park. Made of Stone DVD.
YouTube video by Jamie Hosey
youtu.be
November 23, 2025 at 2:11 PM
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These posters for the South Korean stage production of Macbeth are the greatest thing ever? #art
November 23, 2025 at 10:56 AM
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“Paul, your birthday is near. I cannot make the post be exact to the day and the hour, but we can be. It is so quiet here. Half an hour has passed since the first sentence, and last autumn is forcing its way into this autumn.”

Ingeborg Bachmann to Paul Celan; tr. Wieland Hoban
November 23, 2025 at 6:13 PM
What books are on your night stand?

Sinclair Lewis, “It Can’t Happen Here”; Ford Madox Ford, “The Good Soldier”; Honor Jones, “Sleep”; Vasily Grossman, “Life and Fate”; Anna Seghers, “Transit.” Plus some nonfiction that I haven’t gotten around to.
George Packer: ‘I’ve Stopped Being a Prig About Beautiful Writing’
www.nytimes.com
November 23, 2025 at 5:40 PM
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November 23, 2025 at 6:28 AM
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Unprecedented nepotism & corruption at the highest levels of American government
Reuters has confirmed that President Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner and his special envoy Steve Witkoff held a private meeting in Miami with a sanctioned Kremlin proxy to help shape the new "peace plan" for Ukraine. www.reuters.com/world/europe...
www.reuters.com
November 23, 2025 at 6:01 AM
Peter Hujar’s Day
- Ira Sachs

youtu.be/8P8bMN-X0xQ
Peter Hujar's Day | Trailer | NYFF63
YouTube video by Film at Lincoln Center
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November 23, 2025 at 5:40 AM
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Professor Noah Feldman was my classmate twice over. He is one of the more brilliant minds I have ever encountered. I love how he lays it plain here.
November 23, 2025 at 1:12 AM
Dolores Park
San Francisco, CA
November 23, 2025 at 2:31 AM
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There are going to be prominent Democrats and mainstream media voices who insist that we have to "turn the page" and "forgive and forget" and they should all be roundly ignored, if not mercilessly mocked.
It’s crazy to think about the crimes we’re going to learn about after this regime ends.

We’re already hearing about Watergate level crimes every week. Imagine what will come out after it’s over.

We’re going to need a full accounting of all that’s been done in violation of the constitution.
November 22, 2025 at 10:46 PM
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I think if 24 people are dead it's more than "testing" a ceasefire.
November 22, 2025 at 4:15 PM
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In Kyiv on Friday evening, US envoy Daniel Driscoll briefed EU diplomats on the plan. Driscoll arrived late and was otherwise inflexible. "We're not negotiating details, We need to get this shit over with." The tone of the meeting was "disgusting," the newspaper quoted a European official as saying.
Europäer lehnen Teile des US-Friedensplans ab – und schicken einen Gegenvorschlag
Die USA setzen die Ukraine und deren Unterstützer mit ihrem 28-Punkte-Plan unter Druck. Nun haben die Europäer eine Alternative erarbeitet. Kanzler Merz beharrt auf einer »uneingeschränkten Zustimmung...
www.spiegel.de
November 22, 2025 at 4:46 PM
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5 immigration judges were summarily fired in San Francisco today, the largest such firing in the city all year.

It continues a trend of the Trump admin. targeting immigration judges nationwide. In San Francisco, at least 12 have been sacked this year.

missionlocal.org/2025/11/sf-i...
Friday night massacre: 5 judges fired from S.F. immigration court today
The Department of Justice fired at least five San Francisco immigration court judges on Friday in the largest cut of immigration judges in the city so far
missionlocal.org
November 22, 2025 at 12:39 AM
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Your regular reminder that the reason all of the awful & illegal things keep happening in 🇺🇸 politics - from Trump to GWB/torture to Iran-Contra to Watergate, back to 1865 - is that there are never any actual legal or personal consequences for all of the awful & illegal things happening in 🇺🇸 politics
November 21, 2025 at 6:21 PM
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Delivery platform DoorDash bought a warehouse at 16th and Folsom to test delivery drones, but the Teamsters challenged their permit on zoning grounds. Now the drones will fly, after the SF Board of Appeals shot down the Teamsters' appeal. sfist.com/2025/11/20/d...
DoorDash Wins Its Appeal to Test Food Delivery Drones in the Mission, and the Teamsters Aren’t Happy
Delivery platform DoorDash bought a warehouse at 16th and Folsom to test delivery drones, but the Teamsters challenged their permit on zoning grounds. Now the drones will fly, after the SF Board of…
sfist.com
November 20, 2025 at 11:43 PM
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November 21, 2025 at 2:33 AM
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What a Magical time at the Botanical Garden in San Francisco tonight. 🌱 Lightscape
November 21, 2025 at 4:48 AM
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ICE’s Detention Center outside Chicago was sued on October 30 for allegedly abusing detainees. One day later, a "system crash" lost all video footage that could have shown how detainees were being treated. trib.al/QwT3aqI
November 21, 2025 at 12:12 AM