Oaksyder
@oaksyder.bsky.social
Sonoma County-based married father of young sons. World traveler, lifelong raver. Old school liberal. History geek, obsessively curious, cricket fanatic. I promise to be nicer here.
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HAPPENING NOW: Portland Police Commander Franz Schoening testifies that federal officers on Oct. 18 barraged protesters with crowd control munitions — not because of any violence but because another federal officer accidentally shot tear gas onto the roof of the ICE facility.
October 29, 2025 at 6:05 PM
HAPPENING NOW: Portland Police Commander Franz Schoening testifies that federal officers on Oct. 18 barraged protesters with crowd control munitions — not because of any violence but because another federal officer accidentally shot tear gas onto the roof of the ICE facility.
Why am I only now discovering Skyline Chili?
October 20, 2025 at 9:09 PM
Why am I only now discovering Skyline Chili?
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Once again, I just shake my head at Raiders fans. Nothing more to say.
October 19, 2025 at 7:54 PM
Once again, I just shake my head at Raiders fans. Nothing more to say.
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Latest from Heather Cox Richardson...
"Letters from an American"
heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/october-18...
"Letters from an American"
heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/october-18...
October 18, 2025
Today, millions of Americans and their allies turned out across the United States and around the globe to demonstrate their commitment to American democracy and their opposition to a president and an ...
heathercoxrichardson.substack.com
October 19, 2025 at 3:19 AM
Latest from Heather Cox Richardson...
"Letters from an American"
heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/october-18...
"Letters from an American"
heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/october-18...
Sonoma County had one spectacular day of protests!
October 19, 2025 at 3:34 AM
Sonoma County had one spectacular day of protests!
Just realized that it’s been over 30 days since I finally deactivated my Twitter/X account. It doesn’t exist anymore.
Wow. It’s over. No more of that identity, and that filthy algo.
Wow. It’s over. No more of that identity, and that filthy algo.
October 19, 2025 at 3:18 AM
Just realized that it’s been over 30 days since I finally deactivated my Twitter/X account. It doesn’t exist anymore.
Wow. It’s over. No more of that identity, and that filthy algo.
Wow. It’s over. No more of that identity, and that filthy algo.
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Abughazaleh: I think Kristi Noem should be tried at The Hague. And if the response from ICE to people exercising their first amendment right is to drive vehicles through them, they should not be an agency in the US.
October 4, 2025 at 2:04 AM
Abughazaleh: I think Kristi Noem should be tried at The Hague. And if the response from ICE to people exercising their first amendment right is to drive vehicles through them, they should not be an agency in the US.
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In 2004 we were staring at an incredibly bleak information environment as well, and we built our own media environment to counter it.
September 18, 2025 at 4:52 PM
In 2004 we were staring at an incredibly bleak information environment as well, and we built our own media environment to counter it.
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People missing an important point about folks getting fired for whatever they said about Charlie Kirk: Americans are being conditioned to be snitches on their fellow citizens who don’t toe a party line on what is “allowed” to be expressed. And employers are going along. It’s the new secret police
September 14, 2025 at 3:32 AM
People missing an important point about folks getting fired for whatever they said about Charlie Kirk: Americans are being conditioned to be snitches on their fellow citizens who don’t toe a party line on what is “allowed” to be expressed. And employers are going along. It’s the new secret police
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Illinois is launching a first-of-its-kind legal hotline for LGBTQ+ individuals — Illinois Pride Connect.
As the only state in the nation that will provide free legal advice to protect the LGBTQ+ community, we'll help fight ignorance with information and cruelty with compassion.
As the only state in the nation that will provide free legal advice to protect the LGBTQ+ community, we'll help fight ignorance with information and cruelty with compassion.
August 22, 2025 at 2:00 AM
Illinois is launching a first-of-its-kind legal hotline for LGBTQ+ individuals — Illinois Pride Connect.
As the only state in the nation that will provide free legal advice to protect the LGBTQ+ community, we'll help fight ignorance with information and cruelty with compassion.
As the only state in the nation that will provide free legal advice to protect the LGBTQ+ community, we'll help fight ignorance with information and cruelty with compassion.
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Transit ridership, in the San Francisco Bay Area
June 22, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Transit ridership, in the San Francisco Bay Area
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"Baseball, perhaps fittingly for America’s pastime, is a game of stubborn tradition and incremental change," @isabelfattal.bsky.social writes in the Wonder Reader:
The Slow Progress of Baseball
What’s changed, and what’s stayed the same
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April 8, 2025 at 6:45 AM
"Baseball, perhaps fittingly for America’s pastime, is a game of stubborn tradition and incremental change," @isabelfattal.bsky.social writes in the Wonder Reader:
Behold, the Mona Lisa of AI art.
April 8, 2025 at 3:21 AM
Behold, the Mona Lisa of AI art.
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Everyone should be screaming like this! More of this, now please!
March 12, 2025 at 8:52 PM
Everyone should be screaming like this! More of this, now please!
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Carney: Canada never ever will be part of America in any way, shape, or form. We didn’t ask for this fight, but Canadians are always ready when someone else drops the gloves.
March 9, 2025 at 11:27 PM
Carney: Canada never ever will be part of America in any way, shape, or form. We didn’t ask for this fight, but Canadians are always ready when someone else drops the gloves.
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