Steve (Works at public land grant university UC Berkeley) Katz
@stevenkatz.bsky.social
Twenty five years or so raising money for indy and nonprofit journalism and now at UC Berkeley doing the same for the Journalism School. Picked up a PhD in sociology along the way. Pals with a fish named Bob.
Fired for doing her job. Fired for not being nice. Fired for not apologizing. Fired for not obeying "customs and courtesies” of the newsroom. Also: guess which one got fired?
November 16, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Fired for doing her job. Fired for not being nice. Fired for not apologizing. Fired for not obeying "customs and courtesies” of the newsroom. Also: guess which one got fired?
Bountiful harvest
November 15, 2025 at 9:25 PM
Bountiful harvest
Between the rains
November 15, 2025 at 9:18 PM
Between the rains
Signs of the times (Times?) at the end of Manohla Dargis’s effervescent review of Richard Linklater’s “Nouvelle Vague.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/13/m...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/13/m...
November 14, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Signs of the times (Times?) at the end of Manohla Dargis’s effervescent review of Richard Linklater’s “Nouvelle Vague.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/13/m...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/13/m...
Here are the Alterman sisters, their dog Flicka, and airmen Lester Smith, Bob Walther, Don Dahlin, Gerald Miller, my uncle, and Paul Herring. Miller and Herring had flown with 2 different crews and with assistance from the Belgian resistance had made their way to the Alterman's house. 28/x
November 11, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Here are the Alterman sisters, their dog Flicka, and airmen Lester Smith, Bob Walther, Don Dahlin, Gerald Miller, my uncle, and Paul Herring. Miller and Herring had flown with 2 different crews and with assistance from the Belgian resistance had made their way to the Alterman's house. 28/x
Here is a picture of Nan, her mother Renee, along with Louisa Vos and her daughter Renee. The two daughters remained friends their entire lives. 25/x
November 11, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Here is a picture of Nan, her mother Renee, along with Louisa Vos and her daughter Renee. The two daughters remained friends their entire lives. 25/x
The Vos family hid my uncle in their barn for 3 days. Gustave, a member of the Belgian resistance, made arrangements to move him to a safe house away from the crash site. They knew the Germans would come looking, soon. Here is my uncle with Louisa Vos, on 5 Feb 1944 10/x
November 11, 2025 at 6:23 PM
The Vos family hid my uncle in their barn for 3 days. Gustave, a member of the Belgian resistance, made arrangements to move him to a safe house away from the crash site. They knew the Germans would come looking, soon. Here is my uncle with Louisa Vos, on 5 Feb 1944 10/x
He joined the crew of the "Dollie Madison," aircraft #42-31109, part of the 327th Bomb Squadron, 92nd Bomb Group, 8th Army Air Force. 2/x
November 11, 2025 at 6:23 PM
He joined the crew of the "Dollie Madison," aircraft #42-31109, part of the 327th Bomb Squadron, 92nd Bomb Group, 8th Army Air Force. 2/x
Today is Veterans Day. This is my Uncle Mony in the fall of 1943, just before he shipped out to Podington airfield in the UK, as a navigator. He was 27.
November 11, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Today is Veterans Day. This is my Uncle Mony in the fall of 1943, just before he shipped out to Podington airfield in the UK, as a navigator. He was 27.
(Editor: he did)
November 9, 2025 at 9:04 PM
(Editor: he did)
After the Manet-Morisot show at the SF Legion of Honor
November 9, 2025 at 8:10 PM
After the Manet-Morisot show at the SF Legion of Honor
He’s giving his victory speech now namechecking Eugene Debs
November 5, 2025 at 4:31 AM
He’s giving his victory speech now namechecking Eugene Debs
Wanna fight for media? Public radio is the place to do it, looks like. THis map shows just how thorough public radio coverage of the US has become (pre-cuts):
www.niemanlab.org/2025/10/in-m...
www.niemanlab.org/2025/10/in-m...
October 24, 2025 at 10:49 PM
Wanna fight for media? Public radio is the place to do it, looks like. THis map shows just how thorough public radio coverage of the US has become (pre-cuts):
www.niemanlab.org/2025/10/in-m...
www.niemanlab.org/2025/10/in-m...
Separated at birth?
Sean Penn, One Battle After Another
Greg Bovino, same.
Sean Penn, One Battle After Another
Greg Bovino, same.
October 23, 2025 at 11:04 PM
Separated at birth?
Sean Penn, One Battle After Another
Greg Bovino, same.
Sean Penn, One Battle After Another
Greg Bovino, same.
It puts a human face on the disaster that hit Kwigillingok and other Bering seacoast villages last weekend.
But it needed context! This destruction of a way of life was a function of climate change and the massive increase in North Pacific water temperatures. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/19/u...
But it needed context! This destruction of a way of life was a function of climate change and the massive increase in North Pacific water temperatures. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/19/u...
October 20, 2025 at 3:24 PM
It puts a human face on the disaster that hit Kwigillingok and other Bering seacoast villages last weekend.
But it needed context! This destruction of a way of life was a function of climate change and the massive increase in North Pacific water temperatures. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/19/u...
But it needed context! This destruction of a way of life was a function of climate change and the massive increase in North Pacific water temperatures. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/19/u...
October 18, 2025 at 8:32 PM
October 18, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Autumn
October 2, 2025 at 2:22 AM
Autumn
October 1, 2025 at 12:59 AM
@timothysnyder.bsky.social: to be “free speakers, he writes, "we need to be fearless, which means that other should not be trying to intimidate or tame or harm us, be they the government or be they powerful individuals.”
snyder.substack.com/p/free-speec...
snyder.substack.com/p/free-speec...
September 20, 2025 at 1:34 AM
@timothysnyder.bsky.social: to be “free speakers, he writes, "we need to be fearless, which means that other should not be trying to intimidate or tame or harm us, be they the government or be they powerful individuals.”
snyder.substack.com/p/free-speec...
snyder.substack.com/p/free-speec...
The 1st amendment case Harvard won today. Let’s hope that UC Regents and their lawyers do the same, and more, as stewards of a great public university.
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/03/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/03/u...
September 4, 2025 at 1:07 AM
The 1st amendment case Harvard won today. Let’s hope that UC Regents and their lawyers do the same, and more, as stewards of a great public university.
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/03/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/03/u...
As seen on NYC subway wall. Illustration by Frances Jetter.
August 28, 2025 at 2:46 PM
As seen on NYC subway wall. Illustration by Frances Jetter.
August 19, 2025 at 2:25 PM