Monty Python's Flying Circus (Intro) S2 (1970) YouTube video by RetroAlexander

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G'night.🙃

California treasurer Fiona Ma tied to Chinese school cited in scathing audit

Love this man. Not just his music, but that he always stood for what he believed. He talked to talk and he walked the walk. Not many people do that.

Prince passed away 10 years ago today.

RIP, your music lives on.

Congressional insider trading & dark money were already blights on our flailing democracy. Letting government
officials “bet” on policy outcomes or worse, warfare, is a recipe for disaster.

Thank you for standing up against prediction market corruption, Governor Pritzker

Dead Pioneers || BAD INDIAN || Official Music Video YouTube video by Nerd Rat Media

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Yeah baby.🎸

Trans trailblazer Sean Dorsey: 'When shit gets hard, we choose to show up for each other' - 48 hills His legendary dance company's 22nd annual home season offers 'a balm for this moment in America.'

“Before I had a title for this new work, I was reeling with grief—both collective and personal,” Sean Dorsey Dance tells 48 Hills before his Fri/24-Sun/26 show 'We Choose Each Other'.

S.F. health dept. plans to cut managers, clinics and more. Here’s what you need to know. Half of the proposed savings will come from axing 121 full-time staff positions, mostly managers. Nurses say it will impact their services.

The SF health dept. has revealed its plan to cut $40 million more, per Mayor Lurie's request.

Half of the proposed savings will come from axing 121 full-time staff positions, mostly managers. Nurses say their services will still be impacted.

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“SFPD Reveals Plan to Trim Budget” — headlines you’ll never read

Voters chose the Trust Fund Baby who spent nearly 2X the 2nd & 3rd place candidates combined… They voted with Tech CEOs.

‘Tired of living like this:' One man’s journey from S.F. jail to addiction treatment The day after he was released San Francisco jail, Sam was buying drugs. Two weeks later, he decided he would seek addiction treatment.

Addiction treatment in jail is hard, especially when half of patients are gone within a day or two.

One man, Sam, left jail and set out to kick his drug habit on his own. Mission Local followed along.

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S.F. is arresting record numbers of people. Many are back in jail within a year. San Francisco drug users say going to jail is like a revolving door. Hundreds are booked again and again, Mission Local's analysis found.

When Sam was released from SF jail, he “ran to the dope dealer.” It wasn’t long before he was back in jail. He wasn't the only one.

Mission Local’s analysis of jail logs found hundreds of people were booked repeatedly in 2025. Many reported using drugs.

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No, Brooke Jenkins does not have an on/off switch for crime Crime is dropping precipitously nationwide. Criminologists have theories why. But, hey, so does the New York Post.

A national publication recently attributed SF's big drop in crime to its "anti-Woke DA" Brooke Jenkins.

It did not note that 4X the murders have been recorded compared to this time last year.

Jenkins isn't responsible for that *either.*

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Didn't think The City could get any worse after London, but it sure has.

SF backs away from harm reduction and Housing First - 48 hills Plus: Fighting back against budget cuts to job training, affordability, and public health. That's The Agenda for April 19-26.

Never mind the evidence: San Francisco, after several decades, is moving to abandon harm reduction as a principle in its substance use policy.

Supes push measure to require supportive housing to ban the use of illegal drugs.

California governor’s race: Betty Yee ends her campaign amid low polling numbers

Yee’s name will remain on the ballot since the filing deadline has passed.

My mistake. Correction: Mandeldon's associstion with Epstein.

Zombie YouTube video by The Cranberries - Topic

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Keir Starmer gives statement to the House of Commons over Mandelson vetting process – UK politics live PM tells MPs he was wrong to appoint Peter Mandelson ambassador to US in his update to parliament * Judgment day for PM over Mandelson scandal At his press conference Nigel Farage was asked about reports saying that Keir Starmer knew about the security concerns about Peter Mandelson that led to him failing his security vetting interview. That was a reference to the Telegraph splash, which says: Senior Whitehall sources told The Telegraph that the UKSV [UK Security Vetting] findings largely restated security risks that had already been drawn to Sir Keir’s attention. One senior source with knowledge of the process said: “The reality is that Starmer had already been warned about the major risks and he had waved them away.” Sources have told The Independent that MI6 failed to clear the Labour peer largely because of concerns over his business links to China. However, there were also worries that his past links to the disgraced financier and convicted paedophile Jeffrey Epstein “would compromise him”. It’s impossible for the prime minister to say the warning lights weren’t flashing. And if you were prime minister and there were news reports last September that your ambassadorial choice had failed vetting, you would have thought perhaps he might have had some curiosity to try to find out whether this had really happened or not. I just find the whole thing totally incredible. Incredible. There is no way the prime minister couldn’t have known. The Labour backbenchers are not yet of a mood to get rid of their prime minister, although after 7 May they just might be. Continue reading...

Keir Starmer gives statement to the House of Commons over Mandelson vetting process – UK politics live

Yank here in Northern CA, needing a diversion so watching the House of Commons questioning Prime Minister Starmer re. pedophile Mandelson airing now on the BBC. Hard to believe much of what Starmer's saying. Also sad how far down Labor has gone.

Of course. Because Trump cares about headlines and not details. Thats why the last ceasefire didn’t even clarify which countries were involved.

Mushroom worker at work

"Susana" works for Monterey Mushroom Morgan Hill under a contract. She has the skilled job of thinning out the mushroom to ensure quality. She also takes care of sanitization to keep the production rooms free of diseases that attack the mushrooms. #WeFeedYou

#OtD 19 Apr 1912 miners in Kanawha County, West Virginia, went on strike after bosses refused their demand for wages equal to other mines. Largely ended by May 1, the strike continued in Paint Creek and Cabin Creek resulting in many dead. More in our pod: workingclasshistory.com/podcast/e57-...

#OtD 19 Apr 1968 while 6,000 textile workers were on strike in Valdagno, northern Italy, scabs were snuck into the factory under police protection. Strikers fought 1000 police and toppled the bronze statue of the factory's founder stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9064...

#OtD 19 Apr 2014 Concha Liaño, the longest surviving member of the Mujeres Libres (revolutionary women in the Spanish civil war) died aged 97. After the war she fled to France, escaped a concentration camp and joined the resistance stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9066...

Tuaiwa Hautai Kereopa (Eva Rickard) waving

Born on this day in 1925, Māori and women's rights activist, Tuaiwa Hautai Kereopa (Eva Rickard).

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