Congrats @polgreen.bsky.social !

Of course they are concentration camps. And @anatosaurus.bsky.social is right that once you accept the euphemism you are halfway to normalizing the thing.

Mature tree on the eastern side of the property

Development schedule and map

They are even removing the trees in the T1 and T4 sections, where the project is yet to be funded and a decade or so away from starting work

It is brutal to remove what little shade West Oaklanders for an unfunded future project so far away

Leave those trees at least until we have a start date!

Photo of trees at West Oakland BART entrance

Rendering of the same location from the plans

There are 17 existing mature trees in the future plaza section

Instead of clear cutting and replanting, BART should incorporate as many of these trees as possible into the plaza

It would take decades for newly planted trees to reach the maturity shown in the rendering. The trees are already here!

CNN put together a montage of Trump saying as far back as March 9 that his war against Iran "is going to be finished pretty quickly," then him saying that same thing over and over for the past six weeks

Trump started an illegal war where 13 service members and many Iranian schoolgirls died

Gas and grocery prices are through the roof

We can’t afford to pay rent or buy health insurance

And ICE is killing people in the streets

Changes at the federal level are long overdue

Vote YES, Virginia

Big Tech Is Powering Israel's AI War Machine From Gaza to now Iran and Lebanon, Israel is expanding its testing ground for AI-enabled military technology in terrifying ways.

From Gaza to now Iran and Lebanon, Israel is expanding its testing ground for AI-enabled military technology in terrifying ways.

Read my latest piece in Zeteo about how big tech is powering Israel’s AI war machine 👇

BREAKING: Federal Bill Would Put Big Oil Above the Law | Center for Climate Integrity Republicans Introduce Legislation to Give Fossil Fuel Companies Immunity from Any Laws or Lawsuits Seeking to Hold them Accountable for their Role in the Climate Crisis

Republicans know they are about to lose the House and are trying to give Big Oil its holy grail: legal immunity from any futures actions that would hold the industry responsible for the climate crisis it knowingly caused and is making worse every day.

climateintegrity.org/news/view/br...

Leaked Memos Reveal Just How Much the Supreme Court Has Betrayed the Constitution All in service of its corporate patrons.

The Robert's Court is corrupt. Never forget it.

www.esquire.com/news-politic...

Jews, Arabs, and Muslims have lived peacefully together in the past. And can again, but only if we reimagine a future not based on perpetuation of hatred (a la Israel of today and the IDF) and only if we allow ourselves to do what we are commanded to do: Seek truth and justice.

Steyer announces plan to jail ICE agents, calls agency a 'violent extremist group' Steyer compared his plan to the way law enforcement fought the mob and called the federal agency a “violent extremist group.”

Steyer announces plan to jail ICE agents, calls agency a ‘violent extremist group’

In fact, one of the first thing historians will point to is the failure of Reconstruction.

There going to be an immense political push to look forward, not back, to "heal the nation." But the nation isn't going to be healed if we don't listen to the historians telling us that MAGA leaders must be imprisoned, their entire movement destroyed, the earth salted, real American values restored.

U.S. Installs a Trump Loyalist to Lead ‘Grand Conspiracy’ Case Into Trump Foes

Worth adding that Russia did as a matter of fact intervene for Trump in 2016 and that the evidence is widely known, abundant, and collected in various forms (🧵 1/3)
www.nytimes.com/2026/04/18/u...

NYT seems committed to destroying its reputation.

Extremely normal and fine for a company to put this in a public statement

New @nbcnews.com poll:

33% of Americans approve of Trump’s handling of the Iran war.

67% disapprove.

A majority “strongly disapprove.”

www.nbcnews.com/politics/don...

Pancreatic cancer mRNA vaccine shows lasting results in an early trial Scientists caution that more research is needed, but nearly all of the patients who responded to the personalized vaccine are still alive six years later.

We have an apparent cure for most people with pancreatic cancer—a profoundly swift, deadly cancer—and the position of the U.S. government is that it should be banned. This is real fall-of-empire stuff.

The average taxpayer paid $4,000 for war and weapons last year, including money to the Israeli military.

Child care Healthcare ) The US is spending billions of Americans' tax dollars on harming and killing families abroad. That's money that could be spent on: Education Affordable housing and so much more

The average taxpayer paid $4,000 for war and weapons last year. Americans paid $4,000 from their hard earned money to fund the killing of women, men, and children. Americans funded the genocide in Gaza. Let that sink in.

Credit @theimeu.bsky.social @imeupolicy.bsky.social

This is great.

CPJ launches petition calling on Kuwait to release US-Kuwaiti journalist Ahmed Shihab-Eldin  - Committee to Protect Journalists New York, April 15, 2026 — The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) today published a petition calling on Kuwaiti authorities to immediately and unconditionally release Kuwaiti-American journalist A...

My fingers are crossed for Ahmed Shihab-Eldin, who appears to have been detained merely for reposting news about the Iran war.

cpj.org/2026/04/cpj-...

BREAKING: Just 20 minutes before Trump's announcement that the Strait of Hormuz was open, massive trades hit the market.

Investors sold a combined 7,990 lots of Brent crude futures, ​a $760 million bet that oil would go down.

These orders were much larger than anything else at the time.

Unusual.

Sentence 2 missing a verb maybe?

💯

I definitely want answers about this, because it is one of the weirdest things I have seen in politics

Yes! 💯🫶🙏

Public input can be a death sentence Putting a safety improvement up for a vote is dangerous when the voters have been conditioned to see traffic violence as inevitable.

Approximately 4,000 people die in CA every year because of car crashes, 25% of which are pedestrians & bicyclists. Prioritizing safety for all road users should be a no-brainer, and the convenience of drivers shouldn’t come before the wellbeing of others.
www.urbanismspeakeasy.com/p/public-inp...

💯 and so well said as usual, @dieworkwear.bsky.social

Thank you @padilla.senate.gov @schiff.senate.gov for doing the right thing & voting to block further arm sales to Israel. As a CA Jew, I abhor Israel's ethnic cleansing & urge you to stay strong & reject AIPAC's $ & lies.

AIPAC and company are losing their grip. Those who continue to take their money and put impunity for Israeli extremists before human rights and the needs of American will be voted out.