PS: tbc, I first wrote about this doc @beaconpress.bsky.social’s site and my own eponymous Blog (remember those?🤣), not @kqednews.kqed.org’s site. I’m posting the #KQED anniversary story about it now because I am Fed Up with the ongoing Erasure of Black people from my hometown. 🌁

#FosterCity #Cyberattack #Cybersecurity #meta #google #SF #SFGate #KQED #KERA

Pls donate to your local NPR station 💖✨

In the 1970s, Bay Area Lesbians Created Their Own Economy | KQED An exhibit at the GLBT Historical Society looks back at bookstores, cafes and co-ops that offered a lifeline.

This is Day #22 of my mission to see more #lesbian content on #Bsky.
In the 1970s, Bay Area #Lesbians Created Their Own Economy | #KQED

Saturday morning ritual, watching Nicholas Hankins paint in Bob Ross style. Tomorrow we watch the Bob Ross reruns. #PBS #KQED

College students, professors are making their own AI rules. They don't always agree More than three years after ChatGPT debuted, AI has become a part of everyday life — and professors and students are still figuring out how or if they should use it.

College students, professors are making their own AI rules. They don't always agree via @NPR www.npr.org/2026/03/03/n... #EduSky #EduSkyAI #TLSky #EdTech #AIinEducation #aisky #ai #AIpolicy #highered #KQED

A Nation of Neighbors | Stories | PBS Food Lidia Bastianich honors America’s volunteers, revealing how giving back unites and uplifts.

TONIGHT (Tue, 9pm) on #KQED TV...

"A Nation of Neighbors"

This morning on @kqednews.kqed.org RADIO...

Host Lidia Bastianich and one of those good neighbors in #SanFrancisco: Geoffrea Morris.

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As Enforcement Intensifies, Churches Become Sanctuaries for Immigrants Seeking Peace | KQED Across the Bay Area, faith communities are creating spaces where immigrants can reclaim dignity and find solace amid escalating ICE enforcement, including a recent Oakland candlelight service that dre...

Trump’s mass deportation drive is turning Bay Area churches into sanctuary infrastructure, where clergy and congregations absorb the fear, economic fallout, and moral burden of immigration raids. #Trump #Immigration #Sanctuary #Churches #CommunitySelfProtection #InstitutionalAccountability #KQED

‘Eating For Survival’: With November SNAP Delays, How Will Bay Area Families Cope? | KQED As the Trump administration threatens to withhold SNAP payments despite a court order, hundreds of thousands of Bay Area residents using CalFresh are planning for uncertainty.

Carly, the author of this article, included my words and experience with others who are struggling. It’s when we raise our voices for each other that the world becomes a better place #Snap #KQED #PublicRadio.

Margaret Tedesco, Artist and Curator, Was the ‘Spirit of San Francisco’ The widely loved curator and connector of people in the Bay Area art scene died on Oct. 18, 2025.

Margaret Tedesco, Artist and Curator, Was the ‘Spirit of #SanFrancisco ’ by Sarah Hotchkiss of #KQED
www.kqed.org/arts/13982690/margaret-t...

With moderator KQED Senior Editor Scott Shafer, Secretary Becerra answered questions from students and leaders alike. This was more than a conversation; it was a chance to learn from one of California’s influential voices.
#CaliforniaLeaders #PublicService #Leadership #XavierBecerra #KQED

#NPR just introduced a lady as a #monger, then defined monger as like a #sommelier for #wine, but for #cheese. The French literally have a word for this – #affineur
#KQED #KQEI

Last: my foundational Pro role model has passed away. Thru my earliest viewings of local TV news broadcasts in #SanFrancisco at #KPIX, #KQED and other local outlets, Belva Davis inspired me as a child to become a Journalist. #RIP Legend. 🙏🏾 💯 #TeamNorCal 🌉🥺 #BelvaDavis www.kron4.com/news/bay-are...

Robert Redford’s cinematic connections to SF, and how to watch From political comedy-drama “The Candidate” to spy thriller “Sneakers,” the anti-Hollywood movie star and part-time Tiburon resident returned to the Bay Area.

💕 I cannot find Robert Redford’s “Saving the Bay” mini-series with my #KQED #Passport subscription, but if you can, LMK?

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You know you want this tote…and public radio as we have seen how corporate media does news.

#Support #KQED

Support #KQED

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Mind Shift Podcast cover August 26 How to Help Kids Through Friendships

Gm #BSky

3 qualities of a good relationship:
⭐️ Long-lasting 💪🏾
⭐️ Positive 😇
⭐️ Cooperative 🫱🏼‍🫲🏾
#KQED #Friendships

As ICE Operations Expand, How Are Immigrant Allies Responding? | KQED Communities across the U.S. are organizing rapid response networks, court accompaniments, and using apps like ICEBlock to protect immigrants and fight back against aggressive ICE raids and detentions.

ICE and DOJ escalate intimidation tactics against volunteer observers and digital community defenders, seeking to dismantle civil society force protection infrastructures. #VolunteerThreats #EnforcementSuppression #CommunityDefense #InstitutionalResistance #KQED

As ICE Operations Expand, How Are Immigrant Allies Responding? | KQED Communities across the U.S. are organizing rapid response networks, court accompaniments, and using apps like ICEBlock to protect immigrants and fight back against aggressive ICE raids and detentions.

Court accompaniment programs deploy logistical, emotional, and legal defense layers to confront ICE courthouse arrest strategies and protect immigrant participants. #CourtAccompaniment #CommunityDefense #ICECounterOps #InstitutionalResistance #KQED

As ICE Operations Expand, How Are Immigrant Allies Responding? | KQED Communities across the U.S. are organizing rapid response networks, court accompaniments, and using apps like ICEBlock to protect immigrants and fight back against aggressive ICE raids and detentions.

Rapid Response Networks (RRN) embed real-time verification and field observation protocols to confront ICE enforcement visibility suppression and protect immigrant communities. #RapidResponse #CommunityDefense #ICECounterOps #InstitutionalResistance #KQED
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As ICE Operations Expand, How Are Immigrant Allies Responding? | KQED Communities across the U.S. are organizing rapid response networks, court accompaniments, and using apps like ICEBlock to protect immigrants and fight back against aggressive ICE raids and detentions.

Community-led counter-operations mobilize nationwide to confront ICE enforcement escalation, structuring civil society resistance networks against authoritarian deportation tactics. #CommunityDefense #RapidResponse #ICEBlock #InstitutionalResistance #KQED

But he will. America’s attention span is short. We get bored.

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Trump Administration Considers Immigration Detention on Bay Area Military Base, Records Show | KQED Rep. John Garamendi said he has “serious opposition” to using Travis Air Force base to lock up immigrants for deportation, a move he says would compromise military readiness and national security.

Trump is targeting Travis AFB as a mass detention hub, embedding ICE inside a national security base and sidelining legal oversight. #Trump #Project2025 #TravisAFB #MilitaryDetention #California #KQED

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Anonymous #KQED staff members voice concerns about company's layoffs and 15% reduction in force — in "open letters" posted around the station's San Francisco neighborhood.

KQED's story on layoffs here: www.kqed.org/news/1204812...

Local news efforts—like the one below in #AlbanyCA — take on new importance after recent loss of federal funds for NPR & PBS: www.npr.org/2025/07/18/n...

Bay Area NPR affiliates like #KQED will survive, but rural communities at risk.

#rescission #rescissionPackage
#PublicRadio 📻 #federalFunding

Trump morons have cut off payment to @npr.org and all #public #media! Public media serves big cities & tiny areas with news & weather reports! Call your congress & demand they fund public media!
And please make a pledge to give even a few 💲💰 to your local #publicMedia! Mine is #KQED 🥰🌞

KQED will reduce workforce by 15% as fears of funding cuts, recession loom "KQED is in the midst of one of the most difficult moments in the 71-year history of the station."

KQED, one of the nation's largest public media broadcasters serving the Bay Area, will reduce its workforce by 15%, the company announced Tuesday. www.sfgate.com/bayarea/arti... b/c asshole in chief! Please support #KQED #NPR #PBS not fake news! that's why trump won't fund, not fake!

@georgetakei.bsky.social & @bradtakei.bsky.social I have just watched To Be Takei on #kqed. Thank you. I love this documentary. I appreciate getting to see this every Pride month and it seems even more relevant this year.

2/As #KQED reports, our (Dr. Lynn Silver) co-authored editorial urges urgent action:

- Require health warning labels on #Cannabis products
- Restrict marketing
- Set limits on product potency

It’s time to treat cannabis like we treat #tobacco: not criminalized, but discouraged. #PublicHealth

www.latimes.com/world-nation... "The White House is betting that cutting federal investments in public media and some foreign aid programs will prove politically popular." #USAID #PBS #KQED