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Corona Crisis: On The Front Lines With the Homeless in Berkeley.

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What follows are excerpts from four report backs by Andrea Henson, of Where Do We Go Berkeley, (@WhereDoWeGoBerk, Facebook) whom I first spotlighted in October, 2019. She has been on the front lines, fighting for and with local homeless people to create conditions where they can live in peace, in sanitary...

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  • March 30, 2020
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A 13-Minute Test for COVID-19? Seems Real.

Abbott Labs announced a five minute positive and thirteen minute negative test bed for COVID-19 virus genetic material, dated yesterday. Seems like it can be used in doctors offices or even potentially in the field. Seems like an incredible breakthrough.  Almost too good to be true… DETECT COVID-19 IN AS...

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  • March 29, 2020
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Breaking: Individual Mandate Declared Unconstitutional by 5th Circuit. Fate of ACA Not Clear.

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The question of whether the Individual Mandate can be separated from the rest of the ACA (or some parts of the ACA), and therefore whether the entire ACA is unconstitutional, parts of the ACA beyond the individual mandate are also constitutional, or only the individual mandate is now unonstitutional, have...

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  • December 18, 2019
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An Intersecting Tale: Berkeley's #WhereDoWeGo Movement Stays Fast. Homeless Sweeps Crew Go Elsewhere

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Hell no, they did not go anywhere. It worked! Unhoused residents stuck together and refused to move, and housed people stood in solidarity. And CHP and Caltrans left. I 80 at University in Berkeley, CA is one of the busiest stretches of highway in the country: Five lanes of traffic...

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  • October 11, 2019
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$1.6 Million in Medical Debt is Gone!

We did it! Signed, sealed and delivered, letters were received in these last weeks by more than 700 Bay Area residents informing them that … you no longer owe the balance on the debt referenced above to the above provider. You no longer have any obligation to pay this debt to...

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  • October 7, 2019
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California Becomes First State to Enable Public Banking In 100 Years!

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One hundred years ago the legislature of North Dakota created a public bank for the state and its people. Today, moments ago, Governor Newsom signed into law legislation passed last month by the Legislature enabling the creation of public banks in California.  It is the first such legislation to be...

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  • October 2, 2019
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A New Hero.

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“The respondent admittedly removed a framed photograph of the President of the United States from the lobby of the Los Angeles Immigration Court, and upon exiting the building, put the picture in a garbage can… The respondent contends that his ‘aberrational conduct’ was motivated by an emotional reaction that occurred while he...

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  • September 11, 2019
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CA Legislature Spits in Faces of Medical Debtors. We the People Are Doing Better.

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You think it'd be a no-brainer. After multiple articles, national attention, much bewailing and pledges to correct the injustice, it should be tough to screw it up. But screw it up the California Legislature did. They failed to enact legislation to stop one of the more egregious injustices in our...

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  • July 17, 2019
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5th Circuit: Guess What? Your Health Care (and Mine) Could Well Be About to Become Unconstitutional.

x Leaving the Fifth Circuit Obamacare case now. Short news is it went very badly. The two Republican judges appear determined to strike Obamacare. There is a chance they will be too embarrassed to do so, but don’t bet on it.— Ian Millhiser (@imillhiser) July 9, 2019 x Arguments just...

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  • July 9, 2019
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The Only Good Medical Debt is Dead Medical Debt.

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We're going to kill some medical debt! Annapolis, Maryland did it. (“Annapolis Church Wipes Out $2M In Medical Debt For Strangers”) Minneapolis did it. (“Charity buys and erases crushing past-due medical debt.”) People in Tennessee (“Medical debt being paid off for hundreds of Tennesseans.”) and Michigan (“Michigan Nurses Forgive $1 Million in...

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  • April 30, 2019
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We're Gonna Eliminate Millions in Medical Debt for People in the Bay Area!

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It sounds crazy, but it really works. With the right knowledge, licensing and doggedness, a group can buy up medical debt for pennies of the dollar and then, literally, RIP. IT. UP. Strike Debt, an offshoot of Occupy Wall Street, pioneered this idea back in 2012-2013, when they bought up...

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  • March 26, 2019
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On Tuesday, Urban Shield Might Die.

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Urban Shield is a militarized policing, weapons expo and SWAT training and competition held annually in the Bay Area since 2007. It is the brainchild of Alameda County's Sheriff Greg Ahern, funded through Homeland Security’s Urban Areas Security Initiative (UASI). Not surprisingly, it has been the target of activists for about...

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  • February 23, 2019
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The House Holds a Hearing. On Health Care, Not Hate or Hillary.

Someday, the US will have a rational health care system.  What will trigger such an event is as yet undetermined, but truth and outrage in the halls of the House of Representatives is one step. Today, the House Oversight and Reform Committee (Chair Elijah Cummings) is holding a hearing on drug...

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  • January 29, 2019
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The ACLU Claims the Transgender Ban Stay Is Still in Effect.

The ACLU says the nationwide injunction against the Transgender Ban imposed in their lawsuit, Stone v Trump, was not overturned today. x There are multiple lawsuits challenging the president's trans military ban. Three of them won injunctions, a court order blocking the ban, in lower courts. SCOTUS did lift the...

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  • January 22, 2019
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Zounds. It Now Seems Jazmine Barnes, 7 Year Old Murder Victim, Was Killed 'By Mistake.'

Breaking, from News4SA.Com According to KTRK in Houston, an investigation tip led authorities to 20-year-old Eric Black Jr. who has been charged with capital murder in the deadly shooting and a second suspect has been taken into custody.   An investigation revealed evidence that corroborated the tip, authorities say, and...

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  • January 6, 2019
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Court Overturns Ban on Trump's Transgender Ban.

We know that the Trump and the GOP have and are continuing to fill judicial vacancies with conservative cuckoos.  This decision is thus just a likely harbringer of many more to come.  Trump may have lost the House, but he continues to grow his ability to institute his hateful policies....

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  • January 4, 2019
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Cold-Blooded Murder – Of a 7 Year Old.

A drive-by murder.  Now a manhunt. The father of a 7-year-old girl killed in a drive-by shooting pleaded with the public to help authorities in the manhunt for a gunman who opened fire on a mother and children in a car near a Houston-area Walmart. “I just want anybody, whoever,...

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  • January 2, 2019
2018 / Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez / Change / Climate / Climate Change / DC / Future / GreenNewDeal / House / Justice / Leaders / Leadership / Nancy / NancyPelosi / p / REAL / Representatives / Science / Speaker / Twitter / Video / Washington

Green New Deal Action in San Francisco Today. Ongoing.

x Hundreds of young people are gathering at @NancyPelosi’s district office demanding she support a #GreenNewDeal. RT if you want Rep Pelosi to take leadership on climate change! #NoExcuses pic.twitter.com/buKD2wtn2L— Sunrise Movement 🌅 (@sunrisemvmt) December 11, 2018 The time for transformative climate action is NOW. Entire towns are burning to...

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  • December 11, 2018
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Trump Appeals Transgender Ban Ban to Supreme Court.

Another day, another attempt by Trump to enforce bigotry, hatred and stupidity upon the country. x BREAKING: The Trump Administration Just Asked The Supreme Court To Let It Enforce Its Transgender Military Ban https://t.co/wKdL2qUC9b #SCOTUS pic.twitter.com/lDGrscs02w— Chris Geidner (@chrisgeidner) November 23, 2018 x So, what is this? https://t.co/wKdL2qUC9b pic.twitter.com/Ij6SEn4Ox5 —...

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  • November 23, 2018
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No Mother should have to Watch her Son Tortured to Death:Especially by Those who “Protect and Serve”

Two days ago, I watched the police videos of my brother’s October 3 murder. They were shocking, not just because I sat next to my mother as we watched my little brother getting tortured to death in broad daylight while he begged “Someone, please help me!” and cried out “What...

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  • November 19, 2018
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Florida Secretary of State Orders Manual Recount in US Senate Race.

x BREAKING: Florida Secretary of State orders manual recount in US Senate race.— Marc E. Elias (@marceelias) November 15, 2018 x This is a good thing and it is according to law. No one can know how this changes the results if it does at all. But it is in...

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  • November 15, 2018
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Final Victory in Court! There Will Be No Appeal of 'USPS v City of Berkeley.'

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It may not have ended with a thrilling three-pointer by Stephen Curry with 0:00:01 left… x x YouTube Video In fact the day it ended no one actually noticed. But on July 13th, 2018, at 11:59:59 PM, 60 days after Judge Alsup's decision in USPS v City of Berkeley that...

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  • July 19, 2018
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A Bit of Good News: A CA Sheriff Terminates Contract with ICE to Hold Detainees.

Contra Costa County, across the Bay and northeast from San Francisco, will not longer be keeping ICE detainees in its jail facilities.  In particular, the West County jail, in Richmond, CA has been a holding facility for ICE detainees and for the past several weeks has been the scene of numerous protests...

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  • July 10, 2018
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's “I Can't Do It Alone” Victory Speech

x The only thing more uplifting than @Ocasio2018's victory was her victory speech pic.twitter.com/47Qd2pKi3N— NowThis (@nowthisnews) June 28, 2018 “The message we sent tonight is that it’s not okay to put donors before your community… improved and expanded Medicare for All healthcare for every person in America is what we deserve...

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  • June 28, 2018
2018 / Border / Children / Hack / Hacking / ICE / Immigration / Inspiration / junk / Kids / NBC / new york / News / Oakland / p / Separation / Twitter

Hacking ICE the Old Fashioned Way.

No need for sophisticated computer skills.  Just a lot of chutzpah, climbing equipment and paint. x Activist group Indecline has changed a billboard in Emeryville that used to read “we make junk disappear”. pic.twitter.com/ZQnOMf7149— Amy Hollyfield (@amyhollyfield) June 21, 2018 This billboard is visible from I80 in Emeryville, CA, a...

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  • June 21, 2018
2018 / Albany / Arrest / Becoming / Broken / Business / cedar / Choice / code / Community / Constitution / Disabilities / Doctors / Electric / Failure / Fear / Future / gain / give / Help / Homeless / Housing / IDEA / jail / Law / Legs / letter / Mayor / Medical / members / Memorial / Mental / Morality / Muslims / Obstruction / person / Police / problem / Public / Refugees / RV / SAD / SAT / Scott / Stuff / Terror / Threat / Threats / Undocumented / Virginia

I Asked “Where Are People Supposed to Go?” They Answered, “We Don't Know.”

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Berkeley, where I live, is home to almost 1000 homeless residents.  People surviving in RV’s, encampments, shelters or in doorways and bushes.  Yesterday, a prominent attorney sent this letter to the City Council. AN OPEN LETTER TO THE MAYOR AND CITY COUNCIL OF BERKELEY, CA   From: Osha Neumann Supervising...

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  • June 4, 2018
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Oakland Passes Toughest Surveillance Regulation Law in the Country.

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On Tuesday, May 15th, the Oakland City Council passed into law what has deservedly been called the “strongest surveillance oversight law in the country.” Some of its key requirements:    Public hearings on every new gadget and computer program that can be used for surveillance or monitoring.    Review by...

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  • May 18, 2018
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No, You Can't Sell Our Post Office and Put Up a Parking Lot! We Win!

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It's true! A Federal Court just ruled it so! Yesterday, May 14th, 2018, Federal District Judge William Alsup issued a decision saying that Berkeley, California's Zoning Ordinance, restricting the area around its Civic Center from being used for commercial purposes, is constitutional as it applies to whomever might want to...

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  • May 15, 2018
2018 / Blessed / caught / Court / Danger / Daughters / Decision / Deportation / Detainees / Detention / e / Federal / Hearing / Hearings / ICE / IDEA / Immigrants / Immigration / Judge / Judges / Legal / March / Money / Oakland / policies / Precedent / Trump / Twitter / Undocumented / Wife

The moment Ricardo Mercado sees his daughters, who had no idea he'd been released from ICE custody.

x The moment Ricardo Mercado of Oakland sees his daughters, who had no idea he had been released on $5,000 bond from ICE custody after 9 months. He is still fighting to stay in the U.S. https://t.co/B9VxlezA88 pic.twitter.com/ieno9EZypa— Lisa Fernandez (@ljfernandez) May 4, 2018 If that doesn’t bring you to...

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  • May 4, 2018
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Fox Claims Trump to Strike Syria. Trump to Address Nation Momentarily. Update: Trump Orders Strikes.

x #BREAKING It Begins. The United States will Strike Syria pic.twitter.com/t6fsRrW0zQ— The Columbia Bugle 🇺🇸 (@ColumbiaBugle) April 14, 2018 x Pentagon: decision has been reached to strike Syria. President Trump to address the nation shortly. — ☆ Ƙαѕѕαη∂яα 🌷🍃🍓 (@KassandraTroy) April 14, 2018 x Imagine telling someone a decade ago...

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  • April 14, 2018
2016 / 2018 / Accountability / ACLU / Audio / Awareness / Becoming / California / Cameras / Campaign / Civil Rights / Community / Data / Hearing / History / IDEA / Information / Law / Legislation / March / Media / members / Oakland / Oversight / Police / Public / reading / Safety / Santa / spread / State / Stop / Surveillance / Technology / Transparency / Union / Video / Vote

Hella Privacy Happening in the Bay Area (And 34 Years Late Orwell May Have Something to Smile About)

The Berkeley City Council made history Tuesday, March 27th, 2018 by becoming the first municipality in California, and likely the United States, to enact into law its 'Surveillance Technology Use and Community Safety' Ordinance.  This ordinance regulates the procurement and use of surveillance technology (both hardware and software) by any City agency,...

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  • April 5, 2018
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There's Hella Privacy in the Bay Area (And 34 Years Late, George May Have Something to Smile About)

The Berkeley City Council made history Tuesday, March 27th, 2018 by becoming the first municipality in California, and likely the United States, to enact into law its 'Surveillance Technology Use and Community Safety' Ordinance.  This ordinance regulates the procurement and use of surveillance technology (both hardware and software) by any...

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  • April 1, 2018
2018 / Christian / CNN / Connecticut / Dad / DC / Duck / General / London / March / MarchForOurLives / Massacre / NBC / NBCNews / News / NYC / Oakland / p / Rally / safe / Sandy Hook / School / Twitter / Veteran / Victims / Vote / War / Washington / World

Signs of the Day

Choose your sign. Or choose them all.  Signs from around the nation seen at the Marches 4 Our Lives. x The sign of signs. A 16 yr old from Connecticut is the creator. She wants to be safe at school. #MarchForOurLivesNY #neveragain pic.twitter.com/3dIrMz5wcb— Barbara Malmet (@B52Malmet) March 24, 2018 x...

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  • March 24, 2018
2016 / 2018 / ABC / Administration / carter / Change / Court / Courts / Defense / DOJ / Donald / Donald Trump / Gender / History / March / Mattis / Medical / members / Memo / Military / p / Pentagon / person / policies / Politico / President / qualified / RAND / Recommended / Seattle / Service / Sex / State / Surgery / Transgender / Transition / Troops / Trump / Twitter

Trump Issues New Ban on Transgender Individuals Serving in Military

“Transgender person who require or have undergone gender transition are disqualified from military service.” x Trump revokes August 2017 memo, issues new ban on transgender individuals serving in military. pic.twitter.com/AuWtZdEBn0— Matthew Keys (@MatthewKeysLive) March 24, 2018 Will this, and how soon will this, be struck down by the courts?  ...

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  • March 24, 2018
2018 / America / Brown / California / Darwin / Federal / General / Governor / ICE / Immigration / Justice / March / Mayor / News / Oakland / Response / SAD / sessions / State / Twitter / Undocumented / Washington

Jeff Sessions Sues California Over ICE.

Late-night breaking news: The Justice Department is suing California and two top state officials, accusing them of interfering with federal immigration efforts by passing and enforcing state laws that hinder U.S. operations against undocumented people. Governor Jerry Brown’s response: “At a time of unprecedented political turmoil, Jeff Sessions has come...

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  • March 7, 2018
2018 / ACLU / Administration / Community / Deportation / Families / ICE / Immigration / Information / March / Mayor / members / Oakland / Occupy / p / Press / Press Release / Protesters / Protests / Racism / Resistance / Response / SanFrancisco / Stop / Trump / Twitter / Video / Youth

ICE Blockade!

x Protesters form a giant human chain outside ICE office in San Francisco, denounce immigration raids.  Video: https://t.co/t0Blc0KCQ3 pic.twitter.com/zBte4DFxsR— Sara Bueno (@TVwebproducer) February 28, 2018 Hundreds of people have gathered outside of ICE in San Francisco (630 Sansome St), beginning at noon today, Wednesday, February 28th, in immediate response to...

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  • February 28, 2018
2018 / America / appointments / Architecture / California / Camps / Citizens / Community / Conversation / Corruption / Court / Criminals / Darwin / Distance / Doctors / Economic / Equality / Federal / Food / Government / Guardian / Hate / Hatred / Help / Helping / History / Homeless / Homelessness / Housing / Infrastructure / International / Judge / Law / Listening / members / Mexico / Necessities / Oakland / Occupation / person / Poverty / Power / Questions / Respect / Responsibility / Shelter / Solar / Solutions / Trial / Trouble / UN / Wealth / Wealthy / World

UN Special Rapporteur on Adequate Housing Visits Bay Area Homeless: 'It's Just So… Cruel.'

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This last weekend, the UN Special Rapporteur on Adequate Housing, Leilani Farha, visited the shanty towns, makeshift shelters, tents and sleeping bags of the otherwise homeless in third world countries experiencing severe economic instability San Francisco, Oakland and Berkeley, CA. Within shouting distance of the offices of some of the...

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  • January 23, 2018
2018 / Anger / Arrest / California / Campaign / Cities / Cooperation / Deportation / Emergency / Evidence / Federal / foreign / Government / Happy / House / ICE / Immigrants / Immigration / Investigation / Investigations / Justice / Leaders / Local / Lying / Message / Nielsen / Oakland / person / plans / Police / Public / Resolution / Response / safe / Safety / Santa / Security / State / Testimony / Trafficking / Trouble / Twitter / Undocumented / Vote

Oakland Deports ICE.

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On the day Homeland Security announced planning for a major immigration raid in the Bay Area in response to sanctuary city laws… U.S. immigration officials have begun preparing for a major sweep in San Francisco and other Northern California cities in which federal officers would look to arrest more than...

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  • January 17, 2018
2016 / 2018 / Administration / Challenge / Court / DACA / Deportation / ERA / Federal / Immigrants / Information / Judge / Legal / Obama / p / Renewal / Trump / USCIS

Just In: #DACA recipients can start applying for renewals.

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x BREAKING: #DACA recipients can start applying for renewals. Follow @NILC_org for guidance soon! #ProtectDreamers  https://t.co/eRiDWsF1tw — Marielena Hincapié (@MarielenaNILC) January 14, 2018 Jan. 13, 2018, Update:  Due to a federal court order, USCIS has resumed accepting requests to renew a grant of deferred action under DACA.  Until further notice,...

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  • January 14, 2018
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Elizabeth Warren Reads the Republican Tax Bill… Or Tries To.

“They want us to vote in an hour. An hour! I spent more than an hour making a decision about the refrigerator we recently bought.” x No, I haven’t had time to read the 500-page #GOPTaxScam bill that we’re voting on tonight. I couldn’t read it if I tried –...

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  • December 2, 2017
2016 / 2018 / Administration / Afghanistan / AP / bars / Budget / California / Change / Columbia / Court / DC / Decision / Defense / Discrimination / Donald / Donald Trump / Enforcement / Facts / Families / Fear / Federal / foreign / GavinNewsom / Gender / Government / Governor / heh / Inequality / Intelligence / Iraq / Judge / Mattis / members / Military / negative / Newsom / October / Opinion / p / policies / President / Presidential / Press / Respect / Response / Security / Service / Surveillance / Trans / Transgender / Trump / Twitter / Updates / Washington

BREAKING: Trump's Transgender Military Ban Blocked by Court. Updates.

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…the President’s directives cannot survive such scrutiny because they are not genuinely based on legitimate concerns regarding military effectiveness or budget constraints, but are instead driven by a desire to express disapproval of transgender people generally… x BREAKING: US court bars Trump from changing military policy on service by transgender people....

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  • October 30, 2017
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Day 4. Fire and Ash, Bits of Progress and More Destruction From the Northern California Fires.

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After nearly four days of battling 22 wildfires raging across California, a Cal Fire deputy chief gave the first glimmer of positive news to those living in wine country on Thursday morning… “The fires grew a little last night, but nothing as dramatic as the last couple days,” Deputy Chief...

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  • October 12, 2017
Becoming / Brown / California / China / Cities / Community / Counties / Death / Donations / eric / Facebook / Fire / Fires / Flag / Governor / Health / Help / History / Jewish / Nevada / News / Oakland / October / p / Santa / Service / State / Twitter / unhealthy / Warning / Weather / Wildfires

With 3,500 structures burned, the California fires are now the most Destructive in State History

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x Wow. With 3,500 structures burned, the California fires are now officially the most destructive in state history.https://t.co/nlV24GUUDL pic.twitter.com/3KCHKhhkUU — Eric Holthaus (@EricHolthaus) October 11, 2017 And it appears that it will get worse, potentially much worse: The National Weather Service issued a red flag warning for the North and...

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  • October 11, 2017
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Day 3: Scenes from the Devastation in NorCal.

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While many are left with nothing, others who still have their homes and possessions face the prospect of a continuing inferno: x Unable to contain fires across the North Bay, winds are expected to pick up again later today.Existing fires could grow, new fires spread. — Darwin BondGraham (@DarwinBondGraha) October...

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  • October 11, 2017
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Scenes from the Northern California Infernos and Subsequent Destruction.

Here in Berkeley its just that the air is a bit smoky.  Thirty to fifty miles north of here are scenes of complete devastation with thousands of homes destroyed.  And it’s by no means over. State authorities are deploying more firefighters and law enforcement officials to areas devastated by wildfires raging in...

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  • October 10, 2017
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I Vote. Therefore I Must Be Beaten, Tear-Gassed and Shot At. Spanish Edition.

If nothing else, Spain now has a publicity nightmare on its hands.  But its violent attempts to suppress an vote — illegal as they claim or not — seem like they can only serve to make the resolve of Catalans (Catalonians?) for independence all that much firmer.  If the majority of Catalans were...

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  • October 1, 2017
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'There's a medical center down here and everyone that was in the Intensive Care Unit died. Everyone'

x For context, my dad is helping with rebuilding right now, and has friends in the govt, elected and appointed, on the island. 2/— Nelson M. Rosario (@NelsonMRosario) September 30, 2017 x “There's a medical center down here, and everyone that was in the Intensive Care Unit, died. Everyone. That's...

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  • September 30, 2017
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Trump requiring Puerto Rico evacuees to pay transportation costs.

UPDATE: The Hill seems to have been premature in its reporting, and/or didn’t fact check. While it is true that people evacuated from foreign soil by the US State Department (and possibly other agencies) have to pay and have their passports restricted, this doesn’t seem to apply to Puerto Rico...

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  • September 28, 2017
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