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The bird site made me deactivate two-factor authentication or pay $8/month. So I turned it off. And now someone has hijacked my account. Shoulda deleted the thing when I had the chance. 😡 😡 😡

Amazing opening night of #Fannie Lou Hamer #TheatreWorksSiliconValley play tonight. Didn’t realize our rescheduled date night meant opening night, but it was #lit! I hope folks go to this show.

Me in front of the backdrop for the Theatre Works Silicon Valley play Fannie

The amazing and brilliant @susanstryker gave a talk at #Stanford today on her new project and I can't get the skin-prison metaphor out of my head. Sad I had to run off to teach and didn't have time to tell her how much her work on #transgender rights has informed my own.

Had a beautiful afternoon in Pacific Grove on the Julia’s Vegetarian Restaurant mushroom tour. Nothing edible, tho 🤣

Rectangular basket with a colorful array of mushrooms

This section of the #SOTU about police violence and #TyreNichols is really good. “Something good must come from this.”

Withholding applause or even shaking your head in disagreement is cool. Booing and heckling the President during the #SOTU!?! #ClownCarCongress

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#SOTU
Lapel pins can tell you a lot about a person.

Congressional Black Caucus and others wearing 1870 pins in remembrance of the first free black man killed by police violence and the need to reform the police and hold them accountable for their actions.

Republicans wearing AR15 pins to remind them who pays them not to pass #GunSafety laws.

Is #SenatorBernie the only one with a mask? #SOTU23

Getting a book in the mail with your name on the cover never gets old. #GoverningCalifornia #PoliticalScience

Cover of the 8th edition of the Governing California textbook

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Happy Sunday morning to me 😬 😬 😬

Pizza enjoys lazy Saturdays #DogsOfMastodon

Small brown dog lying on a wood floor surrounded by houseplants

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Wouldn't it be perfect if FPOTUS, Bannon, Flynn and Giuliani were all involved in the Brazilian insurrection so we extradite them and they all end up in a Brazilian prison?

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📢📣 We've got a new paper out from @csmap_nyu out today in
@NatureComms! 📢

Russia's foreign influence campaign on Twitter in 2016 caused widespread concern. But who was exposed? How effective was it? 🧵👇

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https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-022-35576-9

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Hundreds stood in front of #Cambridge city hall in near-freezing temperatures today demanding justice for #SayedFaisal , a young Bangladeshi man recently murdered by Cambridge #police while he was experiencing a #mentalhealth crisis.

The energy was palpable and reminiscent of the 2020 uprisings.

#Boston #protest #ACAB #AbolishThePolice #PoliceBrutality

Crowd gathered in front of Cambridge City Hall with signs demanding justice for Sayed Faisal

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Quoth the raven: "Screw this."

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Is there anything involving Santos that wasn't a lie? Now it turns out that his campaign finance strategy was based on lying to donors and pretending to be from the Kevin McCarthy campaign.

https://www.cnbc.com/2023/01/09/george-santos-raised-money-from-wealthy-gop-donors-while-lying-about-his-resume.html

A member of George Santos’ political team had a plan to raise money for the Republican congressman’s campaign: Impersonate the chief of staff of now House Speaker Kevin McCarthy.

Wealthy donors received calls and emails from a man who said he was Dan Meyer, McCarthy’s chief of staff, during the 2020 and 2022 election cycles, according to people familiar with the matter. His name was actually Sam Miele, and he worked for Santos raising money for his campaign, according to one GOP donor who contributed to Santos’ campaign. This financier and some others in this story declined to be named in order to speak freely about private discussions.

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Thank you to the Brazilian journalists risking their personal safety to bring crucial information to the public and immediately reframe the democratic guardrails around the insurrection.

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