Decades before today’s tensions between black communities and the police, J. Edgar Hoover’s ghostreaders targeted literary legends as dangerous dissidents. — Read on http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2015/04/fbi-black-writers-117512/
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Who is paint bombing Oakland’s Flock cameras?
Some of OPD’s license plate readers have been vandalized with paint. The vandalism coincides with a nationwide pushback against surveillance. — Read on oaklandside.org/2026/04/24/who-is-paint-bombing-oaklands-flock-cameras/
Recruitment flyers for controversial Jewish group spotted in Queens — Queens Daily Eagle
Flyers calling for recruits to join a far-right Jewish group once dubbed a terrorist organization by the FBI were recently spotted in Queens, plastered to a parking meter across the street from the office of the borough’s top cop. — Read on queenseagle.com/all/2026/4/26/recruitment-flyers-for-controversial-jewish-group-spotted-in-queens
Central Valley big-game hunter trampled to death by elephants
Ernie Dosio, a prominent wine grower in the Lodi area and a well-known member of the big-game hunting community, was killed in Africa last week. — Read on http://www.sfchronicle.com/california/article/lodi-big-game-hunter-killed-22224929.php
Guilt by Solidarity – LPE Project
The conviction of Anti-ICE protestors on terrorism charges represents a dangerous new front in the Trump administration’s war against the left. — Read on lpeproject.org/blog/guilty-by-solidarity/
War is the continuation of politics by other means and politics is concentrated economics (Materials for a poem) • Protean Magazine
War is the continuation of politics by other means and politics is concentrated economics (Materials for a poem) • Protean Magazine — Read on proteanmag.com/2026/04/10/war-is-the-continuation-of-politics-by-other-means-and-politics-is-concentrated-economics-materials-for-a-poem/
Existence and Belonging: Six Reflections on Palestine – Steve Salaita
Yes, joy. You felt it, too. It does no good to deny it. You don’t have to say so. I say it for you. It might not have been a sustained joy once you had time to reflect on things. Or maybe it was. You may have denied it in the moment or disavowed itContinue reading “Existence and Belonging: Six Reflections on Palestine – Steve Salaita”
Investors press Amazon, Microsoft and Google on water, power use in US data centers | Reuters
Amazon, Microsoft and Alphabet’s Google have each recently abandoned construction of multibillion-dollar data centers over community opposition and now the companies are coming under shareholder pressure over the environmental impact of their projects. — Read on http://www.reuters.com/sustainability/boards-policy-regulation/investors-press-amazon-microsoft-google-water-power-use-us-data-centers-2026-04-06/
The noise about sideshows
The screeching moral panic over the sideshow hides what it really is: an event, shaped by cops and capital flight, where Oakland youth fights for a place to play. — Read on http://www.oaklandreviewofbooks.org/sideshow-history-oakland/
AI got the blame for the Iran school bombing. The truth is far more worrying | Iran | The Guardian
LLMs-gone-rogue dominated coverage, but had nothing to do with the targeting. Instead, it was choices made by human beings, over many years, that gave us this atrocity — Read on http://www.theguardian.com/news/2026/mar/26/ai-got-the-blame-for-the-iran-school-bombing-the-truth-is-far-more-worrying
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