Kalie Caetano

Gavin Newsom hesitated on AI. Labor says he must regulate it if he wants the presidency The governor will need workers and unions in 2028. They are trying to push him to the left on AI — even as business interest push the other way.

Labor, as per usual, is right.

Across the US, people are dismantling and destroying Flock surveillance cameras Anger over ICE connections and privacy violations is fueling the sabotage. PLUS: 10,000 drivers call on Uber to repay stolen wages, a man is arrested at a public hearing about a data center and more.

Across the US, people fed up with Flock cameras surveilling their communities, and with local governments that are often unwilling to listen to concerns over privacy violations and ICE data sharing practices, are taking matters into their own hands—and tearing them down.

During WWII, the US incarcerated tens of thousands of people of Japanese descent, including US citizens, without due process. Satsuki Ina, author of 𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝙋𝙤𝙚𝙩 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙎𝙞𝙡𝙠 𝙂𝙞𝙧𝙡, joined Rachel Maddow to unpack this traumatic history. Catch the conversation on The Rachel Maddow Show on December 29.

Local food banks could sure use a lot of help right now as Trump and the GOP aim to withhold food from the 42 million people who rely on federal food assistance programs. We keep us safe when we support institutions like the Alameda County Food Bank: donate.accfb.org/give-now/Don...

This will be unequivocally the greatest thing since sliced bread. @natogreen.bsky.social is the most eminently quotable labor organizer in the game, and I cannot wait to read this.

The right to speak our minds and to disagree with each other - to disturb, even - is at the very heart of what it means to be a free people. It is not to be denied. Not by violence, not by the abuse of governmental power, nor by acts of corporate cowardice. As a Guild, we stand united in opposition to anyone who uses their power and influence to silence the voices of writers, or anyone who speaks in dissent. If free speech applied only to ideas we like, we needn't have bothered to write it into the Constitution. What we have signed on to - painful as it may be at times - is the freeing agreement to disagree. Shame on those in government who forget this founding truth. As for our employers, our words have made you rich. Silencing us impoverishes the whole world. The WA stands with Jimmy Kimmel and his writers.

WGA Statement on ABC’s Decision to Pull Jimmy Kimmel Live!

The Poet and the Silk Girl by Satsuki Ina The Poet and the Silk Girl is a compelling and prismatic love story of one family's defiance in the face of injustice—and how their story echoes across generations.

Satsuki Ina was born in a US concentration camp and has dedicated her life to healing trauma and fighting for the closure of current day immigrant detention centers. Her family story, which she shares in her memoir, is urgent and moving; and she is an inspiration.

Trump’s Ice raids recall a painful past for these Americans: ‘I see myself in those children’ Survivors of previous eras of xenophobia say the harms done have lasted generations – and what’s happening now threatens to do the same

Family separation, mass incarceration, and challenges to birthright citizenship have precedent in the US—but so too do the resistance movements and resilience of the communities who have survived tyrannical overreach before.

Malcolm Margolin, Founder and Publisher of Heyday, Dies at 84 In his 41 years at the helm of the Berkeley, Calif.–based Heyday, Margolin made a name for the press as a publisher of regional titles, including nature guides and books on social justice, history, an...

Witnessing the outpouring of love and remembrance for Heyday founder Malcolm Margolin has been a humble reminder of what I’m privileged to be a part of. He leaves a significant legacy in his wake. May he rest easy.

Monthly reminder: Many people have a book in them, but it takes a special kind of freak to leave the Land of Laziness, cross the Plains of Procrastination and Insecurity Mountain, find the Blade of No One Made You Do This, and use it to cut your chest open and yank that book out.

When your Aquarius ♒️ dad sets the itinerary for your outing with the aunties.

Public lands were on the GOP chopping block in the recent legislative assault on all things good. They received temporary reprieve, but preserving this shared endowment will require ongoing care and vigilance. Monday on @kqedforum.bsky.social Josh Jackson shares what makes BLM land so important.

Today is a fabulous day to become a recurring donor for public media.

California Rewritten Knopf Editor John Freeman proposes a contemporary California literary canon for the 21st century.

Knopf Editor John Freeman proposes the contours of a contemporary California canon, encompassing 49 West Coast writers and an iconic literary institution in his new book charting the Golden State's 21st-Century literary landscape—out from Heyday this fall.

Sea Change Rosanna Xia’s California Against the Sea, the California Book Club’s July selection, asks us to reimagine our approach to ocean rise and shift to more-sustainable paths.

"I have not read a book with prose about the shoreline this beautiful in years,” writes Freeman, “California Against the Sea is the first book on the climate crisis in some time that makes you feel that this change isn’t just necessary, it is possible."

She’ll be joined by editor @msatris.bsky.social, the very heart and soul of @heydaybooks.bsky.social, for a conversation hosted by California Book Club host John Freeman, another profoundly wonderful individual with his own Heyday book on the horizon.

‘California Against the Sea’ Rosanna Xia’s reported nonfiction book is the California Book Club’s July 2025 selection.

One of the most profoundly wonderful people I’ve ever worked with, @rosannaxia.bsky.social, is dishing wisdom on how California is meeting the challenge of sea level rise with the inordinately cool cats of @altajournal.bsky.social tomorrow at 5 pm PST (virtual) and you can RSVP here: