janinsanfran
@janinsanfran.bsky.social
Will work for justice and compassion. Read books. Work campaigns with labor. Episcopalian. Ordered around by cats. Blogs at https://happening-here.blogspot.com
Something vital to muse on. happening-here.blogspot.com/2026/10/ai-l...
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October 4, 2026 at 5:37 PM
Something vital to muse on. happening-here.blogspot.com/2026/10/ai-l...
I read 'em all. It's San Francisco, so there are many. What do you think? happening-here.blogspot.com/2026/10/ther...
There's much to vote on: local San Francisco ballot measures
Yesterday I worked my way through the 13 California state propositions voters are up against. Whew! Here I'll survey the 10 local measures...
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October 3, 2026 at 7:27 PM
I read 'em all. It's San Francisco, so there are many. What do you think? happening-here.blogspot.com/2026/10/ther...
I read'em all. You probably should too, but here's where I came down. happening-here.blogspot.com/2026/10/thir...
Thirteen (!) California state ballot propostions for your perusal
It's that time again. California voters will receive our mail-in ballots this coming week. A responsible citizen therefore has to sort out a...
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October 2, 2026 at 8:44 PM
I read'em all. You probably should too, but here's where I came down. happening-here.blogspot.com/2026/10/thir...
It's a mess, but perhaps not a hopeless one. happening-here.blogspot.com/2026/10/can-...
Can this legal system survive Trump?
Another day, another legal kerfuffle raised up by the Trump regime. Okay, I admit I probably read too many substacks written by lawyers. Nat...
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October 2, 2026 at 3:28 AM
It's a mess, but perhaps not a hopeless one. happening-here.blogspot.com/2026/10/can-...
Something to remember and marvel at as we come into the home stretch. happening-here.blogspot.com/2026/09/prac...
Practicing citizenship
As we move into the election season, literally millions of Americans will be working to get other millions of Americans to exercise their ri...
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October 1, 2026 at 2:28 AM
Something to remember and marvel at as we come into the home stretch. happening-here.blogspot.com/2026/09/prac...
At least being home-bound for the moment, I can watch football. happening-here.blogspot.com/2026/09/this...
This is just too good ...
In Chicago on Monday, the hometown Bears took on the Philadelphia Eagles. As is customary at football games (unhappily in my view, but that'...
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September 30, 2026 at 2:47 AM
At least being home-bound for the moment, I can watch football. happening-here.blogspot.com/2026/09/this...
I care about Canada. happening-here.blogspot.com/2026/09/mour...
Mourning a long time friendship ...
Like many Americans living (or in my case having formerly lived) near the border with our northern neighbor, Canada is near and dear to me. ...
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September 28, 2026 at 3:18 AM
I care about Canada. happening-here.blogspot.com/2026/09/mour...
A true pleasure. I recommend. happening-here.blogspot.com/2026/09/we-l...
We live in a strange country
It's been hard to get enthused about the United States' 250th anniversary celebration. On the one hand, Donald Trump defiled the big day wit...
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September 26, 2026 at 11:36 PM
A true pleasure. I recommend. happening-here.blogspot.com/2026/09/we-l...
Once upon a time, a columnist used to call these things a Washington merry-go-round. Still is. happening-here.blogspot.com/2026/09/chin...
China rises. We suffer Trump.
So now we are in a moment when Donald Trump is making a big show of deference to China's President Xi. Xi is Trump's kind of guy, a person...
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September 25, 2026 at 6:21 PM
Once upon a time, a columnist used to call these things a Washington merry-go-round. Still is. happening-here.blogspot.com/2026/09/chin...
Let's think about virtue -- and vice -- in Trump time ... happening-here.blogspot.com/2026/09/timo...
Timothy Snyder on virtue ....
I found this interesting and challenging. The eminent historian of Ukraine and eastern Europe is sitting in bunker near the frontline agains...
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September 24, 2026 at 5:51 PM
Let's think about virtue -- and vice -- in Trump time ... happening-here.blogspot.com/2026/09/timo...
A detour into the things that make this a better country... happening-here.blogspot.com/2026/09/of-p...
Of parks and builders
Once upon a time, Americans with foresight empowered an imaginative creator, Frederick Law Olmsted, to build urban parks in many of our burg...
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September 23, 2026 at 4:24 PM
A detour into the things that make this a better country... happening-here.blogspot.com/2026/09/of-p...
I bet many guys hate this. I sure like it. Living here in the belly of tech bro beast. happening-here.blogspot.com/2026/09/wome...
Women of tech: disillusioned, disoriented, and disenchanted
Well I sure didn't see this one coming. WIRED magazine -- the indispensable technology and science publication -- has devoted an issue to w...
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September 22, 2026 at 3:18 AM
I bet many guys hate this. I sure like it. Living here in the belly of tech bro beast. happening-here.blogspot.com/2026/09/wome...
We are going to be here forever. happening-here.blogspot.com/2026/09/on-m...
On moving on from what Trump has broken ...
by way of Jess Piper Maybe I'm tempting fate by even thinking about this -- and most likely the state of the nation will get even worse befo...
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September 20, 2026 at 6:23 PM
We are going to be here forever. happening-here.blogspot.com/2026/09/on-m...
Home again! happening-here.blogspot.com/2026/09/frid...
Friday cat blogging
Here I sit, convalescing from my violent encounter with an asphalt road , and Mio keeps up sentry duty. This human better not try disappeari...
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September 18, 2026 at 8:33 PM
Home again! happening-here.blogspot.com/2026/09/frid...
This is what you get from dopey oligarchs. Maybe we don't need 'em. happening-here.blogspot.com/2026/09/elon...
Elon Musk has a problem
One of Musk's many sons (he's a determined, heedless procreator) turned out to be not a boy but a transgirl -- and he can't seem to face the...
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September 17, 2026 at 5:25 PM
This is what you get from dopey oligarchs. Maybe we don't need 'em. happening-here.blogspot.com/2026/09/elon...
Sometimes you just gotta laugh. happening-here.blogspot.com/2026/09/nigh...
Nightmare or daydream for this moment?
Somehow I don't think this is how humanity's encounter with the smart machines we are building will turn out, but Politico's Matt Wuerker o...
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September 17, 2026 at 3:36 AM
Sometimes you just gotta laugh. happening-here.blogspot.com/2026/09/nigh...
We've forgotten what the first blush of gay freedom feels like. Mongolians have not. happening-here.blogspot.com/2026/09/lgbt...
LGBT+ Pride, Mongolian style
Our newly met friends in Ulaanbaatar sent along this short video from their recent Pride festival. There's a freshness and pure joy to the...
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September 16, 2026 at 3:03 AM
We've forgotten what the first blush of gay freedom feels like. Mongolians have not. happening-here.blogspot.com/2026/09/lgbt...
What are we willing to risk? happening-here.blogspot.com/2026/09/an-i...
An insight into the pungent politics of endangering humanity
We live involuntarily in the same world with the ostentatiously vocal tech bros; it's not hard to think they often come off as more like sha...
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September 15, 2026 at 3:44 AM
What are we willing to risk? happening-here.blogspot.com/2026/09/an-i...
Reposted by janinsanfran
Exactly.
Any time any anchor ever asks a Democrat about Hasan Piker, the correct response is “Piker isn’t running for anything. Republicans have a literal candidate supported by Mike Johnson who refers to kids as cum trophies. You’re asking the wrong questions.”
HOLY SHIT - Tapper plays Johnson footage of GOP candidate Brandon Herrera describing moms as "cum trophies," mentions he called Nazi machine guns "the original ghetto blasters," & asks Johnson how he can support him. Mike says "he has run a very effective campaign ... that was his persona online"
September 13, 2026 at 11:06 PM
Exactly.
In which I weigh in on the topic of the moment: One more win for English speakers: happening-here.blogspot.com/2026/09/one-...
One more win for English speakers?
I have no qualifications whatsoever for chiming in on the current AI freak out . The tech boys seem on the verge of setting something loose ...
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September 13, 2026 at 8:53 PM
In which I weigh in on the topic of the moment: One more win for English speakers: happening-here.blogspot.com/2026/09/one-...
Actually, we know what to do. happening-here.blogspot.com/2026/09/who-...
Who has got "the creativity, forcefulness and resilience to do something about it"?
Lots of people whose opinions I value find Joshua Marshall of Talking Points Memo a pompous ass. Sometimes I agree. But, because I also seem...
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September 10, 2026 at 6:32 PM
Actually, we know what to do. happening-here.blogspot.com/2026/09/who-...
In which I become an involuntary bystander... happening-here.blogspot.com/2026/09/an-u...
An unanticipated rupture ...
If anyone has wondered where I disappeared to, the picture tells the story: Last Friday, at the end of a six mile walk in Golden Gate Park, ...
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September 4, 2026 at 5:31 PM
In which I become an involuntary bystander... happening-here.blogspot.com/2026/09/an-u...
what do we think of this candidate? happening-here.blogspot.com/2026/08/wher...
Where do we go from here?
Okay -- I can't make a case that this woman is going to win her campaign. (Maybe someone from Florida can show me I'm too pessimistic?) But ...
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August 28, 2026 at 12:58 AM
what do we think of this candidate? happening-here.blogspot.com/2026/08/wher...
Every tribute to Dolly Parton centers her generosity, her humanity. Lest we forget ... happening-here.blogspot.com/2026/08/do-w...
Do we choose to survive?
Erudite Partner is at it again. The syndication platform Tom Dispatch has moved to the Intercept and today publishes her latest: It’s Tim...
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August 26, 2026 at 3:46 PM
Every tribute to Dolly Parton centers her generosity, her humanity. Lest we forget ... happening-here.blogspot.com/2026/08/do-w...