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15 Jul 2025

Trump Administration Ends Funding for LGBTQ+ Suicide Hotline

The Trump administration has ordered the end of federal funding for The Trevor Project, a national LGBTQ+ suicide prevention hotline, while California lawmakers have taken steps to ensure LGBTQ+ students have access to the help they need.

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15 Jul 2025

Best Bay Area Events 7/15-8/4

Unstaged! Live Music, Live Art Making, Live Community. The Unstaged outdoor art party is back every 3rd Thursday in 2025!  UNSTAGED is a FREE, interactive arts, music, and community experience for absolutely everyone. On July 17th, tap into creativity and explore visual arts with Market Street Arts in Mid-Market’s Entertainment

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15 Jul 2025

Silicon Valley and the Gentrification of Eugenics

Silicon Valley loves solving “problems.” Whether it’s self-driving cars or lab-grown meat, there’s always a startup or a billionaire trying to optimize something. Lately, a handful of tech elites have turned their attention to what they see as the next crisis: not enough babies. This movement, called pro-natalism, is picking

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14 Jul 2025

Lurie Backs Down On Homeless Shelter Pledge

Daniel Lurie has quietly done away with a cornerstone promise of his entire mayoral campaign. It’s partly what cinched the deal for voters desperate for some form of intervention in the city’s homelessness crisis. Lurie pledged 1,500 new shelter beds—within his first six months in office at that. Now Lurie’s

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11 Jul 2025

Essential Life Skill: Recognizing Copaganda

Copaganda is a form of propaganda that reinforces positive views of cops, lulling the community into complacency and perpetuating three myths: cops are nice, they are part of the community, and they are there to help.

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09 Jul 2025

The Mexican Crime Drama MAGA Fans Will Hate Is on Netflix

This month’s Netflix releases include a Mexican crime series about an immortal mercenaries unit, a Korean dating show about singles, an anime adaptation of Scott Westerfield’s alt-World War One novel, a documentary about the rise of evangelical Christianity in Brazil, a docuseries about the 2005 London bombings, a new season of the popular “Lord of the Flies”-like thriller, and a new season of the popular “Yellowjackets” show.

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09 Jul 2025

Can These Signs Actually Stop ICE From Kidnapping Workers?

Posting signs stating “No ICE Access in This Business” can provide customers and employees with awareness of their rights, but it is not a foolproof way to prevent ICE from kidnapping people.

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08 Jul 2025

Trump Has Declared War on California: We Must Fight Back

California needs to channel their despair into winning a non-violent war against Trump’s tyranny, by using their power of protest, alliances, and seduction to defeat the regime and protect their state’s sovereignty.

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