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Joined October 2007
A driver pictured at this afternoon’s caravan action in #Oakland to protest the killing of Minneapolis man #GeorgeFloyd and other Black people at the hands of police. More than 5,000 vehicles lined up for miles to participate, from the Port to Lake Merritt. 📸: @bethlaberge
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"It takes a certain someone to want to work 16 hours a day with total strangers during a pandemic.". While we all wait for you-know-what. meet the volunteers that made in-person #Elections2020 voting possible. (Via @TheBayKQED).
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On Super Bowl Sunday, this 2016 essay recalls how Janet Jackson went from pop music royalty to scapegoat pariah in a matter of 9/16th of a second. That = the blink of time her breast was accidentally exposed during 2004's Super Bowl Halftime Show.
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On Super Bowl Sunday, this 2016 essay recalls how Janet Jackson went from pop music royalty to scapegoat pariah in a matter of 9/16th of a second. That = the blink of time her breast was accidentally exposed during 2004's Super Bowl Halftime Show.
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FYI if you're seeing #BlackPanthersPBS tweets but don't have TV, the full film will be available FREE afterwards on
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Sesame picked these issues—homelessness, foster care, and substance abuse—because it heard from these partner organizations that they didn’t have many resources addressing these things from a child's perspective. (via .@TheAtlantic)
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PASS IT ON: Bay Area counties Alameda, Contra Costa, Marin, San Francisco, San Mateo and Santa Clara, have announced a legal order for residents to shelter in place and leave only for essential needs beginning midnight Tues. through April 7. More info:
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It's official: All California teachers and school staff must get vaccinated for COVID-19 or get tested weekly. Gov. Gavin Newsom's coronavirus vaccine announcement marks the first such statewide mandate in the nation.
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#OtterGIFparty is trending, you say? Happy memories of @PBS #BigBlueLive from @MontereyAq back in 2015.
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"Shame is a cruel thing," writes @GeorgeTakei in his new graphic novel about his childhood years in an American internment camp during WWII. "It should rest on the perpetrators, but they don't carry it the way the victims do."
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OK, so you remember "BART Pony" from yesterday, right? (A.k.a. #BARTPony?). @KQEDnews's transit sage @danbrekke tracked her down in her Bay Area stable, and he can reveal:. 🐴 Her name is Sweets.🐴 She's a rescue.🐴 She's training to be a service horse. M O R E T O C O M E
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Peter Lang, owner of Safari West decided to save his wildlife park and animals from the fires, instead of his home.
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Results of a new California poll conducted for KQED finds:. 🗳️ @BernieSanders at 26%.🗳️ @ewarren at 23%.🗳️ @JoeBiden at 19%.🗳️ @PeteButtigieg at 12%.🗳️ @AndrewYang at 4%
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The good news surrounding ‘Black Panther’ keeps coming. Disney just announced they’re giving $1 million to build a center in Oakland dedicated to STEM curriculum.
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These posters are still up in SF’s Mission District, two years on. We miss you so much, Gwen. (📸: @TimOlsonSF)
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"I've been trying, since I saw this documentary, to think of a white male pop star who's been raked over the coals in a way that even remotely resembles what our culture has done with M.I.A." —Emma Silvers on the hypocrisy of pop culture.
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.@wkamaubell, a CNN host and Bay Area comedian, said he received threats after Carlson aired a segment about him last year. The comedian said that after the segment ran, he also had to “take major steps to protect [his] family."
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"He basically put out an Evite.". We spoke to @WKamauBell about President Trump's encouragement of the extremists that stormed the Capitol Wednesday, and why the police response is "everything that as a Black person you know is true in this country.".
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Happy birthday, Cookie Monster! 🍪💙..Let’s be honest, we could all use a few chocolate chip cookies right about now.
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More than 50,000 Californians picked up over half a million pounds of trash from the state's shorelines on Saturday as part of the annual Coastal Cleanup Day. .
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ON AIR: Billionaire @TomSteyer has led efforts to impeach President Trump and now wants to see Attorney General William Barr disbarred. What do you think of Steyer's efforts? What do you want to ask him? Tweet us!
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One of our most read posts this week: "Heavy Rains May Bring a California Poppy Spectacle This Spring"
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This rain has its upsides, Bay Area. Like this double 🌈 at #Oakland’s Lake Merritt, captured by @kqed_arts’s @ogpenn 😍
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💙 Happy birthday, Cookie Monster!💙. (OK, your birthday was actually Saturday but really, any day works when it comes to 🍪)
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Voyager 2 may be on the verge of entering interstellar space and crossing over to the great galactic beyond.
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"There was a senator, I think it was after my pancreatic cancer, who announced with great glee that I was going to be dead within six months. "That senator, whose name I have forgotten, is now himself dead, and I am very much alive.". --Justice Ginsburg.
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For librarians, like Mychal Threets, who are caught in the middle of divisive politics, they see their mission just as vital now. He talked about all this and what libraries have meant to him with KQED’s Brian Watt:.
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Behold: A Podcast for ‘X-Files’-philes, By @kumailn
http://t.co/IwxlN6yNnb Via @KQEDArts
http://t.co/2tcdHffGOe.
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Republican Assemblymember Kevin Kiley is betting on parent dissatisfaction with Gov. Newsom's handling of the COVID-19 pandemic to win the Sept. 14 recall election.
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What remains of the Santa Rosa Hilton. (📸: A. Grossberg/KQED). #NapaFire #SonomaFire updates from @KQEDnews:
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Gov. Newsom is urging Californians to safely check on their elderly relatives and neighbors, encouraging people to call, text or give a physically distanced knock on the door to seniors in their lives.
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#FlashbackFriday: As folks descend on the Bay Area for #SuperBowl50, let's remember another recent visitor.
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👂 You know his voice. 👂 . but you might not know his face. This is our wonderful Matt Elmore — your KQED Public Radio morning drive announcer since 2011, and on your airwaves for decades before that. Matt is retiring TODAY (no!), and he has a personal message for you:
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THIS IS NOT A DRILL: From Dec 16, we'll be showing Bob Ross at 8 am every weekend morning on KQED 9. Join us in your PJs for those happy little trees.
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Gender is no longer either male or female, according to the state of California: #nonbinary
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Filomena's family, including her 65-year-old grandmother and 2-year-old brother, traveled more than nine hours by foot and bus on Sunday from their village in Guatemala's western highlands to be reunited with her.
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The first bill Alex Lee says he will introduce when he takes office next month will propose to prohibit corporate contributions directly to candidates. He said he may extend that to ballot measures and would create a system for publicly financed elections.
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PHOTO: #SanFrancisco City Hall is lit up in pink tonight as crowds gather in the rain for the #womensmarch
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It’s Monday morning, and @GeorgeTakei — today’s @KQEDForum guest — has a message for you:
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At 97, He Still Grapples With the Pain of Being Separated From His Mother
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The long-neglected water system in Marin City is one of the most vulnerable to climate-driven flooding in the entire Bay Area. "Marin City is like a bathtub with only one drain.” – @kzhill, @UCBerkeley.
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Scientists at Stanford have developed a tiny water purifier powered by the sun
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The effort to recall Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao is being funded almost entirely by one hedge fund manager, new campaign finance reports show, and he appears to live in a different city.
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For the first time in California history, non-citizens including undocumented immigrants can now register to vote in upcoming school board elections in San Francisco.
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🚨BAY AREA TEACHERS & PARENTS:. Wondering how best to support kids during #coronavirus school closures?. We'll start airing TV programs aligned with CA state standards weekdays from MONDAY (3/16) on our KQED Plus channel. PLEASE spread the word!.
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Get Your Super Bowl On: Vietnamese Pork Meatballs with Sweet-Tangy Garlic Dipping Sauce
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Libraries around the country are ditching late fees, which have been found to disproportionately impact communities of color.
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Today’s summoning circle, feel free to borrow . 🕯. 🕯 🕯. 🕯 Patience 🕯. 🕯 and Wisdom of 🕯. 🕯 Fred Rogers 🕯. 🕯 🕯. 🕯.
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These power outages have PG&E on people's minds. This story, from @kqednews earlier in 2019, is currently one of the most read on our site🔌. #PGEpowershutdown #poweroutage .
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"Parents and teachers are realizing that what students read and learn affects how they see the world."
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The only scheduled debate between California's two candidates for YOUR governor -- @GavinNewsom & @TheRealJohnHCox -- will be broadcast live on @KQEDForum 88.5 FM on Monday. Q. What's the one issue YOU want to hear them tackle? #CAGovDebate
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"I’ve seen it with my eyes, and I’m telling you, I am furious, I am heartbroken, and we’ve got to get this administration to stop this zero tolerance policy,” said @RepBarbaraLee after touring detention facilities along the U.S.-Mexico border.
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If it’s been a rough day, or you’re just stuck trying to get home right now. we’ll leave this here.
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A decade ago, in the early hours of Jan 1, 2009, Oscar Grant -- an unarmed black man -- was fatally shot at #Oakland's Fruitvale Station by a BART Police officer. Many of you have reached out to tell us how today's @KQEDForum #OscarGrant special affected you. Thank you, truly.
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The story goes: Back during the Depression, an Oakland ice cream maker wanted to create an ice cream to cheer people up on this "rocky road of life." And voila! Rocky road ice cream was born. 🍨🍨🍨🍨🍨
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VIDEO: The #ClimateStrike passing along Beale Street, under our newsroom. Q. Are you involved with the protests somehow today?
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This week, it was announced that Tommy Orange's debut novel "There There," chronicling urban indigenous experiences in Oakland and the East Bay, is among this year's winners of the American Book Awards. 📚 Who are your favorite Bay Area authors? 📚
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A group of teen girls learned to code, solder, sew, and 3D-print to invent a solar-powered tent for the homeless.
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Happy birthday, Dolores Huerta! 🎉 The civil rights leader turns 88 today. Watch her story, #DoloresPBS, streaming now:
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The “First Lady of Rock” Linda Ronstadt will be officially recognized by the city of San Francisco on July 15, 2024 with a her own day, which will also mark her 78th birthday.
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"For her to survive for seven days on the coast with waves crashing over you at times, with injuries that she had, is amazing."
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Chants of "Kill the bill! Don't kill us!" break out in Senate chamber ahead of procedural vote on health care bill.
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On Cesar Chavez's birthday, we're remembering how hard he fought for the American farm worker with this 1972 clip from the KQED archives. Here Chavez discusses the development of the United Farm Workers union and how, as a collective, workers have immense power. #CesarChavezDay
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Hands-up who loved #BigBlueLive from @MontereyAq last summer? We're showing the best parts TONIGHT at 10 pm, KQED 9!
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THREAD: A Psychiatrist's Advice for Dealing With the #KavanaughHearings. (If you’d like to retweet to share, please RT this first tweet, so the full thread appears in order for people. Thank you.).
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A California water board concluded that eating crops grown with oil field wastewater “creates no identifiable increased health risks.” But the studies, performed by oil industry consultants, show that there is little evidence to support these claims.
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James Baldwin's scathing examination of racism in San Francisco premiered in 1964 on KQED TV — and you can watch it online for free. (Via @NewYorker).
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Your Friday NEEDS this: We unearthed vintage footage of the Castro neighborhood in the 1970s from our archives, to celebrate #LGBTHistoryMonth. It's beautiful. Pass it on 🌈
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"I will do everything in my power to work with the new administration," says Biden of his "cancer moonshot"
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Some people are very unhappy that @KimKardashian appeared on '@WaitWait Don't Tell Me' http://t.co/dgWGkIF80r
http://t.co/M9hdUVMpX1.
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PASS IT ON: This weekend all national parks will be free to enter, including popular California destinations like:. 🌲 Muir Woods.🌲 Yosemite.🌲 Joshua Tree
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Guess who'll be @NYCPride Grand Marshals: @Vicious stars @IanMcKellen & Derek Jacobi! See their video message:
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It was no easy task, but one couple was able to flee the fire safely with their rescue tortoises — all 80 of them.
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Raise a glass: it's @jacques_pepin's 80th b-day! Watch the TV special tomorrow 10:30am KQED9
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Interrupting your doomscrolling with this heartwarming gif of Bob Ross and a baby deer 🥺💞. Today would've been Bob's 78th birthday, so pick up a paintbrush and create a masterpiece in his honor 🎨
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