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San Francisco, CA
Joined October 2007
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    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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    #Breaking: The Napa County Sheriff's department is telling people to stay away from the area around the Yountville Veteran's Home after gunfire was reported. kqed.org/news/11654735/…
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    This past weekend, Oakland’s own @Kehlani hit No. 1 on the Apple Music charts with her latest album, "It Was Good Until It Wasn’t." Her release is a shining example of the amazing work Bay Area artists are creating during the pandemic.
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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 video.kqed.org
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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: kqed.org/science/195787…
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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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    Heavy Rains May Bring a #California Poppy Spectacle This Spring via @KQEDnews ow.ly/tWNN308QUP5
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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." u.kqed.org/eFvq50v3hTG
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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