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co-host | contributing writer | book | board | co-ran | Earthseed, 🇲🇽, 🇺🇸, he/him

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    May 14

    ~ Some personal news ~ I’m teaming up with to host . You'll hear me at 9 o'clock every morning starting June 21.

    ⚠️ Announcing our new host for the 9 am hour ⚠️ 🎉🎉🎉 🎉🎉🎉
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  2. 3 hours ago

    Well, you ask, were you *actually* a 1990s computer whiz??? <blink>but of course</blink>

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  3. 3 hours ago

    “We’re not a cigarette maker, we’re an inhalable experience creator.”

    "We are also deeply troubled that this company could further profit from the disease their products have caused by now selling therapies to the same people who were sickened by smoking PMI cigarettes."
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  4. 4 hours ago

    The way I funded this thing was “fixing computers,” which was a thing “computer whizzes” did. Most of my clients were realtors who needed me to install printer drivers. It was great! I had a beeper and my own weird newspaper paid for with printer driver installations.

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  5. 4 hours ago

    Oh my god, I found the logo, which my sister drew and also the cover lines from the first issue! is probably still a great story, come to think of it.

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  6. 4 hours ago

    Little known fact: I started a little alt paper when I was 16. We printed 5000 a run in Castle Rock, WA. It was called Reckless Abandon, and I’m sure it was terrible, and bless anyone who read it.

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  7. 4 hours ago

    This Twitter thread turned into Friday’s with , , , and . Alt weeklies (and early 00s Harper’s) are what made me want to do journalism.

    Bay Area people, help me out with something: who were the best alt-weekly writers of the 90s/00s here?
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  8. 10 hours ago

    Deep in the pandemic doldrums, I started doing some Peloton rides on my neighbor’s bike… And now I am obsessed with it ~as media~. All I wanna do is bring Marshall McLuhan and Ted Nelson on a ride with Jess King.

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  9. 14 hours ago

    I can't believe I'm going to get to do the weird elbow bump greeting with my favorite author! DREAMS DO COME TRUE (Admittedly, it was a weird dream, especially since it was pre-COVID.)

    Friday I’m in SF, and Saturday in LA. In person if you got your vaxx on! SF info: LA info:
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  10. 18 hours ago

    I've had this one circled on the calendar for weeks. This is really a book—and Tooze the kind of thinker—that changes how you see the world. Here's my note on the Toozean worldview:

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  11. Sep 14

    Still a lot to parse — and and I will be bringing you a full table of experts tomorrow AM.

    Wednesday at 10AM PT w/ host : We'll look at proposals to reform or abolish CA's recall process. We'll be joined by: ➡️Mark DiCamillo of ➡️ of ➡️ ➡️ of ➡️ ➡️
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  12. Sep 14

    Aaaannnnd... it's over.

    BREAKING: California’s Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom has defeated a recall attempt driven by GOP criticism of his COVID-19 policies.
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  13. Sep 14

    Oh! Schedule stepped up a bit... >> , and the squad are live now at

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  14. Sep 14

    Pretty strong out of the gate. I think Newsom got 7.7 million votes in 2018.

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  15. Sep 14

    Scott and start live coverage at 9 — and both hours of will be parsing what happened tomorrow AM, too.

    Election coverage from Political Breakdown/KQED starts at 9 pm. Besides returns, and I will have analysis from some of the sharpest politics pros in the state and we'll take calls from listeners. And get live election returns at .
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  16. Sep 14

    The votes! They are trickling in. Following live here:

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  17. Sep 14

    I feel really lucky this week. Have already talked with . is on today, on Thursday, then for on Friday… then Maggie Nelson next week. Daily shows are hard but also so, so interesting.

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  18. Sep 12

    Over 2 days, I’ve been converted into an absolute Lake Chabot stan. So many cultures chilling together. Plus there’s a lake and Icees.

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  19. Sep 12

    Neighbor got me out for an early run and I do not regret it.

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  20. Sep 10

    Here's the lineup: on how 9/11 led to a new political consciousness among (some) Muslim Americans , on how our sense of the future changed and & on civil liberties post-9/11

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  21. Sep 10

    Personally, I feel like I need this hour of reflection on how things changed. And I hope to have this conversation with a lot of people. You can call into the show at 9 oooorrr you can call and leave a voicemail: 415-553-3300

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