Miriam Pawel
Writer, reader, thinker, hiker
- Reposted by Miriam PawelSo this is not just any small county elected official engaging in good old gutter racism. This is an official who wields enormous power over people’s lives and a community. Who gets charged, who gets held in a cage, how many years should be taken from a life… www.sanluisobispo.com/news/local/a...
- Reposted by Miriam PawelWait, Gavin Newsom's new CARB chair says the board will "rethink" the state's 2305 mandate to end sales of gas-only vehicles? As in, Newsom's crowning climate achievement and the biggest thing CA has done on climate in years? This was reported a week ago and has gotten very little attention?
- Reposted by Miriam PawelThis is wild egregious shit.
- Reposted by Miriam PawelA Guatemalan immigrant with no Massachusetts criminal record was arrested Monday on Tallman Street after federal agents shattered the glass on his vehicle as he and his wife waited inside the car for their lawyer to arrive. Read story and view full video: newbedfordlight.org/lawyer-feder...
- “We are only in great national trouble when people violate or circumvent the Constitution ... Our country will survive this tragedy and will do so if an enlightened citizenry will give its attention to the affairs of government on all its levels.” Earl Warren, May 1974
- Reposted by Miriam PawelSuch great and revealing reporting by @sergioolmos.bsky.social & @wendyfry.bsky.social: calmatters.org/economy/2025...
- Reposted by Miriam PawelWhat a powerful testimony of how small investments from NEH lead to transformative outcomes. Read Chris’s entire thread (I appreciated the shout-out to NEH’s K12 teaching resource, Edsitement, which is where I first started working at NEH).
- Reposted by Miriam PawelTo quote MAGA's favorite attack on Gavin Newsom: You can't trust a guy who screwed his best friend's wife. Now, with his pivot to MAGA, Newsom is trying to screw the Democratic base that fueled his rise. My take on Newsom's desperate, cynical & doomed strategy www.theframelab.org/why-gavin-ne...
- Reposted by Miriam Pawel"Leaders in civil society shouldn’t be “demure” in the face of authoritarian attempts to align all power with a president’s agenda, civil society be damned…when they see the missions of their institutions—not to speak of the health of their country—compromised." Chancellors: It’s time to speak up.
- Anyone looking to understand the homeless count numbers in CA, officially released today, should read this excellent @calmatters.org story from *September* (and beware of fuzzy math being thrown around-mixing percents/percentages/numbers/ etc) calmatters.org/housing/home...
- Reposted by Miriam PawelHere's the link to get a free Los Angeles Public Library online library card, and with it, access to all kinds of collections and archives you didn't even know would enthrall you. You can use it anywhere in the world -- or live anywhere in the world. lapl.org/about-lapl/c...
- Reposted by Miriam PawelMayor London Breed has named San Francisco's next District 2 supervisor: Stephen Sherill, a Michael Bloomberg protégé unknown to many D2 denizens. Bloomberg put $1.5M into Breed's re-election. And come Jan. 8, she'll need a job. via @esksf.bsky.social missionlocal.org/2024/12/step...
- Somebody did some great organizing in Merced — Dem’s winning margin comes down to UC Merced college kids who registered to vote *on election day*!
- Reposted by Miriam PawelTrump just named David Sacks his “czar” for crypto and AI. Read all about this “prophet of urban doom” in this excellent @jacobsilverman.com piece in @newrepublic.com newrepublic.com/article/1681...
- Reposted by Miriam PawelLet me talk to California's state and local leaders as if they were my three sons on a long car trip. "Knock off all the stupid fighting. This is going to be a long, hard journey, and we need to stick together." My new column. www.zocalopublicsquare.org/fight-trump-...
- Reposted by Miriam PawelNews: GOP Rep. John Duarte has conceded to Democrat Adam Gray in the #CA13 Congressional race in California's Central Valley. This is the final House race to be decided, and the third House seat that Democrats flipped in California this year. More: www.latimes.com/california/s...
- So in her home state, Harris polled so much worse than Biden/2020 that Trump flipped Fresno with fewer votes than he received four years ago. The drop in Dem supports crosses all geo/pol/economic lines. Interesting implications going forward. Gift link: www.sfchronicle.com/election/art...
- Looks like Dems are on track to flip the third CA seat, CA13 in the central valley. Will be interesting to see the final results, but some reports suggest ballot curing in Merced helped push Adam Gray into the lead
- Reposted by Miriam PawelGavin Newsom is apparently publishing a memoir next May, tracing his familial roots from County Cork to his parents' divorce, his tenure as mayor of SF, and becoming governor: www.barnesandnoble.com/w/young-man-...
- Reposted by Miriam PawelWell now. Adam Gray has taken a 182-vote lead over Republican incumbent John Duarte in California’s CD13. If Gray were to win and Derek Tran holds on to his lead over Michelle Steel, now 613 votes, Democrats will have flipped three congressional seats in California.
- Reposted by Miriam PawelIt sure looks like close to 2 million fewer votes in California for the major party candidates, combined, than four years ago. And yes, almost all of that deficit seems to be for the Democrat, a Californian. I can’t imagine a better task for the state’s political press corps than examining why.
- Blue skies ahead for @davidlauter.bsky.social 🦆🦜🕊️🦅
- Reposted by Miriam PawelThe California Academy of Sciences this year abruptly ended a climate action youth program after its teenage members expressed solidarity w/the museum's union. Cal Academy fired their staff coordinator, & told the teens to stop coming in. missionlocal.org/2024/11/cali...
- Reposted by Miriam PawelIt’s worth saying that given: *the coming Democratic convention *the desire to distract from Trump’s trials *the seeming absence of a handy caravan of immigrants & a coming presidential election it’s mighty handy for the right to stoke a CHAOS ON CAMPUSES message.
- Reposted by Miriam PawelHere are the 20 largest U.S. newspaper print circulations, 2010 vs 2023. All 20 of today’s largest combined sell fewer than the single largest sold then. The 20th largest then would now be the 3rd largest.
- A significant test of the new card check law for farmworkers in CA, and who it’s helping; lots at stake here, should be a very interesting #alrb hearing www.bakersfield.com/news/wonderf...
- A decade ago, California made clean, affordable drinking water a human right. A lot of people are still waiting www.latimes.com/opinion/stor...
- Reposted by Miriam PawelMy letter to the NYT editor. I sent it yesterday; we will see if they run it. I'll put links in this thread.
- Reposted by Miriam PawelThe NY Times and other media that treated Gay's academic misconduct as a national story were an essential part of the right wing campaign to have her removed. Compare how they treated the President of Stanford, who faced much more serious accusations of academic misconduct.
- Jorge Ramos, for those following the Univision/Trump saga. An ominous ending: "For 39 years Univision has allowed me to report with absolute independence and freedom ... This is what I believe, and I will continue to do it as a free journalist, wherever I might be." jorgeramos.com/en/the-dange...
- Join a conversation tonite hosted by UWT Labor Solidarity Project -- I'll be talking about Cesar Chavez, the man, the myth, the legacy ... the organizing campaign that captivated a nation. Zoom in at 6pm PST Register: forms.gle/XYhp85kvRsWC...
