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an original photograph by todd fuller

A15 Economic Blockade: Fremont, CA TESLA SHUT DOWN 🔻 Pro Palestine Bay area residents shut down one of the largest TESLA manufacturing sites in California and the most productive automobile manufacturer in the country, making it a major point of production in the economy which is why we SHUT IT DOWN and demand the end to TESLA'S continual funding of genocide. Elon pledges and donates to Israel and Tesla funds the IOF, a terrorist organization that is responsible for the murder of over 40,000 Palestinians in Gaza and continue profiting off of genocide. Tesla also relies on minerals extracted in the DRC for its EV rechargeable batteries, it is also significantly involved in the ongoing genocide in the Congo, where the relentless pursuit of the region's resources has led to forced child labor, environmental devastation, and militia violence.

-- Photos by Jack Molmud, caption by the.people.for.palestine, 16 Apr 2024

Rob Visser

Alameda, California

Day 3 and 4 of the Frank Bette plein air paint out! Wednesday was 'off island' day, so I got to stay in the city and I painted at Alamo Square. Of course it was freezing and windy. Day 4 I was back in Alameda and participated in the quick draw, but I didn't like that piece. Afterwards I rallied and did a little shop downtown with a tree in front of it.

Tomorrow, Saturday August 5, is your opportunity to come see everyone's paintings and have the first opportunity to purchase them if you're interested. But by all means just come to look if you want! We will be at South Shore shopping center in Alameda from 10-5.

House in Alameda, California, UNITED STATES

unusual sighting of a purple striped sea nettle jelly in the Oakland harbor tidal canal, 10/5/23. this species is usually only seen live along the Pacific coast so I was taken completely by surprise when we saw it in the east bay!

Townsend's Warbler by bubble_boy Via Flickr: California Coyote Hills Regional Park Alameda Creek Quarry Lakes Fremont Bay Area San Francisco USA East Bay Nature Birds Wildlife Photography Travel Wild Trails ebparksok

(Front to Back) USS Saratoga (CV-3), USS Enterprise (CV-6); USS Hornet (CV-12) and USS San Jacinto (CVL-30) docked at the Air Station's piers, in Naval Air Station, Alameda, California, circa mid-September 1945.

Note: the Consolidated PBY Catalinas parked at the far left.

NHHC: 80-G-701512

ocs !! ill talk more about them some other time but have some drawings. ill make a full post explaining their story n who they are but if u send me asks ill answer anything when i wake up tomorrow. or i might stay up late answering em idk

my commissions are open!

Oakland SB I-880

-- A15 Economic Blockade, 15 Apr 2024 10:57 AM PDT

BREAKING: Three SIG alerts have been issued as a result of pro-Palestinian protests shutting down three major Northern California intersections: NB I-880 in Oakland, California, SB I-880 in Hayward, California, and the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco.

-- Jesse Coffey, 15 Apr 2024 9:42 AM PDT

Leaders of the Effective Altruism movement were repeatedly warned beginning in 2018 that Sam Bankman-Fried was unethical, duplicitous, and negligent in his role as CEO of Alameda Research, the crypto trading firm that went on to play a critical role in what federal prosecutors now say was among the biggest financial frauds in U.S. history. They apparently dismissed those warnings, sources say, before taking tens of millions of dollars from Bankman-Fried’s charitable fund for effective altruist causes.

When Alameda and Bankman-Fried’s cryptocurrency exchange FTX imploded in late 2022, these same effective altruist (EA) leaders professed outrage and ignorance. “I don’t know which emotion is stronger: my utter rage at Sam (and others?) for causing such harm to so many people, or my sadness and self-hatred for falling for this deception,” tweeted Will MacAskill, the Oxford moral philosopher and intellectual figurehead of EA, who co-founded the Centre for Effective Altruism.

Yet MacAskill had long been aware of concerns around Bankman-Fried. He was personally cautioned about Bankman-Fried by at least three different people in a series of conversations in 2018 and 2019, according to interviews with four people familiar with those discussions and emails reviewed by TIME.

He wasn’t alone. Multiple EA leaders knew about the red flags surrounding Bankman-Fried by 2019, according to a TIME investigation based on contemporaneous documents and interviews with seven people familiar with the matter. Among the EA brain trust personally notified about Bankman-Fried’s questionable behavior and business ethics were Nick Beckstead, a moral philosopher who went on to lead Bankman-Fried’s philanthropic arm, the FTX Future Fund, and Holden Karnofsky, co-CEO of OpenPhilanthropy, a nonprofit organization that makes grants supporting EA causes. Some of the warnings were serious: sources say that MacAskill and Beckstead were repeatedly told that Bankman-Fried was untrustworthy, had inappropriate sexual relationships with subordinates, refused to implement standard business practices, and had been caught lying during his first months running Alameda, a crypto firm that was seeded by EA investors, staffed by EAs, and dedicating to making money that could be donated to EA causes.

Exploring the USS Hornet is a must when in Alameda!

A-4E-1154211-BA5 by Michel Klaveren