n altered version of a Gilded Age editorial cartoon titled 'Who controls the Senate?' which depicts the Senate as populated by tiny, ineffectual politicians ringed by massive, bloated, brooding monopolists. A door labeled 'people's entrance.' is firmly locked. A sign reads, 'This is a senate of the monopolists, by the monopolists and for the monopolists.' The image has been altered: an editorial cartoon of Boss Tweed, portrayed as a portly man in a business suit with a money-bag for a head, stands in the foreground. He is wearing a MAGA hat. On his shoulder perches a tiny, 'big stick' swinging FDR from another editorial cartoon. The logos of the monopolists in the background have been replaced with logos for Chevron, Coinbase, Google, Microsoft, WB, PGA, Apple, Comcast, Realpage and KKR.
A haunted, ruined hospital building. A sign hangs askew over the entrance with the NHS logo over the Palantir logo. Beneath it, a cutaway silhouette reveals a blood-spattered, scalpel-wielding surgeon with a Palantir logo over his breast, about to slice into a frightened patient with an NHS logo over his breast. Looming over the scene are the eyes of Peter Thiel, bloodshot and sinister.
An old-fashioned credit-card imprinter; its handle is a cracked and dirty American flag. Under the slip is a gold Trump Card. Looming over the imprinter is the top half of Trump's face, brooding and squint-eyed; it has been altered to increase its orangeness, to add bloodshot sclera to his eyes, and to add liver spots. At its bottom, the face merges with a bubbling, hellish cauldron of smoke and flame.
A suburban house; on the law stand a couple, their backs to it, looking appreciatively upon it. On the lawn is a lawn-flag reading 'Chinga la migra' in ornate script, surrounded by butterflies and flowers. The flag is limned in red spokes.
A detail from a US$100 bill showing Benjamin Franklin's portrait. It has been altered. Franklin's face has been overlaid with an orange sad clown, surmounted by Trump's hair. The zeroes in '100' above and below the portrait have been extended to run its entire length.
An EU flag; the stars have been replaced with a ring of Threads logos, tinted yellow. In the center floats the disembodied head of Mark Zuckerberg's metaverse avatar. It has been modified: a black bar scrawled with grawlix covers the mouth.
A turn of the century Main Street, USA. Over the horizon looms a giant Canadian flag, made out of circuitry. In the foreground is a pixelboard sign reading 'U.S. BORDER CLOSED.'
A detail from a US $100 bill. The bill has been tinted orange. Ben Franklin's face has been replaced with an indistinct blur surmounted by Trump's hair. The lettering in the scrollwork beneath the portrait reads 'TRUMP.' The '100's have been turned into '000's. The writing 'ONE HUNDRED' now reads 'NONE HUNDRED.' The series issue has been changed to '47.' The Secretary of the Treasury's signature has been replaced with Trump's.
Today in Labor History December 4, 1964: Police arrested over 800 students at the University of California, Berkeley, after they took over the administration building during the Free Speech Movement. They occupied the building in protest of the Regents’ decision to forbid protests on the college campus.
Mario Savio, leader of the Berkeley Free Speech Movement, is restrained by police as he walks to the platform at the University of California's Greek Theater in Berkeley on Dec. 7, 1964.
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Learning to parallel park in a Volvo station wagon (estate) has really served me well. Doing that learning in the narrow, twisty, precarious streets of the #Berkeley Hills has been pretty useful, too.
I don’t love driving a truck in the city, but i do love my #Rivian, and as I do actually need and use the truck capabilities, the only option would be to buy a second car for driving around town, which also seems less than optimal.
A green Rivian #R1T with a black Wakeshield bed topper, parked in a reasonably tight spot in front of a green EV charger with a BGE logo on it. The cord from the charger is stretched kg its full extension to reach all the way from the rear of the truck and across the hood.
"Following name proposal submissions from the community, the student housing project will be named the Judith E. Heumann House, after the disability rights advocate and Berkeley School of Public Health alumnus, according to Berkeley News on Thursday.
The “Heumann House” will house 1,100 undergraduate students, with rooms being built to accommodate people with disabilities, a message Heumann championed."
Destroy People's Park. Only so not EVERY room will be default accessible. So typical of UC.
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Now online: the 1978 A History of Berkeley exhibition catalog—digitized for the California Local Government Documents Collection. From Indigenous roots to the Free Speech Movement, it’s a rich record of the city’s past.
Sepia-toned historic photograph of the Peralta Park Hotel on Albina Street, taken in 1888. The large Victorian-style building features multiple steeply pitched roofs, ornate gables, decorative woodwork, and tall spires topped with crosses. Palm trees and other lush vegetation surround the hotel. A caption at the bottom reads: “Peralta Park Hotel, Albina Street, 1888 (Oakland Museum History Dept.).