David O’Brien

@davidobrien.bsky.social

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Higher education policy specialist and advocate. I work for California Community Colleges but this is my personal account.

A police officer at the meeting stopped the man and took away the object, which ended up being “something that looked like a molotov cocktail but was actually a 40 ounce malt liquor bottle,” according to Arcata Police Lieutenant Luke Scown. The officer then let the man return to the meeting “because at that moment, he wasn’t doing anything else wrong,” Scown said, but then the man quickly moved to the front of the council chambers.
A debate on Twitter/X between a normal person, who thinks Hindus and others should be able to freely and peacefully practice their religion in the US (thanks to the First Amendment’s guarantee of religious freedom), and a too-online loser who thinks allowing people of (presumably non-white, non-Christian) faiths to practice their religion constitutes the culture descending into “transnational cuckism.” Sigh.
“The US ruling class has effectively given up on competing with China and is just trying to loot as much as they can from everyone else while the ship sinks.” - tweet posted by @Karl_Was_Right on July 3, 2025.
“And by cutting funds for green energy, the House bill would raise energy prices by 7 to 9 percent, according to different projections. Trump’s determination to crush low-carbon energy sources at any price was exemplified by his recent order to reopen antiquated coal plants in Michigan, which forced consumers to pay higher electric bills simply to subsidize coal.” - quote from Jonathan Chait’s June 23, 2025 article “The Republican Megabill’s Horrible Compromise” for the Atlantic.
A protestor at the California State Capitol holding a sign reading “In your guts you know he’s nuts,” referring to Donald Trump and/or Elon Musk.