Point Pinole, CA.
Sitting on a windy beach along the northeastern shore of San Francisco Bay, munching on nuts, dried fruits and cheese, I thought about the new wave of innovation about to emerge in the city I love roughly 25 miles to the southwest of here.
Yesterday I predicted a new boom now that the pandemic is subsiding. Rents did come down a bit for a bit, and that, combined with the choice in live together in group hosting, should allow the latest 20-something migrants a window to launch their ventures.
They will encounter a large community of older entrepreneurs already in place in the Bay Area; some of whom will be willing to hep them.
They'll need capital, office space, developers, business plans, and marketing expertise. Most of all, they'll need the advice only older entrepreneurs can give.
But they also -- each and every one of them -- will need a story.
As one who has relishes such stories, I'm waiting for that. Everybody has a story; everybody has a dream. Maybe their's will come true.
The top issue I need to address today is the continued persecution of whistle-blower Julian Assange by the Biden administration. The case against Assange, who is living in England, involves U.S. government secrets he published thanks to a source, Army intelligence officer Chelsea Manning, who was prosecuted and imprisoned for her role.
S.F. Chronicle writer Bob Egelko has written a thoughtful analysis of case against Assange, which is based in a terrible piece of legislation, the 1917 Espionage Act.
That's the act the Nixon administration used against Daniel Ellsberg in the Pentagon papers case.
Those of us in the press who spend our careers digging out just the sort of government secrets that Ellsberg and Assange brought into public view consider them heroes not villains.
The Biden administration prides itself as being a friend of the press, in stark contrast to the previous president who branded us "the enemy of the people."
Well if he's not our enemy but our friend, he should drop the case against Assange and allow him to live his life in peace. After all, he may not be a journalist but all he did was what we do.
And we win awards for that.
(Note: Thanks to Joel Kirshenbaum for alerting me to Egelko's excellent piece.)
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THE HEADLINES:
* When it comes to whistle-blowers like Julian Assange, Biden's actions look a lot like Trump's (San Francisco Chronicle)
* Death Valley Hits 130 Degrees as Heat Wave Sweeps the West -- Temperatures were broiling from Utah to California as another “heat dome” led Western states to set up cooling centers and issue motel vouchers. (NYT)
* Heat wave blankets U.S. West as fires rage in several states (AP)
* ‘Fear on top of fear’: Why anti-gun Americans joined the wave of new gun owners (WP)
* The Big Question of the 2022 Midterms: How Will the Suburbs Swing? -- Democrats and Republicans are already jockeying for a crucial voting bloc that soured on Donald Trump, tilted to Joe Biden and now holds the key to the second half of the president’s term. (NYT)
* Yes, the delta variant is taking over. But the vaccines still work. (Monica Ghandi/ WP)
* Tech Companies to Buy Covid-19 Vaccines on Behalf of Taiwan (WSJ)
* On This German Farm, Cows Are in Charge. Or at Least Coequals. -- The cows don’t have to produce milk. The pigs sleep late. No animal on this former dairy farm serves a human need. Their only purpose is to live peacefully — and provoke questions about how we eat. (NYT)
* Afghan forces clash with Taliban near Kunduz (Reuters)
* Iran cheers U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan — but fears what could follow -- The resolution of one long-standing aim for Tehran, the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Afghanistan, is unleashing another challenge: what to do about the Taliban. (WP)
* U.S. Defends Detention of Afghan at Guantánamo Despite Pullout -- In the first Guantánamo habeas corpus case under the Biden administration, the government said U.S. forces’ withdrawal from Afghanistan did not erode its detention authority. (NYT)
* The Jan. 6 Capitol attack was, in fact, a violent insurrection (Editorial Board/WP)
* Global Tax Overhaul Gains Steam as G20 Backs New Levies -- The approach marks a reversal of years of economic policies that embraced low taxes as a way for countries to attract investment and fuel growth. (NYT)
* U.S. Treasury's Yellen to push development banks to step up climate financing effort (Reuters)
* Richard Branson and his Virgin Galactic crew safely back from space, ushering in a new era (WP)
* Filmmakers, activists call for climate efforts in Cannes (Reuters)
* Broadway, and the rest of New York’s cultural life, is on the cusp of a vibrant rebound (WP)
* At the All-Star break, the San Francisco Giants have the best record in Major League Baseball at 57-32 (.640). They also have hit the most home runs (132). (MLB.com)
* Italy beat England in a penalty shootout for the European Championship in futbol. (NYT)
* Shy Balloon Spends Entire Party Floating In Back Corner Of Room By Itself (The Onion)
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How It Started
It could not do, it could not do
It could not do, it could not do
The lies inside you, it would not do
That dwells inside you, it could not do
That lives inside you, it should not do
That dwells inside you
It could not, could not, could not do
That's how it started
That's how it started
That's how it started
It could not do, it could not do
The lies inside you; you, you;
That dwells inside you
It could not do, that lives inside you
It should not do, that dwells inside you
It could not, could not, could not do
That's how it started
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