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Independent nonprofit news site in Berkeley, CA, founded in 2009. RTs ≠ endorsements. Part of @citysidelocal ( @Oaklandside , @ebnosh and @richmondside )

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Berkeleyside is stepping away from Twitter/X, but we remain committed to providing independent nonprofit news to all of Berkeley for free. Here’s where you can find our work.
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Cal students have joined the Berkeley High anti-Trump walkout; they are sitting down in protest at base of Campanile.
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About 150 Berkeley High students walked out of class Wednesday calling for an end to Israeli occupation of Palestine. They chanted “Stop bombing Gaza” while marching from Civic Center to the Cal campus through downtown Berkeley. 📷: @allymarkovich
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Hundreds of #BerkeleyHigh students are about to form a human chain around the school in support of their DACA classmates
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Student speaker: "We have a sexual assaulter as president. He wants to ban abortions. We need to fight this." #bhs #berkeley #berkprotest
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"We're all mad about Trump's election. He doesn't represent us" says 15 yr old Berkeley High student on walkout.
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One speaker @Lauren_Southern says she wants to stop Commies who have "infested" Berkeley. #berkeleyprotests
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Teenagers say they're at #Crescent to protest white supremacists rallying "literally across the street from our school" #Berkeley
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BHS did this once before in 2008, against ICE arrests. Huge turnout this ear for DACA
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Did you feel it? #earthquake
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"Not our president" marching through Temescal
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The Groucho Marx protesters are mobilizing on University #berkeley
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Free hugs for everyone! Woman says she appreciates police being out in non-threatening way #berkeley #crescent @UCPD_Cal
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The culmination of their #neveragain protest: Berkeley High students form a human peace-sign on the football field.
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About 18 professors from @BerkeleyLaw joined with 600+ others to sign this op-ed saying #Kavanaugh does not have the “right judicial temperament” to be elevated to the Supreme Court @Scotus
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650+ law professors (and counting) believe Brett Kavanaugh lacks the judicial temperament to be approved to the Supreme Court. Read their letter explaining why.
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Berkeley hot dog vendor case now under investigation
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Students walked out of King Middle School in Berkeley today to call for a ceasefire in Gaza. About 75 students marched through North Berkeley chanting "Free Palestine" and "Gaza, Gaza, don't you cry, we are with you right now." There was a similar protest at BHS a month ago.
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A worker-owner from Cheese Board collective with an amazing peace sign pretzel #berkeley #crescent
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A number of ppl here say they are Jewish + had relatives killed by Nazis: "Protesting is our right. Protesting fascism is our duty" #berkmtg
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What do you reckon? #earthquake
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In the early hours of Wednesday morning, UC Berkeley entered People’s Park with construction crews amid opposition from protesters and initiated the controversial process of building student housing and closing the historic park.
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Did you feel it? #earthquake
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BREAKING: . @CAgovernor Newsom signed SB 118 into law tonight. @UCBerkeley just announced: “We will extend admissions offers to more than 15K incoming freshman (by 3/24) & to 4,500 transfers in mid-April. All offers of admission will be for in-person only, as originally planned."
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1500 students walk out of Berkeley High School in protest of election
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Did you feel it? Earthquake at 5:52.
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Big kerfluffle. Man shoved a woman and police rushed in. He was arrested. #Berkeley
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The family of Oakland baker Jen Angel released a statement announcing her death, and said that if police "make an arrest in this case, the family is committed to pursuing all available alternatives to traditional prosecution, such as restorative justice."
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Hear helicopters? They're at Berkeley High for the human chain in support of DACA
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Earthquake!!
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Big jolt around 6:12 am #earthquake
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UVA prof Walter Heineke organized some of the counter-protests in Charlottesville, where he says he got maced by white supremacists. "The fascists thought this was going to be their year. We've denied them that in C-ville, Berkeley, SF, Boston." #Berkeleyprotests #AllOutBayArea
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Progressive groups beginning march from #crescent to #MLKPark #Berkeley
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Protesters chanting "Nazis go home" at Owen Shroyer from @infowars , who responds with a sieg heil and an exaggerated march #Berkeleyprotests #AllOutBayArea
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The ongoing Berkeley march to bury racism is in the spirit of the best New Orleans funerals. Marching bands and dancer Dada leading everyone on. Video by @Rosos2812 #BlackLivesMattters
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Did you feel it?! #earthquake
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The push to rename Thousand Oaks Elementary to @KamalaHarris Elementary is gaining strength @busd
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There are up to 3 inches of snow on the peak of Grizzly Peak this morning, @NWSBayArea tells us. Who has new Berkeley snow photos and videos? Drop them in this thread! ❄️👇
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Crowd is marching north on MLK singing, chanting and marching. And @wkamaubell is on board! #berkeley
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For those asking where Kamala Harris’ childhood home was, it’s on Bancroft between Browning and Bonar
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Kamala Harris has made history.
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#Berkeley can call the vice-president-elect @KamalaHarris its own. A resident of Berkeley until 12, she attended Thousand Oaks Elementary School and learned about the Civil Rights Movement. Here is the duplex on Bancroft where she grew up. Read more here:
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Helmets, clubs, masks on pro Trump side. #berkeleyprotests
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By the way, for those who think small quakes are good because they release pressure from the fault, reducing the likelihood of the Big One, that's not a thing. You'd need 32,000 mag 3 quakes to equal energy of a mag 6 event.
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Earthquake! What did you feel?
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Rumble rumble #earthquake
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This is the Berkeley High students’ draft list of demands. They’re about to march to the district office to present it.
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Sign opposite Zellerbach Hall in anticipation of @benshapiro event tonight. Cal has begun to set up the security perimeter as well.
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Not in Berkeley but 3.8 in Oakland, says USGS #earthquake
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Nothing unusual here... a man rides a horse down College Avenue in Berkeley this morning. Video by Lisa Sibony.
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Hey @gatewaypundit #Berkeley CA only has ONE high school, so it was ALWAYS integrated. You are showing the high school year book. @KamalaHarris was in elementary school and was in the second group to be bused. Read these:
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SHE LIED: Kamala Harris Says She Was in Second Integrated Class in Berkeley -- But Yearbook Pictures Prove She's Lying @KamalaHarris via @gatewaypundit
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UCPD seized $60 from Juan the hot dog vendor "as suspected proceeds" of vending w/o a license. 3 others got warnings
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People who are part of the Rally Against Hate are helping with traffic control at University #Berkeley
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Magnitude 2.7 #earthquake at 9:12pm was 3km ESE of Berkeley, in the hills east of UC Berkeley campus, according to preliminary @USGS report:
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We are very excited to announce that in our 10th year of providing award-winning, independent news is Berkeley, we’re launching a brand new local journalism platform to serve Oakland in spring 2020! Learn more about this new chapter:
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At the Peace Wall, after main #BerkeleyProtests have ended, conversations between the left and the right.
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There are blocks and blocks of people walking & blocks of people waiting to join this Berkeley protest. Northbound traffic on Ashby Avenue is stopped at Ellis. Not a march where it is easy to social distance although everyone has masks on. #GeorgeFloydProtests #BlackLivesMattter
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A fire closed The Smokehouse for nearly 2 years. It’s finally reopening on Nov. 27.
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Huge crowd of marchers says it will take the park together. Thousand at least there. Includes many antifa in black #berkeley #MLKPark
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After 46 years, Berkeley staple Au Coquelet Cafe closes its doors
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BHS students on Cal campus chant: "You're the ones who showed us how. @UCBerkeley join us now" #berkeleyprotests http://t.co/gfdj7qPjkU
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The @LickObservatory says the mystery streak of light seen by many in the Bay Area just after sunset was a meteor.
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Several hundred ⁦ @UCBerkeley ⁩ graduate and undergraduate students are protesting on Sproul Plaza in solidarity with grad students at ⁦ @UCSC ⁩, some of whom have been fired after demanding their pay be adjusted for cost of living. #COLAstrike
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We have gotten multiple reports from readers telling us there is no counter service at the North Shattuck post office or at the one on Solano Ave. in #Berkeley . The #Albany one is also shuttered. We have asked @USPS what’s going on. #mailservice
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Spotted @Lauren_Southern among small crowd waiting to get into #BenAtBerkeley . Have to pass through metal detector to do so.
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"Anti-fascists are not equatable with Nazis," woman says. #berkmtg
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Crowds shouting anti-fascist slogans on Shattuck Avenue and University around 1:40 p.m. #berkeleyprotests #Berkeley
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Oakland police just said there are 100,000 people on Oakland #WomensMarch
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Bend it like the Bay Area: Doctors see flatter curve after 2 weeks of social isolation — by @debra_kahn and @cmarinucci in @politico :
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"If you do not stand firm against paramilitary fascists, they increase their numbers," she tells council. #berkmtg
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Hundreds of Berkeley High students walked out of class today in outrage against a culture they say permits sexual assault and an administration they accuse of dismissing it. Impassioned speeches and shouts of “Enough!” and “Men! Speak up!”
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Berkeley-raised @KamalaHarris arrives at the inauguration ceremony. #InaugurationDay2021
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Did you feel it?! #earthquake
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Earthquake near Berkeley! Magnitude 4.2
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"CA won't tolerate hate" says plane with banner from @CourageCampaign over #crescent #berkeley
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This is ⁦ @UCBerkeley ⁩’s 6th economist to win a Nobel and 26th Nobelist overall for the university. Will Cal run out if specialized parking spaces soon? “Cal, Stanford economists share Nobel for research on wages, jobs”.
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Wow. 91% of the vote for @RepBarbaraLee
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Wow: Cementing her status as a progressive icon, Oakland Dem @RepBarbaraLee reelected in her 13th Congressional District, CA's East Bay, with jaw-dropping 91 percent of the vote.
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Rumble in Berkeley. Who felt that?
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Resolution to End Exclusionary Zoning in Berkeley passes UNANIMOUSLY.
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Berkeley Mayor Jesse Arreguín issued a statement today opposing a ceasefire resolution, his first response the calls for council action: "These resolutions will not end the violence abroad, but they do fan the flames of hatred here at home" #berkmtg
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Protesters have disrupted the last two City Council meetings to demand a ceasefire resolution, and have vowed "no business as usual" until the council passes one. Tonight's crowd is the largest yet #berkmtg
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. @UCBerkeley students hop barricades set up for @AnnCoulter -related protests, to get their morning coffee
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@GeorgeLakoff Our story about your work has more than 300,000 pageviews, our most popular story of all time!
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