Beck Klein

UPDATE: after our investigation, the police chief implemented what seem to be sweeping changes to how overtime is managed oaklandside.org/2026/03/11/oak…

The police union said our reporting was based on “biased” information supplied by “rival” city unions. In fact, the article was based on records we obtained from the city directly through public records requests

NEW: after our article about how an officer made almost $500,000 on overtime, the Oakland Police Department has announced they are opening an investigation oaklandside.org/2026/02/11/oak…

For the past several months, I’ve been investigating Oakland police overtime. The top officer made almost half a million dollars on OT alone in 2024. My latest for @Oaklandside: oaklandside.org/2026/01/29/oak…

Been working on this investigation for about 9 months. Feels good to finally have something to show for it. Much more to come oaklandside.org/2025/06/25/oak…

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Hi everyone 🩵 Announcement time! My debut poetry chapbook, LOOKING IN LIGHT, which I've been working on for (get this) FIVE YEARS, is now out with the wonderful Bottlecap Press!!!! You can purchase here: bottlecap.press/products/looki…

Cover drop!

BREAKING: 48K University of Calfornia TAs, postdocs & other student workers just walked off the job. It's the largest strike in the US since 2019. Many UC workers earn < $24k/yr. A PhD student I spoke to said they donate blood plasma to make ends meet. washingtonpost.com/business/2022/…

Two former students at Sylvia Mendez Elementary School are suing BUSD for alleged childhood sexual assault, battery, harassment and negligence from 35 years ago. dailycal.org/2022/09/25/syl…

OP-ED | "Online courses which finally, in their accommodation of mass trauma, allowed many physically disabled, socially anxious and neurodivergent students to flourish, have been rushed away with the wave, like cutting off a lifeline." dailycal.org/2021/08/27/dis…

(1/7) A few years ago, a Chevron whistleblower quietly left a package at the @AmazonWatch headquarters with no name or return address. Dozens of DVDs were inside.

These numbers come from the Federal Discretionary budget from 2015 (nationalpriorities.org/budget-basics/….) and a report from the Center for Popular Democracy (#734ed8b9e7b7" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">forbes.com/sites/niallmcc…)

The US in total spends near $200 billion on policing and incarceration every year. That is: Close to 3x fed education budget Almost 3x fed housing budget Close to 5x energy and environment budget 6x science budget Nearly 7x transportation budget

I am perpetually shocked at CNN's lack of professionalism. How is this a news story?

Sorry but CNN fabricating the Warren/Sanders debacle into a massive multi-day news cycle over ostensibly nothing newsworthy, then using the debate they themselves hosted to perpetuate it, is crazy bad journalism imo

I wrote about Ann Coulter's talk at UC Berkeley. The campus spent an estimated $290K on security for the event. dailycal.org/2019/12/28/uc-…

It has taken an immense amount of effort for me to mentally separate NYT columnist Bret Stephens from BUSD superintendent Brent Stephens. And yet I have not once been congratulated for succeeding at it.

The scene currently on the South side of Wheeler Hall — demonstrators are chanting “who’s university, our university” — 1 hour into Coulter’s speech. #coulterprotest

The police are currently NOT letting anyone into the event according to a CA Highway Patrol officer at the police barricade. They’ve not been given any estimate on the size of crowd as of yet. #coulterprotest