PoliticallyUnhoused_SF

Politically unhoused San Franciscan.
Pronouns: fuck/this/shit

[johnny maga @johnnymaga]

Democrats overwhelmingly vote late and by mail — but only Nithya Raman Democrats, not Karen Bass Democrats.

Just totally insane stuff.

[PoliticallyUnhoused_SF @PoliticallyUnh1]

@emma6USA is this AI?

[Tab Berg @tabberg]

CA VOTERS passed Prop 17 (67% YES) to reinstate the death penalty in CA.

CA VOTERS passed Prop 7 (71% YES) to expand the crimes eligible for the death penalty in CA.

CA VOTERS passed Prop 18 (73% YES) to expand the definition of "special circumstances" for murders.

CA VOTERS rejected Prop 34 (52% NO) - a moratorium on the death penalty.

CA VOTERS again rejected Prop 62 (53%) - a moratorium on the death penalty.

@XavierBecerra continues to DEFY VOTERS and reject Democracy.

[Bob Kirnum 🇺🇸🇮🇱 @Rkirnum]

@KennedyNation @jtLOL

[Kennedy @KennedyNation]

When American POWs tried to sneak her notes with their personal information to tell their families they were still alive, she gave them to the North Vietnamese. Some of them were beaten to death. You are both commies and you can both fuck off.

[PoliticallyUnhoused_SF @PoliticallyUnh1]

Not to the proponents of this ant-racist slop- look at their success!! Remedial middle school math for STEM majors. This letter is just professors pleading with the admins. Nothing has changed. Ibram X. Kendi is still winning. When you vote for shit, don't acted surprised when you get it.

[Kane 謝凱堯 @kane]

San Francisco public schools @SFUnified told me that they need a month to find documents about the "Adult Supremacy" seminar they hosted:

[Billy Binion @billybinion]

I’m so tired of this talking point. Tom Steyer is running for governor of California, which spent $20,000 *per student* in 2023. That’s double what the state spent just 10 years ago. And yet test scores are *declining.* The idea that we don’t “invest in schools” is a myth.

[Billy Binion @billybinion]

This is a myth. Data centers have had a negligible impact on electricity prices thus far. The actual drivers are aging grids, fuel costs, clean-energy mandates, and political barriers to building more power plants. This panic is totally divorced from reality.

[Kelsey Piper @KelseyTuoc]

Are autonomous vehicles (self-driving cars) “less able to detect people of color”? That’s what I read in The Atlantic this weekend, in Xochitl Gonzalez’s “People Who Don’t Like People Are Making All of Our Decisions.”

It appears to be entirely false.

[TFTC @TFTC21]

A peer-reviewed paper published last year in the journal Bioethics by two professors at Western Michigan University School of Medicine argues that it is "morally obligatory" to genetically engineer ticks to spread alpha-gal syndrome, a permanent condition that makes you violently allergic to red meat.

The paper is called "Beneficial Bloodsucking."

Their argument: if eating meat is morally wrong, then preventing the spread of a disease that forces people to stop eating meat is also morally wrong. Scientists should gene-edit lone star ticks to enhance their ability to carry alpha-gal syndrome and expand their range into urban environments to infect more people.

They call this a "moral bioenhancer." They frame releasing genetically modified disease-carrying ticks as a "vaccination" that only "infringes" on your bodily autonomy rather than "violating" it. The distinction, apparently, is that a tick bit you instead of a government official holding you down.

Alpha-gal syndrome is not mild. The CDC estimates up to 450,000 Americans are already affected. Cases have surged 100-fold in the last decade. Symptoms include anaphylaxis. There is no cure.

Alpha-gal cases are exploding across the United States. The lone star tick's range is expanding far beyond its historical territory. And two academics at a medical school published a paper arguing this is a good thing that should be accelerated.

At what point do we stop treating papers like this as fringe academic exercises and start asking whether anyone is already acting on them?

[Geiger Capital @Geiger_Capital]

The DR mass deported 380,000 Haitians last year and 120,000 so far in 2026…

They are doing it to enforce their immigration laws, protect their national sovereignty, prioritize their citizens and ease public services.

No one is protesting or calling them Nazis.

[Avi Roy @agingroy]

7,000 false positives per square millimeter. The culprit was the lab gloves.

University of Michigan researchers just upended a core assumption in microplastics science. Latex and nitrile gloves, worn by the scientists doing the measuring, shed stearate particles that look chemically identical to polyethylene. Standard infrared and Raman instruments can't tell them apart. The gloves were counting as plastic.

Seven glove types tested. All contaminated. The cheapest fix: switch to cleanroom gloves, which dropped false positives to around 100 per mm² vs. 7,000.

The "credit card per week" headline (5 grams, WWF/Newcastle 2019) has separate problems. A 2022 re-analysis found severe methodological errors in the original estimate. Actual measured intake is likely 100x lower.

None of this means microplastics are harmless. Last month's data on brain accumulation still stands. But the numbers driving the panic may have been measuring the scientists, not the environment.

Science catching its own errors is exactly how it's supposed to work.

[Robert Sterling @RobertMSterling]

During the Biden administration, H-1B visa holders were buying houses with 97-100% financing. 97% would come from the FHA, with the rest coming from state first-time home buyer programs.

Zero money down. Thanks to programs that were supposed to be helping low-income American families buy their own homes.

FHA loans to non-permanent residents quickly grew to represent 6% of mortgage issuances. The percentage was undoubtedly higher in places like the DFW area, where H-1B visa holders are disproportionately concentrated.

I don’t have anything against people in America on H-1B visas. I’ve said it before—and I’ll say it again—that I’ve found many of them to be great people on an individual level, and I wish them all nothing but the best. Individual immigrants—especially those here legally—are not at fault for flawed US immigration policy.

But this might be the most radicalizing thing I’ve ever seen. Not only are American workers forced to compete for jobs, they’re also forced to compete in the housing market against people bringing 0-3% of a house’s cost to the closing table, versus the 10-20% most people have to pay.

First, companies import mass numbers of H-1B visa holders, largely in "back office" white-collar fields like IT and accounting. This essentially imposes a lower ceiling on domestic wages in these job categories.

Next, these workers—who are generally concentrated in certain geographic areas—create more demand for housing (especially in good school districts), driving up home prices and the cost of living.

Then, to top it off, they don’t even have to save up money for a down payment. They can close on a $500k house with $0-15k plus a 97% FHA loan. Meanwhile, ordinary American families are forced to come to with $50-100k for the same down payment.

I don’t care how you feel about Trump or what your preferred immigration policies are; there’s no defending this. It screws over hard-working American citizens several different ways over, and it’s yet another reason why I will always be glad Trump won and Kamala Harris lost in 2024.

[Bad Hombre @Badhombre]

South Carolina has had a Black Secretary of State, a Black State Treasurer, two Black Lieutenant Governors, a Black Attorney General, and one of their U.S. Senators is Black.

ALL Republicans, by the way.

I remember when people were too embarrassed to display their ignorance.

[John Mozena @johnmoz]

Data centers aren't uniquely energy-hungry. One aluminum smelter draws as much power as all of Nashville.

Utilities used to build power plants to meet that demand but today, regulations & litigation make that almost impossible.

We need more power plants, not fewer data centers.

[Alice Smith @TheAliceSmith]

Why are Marxists found more predominantly in academia rather than business or engineering or medicine? Because academic ideas don’t have to work in the real world.

[PoliticallyUnhoused_SF @PoliticallyUnh1]

@AllieJade1 @grok this looks like AI, is it?

[Brittany Hughes @RealBrittHughes]

This sounds cool. But wait.

400 diapers will last a family with a newborn approximately five weeks.

The program will cost the state approx. $12.4 million this year alone.

That money will be funneled through a company called Baby2Baby, which will then provide their branded diapers to 400 participating in hospitals (California has over 500 hospitals in total.)

Meaning that instead of lowering taxes and letting families keep their own money to buy essentials like diapers, California takes their money, pumps it through a “nonprofit” that has overhead and whose CEO made $240,000 in 2024, to provide a “free” service available only in certain locations, and that you could have bought yourself for much cheaper.

[Diana Alastair💚🤍💜 ⚢ ❌❌✡️ @sappholives83]

This man deserves to be given a full pardon and the thanks of a grateful nation. Instead, he’ll die in prison, condemned for life by the same court system that gave Jessie Mack Butler a six month suspended sentence for three rapes and one attempted murder.