Jonathan Abboud

Elected Trustee on the SB City College Board. Cofounder & General Manager of Isla Vista Community Services District. Tweets my own

[Jonathan Abboud @imallabboudit]

@GovPressOffice @cmarinucci California can start by creating a public health insurance and capitalize it with all state/local government employees premium spending that currently happens through countless purchasers/brokers/etc only to end up at the same few private companies.

https://t.co/xzhXx1ojYy

[Team Talarico @TeamTalaricoHQ]

.@JamesTalarico: I’m an elderly millennial. I can’t stay up past 10pm, my joints ache, and my younger cousins call me cringe. They also call me ‘unc,’ whatever that means. But Gen Z — freed from illusions — is uniquely suited to lead us at this moment.

Many of you grew up on the For You Page. The endless scroll is emblematic of what humans have been doing for hundreds of thousands of years: searching. If we scroll past one more tweet, one more TikTok, maybe we’ll find what we’re looking for — the one that will make us feel something.

But what you’re looking for can’t be found on artificial platforms run by billionaires. It’s within you.

[Jon Ossoff @ossoff]

Congress has let drug companies rip off Americans for decades.

Lobbyists, campaign cash, and a system that protects industry profits.

But it doesn’t have to be this way.

[Jonathan Abboud @imallabboudit]

@mcuban Wondering your thoughts on this idea I wrote about — creating a public insurance company off of the large amount spent already on public employees health premiums.

https://t.co/xzhXx1ojYy

[Jonathan Abboud @imallabboudit]

@TomSteyer @katieporterca @XavierBecerra @MattMahanSJ @AVillaraigosa

[Jonathan Abboud @imallabboudit]

California spends $27.5 billion on public employee health insurance premiums through thousands of separate buyers, only for it to end up at the same four companies. We are giving up our bulk purchasing power.

Here’s how to fix it.

https://t.co/xzhXx1ojYy

[Jonathan Abboud @imallabboudit]

@LindseyPHorvath Thank you for saying this

[Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @NYCMayor]

This morning, I joined @PIX11News to announce a new executive order requiring every city agency to designate a Chief Savings Officer.

Within 45 days, these officers will identify which city services deliver the strongest results for New Yorkers—and where we can streamline processes and cut waste. The goal is simple: make sure every public dollar works harder to deliver a safer, cleaner, and more affordable city.

[Libertarian Party @LPNational]

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[Cassie Pritchard @hecubian_devil]

I am discovering in my mentions that a lot of people seem to think the point of a union is to force your employer out of business for being Immoral Capitalists, which might have something to do with the American left’s anemic labor organizing record

[Buffy Wicks @BuffyWicks]

In 2026, I’m interested in attending fewer bill signing ceremonies & more ribbon cuttings. Because our success isn’t measured by how many bills we pass – it’s measured by how many problems we actually solve.

Read on for more: https://t.co/dUXN9ZzVkX

[Jonathan Abboud @imallabboudit]

@pahlkadot An amazing article & something we’ve been working on at our tiny little local government Isla Vista Community Services District. Would love to talk more!

[Senator Scott Wiener @Scott_Wiener]

This is rich. Connie Chan says she “built real affordable housing, not the Sacramento version that destroys our neighborhoods.”

She points to new affordable housing on Geary: housing she didn’t build but *was* built using “Sacramento version” housing laws & $52M in state funds🧵

[Jonathan Abboud @imallabboudit]

@AlexCVassar Amazing resource

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

The media cannot and must not separate itself from the destiny of truth. Transparency of sources and ownership, accountability, quality, clarity, and objectivity are the keys to truly opening citizens' rights for all peoples.

[Jonathan Abboud @imallabboudit]

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[Jonathan Abboud @imallabboudit]

The real fight isn’t over free speech — it’s over who controls what we see first and what we remember later.

Freedom in the digital age means reclaiming our attention from algorithms that profit off our outrage.

[Jonathan Abboud @imallabboudit]

@hecubian_devil https://t.co/LdjFbjC48V

[Jonathan Abboud @imallabboudit]

@hecubian_devil or real bigots and Juan Williams and Rick Sanchez is an
insult, not only to those people but to the racists themselves who have put
in the exhausting effort it takes to hate--just as the inability to distinguish
terrorists from Muslims makes us less safe not more.