Queer Bay Area Born and Raised | Crisis Counselor for LGBTQIA+2S | Harm Reduction Advocate | Abolitionist | BLM | Stop AAPI Hate | Free Palestine | MBTI:INFJ
What kind of plants can we find in downtown Oakland? We decided to run around Lake Merritt and focus on tree species first! Which area should we run around and look at plants next?
New report from California Common Good finds a huge jump in political spending by CA billionaires this election cycle: donations up 147% vs. 2023-24. The spending is aimed largely at defeating a proposed Billionaire Tax on the Nov 2026 ballot. 🧵
I suspect Daniel Lurie's honeymoon is short. He's still getting this PR coverage where everything is tone and feeling.
AI is an asset and valuation bubble, not a boom. Good example here is commercial vacancy. 5% pre-pandemic to 32% now. The city is deep in deficit austerity.
I was bitter and confused when my team was laid off, but they’re making it clear they have no intentions of trying to make Nickelodeon succeed. The movie pulled from theaters? all 26 episodes at once of this? Just sending Avatar to the graveyard so it can be a tax write off…
let's be very fucking clear here: District Attorney Brooke Jenkins @BrookeJenkinsSF is not only defending the SFPD beating the shit out of LGBTQ+ people on pride weekend but actually filing CHARGES against LGBTQ+ people for *checks notes* ...partying on pride weekend.
You can just lie on this website and get 8.5K likes.
Chan has taken $0 from AIPAC. AIPAC tactically boosted Chan in the primary to lock out Saikat (who has endorsed Chan). She calls out the genocide and wants to end aid.
Meanwhile, Wiener did this!
This is so emblematic of San Francisco in the tech era, and exactly the same thing as Trump's wars on Cuba, Venezuela, and Iran, and insane McCarthyist stuff this week.
These are reactionary, generations-long grudges against liberation movements from 50-60 years ago.
Zohran Mamdani has literally given Democrats an exact pathway on how to win elections and keep voters happy and Democrats still do their centrist bullshit
Mayor @DanielLurie office pulls funding from 4 Homerise contracted PSH buildings. Affecting 400 tenants.
Would love to connect with any Homerise tenants who have concerns and are looking to organize. Feel free to reach out, DM, etc…
https://t.co/H0WaCc9u6E
Former card carrying DSA member, Co-Sponsor with Dean Preston of a resolution to condemn a red baiting bill brought to Congress, in 2023, Matt Dorsey:
(Credit @DanRaile)