Matt Nemenman

Silicon Valley, Sierra Nevada, and everything in between

[Israel ישראל @Israel]

Viewer discretion advised: some of you may have seen clips and images of the horrific war crimes committed by Hamas on October 7th.

A new website archives all of this footage.

We know it’s difficult to watch, but it is even more heart wrenching for the victims and the families of these heinous crimes.

Please RT this and help us make sure that the world knows what happened.

https://t.co/MFcndWl8pE

[Matt Nemenman @quarterdome]

@decadimitry I’m not a fan of Scott, but whoever is the guy that took this video is way worse than him.

[Aizenberg @Aizenberg55]

This should be front-page news worldwide:

Palestinian Islamic Jihad admits one of its fighters posed as a journalist and used Shifa Hospital as a base — precisely as Israel said

But because it contradicts the preferred Gaza Narrative™ it's totally ignored

[The Free Press @TheFP]

.@lsanger, the co-founder of Wikipedia, on how the world’s largest encyclopedia became overrun by bias and censorship—and pushed him out when he tried to fix it.

“The story of what happened to me is, in many ways, the story of our censorious times, in which independent thinking is seen as a threat rather than a virtue, and punished as such,” Sanger writes.

Read the full story here: https://t.co/1B5Q9duhlJ

[Matt Nemenman @quarterdome]

@Twolfrecovery I am in LA now, right by Hollywood. It is the first time in a long while that I travel away from SF, look around, and think to myself -- I am proud of my home city. Still long way to go for SF, but difference with LA is day and night.

[Eylon Levy @EylonALevy]

This your guy, @ZohranKMamdani?

[U.S. Senator John Fetterman @SenFettermanPA]

Anti-Israel.

Anti-America.

Anti-Western Civilization.

Why am I the only Democrat in the U.S. Senate that refuses to excuse this or defend any of those self-identified communists?

[Matt Nemenman @quarterdome]

@sfstandard @FitzTheReporter I really didn’t want to vote for @Scott_Wiener , but now I will have to.

[Jesse Arm @Jesse_Leg]

Part of what makes me so pessimistic about the future of the Democratic Party is that this Mahan guy isn’t consistently polling orders of magnitude higher than people like Porter or Becerra.

He’s quite obviously more articulate and vastly more competent than any of the other Democrats running, and yet, these California liberals seem highly unlikely to elect him.

Instead, they appear poised to go with someone even less capable than Newsom.

[Rick J. Caruso @RickCarusoLA]

Wow, @MattMahanSJ tied for second place among Democrats. As more voters get to know Matt, they like him. He’s one of the only candidates with a positive net favorability rating and the ONLY candidate with a real proven track record of solving problems with common sense solutions.

[Matti Friedman @MattiFriedman]

As of right now, "Introduction to Gazology" is free and not behind the paywall, for a limited time:

[Matt Nemenman @quarterdome]

@jakeonrails We should be asking how to make cycling and transit UX better and not how to make ride share less desirable. It is not a zero sum game.

[Matt Nemenman @quarterdome]

@jakeonrails I’m not sure what point you are making, so I may be off mark here. What I’m saying is that if transit riders, cyclists, or drivers choose to use rideshare and pay market rate and regulatory surcharges, then it is more appealing to a wide slice of consumers.

[Matt Nemenman @quarterdome]

@CommonSenseiSF @agarwal @GrowSF @MHurabiell Scott Wiener has a good track record on transit and construction, but increasingly bad one on everything else. It is time for GrowSF to realize that, and move to support a candidate that is more aligned with "non-controversial ideas that everyone can get behind".

[Aviva Klompas @AvivaKlompas]

Remember when the media told you the Michigan attacker was driven by grief because his brother had been killed in an Israeli airstrike in Lebanon?

You were supposed to feel sympathy and compassion for the guy who tried to murder Jews.

Now we learn his dead brother was a Hezbollah commander.

[Mayor Matt Mahan @MattMahanSJ]

If we’re going to solve our challenges we have to be honest about them. First, Silicon Valley has been one of the most expensive places to buy a home since before I was born. That’s why my family settled 50 miles away in a small farming town. And it hasn’t gotten better. Second, the Valley is partly a victim of its own success in the sense that this region has created so many high-paying jobs that people from all over the country and the world come here for opportunity. In fact, SV has been one of the very best regions in the country for economic mobility despite our high cost of living. Third, our brutally high housing costs are also—and I would argue primarily—a public policy failure. The incredible economy we have nurtured here has added roughly 8 jobs for every 1 new home we have built over the last couple of decades. That’s why as mayor I have worked so hard to simplify approval processes, expand zoning in urban villages and along transit corridors, reduce one-time fees and other requirements that, together, make it extremely slow and expensive to build housing here. I’m proud that last year we broke ground on thousands of new homes that had been approved years ago and stuck in the pipeline because they simply didn’t pencil. For California to improve affordability, we will need to make it much easier and less expensive to build housing, we will need to better connect our job centers and housing markets with great transit and transportation infrastructure, and bring down utility rates through smarter regulations and better technology.

[Matt Nemenman @quarterdome]

Finally we have a decent candidate! I’m looking forward to voting now as I won’t have to choose between bad and worse. If only we could get someone decent running for Pelosi seat.

[Mayor Matt Mahan @MattMahanSJ]

A couple weeks ago, I came home and my wife, Silvia, said something I almost couldn’t believe.

She looked at me and she said, “I think our state needs you.” Because she believed I could help our kids. Help San José. And help California.

And if you know anything about Silvia — when she talks, you listen.

So I’m running for Governor of California — because we can do better.

I know we can, because we’re proving it in San Jose.

We’ve reduced unsheltered homelessness by nearly 1/3rd after a decade of growth. We were rated the safest big city in America last year for the first time in over 20 years. We’re the only city to have solved 100% of homicides nearly 4 years running. And we’re taking on affordability with urgency and honesty — unlocking thousands of housing units in the past couple years. 

We need to stand up for our rights, for our freedoms and for our neighbors. We need to use the tools we have at hand to protect our democracy.

One tool is the law. The other tool is our results. We have to use both.

That’s how we fix California.

We don’t just need to be against something. We need to be for something — a government that proves it can solve problems for working people again.

And before we ask Californians to give more, we owe them proof that their government can do better.

So I’m running to bring focus back to government. To give cities the tools they need to succeed. To show that the best resistance to division is results.

And to prove that California can work again — for everyone.

That’s why I’m running.

And that’s the future Silvia and I are fighting for.

https://t.co/OgrVAthfeW

[Matt Nemenman @quarterdome]

@bmazniker He also declined to state position on “billionaire tax”. Before today, he also declined to take position on “Israel genocide in Gaza”, and we know now what that means.

[Matt Nemenman @quarterdome]

@bmazniker Other than AI, parental rights (eg AB1955), crime (eg SB357, S73, SB136). He did reversed his stance and authored several “tougher on crime” laws later, but damage was done.