"Guaranteed housing and health care, no billionaires" has a better ring to it

CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1965: 20-1 CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1990: 75-1 CEO-to-worker pay ratio today: 280-to-1 Trickle-down economics was always a sham. Nothing has ever trickled down.

We are not at war with Venezuela and there's no legal justification for the extrajudicial murder of Venezuelan sailors. Trump said he could shoot someone on 5th Avenue and not lose any supporters and now he's testing his theory on international waters. He must be stopped.

🎉Issue 7.2 is live! "The longue durée of housing justice," edited by Aysegul Can, Melissa Fernández Arrigoitia, Saila-Maria Saaristo, Melora Koepke, and Andy Crosby. Read the full issue at radicalhousingjournal.org. #HousingJustice #UrbanStudies #OpenAccess #SpatialPolitics

We cannot let this be normal. A sitting United States President has called for ‘death’ to sitting Members of Congress. Those who he targets — veterans, intelligence community, federal workers — must stand up and fight.

Noted political donor to "moderate San Francisco Democrat" causes

Who would have guessed that David Sacks would be doing unethical shit in the White House? Not a single guy in that cohort who’s not a raging sociopath www.nytimes.com/2025/11/30/t...

There is no “centrist” solution to MAGA.

What I love most about looking through @scottwiener.bsky.social's political donations is seeing how many of today's techbro villains have generously patronized his campaigns

“I'm not saying these are glasses for creeps, but I can't help but feel like one while wearing them.” Reader, they are for creeps.

I really appreciate that @pbsnews.org ended the interview with this graphic. It captures, in the simplest and starkest terms, the brutal arithmetic driving this country's homelessness catastrophe.

"Homelessness today isn't just the person sleeping outside a Walmart. It's often the cashier or worker stocking the shelves inside." I joined @pbsnews.org to talk about There Is No Place for Us and the staggering rise of the "working homeless": www.pbs.org/newshour/sho...

This is a really big story that should not be missed. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

The Trump regime is disappearing people to indefinite detention in third countries they’ve never been to, often giving them no chance to contest their deportation and breaking U.S. and international law. Cruelty and inhumanity beyond belief. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

More elections are already around the corner, mere days. And Democrats have opportunities to build on their November gains by flipping more offices: in Tennessee, in Georgia, in Florida. And that's just the tip of a busy election month. My new guide, just out:

ICE deported a woman who owned a home in the US for 30 years. A judge banned ICE from deporting her to Sierra Leone where she had been tortured, so it deported her to Ghana, which kidnapped her and sent her back Sierra Leone anyway. ICE is part of this illegal conspiracy.

Waters: This is an important press conference that is being held to let you know what we're all doing: resisting this lowdown dirty no good filthy president

Another big loss for Trump. This administration is weakness masquerading as strength. Stand up fight back.

Several weeks ago, I warned that Lurie would intensify his war on the poor and use Trump's threat to justify it. This is exactly what he's done.

"In August 2023, Iowa City eliminated its bus fare. The two-year pilot noticeably lowered rates of driving, successfully increased bus ridership and lowered local emissions." 👏👏👏

Holy shit. So Elon decides it would be nice to know what region of the world people are posting from. So they add that little feature. 2 hours later they figure out that many Trump supporters with millions of followers are posting from other countries. Surprise! That "feature" is now gone.

If you’re a journalist who’s still on Twitter, from now on in your writing you have to replace “the American people want” with “troll bots in Eastern Europe demand” Being there makes your judgment suspect. I don’t care how savvy you think you are, you’re marinating in a disinformation campaign.

Deeply saddened by the loss of the amazing Katherine Campbell, a friend, Black Panther veteran, organizer of the annual Free Breakfast Program in the Fillmore, and a relentlessly positive, kind, and committed warrior for justice. Rest in Power, Katherine.

Jail or prison time served by high-ranking Nixon officials as a result of Watergate: Attorney General: 19 months. Chief of Staff: 18 months. White House Counsel #1: 18 months. White House Counsel #2: 4 months. Secretary to the President: 8 months. Special Counsel: 7 months.

We really need to ban mayoral appointments to the Board of Supervisors. Hold a prompt special election instead and let the people decide. The head of the executive branch should not be able to appoint members of the legislative body that's supposed to provide oversight of his administration.

It’s crazy to think about the crimes we’re going to learn about after this regime ends. We’re already hearing about Watergate level crimes every week. Imagine what will come out after it’s over. We’re going to need a full accounting of all that’s been done in violation of the constitution.

My colleague and another student were just arrested after nonviolently defending immigrants outside Alligator Alcatraz. Support their jail fund here:

California style YIMBY ideology has failed on its own terms. Even as it racks up legislative and regulatory wins with hundreds of laws & code changes, CA's housing production remains flat while prices continue to climb.

CNN: In the last couple of weeks or so, she's become kind of an ally on some issues. What do you make of this? Auchincloss: No, John, she hasn't.

This Day in Labor History: November 22, 1909. Approximately 20,000 garment workers in New York City went on strike against the horrendous conditions of their sweatshops. This strike, known as the Uprising of the 20,000, was the largest strike led by women in American history to that time!!!

BREAKING: Federal judge rejects DOJ's effort to subpoena the names and medical records of children who have received gender-affirming medical care from the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Thanks to San Francisco voters who passed our Prop I (2020) these transactions will generate $24.5 million in tax revenue intended for social housing

Judge blocks IRS from sharing data with DHS for immigration enforcement

Another tech billionaire who is thrilled with the Mayor’s war on the poor. “Huang praised Lurie, the first-term mayor, including his efforts to bolster the police force. He said the city needs “tough love” and added that he was grateful to Trump for offering to help fix the city.”

Today is Transgender Day of Remembrance. TDOR honors the memory and lives of victims of anti-trans violence. This day also brings visibility and momentum to a call to action to end the hatred and ignorance that the transgender community faces daily.

Instead of taxing billionaires, the powers that be are going to try to force school closures. Students, families, teachers, school staff stopped this the last time they tried it. Follow @sfedalliance.bsky.social for independent analysis and advocacy for our public schools.

The meta point worth making here is that obviously none of these officials feared any sort of consequence for shamelessly lying their asses off in a federal court, which ought at very minimum end your career in law enforcement.

BREAKING: 30 more Starbucks locations are joining the strike. Starbucks workers in 25 cities are jumping into the week-long strike. Now @sbworkersunited.org members at 95 stores in 65 cities have walked off the job.

Who’s more fit, LeBron James or Elon Musk?

Whistles are one of the most accessible tools in resisting ICE. Here’s how to use them:

ESQUIRE: “ICE is hiring literally anybody, and it’s terrifying… people who flunk the exam, criminal records… yet they’re allowed to tear children from their beds at night.” www.esquire.com/news-politic...

Supervisor Sherrill is making sure Marina Safeway is protected from any upzoning, while Fillmore Safeway is now slated for development of 1800 units, 85% unaffordable to neighborhood residents. See a pattern?

The real story of the upzoning debate in SF right now is that the mayor and the YIMBY supervisors don’t have the courage (or interest) to take on wealthy single family home owners in rich white neighborhoods (upzone Pac Heights, etc) so they are upzoning demolitions of rent controlled homes instead.

It appears they don't like whistles

"Blackstone, with the help of their cheerleader, Daniel Lurie, seems poised to turn the counterculture capital of California into America’s eviction epicenter."

Yet another example that SFYIMBY is a conservative politicalPAC not a housing org. Sherrill votes to make rich people richer & criminalize poverty so they support him even if (because?) he blocks housing in rich neighborhoods. Meanwhile their astroturf network vilifies advocates for affordable homes

This is a bizarre take from the Chronicle. Lurie appointed an inexperienced loyalist — the Trump strategy. The lesson he should learn is to vet candidates and appoint people with the skills/experience to do the job. Given that he’s been purging commissions of independent experts, that’s unlikely.

Good to see some mainstream media coverage of this in SF: "That's the quiet corruption corroding modern philanthropy: the ability to give as a license to impose one's will. It's a kind of moral laundering, where so-called benevolence masks self-interest."

San Francisco should buy up these units to stabilize existing tenants and create permanently affordable homes