🚨BREAKING: A Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) agent visited the home of Milwaukee County’s elections director earlier this week in an attempt to question her, the county clerk has said. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

It's a direct quote He literally said "I don't think about Americans' financial situation"

Most of the roughly 60,000 people detained by ICE are held in for-profit immigration jails. Private prison PACs donated about $675,000 to members of Congress, while private prison executives gave nearly $380,000.

“Market Match is under threat. Gov. Gavin Newsom’s proposed state budget removes its funding, which would kill the program by early 2027.” @tlvoice.bsky.social

San Francisco's Prop I has generated over $500 million by taxing the richest of the rich. The revenue has stopped thousands of evictions, created community land trusts, and funded public housing repairs and development of new affordable housing. Billionaires want to repeal the tax. Don't let them.

What's great about reading the CRE press is while YIMBYs tell me how much rents will drop as developers do what they want, the actual money people lay out their plans to "rent pricing recovery" which means raising rents in plain English

Thanks to voter-approved Prop I (which the Mayor and Sup Mahmood are trying to repeal), the seller of this building will pay an estimated $2 million transfer tax intended for affordable housing. Thank you, SF voters, for your vision. Shame on the politicians trying to repeal taxes on the wealthy.

After the scandal with Collective Impact, one would think there would be some care in selecting who will run the Ella Hill Hutch Community Center. Instead, the Mayor & Supervisor are pushing forward this $1 annual lease with no community process or input. Introduced 5/5. Next stop: Budget Committee.

If there is a budget crisis in SF, why is Mayor Lurie cutting taxes on billionaires?

A very strange thing about our legal system is that that your average unhoused person has a much better grasp of the true nature of law than do most of the lawyers, scholars, and legislators.

Instead of shutting down law-abiding, immigrant-owned businesses at night in the TL as part of an overbroad ever-expanding curfew, the City should target bad apples. Businesses that repeatedly violate the law are subject to enforcement and can lose permits/licenses. Curfews are the lazy way.

Our tax dollars are funding a District Attorney who seeks to bar the use of the word genocide in a trial of people accused of protesting genocide

Mayor is gaslighting public transit riders whose lines have been cut, waits extended, and fares raised under his leadership

The fact that this guy not only does this, but seems to want everyone to know he’s the one doing it, says a lot about where SF is today. Part of San Francisco’s recovery from extreme levels of racism, classism, and inequality, is restoring the appropriate shaming to people like this.

"When people talk about the evils of polarization, they are deliberately normalizing fascism, and demonizing critics of fascism."

Leftist and radical infighting is generally overstated. Not that it doesn't happen — of course it does — but its extent/severity are often exaggerated, especially the idea it's somehow unique. Because I've investigated local governments, non-profit complex orgs, cops and the far-right, and...whew.

We put together a class war reading list because *gestures around*

In order to give massive tax breaks to their friends and donors, these geniuses are trying to cut taxes on high end real estate sales that will deprive the city at least $390m intended for affordable housing and drive up the deficit. No serious policy basis for their proposal. Just pure class war.

Every lawyer who had anything to do with the filing of the Comey seashells case should be disbarred immediately

The Ellis Act in California is used by corporate landlords to destroy rent-controlled apartments and to evict people. The Ellis Act must be repealed!

Here’s my piece on the “now-completed demolition” of the Voting Rights Act in @thenation.com The VRA is the most important piece of legislation in American history. It more than anything is what ended American-style apartheid. And now Republicans have killed it.

"what Alito and the majority have done is make it functionally impossible for voters to prove that a given map is an illegal racial gerrymander, no matter how discriminatory the map’s real-world impact.'

Oh, look: another tech utopia project in California. This one brought to you by the former editor of Peter Thiel’s Stanford Review, a person who also spoke at the Network State conference and wrote a 40-page analysis of the Network State project in Honduras. www.kron4.com/news/technol...

I wrote up the Comey indictment. www.popehat.com/p/the-comey-...

The Mayor and Sup. Mahmood are seeking to repeal SF's voter-approved tax on high end real estate sales. They want to give mega-landlords like Flynn Investments, the owner of these Pac Heights buildings, a massive tax break. If their reckless giveaway to the rich succeeds, the City will lose millions

🚨BREAKING: Trump appointed federal judge in Arizona hands DOJ its sixth defeat in its efforts to gain access to state voter files. DOJ is now 0-6 in these cases. Three of the defeats have come before Trump appointees. Increasingly possible DOJ might go 0-30. www.democracydocket.com/cases/arizon...

SF’s Mayor and SF’s Democratic Party are actively opposing a tax on the rich put forward by labor. The SF Democratic Party has fully abandoned the working class

"Chief Justice John Roberts mischaracterized more than twenty million dollars in household income from law firms appearing before the Supreme Court... He failed to recuse from more than 500 cases argued at the Supreme Court by law firms that had paid his household millions in commissions"

I was in DC last night. Right now, most electeds are issuing statements that “Political violence is never acceptable." Correct. Problem is, most politicians & corporate media refuse to acknowledge this fact: Trump’s actions prove he supports political violence. www.qasimrashid.com/p/i-was-in-d...

Peter Thiel Flees To Argentina. The Palantir billionaire and Antichrist enthusiast buys a $12 million mansion and heads south for an extended stay. Is he chasing prophecy again? www.thenerdreich.com/peter-thiel-...

14-percent pay increase for police. $100m+ reduction in taxes on billionaires. SF’s corporate Democrats are deeply unserious about addressing the city’s deficit.

Thanks Donald!

This is what happens when SF is governed through a billionaire lens. Basically DOGE led by conservative Dems. Shutting down youth and senior health clinics, and slashing harm reduction, behavioral health, HIV/AIDS and LGBTQ health programs, affecting some of The City’s most vulnerable populations.

Check this out. Here’s a post from the official Democratic Party Facebook account today claiming homicides are down in SF thanks to conservative Democrat Mayor Lurie. In fact, City data shows 16 homicides so far this year, compared to 5 this time last year. More than triple.

The Nerd Reich is essential reading/viewing for those who want to understand and resist techno-fascism

“At every step of this Kafkaesque journey, millions in public funds that could otherwise be go to Muni, public housing, or any number of socially beneficial uses will instead be used to traumatize and punish a person for “endangering the sobriety” of the person’s neighbor”

“Never mind the evidence, though: San Francisco, after several decades, is moving to abandon harm reduction as a principle in its substance use policy.” The Dorsey/Wong/Mahmood pro-eviction legislation heads to committee hearing.

“The ‘Peace President’ Threatens an Apocalypse on Iran. AGAIN” Another day, another set of gleeful promises of war crimes from the White House. Plus, Donald Trump's approval rating hits a new low. @swin24.bsky.social with ‘First Draft’ from Zeteo:

If there were a progressive in Room 200 instead of a conservative, there would already be a recall underway over this

Tom Drohan is an amazing person. Great to see this write up about him. Stop by The Page to hear him play or the Courthouse to see him kicking ass

Scary legislation in Louisiana. This is where SF is headed on our current path. Our city must change course. Invest in helping people instead of punishing them for being poor. House keys, not handcuffs. Treatment on demand.

Whole lotta Democrats are just Republicans who dislike the GOP's aesthetics

Good to see this. Which state will be next?

the bubble is so ready to burst

$3 million for the city from this one transaction thanks to the transfer tax I wrote, @dsasf.org championed, and SF voters passed. This is why billionaires attack socialists and why billionaire-backed politicians want to eliminate the transfer tax.

Good he’s out of the race. He should resign from Congress too

“Hungarian voters on Sunday ousted long-serving Prime Minister Viktor Orbán after 16 years in power, rejecting the authoritarian policies and global far-right movement that he embodied in favor of a pro-European challenger in a bombshell election result with global repercussions.”

Deranged anti-Pope Leo screed from the current president of the U.S.

“We should be investing in the systems that make this city livable, not undercutting one of the few revenue sources that’s actually delivering.” @ksmeallie.bsky.social

This NYPost piece shows the Republican & conservative Dem propaganda machine in overdrive. The real story? Police had a less than 1% clearance rate and departments didn’t collaborate to address car break ins. Our socialist office exposed this, held oversight hearings, and car breaks ins plummeted.