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Brandon Downey
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One of the most anti-Becerra facts I learned I only discovered tonight: Becerra (and Harris) both backed inflating a death row inmate's IQ so they would no longer qualify as disabled so they could be executed. Given a choice of elected Dems, this is not what I want in a governor.
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Xavier Becerra Pushed to Inflate a Black Manās IQ to Execute Him as California AG
Becerra, a front-runner for California governor, has a history of blocking police accountability and seeking to uphold the death penalty.
https://theintercept.com/2026/05/19/xavier-becerra-california-governor-death-penalty/
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Annie M Leonard
1 day ago
CA voters: we canāt afford yet another Governor who is timid on climate. The longer we wait to wind down fossil fuels, the more expensive, painful and deadly it will be. Please, please vote for Tom Steyer.
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Jordan Uhl
5 days ago
The state of the California governorās race:
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Jordan Uhl
3 days ago
Xavier Becerra, who has taken the maximum direct contribution from Chevron which also pumped $500,000 into his super PAC, would not commit to the stateās goal of banning purchases of new gas and hybrid vehicles starting in 2035:
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Xavier Becerra has doubts about California's EV ambitions
He significantly differs from Newsom on one of the stateās most ambitious climate policies.
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/05/30/xavier-becerra-steyer-california-gas-car-sales-ban-00943501?utm_medium=twitter&utm_source=dlvr.it
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Zach Lipton
4 days ago
the bus. you've once again invented the bus.
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Parker Molloy
4 days ago
This is very cool. This type of support for trans people should be the bare minimum. It's really a shame that Steyer is the only one in the California governor's race willing to stand up for trans people like this.
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John Nichols
5 days ago
Tom Steyerās most striking proposal is a plan to tax AIāwith a token fee on corporate AI use, a fraction of a cent for every a fraction of a cent for every unit of data processed by Big Techāand to create a Golden State Sovereign Wealth Fund to benefit California workers and communities.
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Tom Steyer Is Prepared to Take On the AI Billionaires
The California gubernatorial candidate understands exactly whatās at stake, as he explains in an exclusive interview.
https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/tom-steyer-ai-california-governor/
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Bill McKibben
5 days ago
Excellent profile of Tom Steyer
@tomsteyerhq.bsky.social
We're going to need some class traitors
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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California āClass Traitorā Tom Steyer Wants to Tax His Fellow Billionaires
The former hedge fund titan is waging one of the most expensive gubernatorial campaigns in US history ā on a platform the business community hates.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-05-28/california-governors-race-billionaire-tom-steyer-campaigns-against-the-rich?accessToken=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJzb3VyY2UiOiJTdWJzY3JpYmVyR2lmdGVkQXJ0aWNsZSIsImlhdCI6MTc3OTk4Njk4NywiZXhwIjoxNzgwNTkxNzg3LCJhcnRpY2xlSWQiOiJURlFYQzRSMjRVQkYwMCIsImJjb25uZWN0SWQiOiI2ODEzMjE4MzU0MEU0Qzk2QjQ5MTREREYyRTk3MTE0MSJ9.QqkfsZ1WOqu9CnQRouP4-BpYs_FljUvLMiS6xElPHUE
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Jake Grumbach
8 days ago
Single payer for primary care! (thatās my dad)
www.sfchronicle.com/california/a...
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UCSF doctor has bold plan to achieve universal primary care in California
A UCSF doctor has co-authored a paper proposing a road map toward single-payer health care in California ā focused on ensuring primary care for all.
https://www.sfchronicle.com/california/article/universal-primary-care-ucsf-22271182.php
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Rebecca Solnit
8 days ago
Doesn't fit into 240 characters, but since you asked:
www.meditationsinanemergency.com/hey-californ...
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Hey California! What Does It Take to Be Governor?
For decades most politicians who are not outright climate deniers have sounded like "oh yes, as you mention, the building is on fire and countless beings are trapped in it, and what if in a week or so...
https://www.meditationsinanemergency.com/hey-california-what-does-it-take-to-be-governor/
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Jordan Uhl
7 days ago
Not only was Steyer's answer on this really good, it's appalling how BAD Becerra's answer is. He immediately rolls over then tries insulting the reporter's intelligence.
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Micah
9 days ago
see? is that so hard? is that such a difficult argument to make? this is what I want to see out of Democrats Tom Steyer, you have my vote
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Rebecca Solnit
8 days ago
And then there's the way you can judge someone by their enemies: Chevron, Occidental Petroleum, PG&E, Meta, and AirBnB are among the sinister corporations spending big to back Becerra. Oh and the prison guards' union! They think Steyer is bad for their businesses, which is a ringing endorsement.
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Rebecca Saltzman
8 days ago
I donāt understand how days before the election a leading gubernatorial candidate doesnāt understand the biggest CA infrastructure project. Up until a few weeks ago Becerra barely seemed to grasp the housing crisis, with few ideas on how to address it. Why are so many Democrats supporting him?
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Joshua Pauselius
9 days ago
š§µ When I was at a town hall with Steyer a trans community member asked the question "how do I know you won't backstab me?" He began to share a story about how one of his oldest friends is gay and was a leader for the LGBTQ community. This friend would host meetings and invited Tom to come along.
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cait (and adonis)
8 days ago
far be it for me to gas up a billionaire but this is a good fucking opinion and should be the universal Democratic messaging
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Jake Grumbach
9 days ago
A privilege to work on this with Perry. Even before Callais, we had challengesāaging CBC that hasnāt cultivated the next gen, a centrist turn of Black mayors, district representation that doesnāt matter under national polarization Callais destroys even that. We need a new inside-outside strategy
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Parker Molloy
8 days ago
Kind of funny to see Becerra superfans responding to stuff like this by going, "Sure, Steyer is saying things you want to hear, but what if he gets into office and doesn't do them?" like they'd be better off with... someone who 100% won't do the things they want?
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Max Kennerly
9 days ago
For all the endless hoopla about "Democrats connecting with ordinary people," 99% of which is "Democrats must rigidly adhere to the directives of elite reactionary centrists," Steyer here is talking about an issue in the same way that actual people who vote for Democrats do. Good stuff.
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Jordan Uhl
11 days ago
If this was a blind ballot and you only saw a campaign's backers, which side would you pick? But this isn't a hypothetical. On the left are Xavier Becerra's backers. Tom Steyer's endorsements on the right.
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Max Dubler š³ļøāš
9 days ago
I will be voting for Tom Steyer.
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So basically
@jakemgrumbach.bsky.social
on this cursed š¦ site (Sorry, man, don't know any other Cal jabronis š)
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Alex
9 days ago
Adding to Tom Steyer discourse
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G Elliott Morris
10 days ago
Jake and I have been writing for the past year that the āmoderateā vs āprogressiveā policy debate is largely missing the point (no empirical evidence of effects of ideology on votes). Now Jentleson admits voters donāt think in these terms and the alpha on issue positioning is mostly gone. Thatās a W
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Armin Ronacher
9 days ago
Has been a while since I wrote about agentic engineering, so this time around some learnings of maintaining Pi as a junior maintainer to
@mariozechner.at
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Building Pi With Pi
Learnings from post-AI Open Source and how weāre approaching this so far.
https://lucumr.pocoo.org/2026/5/24/pi-oss/
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"Yeah, my buddy Brandon is a Golden Gate Claude truther"
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Brandon Downey
11 days ago
Oh cool, Google has an Isaac Chotiner gogol now.
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Adam Gurri
12 days ago
Read
@dogsinautumn.bsky.social
today on why taxes are good and Democrats cannot cave to the temptation to campaign on lowering them
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Damien Miller
12 days ago
Gregor Samsa awoke from uneasy dreams to find himself an elected representative
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warming up
15 days ago
āAt the time, Becerra threatened to charge journalists with crimes unless they destroyed a list of police officers convicted of crimes.ā Some of those reporters are friends of mine and I heard pretty terrible stories about how Becerraās office was trying to strong arm them.
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This place def needs more "terribad stemlords" skeeting good art āļø
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Naomi Saphra
12 days ago
Maybe it is a good day to go to the Whitney in NYC and look at The Rose. It is very big. A human spent 8 years painting it. She made it too big and couldn't get it back out her door. They had to cut a hole in the wall and forklift it out.
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David Weiskopf believes in you
16 days ago
"~" = tossup ā Steyer (Gov) ā Allen (Ins Cmr) ~ ā Fryday (LG) ~ ā Cofer (Co Sup) ā Kounalakis (Tr) ā Vang (Congress) ā Bonta (AG) ā Rendon (Sup of Pub Inst) ~ ā Weber (SoS) ā Cohen (Controller) ā Ashby (Sen) ā Krell (Asm) ā Williamson (BOE D1) ~ ā Lau (Sac City Council) ~ ā Donette (Co. BoE) ~
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James Medlock
26 days ago
Based and pragmatism pilled
www.californiadsa.org/voterguide
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What is this word, "profit"? Is it French?
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Zach Weinersmith
13 days ago
Bearing in mind that within the last year I've had many people insist to me that these models can't do arithmetic.
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14 days ago
I wrote up my
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blog.pamelafox.org/2026/05/pyco...
(you can just scroll through the pics, it got kind of long - what a week!)
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My experience at PyCon US 2026
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https://blog.pamelafox.org/2026/05/pycon-2026-reflections.html
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Leah Stokes
14 days ago
Want to join a call to hear about Tom Steyer's climate credentials? It's happening this Thursday at 11 AM PT. You can sign up here. I will be talking about how Steyer will take on the utilities, who have been jacking up bills for years. And no, I'm not paid LOL.
www.tomsteyer.com/climate-clea...
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Call with Climate and Clean Energy Leaders for Tom Steyer
https://www.tomsteyer.com/climate-clean-energy-call
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Bill McKibben
18 days ago
Well, Chevron has figured out their candidate. Always helpful to know who Big Oil is rooting for. As for me, I think Tom Steyer will take on the oil and utility industries, and save Californians a bundle. Which is why those industries hate him.
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14 days ago
A full court press by the leadership of a minor publication to turn a benign mistake related to the title of the interviewer into a viral moment against a candidate using multiple accounts and media is ham-fisted, Iām sorry.
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Leah Stokes
18 days ago
California gubernatorial candidate Xavier Becerra just took half a million dollars from the fossil fuel industry. This on top of the max contribution from Chevron. When someone shows you who they are, believe them.
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Ben Clemens
18 days ago
I rarely post about politics, but if you live in California: vote in the primary. I love this state but it's broken, and this primary will decide a lot. Tom Steyer lines up best with what I want fixed and how. Not telling you who to pick. We might have different values. Do your research. Just vote.
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Jake Grumbach
19 days ago
As state AG, Becerra had signaled to us that heād do a state investigation of the case. But despite the Vallejo police destroying evidence (!!!) from Seanās murder, nothing came of it. Today the officer is back on duty.
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Sean Monterrosaās sister says Xavier Becerra let them down
The sister of Sean Monterrosa, who was killed by a Vallejo cop in 2020, blasts the former attorney general and gubernatorial front-runner for failing to investigate her brotherās killing.
https://sfstandard.com/2026/05/13/sean-monterrosa-family-xavier-becerra/
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Stan Oklobdzija
20 days ago
I'm going to vote for
@tomsteyerhq.bsky.social
but if you're not a Republican, you need to either vote for him or Becerra. Keep Republicans mad and unemployed as God intended for them to be.
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Data Bear š³ļøāš
20 days ago
I am feeling more and more confident in my vote for Steyer.
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Leah Stokes
22 days ago
If you live in California like me, it's election season. I'm voting for 3 climate champions: Tom Steyer for Governor, Josh Fryday for Lt. Governor and Ben Allen for Insurance Commissioner. Get out there and vote!
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cole kuiper
24 days ago
Fare thee well, Patrick Bailey! Our Saturday Morning Emergency Podcast is up!
open.spotify.com/episode/4oFV...
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Darrell Owens
25 days ago
Steyer's answer on homelessness I thought was really well and a highlight of the night.
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Jake Grumbach
25 days ago
Listen, this is tit for tat until a national gerrymandering ban, and R legislatures in FL and OH already did this exact tit to get around their courts so the optimal next step appears to be tat
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