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.

CA voters: we can’t 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.

The state of the California governor’s race:

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 state’s goal of banning purchases of new gas and hybrid vehicles starting in 2035:

the bus. you've once again invented the bus.

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.

Tom Steyer’s most striking proposal is a plan to tax AI—with 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 Tech—and to create a Golden State Sovereign Wealth Fund to benefit California workers and communities.

Excellent profile of Tom Steyer @tomsteyerhq.bsky.social We're going to need some class traitors www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Single payer for primary care! (that’s my dad) www.sfchronicle.com/california/a...

Doesn't fit into 240 characters, but since you asked: www.meditationsinanemergency.com/hey-californ...

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.

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

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.

I don’t understand how days before the election a leading gubernatorial candidate doesn’t 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?

🧵 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.

far be it for me to gas up a billionaire but this is a good fucking opinion and should be the universal Democratic messaging

A privilege to work on this with Perry. Even before Callais, we had challenges—aging CBC that hasn’t cultivated the next gen, a centrist turn of Black mayors, district representation that doesn’t matter under national polarization Callais destroys even that. We need a new inside-outside strategy

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?

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.

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.

I will be voting for Tom Steyer.

So basically @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social on this cursed 🦋 site (Sorry, man, don't know any other Cal jabronis 😘)

Adding to Tom Steyer discourse

Jake and I have been writing for the past year that the “moderate” vs “progressive“ policy debate is largely missing the point (no empirical evidence of effects of ideology on votes). Now Jentleson admits voters don’t think in these terms and the alpha on issue positioning is mostly gone. That’s a W

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 lucumr.pocoo.org/2026/5/24/pi...

"Yeah, my buddy Brandon is a Golden Gate Claude truther"

Oh cool, Google has an Isaac Chotiner gogol now.

Read @dogsinautumn.bsky.social today on why taxes are good and Democrats cannot cave to the temptation to campaign on lowering them

Gregor Samsa awoke from uneasy dreams to find himself an elected representative

“At the time, Becerra threatened to charge journalists with crimes unless they destroyed a list of police officers convicted of crimes.” Some of those reporters are friends of mine and I heard pretty terrible stories about how Becerra’s office was trying to strong arm them.

This place def needs more "terribad stemlords" skeeting good art ✌️

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.

"~" = tossup ✅ Steyer (Gov) ✅ Allen (Ins Cmr) ~ ✅ Fryday (LG) ~ ✅ Cofer (Co Sup) ✅ Kounalakis (Tr) ✅ Vang (Congress) ✅ Bonta (AG) ✅ Rendon (Sup of Pub Inst) ~ ✅ Weber (SoS) ✅ Cohen (Controller) ✅ Ashby (Sen) ✅ Krell (Asm) ✅ Williamson (BOE D1) ~ ✅ Lau (Sac City Council) ~ ✅ Donette (Co. BoE) ~

Based and pragmatism pilled www.californiadsa.org/voterguide

What is this word, "profit"? Is it French?

Bearing in mind that within the last year I've had many people insist to me that these models can't do arithmetic.

I wrote up my #PyconUS 2026 experience: blog.pamelafox.org/2026/05/pyco... (you can just scroll through the pics, it got kind of long - what a week!)

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...

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.

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, I’m sorry.

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.

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.

As state AG, Becerra had signaled to us that he’d do a state investigation of the case. But despite the Vallejo police destroying evidence (!!!) from Sean’s murder, nothing came of it. Today the officer is back on duty. sfstandard.com/2026/05/13/s...

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.

I am feeling more and more confident in my vote for Steyer.

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!

Damn, Steyer ain't pulling his punches wow

Fare thee well, Patrick Bailey! Our Saturday Morning Emergency Podcast is up! open.spotify.com/episode/4oFV...

Steyer's answer on homelessness I thought was really well and a highlight of the night.

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