As someone who has nursed a petty grudge against Bard College for over 20 years (the admissions officer was condescending and rude to me when I visited as a prospective student), learning that their longtime President was pals with Epstein feels oddly vindicating.

Can't wait for the California legislative session to really get underway so I'll have more substantive stuff to talk about on here.

"[T]he project proves that the power dynamics in housing politics have fundamentally changed." - Max Harrison-Caldwell on the Marina Safeway project and the new politics of housing in San Francisco.

Good things to remember about being Online: - Some people will dislike you for no reason at all. You don't need to make yourself available to be screamed at by them. - Trying to explain yourself to people who do not engage in good faith and are uninterested in understanding you is a waste of time.

so much of the dirtbag left just turned out to be a revolt against republican virtue. really just virtue in general, which explains red scare

It’s really surprising to see how much increased fare enforcement has benefited BART. Keeping transit facilities clean and safe is very important for transit riders to get around. And using agency time on preventable maintenance is waste that could be reallocated to more service.

maybe California should stop throwing tax dollars at a scammer who won't shut up about how much he hates the state, just a thought

The rarest of news stories: Republicans in disarray. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

This technology already exists and is widely used. It doesn't involve 'government surveillance' and would not allow ICE or any other government agency to stop individual cars. Just say you think thousands of kids dying every year is worth it so you can speed! www.autoweek.com/news/a615322...

Singlehandedly revitalizing downtown SF by working from our offices today (management said we have to).

“[C]ity records show Align has spent years trying to get the necessary permits to finish the job, but was delayed without clear reason by city bureaucrats who refused to process the paperwork needed to extend the stairs onto public land.”

If you want to come to America and make a life for yourself, you are an American. If you hear Shania Twain say "let's go girls" at the start of Man! I Feel Like A Woman! and get hyped, you are a woman. I don't understand why right wingers have such a hard time understanding these simple concepts.

The blue-green tint indicating that this photo was taken from inside a vehicle really adds another dimension to this already rich visual text.

If the $10 million annual savings is close to being true, that’s a good return on a $90 million investment…way more than their bonds’ rate of interest Source for the $90 million cost: missionlocal.org/2025/06/sf-b...

BART’s new tall fare gates are bringing in an additional ten million dollars a year in revenue that would have been lost to fare evasion.

I don’t worry about package theft because I live in a small apartment building and my neighbors grab my packages when I’m not home.

This kind of smart, walkable, mixed-use urbanism is illegal to build in most American cities.

Do we think people are gonna be chill about the half time show or is there a lot of this happening right now?

OK "god bless america" and then naming every country in the americas from south to north is absolute king shit

The thing about pedestrian safety post 2020 is that its one of the few areas that's massively worse than the norms that existed pre-covid, its bourne out clearly in the numbers, and the only way to solve it is traffic enforcement, sorry

Homeless people are not the only people who need homes. There are millions of people who’d like to move out of their parents’ homes, ditch their roommates, leave their abusive partners, or move to a different city but can’t because housing scarcity makes rent too expensive where they want to live.

Your Bluesky experience will be immensely improved simply by browsing Will Stancil’s replies and blocking everybody being a freak. This takes out like 90 percent of the shittiest people on the site and makes everything better.

This excellent story Dave Rand posted on Twitter is a perfect illustration of the kind of person Nithya Raman is:

"Nithya Raman, who has been compared to Mayor Zohran Mamdani of New York, presents a significant challenge to the incumbent, Mayor Karen Bass." NYT gets the scoop

Fantastic! Raman supported SB79, has led the charge on City Council to reform Measure ULA, and has been deeply involved with efforts to reform permitting at City Hall. Unlike Bass, Raman cares outcomes. Exactly what Los Angeles needs. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/07/u...

Virgin NIMBYs: "No new residents unless they jump through hoops to show that they are desirable! And they must live in fire zones." Chad YIMBYs: "You get a home! YOU get a home! YOU GET A HOME! With windows and natural lighting! Near a park and jods and play! Elevators might be a bit smaller..."

There are only 2 real responses to housing scarcity. You can either build enough homes to accommodate everyone or start drawing up a list of “undesirable demographics” to exclude. I know which side I’m on.

gotta agree with this. at some point we all have to contend with what good faith is actually for and extend it accordingly

This is the energy I want from elected Democrats dealing with the federal government.

Update: it’s GORGEOUS.

Just because good news is worth celebrating: There is now a Prep medication that is an *every six month* injection. HIV has, effectively, a vaccination.

production of The Muppet Show should not be dependent on petty vulgarities like “ratings” or “revenue.” it should be preserved as a vital function of american culture. it should have a taxpayer-funded budget rivaling the CIA

This type of thing where voters think their vote is just a nice little I'm mad button they can press instead of an actual serious responsibility they have infuriates me

I was initially skeptical of self driving cars, which I thought were vaporware intended to undermine public and active transit. Now that I have lived with them for a couple years, I can confidently say that the Waymo cars are Good: they drive safely and courteously while actually following the law.

In local news, the Castro Theater reopens tonight after a two year, $41 million restoration. Very excited! www.sfgate.com/local/articl...

not to brag or anything but i never thought fake internet money you cant use anywhere was a good investment

These guys are rotten.

As a LONG time crypto hater, today’s news has been 👨🏻‍🍳💋

A good thing you can do about this instead of dooming is Google “how to become a poll observer in [your town]”

Is there any bigger tell than a guy claiming some freakish behavior is something all men do?

the Epstein files are really devastating because they remind me of how many girls and women miss out on professional opportunities, mentorship and careers because of how many powerful, rich and influential men only view girls and women — and interactions with them — through the lens of sex

This is the logic of DOGE. We need a federal government made of strong, stable institutions full of career bureaucrats quietly doing largely thankless technical work to maintain obscure but crucial systems and protect us from things we don’t understand. ICE and CBP are exceptions, not the rule.

<rockwell guy standing up meme> I don't actually think that the Centers for Disease Control, National Weather Service, Food and Nutrition Service, and National Park Service, to name a few, are riddled with career psychopaths or beyond saving as institutions, no.

step 1: ban apartments step 2: now everyone can afford to live in a spacious single family home with a yard and a garage close to school, work, and amenities step 3: utopia :D

There were 89,000 polling places in 2022. 8 states have all-mail elections. At least 5,000,000 Americans marched in the October No Kings demonstrations. They have 15,000 guys. They couldn't "surround the polls" if they wanted to.

While it's still early, I think "valorously setting a dumpster fire" has a strong chance of joining "that’s the wrong question and it valorizes white institutions and white ways of knowing and being and structuring society in really problematic ways" in the Poasting canon.

Politics is establishing, contesting, controlling, or using the state’s monopoly on the use of violence to make people do things they do not want to do. Rest is noise.

"power holds no value unless it is exercised"

Everyone doing Opsec Discourse should read this book and realize that the radical underground movements of the 1960s and 70s should not serve as role models for 2020s activism, no matter how cool and badass they appear in hindsight.

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