What an important act of humanizing, inclusion and kindness towards people who get so little of it. Mamdani's kindness stands out in stark contrast to how so many other politicians act. Truly a man of and for the people.

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Mainstream Respectable opinion is that people joking about a bad person's death represents a culture of cruelty, but really it represents a culture of impunity. It's a coping mechanism for watching someone do evil their whole life and never seeing consequences

Racism aside, there is nothing that the Chinese Communist Party wants more than for America to continue to be run by stupid hicks like this woman whose careers are dedicated to flushing every competitive advantage we have down the toilet.

Do people know this is the Bosnia manager's first soccer coaching job after a post-playing career of professional poker and constantly criticizing the national team on social media

Weird how this never applies to the Second Amendment.

Golaço!

crazy to me that rich people have been so successful in perpetuating the lie that the poor are stealing from everyone. they don't have any money. the rich people are the ones with the money! that's who stole the money

Remember when those grade school kids begged Dianne Feinstein to do something about climate change and she said condescendingly "we know what we're doing" and then fell over and died

Busy bikey week! M- Picked up my cargo bike after a much-needed tune-up W- Celebrated the opening of a section of the East Bay Greenway (Thanks @prinzrob.bsky.social of @bikeeastbay.bsky.social for the photo!) F- Bike Party! @ebbp.bsky.social S- Advocacy workshop with @bikeleague.org

Some really crazy cases in here - cop looked up ex-girlfriend and family in Flock 100+ times - cop stalked wife giving "test" as reason - cop searched one plate 395 times in 10 months; was later fired Cops keep getting arrested for using Flock to stalk people www.404media.co/cops-keep-ge...

CDOT Commissioner Cheaks should announce on Monday morning that the city will be phasing out "door zone" bike lanes starting immediately, as they are inherently deadly.

Someone should create an economic system that incentivizes the production of useful goods and services instead of scams and swindles

if you just went by media coverage you would think that trangender kids playing sports are a much more immediate threat to the public well-being than a billionaire becoming a trillionaire by pumping $2 trillion worth of fraud into every single 401k

The semi ban on 580 is also why there are more surface street connector routes for trucks in E Oakland compared to other parts of town. This is partly why we haven't been able to get traffic calming or other safety features on some streets like 55th Ave. It isn't just a 580 vs 880 issue.

This is the perfect synthesis of the issue. "Public trust in Oakland's government is low. That is not on civilian-represented employees. It's on City leadership for writing a blank check to OPD while failing to invest in the workforce that also delivers essential services"

Absolutely nothing is stopping John Cornyn, Tillis, Murkowski, & Paul from caucusing immediately with Democrats & giving them control of the Senate. The same is true of Thomas Massie & any 2 retiring GOP Reps in the House. It is a choice to continue caucusing with the authoritarian personality cult.

At a basic level, party leaders have collectively raised billions of dollars in political spending, the great bulk of which has been directed to ads instead of permanent organizing or media infrastructure. Generational strategic failure regardless of policy preferences and ideology. RIP OFA.

Dems are polling crazy high based on the flaming catastrophe that is Republican fascist rule, so primarying as many of the bad weak complicit Democrats in favor of good determined angry ones has rarely if ever been more crucial

Awful

A grisly crash Saturday night in East Oakland took the lives of three pedestrians and left three others hospitalized with injuries, and a juvenile driver was arrested in connection with the crash. buff.ly/5t635e6

Damn!

Breaking: Mayor's announces that City Administrator Jestin Johnson has been terminated after Mayor became aware of "degrading" and "communications". Coming on a Sunday morning it means its probably very bad, and about to break in local media.

It's disorienting living in the Wile E. Coyote portion of a country's life cycle. We ran off the cliff but haven't plummeted down yet. We're just now starting to hold up the big YIKES sign

In my adult life the republican party went from newt's to denny's to W.'s to paul Ryan/mitch mcconnel's to donald trump's and i am wondering which one of those we have fond nostalgia for

Last night the El Cerrito City Council voted to end our Flock contract! Huge thanks to the hundreds of El Cerritans who organized to make this happen. They met with councilmembers multiple times, shared research, sent emails, circulated petitions and dozens spoke at our meeting that ended at 1 am.

Oakland Observer confirmed for the third month running yesterday that OPD has not executed a Flock contract. That means Oakland is not locked into Flock and could end its ALPR if Council rescinds authorization. For some reason, other news orgs don't want you to know this

Seems like a hamfisted way of turning entire city against Flock, but OPD is quietly presenting a new use policy to Privacy Advisory on Thursday that includes literally any "reasonable suspicion" rationale to search the DB for your movements in Oakland. Previous list on right

An apt analogy is citizens united. Liberals including Obama were against it. But once it happened, they were explicit: we are not going to unilaterally disarm, go raise as much gazillionaire cash as u possibly can or else Obama is a one term president

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Bus Lane... or SCANDAL? 😱

Some people respond to this saying “AVs are still safer than human drivers”. But it’s important to understand whether AVs are in competition w human drivers, or with public transit.

DC statehood yesterday

The top-two primary needs to be abolished. Every election cycle it leads to races where one party risks getting shut out of a general election it would likely win. It forces parties to pick favorites in primaries just to avoid shutouts. It fails to do what its proponents intended—often the opposite

OPD is asking to enter into a new no-bid contract w/Israeli cell cracking firm Cellebrite, even tho the contract is increasing by 55%. Cellebrite has been used against Palestinians in Israel's genocidal war, as well as dissidents in Jordan, Myanmar. etc www.dropsitenews.com...

Happy tax day! This should be a civic holiday, we should have a parade and give out taxpayer awards. ruthbraunstein.substack.com/p/what-does-...

✨💚 Bond St is getting a glow-up! 💚✨ Bond Street will be one lane westbound between Fremont Way and High Street, with the travel lane centered to discourage passing. 👉🏽 A buffered bike lane will also be added on the right side between Fremont Way and High Street 🚲💚 Thoughts? 👀

The gas crisis makes me really glad I live in NYC and not anywhere else in car dependent America. Hopefully everyone can learn from our example

You have more in common with the people of Iran than you do with anyone in this administration, any member of the technocracy, anyone who is profiting from this war, or any billionaire. When you see Iranians forming human chains outside key infrastructure sites, you should feel a sense of kinship.

Completely unstable and perilous. The House must bring up impeachment articles, and the Senate needs to remove a president who wants to commit war crimes. We cannot sit idly by as Donald Trump threatens to end an entire civilization.

But shall this crazed old man be tamely suffered to drag a whole ship’s company down to doom with him?

this is how you know Rahm Emanuel is not actually as smart as he thinks he is. Elon Musk did not “come up with something nobody else has” nor did he “have an innovative technology” that would create “thousands” of jobs. He lied and said that he could do something implausible and fools bought in.

If you're so committed to publishing a diversity of viewpoints how come no one's ever writing, like, "wow the president is just a delusional, dying, old fuckin evil idiot ruining everything" i.e the plain truth that anyone can see

Honestly cannot think of a time I knew less what was going to happen at court than I feel ahead of oral arguments on birthright citizenship tomorrow. The fact that this is getting a full hearing instead of a 9-0, per curiam, benchslap is already beyond disturbing.

I think this is great news! Golden Gate Fields could soon turn into a public park www.berkeleyside.org/2026/03/31/g...

Fucking sucks that with everything going on it’s hard to get excited about the Artemis mission. One of the shitty things about the regime is that a lot of symbolic patriotism stuff has their stink on it because they could have less interest in unifying symbols.

The whole thing about Democrats searching for a winning message for the midterms is infuriating because it is staring them in the face: Rule of Law — People who do illegal shit should face consequences. For insider trading. For illegal wars. For ignoring court orders. For being a pedophile.