unironically in a group chat where this is all we talk about every single day

Hell, my main chat is the committee for public safety

imagine throwing your bestie under the bus like this along with your principles. these hoes ain’t loyal

it’s kind of wild to see the directions in which a few years of “relentless left punching over Bay Area permitting reform” can take a guy’s brain if you give him enough time. it appears to be some sort of madness rune

great news! you're not actually seeing karl rove, john yoo, and david frum criticize the administration's lawlessness more stridently than dem leadership. you, reader, were infected with rabies by a brown bat 36 hours ago and this is all just the virus working its way through your nervous system

SF “moderates” sowing fear and anger in the electorate to remove progressives: Haha fuck yeah! Yes!! SF “moderates” getting thrown out of office by said angry electorate: Well this fucking sucks. What the fuck

i think how we got here is that the right's favorite move is working the ref and the radical centrist's favorite move is self flattery that they could never be worked

Today, JD Vance urged Republicans to put on the "full armor of god" to fight their opponents. Tonight, some of the most powerful people in tech will gather to hear Peter Thiel—who created Vance—give a secret lecture on the Antichrist. It's all the same talking point, folks: politics as holy war

this bill, #AB715 criminalizing criticism of Israel in California public schools has now passed. you won’t see its proponents crowing about it too much, because they know their voters don’t support it anymore, and they expect kids & teachers caught in the dragnet to disappear. don’t prove them right

We're about to experience the first modern recession caused substantially, and perhaps primarily, by racism.

You have seriously got to be fucking kidding me man

the Abundance Governor who is also an anti-vaxxer appears to have forgotten there was a school shooting in HIS OWN STATE LITERALLY TODAY

If you are an elected Democrat lawmaker who has worked to advance the cause of liberalism and you get murdered by a far right nutjob along with your spouse and dog, Obama will say nothing. If you are a far right nutjob who called the Civil Rights Act a mistake and get shot, on the other hand…

Which work? Calling for gay people to be stoned to death? Blaming airplane crashes on black pilots? Anti-vax bullshit? Election denialism? Pushing Great Replacement Theory? Kirk’s murder is awful and ominous for this country. But no, we don’t need to honor him or “continue his work.”

Fucking finally. Fight back against the bullshit framing that tries to make Dems responsible for everything. The GOP is *choosing* to create this kind of societal environment. They could stop it at any time. They have agency as well. They’re not fucking children (except when, well, you know)

I'm really having trouble processing the relative silence from Barack Obama about a colleague who he'd hosted at the White House, the Minnesota State House Speaker, being assassinated, but rushing to get out a weepy statement about Charlie fucking Kirk.

maybe hiring the two dumbest people in America to run the FBI was not the best move

Obviously, there's bigger news happening right now, but Senate Republicans just voted against releasing the Epstein files. Every Democrat voted to release them. Susan Collins was the deciding vote to protect Trump and others named in the files.

The last time they called for full martial law and a blood soaked civil war was like yesterday over cracker barrel changing their logo

They’ll ask you to mourn the deaths they mourn, and no others. They’ll ask you to cherish the lives they cherish, and no others.

A rent stabilization regime that places more restrictive rent caps on units with habitability problems than on other units can incentivize faster repairs. Housing quality getting BETTER in MoCo post-adoption is a big story that complicates a lot of lazy narratives. mocoshow.com/2025/09/09/m...

It’s a real “did you know the Segway inventor was killed by a Segway” moment isn’t it

I don’t recommend seeking out the videos of Charlie Kirk getting shot if you’re the least bit squeamish There is no way he survived that

you really have to step back and admire it: they just released a winking SIGNED love note from the sitting US president to the most notorious pedophile sex trafficker in history, and nothing much is happening

these Abundance funders are truly a global menace

"How Are the Very Rich Feeling About New York’s Next Mayor?" A Dramatic Reading of The Recent New York Times Dispatch from the Hamptons. Presented by The Gilded Age's Morgan Spector.

NEW POLL says capitalism’s hold over the U.S. population is slipping. Only 54% of Americans view the economic system of capitalism favorably—the lowest percentage since Gallup began collecting data in 2010. trib.al/fDh7kQf

it’s 2025 and I’m increasingly re-skeeting old mutual blocks from Twitter because the main distinction rn is about who wants to fight and who wants to capitulate

To put this into context, the judicial warrant for the search at the Hyundai plant named just four people. Relying on that warrant, ICE detained nearly 500 people. DHS admitted that included U.S. citizens, permanent residents, and people lawfully here on visas.

In L.A. tomorrow, protest Amy Coney Barrett who today joined in licensing ICE to stop brown and Spanish speaking people and demand their papers simply because of those attributes. https://www.mobilize.us/mobilize/event/837659/

Xi Jinping I am asking you to provide a USD $750M loan for Bay Area Rapid Transit

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Guess we know the answer to this question now

SEPTA Sino-American Friendship Station (formerly Spring Garden Station) circa 2035. New underground high speed metro line platforms were constructed and served by 160kph metro trains reaching Glassboro, Grenloch, King of Prussia, West Chester and Wilmington in 30 mins, departing every 3 mins each.

It’s time

There it is folks. The brilliant Dem strategy, according to the genius pundits with the ear of Dem leadership, is to let Trump keep doing everything he's doing but only if we can also help Republicans avoid paying a political price for hurting people long enough to hold the House and Senate in 2026

this is basically how I feel about U2 after at the very latest 1995

This is not only morally reprehensible but strategically did more to help get Donald Trump elected

To put this loan amount in perspective: California is spending $500 million to widen a 10-mile stretch of Highway 37 in the northern Bay Area (through a wetland, no less). But $750 million to save the *entire* Bay Area’s transit systems is apparently infeasible.

TOKUGAWA SHOGUNATE ERA RODNEY DANGERFIELD: i tell you i get no respect. the daimyo says i have to commit seppuku to restore my house’s honor. okay. i write my death poem, no problem. i ask my wife if she’ll be my second and she says she wants to be my FIRST!

“it’s good the mayor isn’t drawing Trump’s attention. of course it would be bad if he said nothing if Trump invaded SF” is a baby brained attempt to square the circle. the real concern is that if that moment comes, the mayor *won’t be prepared.* this columnist knows that & is pretending we’re morons

Angela Rayner bent to just about all of current Labour's demands (derogatory). She has spent five years betraying her old values and making sure she toes the party line. And the party has Corbyn'd her anyway. I hope other leftwing MPs take this as a valuable lesson.

Wuthering Heights (2026)

it’s my cousin’s 20th birthday. when I called him he told me that we’re both “going Unc Mode”

ROMO

Gov Newsom still hasn't signed the $750m loan to Bay Area transit agencies that would get us to the Nov 2026 funding votes. He has eight days to act. Please take a moment to call his office at (916) 445-2841 and use the attached script, copied from a @transbaycoalition.bsky.social.

NRA Mindset: all trans people should also have guns to deal with anyone who is mean to them