This strike is a Real-Time battle btwn the #WorkingClasses who power #SF, and the rise of 21stC #BigTech Arrivistes who are driving wealth Inequality and destroying #Affordability for everyone else. Our project, #WorkersInTheBay, is on the scene. We’ll post a report via #Patreon + #YT this week 💪🏾🌉📚

I’ve watched Gavin Newsom’s career for 20+ years. It’s a buffet of big lies & failed hopes Like Trump, he breaks promises, serves billionaire interests & mistakes social media theatrics for leadership. Is that what we need in 2028? via @us.theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Remarkable show of integrity and courage by these Italian sports journalists. This would never happen at a U.S. TV or Cable broadcaster. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/10/w...

Excellent profile of JB Pritzker by @timothypmurphy.bsky.social that shows the family history behind his efforts to stand up to another very different billionaire www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Yet another horrific misuse of Taxpayer money. These stupid, evil #MAGA DEI Hires really are trying to physically and psychological destroy millions of Americans. 😡

This part! I DON’T WANT this crap forced into my online research / writing / editing tools + platforms, esp my Gmail and WordDocs. Also, I shouldn’t have to OptOut! “The tech industry’s strategy of forcing A.I. on the masses is at odds with feedback from many users.” www.nytimes.com/2026/02/10/t...

#OtD 10 Feb 1960, Black students began using sit-ins to demonstrate against whites-only lunch counters at drugstores across Raleigh, North Carolina; the drugstores responded by closing the counters. Read a few contemporary accounts here: stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8190...

Obviously, Maya’s analysis is accurate HOWEVER I wish she wasn’t sharing it on Joe + Mika’s program: They blatantly SoldOut to the Corrupt, Racist 47 early last year. I decline therefore to ever watch “Morning Joe” again.

Trump so desperately wants his monolith. All Americans need to fight now more than ever for a complex, democratic past. In the end, that may become the real meaning of Black History Month in our semiquincentennial year.

Dozens of researchers will move to France from US following high-profile bid to lure talent. Large proportion worked at Columbia University, which had its grants cut and frozen by the administration of US President Donald Trump. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Fascist Clout-Chasing, #MAGA GOP’s newest pastime. 🙄

That’s what’s up.

cc: Paul Weiss, Skadden Arps, et al, Early Capitulators. See this potential path to *Redemption.* A pointed #CTA from @maddow.bsky.social 👇🏾

🤣 “…Kid Rock’s show was great — it was dark, foreboding and not at all demonic.” — @brentterhune.bsky.social #BadBunnyBowlReview #Satire youtu.be/ScD1JsAg3Q0?...

Will reporters who show up ask #Newsom why the CA Dept of VA utterly fails at A) serving Black USMIL Veterans in CA who face high rates of unemployment, poor health, and homelessness? and B) why the CA Vets agency has ZERO Black experts in Exec or Manager roles? Answer: Don’t hold your breath! 👇🏾🤦🏽‍♀️

🤢 “Intended to serve four people, the 3.5 pound ‘LXBurger’ costs $180, and is topped with a lava flow of Point Reyes blue cheese fondue and served on a salt-dusted brioche bun with the bone sticking out of the top.” www.sfchronicle.com/food/wine/ar...

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There have been 4 times as many measles cases in the last few weeks than the country usually sees in an entire year. Dr. Oz is complicit. www.pbs.org/newshour/hea...

“The collapse of the AI bubble is going to be ugly. Seven AI cos account for more than a third of the stock market, and they endlessly pass around the same $100bn IOU. AI is the asbestos in the walls of our technological society,…” — Cory Doctorow www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

Gonna start keeping a running tally of these #MAGAVoters #FAFO stories: “We rely on Hispanic labor. Nobody thought something like this could happen here.” — Chris Gross, a second-generation farmer in a small Iowa town. #ICE grabbed Latinos from there in Oct2025 www.nytimes.com/2026/02/09/u...

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Coinbase Super Bowl Ad Tells Truth About Crypto—Accidentally. About that “Rug Pull Singalong”... www.theframelab.org/coinbase-sup...

Ghislaine Maxwell MUST answer questions, but GOP Rep. James Comer’s performative theater today doesn’t get us there. I've got the latest on Maxwell’s deposition, Congress being able to view selective Epstein Files at DOJ, and Pamela Jo’s upcoming deposition. youtu.be/fLVDj7C7ZtM?...

What happens when journalists become addicted to access? @markjacob.bsky.social takes a look at how the media can become complacent as they attempt to maintain access to political powerhouses in this week's Stop the Presses.

Crockett: "The US is falling apart, partially bc he's allowing for killings in the street, but also bc we have a 34 count convicted felon being shielded from any type of accountability as it relates to a child sex trafficking ring. I don't understand why we're pretending any of this is normal."

“They are basically taking everyone in there working, whether they have proper documentation or not,” said Mario Guerrero, chief executive of the South Texas Builders Association. Guerrero added that he voted for President Trump..." www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

Republicans have literally taken money that previously provided VA care and used it to pay thugs to murder a VA nurse. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fr3U...

BREAKING: San Francisco public school teachers, counselors, and nurses have walked out on strike. 6,000 members of the United Educators of San Francisco are striking to fight for fully funded health care for their families and a raise to keep up with the Bay Area cost of living.

Okay, mean jokes aside, there is a viciousness aimed towards the Caribbean that I definitely believe is rooted in that region's refusal to be exploited for a moment longer. www.ebony.com/haiti-2026-o...

Very annoyed at the people who decided to open the floodgates to online sports betting, it is absolutely a scourge. Great piece from Gabrielle Gurley on people spending hours a day on these predatory apps.

Stay Mad, #MAGA 🤣🔥🐰💪🏾 #RealAmerica

Stay Mad, #MAGA — #BadBunny DGAF about your Racism 🤣🐰🔥🤣🔥 #SuperBowlLX

True America: a few pics from my #NorCal community’s #SuperBowlLX gathering (Stay Mad, #MAGA)

Here’s the rub: “Union leaders demand permanent, fully funded family health care, while the district has made several offers, including an annual health benefit allowance of $24k per year, which would cover the cost of an employee plus one dependent for Kaiser.” www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/arti...

I’m ready to work with the administration anywhere we can to deliver results. I promised the people of my state I will work with anybody, but will bow down to nobody — and I guess the President doesn’t like that.

Sigh. Mee-Maw and Paw-Paw can’t fill their bellies with Racism AND YET: “Trump Has Betrayed the People of Coal Country. They Love Him Anyway.” via @motherjones.com apple.news/ANXZMfGHPQGS...

Public school teachers in SF are going on strike tomorrow for the first time since 1979 AND WorkingClass people in SF who power infrastructure systems including transportation and pub works can barely afford to live in my hometown. SF’s Billionaire Mayor (heir to the #LeviStrauss fortune) is failing

This cheers me up! 🤣👏🏾🔥👏🏾🔥

Every bit of this 🧵 from @sorayanadiamcdonald.com is spot-on! And thanks for sharing Tonya’s talk w Heather — I had missed it, but will eagerly listen now! #GildedAge2.0 #TechnoFascism 👇🏾

Seriously Awful: How many of the #TechBros, #VCs and #NorCal Billionaire Oligarchs currently CosPlaying as #NFL fans at #SuperBowlLX give a sh*t about Black athletes who make the sport great—OR the WorkingClass #BayArea NFL fans PRICED OUT of the event+ local housing? www.nytimes.com/2026/02/07/b...

Of course: “Asked how he thought CA should fund health care if not through this tax, Mr. Kauffman [organizer of the #MarchForBillionaires] said he thought CA shouldn’t spend money providing health insurance to low-income residents who entered the U.S. illegally.” www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/m...

Note to Nat’l + Int’l Journos, Influencers, Arrivistes, etc., now flooding #NorCal for #SuperBowlLX: the City + County of #SanFrancisco is not hosting the game. The game takes place 30miles south of #SF (what natives call The Peninsula/SouthBay)—where #BigTech has ruined life for the WorkingClass.

lol, #Bezos throwing #Lewis under the bus after the immoral Brit did exactly what #Bezos wanted — destroy a major American journalistic Watchdog of democracy — is so predictable. 🫠🤷🏽‍♀️ #WashingtonPost #OligarchTakeover

In happier news: This doc is terrific! 💃🏽 #BobMackie #GOAT

🙄 “About a dozen people took part in the ‘March for Billionaires’ in SF on Saturday to protest a new tax. Although some assumed the event was satire, organizer Derik Kauffman said it was a sincere protest against a potential new tax on the state’s richest residents.” www.latimes.com/california/s...

Yikes! **brb, gotta call my YA kids in MontgomeryCoMD🥶💨

It’s early but, here’s the best Quote of the Year thus far: “‘I’m glad Will Lewis has been fired. I wish it had happened before he fired all my friends.’” — Kate Mettler, former head of the Washington Post guild. 🔪 www.nytimes.com/2026/02/07/t...

One Idiot After Another.

His work here is done! (The work: destroying the Washington post on behalf of Jeff Bezos on behalf of Donald Trump.)