Thomas Rogers
@throgers.bsky.social
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City planner, photographer, urban hiker,
http://sidewalktypos.com
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âSky-high property values create their own kind of instability. Parents who find their retirement accounts flush with home equity might not feel good about it when their grandchildren canât afford to live nearby.â
@conordougherty.bsky.social
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/04/b...
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Voters Say Housing Prices Are Too High. Trump Wants Them Higher.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/04/business/trump-housing-prices-affordability-real-estate.html?unlocked_article_code=1.J1A.m2PI.EVSRW3BXSxcV&smid=nytcore-ios-share
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jamelle
2 days ago
one thing the trump era has made clear, i think, is that the american people themselves are far more committed to the values of our founding documents than our elites
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Lydia Kiesling
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When they decided to teach the kids (such as my 11yo) a lesson I don't think they understood the lesson was fuck ICE
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â8 to 80â: If you design a city that works for 8-year-olds as well as 80-year-olds, youâll likely serve everyone in between. Letâs do it,
@lukebornheimer.com
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@aarieff.bsky.social
www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/arti...
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S.F. has the infrastructure to be a transit utopia. Whatâs holding it back? Something small
Urban planners call it the â8 to 80â framework: If you design a city that works for 8-year-olds as well as 80-year-olds, you serve everyone in between.
https://www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/article/public-transit-san-francisco-21320529.php
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Merriam-Webster
6 days ago
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D9 Neighbors for Housing (SF)
6 days ago
Thanks to
@thefrisc.bsky.social
for featuring us in today's article on "How To Delay Affordable Senior Housing in SF, Despite a Law That Blocks Appeals"
thefrisc.com/how-to-delay...
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How To Delay Affordable Senior Housing in SF, Despite a Law That Blocks Appeals
Bernal Heights neighbors demanded and got a smaller building. Now they say it shouldnât cut a private park in half. This wasnât meant to happen.
https://thefrisc.com/how-to-delay-affordable-senior-housing-in-sf-despite-a-law-that-blocks-appeals/
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Burrito Justice
7 days ago
hey Square, shutting off a block of the primary N-S bike commute path, just as hundreds of parents are bringing their kids home after school, with zero indication of alternate routes, is a shitty thing to do and a great way to piss off thousands of people!
@sfmta.com
: just keep the bike lanes open
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The Twins have a number of existing t-shirts that inadvertently work as "Minnesota solidarity" gear, but you really have to dig for them! Missing an opportunity here, guys đ
8 days ago
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jamelle
20 days ago
i have been reading Tom Ricksâ âFighting the Good Warâ which is a military analysis of the civil rights movement, and one thing that comes abundantly across is that movement leaders and ordinary people made it a practice to refuse to fall into despair and cynicism.
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jamelle
28 days ago
what you clearly see, CLEARLY, is a driver who is spooked by the agents grabbing her door, takes steps to drive away, and is immediately shot as moves her vehicle *away* from the agents.
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D9 Neighbors for Housing (SF)
about 1 month ago
Congratulations to D9 Neighbors leadership team member Ruth Ferguson! Just appointed to the City College board by Mayor Daniel Lurie today!
www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/l...
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Mayor Lurie appoints S.F. housing advocate Ruth Ferguson to City College board
San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie on Monday appointed housing advocate Ruth Ferguson to the City College board, a move expected to push trustees toward tighter fiscal discipline after years of...
https://www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/lurie-ruth-ferguson-city-college-board-21276222.php
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Stefanos Chen
about 1 month ago
The latest numbers are in: Congestion pricing cut 27M car trips in 2025. Commutes got faster Streets got safer And business went up See more exclusive analysis - and feedback from 600+readers - in our latest collab with
@upshot.nytimes.com
Free link:
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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Congestion pricing after one year: How life has changed. (Gift Article)
How life has changed in the New York area, according to data on traffic, transit and the responses of 600 readers.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2026/01/05/upshot/congestion-pricing-one-year.html?unlocked_article_code=1.CFA._RYI.D6QKA2AuD_QJ&smid=url-share
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Hey, itâs
@milesintransit.com
in the
@nytimes.com
! Very cool odyssey to honor the MetroCard đ«Ą
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/31/n...
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To Say Goodbye to the MetroCard, We Spent a Day Riding Every Transit System That Uses It
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/31/nyregion/metrocard-nyc-farewell-tour.html?unlocked_article_code=1.A1A.7R3i.zO5k44ZTWl6s&smid=nytcore-ios-share
about 1 month ago
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D9 Neighbors for Housing (SF)
about 2 months ago
Come help us celebrate all D9 Neighbors for Housing has accomplished this year, and also raise money to support the great work Mission Food Hub does in the neighborhood! RSVP:
actionnetwork.org/events/d9-ne...
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D9 Neighbors for Housing Holiday Social
Come help us celebrate all D9 Neighbors for Housing has accomplished this year, and also raise money to support the great work Mission Food Hub does in the neighborhood. We'll enjoy beverages and ligh...
https://actionnetwork.org/events/d9-neighbors-for-housing-holiday-social-2
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Like the author's family, my family is very fortunate overall, but helping aging relatives is still extremely difficult! I can't imagine how it is for those with fewer resources, especially under the current administration
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/24/o...
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Opinion | The People Holding Everyone Together Are Coming Apart
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/24/opinion/caregiving-crisis.html?unlocked_article_code=1.3k8.6gMX.V_fz1mNo8rSq&smid=url-share
2 months ago
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Senator Scott Wiener
3 months ago
Didnât mom tell us not to copy other peopleâs homework?
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Amen from
@conordougherty.bsky.social
: "The ultimate impact of the builderâs remedy is likely to be measured not just in units that are built by using it, but in the ones built in fear of it."
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/20/b...
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The Housing Strategy That Has California NIMBYs in a Corner
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/20/business/economy/california-housing-nimby.html?unlocked_article_code=1.2k8.R9eH.fdYJNN8TNOTp&smid=url-share
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âSomebody once suggested that the dwellers in the Isle of Man earned a precarious livelihood by taking in each otherâs washing.â
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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How OpenAI Uses Complex and Circular Deals to Fuel Its Multibillion-Dollar Rise (Gift Article)
Here are seven unusual financial agreements helping to drive the ambitions of the poster child of the A.I. revolution.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/10/31/technology/openai-fundraising-deals.html?unlocked_article_code=1.xk8.txA7.djqQp8xbuMzG&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
3 months ago
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Barack Obama
3 months ago
California â this Election Day, vote yes on Prop 50. Californiaâs Prop 50 says that if Republicans are going to abuse the system to try and hang onto power, weâre going to counteract that abuse and create a level playing field in the midterm elections. Make a plan to vote yes on Prop 50.
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Well said by
@jamellebouie.net
: "...if the experience of Lincoln suggests anything, it is that there can be no real success without principle â ironclad and unyielding."
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/01/o...
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Opinion | Trump Has No Mandate to Destroy America
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/01/opinion/trump-2024-election-maga.html?unlocked_article_code=1.qE8.zaq_.9ROjqcT7HtYx&smid=url-share
4 months ago
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Catherine Rampell
4 months ago
"The sheer number of American elites willing to acquiesce to the destruction of democratic institutions is demoralizing. But itâs worth noting that many ordinary people seem to be made of sterner stuff."
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
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Lower Than Cowards
The surrender of Americaâs elites
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/09/freedom-trump-threats-kimmel/684358/?gift=Ut5zkH9vG00uzi0vmoT5f6mkqZtuxCw09l5i2O3SbNU&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share
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Barack Obama
5 months ago
After years of complaining about cancel culture, the current administration has taken it to a new and dangerous level by routinely threatening regulatory action against media companies unless they muzzle or fire reporters and commentators it doesnât like.
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Letâs be clear about what happened to Jimmy Kimmel
Trumpâs most brazen attack on free speech yet.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/let-clear-happened-jimmy-kimmel-025000655.html
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Truly moving, and always worth a read or re-read â€ïž
@jennifersenior.bsky.social
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5 months ago
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Senator Scott Wiener
5 months ago
Not building housing screws young people, pushes them out & tanks future economic success. We need to make it easier & faster to build the homes we need for a bright future. Our current vetocracy need to change & weâre working to change it.
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Emily Badger
8 months ago
Big tax cut bills typically don't leave the poor worse off. Bills cutting the safety net don't normally include benefits for the rich. The GOP reconciliation bill is something we haven't really seen before. w/
@aliciaparlap.bsky.social
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@sangerkatz.bsky.social
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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Trumpâs Big Bill Would Be More Regressive Than Any Major Law in Decades (Gift Article)
Estimates from the Congressional Budget Office, released Thursday, offer a detailed view into the effects on income groups.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/06/12/upshot/gop-megabill-distribution-poor-rich.html?unlocked_article_code=1.Ok8.dhoC._ds-RJMUjm5K&smid=url-share
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D9 Neighbors for Housing (SF)
8 months ago
Our events chair (and affordable housing expert extraordinaire) Kate Voshell is featured in this terrific story from
@thenation.com
about the proposal to turn swaths of North Beach into a historic district:
www.thenation.com/article/poli...
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Will the Creation of a Historic District in San Francisco Hold Back New Housing?
Activists are butting heads with a local preservation organization over a proposal to turn part of the cityâs North Beach neighborhood into a nationally registered historic district.
https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/historic-district-san-francisco-housing-development/
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Sara Libby
8 months ago
That San Diego neighborhood that stood up to ICE officers last week is also fighting new housing that could make things affordable for people like the restaurant worker they stormed the streets to defend.
www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/arti...
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My neighbors stood up to ICE. What they did next shows why California politics makes no sense
I just had a front row seat to the often-infuriating incoherence of California progressive politics over housing and immigration.
https://www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/article/ice-immigration-san-diego-20358933.php
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Peter Hartlaub
8 months ago
My tribute to "Midnight Caller," the best filmed-in-San Francisco TV show I've watched, that weirdly fell off the face of the earth. (Probably because of the Sade song on the soundtrack.) It ages well, as a window into the melancholy 1980s in the city. đș đ
www.sfchronicle.com/totalsf/arti...
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The best-ever San Francisco TV show is all but forgotten. Hereâs how to watch today
"Midnight Caller," about a cop turned radio host, lasted three seasons and then largely vanished. But it recently reappeared online.
https://www.sfchronicle.com/totalsf/article/midnight-caller-tv-show-20349407.php
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article doesnât exi-
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/b...
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A San Francisco Plaza Was Down and Out. Then Skaters Moved In.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/business/economy/san-francisco-skateboarding-un-plaza.html?unlocked_article_code=1.LE8.ku5T.4M1D5ueCvsAO&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
8 months ago
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"Mr. Andersonâs hope, he said, is that the project will inspire others and show cities that multifamily living can coexist in single-family neighborhoods."
@conordougherty.bsky.social
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/04/b...
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Would the Housing Crisis Ease if Boomers Rented Out Their Empty Rooms? (Gift Article)
Millions of single-family homes are underused, on spacious lots. Refitting them for âroommate housesâ or backyard cottages could make a difference.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/04/business/economy/housing-crisis-multifamily-adu.html?unlocked_article_code=1.E08.DN2T.PIRjZE6geneU&smid=url-share
9 months ago
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D9 Neighbors for Housing (SF)
9 months ago
Thank you,
@sfchronicle.com
for featuring D9 Neighbors on the front page of the paper, online, and in your daily newsletter today!
www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/n...
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Meet the S.F. group begging the city to build more housing in its ârichâ neighborhood
A San Francisco group of Bernal Heights residents is begging the city to build more housing in its ârichâ neighborhood.
https://www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/neighborhood-group-begging-city-for-housing-20292683.php
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D9 Neighbors for Housing (SF)
10 months ago
What a great group of neighbors! Thanks to all who joined us on today's Forbidden Housing tour. (Here's the group, looking good in front of the Art Deco El Capistrano Apartments in the Mission, an example of the type of housing that couldn't be built under today's rules!)
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D9 Neighbors for Housing (SF)
10 months ago
Powerful op-ed in the
@sfchronicle.com
today from D9 Neighbors member Caroline McCormack! "I live in Bernal Heights. Mayor Lurie, please upzone my neighborhood."
www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/open...
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I live in Bernal Heights. Mayor Lurie, please upzone my neighborhood
We can build new housing that supports our low-income and working-class neighbors, while also preserving the special character that Bernal Heights has to offer.
https://www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/openforum/article/san-francisco-bernal-heights-lurie-upzoning-20281191.php
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Scenes from the Houston
@50501movement.bsky.social
âBe Someone: Resist and Build Communityâ event today!
10 months ago
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Hello from Sunset Dunes, SFâs newest park! Great job
@oceanbeachpark.org
,
@sfrecpark.bsky.social
, and everyone else who made it happen!
#SunsetDunes
10 months ago
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D9 Neighbors for Housing (SF)
10 months ago
Incredible turnout from our members to speak in favor of adding Bernal Heights to
@mayorlurie.bsky.social
's terrific Expanding Housing Choice plan! Thanks to
@missionlocal.org
for reporting on our request:
missionlocal.org/2025/04/sf-u...
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D9 Neighbors for Housing (SF)
10 months ago
On April 26, Join D9 Neighbors for Housing for a Forbidden Housing Tour, where you'll uncover the zoning outlaws and architectural rebels housing hundreds of San Franciscans in plain sight. Space is limited, so secure your spot today.
actionnetwork.org/events/forbi...
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Forbidden Housing Tour
Join us in northern Bernal / southern Mission for a Forbidden Housing Tour, where you'll uncover the zoning outlaws and architectural rebels housing hundreds of San Franciscans in plain sight. This t...
https://actionnetwork.org/events/forbidden-housing-tour?clear_id=true
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That Mack
11 months ago
Today is SF Transit Operator Day. Itâs a great day to ride Muni to work, to school, to the park, to the shops, to City Hall. And itâs a great they to thank your operator, taking you there safely.
www.sftransitoperator.day
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sftransitoperator.day
Tuesday, March 18th is SF Transit Operator Day. To celebrate and recognize operators, ride Muni on that day. Say a special "Thank You" and to really make it special, submit a commendation to recognize...
https://www.sftransitoperator.day/home
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D9 Neighbors for Housing (SF)
12 months ago
Join D9 Neighbors for Housing for a tour of the DignityMoves tiny-home village on Sat., 3/8. Space is limited - RSVP required. We'll debrief over lunch afterward for those who are interested.
actionnetwork.org/events/tour-...
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