It’s politico official kids

@garrytan-yc.bsky.social should debate me

Paving is starting on 18th/17th St in W Oakland next week, Market to MLK. Restriping will follow, adding a road diet and buffered bike lane, changing to post-separated on 17th at the 980 overpass

It was so awesome tabling at the fanzone yesterday and then chilling with the VIP’s. Oakland is on the move and the haters are MAD about it

You know things are bad when you have to hire this fucking idiot as your spokesperson

Ive been broke before but never “post my Venmo on social media” broke

The “wait until they hear about the second amendment” crowd is too cowardly to stand up to this state violence

I’m at 4 years in Oakland 16 years in the Bay Area 35 years in California (aka my whole life)

The local recall cabal seems to support what’s going on in Minneapolis 🤮

Remember this is 100% about Israel. Scott will always be a Jewish man but he’s only being asked to resign because he rightfully called it a genocide (even if it was disingenuous). The amount of pressure electeds face to support a foreign nation even at the local level is nuts.

When Oakland submitted its first housing element proposal, the state rejected it because it wasn’t aggressive enough around Rockridge zoning specifically. That being said, there are really no legal grounds to stop a project like this.

“wHy iSn’T tHe LeFt TaLkInG aBoUt IrAn!?” Babe we have been talking about Iran for years. Where have you been?

Good morning from our feathery neighbors

Not a great day for the razor slim GOP house majority

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We see the same with footways and cycleways outside fast food shops and car repair outlets across Birmingham (England). @betterstreetsforbirmingham.org

If you want to open a small parklet in front of your coffee shop in Oakland it’s about $17000 your first year and $1800 in fees every year afterward. If you want to use a whole bike lane to illegally park cars waiting for service it is apparently $0 and 0 cents because this is happening all over.

Scott Wiener be like

Incredible, right? We even passed Prop K at the same time to authorize 10k units of social housing, and it passed with over 70%, showing widespread support among San Franciscans

If we had invested the funds into social housing like we planned on and if the public bank progs proposed decades ago was done S.F. would be in a massive building boom. Instead the market urbanists give you upzoning with no financing.

Amtrak had record ridership this year because: -A record investment made by the Biden Admin -A failed airline industry that can barely hold itself together Americans want trains. And we want a lot more of them

Can’t help but notice the last neighborhood without power includes City Hall but not the CPUC aka PG&E’s oversight body lol

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People operating our transit and being available to answer questions and support passengers is good actually.

Big Chungus has lasted almost 20 times longer than the Confederacy

I’ve seen enough. @amtrak.com it’s time to take over the deadliest train the in country because this cannot keep happening.

“Worlds Safest Driver” Waymo spent all last night stopped in streets and intersections across SF due to a power outage. You’d think they’d plan for something like that. At least one blocked an emergency response vehicle. This is what happens when a company gets to run a public service.

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Oakland is the best place on earth ❤️

“Checkmate”

Pretty easy to argue the strike benefited educators with United Teachers of Richmond. District had proposed a 0% raise. State moderator proposed 6%. They finally settled on 8% after the strike. 100% fully paid family health benefits starting in 2027 as well! richmondside.org/2025/12/10/w...

Not a good take from Wiener. He avoids talking about the project at all and then blames Peskin who voted on the rezoning in 2017. Mind this wasn’t in Peskin’s district at the time but Farrell’s. Voters won’t buy this given the developers used Wiener’s laws to fast track things.

Wiener depends on the right NIMBYs in the marina for support just like progs like Chan depend on the left NIMBYs but you only really hear about the latter. I think this situation is going to change that narrative especially after Engardio was recalled by similar people.

Being able to bike to public transit is such a privilege but it should simply be a norm for most people. Imagine how much less traffic the people who need to drive would experience if more folks could afford to live car free

All this so Benny in 4th grade can cheat on his English paper.

YIMBY mean Yes-but-No in my Backyard

I went with a train themed Christmas this year. Even decked out the little fake Christmas tree I’ve had ever since I worked at Starbucks in college (I was supposed to throw it away after the holidays). And yes, I love the holiday season idc

Social housing is not a pipe dream, it’s the only solution to this housing crisis unless we want to use public funds to heavily subsidize current construction.

Good morning! Oakland is 100% on the HRC LGBTQ scorecard this year thanks to new policies passed (humblebrag) and the opening of the Town Youth Club. We did get docked one point since the city no longer has an LGBTQ Liaison in the Mayor’s office, but overall we exceeded our work and got 100%!

New polling just dropped and when voters hear my message, I’m tied for first among Dem candidates. I’m the only candidate putting everyday Californians first. That’s why I support a billionaire’s tax to: 🏘️ Build more housing 📚 Strengthen public schools ❤️‍🩹 Fund single-payer health care Join us!

California is still in a major housing crisis, with rents still shooting up especially in SF where Wiener is State Senator. That aside, Wiener will never win the housing debate when he has done nothing but defend the decimation of Gaza from scrutiny. What about their housing? There’s none left.

Caltrans is spending $318M to remove toll gates, meanwhile BART was forced to spend $90M to add slow fare gates I look forward to a day when MTC prioritizes transit rider experience over payment collection like they do for drivers www.eastbaytimes.com/2025/12/01/r...

Spotted by @carterlavin.bsky.social on our weekly lake Merritt walk. That’s a big fish!

Energy transitions can happen faster than we think: In 2000 almost 90% of Denmark's electricity was from fossil fuels. In 2024 less than 10% of Danish electricity was from fossil fuels.

“Checkmate”

The FBI’s Oakland corruption case relies heavily on the word of one man with a "checkered past." When we closely examined Mario Juarez's long history of legal disputes and criminal investigations into his businesses, patterns started to emerge. oaklandside.org/2025/12/01/m...

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Me, the guy who helped bring the first pickleball courts to Oakland watching the discourse on pickleball every day.