Brought a snack to brunch.

Apparently a new bond is being considered. The CEO of @cahsra.bsky.social is HUSTLING!

Come through this Sunday! We'll be joined by @barnalighosh.bsky.social, @cecilialunaparra.bsky.social, @alfredtwu.com, @mingweisamuel.bsky.social, @brandonsedai.bsky.social, and @tsch.uy.

California High Speed Rail is supported by 62% of Californians, which is more than the 52% of us who voted for Prop 1A in 2008. That being said, what’s stopping us from running another bond measure for the project? We still need to fund the tunnels to LA and the Bay from the Valley.

Sam Singer is now officially defending a *checks notes* botched radioactive shipyard cleanup in a Black neighborhood.

Had the immense pleasure of joining Davey D and Needa B to talk about the proposed changes to Oakland’s encampment rules and how they will have an overwhelmingly negative impact on our Black and Brown neighbors. Tune in for more: kpfa.org/episode/hard...

Scott Wiener appears to be hiring for his congressional run fyi. This race will be interesting as Wiener will probably frame himself as an AOC type figure but without the background or left support to take that lane.

Overnight someone posted these all around my street and in my neighborhood. I don’t know who and I’m trying to figure that out with the help of my neighbors, but I found six while searching the neighborhood and hope my neighbors find and remove the rest.

Everyone in city hall knows Ansel is a bad faith nobody after we genuinely tried working with him. Why does he think he deserves a meeting? Take it up with your Councilmembers bud

If I ran for office how much would Garry Tan spend against me?

I’ll save my bitching about regressive taxes after we save the Bay from regressive transportation cuts. But after we demand more transit funding from the state.

Was thinking about quitting politics like a month ago but I’m feeling renewed. Harami is gonna come back in force

Now that SB79 passed with the promise of lowering rents we will see if filtering works in action and if voters suffering with extremely high housing prices can wait years if not decades for the promise of more affordable housing. And I’m sorry, but I’m very skeptical that it will work.

I’m sold. Michael Tubbs is my candidate for Lt. Governor because of his strong commitment and work in ending poverty. He is 10000% behind CalCare.

Katie Porter’s WFP interview was very bad

The reactionaries are passing around a fake news article clearly written by AI that the left plans on primarying our fantastic Congresswoman @lateefahsimon.bsky.social, and it is so incredibly laughable that they think we are disappointed in her. She has been one of the best votes in Congress easily

Making friends with some folks in Nashville politics :)

No notes to this Care 4 Community narrative of the Housing Secure anti-eviction grant. Fife did all the work to keep getting it agendized, and somehow is getting none of the credit.

2023 Newsom and co helped set up the normalization of deploying the National guard to cities to “fight crime” or whatever. This time it was a gimmick and it was only a handful of support, but he knew the headlines would be “Newsom Deploys National Gaurd to S.F. with backing of Mayor and DA”

Hello friend 🩷

The fact they got him is great. When I worked in the office we got numerous death threats over the phone. www.ktvu.com/news/man-cha...

My hot take is the federal oversight over the Oakland police department is good actually and the $1 million we spend a year on it is small fries compared to how much we spend on lawsuits related to policing in Oakland

Two fairies on a ferry

As an orphan progressive looking for a candidate in this Governor’s race, I think @tonythurmond.bsky.social is the best candidate posed to take the left lane if he wanted to adopt populist Bernie/Zohran style politics. I don’t really see the same opportunity for other candidates.

So @katieporteroc.bsky.social is kinda a mean person. Here’s why I don’t care. #katieporter #cagovernor #californiagovernor2026 #progressive #capolitics

Good morning California! Many important bills remain pending at the Governor's desk - make those calls and ask him to sign! 916-445-2841

Statement from Jerusalem Coffee House. Someone smashed a window of the Palestinian owned cafe Tuesday morning...

The city of Oakland budget is not balanced yall. It’s anticipating money from a ballot measure that hasn’t even been fully fleshed out yet. So if someone says it’s balanced, they are misinformed.

This is crazy and even crazier is it has only been flagged by the Oakland Observer

Gavin Newsom vetoes gender education bill, declines to sign other trans protections - buff.ly/MTUAV85

San Francisco has lost its damn mind. We can absolutely have sober housing, but not at the expense of real, science-based solutions to drug addiction and homelessness which are both a result from our lack of investment into universal housing and public health.

This timeline sucks

Good morning from this sleepy bb

The fact the lobbying firm for the landlords even received city funding is ridiculous. Especially when landlords are the #1 business in terms of not paying taxes.

This is how propaganda works. They slapped an image on this from Los Angeles in 1992 during Rodney King riots.

Good times chatting with the Stop Requested podcast crew about #transit advocacy and my upcoming @islandpress.bsky.social book -- give it a listen here open.spotify.com/episode/2omu...

Leaders of the health sciences university hope to double their enrollment and bring much needed foot traffic to the city center.

Breaking news: local man lands the cutest boyfriend, more at 11.

Had a lovely hike at Sibley yesterday afternoon with some friends. Normally I am a morning hiker but it was nice to see some herps while out. Snagged photos of a Western Fence lizard and a Northern Alligator Lizard. And of course Mt. Diablo in all her glory.

Happy Week Without Driving! Tens of millions of people cannot drive and countless people have few options to get around besides driving. But everyone can help win changes to their community to make it easier to get around without a car and this book is here to help islandpress.org/books/if-you...

Helping this QT get a new ebike at The New Wheel.

Just found out that Jaurez appears to be lobbying at city hall again but is not a paid lobbyist. Again for ABC security. What is going on??? And thanks to the Oakland Observer @hyphyrepublic.bsky.social for catching this!

I’d rather be unemployed than a lying, pathetic, rejected mouthpiece for the Nerd Reich.

Kids in their enclosures

Just a reminder that the key witness in the FBI probe in the East Bay is known for this kind of stuff. He owes a lot of other people money too. He’s also tight with the people who ran the recalls, and both Sam Singer and Seneca Scott uplifted some of his projects. oaklandside.org/2025/10/02/o...

Yall recalled the Mayor and DA who started thus trend fyi

I might need to leave the Oakland Animal Services Foster Care group because the number of euthanized dog posts I’m seeing is too high. Perfectly healthy babies put to death early because we can’t fund our animal shelter.

Learning a lot about anti-SLAPP suits from my attorney atm. Very interesting and funny how I beat an attempt at one by myself. I couldn’t imagine losing an anti-SLAPP motion and then trying to sue the person for defamation afterward. Guess some folks just really want to waste their time & money.

The Mayor of Oakland does not approve state Project Homekey grants fyi. They have very very very little influence over that state $$$

It feels like amateur hour