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Major news: Over 2,000 new homes - with 267 co-ops, 133 affordable homes, 115 senior affordable homes - are coming to the Western Addition. Today, Mayor Lurie and I are introducing legislation to help finance and build one of the largest investments in the neighborhood in years at Freedom West.
Haterade: The Official Beverage of San Francisco NIMBYs
Jane Natoli 🥑🚲🍍@wafoli.bsky.social · last mo.Lmao this is embarrassing, the Clement Street Merchants Association has a petition against a chain store opening on Clement. The chain is a local Bay Area business (Therapy Stores) trying to open its 11th location. Our formula retail ban is so dumb
Join us for another round of our popular Green Density Tour on August 30th! This time we'll explore Bernal Heights ecology and talk about opportunities for further greening to create a safer, more welcoming environment for pedestrians and new neighbors. RSVP: actionnetwork.org/events/berna...
Painfully true
McSweeney's@mcsweeneys.net · 2mo ago"You were riding in the morning, or at night, or on a quiet road, or a main road. The only time and place to ride a bike is a time beyond time and a place beyond place, where the space-time continuum is bent so strangely that you are both everywhere and nowhere." buff.ly/bSa1Wm5
Great opportunity to make bringing joy into the world your full-time gig!
@sfbike.org · 3mo agoHey – we're hiring! Apply to be our next Bicycle Education Coordinator and implement our adult bicycle education classes to help San Franciscans of all ages discover the joy of biking and rolling for everyday transportation! Learn more and apply + share to your networks!
What are the two common characteristics of the attendees…?
Bilal Mahmood@bilalmahmood.bsky.social · 3mo agoWhy is this photo so maddening? Because it exposes the generational divide in our housing debate. Between those who find a reason to say no - instead of yes - to housing.
“Not one of these protestors looks like a lizard. It’s not normal, I tell you!”
Kevin M. Kruse@kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 4mo agoI try not to overdo this bit but ... my man is begging for it. Let's go.
(Spoiler alert) The olds have been blaming the youth forever
Paul Fairie@paulisci.bsky.social · 4mo agoA Brief History of Kids Today Are Selfish 🧵
🧵YIMBYs got royally screwed in the Howard Jarvis deal, here’s what happened:
Nothing more progressive than blocking housing and prioritizing cars...
Sam@samd.bsky.social · 4mo agothe critical thing to know about Connie Chan is that she’s not just a NIMBY when it comes to housing. She also NIMBYs transit and bike lanes, opposing the ballot measure to save Caltrain and car-free JFK
Scroll through Connie Chan’s extensive record of blocking housing.
"In reality, access to power over other racial groups is their preferred political currency." www.theguardian.com/inequality/n...
The white working class knows the American project isn’t working. Here’s why that will never matter to them
Access to power over other racial groups is their preferred political currency
theguardian.com
Pete is spot-on here. There’s lots of scope to fix the government within current constitutional constraints
Acyn@acyn.bsky.social · 5mo agoButtigieg: We sit in a in a country that's got the wrong number of people on the Supreme Court, possibly the wrong number of representatives in the House of Representatives. And by the way, when you consider the disenfranchisement of the people of DC, we have the wrong number of states in the US
With great power comes great irresponsibility
derek guy@dieworkwear.bsky.social · 5mo agoHappy Pride Month. If you're a gay man, please remember your power. People often think that gay men are innately fashionable, which means if you wear some stupid shit for long enough, straight people, including homophobes, will copy you and then you can laugh at them.
Totally normal thing for the leader of a democracy to say…
The Bulwark@thebulwark.com · 6mo agoTrump on Xi Jinping: "He's a great gentleman. I find him to be an amazing man. And when I say that the press always says, 'Oh, that's terrible'…Well, you know, he runs 1.4 billion people with a pretty iron fist."
The San Francisco Examiner published my op-ed in support of housing and the Marina Safeway project! A response to another piece declaring YIMBYism a "moral myth." I work for a friggin Center for Ethics in Society, so naturally wasn't gonna sit this one out...
Arbitrary vetoes of new housing are the true moral crisis
Opposition to Marina Safeway project reflects a broader pattern of blocking new housing, worsening affordability and limiting access to high-resource neighborhoods.
sfexaminer.com
I’ll be moderating this! Come on out
D9 Neighbors for Housing (SF)@d9neighbors.bsky.social · 7mo agoOn Monday, April 13, D9 Neighbors will host @conniechansf.bsky.social for our second Congressional candidate housing chat! Join us for snacks, socializing and the specifics of Connie's positions on housing. An RSVP is required, so sign up now!
May Chuck Schumer suffer the most painful bladder infection, a nonstop migraine, and too-tight shoes. What a disgrace to his constituents, his party, and his country.
Photo by Pierre Lavie. Yes this is me. And I threw my Leica. It landed on the bass plate with hardly a scratch. Another Photographer grabbed it along with my phone and I was able to track him later. I was held face down tear gas deployed right in front of me and pepper sprayed directly into the eye.
While we're cautiously optimistic that fatalities are trending lower than 2024, which was the deadliest year since the start of VZ, there is more work to do to make our roads safer and modeshift away from car dependency, which we must do for our climate goals. www.sfchronicle.com/projects/202...
S.F. sees record drop in pedestrian fatalities, bucking statewide trends
San Francisco has seen the steepest year-over-year decline of pedestrian deaths on record, falling well below the city average of 30 deaths per year.
sfchronicle.com
Spending my Christmas evening watching a performance of Mozart’s Requiem in La Sagrada Família.
Making people kiss the ring is not a strong indicator of progressive values. Neighborhood bullies suck, regardless of their politics
Bobak Esfandiari@bobakkabob.bsky.social · last yr."You shouldn't need a special handshake deal with Aaron Peskin to open up a business in North Beach" - My man @ira.bsky.social giving 🔥🔥 public comment just now in support of @dannysauter.bsky.social legislative package to eliminate layers and layers of corruption from our planning code
Ever ready to provide fresh proof of how dumb and full of shit he is.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last yr.Trump: "It's too much liquid. Too many different things are going into that baby at too big a number. The size of this thing when you look at it. It's like 80 different vaccines and beyond vaccines."
Great short video by TransLink explaining “the empty bus lane myth”
