Heterodox This
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Former union VP. Likes, re-posts & follows ≠ endorsement. Living on unceded Xučyun Ohlone land and sometimes on Kumeyaay land. Pronouns: She/her/gurlpahleez
Today’s long read: “MAGA and Trump’s political strategists continue to work with Eduardo and Flávio Bolsonaro to interfere in Brazil’s elections. Their goal is to annex Latin America to the US.”
Trump, Rúbio and the Bolsonaros’ Electoral Fraud and Cyber Attacks
MAGA and Trump’s political strategists continue to work with Eduardo and Flávio Bolsonaro to interfere in Brazil’s elections. Their goal is to annex Latin America to the US.
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CANADA NEWS 1) “A British Columbia Supreme Court judge has ruled in favour of two harm-reduction activists convicted of drug trafficking who argued they were doing it to reduce the harms caused by toxic drugs.”
Australians along the east coast are reporting many sightings of endangered bogong moths as the insects continue their long migration towards the country’s alpine regions.
Palantir co-founder Joe Lonsdale urged people to be less judgmental about the Iran school bombing that killed over 150 people, mostly children. Pentagon officials have linked the bombing to an “overreliance on Palantir's tech” while, UN investigators have concluded the attack was a war crime.
Palantir’s co-founder thinks we should be less judgmental about that deadly Iran school strike
The AI-assisted attack at the start of Donald Trump's war killed more than 150 people, mostly children.
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More Australians to live into their 90s as life expectancy forecast to rise over coming decades
More Australians to live into their 90s as life expectancy forecast to rise over coming decades
Treasury’s latest intergenerational report projects life expectancy at birth will reach 89 for women and 86 for men by 2065/66 Australian households will shrink but more people can expect to live well into their 90s, according to the latest update to forecasts of the country’s long-term future. Treasury’s latest intergenerational report, to be published in full on Monday, will project the impact of government policies 40 years into the future. Continue reading...
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Bari Weiss has plunged CBS News into ratings calamity. —"Evening News" has posted worst ratings of 21st century —"CBS Mornings" has posted worst ratings of 21st century —And now "60 Minutes" has posted worst ratings of 21st century More in @status.news: www.status.news/p/60-minutes...
Bari’s ‘60’ Bust
Bari Weiss blew up “60 Minutes," ostensibly to create a better show. Instead, her revamped premiere just suffered its worst debut ratings of the 21st century—what one longtime TV executive told Status...
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A judge has dismissed the charges against 18 people arrested in this year's "Stud Alley" party, which took place over San Francisco Pride weekend. The judge said the evidence did not support the charges, & tossed them "in the interest of justice." missionlocal.org/2026/09/char...
Judge tosses all charges against Stud Alley partygoers ‘in the interest of justice'
Judge dismisses cases against 18 people accused of failing to leave unpermitted party during pride weekend
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A Labor Day reminder: having a job is no longer enough to protect millions of Americans from homelessness. For many workers, the greatest threat isn't losing their job. It's that their job will never pay enough, never provide enough hours, never offer enough stability to keep them housed.
Opinion | America Is Pushing Its Workers Into Homelessness (Gift Article)
The working homeless are casualties of our prosperity.
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Snowy Egret marching across San Francisco Bay, next to Bay Trail, Emeryville, California. #birds #nature #eck #eastcoastkin
As Dickens wrote: "If they would rather die, they had better do it, and decrease the surplus population... Are there no prisons? Are there no workhouses?" Scrooge's words. Apparently our present day misers agree. What the hell have our rulers become? www.nytimes.com/2026/08/22/u...
How the Billionaire Joe Lonsdale Shaped Trump’s Homelessness Policy (Gift Article)
As Republicans have embraced tough measures to clear the streets, no group has led the way more than the Cicero Institute, founded by the venture capitalist Joe Lonsdale.
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69% of Canadians say Carney showed strength by refusing to accept terms not in Canada's interests, according to Angus Reid
Andrew Sabl@andysabl.bsky.social · last mo.Full text of Mark Carney’s speech yesterday. Here’s a line that few are reporting but that seems crucial: because the US no longer can make—or wants to make—credible commitments, it’s kneecapped its own ability to reach agreements. www.pm.gc.ca/en/news/spee...
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“Why do you want a garden, chickens, and to move off grid? I live in the Bay Area.”
Orli I Autoimmune & Gut RD on Instagram: "That last one really got me"
103K likes, 970 comments - thrivingbiome on June 25, 2026: "That last one really got me".
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“There are many different pathways to homelessness and this video outlines some of the more common ones. No one grows up wanting to be homeless but it can happen to anyone in the blink of an eye.”
Jill Wiwcharuk MD CCFP (EM) dip ISAM on Instagram: "There are many different pathways to homelessness and this video outlines some of the more common ones. No one grows up wanting to be homeless but i...
7,381 likes, 197 comments - streetdrjill on August 22, 2026: "There are many different pathways to homelessness and this video outlines some of the more common ones. No one grows up wanting to be home...
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“How Palantir billionaires paved the way for homeless detention camps.” “Cicero Institute, founded by former Palantir CEO Joe Lonsdale has been pushing laws that make it a crime to be homeless all across the country.”
National Homelessness Law Center on Instagram: "The same billionaire tech bros that are helping ICE surveil and harass communities are the same billionaires pushing to fill jails and detention camps w...
3,680 likes, 78 comments - homeless_law on January 20, 2026: "The same billionaire tech bros that are helping ICE surveil and harass communities are the same billionaires pushing to fill jails and det...
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Professor Culhane said the idea that homeless people do not need housing aid was “a radical assertion that runs contrary to experience and common sense.”
Shawn Connery @shawnconnery.bsky.social · last mo.In contrast, Mr. Kurtz credited his boss, the founder of the Cicero Institute. “If we were to think about the conservative position on homelessness even in the first Trump administration, it’s quite unclear,” Mr. Kurtz said. “Joe Lonsdale articulated the conservative position on homelessness.”
This is where we are: a tech billionaire who, as an undergrad writing in the Stanford Review, "blasted a student movement to raise custodians' pay, warning it 'destroys incentive for them to improve themselves,'" is now a chief architect of a homelessness policy built around punishment and coercion.
How the Billionaire Joe Lonsdale Shaped Trump’s Homelessness Policy (Gift Article)
As Republicans have embraced tough measures to clear the streets, no group has led the way more than the Cicero Institute, founded by the venture capitalist Joe Lonsdale.
nytimes.com
Lonsdale is pushing punitive & cruel policies- what one publication called a “grim march toward death” for the unhoused -that are well outside his domain of expertise. “I just can’t imagine having that much wealth and power and using it to kick people when they are down instead of lifting them up.”
Patricia Jean (Lowry) Saiger Limbacher@pjslimbacher.bsky.social · last mo.How one billionaire’s crusade against homelessness became Trump’s playbook Long before Silicon Valley embraced Trump, Joe Lonsdale wanted to remake government and shift the nation’s approach to homelessness. Now, his friends in the White House are listening. By Elizabeth Dwoskin wapo.st/3UcLKJ4
On Joe Lonsdale— “He’s using the homelessness crisis to deflect attention from the broken economic system that both causes homelessness and enables people like him to become billionaires in the first place,” said Jesse Rabinowitz of the National Homelessness Law Center.
Sadie G@dsadieg.bsky.social · last mo.Another billionaire, co-founder of Palantir, is using his wealth to influence trump. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/22/u...
Never go out bushwalking without being properly prepared and dressed and always expect the unexpected. Always tell people exactly where you’re going too, what track you’re on etc. It might just save your life.
connie_chan_sf on Instagram: "AI misinformation has no place in our elections—especially when it reinforces racism and sexism.AI companies have a responsibility …"
AI misinformation has no place in our elections—especially when it reinforces racism and sexism.AI companies have a responsibility to provide factual information, and political campaigns have a responsibility not to weaponize these tools to mislead voters and perpetuate harmful tropes.
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Heterodox This@heterodoxthis.bsky.social · 2mo ago“Scott Wiener can rightly take down his bigotry bot, but he can’t erase the concerns it raised among San Franciscans about his character and judgment.”
BREAKING🚨 (1/7) A whistle-blower from the Scott Wiener campaign has alerted the Phoenix Project of potential illegal campaign coordination between the Wiener for Congress candidate campaign and a Political Action Committee supporting Wiener’s Congressional bid.
“Scott Wiener can rightly take down his bigotry bot, but he can’t erase the concerns it raised among San Franciscans about his character and judgment.”
‘Apologize and take it down’: Scott Wiener pulls plug on Connie Chan AI chatbot
Several said the best thing for Wiener to do would be to scuttle his Connie Chan chatbot. And that came to pass.
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Scott Wiener: YIMBY for the rich, NIMBY for the poor “All that Scott’s bills have accomplished are giveaways to land speculators and pandering to the libertarian fantasies of the tech crowd and the pockets of his donors.”
San Francisco Bay Guardian | Scott Wiener: YIMBY for the rich, NIMBY for the poor
All that Scott’s bills have accomplished are giveaways to land speculators and pandering to the libertarian fantasies of the tech crowd and the pockets of his donors.
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