Like when the PRI would give away washing machine
FinTwitter@fintwitter.bsky.social · 2h ago*TRUMP PROMISES $5,000 PAYMENT TO US ADULTS IF GOP WINS MIDTERMS
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FinTwitter@fintwitter.bsky.social · 2h ago
There's a reason the center of gravity of the Bay Area's LGBTQ community is shifting to the East Bay (it already has for lesbians and trans people): San Francisco's LGBTQ neighborhood is mostly houses and 2-story buildings, and hasn't really changed in the last few decades.
Robert Fruchtman @fruchtose.bsky.social · 2d agoBig news: Later today, Supervisor Mandelman and SF Planning are hosting an important community forum to discuss making the Castro District a historic landmark district. This proposal is shockingly regressive. It would downzone in a rich white neighborhood. sfplanning.org/event/potent...
They absolutely should. State-level funding and in-house capacity for planning and design is critical for making this possible.
Beachrave@beachrave.bsky.social · yesterdayState and local agencies need to have shovel-ready plans for the next time a sympathetic federal government is in power. These plans need to be modular and provide wins within 2 years to be midterm-ready.
In a lot of ways, the environmentalism of my parents' generation didn't ask anyone to sacrifice anything. People still drove (but it was a Prius), lived in the burbs (but with a beautiful garden), bought supermarket food (but bought organic). It was an aesthetic choice as much as anything. 🧵
Max Dubler 🏳️🌈@maxdubler.com · 2d agoThree great reported essays on the inter generational conflict over housing and active transportation, particularly in Northern California: First, a Berkeley-raised writer’s exploration of his parents’ generation’s complicated feelings about the proposed apartments and the Hopkins bike lane:
Everything I Don’t Like Is nEoLibRaLiSm part 583773848
Jacobin@jacobinmag.bsky.social · 5d agoIt’s a shame that the women’s liberation movement was, for 50 years, personified by Gloria Steinem — someone who never really shared that movement’s emancipatory goals.
These are the people who have controlled land-use policy in California for the last 50+ years. This is why we have a housing crisis. This is everything wrong with blue city/state governance distilled down to its essence. www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/arti...
This is important journalism (in part) because it reflects very personal, uncomfortable, and often exasperating experiences that me and my friends who grew up in the Bay have with our aging parents. For many of our parents, there is no crisis because Prop 13 means they are still living in 1993.
Max Dubler 🏳️🌈@maxdubler.com · 2d agoThree great reported essays on the inter generational conflict over housing and active transportation, particularly in Northern California: First, a Berkeley-raised writer’s exploration of his parents’ generation’s complicated feelings about the proposed apartments and the Hopkins bike lane:
worth tying this into the political economy of the slave south as well. from roughly the 1820s onwards, slavery became enormously lucrative in ways that had never been seen before. slave traders became millionaires. large planters had tremendous purchasing power. just huge amounts of wealth.
Better Things Are Possible@internethippo.bsky.social · 2d agoAntebellum politics is fascinating, the South kept getting policy concessions and whipped themselves up into a paranoid rage anyway, essentially because they couldn't stand being culturally judged for having slaves
Support for more housing is definitely a generational thing. And it’s a shame that some in the climate and environmental movement, especially those who are older, don’t seem to get it
lol a climate scientist in his 80s just blocked me on BlueSky because I called him out about opposing more housing in his transit-adjacent neighborhood. “It’s a climate emergency but let’s not ruin the neighborhood character.” And they say this place is an echo chamber.
California when the boomers finally fucking die:
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Good thing for this kid his name isn't Hasan Piker because otherwise journalists would be asking a lot of questions.
Edward Wong@ewong.bsky.social · 3d agoNEW: Nate Hochman was fired from the DeSantis campaign in 2023 after promoting a video with the Sonnenrad, a Nazi symbol embraced by white supremacists. He now works in Rubio's State Department, as deputy director of policy planning and chief speechwriter. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2026/09/06/u...
John Fugelsang@johnfugelsang.bsky.social · 4d agoThroughout her career, her work also focused on liberating men from these fear-based emotional stigmas; the beliefs that are constantly trying to force boys and men into narrow, conformist, emotionally stifling boxes. Pls check it out; subscribe & share: johnfugelsang.substack.com/p/gloria-ste...
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100%. We should make it a raffle who gets to do it. Donations go to Veteran causes.
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Just FYI the arch in dc is gonna be knocked the F down immediately upon a new president
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150%; also known to self-identify as “an *AVID* cyclist” at public meetings where they oppose protected cycling infrastructure
Stan Oklobdzija@stano.bsky.social · 4d agoAs a Berkeley High graduate, I can say with authority that there is no more Berkeley of a person than a climate scientist who is anti bike lane and pro parking.
No one is courageous enough to have this discussion smh
Sridhar Ramesh@radishharmers.bsky.social · 5d ago"Bayesian" means "from the Bay Area".
“The administration wrote to several grantees working on maternal health that while ‘maternal and infant health are important issues,’ their work ‘does not advance minority health with regards to OMH’s current priority areas.’” we don’t loathe these people enough.
The Washington Sun@washingtonsun.bsky.social · 5d agoHHS is canceling infant mortality and postpartum grants to focus instead on research related to what the department says are “root causes” like sperm counts and erectile dysfunction. https://www.notus.org/health-science/hhs-cancels-infant-mortality-postpartum-grants-focus-infertility
Long live the revolutionary struggle against bedtime!
alex davis@alexdavistransit.bsky.social · 5d agoOh of course. The DSA chapter trying to make Long Beach Transit free also wants to get rid of all the speed cameras because they "prey on the working class". 🤦