judd.bsky.social
Adjunct Professor of Jewish Studies and Social Justice, University of San Francisco
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they got his ass, respectfully
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you love to see it
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what
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Lol
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This mf’r just said thee like he has a lisp
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13/x I think the last thing I’ll point out, for now, is that despite how glowingly Save MP Downtown speak of Santa Cruz ave, it has been struggling for *years* to keep stores open except for, oddly, FIVE different rug emporoums. www.almanacnews.com/blogs/2021/0...
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Kanye. Elon. Trump.
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24/x not so much a thread entry as a reminder or two on this day, June 5th, 2025. The day the world was all, “lol.” bsky.app/profile/judd...
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12/x Menlo Park could do so much better, but the city council appears to be unable to communicate a better vision, let alone the many things they can do to address parking loss during construction like prioritizing garages, segmenting construction, shuttles from other lots, charting for parking…
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11/x …which is that flatland parking is the least efficient use of downtown space. “[B]ad parking policy inhibits many of the things we say we want from our cities: Things like affordable housing, a walkable neighborhood, attractive architecture, a greener [] city.” e360.yale.edu/features/fre...
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10/x Save Downtown Menlo would have the city push the projects to other locations, away from the city center, public transit, and anything resembling density. The problem there is that it would require more parking for those people to travel to downtown. It doesn’t solve the central issue here…
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9/x One council member and city attorney tried to explain that Menlo Park will lose the chance to decide these things for itself pretty soon. If MP fails to meet its housing goals, it could be penalized, sued, and lose local land use decision-making authority. menlopark.gov/Government/D...
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8/x Just to give you some idea, one lady got up and tried to play her phone into the microphone , one read a poem about how the city council doesn’t care about to city, and every public comment against the proposal, no matter how inane or openly hostile, is met with applause from the gallery.
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7/x as much as I want to just blast the Save Downtown Menlo people for their nimbyism and the Parks and Recs vibes of their public comments, none of the city council members (even the mayor) are effective communicator of pretty much anything, so I understood why people didn’t feel heard.
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Big Bird Capone. Yes relation. He’s not his ancestry ok
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If they take my caffeine-free Coke Zero I’m legit going to cry please stop
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6/x the thing is, as someone in public comment mentioned, neighboring municipalities (San Mateo, Redwood City) have been transforming this transit-oriented land and mitigating the near term consequences with a lot of success. www.midpen-housing.org/news-and-hap...
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5/x according to those speaking in public comment against the proposal, temporary loss of about half of the 1000+ flatland parking spots would “destroy” downtown Menlo Park.
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4/x the other group, Save Downtown Menlo, is not explicitly anti-housing, just very against this particular project because it limits one particular resource to the city and the some 200 downtown businesses: parking. www.savedowntownmenlo.org
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3/x there are two main organizations here, the first is Menlo Together, who is for the development without reservation. Public comments are excited about affordable housing, diversity, and revitalization of a sluggish downtown. www.menlotogether.org
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2/x at heart here is Menlo Park’s unique position of building virtually no housing and therefore not meeting the requirements set by the state of a California while enjoying some of the highest and the fastest rising rents in the San Francisco Bay Area. sfstandard.com/2025/01/07/m...
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They shoulda known it’s what paradise craves
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Double and triple checked!
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it’s fine just hip throw them
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“Fun”
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23/x JD Vance promotes the “Great Replacement” theory, an antisemitic conspiracy. He suggests Jewish magnate George Soros is trying to “change the electorate.” This theory has been cited by perpetrators of antisemitic violence including the Pittsburg synagogue shooter. apnews.com/article/jd-v...
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22/x In 2022, now Vice President JD Vance defended Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene after she spoke at a white nationalist conference hosted by Nick Fuentes, an open antisemite and Holocaust denier. Vance calls Greene “a friend” and supported her appearance. ajcongress.org/statements/p...
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The actor was 17 when he played this role