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We're gooing to see a lot of this BS and wait until it gets to a point when straight men sue because straight women like this one are not considered qualified enough to "take their jobs" maybe gain some skills, preferably people skills, emotional intelligence idk. www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...

Pin this article to every economist politician because; why are basic needs and rent not part of the equation index they use to determine how functional the economy is? "nearly one of every four workers is functionally unemployed in America today"& pos homeless www.politico.com/news/magazin...

San Francisco carries on with its identity crisis with all the grace of a giraffe on skates.

Deep in the weeds of this story explains what the real motives behind DOGE & Trump admin right now. Weakening public opinion on the Federal government while appeasing their culture war base. They make it look like they are saving a lot of money but they aren't. apnews.com/article/doge...

Now they intend to control all the algorithms. I've been trying to tell folks, these apps aren't for organizing anymore you need to get off and build a strong local network you can trust. Localization is key, ground up.

Bruh, why? Why would you go after the sleep deprived, the depressed and the overweight who are finally getting that stubborn weight off? Want us suicidal and miserable good grief. Prescription weight lose drugs will help prevent so much health issues and costs in the future.

Unfortunately that's a real thing. Like millions of other people I have ADHD but "lucky" for me for some reason my mom didn't believe in medicine either so I grew up feral and had to figure out ways to deal with it. But there are people who really need these medications I mean, antidepressants...

I'm not sure how they're going to fund all of this, plus AI, going to Mars, military surveillance projects, buying up countries to turn into extra states, taking over Gaza. Take away all the funding for the public you still don't have enough money for that dystopian dream empire goals.

Do you know what really scares me the most? That I still see people believing any old thing they see said on the internet. Doesn't matter the politics they lean into, they just want to lean into something.

Ten more years with the economic direction we are headed these luxury apartments are going to look like public housing from the 90s.

Neighborhood protest on Harrison near Westlake Middle School makes sense. People rarely stop for pedestrians crossing this street even as they cross on the crosswalk. The wide lanes and hill makes it ideal for speeding, I always thought this street would fit great for GTA.

Going to the source hiring drug pushers to handle a public drug addiction and mental health crisis, " Tsai is expected to work with Kunal Modi, another McKinsey alum, whom Lurie has tapped to lead the city’s response to health and homelessness." sfstandard.com/2025/02/14/s...

I'm ecstatic their talking about political education. Davey D went to one of our political educations last year. It was so good everyone got into it. Everyone dropped pearls of wisdom and left with something. We'll be having another coming up before the Oakland mayor election.

Rep. Pramila Jayapal introduced a constitutional amendment to reverse Citizens United, as an out-of-control billionaire informally appointed by President Donald Trump has set out to destroy the federal government in the wake of the most expensive election in U.S. history.

I have a question ✋🏻 Why is it the same Technocrat billionaires running our government can believe in Transhumanism & pursue government funding in order to advance unnatural tech for them while actively having this US administration attack trans people & tell them they don't have a right to exist?

As one great Billionaire edge lord libertarian who now has an unhinged amount of federal dollars in defense contracts once said, "Competition is for suckers." - Peter Thiel And that's what libertarianism is all about. Authoritarian control by a few lucky spoiled brats with big connections.

I'm just a cat. Meow.

He's going to call Elon on you for this.

I've been focused on Oakland and San Francisco politics, because San Francisco politics directly impacts Oakland, but I think it's smart to start paying attention to Alameda County now.

What happens if all the cities get this strict-or if cities nearby don't-they have to accept neighboring cities homeless populations as well as their own. Where are people supposed to go with no resources and high rents? www.kqed.org/news/1202658...

I just had this dark thought that if my mom had stayed alive and healthy she would have found a way to become a Fox News corespondent off of my going viral. She always said she would expose me if given the chance. No joke. People are crazy. Everyone said she never should have had children.

Oh look it's Seneca Scott's good old friend from The Free Press who once appeared as a special guest for a Neighbors Together Oakland event. He's traveling a far path from his original claims of being an environmental journalist.

Oakland mayors are less powerful than you think. But they get blamed for all the city's problems. Here's an info post describing the powers mayors have — and don't. oaklandside.org/2025/02/11/o...

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My partner is binge watching PBS: Crash Course Philosophy while gaming. I admire PBS's ability to make content for this genre of impatient millennial gamer. It's kind of mind blowing. A little too fast paced for me but it makes sense for him.

I see people's fighting spirit is coming back. I like it.

Current mood.

The richest man in the world—who has now installed unqualified loyalists throughout the US government—is getting much of his information from far-right sources who present a world in which “Western Civilization” is in an existential struggle against Black and brown invaders.

I remember I joked over a decade ago that maybe people should look at politics like sports then they would get more into it. I really regret that idea coming to life.

When I left Twitter I had a 1M followers and 100K tweets. You know what happen to me when it was all gone? Nothing. To the Twitter refugees who I see fretting about losing contacts and content by deleting Twitter, trust, you'll be fine. They have convinced us that we need them. Nope. They need US.

Remember when the first Trump administration separated thousands of immigrant children from their parents and later it was ruled unconstitutional but also impossible to reunite all of those families? Still wondering what happened to those kids 8 years later.