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  I received this GrowSF poll. The language was heavily loaded to make the use of these drones and cameras sound much more limited and accountable than it would ever be in actuality. I saw through it because I know their game, most people wouldn't. Remember that polls can be used more to manufacture a narrative than to honestly uncover what people actually think.

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  putt.day #78 ⛳ 13/14 Birdie 🟡🟡🟡🟡🟡🟡🟡🟡🟡🟡🟡🟡🟢 https://putt.day/s/lqdyoXE2Bg65

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  If you were wondering how the SF #YIMBY movement is going, they’re cheerleading for ending the requirement for developers to plant trees when they’re *already tearing up the sidewalk anyway*. Why bother to fund permanently affordable housing, ban sprawl, or shift highway subsidies to transit? Much easier to promote density by having cities be polluted, gray, and dead anytime some developer says it’ll save him a few bucks.

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  🦀 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cE0wfjsybIQ&t=75

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  The Mission voted against giving the SFPD drones by 20 points. Now SFPD is flying more drones here than any other neighborhood. This is an occupation. Sources: https://www.sfchronicle.com/crime/article/san-francisco-drones-22325281.php, https://electionmapsf.com/2024-03-05/prop-e?view=neighborhood #sfpol

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  I love coast live oak forest so much. Happy place.

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  Vicious attack mailer against Lurie just dropped 🔥 It’s harsh but true. He does indeed oppose big corporations paying their fair share to keep vital SF services from being cut. How out of touch can you be? Yes on D and let’s make the nepo baby a one-term mayor!

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  Evening on Billy Goat Hill

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  Is the new GBV title Bob Pollard's estimation of his own place in rock songwriting? He's not so boastful as to assume he has a place in the pantheon, but the *crawlspace* of the pantheon, well, that's not too much to ask. https://guidedbyvoices.bandcamp.com/album/crawlspace-of-the-pantheon

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  Routle - SF Muni 05/24/2026 🟩 ⬛ ⬛ ⬛ ⬛ https://www.routle.city/muni

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  Last boost: I disagree with Connie Chan on transportation issues, but in a federal race where our new Congressperson will vote on foreign wars, I'm going to amplify both of the non–Scott Wiener candidates. Wiener spent years denying the genocide in Gaza and attacking people calling for peace as antisemites. He falsely maintains the problem is just Netanyahu, ignoring that Israeli "opposition" leaders make constant genocidal statements too. Wiener would be an enabler of...

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  crime is out of control, specifically moggings. it seems like every other day someone i know gets mogged

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  we need a fresh-faced young socialist who can mog the mayor. that’s how we’ll finally get his approval rating down

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  sidequest idea: get the exotic trees in front of city hall replaced with coast live oaks. think of the symbolic value to start conversations about the native ecosystems that make where we live special

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  please enjoy the very 00s energy of "Piracy Undermines Creative Expression!"'s entry in this song fight, calling out politicians who blamed video games for school shootings. gotta love those fat FM synths: https://www.songfight.org/songpage.php?key=welcome_to

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  It would be cool if the Coast Starlight's running time were half as long and if there were 6+ departures per day and you could, on one ticket, freely get off at stops along the way and visit for a bit before getting back on the next train toward your destination.

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  Carefully hugged this smol oak tree on Shotwell Street 💚 Coast live oaks were likely the most common tree in so-called San Francisco before colonization and provide habitat/food for 270 species. But they’re rarely planted as street trees: only 9 scattered around the Mission according to DPW. The city only allows them on sidewalks 15’ wide without overhead power lines, a unicorn situation. Even then they usually plant Australian and other exotic species.

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  Okay, I need the prog supervisors to have a charter amendment ready to go to require BOS confirmation for mayoral appointees that fill vacancies. If it doesn't have six votes now, so be it, just have it ready for that final vote the minute Chow/Gee or Brooke are seated. It is very unusual and obviously prone to corruption that SF lets its mayor fill vacancies unilaterally https://missionlocal.org/2026/05/sf-london-breed-stephen-sherrill-bloomberg-conor-johnston-district-2/

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  Proud to announce I'm a proponent of a ballot measure to use already voter-approved taxes on the rich to build affordable housing in SF! Come to the kickoff Saturday at noon in Dolores Park! RSVP: https://luma.com/80dwzo8z

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  Why do anarchist gardeners plant shrubs with upright growing forms? Because proper trees are theft.

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  "there are limits to the comparison [between South Africa and Israel]. For one thing, it’s unfair to South Africa... Pretoria at least pretended that the Bantustans were independent, while the Palestinian Authority is accused of 'diplomatic terrorism' whenever it engages with international bodies." https://www.currentaffairs.org/news/what-i-learned-from-reading-apartheid-propaganda

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  The Chronicle has a new puff piece on #Waymo purporting to show San Franciscans just looooove them. But 57% of respondents still think they're at least partly bad. https://www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/waymo-car-san-francisco-22253180.php And it's based on a poll not by an objective pollster like Gallup or PPIC, but "Sextant Research & Strategies," a political consulting firm. https://www.sextant-research.com/ Seems like Alphabet hired them to ask the...

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  Constantly innovating in bicycle infrastructure, San Francisco even has bicycle beg buttons

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  Philanthropy is how the rich trick us into not taxing them, which would let us accomplish much more good and without their veto on how it's done.

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  Something I'm trying is to say "punishment-first approach to public safety" instead of "tough on crime." To us leftists, the second phrase has a bad connotation, but to the general public, it doesn't. The politicians who popularized it used it as a selling point. To reach people who don't already agree with us, we have to frame the issue our way and not our opponents' way

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  So not a single Israeli war criminal is standing trial, but thanks to Brooke Jenkins, people who protested the genocide are. Disgraceful. https://missionlocal.org/2026/05/trial-golden-gate-protesters/

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  it kind of saddens me how everyone on the bus is looking at their phone. i know the internet's favorite "gotcha" response to this is to show old-timey photos of everyone on a tram reading the newspaper. but those newspapers were locally produced. on our phones we're all scrolling the same platforms with the same algorithms controlled by multinational companies directing our attention. it's a loss of local character and connections

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  I sometimes griped about my former supervisor Hillary Ronen, but cheers to her for joining a nonprofit that protects immigrants after leaving office, rather than go to a cushy lobbying gig. The contrast is especially stark with her would-be "moderate" successor who, after losing his election, immediately joined ICE-collaborating Flock Safety as a lobbyist. https://missionlocal.org/2026/04/san-francisco-hillary-ronen-mission-district-la-raza-centro-legal/

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  Great overview of the online (and a little offline) organizing against car culture right now, featuring @SafeStreetRebel, @bikegridnow, and @RapidResponseTeam. But it’s sobering to be reminded that despite all we’re doing, US pedestrian deaths are at a 40 year high. https://mashable.com/article/car-free-movement-social-media #carFree #bikeTooter #trafficViolence

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  Mission accomplished. Used a portable-ish electric kettle to make instant soup on the #Amtrak #GoldRunner, which recently lost its café car so has no hot food for the 6 hour ride otherwise. Now for a cup of tea…