Mayor Lurie and Supervisor Mahmood's “BUILD Act” would repeal a tax on rich real estate investors that has raised over $500m for housing working-class San Franciscans can afford.
Send a letter to City Hall to reject this tax cut for the rich: dsasf.org/protectpropi 🧵
Post explaining that DSA SF members at the protest were disgusted and horrified by a lone individuals antisemitic remarks, make clear her words came from her alone.
Excellent response from @dsasf.org ... do not be fooled by right-wing hit pieces. Give DSA credit for doing and saying the right things.
Vital new scene reporting from Jimmy Wu at Bay Area Current: on the rise of the EA, rationalist, and right-leaning journo/writer scene in the Bay Area. I unwittingly attended one of these happy hours ("writer and publisher meetup!") and met Curtis Yarvin's ex. bayareacurrent.com/meet-the-new...
Billionaires Attack Rent Control GrowSF, a group funded by billionaires yet claiming to speak for the working class, released an attack ad on Monday targeting the four Supervisors who voted against the Mayor's Family Zoning Plan. As written, this plan threatens to demolish existing rent-controlled units, while failing to invest in the deeply affordable housing we need. SF Standard headline: Moderate political group attacks supervisors who voted against Lurie’s upzoning plan
Tireless organizing by tenants, supported by DSA SF and Supervisor Jackie Fielder, succeeded in exempting many rent controlled units - but the Mayor's plan still leaves up to 20,000 units vulnerable to demolition, placing a target on the backs of working families. Headline: Board of Supervisors Strikes Down Rent-Control Amendment
We commend DSA SF member Supervisor Jackie Fielder and her colleagues - Supervisors Chan, Chen, and Walton - for voting against this proposal, and we urge the Board to put forward a plan that centers housing for working families, not profits for real estate developers. DSA SF and our allies will continue to fight against the displacement of tenants, and for real solutions to the affordability crisis like social housing, which San Franciscans voted for in 2020’s Prop I and which Mayor Lurie and his wealthy backers continue to ignore.
San Franciscans deserve housing security, not displacement. The Mayor’s Family Zoning Plan still leaves more than 20,000 rent-controlled homes vulnerable to demolition. Thank you to Supervisors Fielder, Chan, Chen, and Walton for standing with tenants and working families.
San Francisco is setting a chilling example for the Democrats-in-waiting: Cutting social services and letting billionaires directly fund the public programs they hold dearest (mostly the cops) without oversight. Thankful for leaders like @deanpreston.bsky.social and @jackiefielder.bsky.social
"We are drivers for Uber, and we’ll be joined outside the conference by others representing the vast majority of AI workers: those whom the technology is being used against. We are eager to share our stories."
FFS
"clean"
just straight-up lying.
burning carbon is burning carbon
WE HAVE TO STOP BURNING THINGS FOR ENERGY
It's very visible in media but people are being fired at a high rate in basically every industry as far as I can tell and seniority has no impact on this process. I can't help but remember all those think pieces about how millennials need to 'have careers' and 'show some loyalty' to their employers.
Less than 30 minutes after the Social Security Administration’s chief data officer resigned following a whistleblower complaint, recipients could no longer access the resignation email. www.wired.com/story/charle...
I deleted several posts about a Times story because they violated Times social media standards.
Bloodboy rising
Yeah my job is pretty cool. My uniform is a tactical vest that’s two sizes too small and a gaiter I bought in a gas station. They send me to sneak into schools to kidnap little kids because people got mad about having to press 1 for English. The president had to warn everyone to stop spitting on me.
UPDATE: David Huerta was just released from custody!
While our elected leaders are holding book tours, we are out in the rain doing something to fight back against Elon Musk's unelected takeover!
Grab a shell, get out to the Tesla store, and help show our leaders the kind of fight we expect from them!
#TeslaTakedown
Whoever is doing this in the UK deserves an award.
4 panel comic Panel 1: Pink Guy holds up a stack of paper and says: I’m a writer, could you read my manuscript? Yellow Guy, walking dismissively out of shot: gross no Panel 2: Robot moves into shot. A panel in its stomach is full of scraps of text. Robot snatches manuscript from pink guy and says: Gimmie that Panel 3: Robot stuffs manuscript into its mouth Panel 4: Robot bends over and proceeds to shoot a sludge of disgusting paper mulch into Yellow Guy’s smiling open mouth
when you say “duhh ai writing is good actually” you’re the yellow guy. this is u
Welcome to #TeslaTakedown @captmarkkelly.bsky.social 💪
It simply cannot be the case that the government may lie about where someone is being held and then argue that a habeas petition filed is in that jurisdiction is improper because the person is not actually being held in that jurisdiction.
The reason why you don’t run a government like you run a business is because Jersey Mike’s does not have the capacity to drop atomic weaponry on my house if I stop buying sandwiches there
Gee bummer man
once again I have to invoke the specter of Ronald Wilson Reagan, who is in Hell now. under Reagan, the term "government spending" was effectively demonized. fuck you, Reaganite ghouls! spending money, on its people and their needs, is the function of government! public works are good! say so!
"To get people into motion, you have to project some level of justified hope and a credible plan to win. That, in turn, becomes to a certain extent a self-fulfilling prophecy."
Eric Blanc on his new book, organizing, and labor's moves under Trump:
www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/worker-to-...
good morning 🔌 we're plugged in and ready to roll. our top story so far:
In a Texas university town of about 125,000 people, ordinary residents and officials banded together to oppose Amazon’s proposal to more than double the number of daily local drone flights. And the animals are thankful for it:
Photos of SBWU members posing with SBWU logos and signs are edited onto a colorful poster that says "550 UNION STARBUCKS STORES + TODAY, PARTNERS AT 23 MORE LOCATIONS ARE ANNOUNCING THEY'RE ORGANIZING"
BREAKING: Starbucks workers at the S. Dale Mabry & Neptune location in Tampa, FL just WON the 550th union Starbucks store in the US!
Not only that - baristas at 23 MORE stores are announcing organizing efforts today!
When we fight together, we WIN together. And we're NOT slowing down. ✊🔥
There is nothing crazy about this. This horrific video epitomizes the logic of current meme-fascism: it's a colonization of the imagination that precedes and aestheticizes real neo-imperialist violence, dressed up in the glossy looks of stock imagery, influencer content and online scamming
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Bold. There simply aren’t enough voices promoting freedom and free markets in the American media.
Tesla sales in Europe plunged by 45% in January. Yes, competition from Chinese EVs is fierce—but it's not just that. Musk’s alt-right antics are turning buyers away. From swastika-daubed EVs to fan-forum owners jumping ship, we saw this coming.
A London bus stop with a parody Tesla ad poster that says "goes from 0 to 1939 in 3 seconds - Tesla, the Swasticar"
👀 Be a shame if these popped up around the world. Make a donation via the link in our bio & we'll send you a PDF so you can print your own #dontbuyaswasticar