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Since my Oakland Mayoral Platform is on the hellsite, here it is on here:
1. Rewild the hills
2. Annex Piedmont
3. Split all new revenue and savings from the first two points between AC Transit and the Oakland Unified School District.
If Democrats had any sense they should run on this.

The reason we all feel poor is because our wealth, public and private, is being funnelled in the pockets of the Epstein class.
The pace at which US wealth concentration is rising is simply staggering

The concentration of AI wealth into the hands of a few tech barons + plutocratic capture ==> unchartered territory
February 15, 2026 at 8:17 PM
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In 1854, after watching the federal government deploy 2000 federal troops and spend $40,000 sending Anthony Burns back into slavery, Boston's Amos Adams Lawrence said “we went to bed one night old-fashioned, conservative, Compromise Union Whigs and waked up stark mad Abolitionists.”
Yesterday morning kids were sent running from their bus stop in panic because ICE showed up. This guy at today’s ICE Out of Lindenwold protest is a must watch 😭. @maddow.bsky.social
February 14, 2026 at 5:07 PM
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Legal status doesn’t matter: if you exceed ICE’s melanin threshold, you get snatched. It is ethnic cleansing. There is no other word for it.

The news has shown you video of these often violent detentions. What you don’t see is what happens to these individuals after.

I’ve had a front row seat.

7/
February 11, 2026 at 9:56 PM
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Skater Kid: Behind the Viral Video
YouTube video by Capital & Main
youtu.be
February 14, 2026 at 5:23 AM
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James Talarico: No one's ever asked me about the cost of housing. The only thing the media wants to ask me about are trans athletes.

The only minority destroying this country is the billionaires. Trans people are 1% of the population. We are all focused on the wrong 1%.
February 13, 2026 at 2:45 AM
May you be the white guy who says: "I'm gonna punch you in the face" and not the one that laughs: "that's crazy bro" and walks away.
get the kid in the brown hoodie a scholarship
February 14, 2026 at 12:12 AM
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little boy wants to make every poc in his school feel unsafe and then hide behind security and play victim? nah.
February 13, 2026 at 11:04 PM
the one useful use case for AI is to allow videogame companies to finally make their games available on Macs and instead we are getting sloppy slop the game everyone is laid off.
February 13, 2026 at 7:49 PM
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There seems to be a lot of discussion about Gavin Newsom today.

I wanted to re-share this piece that I wrote, because I have a lot of center-to-left Dems that follow me that want to understand.

There are very good reasons transgender people do not like Gavin Newsom.
Why Transgender People Are Not Feeling Gavin Newsom
We have seen this song and dance before.
www.erininthemorning.com
February 13, 2026 at 6:43 PM
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I'm still SHOCKED by the obscene rise in billionaire election spending since Citizens United in the NYT piece, despite already knowing that election corruption w/ $ was profound. (Recall that BCRA fought dangerous campaign $ in *2002*)

The article data didn't have a graph, so I made one to show it.
February 12, 2026 at 2:26 PM
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Crockett: "The US is falling apart, partially bc he's allowing for killings in the street, but also bc we have a 34 count convicted felon being shielded from any type of accountability as it relates to a child sex trafficking ring. I don't understand why we're pretending any of this is normal."
February 9, 2026 at 3:55 PM
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February 8, 2026 at 5:41 PM
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in an era when carnivore diet influencers are in charge of the american nuclear arsenal we have to admit the "annoying vegan" stereotype barely ever actually existed and the "all meat diet guy" is real, increasingly omnipresent, and way more annoying and inconvenient to actually be around
February 8, 2026 at 5:59 PM
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The next Car-Free Happy Hour!!

Tuesday February 17th 5:30
Cellarmaker Brewing
300 Webster St., Oakland

AC Transit # 12, 72, 18, 62

Want to meet people, make friends and *reduce VMT*?
Come on!

@tvrr.bsky.social
@bikeeastbay.bsky.social
@walkoakbikeoak.bsky.social
@walkbikeberk.bsky.social
February 5, 2026 at 5:08 PM
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the biden border bill and choosing to run on a “border patrol endorsed” piece of legislation should go down as not only cowardly and backward thinking but one of the worst strategic political decisions by democrats in recent memory, everyone involved should be out of politics forever
New Quinnipiac poll:

63% of voters disapprove of ICE

60% want ICE out of Minneapolis

58% want Kristi Noem removed from office
February 5, 2026 at 3:57 PM
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okay look, i support whatever she could plausibly say she's going to do here, but it would be really, really funny if It Happened tomorrow
February 5, 2026 at 2:38 AM
Even if states didn't desperately need the money, we should tax billionaires into millionaires just to avoid this obvious outcome.
We gotta come up with a better system than “everything rests on whether these twelve billionnaires are nice”
February 4, 2026 at 8:52 PM
February 4, 2026 at 8:02 PM
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recording protestors is not only fine but an actively good thing to do
February 2, 2026 at 10:28 PM
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One way to look at this is when you say no to trump you win and the other is a whole lot of people were happy to say yes before even trying to say no, so
They're cooked.
February 2, 2026 at 10:52 PM
Oakland Bike/Book nerds, has anyone done an Oakland Library System bike tour?

I might spend a day this week doing this, if anyone else is lightly employed and wants to join me, hit me up!
February 3, 2026 at 3:19 AM
This shopping cart is the only thing left of our neighbor who was killed by a distracted driver on this dangerous known by all to be built for suburban car highway access, not for people.
February 2, 2026 at 11:13 PM
What a difference it makes to have elected leaders who actually love the places they live in and want to share that love with every constituent.
It’s your city, from the sidewalk to the skyline. The David Dinkins Municipal Building’s rooftop is open & free to everyone, starting this June.
February 2, 2026 at 9:01 PM
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Any individual senator can choose to vote no on everything, object to all unanimous consent, insist on quorum calls, and deny voice votes until the administration is impeached, convicted, and removed.
February 2, 2026 at 2:47 PM