Thomas Rogers
@throgers.bsky.social
City planner, photographer, urban hiker, http://sidewalktypos.com updater
“Somebody once suggested that the dwellers in the Isle of Man earned a precarious livelihood by taking in each other’s washing.” www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
How OpenAI Uses Complex and Circular Deals to Fuel Its Multibillion-Dollar Rise (Gift Article)
Here are seven unusual financial agreements helping to drive the ambitions of the poster child of the A.I. revolution.
www.nytimes.com
October 31, 2025 at 4:55 PM
“Somebody once suggested that the dwellers in the Isle of Man earned a precarious livelihood by taking in each other’s washing.” www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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California – this Election Day, vote yes on Prop 50.
California’s Prop 50 says that if Republicans are going to abuse the system to try and hang onto power, we’re going to counteract that abuse and create a level playing field in the midterm elections.
Make a plan to vote yes on Prop 50.
California’s Prop 50 says that if Republicans are going to abuse the system to try and hang onto power, we’re going to counteract that abuse and create a level playing field in the midterm elections.
Make a plan to vote yes on Prop 50.
October 30, 2025 at 6:49 PM
California – this Election Day, vote yes on Prop 50.
California’s Prop 50 says that if Republicans are going to abuse the system to try and hang onto power, we’re going to counteract that abuse and create a level playing field in the midterm elections.
Make a plan to vote yes on Prop 50.
California’s Prop 50 says that if Republicans are going to abuse the system to try and hang onto power, we’re going to counteract that abuse and create a level playing field in the midterm elections.
Make a plan to vote yes on Prop 50.
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Comment 129: Thomas speaking in support of Family Zoning, originally arrived here in the 1900s haha. Met his spouse here and is raising his kid here, wants more people to be able to tell that story, the FZP can make that happen
October 21, 2025 at 3:29 AM
It me
Well said by @jamellebouie.net: "...if the experience of Lincoln suggests anything, it is that there can be no real success without principle — ironclad and unyielding." www.nytimes.com/2025/10/01/o...
Opinion | Trump Has No Mandate to Destroy America
www.nytimes.com
October 1, 2025 at 4:40 PM
Well said by @jamellebouie.net: "...if the experience of Lincoln suggests anything, it is that there can be no real success without principle — ironclad and unyielding." www.nytimes.com/2025/10/01/o...
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"The sheer number of American elites willing to acquiesce to the destruction of democratic institutions is demoralizing. But it’s worth noting that many ordinary people seem to be made of sterner stuff."
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Lower Than Cowards
The surrender of America’s elites
www.theatlantic.com
September 26, 2025 at 2:02 AM
"The sheer number of American elites willing to acquiesce to the destruction of democratic institutions is demoralizing. But it’s worth noting that many ordinary people seem to be made of sterner stuff."
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After years of complaining about cancel culture, the current administration has taken it to a new and dangerous level by routinely threatening regulatory action against media companies unless they muzzle or fire reporters and commentators it doesn’t like.
Let’s be clear about what happened to Jimmy Kimmel
Trump’s most brazen attack on free speech yet.
www.yahoo.com
September 18, 2025 at 2:10 PM
After years of complaining about cancel culture, the current administration has taken it to a new and dangerous level by routinely threatening regulatory action against media companies unless they muzzle or fire reporters and commentators it doesn’t like.
Truly moving, and always worth a read or re-read ❤️ @jennifersenior.bsky.social
Bobby McIlvaine was 26 when he died in the September 11 attacks. For her 2021 Pulitzer Prize–winning story, Jennifer Senior visited his loved ones to understand how their pain endures. https://theatln.tc/Txh867AC
September 11, 2025 at 1:49 PM
Truly moving, and always worth a read or re-read ❤️ @jennifersenior.bsky.social
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Not building housing screws young people, pushes them out & tanks future economic success. We need to make it easier & faster to build the homes we need for a bright future. Our current vetocracy need to change & we’re working to change it.
September 2, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Not building housing screws young people, pushes them out & tanks future economic success. We need to make it easier & faster to build the homes we need for a bright future. Our current vetocracy need to change & we’re working to change it.
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Big tax cut bills typically don't leave the poor worse off. Bills cutting the safety net don't normally include benefits for the rich.
The GOP reconciliation bill is something we haven't really seen before. w/ @aliciaparlap.bsky.social + @sangerkatz.bsky.social
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
The GOP reconciliation bill is something we haven't really seen before. w/ @aliciaparlap.bsky.social + @sangerkatz.bsky.social
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Trump’s Big Bill Would Be More Regressive Than Any Major Law in Decades (Gift Article)
Estimates from the Congressional Budget Office, released Thursday, offer a detailed view into the effects on income groups.
www.nytimes.com
June 13, 2025 at 1:33 AM
Big tax cut bills typically don't leave the poor worse off. Bills cutting the safety net don't normally include benefits for the rich.
The GOP reconciliation bill is something we haven't really seen before. w/ @aliciaparlap.bsky.social + @sangerkatz.bsky.social
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
The GOP reconciliation bill is something we haven't really seen before. w/ @aliciaparlap.bsky.social + @sangerkatz.bsky.social
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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Our events chair (and affordable housing expert extraordinaire) Kate Voshell is featured in this terrific story from @thenation.com about the proposal to turn swaths of North Beach into a historic district: www.thenation.com/article/poli...
Will the Creation of a Historic District in San Francisco Hold Back New Housing?
Activists are butting heads with a local preservation organization over a proposal to turn part of the city’s North Beach neighborhood into a nationally registered historic district.
www.thenation.com
June 11, 2025 at 11:50 PM
Our events chair (and affordable housing expert extraordinaire) Kate Voshell is featured in this terrific story from @thenation.com about the proposal to turn swaths of North Beach into a historic district: www.thenation.com/article/poli...
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That San Diego neighborhood that stood up to ICE officers last week is also fighting new housing that could make things affordable for people like the restaurant worker they stormed the streets to defend. www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/arti...
My neighbors stood up to ICE. What they did next shows why California politics makes no sense
I just had a front row seat to the often-infuriating incoherence of California progressive politics over housing and immigration.
www.sfchronicle.com
June 4, 2025 at 2:34 PM
That San Diego neighborhood that stood up to ICE officers last week is also fighting new housing that could make things affordable for people like the restaurant worker they stormed the streets to defend. www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/arti...
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My tribute to "Midnight Caller," the best filmed-in-San Francisco TV show I've watched, that weirdly fell off the face of the earth.
(Probably because of the Sade song on the soundtrack.)
It ages well, as a window into the melancholy 1980s in the city.
📺 🌁
www.sfchronicle.com/totalsf/arti...
(Probably because of the Sade song on the soundtrack.)
It ages well, as a window into the melancholy 1980s in the city.
📺 🌁
www.sfchronicle.com/totalsf/arti...
The best-ever San Francisco TV show is all but forgotten. Here’s how to watch today
"Midnight Caller," about a cop turned radio host, lasted three seasons and then largely vanished. But it recently reappeared online.
www.sfchronicle.com
May 29, 2025 at 2:38 PM
My tribute to "Midnight Caller," the best filmed-in-San Francisco TV show I've watched, that weirdly fell off the face of the earth.
(Probably because of the Sade song on the soundtrack.)
It ages well, as a window into the melancholy 1980s in the city.
📺 🌁
www.sfchronicle.com/totalsf/arti...
(Probably because of the Sade song on the soundtrack.)
It ages well, as a window into the melancholy 1980s in the city.
📺 🌁
www.sfchronicle.com/totalsf/arti...
The perfect @conordougherty.bsky.social article doesn’t exi- www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/b...
A San Francisco Plaza Was Down and Out. Then Skaters Moved In.
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May 30, 2025 at 1:48 PM
The perfect @conordougherty.bsky.social article doesn’t exi- www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/b...
"Mr. Anderson’s hope, he said, is that the project will inspire others and show cities that multifamily living can coexist in single-family neighborhoods." @conordougherty.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/05/04/b...
Would the Housing Crisis Ease if Boomers Rented Out Their Empty Rooms? (Gift Article)
Millions of single-family homes are underused, on spacious lots. Refitting them for “roommate houses” or backyard cottages could make a difference.
www.nytimes.com
May 5, 2025 at 4:42 PM
"Mr. Anderson’s hope, he said, is that the project will inspire others and show cities that multifamily living can coexist in single-family neighborhoods." @conordougherty.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/05/04/b...
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Thank you, @sfchronicle.com for featuring D9 Neighbors on the front page of the paper, online, and in your daily newsletter today! www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/n...
Meet the S.F. group begging the city to build more housing in its ‘rich’ neighborhood
A San Francisco group of Bernal Heights residents is begging the city to build more housing in its ‘rich’ neighborhood.
www.sfchronicle.com
April 28, 2025 at 7:08 PM
Thank you, @sfchronicle.com for featuring D9 Neighbors on the front page of the paper, online, and in your daily newsletter today! www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/n...
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What a great group of neighbors! Thanks to all who joined us on today's Forbidden Housing tour. (Here's the group, looking good in front of the Art Deco El Capistrano Apartments in the Mission, an example of the type of housing that couldn't be built under today's rules!)
April 26, 2025 at 10:08 PM
What a great group of neighbors! Thanks to all who joined us on today's Forbidden Housing tour. (Here's the group, looking good in front of the Art Deco El Capistrano Apartments in the Mission, an example of the type of housing that couldn't be built under today's rules!)
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Powerful op-ed in the @sfchronicle.com today from D9 Neighbors member Caroline McCormack! "I live in Bernal Heights. Mayor Lurie, please upzone my neighborhood." www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/open...
I live in Bernal Heights. Mayor Lurie, please upzone my neighborhood
We can build new housing that supports our low-income and working-class neighbors, while also preserving the special character that Bernal Heights has to offer.
www.sfchronicle.com
April 21, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Powerful op-ed in the @sfchronicle.com today from D9 Neighbors member Caroline McCormack! "I live in Bernal Heights. Mayor Lurie, please upzone my neighborhood." www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/open...
Scenes from the Houston @50501movement.bsky.social “Be Someone: Resist and Build Community” event today!
April 19, 2025 at 8:57 PM
Scenes from the Houston @50501movement.bsky.social “Be Someone: Resist and Build Community” event today!
Hello from Sunset Dunes, SF’s newest park! Great job @oceanbeachpark.org, @sfrecpark.bsky.social, and everyone else who made it happen! #SunsetDunes
April 12, 2025 at 11:29 PM
Hello from Sunset Dunes, SF’s newest park! Great job @oceanbeachpark.org, @sfrecpark.bsky.social, and everyone else who made it happen! #SunsetDunes
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Incredible turnout from our members to speak in favor of adding Bernal Heights to @mayorlurie.bsky.social's terrific Expanding Housing Choice plan! Thanks to @missionlocal.org for reporting on our request: missionlocal.org/2025/04/sf-u...
April 11, 2025 at 3:07 AM
Incredible turnout from our members to speak in favor of adding Bernal Heights to @mayorlurie.bsky.social's terrific Expanding Housing Choice plan! Thanks to @missionlocal.org for reporting on our request: missionlocal.org/2025/04/sf-u...
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On April 26, Join D9 Neighbors for Housing for a Forbidden Housing Tour, where you'll uncover the zoning outlaws and architectural rebels housing hundreds of San Franciscans in plain sight. Space is limited, so secure your spot today.
actionnetwork.org/events/forbi...
actionnetwork.org/events/forbi...
Forbidden Housing Tour
Join us in northern Bernal / southern Mission for a Forbidden Housing Tour, where you'll uncover the zoning outlaws and architectural rebels housing hundreds of San Franciscans in plain sight. This t...
actionnetwork.org
April 8, 2025 at 3:47 PM
On April 26, Join D9 Neighbors for Housing for a Forbidden Housing Tour, where you'll uncover the zoning outlaws and architectural rebels housing hundreds of San Franciscans in plain sight. Space is limited, so secure your spot today.
actionnetwork.org/events/forbi...
actionnetwork.org/events/forbi...
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Today is SF Transit Operator Day. It’s a great day to ride Muni to work, to school, to the park, to the shops, to City Hall. And it’s a great they to thank your operator, taking you there safely.
www.sftransitoperator.day
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Tuesday, March 18th is SF Transit Operator Day. To celebrate and recognize operators, ride Muni on that day. Say a special "Thank You" and to really make it special, submit a commendation to recognize...
www.sftransitoperator.day
March 18, 2025 at 12:56 PM
Today is SF Transit Operator Day. It’s a great day to ride Muni to work, to school, to the park, to the shops, to City Hall. And it’s a great they to thank your operator, taking you there safely.
www.sftransitoperator.day
www.sftransitoperator.day
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Join D9 Neighbors for Housing for a tour of the DignityMoves tiny-home village on Sat., 3/8. Space is limited - RSVP required. We'll debrief over lunch afterward for those who are interested. actionnetwork.org/events/tour-...
February 25, 2025 at 9:50 PM
Join D9 Neighbors for Housing for a tour of the DignityMoves tiny-home village on Sat., 3/8. Space is limited - RSVP required. We'll debrief over lunch afterward for those who are interested. actionnetwork.org/events/tour-...