Budget season is underway! Keep up with this year's budget process and all the happenings downtown and beyond in my latest newsletter.
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Budget season is underway! Keep up with this year's budget process and all the happenings downtown and beyond in my latest newsletter.
I can’t believe some of us lived through the same “they’re going to bomb our suburban mall” post 9/11 nonsense only for some of you to believe this circus of an administration when they say that California is being threatened. 🙄
So many average citizens have stood up to Trump.
Alex Pretti went to the street to protect his fellow humans, who the Trump regime was harming. He lost his life for it. Renee Good lost her life for resisting.
And sorry, but—these fucking cowards in the Senate can’t vote against Trump nominees?
Watching a city council and school board meeting simultaneously and feeling like…
Haahhahahahahahahahhahahahahahahahahhaahhahhahhahaahahaaa <dies wheezing>
I may work at City Hall now, but public education still has my whole heart. I love when my day job takes me back to something I love so much.
Harper to the judge: "Your driver's license doesn't list your height and weight at birth. It doesn't list where you used to live. It identifies who you are now."
Threads thread: thriller_instinct 3d Is it okay to bully 40 and 50 year olds who are on social media just for being on it, cuz like why are you here - 254 Q 3.1K G 28 746 corporateash 18h ••• My ICQ UIN is 7231680. That number is burned into my consciousness. I inadvertently learned that you could see private conversations in public chat rooms when using Telnet instead of a browser on GeoCities. I can tell you the difference in audible dial-up handshakes between 1200, 2400, 14.4 kbps modems. I needed a edu email address to join Facebook after my university was admitted. We were here at the beginning. We made social media. You wouldn't be in my Top 8. I have usernames older than you. 852 Q62 G6 72
“I have usernames older than you.”.
Holy shit
I wrote about the House hearing today, how Congress is trying to strip anonymity from the Internet, and the devastating effects that has for journalists, whistleblowers, LGBTQ ppl, immigrants, civil rights activists, abortion providers and anyone challenging power for @theintercept.com
The big one: fundamentally, sprawl is a wealth transfer from dense, productive urban cores to sparse fringe developments. It costs exponentially more to provide fire, police, and trash services to 50 homes spread over 10 miles than 50 homes on one city block.
Sprawl is subsidized. It has to be.
I’m excited to share that I've once again been endorsed by the Silicon Valley Asian Pacific American Democratic Club (SVAPADC)!
I'm proud to have made history as San José's first Filipino-American councilmember and I'm looking forward to continuing to provide proud AAPI representation in San José.
poetrye ys the technologye of hope
Absolute cinema. We are so back.
She's like an old samurai whose great battles are behind her but every once in a while she kills a man with piece of paper just to prove a point
I'm proud to share that I've once again been endorsed by @lgbtqvictoryfund.bsky.social! I’m incredibly grateful for their ongoing support. 🏳️🌈 (1/2)
The costs of this Iran war debacle will likely be more than the cost of extending the ACA health insurance subsidies.
If you asked Americans, which do you want: another war in the Middle East or lower health care costs at home, is the margin 90 to 10? 95 to 5?
Iran doesn’t have nuclear weapons
“San Joseans” makes my skin crawl so I avoid it whenever I can. Folks who live in San José, residents, neighbors, literally any other verbiage is better.
Once again our first thoughts should be of human cost of conflict in Middle East, price paid and risks incurred by innocents.
The lack of consequences for Caribbean boat murders and the operation against Venezuela brought us to this point. Trump pushed the envelope and paid no price for it. (In fact, elected officials and the press were mesmerized by the Maduro raid.)
Many of us said this would happen and it did.
hey we're doing an operation called Based Epic Chad. lol. everybody will think this is awesome. we will never end up like Mussolini
operation blowing up residential buildings because a dozen rich old guys got caught molesting teenagers in the 90s
I am a 15-year-old girl. Let me show you the vile misogyny that confronts me on social media every day | Anonymous
The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing people local newspaper reporters are rarified elites instead of ink-stained wretches driving their Honda Civic to a crime scene so you know don’t have to rely on Nextdoor and the police press release.
They can’t figure out how to spend the extra $500 billion they gave themselves for the military, but cut our healthcare and food assistance because they said they couldn’t afford it.
So you get out your Fascism for Dummies book for the 15 things you do, and we tried to include as many of them as we could in the most artful way possible. How were we supposed to know that this clown car in Washington was going to basically use the same book that we used? So I don't think it's prescience so much as the sad familiarity of fascism and the karaoke menu of things that you go through to do it. You could list them from the show, or you could list them from the newspaper.
Tony Gilroy, creator of Andor, wasn’t allowed to use the word “fascism” during press junkets in 2025.
Interesting interview in The Hollywood Reporter.
www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-featur...
Kurt Vonnegut stop being so applicable to all time periods of American life, you can’t do that Kurt Vonnegut, your insights are too evergreen Kurt Vonnegut
Trans people for the past decade: This isn't actually about sports or ensuing there's appropriate screening before someone starts medically transitioning. The goal is to effectively criminalize the existence of all trans people.
Very Reasonable Journalists: You're crazy
As a recovering overachiever, what an example to girls everywhere. If excellence is destroying us, better to walk away than be destroyed. Do it your way or don’t do it at all.
The Brazilian political system is, structurally, very similar to the American one. But when they elected a Trump-style authoritarian back in 2018, their Congress and Supreme Court actually fought back.
I went to Brazil to find out why. And what I learned surprised me.
www.vox.com/politics/479...