The Big 2020 AHS strike is the gift that keeps on giving! This amazing WAP* remix from out front of Highland Hospital will change your whole entire life.
We had so much fun striking at
@AlamedaHealth
, we'll do it again if we have to.
*Workers and Patients
👉🏽👉🏾👉🏿👈🏿👈🏾👈🏽
Show some ♥️ for
#WorkersAndPatients
#WAP
WONT BACK DOWN TIL A FAIR CONTRACT IS SIGNED🖊
@theestallion
@seiu1021
Starring Fee Tilini
Written by Mandi Beeson
Videography: Asha Lacqua & Molly Stuart
Mixed: Cory Todd
Directed/Edited: Molly Stuart
As a Jewish kid who was beaten up, spit on, called demonic for not believing in Jesus, & ridiculed, I internalized the lesson that Jews must always stand with the oppressed, marginalized and suffering even when it’s uncomfortable.
Where did you go wrong?
As a kid who was called kike on the bus & taught that Jews begged the Romans to kill Jesus, I can relate.
US schools have long been hostile to Jews. That hostility is now in full view. The Oakland teach-in & union resolutions that omit the hostages & 10/7 are tip of the iceberg.
Some day Democrats will learn that there is literally no amount that they can move to the right and no amount that they can disavow the left that will get Republicans to stop calling them communists and Marxists and radicals. There’s no point in even trying.
Today, with confidence in science & at the direction of the Office of the Attending Physician, I received the COVID-19 vaccine. As the vaccine is being distributed, we must all continue mask wearing, social distancing & other science-based steps to save lives & crush the virus.
a) this project is 25% affordable units, which is decent.
b) getting a five story building in the Outer Sunset is good, actually.
b) everyone wants to live in a sandcrawler, duh.
What a waste of an appeal.
Go to five stories all the way down Judah. Taraval too.
I just filed an appeal opposing this pre-apocalyptic future sandcrawler on Judah construction in my Ocean Beach neighborhood. Totally
#toxic
project.
@FitzTheReporter
San Francisco politicians 2020: Black Lives Matter. We have heard the cry for a reckoning to reimagine policing in America.
San Francisco politicians 2021: We would like police to shoot the drugs out of people’s veins.
It is the most USA shit ever USAed to give white people a day off for Juneteenth while still trying to stop Black people from voting, banning "critical race theory," and increasing police budgets.
The life and legacy of Dianne Feinstein just goes to show that if you are a white lady multimillionaire and everyone between you and your rise to power is murdered by a deranged homophobe, there’s nothing you can’t do.
My car window was smashed while it was parked near my house. Nothing was taken because I don't leave shit in the car because I know what it means to live in a City.
I also didn't whine to Heather Knight or blame Chesa or demand more cops because I'm not a fucking baby.
Some people feel like there's no reason to
#vote
. They ask "what do politics have to do with me?" I answer that question once and for all, with
#comedy
.
#gotv
#bluewave
WATCH:
Seems like YIMBYs care a lot more about hypothetical "future residents" who may enjoy hypothetical future housing than actually-existing residents fearing displacement now.
It's the pro-lifer "protect the unborn" of housing twitter.
Mills College just announced an affiliation with Northeastern University in Boston. It means that a) Mills will not close as previously planned and b) will become co-ed. Details tbd.
My mobile advised me that four years ago today I made my debut on
@hellobuglers
live episode
@CobbsComedyClub
with
@ZaltzCricket
&
@aliterative
via feed. All bullshit aside, being part of the Bugle has been a fucking delight and I hope to do a live episode in the UK some day.
Watching Trump's press conference, he's thanking Google and pharma companies and not one thanks to the doctors, nurses, and healthcare workers actually saving lives.
On behalf of all Jews, I would like to say, as Jew,
#FuckAIPAC
. Rep Omar is right. There is an Israel lobby. Noticing that it exists is not anti-semitism. Pelosi is wrong.
My favorite thing is when I apply for something and don't get it and then they add me to their mailing list so I can get daily updates on the people they like more than me.
People get hella judgy about homeless people freaking out on the streets, but imagine cops took literally everything you owned and you had to sit in today’s rain by yourself with nothing and nowhere to go. MANY of us would be shattered by it. Then imagine it happened repeatedly.
The arrest of Nuru today, and
@hknightsf
's good recap of his corruption, which, btw, has long been as open a secret as the In-N-Out Burger secret menu, got me thinking that some of you new kids could maybe enjoy a review of SF corruption. [THREAD]
So... I'm going to put my foot in it. Yes, we should allow fourplexes in the whole City. There's no defense of all-single family home zoning. Yes, I would prefer it to be affordable, but putting 4 expensive units where 1 expensive unit is today seems like an improvement.
🏡 SCOOP! 🏡
My latest: San Francisco Supervisor
@RafaelMandelman
on Tuesday will propose making it legal to build four-plexes on any corner lot in the city and on any parcel slated for one house within a half-mile of a major transit station.
Imagine looking at this beautiful peaceful Portugal coast and thinking “I need to sail across the vast expanse of the ocean into the wide unknown to murder everyone.”
In case anyone wants my public comment on the San Francisco Housing Element, here it is: everything west of Divisadero should be zoned for 6 stories and 100% affordable or rent-controlled should be up to 50 stories.
I loved Steven Yeun's character Squeeze in
#SorryToBotherYou
. I was a "salter," someone who gets nonunion jobs in order to organize them. Here's some quick analysis of Squeeze's organizing practice. Historically, salters were sent by communist or other left organizations. 1/
California Democrats care more about a Louis Vuitton handbag that retails for $1745 than they do about climate change or 700,000 people facing eviction.
This whole "competing for suburban voters" is going to get us all killed.
Demonstrators have formed a hand-holding circle around a tree with blow dryers and hair curlers hanging in front of Nancy Pelosi’s SF home
@sfchronicle
It cannot be said that the Democrats used every tool available to defend democracy. It cannot be said that their responses were commensurate to the threat we all saw.
Think of the people suffering today. The late night comedy writers who have to have jokes ready to tape in about an hour and a half.
“What’s a good rule of three for ‘white fanatic insurrection?’”
Tfw one of your 10-year olds leaves a post-it note on your desk with a John Brown quote.
“I have only a short time to live, only one death to die, and I will die fighting for this cause. There will be no peace in this land until slavery is done for.”
Ilhan Omar is a black socialist Muslim from Africa—she’s what racist Republicans spent eight years saying Obama was, which he wasn’t, sadly. Those creeps conjured her from their nightmares and I AM LOVING IT. I want black socialist Muslim immigrant women in charge of everything.
It's not "celebrating" Hamas (who, to be clear, are a bunch of dicks) to remember the words of famous American leftist John F Kennedy that "those who make peaceful revolution impossible make violent revolution inevitable."
#GazaUnderAtack
family of grandmother xiao zhen xie, the 75-year-old who fought back after an unprovoked attack in SF has raised almost $900K. following her wishes, they’ll be donating it all back to support AAPI community to fight racism.
As we celebrate New Year's, please raise a glass to
@aliterative
, who, via the
#TheLastPost
podcast, cranked out like 90 hours of clever, funny, & very weird comedy in the form of a daily satirical podcast from another dimension. She's earned a well-deserved respite from jokes.
Frankly I think Jeffrey Epstein was an inspiration and a visionary and that every single billionaire white man in the world should follow the example he set by his bold choices just in the last 24 hours.
New standup clip: People come to San Francisco and complain about the human feces on the streets of the City. On behalf of SF natives, I'd like a word.
Taped
@cttcomedy
.
No one person – no matter how corrupt, inept, or vicious – can threaten my unwavering love for America. I stand undeterred to continue fighting for equal opportunity in our pursuit of happiness for all Americans.
When
@wkamaubell
,
@harikondabolu
& I started doing Laughter Against the Machine shows , before people understood what we were up to, we'd show slides to try to set the tone of our idea of political comedy. Including this one👇. It still inspires me.
#RIPMortSahl
San Francisco's Anchor Brewing Company is shutting down.
The company announced this morning that it will cease operations and liquidate its business.
📸 Stephanie Lister/KQED
#ivoted
angrily. No to all recalls. Wait til the regular election like a normal person. PG&E and the realtors don’t deserve a say in the affairs of my kids’ schools.
San Francisco Democrats agree that there is a climate crisis but just rented out City Hall for a wedding of an oil heir officiated by the House Speaker who wears kente cloth but increases police budgets but the Queens Gambit lady was there so that’s cool. SF libs on the nose.
Lest you think SF is a bubble, this is the behavior being encouraged by the SF mods, techies, & the Chronicle in whipping up a frenzy about
@chesaboudin
& crime even though crime is actually down. It's going to get someone killed.
Personally I’m less worried that Trump will lose the election and not concede than that Trump will “win” by cheating and Democrats will go along with it because norms.
This is squarely the fault of London Breed, Matt Dorsey, & Brooke Jenkins, who seek to bring back the failed war on drugs & refuse to listen to clinical experts on what works. They shut down the Tenderloin Linkage Center that was 100% effective at stopping overdoses.
SF had a record-high 806 overdose deaths last year as the fentanyl crisis worsened, revised city data showed:
@MaggieAngst
The city has 1,285 COVID deaths and 2,823 overdoses deaths in 2020-2023
The only legitimate stance for a politician to take on drug addiction is "I pledge to listen to front-line clinicians & follow the best available evidence."
Anything else is theater that doesn't work, and would be unserious if it didn't also guarantee overdose deaths.
If we claim to be concerned about overdoses, it’s worth remembering that the Tenderloin Linkage Center was found to be a whopping 100% effective at stopping overdoses but was shut down because it seemed controversial.
Do we want “accountability” or actual evidence-based care?
OPINION: "In an interview, Jenkins was surprisingly candid about the inefficacy of Breed's approach to dealing with drug users," writes
@emily_hoeven
.
Sometimes I think the Deep State is terrifying and then I remember that the CIA invented LSD to overthrow Fidel Castro and ended up causing Jimi Hendrix to write Purple Haze instead.
At the
#unitehere
#1job
rally,
#sfpd
is using submission holds on nonviolent civil disobedience protesters who are not resisting arrest. (Look at her fingers.) I’ve have never before seen police use holds designed to cause pain on people (in their 70s) who are not resisting.
Another thought about SF corruption--I've been thinking this week that the corruption that exists in SF is the consequence and not the cause of a generally dysfunctional government. [thread]
DEVELOPING: a woman was rushed to S.F. General Hospital after being run over by an
@Cruise
driverless vehicle tonight near 5th and Market Streets. Firefighters on scene had to use the jaws of life to lift the car off of the woman, who suffered “traumatic injuries” according to an
I told my kids the expression "we don't know who discovered water but it wasn't a fish," to refer to the experience of your own experienced being so normalized that it's invisible.
Now when I ask them why did something, they say "Daddy I'm a fish!"
I wish parents up in arms about schools reopening would be honest about whether their kids are actually suffering or they're just sick of having their kids around the house and want a break from someone asking where something is that's literally right in front of them.
Me. I'm a Jew who knows
@JackieFielder_
and she's not an antisemite. These attacks are by cowards who don't want to just come out and say they are scared of her pro-renter, pro-worker, corporate free, pro humane treatment of the unhoused politics.
The attacks keep coming accusing
@JackieFielder_
of antisemitism. So Jews of SF are showing her love & showing the world that to push for a cease fire is NOT antisemitic. Read the statement signed by 175 Jewish supporters.
Building a better bay area sometimes means conflict. In San Francisco, there's a big push for a new mixed-use development that includes affordable housing for seniors. Part of the cost? Chopping down hundreds of trees.
San Francisco is an out of control dystopian hellscape. You can't even meet a friend in a million-dollar highrise condo and then get in a fight in a BMW and then stab him to death in the middle of the night anymore. WHY DID CHESA LET THIS HAPPEN? WE DEMAND ACTION.
It's so nonstop sometimes it's hard to notice, but every once in awhile I try to take a moment to really appreciate how fucking stupid our president is.
The job of the American president is to be a competent manager of a capitalist war machine. I can be excited about improved prospects for a united front against fascism and clear-eyed about the limitations of the Democrats. I can multitask like that, despite being a man.
As an SFUSD parent, I am furious that these people who do not give a shit about public schools are taking the district over with their racism.
No one who supports a recall should ever get the endorsement of any legitimate Democratic organization again.
An effort to recall three San Francisco school board members hit a critical milestone, reaching 70,000 signatures, virtually ensuring an election late this year or early next.
First of all, it was robbery and not looting.
Second of all, it was Walnut Creek and Nordstroms, so who cares. For years I have been telling people to go riot in rich neighborhoods instead of where they live, and they finally listened to me.
@Scott_Wiener
Maestro Frank was my kid's 5th grade teacher. He was one of the best teachers she ever had. His personal views about US foreign policy are irrelevant to the kind of inclusive, joyous, curious, critical classroom he ran. Maybe watch someone work before trying to dunk on them.
PSA: “open air drug use and/or dealing” is a racist dog whistle and shouldn’t be used by anyone who wants to be taken seriously.
YOU CAN ONLY SELL DRUGS IF YOU HAVE A MORTGAGE INTEREST DEDUCTION is what it sounds like.
Big news: San Francisco Mayor
@LondonBreed
has just announced a major crackdown on crime, including open air drug dealing, car break-ins, & retail theft
The plan contains much of what I & my colleagues
@calif_peace
have been advocating
This is a big step in the right direction
The Pfizer is a 2-shot vaccine while the Johnson & Johnson is
#OneandDone
. This is confusing.
The vaccines should should be called the Johnson and the Pfizer Pfizer.
I got the Pfizer & Pfizer vaccine today right in my feeble “Steve Rogers before the super soldier serum” arm.
Ngl I got emotional being there with my kid, seeing the whole operation. Hope literally a shot in the arm and knowing hugs friends and dinner indoors are in sight.
BREAKING: A gender reveal party sparked the
#ElDoradoFire
, which has resulted in hundreds of people fleeing their homes.
500 crew members are working in 100+ degree heat to put it out. It's now at 7,000 acres.
This meeting is happening now. I get to say "I told you so" about the school board recall. All these people who claimed they wanted to focus on governance and not "distractions" and care about racial equity in schools got their way and their people completely fucked this up.
The San Francisco school board scheduled an emergency closed-door session for Sunday morning for what is likely to be a discussion on the fate of the district’s superintendent — Matt Wayne — and to determine the “next steps forward.”
If you think Medicare for All and the Green New Deal are pie in the sky pipe dreams, the real pie in the sky is centrist Dems’ faith in bipartisan compromise. McConnell has all the morality of a self-fellating gerbil.
The market is the most efficient instrument. Can’t afford housing? We will get you housing by creating housing for...
*checks papers*
...someone other than you. Once we build enough housing for everyone richer than you, eventually we will get around to you. Because efficiency.
I've seen people ask *on here* what Lyft & Uber drivers think of Prop 22 and want that to inform their vote.
Here's the problem with that question: the American workplace is a totalitarian regime. There is no free press and no free speech without a union.
#NoOnProp22
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