C.D. Cook
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Author, award-winning journalist, communications strategist. Author, Diet for a Dead Planet. (My tweets don't represent my clients.) https://t.co/wR85XGY6jm
San Francisco @sfgrotto member
Joined October 2009
Road Ghosts memoir: A rollicking journey across America in search of purpose and reawakening; a coming-of-age probe of the soul; philosophical inquiry of our times akin to Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance. Comps = Heartland, The Glass Castle, Wild, and Nomadland. #PitMad.
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Street crime is horrible and traumatic, no question. I've been a victim myself. But/and: WHY don't centrists/conservatives/moderates EVER, EVER speak of corporate crimes, wage theft, and other less-visible yet equally (if not more) harmful? Those crimes impoverish many people.
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@realDonaldTrump Fuck you, Mr. President. How dare you insult and threaten people burning in an inferno?.Ignorant and disgusting. People are dying. Have you no decency and humanity?.You are one sick hateful bastard.
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@elonmusk @BerniesHomie But monopolies are an inherent result of capitalism. Even Adam Smith said so. Don't buy this neoliberal libertarian hype. #ElonMusk.
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Stunning news: SF Democratic Party has endorsed @HamasakiLaw for district attorney! Brooke Jenkins, the mayor's appointed DA, didn't get a single endorsement vote from the SF Democratic Party. Not one vote. Boom.
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@TSFAction @SpeakerPelosi Still waiting for even just a simple human apology from Tandler for this absolutely awful tweet:
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@katewillett It was definitely saddening and maddening. I will keep pushing Harris but will also vote for her, even in California. Just far too much at stake, even beyond Gaza. And Harris would be far better than Trump even on Israel. I'll vote while protesting.
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Noting that on #MartinLutherKingJrDay, a White dude who blasted a hose on a Black homeless woman remains unarrested, unaccountable, even in a city with a Black mayor, a Black DA, a Black police chief. Something tells me #MartinLutherKingJr would be marching demanding justice.
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The #ChesaBoudin recall is quite stunning: violent crime is down. Econ crime has gone up nationwide, including in "tough" conservative DA cities. Unseating Boudin in mid-term will not make anyone more safe, not by a long shot. This is an ideological coup based on fearmongering.
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the real story that hardly any media will tell: big tech and real estate money won the night in #SanFrancisco , with a reactionary agenda that punishes and criminalizes poor and homeless people while standing police power with less accountability.
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Hey #SanFrancisco moderates; Why so silent about the big report documenting widespread waste and abuse in SFPD? Thought you said you were all about efficiency and accountability??.
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@demianbulwa @rachelswan As a reporter, I know you need to get his view--but your article sure gave him a lot of understanding and sympathy for a dude who openly assaulted a homeless woman. And where's her view, her voice, her experience?.
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Want less homelessness, less drug addiction in the streets? Raise the minimum wage to a living wage (fed, state, local), expand rent control, build and subsidize truly affordable housing, and radically expand mental health and drug treatment. Yes, it takes money. #SanFrancisco.
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Horrible start to #DanielLurie administration--a dark, gloomy inaugural speech announcing a policing-first agenda, all about policing, not a word so far about treatment and services, just mass arrests. Atrocious. He sounds like a Republican. #SanFrancisco.
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My car was vandalized, and I was robbed at gunpoint, and I still love #SanFrancisco--and still know that a police and carceral state is NOT the solution.
My catalytic convertor got stolen and I still love San Francisco.
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So-called "moderates" in #SanFrancisco support:. - drug testing for welfare recipients. - less police accountability. - cuts to social services for the poor (see Breed's budget). - slashing regulations on zoning and enviro review. Sounds an awful lot like Republicans.
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I think it's absolutely awful and tragic that any child or baby would find fentanyl in a park or sidewalk. I do. But why do centrists care more about this than all the child poverty and single-parent poverty and homelessness out there every single day, all those tragedies? Why?.
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@LondonBreed @sfpublicworks @SF_HSH Look at that truck--many homeless people's belongings in there, and DPW is openly violating its own "bag and tag" policies, constantly! Outrageous and so harmful and wrong.
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well "congratulations" to the reactionaries, you just won measures to create more homelessness and overdose desperation on the streets and more dangerous high-speed cop chases all with less police accountability! #SanFrancisco #Election2024.
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The #SanFrancisco BOE recall cost taxpayers $3.25 MILLION dollars, when there's a new election in 8 months. Even if you didn't like the board, this was a massive waste of time and money. And yes, it is anti-democratic to run billionaire-financed recall in a low-turnout election.
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@SpeakerPelosi, you know dressing up in kente cloth can't cover up your years of inaction and support for the policing status quo. SF needs a real leader for justice, who has stood up and fought for civil rights and civil liberties for years-- @ShahidForChange. #Pelosi.
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I've lived, reported on, been politically involved in #SanFrancisco for 30 years. The #fentanyl crisis is real and awful. So is #homelessness crisis. Neither has any roots in left or progressive policies. That is a false and profoundly misguided rightwing talking point.
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One thing I can say: I've never ever (not even once) seen a YIMBY or any of the folks who scream here about building market-rate housing come protest an eviction or help prevent displacement. Not once. Ever. #SanFrancisco.
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Dear #SanFrancisco: if you truly want solutions to the crises in our streets, then support the things that truly work to improve people's lives: permanent supportive housing (w/ wraparound services), drug treatment on demand, more navigation centers, and 100% affordable housing!.
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Realizing: in all my interactions here over the years I've never once heard centrists or moderates say one thing about San Francisco's nearly unrivaled inequality of wealth. Not once.
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Wow what a profoundly sickening and sad, disgusting display of inhumanity, scapegoating and stereotyping #homeless human beings and skipping through their misery. How did you become so rotten and inhumane? How?.
Welcome to #SanFrancisco #California a city where even #MrRogers wouldn’t want to be your neighbor because of all the #homelessness & illegal encampments! we need to give @SFPD the authority, to remove the drug addict, degenerates & dealers @USSupremeCourt @tomhanks #immigration
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SF "moderates" screaming about homeless people sound exactly like rightwing MAGA Republicans screaming about immigrants. It's really the same language, the same false scapegoating, the same us vs. them. Exactly the same. #SanFrancisco.
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So wait a minute--the man who assaulted a homeless woman is now being guarded by special @SFPD detail, and STILL not arrested?? What's there to investigate? He openly, blatantly assaulted this woman! @SFPDTenderloin @SFPDChief @KTVUJulieHaener @KPIXtv @BettyKPIX #CollierGwin.
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@Ace_OnTheRiver @AshaRangappa_ Just plain false, and these attacks are so off-base and off-point. 90% of Bernie voters--millions of women--voted for HRC. B/t 16-24% of Hillary voters backed McCain in 2008. Bernie campaigned relentlessly for HRC. His staff warned her about Michigan, her team ignored. Facts.
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The narrative about Hondurans and fentanyl in #SanFrancisco is racist BS. There has always been drug dealing here, the issue is DEMAND. That some Hondurans come out of econ desperation to do this is not the issue. It's an addiction issue. Race + origins of dealers is irrelevant.
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Most of the folks who are so outraged about protesters blocking the Golden Gate Bridge never express any outrage at US-aided Israeli annihilation of Gaza and #Palestine. It seems you're more angry about a traffic stoppage than about genocide. #CeasefireNOW #CeaseFireInGaza #Gaza.
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#SanFrancisco paradox: the centrists who rage about homelessness and addiction (which are horrible and preventable) have never supported FUNDING the programs that help alleviate these crises. They are mostly smaller-gov't neoliberals and bootstraps "Just Say No" conservatives.
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And STILL, several days later, @SFPD has not arrested #CollierGwin for his blatant, indisputable, inexcusable assault on this homeless woman! Outrageous and unacceptable. The evidence is indisputable. Act now, @SFPDChief @SFPDTenderloin @SFDAOffice @BrookeJenkinsSF #SanFrancisco.
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Let it be known in the record @mattdorsey wants homeless people constantly "swept" from spot to spot as if they are trash, and their worldly belongings trashed--even amid chronic shelter shortages. Disgusting and profoundly inhumane. Cop PR flak, corporate lackey, homeless hater.
I disagree with the federal court’s decision in @TheCoalitionSF v. @SFGov — which enjoins the city from enforcing key state and local laws against homeless encampments — but I now worry about the prospects for appeal or prevailing on the merits. (1/4) .
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Most YIMBYs I encounter seem obsessed with one kind of housing--new towers of market-rate housing. They say NOTHING supporting 100% affordable housing projects nor supportive housing for homeless people. That's a real problem.
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@markyarm @washingtonpost I mean seriously, how are Kissinger's crimes against humanity even debatable? Actually, they're not, they're just "debated" on soulless, counterfactual historical "balance sheets.".
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It is utterly despicable and tragic that anyone thinks it's okay to destroy homeless people's belongings, trash their tent and bedding, when city has no shelter or treatment to offer. Reprehensible @LondonBreed! May this be your political downfall. #SanFrancisco.
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Want fewer tents on the sidewalks of #SanFrancisco? We all do! The answer sure as HELL isn't to empower SFPD and DPW to harass homeless people and destroy their belongings, trash their tents, and further isolate them from advocates and services! Create more supportive housing!.
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#SanFrancisco has a vacancy rate of 15%, and tens of thousands of vacant, rentable apartments. Yet all the YIMBYs can scream and rage about is, build more housing! We've built tons of housing--and most of it is far too expensive. We need BMR and truly affordable housing NOW!.
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@RealDianeYap So instead of anyone being accountable for their words, they just say it's virtue signaling or performative. what deflective garbage. own your words and live with them. Your posts consistently show lack of care for homeless people. That's on YOU.
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@sharmila819 @AshaRangappa_ More than 90% of Bernie supporters voted for Clinton--far higher than the portion of HRC supporters who voted for Obama. This bullshit myth-making and scapegoating must end. Hillary's campaign ignored repeated warnings from Bernie staff about Michigan.
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As horrible as #Trump is, you aided and abetted this vicious police militarism and fascism, @SpeakerPelosi. The fingerprints of your votes are all over this. We see you. Time for an anti-war, pro-justice representative for #SanFrancisco--time for @ShahidForChange #shahidvspelosi.
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@NellieBowles @sfchronicle @hknightsf Also, Nellie--relying on Heather Knight as a "city treasure" reveals a deep bias. Knight has long done her best to tilt the narrative scales here, with consistent bias against progressives and the left. Receipts are multitudinous.
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The folks raging about @DeanPreston's comments on capitalism and homelessness are so lightweight and unserious. The research consistently shows capitalism is a central cause of #homelessness: evictions, layoffs, low wages, soaring rents, healthcare costs, debt. #SanFrancisco.
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Hey #SanFrancisco, if you don't like seeing tents all over sidewalks, then fight for more shelters and more permanent supportive housing! (And stop silly false attacks on progressives, who are the very ones who've fought for those very things.).
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Entitled drunken billionaire Garry Tan gets to threaten and attack people, then apologize, and it's cool? His is a politics of venomous retribution, fearmongering, and scapegoating. Perhaps apology isn't enough. He demands consequences for homeless addicts. What about for him?.
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@ShaunKing what can/should we do, from our phones and laptops? How best to help in this moment? (Thanks for the alert!).
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@TSFAction @SpeakerPelosi This is how Michelle messaged me when I demanded a simple basic apology. See for yourself, this is who she is, who you are running with. A person who makes perverse threats, vile insults, then doubles down and insults more, then blocks journalists. This is Michelle Tandler.
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I really wish people would stop flat-out cynically lying about #SanFrancisco and the ban on sweeps of homeless people. This ban is NOT the cause of our street strife, quite the opposite. History shows clearly that sweeps don't fix anything and only make #homelessness worse.
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Progressives in SF are NOT against housing! We are FOR MAXIMUM AFFORDABLE HOUSING for working-class and low-income families. Why? B/c they've been priced and pushed out by the thousands over past 20 years. Real people, families, communities shredded by Big Tech, Big Real Estate.
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Wow. YIMBYs saying quiet part out loud--"we need the rent to go back up." What a sickening and deadly calculus. THIS is how homelessness gets created. #SanFrancisco.
“One of the challenges we face in San Francisco is we need the rent to go back up.”. It is so refreshing to hear YIMBYs say this stuff out loud. Private developers have no plan for building new housing when rents actually go down.
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@mattdorsey Being a Zionist is not something to be proud of. I am an anti-zionist Jew. What Israel is doing is reprehensible.
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MOST YIMBYs I encounter show NO care or concern for community, neighborhood, culture, city character--all which are unique and can be protected w/ balanced growth and density. But no, they want just endless unlimited growth w/ zero attn to city culture or community. #SanFrancisco.
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Latest essay out today: "The woman, the crime victim, was disappeared—nameless, faceless, lost entirely from view. She was described only in Gwin's terms, as a nuisance. We can't even "say her name," because we don't know it. ".#SanFrancisco
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@bett_yu @KPIXtv Yes, I was there, I saw that--but Betty, seriously, WHY do you feel driven to perpetuate that narrative when there are many other views of the city as well? This little video shows your bias yet again. #SanFrancisco.
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I'm so sick of the centrist mods seizing rightwing talking points while claiming they're really liberals.
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Hey @Twolfrecovery how can you take money from this transphobe??.Really outrageous, flat-out lying about what the legislation even does. Not to mention Shellenberger's ongoing pattern of vile transphobia. #SanFrancisco
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Worst question of the night: Heather Knight asking, what would you do if homeless people refuse shelter? Rotten super biased question. So many FAR more important things to ask about homelessness--like, what's your solution and how will you fund it? Totally unserious BS question.
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The YIMBY narrative about #SanFrancisco is upside down. They insist we don't want change and want to keep the city for ourselves. Reality: we've had decades of complete neighborhood overhaul and massive displacement. We've done their approach for decades and it's been disastrous.
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@emissionite Wow, you'd rather put "autonomous vehicle" corporation profits over public transit. THIS is where you stand. It is. You can scream "luddite" all you want, but we are for effective and efficient public transit, which is run by plenty of technology, and by--workers!.
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@nastassiapo Wow your profile says "here to make humanity healthier" yet you don't care one bit about the actual people suffering and screaming? Amazing and sick and sad. Do you not realize they are suffering and in serious pain and trauma? Do you think they should be removed for you?.
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fear and fear mongering and scapegoating and big money won tonight in San francisco.
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Diane Yap of @ManhattanInst says it right here: "Black San Franciscans owe the rest of us reparations for all the crime." Yes, it's right there in her tweet below. This anti-Black racism must stop, it is ignorant, hateful and outrageous! @sfbayview @Blklivesmatter @NAACP @NaacpSf.
No. Black San Franciscans owe the rest of us reparations for all the crime. They’re not all criminals? . Well, we’re not all responsible for redlining, their poor educational outcomes, low incomes, high incarceration rates and whatever else they’re demanding payment for….
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@Trevor4SF @SFParents Trevor Chandler has been substitute teaching for nine months, at most. He spent far more time, five years as an operative for AIPAC, the rightwing group fomenting division and war in the Middle East. #SanFrancisco #Election2024.
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jesus, it's pathetic and sad and ridiculous how some people are more upset about a single airport gate being temporarily blocked ( totally peaceful and no flights delayed) then about Israel's war crimes and genocide against Gaza and palestine! absolutely sickening and pathetic.
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Peskin is surging at just the right time and can win--if Aaron wins, #SanFrancisco wins. The only mayoral candidate not backed by billionaires and the only one supporting expanding rent control.
I’m surging because I’m a grassroots candidate supported by teachers, nurses and working families who care about affordability, clean streets, and combating corruption to make government work. I’m surging because I’m a leader who can get the job done.
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Thought anyone who cares should see this, too. Michelle sent me a bunch of direct messages before then blocking me--after threatening and insulting me. Look at the end. "Someone with a rich social life would feel nothing from this." This is Michelle Tandler. This is who she is.
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Wow. This is the corporate conservative rebranding of homelessness campaign right here. Deflecting from core underlying realities of structural, systemic poverty and inequality, and insane profit-driven housing prices. But no, it's just the drugs. So wrong and counterproductive.
Is it a homeless crisis with addiction and fentanyl as a bi-product? Or is it now a fentanyl crisis with homelessness as a bi-product? The answer is yes. #SanFrancisco
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@SpiritofHo Danny--don't use the U.S.'s own human rights abuses to absolve China's or Russia's. Just don't. It's not any vision of a society anyone wants to live in. Do better.
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Next time you think it's hard or a "nuisance" to walk by and see #Homeless people's misery and struggles--imagine BEING homeless, and experiencing all that--not just for a few minutes, but all day, and all night, for months or years. Before you judge or prize your annoyance.
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@DrJillStein @AOC How's reckless and irresponsible and incredibly cynical, when you know your candidacy in swing states can enable a Trump presidency? And when you run 3 times, don't grow, and can't win, you're not helping anything. Why not run for state rep or Congress? Or is it all ego for you?.
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Stop calling unhoused people's ramshackle, impoverished settlements "camping." They're not out on some camping trip. This is all they have to survive the cold, the rain, the night. These are human settlements, not "camps" or "encampments" or "camping.".
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One thing that bothers me about most YIMBYs and moderates in #SanFrancisco is their soulless empty politics. It's always about more cops + more buildings. Just pack people in and put cops all over. Never a word about soul, community, legacy, just Darwinian capitalism and metrics.
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It is so bizarre to see #SanFrancisco moderates/centrists gripe constantly about crises in the streets while they attack the very politicians and policies that are the only things keeping the crises from being far, far worse.
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Jesus the YIMBYs are out of control. You raise a simple question about limited and balanced growth (not zero growth at all), and the YIMBY tech crowd goes bonkers for days. Perhaps they just want zero limits, zero rules, just constant endless growth w/ zero concern for community.
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It's amazing to me how many #SanFrancisco centrists/moderates/conservatives/libertarians simultaneously gripe about #homeless people (as a nuisance, rather than a societal tragedy) while also griping about spending money to actually address the crisis!.
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I'm saying this b/c I believe it's a real problem: YIMBYs seem to care more about folks who say they can't move to #SanFrancisco than about the THOUSANDS of residents who've been evicted, priced out, and displaced from their homes, families, and communities to increase profits.
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I stand with the protesters disabling "autonomous" cars--their proliferation is dangerous and completely unnecessary. It's an industry based on eliminating professional drivers, profoundly anti-labor, anti-worker. #SanFrancisco #transportation #labor.
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So YIMBY isn't about affordable housing after all: the mask is off. California YIMBY Joins Corporate Landlords to Kill Rent Control Measure via @PRMcDonald.
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@Rachel4Trump_45 @BlkOps476 Her actual financial disclosures from 2023--she's not even a millionaire, not even close!
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Seems some journalists are hopelessly ideologically compelled to go with established narratives. I'll bet you ANYTHING @BettyKPIX and others wouldn't be focusing on sympathy for this man if the woman he assaulted wasn't homeless. #SanFrancisco #CollierGwin #FosterGwinGallery.
The owner said he's been flooded with death threats and his business has been vandalized since the video went viral. @KPIXtv
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The sad ugly truth is, liberals and so-called "moderates" just don't like or care about People's Park's history as a space of free speech and radical dissent. They don't like it. That's why they want UC to crush it. They could build lots of student housing nearby.
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The same YIMBY folks who rage about officials rejecting a market-rate building that might include 50-100 "affordable" (BMR) units are utterly silent when 100% affordable developments are approved and unveiled. #SanFrancisco #HousingCrisis.
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Remembering Slain Peace and Justice Activists on This—and Every—Memorial Day - via @commondreams.
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There needs to be serious (non-violent) public pressure on #CollierGwin to be arrested and face consequences for his assault on the #Homeless woman. He should be compelled to pay for her to have a home for at least a year. I know she needs other help, but this is basic justice.
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It's amazing to see the centrist and "mods" who always claim to be about data and solutions just ideologically dismiss a major peer-reviewed study showing what we've known for years: high rents and stagnant wages are leading causes of #homelessness! .#California #SanFrancisco.
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It is truly stunning and bizarre and sad that @BrookeJenkinsSF supporters ignore and dismiss her huge ethics problems and her likely violation of state law. Especially when crime is UP under #BrookeJenkins. Seems you just don't actually care about rule of law, in fact.
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This outrageous, disgusting and defamatory post needs serious push-back. Remember Conor is a longtime aide of @LondonBreed. #SanFrancisco.
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I respectfully urge my fellow progressives to swallow your political purity and pride in this one moment, this one vote, and help prevent a Trump nightmare. I have plenty of concerns w/ Harris, but she'd be far better than Trump on every issue, foreign and domestic. #Election2024.
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THANK YOU Dean Preston for your amazing, courageous, important work. You were renters' strongest advocate, crafted + passed smart, impactful legislation. That doesn't go away. I know you will do more great work. Billionaire misinformation "won" this round but we'll be back!.
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Peskin is right: follow the money. Look at the billionaires and millionaires backing Farrell and Breed. They will never fight for working people. Peskin always has.
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And here the rubber meets the road--@Trevor4SF is no kind of "progressive," he's a corporate centrist, and you'll see this reveal itself over and over in this campaign. Here he is advocating police sweeps of homeless people despite all the evidence that it creates serious harm.
It is my hope that this injunction is lifted so that those who refuse housing and services can no longer hold our neighborhoods and small businesses hostage. We can lead with compassion while ensuring our streets are safe and clean.
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Want to repair the tragic nightmare of the Tenderloin/SOMA? How about instead of tossing people in costly jails that make things worse, we create living wage jobs cleaning up and beautifying the streets, combined w/ hugely expanded treatment and supportive housing? #SanFrancisco.
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I was recently the victim of a scary crime. And I'm voting NO on Prop. 36. Because while I want accountability for crimes, I don't want to pack prisons w/ more people, esp. for nonviolent crimes and small-time theft. We need a new approach rather than locking up generations.
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The city could buy a vacant building for half the price of building new affordable housing #SanFrancisco.
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