Marcus Ismael🥥🌴
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The Bay Area's largest (and most feasible) post-pandemic conversion of a downtown commercial to residential project opened officially yesterday. Spartan Village on the Paseo is home to nearly 700 SJSU students.
Here's a roundup of some media coverage...
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@biz_socks
Why clown this? I’ve stayed in shifty hotels with large door gaps and questionable surroundings and had to do similar things. I’m also not a single woman traveling on her own. Personal safety is good actually.
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The primary is being swiftly written in history, but one week from Super Tuesday, I feel compelled to speak my heart and mind.
60 former Warren staffers are sticking by our progressive convictions and would like the Democratic electorate know that we stand with
@BernieSanders
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@IDoTheThinking
Pickpocketing is huge at concerts and clubs. It also happens in stores, cafes and on transit. Pickpocketing absolutely happens in the US.
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@gracecamille_
Considering this guy went out of his way to rail against work from home, this is correct
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@HillaryClinton
your snapchat story is incredible today. Thanks for calling out the hypocrisy!
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Prop 22 commercials be like “I don’t need a 9 to 5 job! That’s why I have a 6 to 8, 11 to 3, 8 to 4, 75hr a week job for Uber, Postmates, and DoorDash so I can pay the monthly rental for the Lyft leased vehicle I use to do these gigs. I don’t need health care, I have 5hr Energy!”
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@1Def_Poet
@IamGMJohnson
Emmett Till would be the same age as Martha Stewart or Bob Dylan right now if he was alive. This isn’t some distant past that can be let go. This is still a fresh and open wound on our country and it is so disrespectful for you to brush off a hate crime as ppl playing the victim.
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@ConorLambPA
has for the last hour or so held on to a lead of less than one percent with already at least 80% of precincts reporting.
Every. Single. Vote. Counts. In. Every. Single. Election.
#PA18
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This is a student organized protest by the way of Mission High School. Mad respect.
#sfprotest
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San Jose falling out of the top ten most populous US cities list is a massive policy failure of its own making. 40,000 people moved out because there isn’t nearly enough housing being built at all levels of affordability. Downtown is covered with vacant, undeveloped lots.
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The Democratic electorate deserves to know they still have a choice: the progressive choice for President
@BernieSanders
I stand proudly by my conviction that one should vote based on how much they are inspired rather than by their fears. Sanders inspires hope in me.
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Unironically: this looks so damn cool. With the year round good weather Menlo Park has, it’s stupid we don’t have this level of density as the norm.
Mother of god!! They're going to have to rename Menlo Park to Manhattan after this!
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@wafoli
Isn’t it so weird? It’s not like it’s exactly temperate year round. It gets hot and humid there too! So they’re either lying to themselves about their bodies’ discomfort with hydrating through tea, coffee, soda or food or they legit are all dehydrated.
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Today I learned the people of color in the
#BonAppetit
test kitchen are not compensated for video appearances AND that the Editor in Chief did brown face at some point in time?? Thank you Sohla El-Waylly for speaking out.
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I’m ending my night scrolling through TikTok as one does and what do I stumble upon but a ringing endorsement for
#SB50
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It is very hard to gauge on the ground but the
#sfprotest
stretched from Castro and Market to Bryant and 16th with huge spillover on both ends. That’s got to be 10,000 at least?
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People saying we're "too late". No. We've needed the last week to process what we're going through and we've rightfully decided that our progressive values are more important than candidate choice or optics. We aren't looking for fanfare, just awareness:
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We do not speak for Elizabeth Warren nor do we speak for the campaign.
EW is free to endorse or not and frankly it will not save either candidate at this point.
We speak for ourselves bc we put our values over our candidate choices; bc this is too important.
#NotMeUs
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I honestly cannot believe that the one person to match and outdo Ziwe on her own show is George Santos. Every different clip I’ve seen so far is him eating it up, no crumbs.
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The bizarre thing is Newsom has no legitimate or overriding reason to veto this. Can someone explain how social housing inhibits Newsom’s inevitable presidential campaign?
I’m extremely disappointed that
#AB309
, The Social Housing Act, has been vetoed by the Governor.
Thank you to our bill’s sponsor
@eb4everyone
and all the diverse coalition of supporters
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@DeanPreston
@EastEndYIMBY
I am a YIMBY and lived in southern SF neighborhoods my entire life. The rich, conservative property owners in St. Francis Wood, Glen Park, or the Westwood Highlands would never align with YIMBYs like me. What you're describing is not reality.
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@dieworkwear
We should normalize Floridians wearing sarongs or thawbs. Swamp conditions like that do not call for western garb whatsoever.
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This is what community looks like: hundreds of San Franciscans rallying to save
#TheGreatWalkway
- 17 acres of car-free space for families, kids, walkers, and bikers.
@LondonBreed
@D4GordonMar
@RecParkSF
please come back to the table and work out a better reopening plan.
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POV: you’re the Board of Supervisors for the City and County of San Francisco and
@AGRobBonta
is chasing you through a library.
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People who are self-ascribed leftists love using the phrase "housing is a right" but then reflexively oppose any and all bills put forward by Scott Wiener. It is like pulling teeth trying to get SB10 endorsed in Democratic Party circles and it shouldn't be.
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SF YIMBYs, I'm in awe of tonight's landslide victory in the AD17 special election, but I have to say it (again): the org should've backed Matt from the start. We didn't need to waste the time, energy, and volunteer effort when it should've gone to the only contender all along.
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@nilocobau
Her follow up replies make me sick. She’s proud of how she raised her son. So…she’s proud that her son is willing to exploit services meant for the needy when he knows he comes from a wealthy family? The administrator didn’t pick on her child, he did take him down a peg.
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@MamaDglo
@higglety1
@laurenhtexas
@hairybusiness
She said “the amount of people I see who use soap and water” she didn’t say “I think all people who say they wash their chicken use soap and water”. “Washing”, rinsing, vinegar soaks, it’s all stupid and wrong. And that includes the tiny sliver or people dumb enough to use soap.
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The 1989 earthquake, the Great Recession, now this pandemic, BART has always been there to keep the Bay Area afloat. Thanks BART and BART workers for everything. It’s not an exaggeration to say we would be nothing without all your work.
Our ridership is now at 8% of what it is usually is. We served 31,142 riders on Friday.
We’ve been doing some home improvement during low ridership and taking advantage of closing at 9pm. Crews were doing electrical work at El Cerrito del Norte last night.
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Being pro-vacant lot in an area known for letting residents teeter off the edge into homelessness because there isn’t enough housing to go around isn’t just anti-housing, it’s anti-human. How dare you claim to speak for the San Francisco Fil-Am community when we NEED this project
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@Mr_Chris_hatch
@JohnDeVore
“Within reason” tends to mean “however long until your coworkers ostracize you and your managers pull you aside and tell you you’re being excessive”. Traditional PTO is the best, most efficient, and most equitable solution.
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@dannoyes
you’re so close Dan! The problem with crime in SF is that cops can’t be bothered to enforce the law. They know where the criminals are, they have a DA who will prosecute, there aren’t policies stopping basic crime fighting, and yet they still won’t round up the criminals.
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Seriously. Booing and hissing and calling a successful female candidate a "liar" is absurd and not Democratic.
Why can't people respect
@HillaryClinton
while supporting
@BernieSanders
? You don't have to denigrate one to cheer for the other?
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@OmariJHardy
Sure but also have you considered: Sausalito, Carmel, Avalon (on Catalina Island), Santa Barbara, Capitola??? I get the engagement farming bait you’re doing but let’s not act like there isn’t beautiful paradise in California.
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Over the last ten hours, dozens of volunteers poured in from all across the Peninsula and South Bay to knock on doors and make phone calls from our beautiful field hubs. Over half of our attendees were first time volunteers who’ll be back again every weekend for
@ewarren
🗽
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Elizabeth Warren absolutely eviscerated a loser, misogynistic billionaire on a stage live. He was rude, he was interruptive, he was dead wrong and she ended him.
She should've been on that stage tonight.
She could've made this a hell of a lot more watchable than this.
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LMAO
I live smack dab in downtown. These are underdeveloped and surface parking lots within a ONE block radius of my high rise. This is the norm in the DOWNTOWN area.
You are delusional think San Jose is overbuilt or “ruined” by new development when there’s not even a dent.
My hometown has been torn apart by luxury condos, rising rent, land owned by tech companies. San Jose has the highest number of unhoused of gen-z youth, 85 for every 100,000 residents who will now be forcibly swept from encampments.
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Every day that Collins remains on the school board is an added insult to the San Francisco Asian American community.
The fact that she was allowed to vote on this action alone was insulting.
Good-faith public servants know when it's their time to step down. Collins doesn't.
SF school board in a 5-2 vote of no confidence, strips
@AliMCollins
of her VP title and her seats on committees. Story updating.
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@JasonBNicholas
@AnonymousLeftie
the prompters are not only visible on the ones on the stage. there’s always a large on in the middle of the arena where the media’s camera stands are
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@itsnotcapone
@darealestest
@thebkh
@MEGAMIKES_
Ok, let's use 2020 facts to make this look bad: 22% of Uber drivers are black, but only 3% of the tech employees at Uber are black and not even 1% of all tech industry executives are black. Yeah, this is some shady pandering.
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One of my favorite things in government is watching NIMBYs abuse the CEQA process to stymie housing, local governments illegally indulge them, then state law kicks in and ends up both expediting the project in question and pre-empting further local control
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@uhshanti
Like ok it's not worded in a way that invites nuance but tech VCs like Ron Conway have held the single biggest sway over SF electeds for the better part of the last decade giving that sector almost everything they wanted. It's not a stretch to lay this at their feet!
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@ladidaix
@gracecamille_
He had the laziest type of opposition to it too. Like because he likes working in an office, everyone who doesn’t is a bad worker. It was a weird issue to speak up against.
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Just wildly irresponsible reporting today by
@kron4news
and others.
@MayorShengThao
is a renter - a formerly homeless parent at that - and owns none of them. Idk where you’re getting the “property records list her as owner” because that’s categorically not true. It’s a lie!
Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao reportedly has FOUR houses in Oakland.
So while the violent crime rate is almost four times as high in Oakland as in most the rest of America, she’s found a way to get very rich.
How is Thao profiting so much as her constituents are ravaged by crime?
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I’ve heard frequently from friends elsewhere how amazed they are that a city as dense as San Francisco in a metro area of 7 million has less than 900 confirmed positive cases of
#COVID19
and just 13 deaths. That’s all thanks to the amazing
@LondonBreed
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@not_taylorx
“discover”? My god you Europeans are so lazy and are exhausting to listen to. It went right over your head that that man clearly wasn’t in awe of the concept of a bus but amused that others don’t take it as the default.
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Just bought a bike. To use. In San Francisco. Pray for me please.
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Every year when, on the first day of Daylight Saving Time, it’s still sunny at 7pm, I remember that part of my personality that becomes vehemently in support of making this permanent in California. Come on, who doesn’t want late sunsets all the time?!
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It’s also a stunning indictment of the failures of US cities to actually be cities when even the now tenth most populous city, Austin, doesn’t even fully have one million residents. We need to build up our cities. The jobs are there and that’s where people want to live.
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Been too busy laying it all out on the field for
@ewarren
the last, I don’t know, the last 46 hours? Five months? that I haven’t been able to post up as much here on Twitter, but I want to take a moment to appreciate what we,
@TeamWarren
CA, have built.
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Can you imagine how incredible it’d be to finally be able to get up to Napa from the bigger Bay Area cities by train?! Insane. Let’s make it happen!
~18 miles of track is all it'd take to connect
@smarttrain
to Napa, uniting the NorCal wine regions. Another ~17 miles is all it'd take to connect it to the
@CapitolCorridor
which unlocks Sacramento, Davis, Fairfield, the East Bay and San Jose. Who's in?
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@francesthenewt
@fran_adkins
@RickyReports
@KalhanR
1981 - 1996 is the generally accepted bracket according to
@pewresearch
It can also be distilled down to either
1. If you have vivid memories of 9/11 as a kid you are a millennial
2. If you were in high school or college when social media took over then you are a millennial
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I’m at Millbrae Station for the first time since March 2020 and wow is it incredible how quickly the housing that was approved here got built. The eyesore that was the underutilized surface parking is gone 😍
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There was a serious, dedicated effort by the moderate faction in San Francisco to contest delegate elections and we did it. We swept. We need to be just as serious to retake the SFDCCC and the school board. Then, the Board of Supervisors. I’m tired of my city being a joke.
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Today’s
@FiveThirtyEight
podcast episode talking about attitudinal changes in Democrats at the intersections of race and issues like housing and school integration 👏👏👏
Top quote from
@perrybaconjr
“white Dems may not see housing integration in the same ways the view policing”
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@UrbanLandRent
Funny enough, these actually are held up by adherents to the Vexillogical Society’s standards, no more than three colors, limited and deliberate use of minimal text, distinct iconography, drawable by a child.
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Congratulations, CA Democratic Party establishment, whose median age is over 60, for getting rid of the only Young Democrat on our state board and giving that post to a career politician who already holds statewide constitutional office:
#CADEM
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@NSAA360
@People4Bernie
@BernieSanders
Bernie Sanders needs to stay in this race. The working people of this country deserve his voice in this race and on debate stages from now to November.
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Being a YIMBY is not the same as being a 1950s planner, bulldozing everything. To be a YIMBY is to look at the reality of what it is like in cities like SF where homeowners cannot build more housing on their own property if they wanted to. Also why do you hate min. wage workers?
“Let’s tear down the city and destroy people’s way of life so my barista friends and I can live wherever we want!”
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Framing one of the first Builder's Remedy projects in the South Bay as a "brazen plan" is a disgusting level of bias. 20 units, 20% below market rate, in Los Altos is a godsend.
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Never waiting more than 8 minutes for a bus this weekend in LA was eye-opening.
@metrolosangeles
doesn’t get enough credit for delivering so much better service than most California cities.
One of the biggest takeaways from LA transit for me was that frequent service, long hours, and 24/7 transit service can do so much good and be life-changing, even in car-centric areas.
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I spent 46 of the last 72 hours organizing folks from all over the SF Peninsula+Silicon Valley to knock on thousands of doors and it is honestly the greatest amount of fun I have ever had on any campaign. The people here - just a few of a hundred - keep me going in this fight.
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@PanfriedDilf
@Jauwnio
Look up the stats for carbon emissions caused by personal transportation alone. Facts don’t care about your feelings.
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San Jose, California.
What small U.S. city do you think could benefit most from a small metro/light rail line?
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Caltrain, what is this? This is so weird. You’re a commuter train service in the Bay Area.
Her Majesty,
#QueenElizabeth
II has passed. An incredible female force with a 70-year reign. May she be remembered as the trailblazer that she was.
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And they say the soul of SF is dead. lol look a this! It’s harmless but makes it’s point. What a brilliant way to protest the proliferation of yet another major street hazard deployed without much consideration for the community.
A group of San Franciscans realized that they can disable Waymo and Cruise robotaxis by placing a traffic cone on the vehicle's hood.
They're now encouraging others to do it: "Hell no, we do not consent to this."
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Not my first rodeo dealing with an action from the
@CA_Dem
Legislation Committee.
Three years ago in San Diego, I was the lone supporter speaking in favor of then SB827 in front of this committee.
I was greeted with snarls and jeers FROM committee members. It died then.
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Chants of “take of your riot gear, we don’t see no riot here” followed by...dancing 🥰
#sfprotest
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Imagine believing a 1/8 cent sales tax is regressive while openly embracing the shuttering of a commuter rail system that serves, pre-pandemic, 65 thousand people daily and now serves as a lifeline for essential workers who have few other reliable means of getting around.
The "Caltrain is dead" messaging is - in part - political leverage created by San Mateo and Caltrain leadership trying to force a regressive sales tax on San Francisco voters without any compromise on governance.
It's not wrong for San Francisco to fight for a better deal.
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@MonarchWolf
@SFBART
Transit vehicles are refuge spaces for many people going through many difficulties in life. They’re often the only escape from harsh weather or violence these people might otherwise experience outside of the trains. Lay off it and leave these people alone. Move to another car.
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What is the solution? Our state, and the survival of our party, is reliant on pushing out Baby Boomers in the party who do not give enough of a damn about the future they will not be living in. If you are young, if you care about housing, please join me to run for Delegate.
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@VivaLaPanda_
@IterIntellectus
you asked for people’s opinions. you aren’t the arbiter of which opinions are sound or valid. you got what you asked, you are being uncharitable
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This is 1695 Market. Look at where it sits relative to transit, right near the entrance of a freeway, 2 blocks from a Muni Metro underground station. There are already 8 story apts on the same block. If there were ever a place to plop 23 stories it’s here. Thank you, SB423.
A state law that kicked in for SF at the end of June is already having an impact: New plans just dropped for a 200-unit apartment tower in Duboce Triangle.
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@sam_d_1995
Literally all of them exist to serve and haul things FOR YOU, Sam. Don’t you get it?! That’s why every truck bed of every pickup in every city of America is in use all the time. They have to sit six feet off the ground, and you can’t get that because you’re an elite!
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@IDoTheThinking
Republicans know what Dems were too afraid to say out loud: making a play towards machismo, misogyny, hustle culture, and homophobia works in communities of color. Our “weakest links” so to speak who see the GOP as the party that values strength, family, and making money.
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Cost of construction, materials, and labor make it expensive and difficult to build housing, and it’s why we see >$800k costs per unit in the Bay Area. But past a certain point, it’s not the economics, but overbearing land use controls that limit housing.
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Rest of the quote: “as an immediate goal to make the world better for African Americans.”
How. Many. Time. Do. We. YIMBYs. Have. To. Tell. You. Housing. Is. A. Racial. Issue. And. Saying. No. To. Housing. Is. Racist.
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@sam_d_1995
How could anyone forget that exercising your First Amendment rights at public comments comes with a residency requirement!
Reminds me of the times someone’s retort to me was that I was two neighborhoods away from a major housing development so I wasn’t in any way affected by it.
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😤 fucking NIMBYs!!!
A male social club next to St James Park in San Jose sued to block a properly permitted revamp of downtown’s drug and crime-ridden hub because they hate the idea of people having fun across from their silly little frat.
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Just going to say this, yet again: three simple words, one basic concept that American transit agencies inexplicably refuse to make a reality -
PLATFORM. SCREEN. DOORS.
To save lives, prevent delays, and show even a modicum of care for customers, we need these now.
#BART
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Alternative, and factual framing: people moved into affordable housing, knowing it didn’t have parking, and made it everyone else’s problem where they store their two-ton, thousands-dollars-worth toy in one of the nation’s most dense neighborhoods. Personal responsibility matters
Parking limits on affordable housing projects were supposed to promote a car-free lifestyle.
Instead, they've resulted in poor people being hit with thousands of dollars in tickets and getting up at the crack of dawn to move their cars.
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@AnnikaHom
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A huge chunk of the SF Board of Supervisors and a majority of our Sacramento delegation are now solidly with
@ewarren
in her bid to be president.
With
@DavidChiu
’s endorsement today, joining over a hundred
#AAPI
leaders across the country, we at
@TeamWarren
are over the moon!
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You can't build a bench if you keep pushing young people off of it...
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@MattZeitlin
*San Francisco* “cultural deadzone”
lol it’s like the transplants to LA who don’t ever leave their one or two neighborhoods and who complain it’s full of fake people
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I don’t miss my San Francisco↔️San Jose commute but this is game changing. What used to take 100 minutes on local service trains (because sometimes one doesn’t have a choice what to take) will take 75 minutes, end to end. Four trains each direction per hour? Huge.
San Francisco to San Jose in under an hour. Arriving Fall 2024. .
Additional mentions:
@SAMCEDA
@SVLeadershipGrp
@BayAreaCouncil
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@sfstandard
Come on
@sfstandard
! Not “an SUV killed a four year old”, a DRIVER killed a four year old.
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Not a STEM genius, haven't stayed silent on injustice against other minorities, am not docile. Not a
#ModelMinority
I am Filipino, I am Asian, I am NOT your
#ModelMinority
.
If you're API, explain why you'r not
#ModelMinority
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@marcusbarnett_
a until you remember none of them pictured use any effective form of deodorant or antiperspirant
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