Toshio Meronek
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Nov 11: book event with Major in New York!
We had to cancel the Brooklyn Museum event to respect the boycott, but we’re coming back to New York on Nov 11.
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Since 2020 the 109 luxury condos at 1554 Market Street have sat empty. Thank you YIMBY movement
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I deliver for Instacart.
#InstacartStrike
on Monday. Instacart's attempting to strike-break by offering bonuses of $25. No.
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A lawyer who holds “eviction boot camps” for landlords explains
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HUGE RENT STRIKE against SF's biggest landlord, Veritas Investments, Inc., has barely gotten media attention. (Tho mainstream press always has space for stories on "the plight" of mythical "mom 'n pop" landlords.)
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lol cops want people to vote yes on Prop E so they're not liable for the destruction caused by high-speed chases
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The AIDS quilt shows in SF in June. I cried seeing it at UCI in 1995; this passage from Atmospheres of Violence is so good at reminding us of the dead and living who would never want a weepy memorial w/o action. They demand(ed) their deaths be politicized. c/o
@Eric_A_Stanley
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Husband and wife team Jay/Jesse and Kanishka Cheng wanna run SF politics via TogetherSF, Neighbors for a Better SF. Will they succeed?
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The answer to anti-Asian violence is not more police or diversifying the police
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Cops were doing this anyway but politicians approved surveillance expansion to allow SFPD access to private cameras.
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Northern CA Cherry Blossom Festival parade 4/21/24 - Scott Wiener disruption for Palestine.
@nikkeiresisters
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Another day, another YIMBY fail, this time at 469 Stevenson in SOMA.
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“To My Gurls and Guuys,
In solidarity with workers and artists who have refused to appear at the Brooklyn Museum until it takes a stand with Palestine, we must cancel our Miss Major Speaks event.
From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free!
Miss Major
Toshio Meronek”
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SFMTA got $1.1 billion in COVID relief but is the only Bay transit service without discounted/free fares right now. Instead: PAs on MUNI trains w/ London Breed's voice on a loop ("Welcome back San Francisco") & photo ops of politicians riding MUNI for a press conference
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London Breed, San Francisco’s queen of the food desert, is proposing closing corner stores after midnight to curb dealing in the Tenderloin.
#fooddesert
#tenderloinsf
#nightlifesf
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NPR is running press releases for SF’s mayor, who is keeping people houseless on purpose. She has access to $300 million/year from a <1% tax on huge corporations here. Currently she’s gifting most $ to SFPD’s “homeless outreach team” and private police force Urban Alchemy.
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=> lots of problems, but brief takeaway is again: politicians' main self-preservation strategy seems to be throwing money at police in hopes it'll buy personal protection during future rebellions
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SF Democrats again attempting to kill free community college for low-income people of color by bleeding it of instructors
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New ep. of
@sadfrancisco69
on GrowSF, TogetherSF and other signs of system decay. With
@JuliePitta
of
@PhoenixProjNow
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Excerpt from MISS MAJOR SPEAKS (now preorderable at libraries and bookstores near you): “Stonewall Never Happened” via
@them
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Sorry gays, Trevor Chandler is gentile despite London Breed’s official proclamation stating the contrary
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Don't tell the mayor but chess players have returned to Market Street
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Learned so much from these and others who worked on the many resources toward a better world, all free at
#EndPolice
#EndPrisons
@Eric_A_Stanley
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New one: Shellenberger's last book argues rising homelessness rates in West Coast cities comes from us "loving victims" too much. Shellenberger's latest escapade: positioning himself as an expert on trans people. Soleil Ho breaks it down!
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Updated
@dylanrodriguez
piece online at Critical Ethnic Studies journal now re cooptation of
#StopAAPIHate
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Pls get MISS MAJOR SPEAKS (and all your books) through Massive Bookshop, which sends books inside through the
@prisonskill
book club 💜
The books are here and we're gearing up to send 30+ copies of MISS MAJOR SPEAKS to incarcerated readers in the
@prisonskill
book club! For as little as $5, you can help us cover some of the costs. Thanks to everyone who's donated so far!!
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I want every college to have an Abolition 101 course like the one at City College that was created by CCSF students
Last night the most recent session of our student-led 'Build Abolition 101 at CCSF' course focused on Care not Cops. We discussed the Medical Industrial Complex, and the need for community medics.
CALM is a team of medics that is in need of mutual aid funds, show up for them!
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I’ll forever associate National Day of Mourning with this scene from 2020, of CA highway patrol cops making overtime while evicting people from houses that have been empty for 70 years, since they were taken by the state for an abandoned freeway project
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Activists seize City Hall elevators, demand SRO elevator repairs
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Cops started the fentanyl epidemic to drum up more funding for cops
Police union head tries to start fentanyl cartel in San Jose. Probably where all the dealers in SF are getting their supply.
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Have you preordered your copy of “Miss Major Speaks” yet?
@immissmajor
and I worked on it for years and we are excited to share it with you!
@VersoBooks
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MISS MAJOR SPEAKS is a 2024 ALA Stonewall Book Award Winner and was just nominated for a Lambda Literary Award, nice!
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Asian American journalist here. Have not received a response from
@taaforg
, an organization supposedly formed to combat anti-Asian violence, on whether they plan to maintain a relationship with Garry Tan, who has called for violence against other Asian Americans in the Bay Area.
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Grateful to have some writing in this really pretty book put together by some really smart people
“Counterpoints is a necessary counterpoint to the cheerleaders for the Age of Tech in the San Francisco Bay Area." —Richard Walker, professor emeritus of geography, UC Berkeley
Save 20% on this amazing new book by
@AntiEvictionMap
w/ coupon code AUGUST at
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What’s better than housing SFUSD students sleeping outside in SF?
Keeping condos empty, apparently.
@tmeronek
This single building has paid over $2 million in property taxes in four years while contributing zero new traffic or students to the schools. Free money for SF to use how it wants is bad... why?
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SF is about to cut every budget except police, despite $125 million budget surplus
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BAGL, Bay Area Gay Liberation, was a big force on the Left in 1970s SF; spoke with member Charlie Hinton about the groups rise & split. (New podcast ep @: )
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Kamala's bro-in-law is Tony West; TW is the head lawyer for Uber and he's sold so much Uber stock ahead of today's court decision against Amazon-Doordash-Instacart-Lyft-Uber and their anti-labor Prop. 22. Uber's end?
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THERE WAS NEVER AN EVICTION MORATORIUM. SF sheriffs have continued to evict people w/o “just cause” throughout the pandemic. This is LA as of April:
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Target and Walgreens blame shoplifting for recent store closures, thanks to a narrative they created and corporate media spreads.
#smashandgrab
#shoplifting
#wagetheft
#organizedretailcrime
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free to stream this month: CRIMINAL QUEERS f/
@immissmajor
and Angela Davis who caught up via 📞 last week
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Black on Both Sides and Miss Major Speaks!
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New (and free) book on how YIMBYs and the real estate industry own so many politicians in CA (and how cheap it costs to buy a political favor from these Democratic officials)
Today, we released a great book that YIMBYs and Big Real Estate won't want you to read.
#SellingOffCalifornia
exposes the backroom deals, self-serving agendas and runaway greed that are devastating California renters. Click on the link to read it for free.
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“Stonewall Never Happened:” Miss Major on the Broken Promise of Our Movement’s Most Famous Uprising via
@them
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SF mayor
@LondonBreed
announced she's gonna take some unspecified amount of the SFPD's $611,000,000 budget and put it toward black lives. Expecting it to go to her "Behavioral Health Justice Center" aka the new mental health jail
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London Breed mayor ‘progressive haven’ San Francisco, would never
@MayorofIrvine
just put out a statement.
“I am asking our law enforcement to stand down. I will not tolerate any violations to our students rights to peacefully assemble and protest.”
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Open call for writing on mutual aid, police abolition, anti-fascism, border politics, climate crisis, anti-Asian racism, more
@narchiststudies
Perspectives journal
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Did you know the Mayor Ed Lee and the San Francisco board of supervisors PAID Twitter millions to destroy an entire part of the city?
Learn all about it on the latest episode of Sad Fransisco.
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40% off everything at Verso rn including Miss Major Speaks DEALS
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“Should social movement work be paid?” is a question that a lot of nonprofit workers take personally. In
@deanspade
's first visit, we talk about why 15 years after ‘The Revolution Will Not Be Funded,’ we still have to ask it. Apple Podcasts link:
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Really great
#AntiTransHateMachine
podcast ep about NYTimes’s flop coverage of everything trans over the past few years, and corporate media’s deference to rightwing voices
Today we released the
@nytimes
statement to our
#AntiTransHateMachine
reporting about anti-trans bias at the paper. We also issued an updated podcast episode to reflect their response. You can find links to those at .
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Major and the book made the cover of the Arkansas Times
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YIMBYs like him love owning massive SFH in Berkeley while being against rent control.
@beachyclown
@tmeronek
Sure it does. NIMBY is an alliance of old people protecting their assets and their kids LARPing as revolutionaries who want their parents to cosign their (rent-contolled) leases until the day housing is doled out by political affiliation.
MAGA block me all the time. I'm honored.
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$100,000 / 1 tiny home to house someone currently living on the streets
$91,000 / year budgeted for each of 225 Urban Alchemy 'community ambassadors' who harass homeless people
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Hope that dog eats him in is sleep.
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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Corporate landlords & developers have street teams called YIMBYs to promote new luxury housing. A year ago, YIMBYs kept insisting that healthy cities need 10% of homes empty, while COVID cut city pop’n and life expectancies. SF’s vacancy rate is now at 15% (1/2)
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New ep of ‘Sad Francisco’ is up! On the *Geo Group jail* at the site of queer/trans liberation Compton’s Cafeteria in the Tenderloin
🚨 new episode 🚨
How did the riotous Compton’s Cafeteria transform from a space of trans life to a private prison?
We asked
@susanstryker
this and more.
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Mr. Buss is also founder of the unironically named YIMBY Neoliberal Party 🤮
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artwashers are having such a moment right now
This is Steven Harrington with his
#LA28
mural. He blocked us on Instagram for tagging him in our photo of it. IG users, feel free to let him know what side of history he’s on:
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People in Santa Clara think buildings are full in SF? 😂
@tmeronek
So you show a single building that’s been abandoned. Meanwhile, virtually all other buildings simply dropped prices and have reached nearly full occupancy. Just wait until I show you how many nonprofit-owned supportive housing units are vacant due to mismanagement.
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“Forensically look at,” in landlord lawyers speak, translates to “tenants = criminals”
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SF politicians are or are backed by libertarians who enjoy huge government grants; venture capitalists who see people are units of labor; real estate developers building ghost condos for out-of-town investors
‼️The SF Sheriff’s Office aims to increase the city’s jail capacity by reopening a jail that’s been closed for over a decade, preparing for an influx of incarceration starting in the holidays during a surge of the highly transmissible Omicron variant
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Wishing for a world where conference planners don't celebrate "badass attendees" from Raytheon, Goldman Sachs, McKinsey, and Amazon
#LesbianVisibilityWeek
#LesbianVisibilityDay
List of companies coming to Lesbians Who Tech Pride Summit 2022:
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CDCR namedropping Sylvia, Marsha, and Miss Major on their Pride promo ain't it
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Gay Shame! at colonist Don Gaspar de Portola statue in Pacifica, with a train of anti-gentrification, anti-YIMBY paraphernalia by Gay Shame
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@ Palace Hotel, JCRC gala where API Council set to accept award…
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I was just in Tokyo and there is massive houselessness and displacement there as well.
If that is your version of housing justice then we have already lost.
The only way to “fix” the housing market is by destroying it.
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Congratulations to the Stop Asian Hate donors whose money is lifting up the diverse voices of the Chamber of Commerce and e/acc communities
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Major just got asked to do a stage appearance w/ jojo siwa lol
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New one!
Matt Ray and Matt Wranovics (
@leftinthebay
) speak on their recent piece covering the Bay's protests in the 1980s against South African apartheid. Links to listen in bio.
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“Is the transgender district a force for gentrification or liberation?” The question behind the new episode of
@sadfrancisco69
w/
@jemmaisOKeh
:
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California Senate Votes to Keep Legalized Slavery in its Prisons
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Paid leave for anti-vax cops will cost the city hundreds of thousands of dollars, but on the bright side it means fewer cops on the street
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