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Richard Kadrey @richardkadrey.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Hey California! Be careful this election because the big money creeps are trying to trick you (again).

There's a trap on your ballot in California. Here's how to get past it.
1. Prop 40: 250 billionaires pay with they owe so hospitals, schools, and food assistant survive the federal cuts. Vote yes.
2. Props 41 and 42: paid for by billionaires to cancel prop 40. Vote no.
3. Tell one person, because the confusion is the plan.
Yes I'm 40. No on 41 and 42.

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Zach-o'-lantern @zachlipton.com · 12/10/2026

this skeet has wildly escaped local containment, so to summarize seven years for those not in San Francisco: this is about closing the new coastal park we voted for two years ago it's the third ballot measure on the issue in 6 years anyway, vote no on G and come volunteer, I promise it's fun

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Vote NO on G - Save Sunset Dunes Park

Vote NO on G - Proposition G would demolish Sunset Dunes Park. It would tear out every park feature, from the playground to skate park to hammocks to seating and art. Stop the park closure! Save one o...

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

for as long as i've been alive, republicans have ran the same playbook: a few weeks before voting begins, they roll out completely fabricated smear campaigns. these things are always coordinated, so the talking points take over the news. the party is never electorally punished for their dishonesty.

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Max Dubler 🏳️‍🌈 @maxdubler.com · 10/10/2026

Elite impunity is perhaps the single greatest problem in American politics going back to Gerald Ford’s Watergate pardons. These people keep getting away with it. This needs to stop.

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Nato Green @natogreen.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Legends of the 94110 expressing our well considered sentiments about the regime of cruelty and plunder being constructed by the Boy King Mayor Lurie. (With Dr Bunny McFadden, awesome candidate for City College Board.)

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Brendan @brendanoc.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

I think YouTube figured out I've been drinking

Photo of YouTube folk commentary and social reflections

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Brendan @brendanoc.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Look there's a non-zero chance the Pope and my Chicago uncles both said 'This fuckin team' after the top of the 6th last night and went to bed. American Pope lends itself to incredible head canon

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 09/10/2026

Given that there is not likely to be a national, bipartisan demand for accountability in the wake of Trump — the major distinction with Nixon — any accountability, civil or criminal, will be a partisan and political project that I think should be pursued as vigorously as possible.

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Katie Tightpussy, Editor-In-Chief @katie.bzky.team · 06/10/2026

unfortunately the median voter is a lead-poisoned mouth-breathing self-centered moron. Ah well.

When Wayne Berner, 72, moved to the Bay Area in 1994, he was stunned to find that the region has 27 different transit agencies. He grew up in the South Side of Chicago and frequently used the three transit agencies to easily get around. But the Discovery Bay resident, who is retired, has found public transit much less convenient in the Bay Area.

Over the years, Berner has used transit to get to baseball games at the Oakland Coliseum, but beyond that, he hasn’t found it very practical. He once tried to take BART to the San Francisco International Airport, but the trains don’t start running until around 5 a.m., making an early flight next to impossible. When he lived in San Ramon, he tried to find a good route for his children to take to school in Concord, but the roughly 20-mile trip would take an hour, maybe longer if they needed to transfer.

Berner will be voting “no” on the Regional Transit Measure in November. He feels that BART especially hasn’t done enough to “control costs.”

“I look at it like, why do you throw more money at a dysfunctional transportation system?” he said. “If the 27 agencies actually sat down and said, ‘OK, we need to really do something,’ I think you get rid of them, you know, unify all those authorities under one or two umbrellas and call it a day. But there’s so much repetition in administrative and leadership costs.”

Spohn feels similarly to Berner. He’s lived in a home he owns in the unincorporated Santa Clara County community of San Martin for nearly 40 years. Located south of Morgan Hill and north of Gilroy, the area has limited access to transit. Caltrain doesn’t run service to its two southernmost stations on the weekend, and the Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority only operates buses in South County.

Spohn, who is retired, said that because of the high cost of living in the Bay Area, he will never vote in favor of another tax or bond measure.

“You’d have to really convince me why I should have to pay a lot more money for something I don’t use,” he said.

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Katie Tightpussy, Editor-In-Chief @katie.bzky.team · 06/10/2026

it is very cool (read: very not cool) that "What if the entire regional economy immediately exploded?" is a ballot measure in the bay area because we are in the 'touching the hot stove' era of american history. if you live in the bay area you should vote for the regional transit measure.

The ballot initiative would raise the sales tax rate by 0.5 percentage points in San Mateo, Santa Clara, Contra Costa and Alameda counties and by 1 percentage point in San Francisco, and is expected to generate roughly $980 million annually for the next 14 years to sustain bus, train, metro and ferry lines.

Many of the region’s transit agencies have already proposed contingency plans if the measure fails. BART said it would likely have to end service at 9 p.m. instead of at midnight, reduce train frequencies to 30 minutes and move from five-line to three-line service outside of peak commute hours. Caltrain has proposed eliminating weekend services, closing more than a third of stations and ending operations around 9 p.m. instead of 1 a.m. AC Transit is looking at reducing service by 16%, while Muni said it could eliminate up to 20 routes, cut service by at least 30% and end regular evening service.

The fiscal cliff facing transit agencies was triggered by the decline in ridership due to the pandemic and hit agencies heavily dependent on fare revenues, like BART, the hardest.

SPUR, a nonprofit policy think tank sponsoring the measure, released a report last month that found that if the measure and San Francisco’s Proposition H fail, traffic delays on the Bay Bridge could increase by 33 minutes heading west in the morning and 43 minutes heading east in the evening. Caldecott Tunnel traffic could see delays of an additional 20 minutes in the morning and 27 minutes during the evening commute. Congestion could also worsen along Interstate 580, Interstate 680 and U.S. 101, the report found.

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Brendan @brendanoc.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

If we're going to ruin way finding could we at least change the sign to 'Take your fucking backpack off"

SF Muni bus at night with it's front sign over cab - that usually has the route number and direction - instead says "fare required"

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Brendan @brendanoc.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Whoever I think is most likely to put as many of them in jail for their crimes as possible is my choice for all elections moving forward

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Brendan @brendanoc.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Cant Flock your liscence plate if you take public transit

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Felipe De La Hoz @felipedlh.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

True crime has really just broken people’s brains. Millions of people perpetually worried that they’re at acute risk of vanishingly rare crimes, convinced we should curtail civil liberties as a result. A generation who thinks of accusing strangers of heinous crimes as simple entertainment

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

No and no one else has watched his content either besides some way too online people trying to make up a guy to get mad at. It's Howard Stern from the 80s all over again. Is Hasan running for office? No? Is he going to be setting policy? No. Who cares what some asshole on Twitch says

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Craig Harrington @craigipedia.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

As @brianbeutler.bsky.social argued, the next Democratic president should send bulldozers to the Supreme Court and tell them they have 15 minutes to decide if the Unitary Executive Theory is real.

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

STOP GROWING FUCKING LETTUCE IN THE DESERT THIS IS ACTUALLY A VERY EASY PROBLEM TO SOLVE

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scott daGHOSTtino @scottdagostino.ca · 12/08/2026

So glad we all decided ”defund the police is a bad slogan” and just carried on doing whatever the fuck this is 😡👇🏼

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Adam Rogers @jetjocko.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

A thing to know about San Francisco is that there are people who believe a park next to a beach on the Pacific Ocean should instead be a highway. For cars. There are whole local elections that revolve around this idea. It might determine the city’s next US congressperson.

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Judah Grunstein @judah-grunstein.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Fwiw, Sergey Brin is not spending $100 million to block the California wealth tax out of a cost-benefit analysis of how he can maximize his wealth. He is spending $100 million to block the California wealth tax because he is ideologically opposed to his wealth being redistributed by the state.

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Dolphin Pilot @theamitie.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Absolutely none of them would know what to do against a cover 2 shell

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BUM CHILLUPS AKA SPENCER HALL AKA PRESIDENT FOOTBALL @edsbs.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

He told you to keep your heart, three stacks

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Zach Rabiroff @zachrabiroff.com · 29/07/2026

California running surprisingly well for a two-century experiment in government consisting entirely of ballot initiatives and police departments.

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Nato Green @natogreen.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Say it with me: as a legislator, on his signature issue of housing, Scott Weiner is a failure.

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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 28/07/2026

"I’ve lived in the same house in the Elm Heights neighborhood for the past twenty years, and I just love everything about this town except for the problems that my politics have directly created."

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Every NIMBY’s Speech at a Public Hearing

“Friends, neighbors, it’s good to see all of you. I know you, you know me, and just seeing all of your faces at this city council meeting reminds me why I l...

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Ryan Boyd @ryanboyd.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Ben Franklin (thinking about tits): A republic, madam, if you can keep it

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Jacqueline Sweet @jsweetli.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

NEW: A second ex-wife of David Brouillette, the ICE agent who killed Joan Durán Guerrero in Maine, Lucinda Brouillette, issued a statement this morning. "If you were to ask me whether I believe David Brouillette is capable of this level of extreme violence, my answer is unequivocally yes." /

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Brendan @brendanoc.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Upzone the Westside, yes, but don't forget that if Fremont was as dense as the Sunset is now it would be the largest city in the Bay Area by ~350k people

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Dean Baker @deanbaker13.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Fine to dump on these guys for making a mistake, but Chuck Schumer has been in politics for 50 years and he thought the answer was Janet Mills.

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Brendan @brendanoc.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

There simply cannot be that many of you that live in Maine that I've had to keep hearing about this shitty guy for almost a year.

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Next door in Silicon Valley @nextdoorsv.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

The skeleton key to understanding California today is to understand the decisions made around the state in 1978/1979 and these two guys:

Howard Jarvs - Prop 13
Paul Gann - Gann Limit

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Angus Johnston @angus.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

The premise that Susan Collins is a better, more decent human being than Graham Platner is one that I reject. And I say that as someone who thinks Platner is a vile scumbag.

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Brendan @brendanoc.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

Abolish the Senate if only so I never have to hear an opinion about Maine again

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Dave Infante @dinfontay.com · 26/05/2026

Subsidize neighborhood bars: www.fingers.email/p/subsidize-...

Meeting public demand that private markets cannot or will not is a normal function of government, or it was until a cabal of American industrials imported and disseminated crank economic theories into the national discourse to poison rank-and-file folks against New Deal liberalism. This country has struggled ever since to countenance even the most self-evidently beneficial forms of municipal socialism, so I’m not so deluded to think taxpayer-funded third places are a near-term goal (though tipsters have since flagged some promising green shoots!) But the demand is there. Americans are lonely as fuck and starved of the joys of the commons. We need a hybrid solution to hold us over, and breweries—comfortable and welcoming though many of them are—ain’t it.

Luckily, a proven model for small-scale, hyper-local, low-overhead hubs of non-optimized, non-extractive community that weave themselves into their surrounding social fabrics already exists: the neighborhood bar. Neighborhood bars are great, but as an on-premise cohort, they’re not exactly doing great. But in order for them become more profitable under the present model, they’d have to pump more alcohol into the populace. Not ideal for public health. So it’s even luckier that we have a method for public-private partnership to prop up American industries collectively deemed vital that are not profitable: the subsidy. You can probably see where I’m headed with this.

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Brock Winstead @brockwinstead.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

Apparently none of the proven effectiveness of this will penetrate the ironclad faith among small business people that everybody comes to their hardware store or whatever by car. Many of them still believe cities are made of cars.

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Omar Wasow @owasow.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

It should be political malpractice to enact a “jungle primary” without also including a consensus-forcing mechanism like approval voting or ranked choice. All this drama in California over a nonpartisan primary would be a non-issue if the rules actually captured which candidates have widest appeal.

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 27/04/2026

Folks on this site have noticed that the Republican approach to political violence seems to involve some degree of hypocrisy, and they are going to EXPOSE IT. The GOP shan't soon recover.

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woe platinum @esvrld.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

to be clear, this is the fault of everyone who didn't vote democrat. if the democrats had had one more vote, the resolution could have failed with two of them crossing the aisle

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John Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

See, in the US we just let the President take those home and store them in his pool house. Because freedom. BTW if I don’t believe this is the vibe you will create in the Trump White House when elected, I’m not voting for you for President.

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