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Cliff Bargar

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San Franciscan (via Boston). (Surgical) robots, bikes, trains, etc

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 5h
Ossoff: "If John Lewis were marching today from Selma to Montgomery, Mike Collins would be grabbing a billy club"
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Cameron 🇺🇸🗽🦅 @cameroncorduroy.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
the Vice President of the United States has gone on record citing this man as one of his biggest intellectual influences if you didn't know this, it's probably because for some reason literally no mainstream political media outlets think it's worth mentioning
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Senator Scott Wiener @scottwiener.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
San Francisco needs a strong transit ally in Congress, not someone who will “hold their nose” when it comes time to advocate for the hundreds of thousands of working people who ride BART, MUNI, and Caltrains every day.
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Cliff Bargar @cliffbar.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Exactly this. I can respect the position of those who consistently oppose ethno/religious states for any group. But "no Jewish ethnostate" is not that.
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
It's fascinating to learn how many more kids die in ATV accidents every year than in e-bike accidents, then observing that there is a moral panic about kids riding e-bikes but not about kids riding ATVs.
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Cliff Bargar @cliffbar.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I was in NC this weekend and had some great bagels from a Jewish bakery next to a mosque down the road from an FBS stadium. This is the America that MAGA wants to take from us
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
There's a way yesterday's failed attempt to frame up Jack Smith for perjury could've been covered as part of the same story — the deadly serious abuse of the DOJ by Republicans to ruin the lives of who they perceive as political opponents — but instead it was like "EMBARRASSING WHOOPSIE"
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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Here’s Chris Rufo and his podcast co-host addressing “the Indian question,” a reference to “the Jewish question.” That question was whether Jews could be incorporated into European society, and the Nazis were the ones who claimed to have developed the “final solution” to that “problem.”
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Jane Natoli 🥑🚲🍍 @wafoli.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Why do people act like Scott Wiener is the only one with agency when it comes to housing? We are here (in a housing shortage), because people like Connie Chan have actively resisted new housing and implementing state law! www.sfchronicle.com/politics/art...
"If he's such a champion of housing, why are we here?" Wiener's opponent in the
race, Supervisor Connie Chan, said in a recent interview with the Chronicle. She and Wiener have routinely been on opposing sides of San Francisco's housing policy debates, and she has led some local efforts to resist state legislation he passed.
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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Absolutely scorching endorsement, bringing serious heat for Weiner and against Chan, but a blast furnace at Pelosi for her role in this race and her true reasons for it. Never read an editorial this heated in Chron www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/edit...
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Endorsement: Who should replace Nancy Pelosi in Congress? It’s not even a choice
OPINION: The most intriguing thing about the race between Scott Wiener and Connie Chan to fill Nancy Pelosi’s House seat is that it has become a race at all, the editorial board writes.
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Sam @samd.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
it’s genuinely fascinating how establishment democratic politics in big cities has become so ossified and incompetent that they’ve created a huge lane for the left to embrace good government reforms and build a broad coalition of socialists and technocrats
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streetsblogsf.bsky.social @streetsblogsf.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
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Great Highway? How about the Great Runway! - Streetsblog San Francisco
Cars back on Sunset Dunes? That's not thinking big enough
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sf-emergency.sf.gov @sf-emergency.sf.gov · 22/09/2026
It’s September 21, San Francisco. Time for a little Earth, Wind & Fire. 🎶 And a little emergency prep.
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Matt Hodges @matthodges.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Very quick and dirty Jev test for hiring bias. One resume for a Wall Street job; asked whether the applicant should get a first-round interview. 76 evaluations, changing only the first name. 19 of each: White-associated men/women, Black-associated men/women. console.typesafe.ai/playground?s...
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Cliff Bargar @cliffbar.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Continued proof that Supervisor/Board President Mandelman is more interested in freezing the City in amber than in finding workable solutions for San Franciscans. Moving up the date for 'amnesty' for nonconforming buildings is probably the laziest possible 'solution' to this problem.
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Cliff Bargar @cliffbar.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
I totally believe that there are alignment issues but I find it implausible that OpenAI can coordinate thousands of agents to solve a Millennium Prize Problem while simultaneously losing control of a bunch of other ones
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Cliff Bargar @cliffbar.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Saw this on the news last night (visiting some family in MA), I was pleasantly surprised to see @wcvb5.bsky.social taking a story on cyclist safety this seriously - I don't think that's common for local TV news. (cc @thewaroncars.bsky.social @theoverheadwire.com)
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Cliff Bargar @cliffbar.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Rockwell's depictions of Roosevelt's Four Freedoms (shown at the Norman Rockwell Museum) are possibly more relevant today than ever
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Michael Clemens @mclem.org · 13/09/2026
This will devastate our research+innovation capacity, bedrock of the 21st century economy. 35% of *all* employed people in the US with STEM PhD degrees are both foreign-born *and* graduated from a US university. —> nap.nationalacademies.org/resource/292... Shutting them out is extremist folly.
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Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
The funny thing about this is that Mamdani is without question a bigger YIMBY than Lurie, but Preston just likes Mamdani's vibe more. www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/s...
Supervisor Dean Preston blasted Lurie in a 2-minute social media video that compared him unfavorably to New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani. In the video, Preston said Mamdani was “using government power to lower the rent and make life better for working people” while San Francisco landlords were “getting everything they want from Lurie as rents go up, up and away.”
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Cliff Bargar @cliffbar.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
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Ohhh Whoah Reaction Meme
ALT: Ohhh Whoah Reaction Meme
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Sam @samd.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
gallego is already saying we need to bulldoze the arch and he’s right
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100%. We should make it a raffle who gets to do it. Donations go to Veteran causes.
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Just FYI the arch in dc is gonna be knocked the F down immediately upon a new president
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Cliff Bargar @cliffbar.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Racking up almost $1m in citations over a year and a half in just one city seems like a sure sign that Waymo isn't ready to scale
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Cliff Bargar @cliffbar.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Could @kqednews.kqed.org really not find anyone more persuasive than this guy from the Hoover Institute to interview? I'm still leaning No on the billionaire tax but listening to this pushed me closer to Yes www.kqed.org/news/1209787...
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Stanford Economist Makes the Case Against California’s Billionaire Tax Measure | KQED
A Stanford finance professor explains the potential risks and harms of the proposed billionaire tax measure.
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Cliff Bargar @cliffbar.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Some potentially high ROI spending would be to boost these into Trump's view and get him to put these Republicans on blast on Truth Social
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Matt Darling @besttrousers.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Welcome to Bluesky. Please familiarize yourself with the following accounts to understand the range of opinions it is acceptable to express.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 25/08/2026
"I was not shocked that he helped somebody. My shock is that he was murdered. And no one has given us the complete truth or anyone has been held accountable. And it's been 7 months! ... there was more effort in vilifying him than pursuing justice" -- Alex Pretti's parents
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Cliff Bargar @cliffbar.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Massive L for @colorado.gov
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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
What this doesn’t say—but everybody in SF politics does—is Pelosi is suspected to be backing Chan largely out of pique that Weiner announced running to succeed her before Pelosi could essentially hand her seat to her daughter: www.sfchronicle.com/politics/joe...
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‘Rooted in pettiness’: Democratic women push back against Pelosi, rally to Wiener’s defense
Several powerful female political leaders in San Francisco are pushing back against Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi for her letter ripping House candidate Scott Wiener.
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Sarama Burwani @ hey there's a spider on your back @saramaburwani.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
both Jon Ossoff and Chris Van Hollen have been opposed by AIPAC and backed by the much less awful J Street, but Ossoff is Jewish while Van Hollen isn’t so guess who gets the Evil Red Monochrome background
Jon Ossoff: EvilChris Van Hollen: Not Evil
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Lying, thieving, grifting, law-breaking, constitution-shattering fascist murderers are furious that someone suggested the adjudicated rapist of a president who's been linked to a pedophile sex trafficking ring might be wasting too much time lounging about on his luxury plane with an aide.
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Cliff Bargar @cliffbar.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Great piece, this also applies to people and communities who consider themselves apolitical/nonpolitical. They may think that they can ignore Musk’s politics, or be unaffected by it, but even for those primarily on Twitter for technical discussions they engage a very skewed portion of the population
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Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
New Public Comment on the self-interested case for quitting X publiccomment.blog/p/it-is-past...
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It Is Past Time for You to Quit Elon Musk's X
Yes, I'm talking to you. 🫵
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Cliff Bargar @cliffbar.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Not only does this scheme sound stupid but it’s also apparently corrupt
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
This is a good example of something that is entirely political (the government dislikes higher ed and foreign people) and has large economic impacts but will get less attention than "woke one" from our pundit class.
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Cliff Bargar @cliffbar.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Another great episode from @99pi.org. I visited HK for the first time this spring and bamboo is everywhere. It's sad to see this as another instance of erasure of HK's culture.
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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
They openly admit their election crimes & are actively doing everything they can to undermine & outright steal the Midterm Elections. Any surprise he fired the remaining members of the Election Assistance Commission? He knows if he loses he's headed for a 3rd Impeachment & an orange jumpsuit. 🤞 👍
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Bilal Mahmood @bilalmahmood.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Amidst a housing affordability crisis, there is legislation moving through City Hall right now to arbitrarily double the number of historical landmarks and make it harder to build housing, and put us at risk of violating state law. www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/arti...
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A supervisor wants to double the number of historic landmarks in S.F. Is it a NIMBY ploy?
Opinion: We can’t just preserve the past, we have to encourage new great design that we’ll want to landmark down the road, writes columnist Allison Arieff.
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Idothethinking @idothethinking.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Kinda wild that this is like a minor foot note in our media discourse that the president's refugee policy is just blatantly white supremacist. Future gens will look back at this period like "wtf"
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onekade @onekade.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
This is not a joke. This is a screenshot of the actual case management software used by Massachusetts' 11 District Attorneys. Must-read work here by @nasser.wiki nasser.blog/dial-up-just...
I am not joking: this is AOL era software. It's got clip art. IDK how it even works on modern computers
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Senator Ron Wyden @wyden.senate.gov · 04/08/2026
One more interesting point: this spring I sat down with Sharyn Alfonsi of 60 Minutes for an extensive interview about my Epstein investigation. Subsequently, CBS pulled the segment and fired the reporter. The MAGA buyout of media has unquestionably aided the Trump administration’s cover up here.
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Cliff Bargar @cliffbar.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
We are so cooked
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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 03/08/2026
To be clear: Senate Republicans are caving on a deal that gives Donald Trump and his family immunity from tax audits potentially worth $100 million.
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 31/07/2026
Kinda wild that @jamellebouie.net is the only person saying this clearly in a high-profile media outlet, but I'm so glad he is.
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Opinion | Why Do We Tolerate Elon Musk’s Racist Commentary?
Why does the owner of X get a pass for what he says and does there?
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Cliff Bargar @cliffbar.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Only in Marin
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Cyrus Hall @cyrushall.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
There is one candidate running for Congress in SF with a fully fletched out policy platform on how to fix federal funding for transit AND housing. We can choose competence or we can choose virtue signalling this November. We'll likely live with the choice for 20+ years.
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David Zipper @davidzipper.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
When I see "Waymo saves lives" op-eds, I always do a quick search to see what the author has written extolling protected bike lanes. Or automatic speed cameras. Or road diets. The results are always the same: Nope. Nada. Zilch.
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Cliff Bargar @cliffbar.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
It's hard to believe Musk could be stupid enough to not see the inherent contradictions in everything he says in this interview, so he thinks we're all stupid enough to miss it (or he's evil enough to believe it all)
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Cliff Bargar @cliffbar.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
@nextdoorsv.bsky.social some of your favorite content has made it to LinkedIn - www.linkedin.com/posts/sarah-... Development on the west side of SF = condos on Pompeii
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Sam @samd.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Zohran is cutting red tape meanwhile republicans are imposing as much of it as possible
Faced With Piles of New Paperwork, People Are Losing Food Stamps Arizonas Supplemental Nutrition
Assistance Program rolls have plummeted, offering a possible preview of national trends as states try to avoid new federal penalties.
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