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Rusty Staples @cpnfurious.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

And Rafael Mandelman needs to resign

Rusty Staples @cpnfurious.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

“I was shocked when BOS Pres Rafael Mandelman told me over the phone that he was 100% behind Yekutiel, and “in no way” believed Chapin’s accusation. I was surprised then by the confidence and callousness of framing a potential victim as a straight-up liar.” @eddiekimx.bsky.social @sf.gazetteer.co

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Manny Yekutiel’s failed power grab

What the cafe owner and would-be D8 supervisor’s campaign implosion tells us about how power works (and doesn’t work) in San Francisco

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

This is a country of delusional people who believe they may one day be rich. The California Wealth Tax has less than 50% support right now. We have to tell the truth about the propagandized voting public. It's incredible.

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Rusty Staples @cpnfurious.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I know a lot of self-described progressives who oppose it because they think it’s the wrong way to make up for our lost federal healthcare funds. It is mind bogglingly privileged

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Rusty Staples @cpnfurious.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

And now we go to the QTs 👀

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depths of wikipedia @depthsofwikipedia.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

when i mention "claude" you can assume i'm talking about the albino alligator not the llm

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Rusty Staples @cpnfurious.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

This study doesn’t account for commuters who would have to quit their jobs altogether if some of our transit systems collapse. A $3300 hit will have plenty of workers looking for jobs closer to home

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Patrick Cosmos @veryimportant.lawyer · 20/09/2026

Not really sure where a bunch of liberals got the idea that they can’t win without throwing trans people in the garbage, but they’re stupid and cruel and wrong. If you want a human sacrifice so damned bad put gavin newsom in the wicker man

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Rusty Staples @cpnfurious.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Idk how old you are but it is widely known that Barbara Lee stood alone on that vote.

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Rusty Staples @cpnfurious.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Does this include their ice cream? Because that marionberry pie ice cream might be the best thing I’ve ever eaten

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Rusty Staples @cpnfurious.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

@darthbluesky.bsky.social DYK that SAFE Red Panda is having a sploot-off today?? A bunch of zoos are sharing posts and trading cards! www.instagram.com/saferedpanda...

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Create an account or log in to Instagram - Share what you're into with the people who get you.

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Alex @alxlndomountain.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

There's a lot to like about this article but it ultimately pulls its punches and misses the mark. Lets start off noting @scottwiener.bsky.social hasn't reckoned with the consequences of his years of genocide enthusiasm as @nadiarahman.bsky.social said and continues trying to avoid the issue.

The Wiener campaign did not respond to requests for an interview.

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j a k e @jakeismaking.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

just like loving Dolly Parton brings us together, so does hating Ed Sheeran.

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Eli Valley @elivalley.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Bracing for the inevitable damage-control stunt, dual free concerts in Ramallah and Tel Aviv

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Salt M. Bank 🍉 @saltmbank.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Ed’s stench is so rancid that with no more supporting acts left to quit the rest of the tour, bands are now retroactively dropping out

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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

New: Macklemore says Robert Kraft — who owns Gillette Stadium, where Macklemore & Ed Sheeran were to perform later this month — called Sheeran. Kraft rallied other owners together behind an ultimatum for Sheeran: if Macklemore stays on the tour, you won't be allowed in our venues.

I'm not sure how to start this. So I'm going to speak from the heart and share the truth. Ed Sheeran and his team have made the decision to remove me from The Loop tour.
But before I get into it, I want to say something that should be obvious. In this moment I think it matters. I am not a victim. Ed Sheeran is not a victim. Pink is not a victim. We have careers, money, opportunities, safety and audiences around the world. Whatever consequences any of us face for what we say, we get to go home to our families.

The victims are the Palestinian people. The men, women and children who have been killed, starved, displaced and forced to live through unimaginable violence. More than 20,000 children have been killed in Gaza alone. People are being killed today, and people will be killed tomorrow. I want to make sure that as I tell this story, we don't lose sight of that.

Ed is my friend. I've known him for 13 years. We've shared late nights, studio sessions and stages. He has this infectious magic about him that I've grown to love. I consider him a brother. And because of that, we've had some difficult conversations this past week. The type of talks rooted in love and respect for one another that still end in a place of fundamental disagreement. Nothing I'm writing here is out of spite or because I want to tear down his character. But as I told Ed multiple times on the phone, our friendship can't change my responsibility to tell the truth about what happened.

Last Monday, in the middle of all the media attention surrounding Pink and what I said at MetLife, Ed told me that Robert Kraft called him. We were scheduled to play Gillette Stadium later this month, which is owned by the Kraft Group. Ed told me that Kraft said I would not be allowed to perform in his stadium. Ed also told me that Kraft had rallied some of the other
stadium owners and collectively they gave him an ultimatum: if Macklemore stays on the tour, you will not be allowed to play in our venues.

Ed was in …

What I said at MetLife I have been saying on stages around the world for almost three years. So why is it an issue now? Because now I'm sharing a stage with one of the biggest artists in the world, in some of the biggest stadiums in America. At a certain level of exposure, "Free Palestine" becomes too much of a risk. If I kept doing the shows, saying Free Palestine, with Ed implicitly supporting it, the crowd getting loud and showing undeniable support for Palestinian liberation, what artist might speak out next? The stage becomes resistance. Maybe that's why this time it became so important to silence me.

And one of the most effective ways to enforce that silence has been to weaponize the accusation of antisemitism. Antisemitism is real. And that is exactly why the word matters too much to be used as a shield against criticism of the Israeli state. When criticizing Israel, opposing Zionism or saying "Free Palestine" gets conflated with hatred of Jewish people, it doesn't protect Jewish people. It protects Israel from accountability.

I hope this isn't the end of my relationship with Ed.
Thirteen years of friendship doesn't disappear because of one painful disagreement. I hope we both continue listening, studying what is happening in Palestine and wrestling with what neutrality means in a moment like this. My door will always be open to continuing that conversation.

When my brother Omar was doing the subtitles for the video I posted from MetLife, I thanked him. He told me there's a phrase in Arabic:
لا شكر على واجب
"La shukra ala wajeb." There is no thanks for a duty.
That stayed with me. Because that's what this has become for me and millions of others around the world. A duty. Not something deserving of praise or gratitude. Not brave. Human.

Who is winning the internet, who is getting canceled, who gets to play the stadium and who doesn't, all of it becomes so small when held against what we are actually witnessing in Gaza and the West Bank. An entire people be…

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Caræsten 🇵🇸 @cara.city · 13/09/2026

for two months, I've been flying drones over Flock cameras to situation them in space and geography; I even got my commercial drone license in order to do it. I'd like to share this project with you all: it's called Records Of Enemy Surveillance: recordsofenemysurveillance.com

image of a residential intersection with one red car driving across it and a baseball field in the background

black and white dithered image of two red squares around the flock cameras in the previous image, on either side of the intersection

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 12/09/2026

If Talarico’s comments and stances cause people not to vote for him then he should make better comments and take better stances. I accurately report on those comments and stances, that is my job and my role in my community.

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Rusty Staples @cpnfurious.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Greetings from San Francisco where our billionaire nepo baby mayor endorsed one candidate who’s been credibly accused of SA

Yekutiel wins Lurie endorsement after assurance sexual assault claim 'simply was not true'

Lurie also endorsed District 1o candidate Theo Ellington after touting his leadership ability.

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Steve Flack @vitaminsteve.com · 11/09/2026

that’s it, we’ve peaked. Call it a day, go start your weekends.

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Rusty Staples @cpnfurious.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Real toss up between Bush and Giuliani

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Rusty Staples @cpnfurious.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Would love to read that asbestos piece if you have it in the archives!

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Rusty Staples @cpnfurious.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

And SHOP! America was Open for Business!

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

I am actually grateful for social media today. If you are under 25, you are getting a more honest accounting of the post 9/11 era than I got about the post-Vietnam era than I did as a young person. I attribute this 100% to social media. Traditional media and US politicians cannot be counted on.

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Oregon Zoo @oregonzoo.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Enoki and Liu sitting in a tree Being C-U-T-I-E-S

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Rusty Staples @cpnfurious.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Every US city: police OT and vague police spending is causing a massive deficit Also every US city: we should massively increase the police budget every year

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Rusty Staples @cpnfurious.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Dorsey has an opponent, Alex Behrend, but ML isn’t giving him equal coverage because he hasn’t raised what ML considers is enough money. IOW, ML thinks money is the most important factor in elections

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Rusty Staples @cpnfurious.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

He does have an opponent but ML won’t cover him because he hasn’t raised money. IOW, ML thinks the most important factor in elections is fundraising

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 09/09/2026

AI* has a >10%** chance to kill us all *not the AI we're working on but some other AI that we'll build for sure if you keep funding the company I work at **number I made up based on a still-theoretical technology that nobody has but we all love talking about

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Rusty Staples @cpnfurious.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

It is too early for summer here

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regular meghan 나영지 🇵🇸 @ruemcclammyhand.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

she helped primary Hilary Clinton in 2008. she had a massive terf phase. she’s a perfect example of the kind of white feminism that does not seek to eradicate systems of injustice but merely wants to be included in the class of people on the receiving end of power.

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Rusty Staples @cpnfurious.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Maybe to make the left get mad so that the Carville class can point at us and say, look! They’re mean to us!

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regular meghan 나영지 🇵🇸 @ruemcclammyhand.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

not only did gloria steinem work for the CIA she actively promoted the idea that sexism in america was a much more pressing and less acknowledged issue than racism (as if Black women don’t exist) and used the fact that Black men could vote before women to support it.

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Rusty Staples @cpnfurious.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

I got this mailer too. They even made it unusually long, so it was obvious that it was a Wiener mailer with a height reference before even reading it

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Rusty Staples @cpnfurious.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

SF Democrats have endorsed a candidate credibly accused of SA. They also opposed a billionaire tax and a measure to dedicate funds for affordable housing. This is why voters don’t trust Dems, part 5,000.

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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

BREAKING: The union of Starbucks workers is officially calling for a boycott of the chain. @sbworkersunited.org has over 12,000 unionized baristas, and they're calling on customers to stop visiting Starbucks until they get a fair union contract.

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 26/08/2026

The Empire State Building went pink at exactly 9:25pm for Dolly Parton. Because of course they made it 9 to 5. That’s how you honor an icon. 🩷

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Brett "Solidarity 2026" Banditelli @banditelli.org · 25/08/2026

Fun fact, tho not so much given the circumstances: Many large west coast SEIU local numbers are based off mergers. 1021 was 10 locals, now 1. 521 was 5, now 1. 721 was 7, now 1. Not 925. 925 is numbered after the 9 to 5 movement of women workers in the 70s, which Dolly wrote the song about.

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kate bush’s husband @airbagged.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

RIP TO ONE OF THE GREATEST TO EVER DO IT

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W. Kamau Bell @wkamaubell.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Dolly Parton was definitely on the list of WHITE FOLKS THAT BLACK PEOPLE DON’T PLAY ABOUT. R. I. P. Dolly Parton.

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atomly @atomly.com · 25/08/2026

I hope Jolene is reflecting on her actions today.

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Rusty Staples @cpnfurious.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

The same DA who prosecuted a protester at OpenAI’s offices

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Mark Misoshnik @misoshnik.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

So BAJA, SFJCRC, and the Zioness Action Fund are co-hosting an event called "Understanding the Rise of the DSA," with the implication that it has negative impacts on the Jewish community. This will be a thread on the participants and their history of racism/Islamophobia. They do not speak for Jews.

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Truthout @truthout.org · 14/08/2026

Compton’s uprising predates Stonewall, and so many other notable milestones in LGBTQIA+ history, but it has received significantly less recognition. Now organizers are fighting to reclaim the site from GEO Group.

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Historic Site of Queer Resistance to Cops Is Now Owned by Private Prison Firm

Organizers in San Francisco are fighting to reclaim Gene Compton’s Cafeteria from GEO Group.

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