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David Sicairos | 209Connect Media @davidsicairos.bsky.social · 24m

FBI arrested Irvine realtor Wanying Zhang at LAX today. Charged as an unregistered agent of Beijing. She allegedly surveilled a relative of Taiwan's president in Seattle last year. Tradecraft. No disclosure. First court appearance tomorrow. The affidavit is the receipt. #209Audit

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David Sicairos | 209Connect Media @davidsicairos.bsky.social · 25m

Wednesday is Oct 7. Two records deadlines land the same day: MCOE owes a determination on my Sept 13 succession-records request, and MCCD's is due too. Succession records show who picked the next superintendent before voters ever voted. #209Audit

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David Sicairos | 209Connect Media @davidsicairos.bsky.social · 26m

Hilton told the Fresno Bee he never paid for his campaign video footage. His filings say $60,383.55 to Muckraker Media and $12,000 to Jorge Ventura. The 'independent journalists' were on payroll the whole time. Neither disclosed it. #CAGov

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David Sicairos | 209Connect Media @davidsicairos.bsky.social · 27m

Two 209 kids on the Sac-Joaquin honor roll. Livingston's Gurvir Singh, Small School Player of the Year. Coach Mike Alvernaz, WAC Coach of the Year, with a fourth straight league title. Small-town gym, section-wide respect. This is what investing in 209 athletics looks like. #209Media

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David Sicairos | 209Connect Media @davidsicairos.bsky.social · 28m

Atwater's only competitive race is the mayor's seat. 23-year-old Roberto Montes, Stan State, Atwater-raised, is challenging Mike Nelson on jobs and fresh leadership. Districts 3 and 4 run unopposed. Young voters decide this one. #Atwater #VoteLocal

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David Sicairos | 209Connect Media @davidsicairos.bsky.social · 28m

Merced's famous Halloween house burned down. Nobody waited for the city or a committee. Neighbors just showed up to rebuild it. That's leadership. Not a title. A block deciding something matters and moving. What does your street refuse to let die? #209 #Community

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David Sicairos | 209Connect Media @davidsicairos.bsky.social · 3h

California law says the County Superintendent race is nonpartisan. So why do party bosses pick our school leaders behind closed doors? A nonpartisan ballot with a partisan pipeline is a rigged funnel. Pick leaders by record, not by who they know. #MCOE #VoteLocal

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David Sicairos | 209Connect Media @davidsicairos.bsky.social · 3h

Day 89 of a 900-mile swim down the California coast. A shark drone caught a great white cruising beneath her mid-swim. She kept swimming. Endurance is quitting, postponed one more day. #Endurance

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David Sicairos | 209Connect Media @davidsicairos.bsky.social · 3h

30 days to the MCOE runoff. Lopez came up through classrooms. Boyenga is the pipeline's pick. The runoff is the audit. #MCOERunoff #VoteLocal

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David Sicairos | 209Connect Media @davidsicairos.bsky.social · 3h

$100B for healthcare, paid by a one-time 5% billionaire tax. The lobby didn't fight Prop 40 head-on. They qualified Props 41 and 42 as kill switches. Your clinic or their vault. Pick a side. #Prop40

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David Sicairos | 209Connect Media @davidsicairos.bsky.social · 3h

Even Hilton's own pollster has him down 5.6. Becerra 45.7, Hilton 40.1 in a poll Hilton's campaign paid for, right after the debate. The lead was 15. Now it's under six and 14% of California is undecided. The Valley will decide this race. #CAGovernor

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David Sicairos | 209Connect Media @davidsicairos.bsky.social · 3h

Becerra called Hilton's tax plan what it is on the CNN debate stage: Trump tax cuts. A 40% break for the wealthiest while California teachers cannot afford homes. 29 days out, the choice is clean. #Becerra #CAGov

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David Sicairos | 209Connect Media @davidsicairos.bsky.social · 8h

Banned Books Week starts today. The same people banning books are banning curriculums and scrubbing history from classrooms. A kid who can't read about the world can't change it. Read a banned book this week. #BannedBooksWeek

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David Sicairos | 209Connect Media @davidsicairos.bsky.social · 8h

Pierre Damas Bel came here legally, built a life in Springfield, and lost it all when Trump ripped up his status. The ankle monitor did the rest. Policy has a body count and we keep pretending it doesn't. #AbolishICE

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David Sicairos | 209Connect Media @davidsicairos.bsky.social · 8h

The pipeline is the policy. Detention beds, quotas, and private contractors are the plan, not a side effect. You cannot reform a machine built to disappear people. Abolish ICE. #AbolishICE

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David Sicairos | 209Connect Media @davidsicairos.bsky.social · 8h

A sheriff costume does not make you a governor. Bianco wants the title without the record and the badge without the answers. California has seen this act before. It is embarrassing every time.

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David Sicairos | 209Connect Media @davidsicairos.bsky.social · 9h

One candidate ran America's biggest health agency. The other hosts a cable segment. This is not a close call on the resume. California deserves a governor who has actually governed. #BecerraForGovernor

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David Sicairos | 209Connect Media @davidsicairos.bsky.social · 9h

Accountability starts when someone compares the public statement with the public record.

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David Sicairos | 209Connect Media @davidsicairos.bsky.social · 9h

“No responsive records” can be an answer. It can also be a reason to ask how decisions were documented.

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David Sicairos | 209Connect Media @davidsicairos.bsky.social · 10h

Three minutes at the podium. Unfiltered, on the record. The critic gets three minutes. The board's friend gets three minutes. The timer is the only neutral party in the room. Use your minutes. #209Audit

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David Sicairos | 209Connect Media @davidsicairos.bsky.social · 10h

Absence is a vote. Count the empty chairs in a year of board minutes: some members show up every time, some only when the cameras are on. The roster is a public record. Read it like one. #209Audit

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David Sicairos | 209Connect Media @davidsicairos.bsky.social · 10h

Loyalty is cheap. Every board has a voting bloc, but a records request doesn't care who you know. The ledger survives the audit. Party lines don't. #209Audit #Accountability

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David Sicairos | 209Connect Media @davidsicairos.bsky.social · 10h

Most ordinances need two readings to become law. The window between first and second reading is where a bad ordinance gets killed. Almost nobody watches that window. Show up between the votes, not after. #PublicRecords #209Audit

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David Sicairos | 209Connect Media @davidsicairos.bsky.social · 10h

Three of five showed up. That is all it takes to spend your money. A quorum is three warm bodies in chairs. Empty chairs do not argue, do not vote, do not guard your tax dollars. Count the empty chairs before you count the votes. #PublicRecords

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David Sicairos | 209Connect Media @davidsicairos.bsky.social · 10h

A motion without a second dies on the floor. Nobody votes on an idea nobody will second. The second is the receipt the board will even discuss it. Watch your next school board meeting for what dies in silence.

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David Sicairos | 209Connect Media @davidsicairos.bsky.social · 12h

White people will scroll past 100 white supremacist pages and THOUSANDS of racist comments, only to inbox me how racist I am. 🙄

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David Sicairos | 209Connect Media @davidsicairos.bsky.social · 13h

NEW: President Trump announces the formation of the Super Intelligence Force (SIF).

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David Sicairos | 209Connect Media @davidsicairos.bsky.social · 13h

Most voters skip the County Superintendent race on their ballot because nobody explains what the office actually does. This is not a regular school board seat. The Merced County Superintendent of Schools oversees an operating budget exceeding one hundred million public dollars.

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Peter Baker @peterbakernyt.bsky.social · 13h

In 2019, Trump was forced to cancel plans to hold the G7 at his own golf club amid GOP objections to self dealing. In 2026, he will hold the G20 at his own golf club and the critics have gone silent. How Trump has moved the ethical line in his second term. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/04/u...

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How Trump Moved Ethical Lines With His Ads, Businesses and Summits

The president’s decision to hold an international summit at his own private golf club, an idea rejected in his first term, illustrates how much he has shattered norms.

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David Sicairos | 209Connect Media @davidsicairos.bsky.social · 18h

California's Brown Act gives your board exactly three reasons to close its doors: personnel, real property talks, pending litigation. Everything else happens in public or it's illegal. Learn the three, then watch the doors. #BrownAct

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David Sicairos | 209Connect Media @davidsicairos.bsky.social · 19h

Skip the debate clips if you want to know who runs your county. Read the warrant register, the closed-session minutes, the vendor list. Speeches tell you who's performing. Ledgers tell you who's in charge. #PublicRecords #209Audit

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David Sicairos | 209Connect Media @davidsicairos.bsky.social · 19h

A substitute walks into a room of 35 strangers, teaches a lesson they didn't write, manages behaviors they didn't create, and keeps everyone safe. For less pay than the person who called in. Seniority says the longest in the seat is worth the most. The room says otherwise. #Education #WorkingClass

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David Sicairos | 209Connect Media @davidsicairos.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

The packing shed wakes at 4am. Boxes roll out with someone else's brand on them. The worker's hands, the company's name. California runs on that deal. Time we paid it like we mean it. #WorkersRights

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David Sicairos | 209Connect Media @davidsicairos.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

$115 million for career education never reached a classroom. California earmarked it for career tech back in 2021; a broken formula left $23M a year undistributed while districts scaled back the programs. The checks were written. The students never cashed them. #Education #PublicRecords

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David Sicairos | 209Connect Media @davidsicairos.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

November: Lopez vs. Boyenga for Merced County superintendent. One of them is what the taxpayers deserve. The other is the good old boys club in a new suit. I run on receipts. I back Lopez. #MCOE #MercedCounty

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David Sicairos | 209Connect Media @davidsicairos.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Sanders is in San Francisco today rallying for Prop 40: a one-time 5% tax on California's billionaires. Newsom is campaigning against it. Same party. Opposite sides. Whose side is your governor on? #Prop40 #California

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David Sicairos | 209Connect Media @davidsicairos.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Down 22 points. This is the plan. Steve Hilton dumped six figures into AI-generated ads and dropped 22 points for it. California voters can spot a fake from 400 miles away. Becerra wins on record, not renderings. #CAGov #Becerra2026

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David Sicairos | 209Connect Media @davidsicairos.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Design the behavior. The learning follows. I built a behavior-design system for classrooms. Three moves:

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David Sicairos | 209Connect Media @davidsicairos.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Three bets. All backed with my own money. 10+ years of micro-brand marketing before dBeastco. Nobody else's payroll to hide behind. Every investment, good and bad, was my money, not a budget line.

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David Sicairos | 209Connect Media @davidsicairos.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

California's schools are emptying out. Experts say it's only going to get worse.

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David Sicairos | 209Connect Media @davidsicairos.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

What I truly want is a government where the smallest voices carry the same weight as the biggest. The mother working two jobs just to keep her family afloat. The person hit with an unexpected medical emergency, suddenly facing hardship and bankruptcy.

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David Sicairos | 209Connect Media @davidsicairos.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Just let people be wrong about you. It doesn’t matter. Be a good person and let them be wrong.

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David Sicairos | 209Connect Media @davidsicairos.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Maybe protecting the vulnerable feels political because abandoning them became olicy.

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David Sicairos | 209Connect Media @davidsicairos.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Teaching isn't delivering information. It's designing behavior change — the lesson lands when the student acts different, not when they nod. 209connect is where the deep dives live — link in bio. #TeachBehavior #Teaching #Education #Teachers #Classroom #209

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David Sicairos | 209Connect Media @davidsicairos.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

OpenAI launched its new AI agent Tuesday: "Dots." Problem: dots(.)com belongs to Musk's xAI and redirects to the Grok app download page. The ex-founder squatted his old company's product name, so every launch headline hands him traffic. Get the full breakdown in 209connect — link in bio. Free.

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David Sicairos | 209Connect Media @davidsicairos.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Oligarch Elon Musk went on X overnight to threaten Delta — says it "will lose a lot of customers" for picking Amazon's Project Leo over Starlink for in-flight WiFi. United is putting Starlink on 600+ planes, its whole fleet by end of 2027.

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David Sicairos | 209Connect Media @davidsicairos.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

X went dark this morning — 21,000+ outage reports on DownDetector before service eased back after an hour. X won't say what broke and Musk hasn't said a word. The "everything app" can't keep the lights on.

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David Sicairos | 209Connect Media @davidsicairos.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

DHS told the NFL to pound sand. Brian Dawkins said “I did not give my permission for my name, image and likeness to be used by anybody” — and DHS answered they’re playing “lockdown defense,” using “every Weapon at our disposal, from A to X.” Follow. Tomorrow’s drop is already loaded.

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David Sicairos | 209Connect Media @davidsicairos.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

🇺🇸 Trump said gas was much higher under Biden than it is now That's true for the worst week of Biden admin. In June 2022, regular gas hit about $5.02.

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David Sicairos | 209Connect Media @davidsicairos.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

A Santa Clarita woman is apologizing after video of her berating a street taco vendor went viral — she called the vendor a "stinky old woman" and threatened to call ICE. The backlash is hitting her decade-old cleaning business, which is now imploding under reviews and attention.

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