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Martha Bridegam

@mbridegam.bsky.social
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Lawyer, writer. mastodon.social/@mbridegam www.marthabridegam.com

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Martha Bridegam @mbridegam.bsky.social · 8h
Can't reach the KQED article at the link below -- it seems to be gone -- but here's the Mission Local writeup: missionlocal.org/2026/09/san-... .
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S.F. sticks with Flock surveillance cameras, but mayor tightens police use
New rules put forward by Mayor Lurie will cut data retention time, link police searches to investigations and add regular audits.
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Immigrants BELONG here/Wear a Mask @notacquiescing.bsky.social · 11h
"A labor department survey and two other federal datasets that included child labor injury data have also ended." www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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Key data missing for half of US child labor deaths, official report finds
Over half of 260 workplace child fatalities between 2013 and 2023 lacked data on cause of death or the industry worked
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Jen Taub @jentaub.bsky.social · 11h
Let this sink in. Cornell University refused to refund Jane Doe's tuition the semester she was raped. Without this money, she could not transfer to another school. Essentially, she was forced to stay on campus where she saw those seven rapists frequently. Eventually she dropped out of college.
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Brian Phillips @brianphillips.lol · 02/05/2026
Anyway student journalists have been and remain one of the best reasons to have hope for this country
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Yael Grauer @yaelwrites.com · 28/09/2026
Quick update to the data broker opt-out list! github.com/yaelwrites/b...
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GitHub - yaelwrites/Big-Ass-Data-Broker-Opt-Out-List
Contribute to yaelwrites/Big-Ass-Data-Broker-Opt-Out-List development by creating an account on GitHub.
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Martha Bridegam @mbridegam.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
There it is again, that phrase, "not real people."
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Martha Bridegam @mbridegam.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Scott Wiener is opposing the Prop. 40 billionaire tax as quietly as he can, avoiding saying so directly in his statement to @missionlocal.org . He probably has a conscience but he's willing to cut it to fit his techbro supporters. Connie Chan does support Prop. 40. missionlocal.org/2026/09/scot...
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Meet the S.F. congressional candidates: Who would you tax more?
To raise federal revenue, which taxes would you raise or create? And who should pay more? The top 0.1 percent? The top 1 percent?
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Sanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
“Text messages from Zanello and other officials that were previously exposed during the case revealed they were aware of infectious diseases, including tuberculosis, running rampant inside 26 Federal Plaza.”
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Martha Bridegam @mbridegam.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
The infantile mascots that Meta uses to promote their AI service look a lot like the parasitic Adipose creatures who emerge from weight-loss patients' bodies in the 2008 Doctor Who Tennant/Tate episode, "Partners in Crime". tardis.fandom.com/wiki/Adipose...
In a still from the Doctor Who episode, an infantile beige-white marshmallowy Adipose creature stands on a desk waving its stubby arms next to a silver statuette, looking ingratiatingly at the viewer.Ad for the Meta product Muse, photographed in the Muni portion of the San Francisco Civic Center station entrance. The ad shows a Lububu-like infantile beige-white mascot creature waving its stubby arms at the viewer with an ingratiating smile.
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Martha Bridegam @mbridegam.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
In which @esksf.bsky.social conducts an exploration worthy of Joe Mitchell through a vortex of uniquely San Francisco batshit.
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Martha Bridegam @mbridegam.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
This awful vote is being read in the larger world as the fault of every San Franciscan who votes Democratic -- when it's the result of a poorly understood, poorly publicized party representation contest in March 2024 in which a well-financed campaign by a right-leaning slate won a majority.
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Martha Bridegam @mbridegam.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Re-linking my blog post re: 6 SF ballot measures passed after 4 or 5 of the 11 SF Supes put them on the ballot. Can be read alongside the anti-D page here that lists good laws brought to the ballot via petitions. Measure D would likely have blocked all of these. marthabridegam.com/2026/09/07/m...
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Martha Bridegam @mbridegam.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
The campaign against San Francisco Measure D has a website now: sfnoond.com#facts .
sfnoond.com
No on D | Don’t Rob Our Right to Vote
Vote No on Proposition D and protect San Francisco’s right to citizen initiatives.
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🌬Breeze @cool-summer-breeze.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
This is the Stolen Neighbors Quilt. Each of the 11,000 squares represents a person taken by ICE in Minnesota.
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tante @tante.cc · 24/09/2026
I had a few thoughts on why techbros always say these embarrassing, weird things tante.cc/2026/09/24/the-test
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The Test
Jensen Huang, the NVIDIA CEO and wearer of the most midlife crisis looking leather jackets in the world, was on Ezra Klein’s podcast. Now I don’t really want you do go through all of what was being said in that recording/writeup. It’s painful. You feel your mental capabilities decaying with every minute of listening … […]
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Martha Bridegam @mbridegam.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Furries and trans people aren't scary. Hatemongering is scary. Also it's scary that this man is trying to impose a pointless inquisition on providers of an essential public service.
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Wisconsin Examiner @wisconsinexaminer.com · 23/09/2026
More Americans lose SNAP as Congress weighs food stamps’ future wisconsinexaminer.com/2026/09/23/r...
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More Americans lose SNAP as Congress weighs food stamps’ future • Wisconsin Examiner
Tens of thousands of Americans continue to lose access to food assistance each month, as Congress debates slowing down food stamp cuts.
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OpenSecrets.org @opensecrets.org · 23/09/2026
Ever wonder about that $3 checkbox for the Presidential Election Campaign Fund when you file your taxes? Barely 3% of taxpayers tick the box, major candidates skip the fund & Congress diverted $300M+ to other needs. Full story: www.opensecrets.org/news/2026/09...
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Martha Bridegam @mbridegam.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Today it appears someone from the @nytimes.com San Francisco bureau is for once writing about the dark side of the tech industry and not repeating whatever the Mayor's Office says about removing poor people from public spaces.
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 23/09/2026
Newsom has vetoed a bill that would have prohibited future governors from handing over abortion providers, helpers, and patients to red states for criminal prosecution. The bill also barred extraditions involving transgender care.
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Newsom vetoes bill that would ban extraditions for abortion and gender-affirming care
California’s pro-repro rights governor rejects a key protection that 18 blue states have enshrined into law.
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Gilly @gillyarcht.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
San Francisco, wake tf up. 888amazonresponse.com
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Stop Amazon Shipping Facility | 888 Amazon Response
Join us in the fight to protect our neighborhood from the proposed Amazon shipping facility at 888 7th Street
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Andrea Pitzer @andreapitzer.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I wrote about solitary confinement, penal isolators, and "the box."
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There is always a box
And authoritarians will put everyone they can inside it.
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Martha Bridegam @mbridegam.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Received this on a homelessness and social services mailing list, don't know why it isn't more visible. It looks like a helpful and interesting discussion about San Francisco's Prop. A "charter reform" measure and the related mayoral power grab in Measures D, E and F.
"Charter Reform & the Future of San Francisco. September 24th at 6 p.m., Rosebud Gallery (839 Larkin Street). Doors open at 5:30 p.m. 2026 Election Town Hall Series: Understanding San Francisco's Charter Reform Measures on the November Ballot. Logos appear for the San Francisco Tenants' Union, the San Francisco People's Budget Coalition, Real Reform SF, the Tenderloin People's Congress, and the Phoenix Project.
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Martha Bridegam @mbridegam.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
"These are not real people," says Dr. Oz. Not to him, I'm sure. (Vote. Vote. We can still vote to stop this kind of thing.) thehill.com/policy/healt...
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Vance-led task force set to remove 750K Obamacare enrollees, citing fraud
The Trump administration is removing close to 750,000 people from Affordable Care Act (ACA) coverage due to allegedly fraudulent enrollment, Vice President Vance announced Tuesday.  The cancellatio…
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CalMatters @calmatters.org · 22/09/2026
Newsom vetoes bill meant to protect homes and schools from polluting manufacturers The bill would've narrowed a manufacturing exemption Newsom pushed last year. Its author says she'll try again in 2026.
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Newsom vetoes bill meant to protect homes and schools from polluting manufacturers
The bill would've narrowed a manufacturing exemption Newsom pushed last year. Its author says she'll try again in 2026.
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Indivisible SF @indivisiblesf.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
SF wants democracy, not Lurie's power grab: NO on A, D, E, F Props A, D, E, and F are initiatives that would amend our City Charter to give more power to the Mayor and steal it from citizens. Endorsement details. buff.ly/9ydSwQO
Yellow and blue poster with a photo of Mayor Lurie and groovy white text outlines in green, purple and red saying "Lurie Power Grab Bad, ISF says no Prop A, D, E and F.
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Martha Bridegam @mbridegam.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Interesting that Chakrabarti is dropping money into San Francisco initiative petition campaigns but he is apparently NOT fighting the four-measure attempt to centralize more local power in the Mayor's office: measures A, D, E and F (mnemonic: to FADE out local democracy).
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Brooke Harrington @ebharrington.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Yes. It does not matter if you think the Kennedy Center is bougie: private individuals do not get to destroy public goods. If you budge one iota on this stance, then you lose the right to object when he demands bits of the national parks as a treat. You've already agreed with him on the principle.
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Mission Local @missionlocal.org · 09/09/2026
Four years ago, District 6 was one of SF's most competitive supervisor races. This November, it looks to be much less so. What changed? missionlocal.org/2026/09/matt...
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Why does Matt Dorsey have no competitive challenger? Start with the D6 map.
2022 redistricting moved out key progressive base in District 6 and left would-be challengers facing smaller, hard-to-reach electorate
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Imani Gandy @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 16/09/2026
Trans rights is inherently a bodily autonomy issue. Just like abortion rights is. We can't have gender equity or reproductive freedom without trans rights. Full stop. You can yell at me and make up shit that you claim I've said if it makes you feel better. I don't care. I'm right. And you know it.
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Gilly @gillyarcht.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Dolly, gracing us, on Bernal Rock
radiant poster of Saint Dolly Parton, beatified on gilded Bernal Rock, San Francisco skyline beyond
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Martha Bridegam @mbridegam.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Closing a National Archives site isn't "just" like closing a branch library. It's more like closing an academic department. Because every NARA collection is different. The San Francisco branch has unique collections of West Coast immigration and citizenship records. www.nichibei.org/2026/09/lawm...
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Lawmakers demand justification for proposal to close regional archives | Nichi Bei News
SAN BRUNO, Calif. — Scores of supporters of American history, including genealogists, historians and activists, gathered with Rep. Kevin Mullin (D-Calif.) at the Aug. 24 press conference held in front...
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Katie 📚 @ktpersists.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
seriously look how cute this design is and you can get it today
Line drawing of a SF Victorian style house-radio tuned to 88.5 and surrounded by Bay Area landmarks
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soleil ho @soleilho.com · 15/09/2026
"Many people don’t want to interrogate their desire for surveillance. They just want to check a box." @rahawahaile.bsky.social in convo w/ @cara.city, who mapped Flock cameras with drone cameras of their own www.coyotemedia.org/records-of-e...
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An Oakland Photographer Surveils the Surveillance State
Cara Esten Hurtle’s drone-based art project shows the difference between being seen and being spotted.
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Mission Local @missionlocal.org · 15/09/2026
Would you support Hakeem Jeffries for Speaker of the House? The San Francisco congressional candidates share their thoughts on the performance of Democratic leadership during Trump's second term. via @io-y-g.bsky.social missionlocal.org/2026/09/sf-c...
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Meet the S.F. congressional candidates: Would you support Hakeem Jeffries for House Speaker?
San Francisco congressional candidates Chan and Wiener evaluate the performance of Democratic leadership during Trump's second term.
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Martha Bridegam @mbridegam.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Patrick Hoge at @sfexaminer.bsky.social gave Connie Chan's campaign a chance to state her platform, which is for affordable housing, tenants and unions, and for protecting San Francisco against federal program cuts. www.sfexaminer.com/news/politic...
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Chan targets billionaires in Congress race
Supervisor aimed to protect regular folk, communities.
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Brennan Center @brennancenter.org · 15/09/2026
Today is National Voter Registration Day. Everyone should check their voter registration status, especially if you've moved, changed your name, or haven't voted in a couple of cycles. And if you're a first-time voter, why not register? It takes two minutes.
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Martha Bridegam @mbridegam.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Connie Chan opposes San Francisco Props. A, D, E and F, which would take power away from voters and from the Board of Supervisors to give it to the Mayor. Wiener is for A, D, E and F. Consider these 6 past SF ballot measures that won after they got on the ballot in a way Measure D would prevent:
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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
JUST IN: A federal judge has paused construction of an immigration holding facility in Santa Clara, California on a site known for hazardous waste violations. It's the latest ICE facility blocked due to environmental and health concerns + lack of analysis. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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Dean Preston @deanpreston.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
In case you need another reason to repeal the Ellis Act, the Court of Appeal today ruled Ellis preempts SF's Empty Homes Tax. The Ellis Act, an industry-written state law that's been used to evict thousands of tenants, now somehow creates a right to keep any building vacant forever, per the court
www4.courts.ca.gov
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Costa Samaras @costasamaras.com · 11/09/2026
Anyway, be good to each other, stand up for each other. The beauty of New York and America is the idea that it's for everybody. Up to us to live up to that.
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Martha Bridegam @mbridegam.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
On Mastodon we thought of some mnemonics for San Francisco Props A, D, E, and F: - A Democracy-Eroding Farce - Don't FADE out (democracy, SF voters, or The FADE Measures.) - Stay Adept, Reject ADEF - Fed Up with FEDA - A Democracy's Electoral Fragility - And Democracy Ends (up) Fucked. Thoughts?
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Martha Bridegam @mbridegam.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Social service activists have been warning for months about San Francisco's anti-participatory "charter reform" process that put Prop A on our local Nov. 3, 2026 ballot. But where's the big public discussion? And about how Props. D, E and F would scrap democratic safety valves & checks & balances?
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Martha Bridegam @mbridegam.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Further PSA: If you're in San Francisco and want to read our November 2026 ballot measures, you can look them up for yourself, with the official arguments for and against, without waiting for a tech bro mailer (or me, or anyone) to tell you what to think. They're here: www.sf.gov/qualified-ba...
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Qualified Ballot Measures | SF.gov
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Martha Bridegam @mbridegam.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Mayor Lurie’s Prop. D could have suppressed six recent ballot measures. They passed. They matter. marthabridegam.com/2026/09/07/m...
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Tim Dickinson @timdickinson.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Happy Labor Day
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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 04/09/2026
thinking about all the young people who left ban states and came to New York for care, and now
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Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
"In part due to the eagerness of booksellers to use their space in service to their community, the influence of bookstores is growing... Everyone seems to know doomscrolling has flattened everything + they know they’re overwhelmed. They come in bc they want the full spectrum of their brains back."
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Martha Bridegam @mbridegam.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
New mailer from the Abundant Future independent-expenditure group praises Congressional candidate Scott Wiener for "saying yes" - in implied contrast to his more progressive opponent, SF Sup. Connie Chan. But can Wiener say "no" to Abundant Future's contributors? www.fec.gov/data/committ...
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ABUNDANT FUTURE - committee overview - FEC.gov
Explore current and historic federal campaign finance data on the new fec.gov. Look at totals and trends, and see how candidates and committees raise and spend money. When you find what you need, export results and save custom links.
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Martha Bridegam @mbridegam.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Proposal to ban evictions for less than a month's unpaid rent. Which shouldn't be necessary. Even San Francisco's mayor is supporting this one, but not all of the Supervisors are. missionlocal.org/2026/09/san-...
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S.F. supervisor seeks to bar evictions for less than a month’s unpaid rent
The bill would allow eviction only if a tenant owes more than one month’s fair market rent, which is $2,485 for a studio in San Francisco.
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