Martha Bridegam @mbridegam.bsky.social · 6hScott's experience is a problem in some ways. He beat Jane Kim for State Senate in 2016 in significant part by connecting to voters who responded to homeless people camping in tents with resentment rather than sympathy. He supports A,D,E&F, opposes Prop 40. sfist.com/2016/01/26/w...sfist.comUproar Begins As Supervisor Wiener Tries To Enforce Tent Ban On Homeless: SFist"Assuming the availability of enough shelter beds, what will be done to remove illegal tent encampments from our streets? " 111
Martha Bridegam @mbridegam.bsky.social · 6hRespectfully supporting Connie Chan while agreeing with many of your other endorsements. Reminder that Larsen and Tan are among major donors to Abundant Future, which has sent us a lot of pro-Wiener mailings. Wiener has good sides but he'll be beholden to the techbros. www.fec.gov/data/committ...fec.govABUNDANT FUTURE - committee overview - FEC.govExplore 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. 110
Martha Bridegam @mbridegam.bsky.social · 7hAnd Prop D would also block groups or 4 or 5 Supervisors from putting measures on the ballot if they can't get a 6-member majority. I wrote up that part here: marthabridegam.com/2026/09/07/m...marthabridegam.comMayor Lurie’s Prop. D could have suppressed six recent ballot measures. They passed. They matter.On our November 3, 2026 San Francisco local ballot, Mayor Lurie has proposed a group of measures — Propositions D, E and F — that would strengthen the power of the Mayor’s office,… 211
Martha Bridegam @mbridegam.bsky.social · 7hPropositions D-E-F are the attempt to take even more power for the mayor's office from the voters and Board of Supervisors. Prop A is, inter alia, an attempt to centralize control of the Prop C housing fund, likely defeating what we worked for by putting the money into shelters, not real homes. 032
Reposted by Martha BridegamNatalie Weiner @natalieweiner.bsky.social · 19h“Education should be about exploration,” the letter reads. “We want to go to school to connect with people, discover things, and learn....We can’t now, because of the rigidity of the new lesson plans and rules makes it almost impossible to explore new ideas...”star-telegram.comHundreds of Fort Worth ISD students sign petition against scripted lessonsA student-written petition has been signed by more than 900 Fort Worth ISD students as of Tuesday morning. 813237
Reposted by Martha BridegamSara Gaiser @akrazia.bsky.social · 9hFor the second time in two years, the San Francisco district attorney’s office is refusing to try cases before Judge Michelle Tong, a former public defender, alleging that she is biased against the DA.missionlocal.orgS.F. prosecutors again boycott judge over alleged anti-police, anti-DA biasSan Francisco prosecutors allege bias by Judge Michelle Tong and refuse to try cases before her for the second time in two years. 021
Martha Bridegam @mbridegam.bsky.social · 19hRather than investigate poor living conditions or economic inefficiency, the current HUD OIG seems increasingly sure that the problem with U.S. subsidized housing is tenants. www. hudoig.gov/newsroom/press-release/hud-oig-announces-results-operation-clean-house-multi-city-enforcementhudoig.gov 010
Reposted by Martha BridegamCouncilmember Sean Elo-Rivera @seanelorivera.bsky.social · 06/10/2026San Diego is not expendable. Our lives are not bargaining chips. The President’s words were reckless, dangerous, and a betrayal of the people he swore to protect. I love this city, and I will never stay quiet when someone treats our families, neighbors, and communities like they are disposable. 323449
Martha Bridegam @mbridegam.bsky.social · 06/10/2026en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_...en.wikipedia.orgRobert Gould Shaw Memorial - Wikipedia 052
Martha Bridegam @mbridegam.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Do they still have clauses in Patagonian car rental contracts where you promise not to open the car's doors unless facing into the wind? 200
Martha Bridegam @mbridegam.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Joe DiMaggio for one. Hemingway has the fisherman thinking about it in "The Old Man And The Sea." 000
Reposted by Martha Bridegamsoleil ho @soleilho.com · 05/10/2026today on @coyotemedia.org: @emmaruthless.bsky.social discovers her 6-y.o. may have been opted into AI testing — and dives into the $200+ billion edtech world, SFUSD's marriage to "benevolent" tech grants, & parents' attempts to get any kind of regulation in place. www.coyotemedia.org/sfusd-ai-ami...coyotemedia.orgIn Which I Decline to Let an AI Company Experiment on My Kid at SchoolLiving in San Francisco means being a guinea pig for the tech industry — but I draw the line at my second-grader. 05331
Martha Bridegam @mbridegam.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Srsly what is the techbros' thing with vaguely equestrian trousers in dark synthetic fabrics sewn loose and full of cargo pockets along hip and thigh but close-fitting below the knee. Intensely unattractive yet easy to spot in downtown San Francisco. 020
Martha Bridegam @mbridegam.bsky.social · 04/10/2026FWIW I do see that text in the 2007 HarperCollins EPub edition of Wyrd Sisters: "...Head full of pumpkins. Everyone’s fairy godmother, for two pins. But a good soul, underneath it all. Kind to small furry animals. The sort of person who worried about baby birds falling out of nests..." 000
Martha Bridegam @mbridegam.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Replacing my previous -- I didn't mean "concordance," that's a directory I guess. Meant a set of annotations separate from each original -- tho there would need to be a standard reference edition &/or a standard way of referring to texr within chapters. 210
Martha Bridegam @mbridegam.bsky.social · 03/10/2026I'd have to go back to remember those perspectives properly -- you're way ahead of me. 110
Martha Bridegam @mbridegam.bsky.social · 03/10/2026So, Cinderella and Sam Gamgee's troll song? Or what am I missing? 101
Martha Bridegam @mbridegam.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Sorry to be slow on the uptake but can you spell out the easter egg? 100
Martha Bridegam @mbridegam.bsky.social · 02/10/2026A park ranger in Utah described that look to us as "polite contempt." 010
Reposted by Martha BridegamCaitlin McGlade @caitmcglade.bsky.social · 11/09/2026“The powerful are getting what they want.” 01610
Martha Bridegam @mbridegam.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Column by @christinevans.bsky.social endorsing a big NO on San Francisco's mayoral power grab: Propositions A, D, E, and F on the November 3, 2026 ballot. www.streetsheet.org/mayor-lurie-...streetsheet.orgMayor Lurie Wants to Silence the Voice of the People: Vote No on A, D, E and Fby Christin Evans There are four so-called “Charter Reform” ballot measures on the November ballot that we should all oppose: Propositions A, D, E and F. While each measure does something sli… 011
Reposted by Martha Bridegamconniechansf.bsky.social @conniechansf.bsky.social · 01/10/2026🚨Meta got $3.9 BILLION in federal tax breaks last year to build AI data centers. Scott Wiener opposes a national moratorium on data centers and California’s billionaire tax. I support both because working families can’t afford to keep subsidizing billionaires and corporations. 085
Martha Bridegam @mbridegam.bsky.social · 30/09/2026For crim law in the early 1990s, our professor was an aged lion of the law, a past FDR-era securities regulator, politically liberal, mainly fairminded. He shocked many of us by stating his personal belief that spousal rape was logically impossible -- a category error. Some assumptions do change. 1160
Martha Bridegam @mbridegam.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Also: Where's our Bd of Supervisors on Flock? Why was this only a self-regulating edict from the Mayor after pressure from the Human Rights Commn.? And with a strong-mayor system in SF already, why would anyone vote for Props. D, E, F, or A to shift more power to the Mayor from the Supes & voters? 001
Martha Bridegam @mbridegam.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Can'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-... .missionlocal.orgS.F. sticks with Flock surveillance cameras, but mayor tightens police useNew rules put forward by Mayor Lurie will cut data retention time, link police searches to investigations and add regular audits. 021
Reposted by Martha BridegamImmigrants BELONG here/Wear a Mask @notacquiescing.bsky.social · 30/09/2026"A labor department survey and two other federal datasets that included child labor injury data have also ended." www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...theguardian.comKey data missing for half of US child labor deaths, official report findsOver half of 260 workplace child fatalities between 2013 and 2023 lacked data on cause of death or the industry worked 022
Reposted by Martha BridegamJen Taub @jentaub.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Let 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. 552022635
Reposted by Martha BridegamBrian Phillips @brianphillips.lol · 02/05/2026Anyway student journalists have been and remain one of the best reasons to have hope for this country 51116113
Martha Bridegam @mbridegam.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Grid roller? www.broons.com/product/grid...broons.comGrid Roller - Broons - The Crushing & Compaction SpecialistGrid Rollers are the heavy hitters of the Broons towed roller range. Designed to fracture and reduce oversize rock and compact it for gravel road construction. With a compaction width of 1.8 metres, the Broons Grid Rollers come standard with a huge 14 tonne capacity, able to both crush and compact in one single pass […] 020
Reposted by Martha Bridegam🎃 🧙🏻♀️Yell 👻 Growler💀🎃 @yaelwrites.com · 28/09/2026Quick update to the data broker opt-out list! github.com/yaelwrites/b...github.comGitHub - yaelwrites/Big-Ass-Data-Broker-Opt-Out-ListContribute to yaelwrites/Big-Ass-Data-Broker-Opt-Out-List development by creating an account on GitHub. 1267
Martha Bridegam @mbridegam.bsky.social · 27/09/2026There it is again, that phrase, "not real people." 010
Martha Bridegam @mbridegam.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Scott 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...missionlocal.orgMeet 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? 010
Reposted by Martha BridegamSanho 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.” 07447
Martha Bridegam @mbridegam.bsky.social · 26/09/2026I was trying to figure this out too -- why use a baby-like mascot to sell trust in a research source? All I can think of is a focus on projecting harmlessness. bsky.app/profile/mbri... 020
Martha Bridegam @mbridegam.bsky.social · 26/09/2026The 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... 054
Martha Bridegam @mbridegam.bsky.social · 25/09/2026An @sfchronicle.com explainer here tells how that SF Democratic Party Central Committee contest was shaping up in early 2024, a few weeks before the right-leaning slate got in: www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/arti...sfchronicle.comEverything you need to know about S.F.’s high-stakes DCCC electionWhat does San Francisco’s Democratic County Central Committee actually do and why is the race important? 011
Martha Bridegam @mbridegam.bsky.social · 25/09/2026In which @esksf.bsky.social conducts an exploration worthy of Joe Mitchell through a vortex of uniquely San Francisco batshit. 077
Martha Bridegam @mbridegam.bsky.social · 25/09/2026This 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. 173
Martha Bridegam @mbridegam.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Re-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... 000
Martha Bridegam @mbridegam.bsky.social · 25/09/2026The campaign against San Francisco Measure D has a website now: sfnoond.com#facts .sfnoond.comNo on D | Don’t Rob Our Right to VoteVote No on Proposition D and protect San Francisco’s right to citizen initiatives. 001
Reposted by Martha Bridegam🌬Breeze @cool-summer-breeze.bsky.social · 24/09/2026This is the Stolen Neighbors Quilt. Each of the 11,000 squares represents a person taken by ICE in Minnesota. 122123505254
Martha Bridegam @mbridegam.bsky.social · 25/09/2026News coverage: www.msn.com/en-us/news/o...msn.comMSN 072
Martha Bridegam @mbridegam.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Some of the setup stuff might be easier, there are more apps to choose from -- I dunno, it's a good conversation but the SF local politics talk is so badly fragmented now across Bsky, Fediverse and the worse places. I do miss 2013 "hellsite". 010
