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love to everyone who supported Sad Francisco during 2025.
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Toshio Meronek
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Toshio Meronek
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P*dcast episodes.fm/1653309103 | 'Miss Major Speaks' out now: massivebookshop.com/products/97818… | ✍️ Al Jazeera, The Nation, Truthout…
- Since 2020 the 109 luxury condos at 1554 Market Street have sat empty. Thank you YIMBY movement
00:00Readers added context they thought people might want to knowReaders added contextThe building has been empty because the original property owner has been embroiled in a corruption scandal. The new owner of the property recently announced plans to move forward with offering the units as rental apartments. hoodline.com/2023/12/abando… - I deliver for Instacart. #InstacartStrike on Monday. Instacart's attempting to strike-break by offering bonuses of $25. No. vice.com/en_us/article/…
- HUGE RENT STRIKE against SF's biggest landlord, Veritas Investments, Inc., has barely gotten media attention. (Tho mainstream press always has space for stories on "the plight" of mythical "mom 'n pop" landlords.)
- Co-written with @Eric_A_Stanley, author of Atmospheres of Violence—a must-read book!
- lol cops want people to vote yes on Prop E so they're not liable for the destruction caused by high-speed chases
- The AIDS quilt shows in SF in June. I cried seeing it at UCI in 1995; this passage from Atmospheres of Violence is so good at reminding us of the dead and living who would never want a weepy memorial w/o action. They demand(ed) their deaths be politicized. c/o @Eric_A_Stanley
- Husband and wife team Jay/Jesse and Kanishka Cheng wanna run SF politics via TogetherSF, Neighbors for a Better SF. Will they succeed?
00:00 - The answer to anti-Asian violence is not more police or diversifying the police
- Cops were doing this anyway but politicians approved surveillance expansion to allow SFPD access to private cameras.
- Northern CA Cherry Blossom Festival parade 4/21/24 - Scott Wiener disruption for Palestine. @nikkeiresisters
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