Drew

I emailed back and forth with him a bit when I was in a related field. It's been quite a number of years but glad to DM you his email address if you don't already have it

"What's the Matter with [Arizona]?"

In a now-viral 2005 book, Tony Judt explained all of this... but that would require reading.

Why SFO TSA remains drama-free amid federal shutdown Security checkpoint officers at SFO are still getting paid.

An odd detail I learned the other day: Airports who contracted out security screening are still able to pay the people doing the exact same jobs www.sfgate.com/travel/artic...

The one time I thought I'd go to a talk by Bernard-Henri Lévy, there was an apologetic staffer at the classroom entrance, informing us that the speaker had had to take a last-minute trip to Switzerland to broker peace between the Israelis and Palestinians...

Plus in California there's the disincentive of term limits. Shifts more institutional knowledge and the power that comes with it to interest groups and their professional lobbyists, making the electeds underpaid figureheads (* in relative terms)

Props to the public information officers and institutional archivists who stash pictures away like a squirrel stores nuts for the future:

I'd read that! Or better yet, Robert Caro could serve as research assistant and Ina Caro can be the author named on the cover for this one

Anthony Weiner gets swallowed up in ‘Sharknado 3’ This Weiner was made to be eaten! Former Congressman Anthony Weiner revealed he’ll be both a supporting actor and main course in the upcoming sci-fi farce “Sharknado 3: Oh Hell No!” The campy cable…

Scott Wiener shares little in common — spelling included — with the disgraced former Congressional rep from NYC and star of "Sharknado 3"

nypost.com/2015/07/12/a...

An occasional reminder that when you're writing about the future Congressional representative from San Francisco, his name is spelled "i" before "e"

Did Aaron Peskin write this tweet?

A new Bullwinkle's would get me to go to Union Square monthly. A new Fresh Choice might get me to even go weekly

A doctor and former California senator is Rep. Kevin Kiley’s latest Democratic challenger Dr. Richard Pan, who is best known for his school vaccine bills, wants to hold Republicans accountable for slashing health care.

Step 1: Pass Prop 50 ✅

Step 2: Elect Dems into as many of the redrawn Congressional districts as possible

While I'm not a Sacramento voter, I'm bullish on @drpanmd.bsky.social running on his record as lead author of the state's important school vaccine mandates

calmatters.org/politics/202...

From what I've read, it sounded like the conventional wisdom at the time was that Hawaii would go into the GOP column and Alaska would go into the Dem column...

The Gray Lady should go back to a B&W front page. Would match the editors' attitudes...

The infrastructure and public pools and parks and housing of Moses and LaGuardia and their counterparts in other cities also depended upon an FDR in the White House. We're, unfortunately, not there... but in the meantime, let's strategically take the positive parts (while being mindful of the worst)

Moses was also one of the very first to put Keynesianism into practice: Public spending (back by federal borrowing) to boost economic demand and build out infrastructure supporting a higher baseline of productivity.

No need to dwell on his auto-oriented mindset. Co-opt the good parts of his legacy!

More seriously, Robert Moses successfully built public swim facility that were racially integrated and still exist across NYC today. What of that approach can be borrowed and recrafted for today?

Extending the subway to Staten Island and naming the line after Moses would be poetic justice (* if not the highest priority use of funds)

Yes, the time has come for progressives to co-opt Robert Moses -- not the entire problematic package, but to strategically claim some of his accomplishments

Land doesn't vote... graduated symbols do.

With polls closing in just over 3 hours, I look forward to seeing the election results for Alameda County in... 30 days

Newsom as Rumi? I'm not sure it works. Although the one time I did recognize him on the street when he was mayor, he definitely did have a golden aura...

Almost certainly created by a DNC staffer with young kids (who's had to watch KPop Demon Hunters a million times and then some)

Perhaps a side effect of YC HQ moving from MV to SF

(* that's a lot of acryonyms :)

Attorney General Bonta Secures Final Ruling Blocking Illegal Conditioning of Transportation Grant Funding “If President Trump wants to stop losing in court, he should stop breaking the law.”

California will not be a pawn in the President’s political games.

I’m grateful to the court for putting a stop to this nonsense and ensuring we are able to continue to receive vital transportation dollars that support our public infrastructure and keep our roads safe.

The decision is clear: San Francisco has the best “I Voted” sticker ever. 🌁

"they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness"

In their defense, they've probably had to watch the movie 1000x times already at home with their kids (not that that's a valid excuse for having a phone out in a theater)

Hello, I am an editor with The Atlantic. Are you up for fleshing out these thoughts? I'm seeing a 10,000 word piece, an Ideas Festival panel, and the makings of a bestseller for our imprint. LME: uppermiddleclassreactionarycentrismdesk@theatlantic.com