Matt Boyd

📣 Radically Fit Emergency Fundraiser!🚨 Sustain the Space, Support the People! ✊🏾✊🏿✊🏽

A local gym is running an emergency fundraiser. givebutter.com/Support-Radi...

i gotta say, telemedicine calls are some of the only times i feel treated like an adult in this medical system. yeah, i have the flu. i know because it feels like the flu and my kids had the flu this week. yes i have a fever, see? okay thanks for the script, have a nice day

UPDATE: He was just released. This shows that just indiscriminately took someone because they were Latino. Their illegal tactics continue so we still need neighbors to patrol, observe, and support our immigrant community.

On a related note, learn from what happened in Minnesota, Chicago, and Portland, but also think about what your special sauce is. I'm a Minnesotan incandescently proud of how we came together as neighbors, but my wife is a native Chicagoan and BOY HOWDY did they lean into being loud and obnoxious.

Raise your hand if youve been using ffmpeg since college and had no idea that it stood for fast forward moving picture expert group [the file format standardized by the group, not the group itself]

A kitty asleep on my belly.

I got that kitty pillow belly.

UAW: Ford worker who heckled Trump kept job, 'no discipline' on record The United Auto Workers union said TJ Sabula remains employed and called out the president for making an obscene gesture toward the worker.

NEWS: Ford worker who heckled Trump kept his job, got 'no discipline' on his record, UAW says.

www.detroitnews.com/story/busine...

How Minneapolis taught America to fight back Our Minnesotan reporters connect with friends and neighbors back home and find resolute resistance to ICE at every turn.

This is a really incredible episode of @revealnews.org, in part bc reporters @artiscuriskis.bsky.social and Nate Halverson are MN natives. Esp love the postal carrier perspective on what has happened to people on his route revealnews.org/podcast/minn...

To: Jeffrey Epstein jevacation©gmail.com] From: Al seckel Sent: Thur 10/14/2010 6:30:25 PM Subject: Re: Please provide Sarah's email asap. Thanks. BTW, someone is fucking with your wikipedia. Everytime we hack it and remove or reword material, within a few hours, they put it back up.... They have many "watchers" on your page, and are notified of any changes, and they are intent on putting the stuff back up. .. Annoying. From: Jeffrey Epstein <jeevacation@gmail.com> To: Al seckel Sent: Thu, October 14, 2010 11:24:23 AM Subject: Sarah will be sending you info.... I am depending on this

at some point Al Seckel was apparently also involved

Oaklanders deserve to know the truth. So we follow the money and investigate the powerful. Will you chip in to help hold leaders accountable to the people they serve? Yes I'll support Oaklandside! Oakland residents voted last April for a new mayor. In just a few months, they’ll get to do it all over again. But will **Barbara Lee** , who won the special election handily, be in the running? That question has loomed large in recent days as Oakland politicians filed their annual financial disclosures, revealing how much money they’ve raised to run in November. Lee’s disclosure seems to indicate she’s going to run for a full term. The mayor raised $31,863 in the second half of 2025, according to a report filed with the city on Monday. She spent just under $6,000, mostly on routine office and professional services. It’s a small amount compared to her total haul in 2025 for the special election — $580,000 — but it’s far more than any of the possible challengers already in the race have raised. In fact, the only person officially in the mayor’s race who reported raising money was **Mindy Pechenuk** , a Republican follower of Donald Trump. Pechenuk raised $7,765 last year and spent $5,364. We were unable to reach Lee’s campaign to discuss her plans for the 2026 election. Lee actually raised far more money last year for her officeholder account, which can foot the bill for things unrelated to the election. Her officeholder account took in $100,000 in 2025, which is the maximum she was allowed to raise under city rules. **Never miss a story.** **Sign up for The Oaklandside’s free daily newsletter.** Instagram This field is for validation purposes and should be left unchanged. Email Δ Lee spent $66,220 of these officeholder funds. Much of which went to charities, including $5,000 each to the Alameda County Food Bank and the Public Education Fund. She also gave $1,500 each to the Street Level Health Project, Mary Barber Ministries, East Oakland Senior Center, Hope Collaborative, Dream Youth Clinic, Wood Street Commons, Telegraph Community Ministry Center, and 2 Star Market. The mayor also paid $5,000 to Change Consulting for media outreach. Lee owes roughly $21,000 to Madera Group for fundraising services. Labor unions are also pouring money into a committee that aims to gin up support for a parcel tax measure that could help balance the city budget and avert cuts. The committee “Oaklanders for a Safe, Clean & Healthy City” raised $450,000 last year, according to its latest disclosure. Most of this money came from **SEIU Local 1021** ($200,000), **IAFF Local 55** , Oakland’s fire union ($150,000), and **IFPTE Local 21** ($50,000). PG&E has also donated $50,000 to the cause. Last month, SEIU gave an additional $225,000 to this committee. The committee spent $440,000 last year, mainly on petition signature-gathering companies. ## Two councilmembers running unopposed have big campaign war chests A bunch of other Oakland offices are up for grabs in November, including three council seats, city auditor, and three school board seats. The incumbent districts 2, 4, and 6 councilmembers are all currently running unopposed. District 6 Councilmember **Kevin Jenkins** reported raising $57,600 last year. He spent just under $3,000, leaving him with $54,670. The council president also raised $17,825 last year in his officeholder account. Jenkins and two other councilmembers, Janani Ramachandran and Ken Houston, pushed the council to adopt legislation last year that increased the contribution cap for council officeholder accounts from $25,000 to $75,000. Jenkins spent over $10,000, leaving him with a cash balance of $7,647 and a little over $8,000 in debts. According to his disclosure, Jenkins spent several thousand dollars at Scott’s Seafood. These expenses included holiday celebrations for community volunteers; meetings about district, policy, and legislative matters; meals with stakeholders related to city business; and a “business meeting with stakeholders to discuss Oakland Coliseum development and related policy considerations.” Councilmember **Janani Ramachandran** reported raising $46,184 last year for her reelection committee. She spent virtually none of it, leaving her with a cash balance of just over $61,000. Ramachandran’s officeholder account was less active. In 2025, she reported raising $9,845. She ended the year with a cash balance of more than $13,000. Councilmember **Charlene Wang** was elected last April to serve the remainder of Nikki Fortunato Bas’ term. (Bas now sits on the Alameda County Board of Supervisors.) Wang’s reelection committee raised $8,105 last year and spent only a small amount on office expenses. Wang’s officeholder account, which she used last year in the lead up to the special election, raised over $104,000 and spent roughly $119,000. That committee currently holds $4,900 in cash. Wang has used that account to pay wages to a couple campaign workers. ## Real estate and crypto money funding major Oakland political group One group that has been very active in recent elections by spending huge amounts of money on independent expenditures — advertising and other things that aren’t coordinated with any candidates — is the political action committee **Revitalize Oakland**. According to its disclosures, Revitalize raised $690,000 in 2025. The group’s top contributor last year was Holland Residential California, a real estate developer and landlord with some large properties in downtown Oakland. Holland provided the committee with $235,000. Piedmont resident and San Francisco-based hedge fund partner Philip Dreyfus kicked in $160,000. Dreyfuss is best known for bankrolling the recalls of Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao and Alameda County District Attorney Pamela Price. Revitalize also received two big contributions last year from individuals in the cryptocurrency space: $100,000 from Jesse Pollak, an executive at Coinbase, and $100,000 from Konstantin Richter, CEO of the company Blockdaemon. Revitalize also received contributions from Ryan Graciano, the co-founder of Credit Karma ($50,000), PG&E ($25,000, and investor Ilya Sukhar ($20,000). Well over one-third of Revitalize’s expenditures last year, roughly $267,000, went toward supporting **Loren Taylor** ’s mayoral campaign. The group also gave $22,500 to the Black Action Alliance, a new organization that put on a mayoral debate in 2025, and which recently hosted a gubernatorial debate. Taylor is currently the interim CEO of the Black Action Alliance. Revitalize also gave $25,000 to Empower Oakland, the advocacy group founded by Taylor in 2023. Empower endorsed candidates in the 2025 election. And the group spent tens of thousands of dollars paying off the debts of two committees that supported the Thao recall. According to its disclosures, Revitalize paid nearly $19,000 to a firm called VR Research Inc. for polling and survey research. In the lead-up to last year’s election, VR Research produced an opposition research paper about Barbara Lee. The political activist Seneca Scott shared the report with members of the media ahead of the election. In the second half of 2025, Revitalize donated money to Oakland Parks and Recreation Foundation ($50,000), Urban Compassion Project ($50,000), 100 Black Men of the Bay Area ($35,000), the Lake Merritt Conservancy ($31,794), Cristo Rey De La Salle East Bay High School ($30,000), and Youth Alive ($30,000). ## Pamela Price has some support for her bid to retake the DA’s office Alameda County voters recalled District Attorney **Pamela Price** by a wide margin in November 2024, cutting short her term. But last year Price made it clear that she intends to reclaim her former seat. Price raised $26,307 last year and gave her political committee a $7,500 loan. She has spent roughly $7,800, leaving her with $25,970 in cash on hand. Some of her notable contributors include civil rights attorney John Burris and former privacy advisory commissioner Brian Hofer. However, Price’s fundraising has a long way to go to compete with the woman who was appointed DA last year by the Board of Supervisors. **Ursula Jones Dickson** has made it clear she’s running for a full term as DA this year, and according to her financial disclosure, she raised over $423,000 last year. Notable Jones Dickson supporters include two former Alameda County DA’s: Thomas Orloff ($20,000) and Nancy O’Malley ($5,000). Also in her camp are the Alameda County Prosecutors Association ($10,000), the Northern California Carpenters Regional Council POWER PAC ($10,000), real estate agent Ronald Nahas ($6,000), and Supervisor David Haubert’s officeholder committee ($2,500). Dickson has also picked up smaller contributions from the mayors of Piedmont, Alameda, and Newark. ## **… We rely on your support** Hey, we know that most readers only scan a headline and a couple of paragraphs. Thank you for reading to the end of our story. 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This article is notable for the number of LinkedIn-brained crypto-huffers it names as donors to the upcoming Oakland election. https://oaklandside.org/2026/02/04/oakland-mayor-barbara-lee-2026-election-campaign/

... what, if any, aspects of the culture, does maga still hold at this point?

Yes. Yes! Thank you

I saw a "I bought this before I knew Elon was crazy" sticker on like a 2013 Prius and I was thinking "Yeah, I guess that checks out."

What it's like to see ICE tear gas kids Attendees at a Portland, OR protest describe a vicious, unprovoked and sudden attack

New — I spoke to eight people who were present at the ICE protest on Saturday in Portland, Oregon when federal agents deployed tear gas and rubber bullets into a crowd of families, children, elderly and disabled people, and their pets.

These are their stories:

Man on a local news street interview: The earth is a resort for like 500 rich people and the rest of us are just the staff.

This shit hits like a sledgehammer right now. It's not even remotely an exaggeration.

"technologists, reactionaries, and seething upstarts are brought together by decadent parties on a wealthy idiot's pedophile island, laying the groundwork for a digital-first fascism" sounds like a cyberpunk plot but you know it's real life because they did it with the style of people in bumper cars

I got a pocket full of fossils and I'm giving them out at the karaoke bar.

Greg Ketter, founder/owner of DreamHaven Books & Comics, Winner of the Will Eisner Spirit of Retail Award, 1999.

As Greg has said here, the store's site has crashed from the traffic/flood of orders. But a GofundMe is still live to help with the store's renovation.

www.gofundme.com/f/dreamhaven...

So how about them epstein files. What's up with those. Where we at on that

All hail Minnesota.

you work for a company whose co-founder said it was created to "blow up commies", who tf did you think you were going to be helping?

It's Hot Guy Winter (thicker beards)

(checks it again) oh fuck I'm higher than I thought.

Don't worry. I've been knowing exactly where I am on the "first they came for..." stack.

Walz: "I call on all Americans to see the decency this state is exhibiting, and the horrific cruelty, unprofessional, absolute abomination that is passing for what these f--- ICE agents are doing on our streets."

Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz: "Thank God. Thank God we have video. Because according to DHS, these 7 heroic guys took an onslaught of a battalion against him or something. It's nonsense, people. It is nonsense and it's lies."

New haircut.

Evil. Nightmare shit. And just to be absolutely clear: It's already evil, even when they aren't killing people and even when they get "proper training." When moments like this burst up, they're like bubbles indicating that the water is boiling. The whole institution is built to enact an evil agenda

He leans down to help the woman who was pushed up off the ground and out of the snow. She tries to reach up for a hand up, but because of the ice, is stumbling a little. As he tries again to lift her up, ICE throws him to the ground. FIve men pin him down. A sixth freaks out puls his gun and shoots.

He's directing traffic. He steps inbetween ICE and two women who are being harrassed by them (one of whom was shoved to the ground for no reason), raises his hands and turns away from them and says "Okay! Okay!" to indicate he isn't going to be aggressive, at which point they start with pepper spray