Jerque Cousteau

This might be journaliatic malpractice. Has all the tired, bad-faith tropes too:

- No-context outrage fuel of needles, addiction, crime, homelessness
- Paints SF as permissive of aforementioned
- Punches down on someone on society's bottom rungs
- Calls SF a dystopia hellscape (it isn't, wasn't)

"No Easy Fix"

The fix is easy to describe: Tax the rich, fund housing and services. Alas, it's indeed not easy to implement when we have billionaire-coddling, fearmongering rags like The Atlantic manufacturing reasons not to do it.

Jerque Cousteau on X: "C!$, white, gay, male politicians in SF will be the ones to flip the kill switch on gay rights and every ally will step aside because they hate seeing poor people. Shame on you all. https://t.co/OiLpl6AoJ3" / X C!$, white, gay, male politicians in SF will be the ones to flip the kill switch on gay rights and every ally will step aside because they hate seeing poor people. Shame on you all. https://t.co/OiLpl6AoJ3

Been saying that they will be using CIS, white, gay men to flip the switch on lgbtqia rights - and it feels pretty fucking awful to be right.

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San Francisco, circa 1935 or 2025

Israel is committing a Holocaust. One you have been facilitating in every way you possibly can for two years.

This is the end stage for what it is in essence. An experiment in a nation state rooted entirely in ethnic supremacy, predicated on ethnic cleansing and expansion.

Just don't call it a genocide because that would be illegal by AB 715 amiright?
Nevertheless, bravo on (finally) scooting over to the right side of history.

this is strange, author of ab715 and now, finally against the US/Israel genocide. "One day everyone will have always been against this"

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Ready to call it Genocide yet?!

Senator Wiener, do you agree with this part of Ezra's piece? If so, how do you reconcile that with your #AB715 that would ban, as antisemitic, curriculum that includes common mainstream criticisms of the Israeli government?

Marc Andreessen Is a Traitor It is the tech oligarchs, not young radicals, who have turned against the system that made them.

"The tech oligarchs want government cash but not obligations, wealth without duty or any of the basic burdens of citizenship. The rewards of success without the risks of failure, and indeed, they want to be rewarded even when they fail." www.liberalcurrents.com/marc-andrees...

My stolen truck is going viral on twitter again because they want to drag a populist mayoral candidate in a city and state I’ve never lived in.

Sorry @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social

When you win, kick Flock out of NYC, tho- it’s a scam that gives info to ICE!

Jesus wept this is the most depressing thing I’ve ever read

Many RV dwellers are not there by choice. Devin Plant scrapes by tutoring SF State students in data analytics, he said, and has a job canvassing against the recall of Supervisor Joel Engardio. But it’s not enough to live on, and he’s flat broke. He said a city crackdown is the last thing he needs.

One of the RV dwellers Lurie plans to displace is a staffer helping @joelengardio.bsky.social fight his recall.

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An endorsement from the largest local union of professional musicians in the world sounds a little different than the others but the meaning is the same: solidarity forever. Thank you Local 802 AFM!

The @sfdemocrats.org are directly complicit in the terror gripping our communities by allowing Trevor Chandler to remain on the committee

They look fine, no need to be fatphobic in my replies

Barbara Lee’s Oakland:
✅ Truly protected bike lanes w/ concrete
✅ Widening sidewalks

Daniel Lurie’s San Francisco:
❌ No street projects until Nov 2026
❌ Ending a wildly popular traffic calming program

Live footage of Garry Tan and Michelle Tandler reacting to the NYC mayoral primary results:

PORTLAND! I wasn’t aware of your game🔥🔥 This was beautifully executed

🚨 VEHICULAR ASSAULT in San Francisco 🚨

Just received a report from someone OTG: "Tesla asshole hit an old man. MD and EMT appeared outta nowhere and helped out. Paramedics arrived after 5 minutes. They caught the Tesla. Plenty of abrasions and bleeding and possibly broken leg (per EMT)"

I did not edit this, this is the actual parade with the actual music being played.

CINEMATIC

ICE detainees tear down a wall in uprising at N.J. detention facility, lawyer says Delaney Hall is the facility where Newark Ras Baraka was arrested in May.

Holy shit a bunch of ICE prisoners who weren't getting fed broke down a fence and escaped this fucking rips

Moreover, ICE must be destroyed

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Federal agents involved in Boyle Heights hit-and-run crash, witnesses say; LAPD investigating A crash in Boyle Heights was being investigated as a possible assault with a deadly weapon involving federal agents who left the scene, authorities said.

Meanwhile:

BOYLE HEIGHTS, Calif. (KABC) -- A Wednesday morning crash in Boyle Heights was being investigated as a possible assault with a deadly weapon involving federal agents who left the scene, authorities said…

Which, naturally, requires the ramming of a civilian vehicle by two government vehicles, deployment of tear gas, and fleeing the scene of the incident.

BREAKING: A few minutes ago, a vehicle of three people was rammed by a truck belonging to federal immigration authorities in Boyle Heights, CA. According to security footage shown to me, they deployed chemical munitions & detained the driver at gunpoint. All are US citizens according to the wife.

ICE OUT OF BOYLE HEIGHTS NOW! PROTEST CENTRO • DATE: SUNDAY, JUNE 8TH 11:00 A.M. LOCATION: MARIACHI PLAZA WE DEMAND: • LEGALIZATION FOR ALL • I.C.E. OUT OF OUR BARRIOS • END METRO COLLABORATION WITH ICE. • I.C.E OUT OF IMMIGRATION COURT

Los Angeles protest tomorrow (Sunday): ICE out of Boyle Heights

Texas Police Are Running License Plate Searches for ICE with Constitutionally Questionable AI Data first reported by 404 Media shows Texas law enforcement agencies conducted at least 180 immigration-related searches this year using an AI-powered license plate reader network.

For @thebarbedwire.bsky.social, I dug into data first reported by @404media.co and found that Texas law enforcement agencies conducted at least 180 immigration-related searches this year using an AI-powered automatic license plate reader network.

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Oohhhhh was it good???

Instant Holograms On Metal Film, by Stereolab 13 track album

New Stereolab was worth the 15-year wait stereolab.bandcamp.com/album/instan...