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UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 4: Sylvia Rivera
In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion.
As we combat Trump’s politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward.
MAJOR NEWS: @GavinNewsom signed SB 79, my bill allowing more housing near public transit — rail, subway, rapid bus.
It’s a huge step for housing in California. It’ll create more homes, strengthen our transit systems & reduce traffic & carbon emissions.
Thank you, Governor!
I'm deeply saddened to share that Donald Shoup passed away last night. He was the ideal academic—curious, methodical, and concerned with turning ideas into real-world change. TAing his parking course these past few years has one of the greatest honors of my life. Rest in peace, Shoup Dogg.
08.02.2025 04:34 — 👍 2207 🔁 449 💬 44 📌 168We are thrilled to announce SB 79, a new bill from @scottwiener.bsky.social that will legalize multi-family housing near transit. We are excited to co-sponsor this landmark legislation with SPUR, @streetsforall.org and the Bay Area Council.
16.01.2025 05:04 — 👍 325 🔁 50 💬 9 📌 21Wouldn't it be great if the Tuesday siren worked!?
05.12.2024 19:58 — 👍 12 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0
i think bernie here is well worth watching and fwiw my view on gaza is identical to his www.tiktok.com/t/ZTFp3Mj3c/
29.10.2024 14:12 — 👍 1851 🔁 434 💬 58 📌 39
The Washington Post is not bothering to endorse a candidate in the 2024 presidential election. (Jeff Bezos, the founder of Blue Origin and the founder and executive chairman of Amazon and Amazon Web Services, also owns The Post.) We as a newspaper suddenly remembered, less than two weeks before the election, that we had a robust tradition 50 years ago of not telling anyone what to do with their vote for president. It is time we got back to those “roots,” I’m told! Roots are important, of course. As recently as the 1970s, The Post did not endorse a candidate for president. As recently as centuries ago, there was no Post and the country had a king! Go even further back, and the entire continent of North America was totally uninhabitable, and we were all spineless creatures who lived in the ocean, and certainly there were no Post subscribers.
But if I were the paper, I would be a little embarrassed that it has fallen to me, the humor columnist, to make our presidential endorsement. I will spare you the suspense: I am endorsing Kamala Harris for president, because I like elections and want to keep having them. Let me tell you something. I am having a baby (It’s a boy!), and he is expected on Jan. 6, 2025 (It’s a … Proud Boy?). This is either slightly funny or not at all funny. This whole election, I have been lurching around, increasingly heavily pregnant, nauseated, unwieldy, full of the commingled hopes and terrors that come every time you are on the verge of introducing a new person to the world. Well, that world will look very different, depending on the outcome of November’s election, and I care which world my kid gets born into. I also live here myself. And I happen to care about the people who are already here, in this world. Come to think of it, I have a lot of reasons for caring how the election goes. I think it should be obvious that this is not an election for sitting out.
The case for Donald Trump is “I erroneously think the economy used to be better? I know that he has made many ominous-sounding threats about mass deportations, going after his political enemies, shutting down the speech of those who disagree with him (especially media outlets), and that he wants to make things worse for almost every category of person — people with wombs, immigrants, transgender people, journalists, protesters, people of color — but … maybe he’ll forget.” “But maybe he’ll forget” is not enough to hang a country on! Embarrassingly enough, I like this country. But everything good about it has been the product of centuries of people who had no reason to hope for better but chose to believe that better things were possible, clawing their way uphill — protesting, marching, voting, and, yes, doing the work of journalism — to build this fragile thing called democracy. But to be fragile is not the same as to be perishable, as G.K. Chesterton wrote. Simply do not break a glass, and it will last a thousand years. Smash it, and it will not last an instant. Democracy is like that: fragile, but only if you shatter it.
Trust is like that, too, as newspapers know. I’m just a humor columnist. I only know what’s happening because our actual journalists are out there reporting, knowing that their editors have their backs, that there’s no one too powerful to report on, that we would never pull a punch out of fear. That’s what our readers deserve and expect: that we are saying what we really think, reporting what we really see; that if we think Trump should not return to the White House and Harris would make a fine president, we’re going to be able to say so. That’s why I, the humor columnist, am endorsing Kamala Harris by myself!
I guess it has fallen to me, the humor columnist, to endorse Harris for president wapo.st/3UqHWRM
26.10.2024 22:50 — 👍 7793 🔁 2463 💬 246 📌 167
A photo of a boardwalk in Bay Front Park with a folding bike in the foreground, Chase Center stadium in the background
A photo of a plaza at the base of 900 Innes park, with a slope leading up to houses in the background
Both Bay Front Park and 900 Innes are pretty nice additions to the park system in SF
26.10.2024 20:24 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Point access block progress in San Francisco via Board of Supervisors President Aaron Peskin's proposed legislation (and a quote from my in this @sfchronicle.bsky.social article): www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/s...
23.10.2024 21:43 — 👍 37 🔁 5 💬 2 📌 2
A slide from a presentation about the 13th street safety project in SF that adds protected bike lanes
Glad that there seems to be activity on the 13th St bike lane project which has been quiet for a while (after being approved in 2022). Looking forward to using it to get to SoMa #sfbike
23.10.2024 16:44 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Photo of an aerial tram line, running towards the next pylon with mountains in the background
The Cablebus might be my new favorite form of transit. Tons of riders at mid-day, well integrated into the metro system, and great views.
18.10.2024 20:04 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Very impressed by how fast CDMX Metrobus is, cool to see what BRT can be. Level boarding for the win.
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