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The main demands of @UESF —paid dependent health care and better working conditions and staffing for special education—would cost about $35 million. San Francisco added about twice that to the Police Department budget this year. 48hills.org/2026/02/a-litt…

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‘Queer Food’—or, the cruel enigma of the spinach soufflé: I interviewed John Birdsall about his terrific new book 48hills.org/2025/06/what-i…

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@SusanDReynolds What a ghoul you are

Are you sticking to the “three years sober” Aaron? Because I have evidence to the contrary. You haven’t been to a meeting since Sept. of 2023. You’ve been seen drinking in NB establishments like Savoy Tivoli; several folks who work for the city say they’ve had drinks with you in the past six months. Bartenders confirm this. You stumbled drunk into someone I know on Union Street. Do you want to revise that to “sober in public since I announced my run for mayor”? Don’t run on a recovery platform if you aren’t in recovery. It’s an insult to those like @Twolfrecovery who really are. I’m all for sobriety — my dad was a lifelong alcoholic who never did kick it because he never went to a program. Like you, he said “I can do it on my own.” But he couldn’t because, as my mom used to tell him, “Alcohol is a cunning and baffling mistress.”

Still coming down from Detroit, but squeezed out an Arts Forecast because there is so much popping off in SF this weekend! get out there: 48hills.org/2024/05/arts-f…

@Celestial_Word @stkirsch If you felt threatened by a public health initiative you shouldn’t have a job in the first place.

That’s right. So everyone understands Californian’s were harassed and threatened by ads, Dr’s, healthcare workers, pharmacy’s, threats of not able to fly. If you wanted to keep your job you had to be jabbed (forced) or be tested every single day you came to work. It was so abusive. So Californians not jabbing fought harder than most other states. However we won the battle and it was hard.

California was collectively paid $9.2 billion to push the jabs on everyone.

Oh no! A true SF legend and sweet friend has passed. RIP Strange de Jim <3

Much thanks to @DeanPreston & @DSA_SF for winning the Prop I ballot measure which helped keep 10,000 households in their homes during the pandemic. Next up: municipal housing 💥

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@IzaTabaro The core demand of the movement is not "to free the territory of the current state of Israel from Jews," what a weird thing to say.

In a speech at Columbia, Finkelstein advises the crowd not to use alienating slogans such as “From the river to the sea Palestine will be free” & choose ones that can appeal to broader audiences instead. As he walks off, someone else grabs the mike and leads the crowd in an enthusiastic “From the river to the sea.” There isn’t a single moment of reflection; everyone looks relieved that instead of thinking complicated thoughts, they can just slip right back into their favorite jingle. Finkelstein’s speech is actually quite thoughtful & serious. He flatters the crowd but doesn’t pander. He tells them to think carefully about their strategy & aspire to go beyond being a political cult that speaks only to itself. He recalls marching down Fifth Ave in the 1970s chanting “Everybody should know, we support the PLO” & concedes with a laugh that that wasn’t the best strategy to get broad buy-in. But the very seriousness of his speech shows how curiously disconnected he is from what this movement is actually about. He doesn’t seem to understand that “From the river to the sea” is the essence of this movement & its core demand: to free the territory of the current state of Israel from Jews. More important, it’s the core demand of this movement’s ideological sponsors. Many students gathered there probably don’t even get this point, but the organizers most certainly do. They can’t relinquish this slogan any more than the communist parties of yesteryear could relinquish “Proletarians of the world unite.” youtu.be/3qnU6cdcI9Y?si…

A front-page profile in the New York Times lauds Garry Tan, so badly misses the point that it's an embarrassment. 48hills.org/2024/04/the-ne…