Sassmaster Deane

Love this photo. The thing about every one of these three to five people is that they are so ill-informed and repellant that almost anyone quickly comes to the conclusion that the only reason electeds would take them seriously is if they are paid messengers of power people.

Jezebel was one of the few outlets that took us seriously at Planned Parenthood when we were pitching stories about how Republicans wanted to end Roe. Many other outlets basically called us hysterical

Unless someone doesn't like what you said and they have lots of money

Even the most low-key observer of Oakland budgeting knows this one is a whopper after watching OPD come back sometimes as much as 10% over budget or more.

Well, this commenter at city council nailed it. New council members are letting landlords run the Oakland government.

The attitude of the City and Council is that the public doesn't really deserve to have advanced knowledge of what's coming before Council to become law, that's why they added an extra meeting on a regular meeting day on 4/14 w/out explaining it

Jay Z saying in his GQ interview that during his Reasonable Doubt era he was rejected and not DEJECTED is gonna sit with me for a while. ANY creative can understand that.

“We need to create sober, patient people, who do not despair in the face of the worst horror and who do not get excited about every little thing” — Antonio Gramsci

No notes on this one

Today CAO pulled pro tenant legislation created by the Rent Board, which includes landlords, because the wealthy landlord orgs that have been attacking Oakland for four years objected. Council agreed. It was visible patronage x.com/Oak_Observer/s…

I’m begging reporters covering the Georgia abortion arrest: STOP TRUSTING COPS

Walter Rodney, the author of the must-read book “How Europe Underdeveloped Africa”, was assassinated in 1980, at the age of 38 for his authorship in exposing the predatory corporatocracy model of Western development. His account completely upends the mental model we have been sold, which places countries with the least resources and countries with the least morals at the top of the world economic food chain under the guise of a nonexistent mental superiority. Rodney highlights the "scissors" effect of colonial trade, where the price of African raw materials was kept low while the price of European manufactured goods rose. • Example (Groundnuts): He notes that in the 1930s, a farmer in French West Africa had to produce three times more groundnuts to buy the same amount of imported cloth as he did fifteen years earlier. • The Logic: This ensured that African labor remained cheap while European industrial profits soared, creating a cycle of permanent debt and poverty. And this intentional suppression and undervaluation African labour and resources was done through many inhumane practices detailed in yet another must read book “Confession of an economic hitman”. The African enablers of these models are still here today. They encourage the neocolonialist to pillage Africa by enacting the agenda of the west but with a Black skin. And these subservient African leaders are often eloquent but utterly nonsensical, and they are almost all leaders of western approved “democracies” that have overstayed their maximum terms. Peace to Walter Rodney, may his words carry us through the new African liberation.

To not even let readers know that one of the people they tapped on this question broke the law while she was Mayor, serially, and to the tune of hundreds of thousands of dollars to fool the public into helping her goals.

If we can’t collectively beat these nerds we don’t deserve anything.

A lack of bonafides and evasive data presentation is likely what's warded off mainstream medai reliance on this poll. But it's still echoing in the astroturfosphere, so reupping this. Every thing is still true, East Bay Polling Institute does not exist. oakland-observer.ghost.io/mystery-east-b…

By contrast, the recently won pay raise for San Francisco teachers was 5% over the next 2 years

I will say, I'd be inclined to believe Flock that they don't directly pay Escobar. He is probably paid through the same dark money network that hired him to be a burdensome astroturf clown that no media or politician could possibly take seriously but miraculously somehow do.

Escobar's been paid before, receipts prove he doesn't even live in Oakland. Wild first time this came up was in Richmond. In Oakland, the media environment is a con job he is paid to participate in. In Oakland, we can't get a single media org to cover it richmondside.org/2026/03/18/ric…

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Cuando salí de Una batalla tras otra salí con la sensación de haberla disfrutado profundamente, pero también con la intuición clara de que algo en su trasfondo no me gustaba. No era un problema de forma, ritmo o interpretación. Era otra cosa. (Hilo⬇️)