Michael Torres

This would be outstanding news for voters who thought the last 8 years of policy and governance in California were great but could stand to be managed worse.

@Dark_Garland @GavinNewsom @XavierBecerra No

Let’s pop the clutch, @GavinNewsom and endorse @XavierBecerra

@daniel_w_owens I think LA is worse but who am I to judge?

Navigate to your favorite search engine or AI-powered chatbot, and type this prompt: “Which major American city is known as the most NIMBY?” What’s the result?

@leftcoastbabe If newsom backs him it’s all over for Becerra. And he is not a compelling candidate to begin with

Good. Though have to wonder, is this in part because Newsom doesn't see Becerra as a threat to his own national ambitions?

@JohnSimpsonNews The current us team is incredibly incompetent

As Trump’s team are finding, Iranian officials are hard to negotiate with. Just when you think you’ve nailed them down, they twist and turn and you’ve got nothing. Professional US negotiators have found them hard to deal with. The current US team is finding it a lot harder.

"The man with the momentum: San Jose's Democratic Mayor Matt Mahan."

@BasedMikeLee @MariaBartiromo @Kash_Patel He will lose and will drink another fifth to celebrate

They thought they could take a free, cheap shot at Kash Patel They were wrong @MariaBartiromo: “So you’re gonna sue them?” @Kash_Patel: “Absolutely. It’s coming tomorrow.” Raise your hand if you hope he wins

@chrisalbon Even Waymo hates the 101

Waymo love of the 280 should be studied

@anishmoonka 😳

A parasite that has been eating people for 3,500 years is about to be wiped off the planet. It infected 3.5 million people in 1986. Last year, it infected 10. And I have not seen it make a single front page. It is called Guinea worm. You drink contaminated water from a pond in a poor village. A year later, a worm up to three feet long starts coming out of your leg through a burning blister. There is no pill that stops it and no surgery that works. You wrap the worm around a stick and pull it out slowly, over days or weeks, inch by inch. If you rush, the worm breaks inside you and causes a fresh infection. Guinea worm is ancient. Preserved worms have been pulled out of Egyptian mummies from around 1000 BCE. The Ebers Papyrus, an Egyptian medical scroll from 1550 BCE, describes pulling the worm out with a stick. For three and a half thousand years, that was the best humans could do. Then in 1986, public health workers decided to kill the parasite off. They had no vaccine and no drug. What they had was cheap cloth water filters and a small army of volunteers willing to walk from village to village for decades. The plan was simple. Give everyone who drinks from a pond a cloth filter to strain out the tiny water fleas that spread the parasite. Then send volunteers walking house to house, year after year, teaching people how to use the filters and keeping anyone with an emerging worm out of the water. It worked. From 3.5 million cases a year to 10. Four were in Chad, four in Ethiopia, two in South Sudan. The other four countries where the worm used to be common, Angola, Cameroon, the Central African Republic, and Mali, had zero human cases for the second year in a row. The World Health Organization has already certified 200 countries as Guinea worm free. Six are left. The last hurdle is dogs. Cameroon had 445 infected animals last year and Chad had 147, so a lot of the remaining work is on animals, not humans. Strays get leashed, and crews treat ponds to kill any remaining worms. The campaign keeps watching until the number hits zero. When Guinea worm hits zero, it becomes the second human disease ever erased from the planet. The first was smallpox. It will also be the first parasite humans have ever wiped out, and the first disease ever ended without a single dose of medicine. Volunteers walked village to village with cloth filters for 40 years. Now a plague from the age of the pharaohs is about to be gone.

@ZelenskyyUa Fantastic!

We have already reached 10-year agreements with three key countries: Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, and Qatar. We already have requests from 11 countries – the Middle East and the Gulf, plus we’re also gradually turning our attention to the Caucasus. Within this Drone Deal, there will be at least 10 different agreements covering various categories of Ukrainian weapons exports. Co-production is planned – the construction of our production lines both in Ukraine and in other countries. New technologies that we are developing jointly with various countries, in which they are investing. There is also an agreement on annual funding for a specific amount, along with a fixed number of years. Second: the European track. Work has already begun with Germany, Italy, Norway, Sweden, and the Netherlands. Of course, we have good relations with the United Kingdom and France. I am confident that all of this will also be implemented there. From an interview with the “United News” telethon.

Kash Patel’s colleagues are alarmed by what they say is erratic behavior and excessive drinking, Sarah Fitzpatrick reports. More than two dozen people she spoke with described his management failures and conduct that could harm national security. theatlantic.com/politics/2026/…

@CommonSenseiSF Why don’t you learn how to argue instead of ignoring facts and setting up straw men. Have a blessed day

@themtorres You really need to work on your prayers 🙏🏼 It’s Sunday, visit a church or cathedral or mosque or temple. Learn humility. Unplug. Touch grass. If you do this, your mind virus will dissipate and with enough time, disappear.

Scott Wiener has done more for pride flags than housing. Seriously. He has done nothing tangible for housing.

@ryangrim No one owes their first class seat to a family with children.

A society that prioritizes adult individuals over children and families is destined for misery. I don’t blame the adults, they’re just doing what our culture says we should do: look after ourselves first and only, bc people we don’t know aren’t our problem. If a pregnant or elderly woman wants your seat on the subway, too bad, she should have gotten there first.

@CommonSenseiSF God you are stupid.

@themtorres Wiener was elected to the SF Board of Supervisors in 2010. So you agree he did absolutely nothing for housing in SF. 💩 Elected in 2016 for state senate. For 10 years, zero to show for for housing, except some recent bills pushed by corporate backers and funders. ☠️

@CommonSenseiSF He started in the state legislature in 2016 dingbat. And, yes it takes a long time and a lot of effort to claw back NIMBY policies. His hard work has finally resulted in some solid laws that will help fix it. Sounds like you are just willfully ignorant #NoDingbats

@themtorres His “day one” was back in 2010. Are you saying it takes 15 years for a politician to back legislation to support such a controversial matter like more housing for all? Sounds like you support life-long politicians. In England they’re called Kings and Queens. #NoKings #NoWieners

@CommonSenseiSF Your twitter name is misleading - you have no common sense. He’s been working on housing since he got there. It’s delusional to think he could have done this on day one. And I don’t give a shit about the rest of your misinformed take.

@themtorres So you agree, during the decades he’s been deeply involved in the SF community, he’s passed pro-criminal bills for a very long time and only recently focused on housing to appease his donors. Wiener can be bought—we get it. He sold out Israel to get SEIU to endorse him too.

@newrepublic Or what we already were and still are

The fact that we elected this man to the presidency twice should prompt deep introspection about what we’ve become. trib.al/PUKIubG

@CommonSenseiSF You dummy, I am talking about bills he recently passed about housing. And yes, SB 79 goes into effect in July this year and will have a huge impact. I don’t care what you think about his other bills or his overall record. He’s still by far the best choice and I’m voting for him.

@themtorres Wiener has been “deeply involved” in the SF community since 1997 and in politics since 2010 and all you can point to are bills passed in the last two years when he was preparing to run for national office? Zero outcomes from those bills yet. His pro-criminal bills though:

@tparsi There is still a divide obviously because some liberals and some non liberals support israel

WOW! CNN announces that there is no longer a divide within the Democratic party on Israel - the party base (not its leadership) is overwhelmingly opposed to Israel! No age divide or divide between Liberals and non-Liberals. A majority of all demographics oppose Israel.

@CommonSenseiSF He has led / passed several over the years starting in 2017. Most recently he led SB 79, SB 423 and SB 131. You would know that if you knew what you were talking about. But you don’t.

@themtorres Which bills exactly? You know Wiener has been in office for over 15 YEARS. To say that he’s only passed bills recently is laughable.