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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 6h

What an emblem of the billionaire class—descending on a peaceful city in a private jet on the horn to NYT asking for the place to be invaded by federal authorities because the rent-a-cops you employ for a week to harass a few junkies outside the convention center cost too much.

Mr. Benioff spoke as his annual Dreamforce conference is set to begin Tuesday in downtown San Francisco, bringing 50,000 visitors to the city. He is scheduled to deliver a keynote address about the benefits of "agentic enterprise," a business model in which humans and artificial intelligence bots work together.
Speaking by telephone from his private plane en route to San Francisco, he lamented that he has to pay for nundreds of off-duty law enforcement officers to help patrol the convention area and said that San Francisco needed to "re-fund" the police.
The city never actually "defunded" its police force, and San Francisco's violent crime rates are below those in many other U.S. cities.
But San Francisco has struggled to recruit and keep officers, and it still has problems with lower-level crimes and open-air drug use, especially in neighborhoods like the Tenderloin near City Hall. It has about 1,500 police officers, and Mr. Benioff says it ne → another thousand.

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Calvin Thigpen @calvinthigpen.com · 3h

That is an extremely car-brained headline to write. WOW.

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Calvin Thigpen @calvinthigpen.com · 12h

That play was outrageous. The read and the ball control to execute were next level.

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Jen St. Denis @jenstden.bsky.social · 12h

TikTok doesn’t want the platform being used for journalism - even thought users expect to access it there.

Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 18h

Huh: TikTok took down my 8-second video featuring this image of Debbie Brockman — the news producer just detained by Trump’s CBP agents — saying it violates the “joy of TikTok”

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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 17h

MAGA and its agenda are *wildly* unpopular, and media are hugely out of touch for not saying so. Politicians who tap into this reality will thrive, and media outlets that reflect this truth will earn enormous audiences.

G Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com · 1d

A majority of adults oppose Trump’s use of the National Guard in America cities www.gelliottmorris.com/p/a-majority...

A majority of Americans oppose Trump sending the National Guard to Democratic-run cities

The president is defying the will of the people, federal judges, and the Constitution

www.gelliottmorris.com

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Aaron Ross Powell ☸️ @aaronrosspowell.com · 16h

His SF based employees should, every last one of them, walk out. If he's asking for violence to be directed against the people of the city, the people of the city shouldn't advance his economic interests.

Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 16h

Area billionaire has wet brain www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/m...

Marc Benioff says Trump should send National Guard to San Francisco

Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff said that President Trump should deploy the National Guard to San Francisco to combat crime: “We don’t have enough cops, so if they can be cops, I’m all for it.”

www.sfchronicle.com

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Calvin Thigpen @calvinthigpen.com · 17h

Seriously. I have some nostalgia! I miss the #rstats crowd - I feel like the energy and collaboration from that time is entirely lost (or have I just not seen it?)

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Calvin Thigpen @calvinthigpen.com · 18h

That was my response, too! Social media has been a great tool and platform for connection

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Senate Judiciary Democrats 🇺🇸 @judiciarydems.senate.gov · 19h

BREAKING: Sens. DURBIN, DUCKWORTH were just denied entrance to the Broadview ICE Facility in Illinois, unable to conduct constitutional role of oversight.

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San Francisco Chronicle @sfchronicle.com · 18h

Researchers credited federal support for making their groundbreaking discoveries possible, even as funding cuts threaten future innovation.

University of California sets world record with five Nobel Prizes in one week

Researchers credited federal support for making their groundbreaking discoveries possible, even as funding cuts threaten future innovation.

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · 18h

aaand we are officially in the hide-your-neighbors stage

Sophie Sherry @sophiesherry.bsky.social · 21h

During a military-style raid on a building in Chicago’s South Shore, one resident heard a knock on his door.   It wasn’t the feds — it was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for help.

He let them hide in his unit for the next 3 days.

chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Neighbor shielded 7-year-old during South Shore federal raid: ‘I didn’t want them to take her’

During the Sept. 30 raid one tenant protected a terrified girl and her mom. Remnants at the complex, including a detailed map of all the units, offer clues to what authorities may have known before th...

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Jordan Grimes @cafedujord.bsky.social · 20h

Important to remember that not only did we pass #SB79, the biggest transit-oriented upzoning bill ever, we also passed a clean CEQA exemption for new multifamily infill housing.

This is, bar none, the biggest year in state action on housing policy reform in California history. Not even close.

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Calvin Thigpen @calvinthigpen.com · 23h

Thank you, Senator, for your leadership, and congratulations! This is a major victory for Californians.

Calvin Thigpen @calvinthigpen.com · 23h

Thank you, @governor.ca.gov !!

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Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 1d

UPDATE: Newsom has signed SB 79 into law!!

This is a great day for anyone who cares about ending California's housing and homelessness crisis, getting the state to net zero emissions, and recovering American democracy.

Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 2d

If you live in California, please call @gavinnewsom.bsky.social at (916) 445-2841 and urge him to sign SB 79. Here's my post about why the bill is so important: publiccomment.blog/p/newsom-s-f...

Newsom's Fateful Choice

Why the governor needs to sign SB 79

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Yonah Freemark @yonahfreemark.com · 1d

California's governor has signed SB 79, a large-scale upzoning of land near transit throughout the state's largest counties.

Joe Cohen @cohenhouse.bsky.social · 1d

WE DID IT!!!

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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 1d

“In London cyclists now outnumber cars in the City by 2 to 1. Paris, where they now outnumber motorists across the whole city, is catching up with Europe’s traditional bike capitals, Amsterdam & Copenhagen…In Copenhagen, bikes account for almost half of commuter trips to work/school.” @economist.com

Forget EVs. Cycling is revolutionising transport

Pedal power is booming, spinning up a new culture war

www.economist.com

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Carl Zimmer @carlzimmer.com · 2d

Today my @nytimes.com colleagues and I are launching a new series called Lost Science. We interview US scientists who can no longer discover something new about our world, thanks to this year‘s cuts. Here is my first interview with a scientist who studied bees and fires. Gift link: nyti.ms/3IWXbiE

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Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · 3d

Has anything great happened in your life because of social media?

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Calvin Thigpen @calvinthigpen.com · 1d

And the second article:

"Editorial Patterns in Bicyclist and Pedestrian Crash Reporting"
journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

Sage Journals: Discover world-class research

Subscription and open access journals from Sage, the world's leading independent academic publisher.

journals.sagepub.com

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Calvin Thigpen @calvinthigpen.com · 1d

Twitter is where I first heard concerns about how the media cover traffic crashes, which ultimately led to two of my most impactful studies with some great colleagues!

"Does news coverage of traffic crashes affect perceived blame and preferred solutions?"
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Does news coverage of traffic crashes affect perceived blame and preferred solutions? Evidence from an experiment

Traffic crashes are one of the leading causes of preventable death in the United States. Nearly 20% of these roadway fatalities are people who were hi…

www.sciencedirect.com

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 1d

Don’t you hate it when you think you’re DMing somebody your nudes or your illegal orders to prosecute a political opponent in violation of the US constitution and actually you are posting on main?

Trump Accidentally Posted Message That Could Destroy Entire Comey Case

It turns out Donald Trump didn’t mean to make that Truth Social post public after all.

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energy9086.bsky.social @energy9086.bsky.social · 2d

Jasmine Crockett is asking why people who are not getting paid because of the shutdown should show up for work when the Republican Congress members, who ARE getting paid, are NOT showing up to work! Damn good question.

Rep. Crockett: “When Even Marjorie Taylor Greene Stops Trusting Republicans, You Know It’s Bad.”

YouTube video by Rep. Jasmine Crockett

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Solomon @solomonmissouri.bsky.social · 2d

I'm sorry this is crazy

CrimethInc. Ex-Workers' Collective @crimethinc.com · 2d

Jack Posobiec explicitly says that "Antifa" dates back to the Weimar Republic, explicitly acknowledging that this administration is opposed to those who resisted the arrival of Adolf Hitler in Power.

A screenshot of C-Span showing Jack Posobiec speaking during a panel on "Antifa."

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 2d

Everyone can set aside partisanship, psychologizing, pathologizing, whatever, and—I would hope—still see that it’s incredibly dangerous for a political leader to be this disconnected from the real conditions in the country.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Trump: "I don't know what could be worse than Portland. You don't even have stores anymore. They don't even put glass up. They put plywood on their windows."

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