Next door in Silicon Valley
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Always thinking about parking
Always thinking about parking
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This is how San Francisco and Silicon Valley's Economy actually works:
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House A pays $36,228/year in property tax
House B pays $2,579/year in property tax
In just 2 years, House A will pay almost as much as House B did over *50 years*
Rishi Kumar wants to end property taxes for House B, maximizing the damage of Prop 13!
REPOST please!
House A pays $36,228/year in property tax
House B pays $2,579/year in property tax
In just 2 years, House A will pay almost as much as House B did over *50 years*
Rishi Kumar wants to end property taxes for House B, maximizing the damage of Prop 13!
REPOST please!
December 10, 2025 at 2:40 AM
Check out these two neighbors!
House A pays $36,228/year in property tax
House B pays $2,579/year in property tax
In just 2 years, House A will pay almost as much as House B did over *50 years*
Rishi Kumar wants to end property taxes for House B, maximizing the damage of Prop 13!
REPOST please!
House A pays $36,228/year in property tax
House B pays $2,579/year in property tax
In just 2 years, House A will pay almost as much as House B did over *50 years*
Rishi Kumar wants to end property taxes for House B, maximizing the damage of Prop 13!
REPOST please!
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This is, of course, an extraordinary new administrative burden for park workers. They will have ask *every visitor* for proof of residency. A small friction for most people (and occasionally a hassle for people who can't find their drivers license or passport) adds up to huge delays for all.
December 10, 2025 at 2:24 AM
This is, of course, an extraordinary new administrative burden for park workers. They will have ask *every visitor* for proof of residency. A small friction for most people (and occasionally a hassle for people who can't find their drivers license or passport) adds up to huge delays for all.
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Effectively closes our borders. Feature, not a bug I guess.
December 10, 2025 at 1:57 AM
Effectively closes our borders. Feature, not a bug I guess.
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since using Calbiri (easier for visually impaired people) rather than TNR costs literally nothing, this is just ableism for its own sake. these are the kind of people who resent seeing a wheelchair ramp.
Marco Rubio ordered diplomats to return to using Times New Roman font in official communications, calling his predecessor's decision to adopt Calibri a “wasteful” diversity move
Rubio Stages Font Coup: Times New Roman Ousts Calibri
The secretary of state called it a "wasteful" diversity move, according to an internal department cable seen by Reuters.
www.huffpost.com
December 10, 2025 at 1:39 AM
since using Calbiri (easier for visually impaired people) rather than TNR costs literally nothing, this is just ableism for its own sake. these are the kind of people who resent seeing a wheelchair ramp.
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The number of fundraisers started to help cover essential expenses such as rent, utilities and groceries jumped 20%, according to GoFundMe’s 2025 review, after already quadrupling last year. https://to.pbs.org/4pmRjze
More people crowdfunded for basic needs like food and housing in 2025, GoFundMe reports
GoFundMe CEO Tim Cadogan says people around the world are struggling with the rising cost of living, but he adds that "people do step up and support folks in those situations."
www.pbs.org
December 10, 2025 at 1:34 AM
The number of fundraisers started to help cover essential expenses such as rent, utilities and groceries jumped 20%, according to GoFundMe’s 2025 review, after already quadrupling last year. https://to.pbs.org/4pmRjze
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We’re not a serious country
Mr. Rubio said switching back to Times New Roman would “restore decorum and professionalism to the department’s written work.” Calibri is “informal” when compared to serif typefaces like Times New Roman and “clashes” with the department’s official letterhead. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/09/u...
Rubio Deletes Calibri as the State Department’s Official Typeface
www.nytimes.com
December 10, 2025 at 1:28 AM
We’re not a serious country
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I am going to walk into the ocean
December 9, 2025 at 10:26 PM
I am going to walk into the ocean
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SCOOP — Gregg Phillips, a conspiracy theorist with no emergency management experience who helped produce the election-denying documentary ‘2000 Mules’ with Dinesh D’Souza and has faced numerous legal inquiries, has been named head of FEMA’s Office of Response and Recovery.
My story:
My story:
Conspiracy theorist election denier given FEMA’s second-most important role
Gregg Phillips will lead the Office of Response and Recovery, “the heart of what FEMA does.”
www.thehandbasket.co
December 9, 2025 at 10:57 PM
SCOOP — Gregg Phillips, a conspiracy theorist with no emergency management experience who helped produce the election-denying documentary ‘2000 Mules’ with Dinesh D’Souza and has faced numerous legal inquiries, has been named head of FEMA’s Office of Response and Recovery.
My story:
My story:
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PIERS: “You’re not gay?”
FUENTES: “No. But women are very difficult to be around.”
P: “Should they vote?”
F: “No.”
PIERS: “They should stay home?”
FUENTES: “Yeah.”
PIERS: “So you’re just a misogynistic dinosaur. Have you ever had sex?”
FUENTES: “No.”
PIERS: “Wow. Says the guy who never got laid.”
FUENTES: “No. But women are very difficult to be around.”
P: “Should they vote?”
F: “No.”
PIERS: “They should stay home?”
FUENTES: “Yeah.”
PIERS: “So you’re just a misogynistic dinosaur. Have you ever had sex?”
FUENTES: “No.”
PIERS: “Wow. Says the guy who never got laid.”
December 9, 2025 at 1:34 PM
PIERS: “You’re not gay?”
FUENTES: “No. But women are very difficult to be around.”
P: “Should they vote?”
F: “No.”
PIERS: “They should stay home?”
FUENTES: “Yeah.”
PIERS: “So you’re just a misogynistic dinosaur. Have you ever had sex?”
FUENTES: “No.”
PIERS: “Wow. Says the guy who never got laid.”
FUENTES: “No. But women are very difficult to be around.”
P: “Should they vote?”
F: “No.”
PIERS: “They should stay home?”
FUENTES: “Yeah.”
PIERS: “So you’re just a misogynistic dinosaur. Have you ever had sex?”
FUENTES: “No.”
PIERS: “Wow. Says the guy who never got laid.”
NextDoor: Acshually homelessness is about mental illness and drug abuse. We need to solve those first!
Also NextDoor: If you don't ban property taxes for seniors in California, even more seniors will be homeless!
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Also NextDoor: If you don't ban property taxes for seniors in California, even more seniors will be homeless!
🤔🤔🤔
JFC. Rishi Kumar continues his Trump-style economic pandering by claiming his effort to ban property taxes for seniors across the entire **state** will help homelessness! These are people who are already have huge Prop 13 discounts!!
THE DUDE IS RUNNING FOR **COUNTY** ASSESSOR!!
THE DUDE IS RUNNING FOR **COUNTY** ASSESSOR!!
December 10, 2025 at 12:21 AM
NextDoor: Acshually homelessness is about mental illness and drug abuse. We need to solve those first!
Also NextDoor: If you don't ban property taxes for seniors in California, even more seniors will be homeless!
🤔🤔🤔
Also NextDoor: If you don't ban property taxes for seniors in California, even more seniors will be homeless!
🤔🤔🤔
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After MTG lied about me for weeks, she said that she felt bad for my unborn child because he'd have me as a mother. Her rhetoric led to threats against my family.
No one, even her, should receive threats like those, but I'd like to see her own up to the role she played in creating them for others.
No one, even her, should receive threats like those, but I'd like to see her own up to the role she played in creating them for others.
Marjorie Taylor Greene: "I sent those deaths threats directly to him in a text message & informed him of what his name calling & words were doing - it was a direct assassination threat on my son. And he was extremely - I won't repeat what he said - but it was extremely unkind. No sympathy. No care"
December 9, 2025 at 9:40 PM
After MTG lied about me for weeks, she said that she felt bad for my unborn child because he'd have me as a mother. Her rhetoric led to threats against my family.
No one, even her, should receive threats like those, but I'd like to see her own up to the role she played in creating them for others.
No one, even her, should receive threats like those, but I'd like to see her own up to the role she played in creating them for others.
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Pretty sus when this person talks about cars driven in Silicon Valley and doesn’t mention Tesla, Rivian, or Porsche.
It’s easily 100:1 Tesla:Range Rover at the local mall
It’s easily 100:1 Tesla:Range Rover at the local mall
December 9, 2025 at 6:28 AM
Pretty sus when this person talks about cars driven in Silicon Valley and doesn’t mention Tesla, Rivian, or Porsche.
It’s easily 100:1 Tesla:Range Rover at the local mall
It’s easily 100:1 Tesla:Range Rover at the local mall
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Wow -- Russia reportedly plotted last year to plant bombs on US-bound flights (gift link) giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...
December 9, 2025 at 7:33 PM
Wow -- Russia reportedly plotted last year to plant bombs on US-bound flights (gift link) giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...
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There's also a very perverse dynamic at play here where San Francisco's own anti-housing land use and planning system is the reason why the city needs to spend hundreds of millions on contracts for homeless services providers.
Nothing against the individual nonprofits on this list, many of which do great work, but it's a real problem that San Francisco outsources so many basic public functions. www.sfchronicle.com/projects/202...
These S.F. nonprofits are receiving the most city money. No. 1 gets $80 million
This tool allows people to see exactly how much money San Francisco nonprofits are receiving from the city government.
www.sfchronicle.com
December 9, 2025 at 6:34 PM
There's also a very perverse dynamic at play here where San Francisco's own anti-housing land use and planning system is the reason why the city needs to spend hundreds of millions on contracts for homeless services providers.
"When Rishi Kumar offers a property exemption for Seniors it's because he's done the leg work to look at what other states are offering"
jfc! The reason other states are looking at prop tax *discounts* for seniors is because they don't have Prop 13! You can't just stack coupons! This ain't Kohl's!
jfc! The reason other states are looking at prop tax *discounts* for seniors is because they don't have Prop 13! You can't just stack coupons! This ain't Kohl's!
December 9, 2025 at 9:36 PM
"When Rishi Kumar offers a property exemption for Seniors it's because he's done the leg work to look at what other states are offering"
jfc! The reason other states are looking at prop tax *discounts* for seniors is because they don't have Prop 13! You can't just stack coupons! This ain't Kohl's!
jfc! The reason other states are looking at prop tax *discounts* for seniors is because they don't have Prop 13! You can't just stack coupons! This ain't Kohl's!
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LA voters: when you replace streets you need to implement the city’s transit plan.
The Feds: you have to implement ADA when you repave.
LA Metro: hey whoa we’re not repaving this street. We’re just doing *large scale asphalt repair.*
The Feds: you have to implement ADA when you repave.
LA Metro: hey whoa we’re not repaving this street. We’re just doing *large scale asphalt repair.*
December 9, 2025 at 8:39 PM
LA voters: when you replace streets you need to implement the city’s transit plan.
The Feds: you have to implement ADA when you repave.
LA Metro: hey whoa we’re not repaving this street. We’re just doing *large scale asphalt repair.*
The Feds: you have to implement ADA when you repave.
LA Metro: hey whoa we’re not repaving this street. We’re just doing *large scale asphalt repair.*
There's a lot going on in this article. But I'm like 99% sure you can't say that the loss of on-site parking makes your apartment *uninhabitable*
That's kind of a mockery of tenants who face mold, asbestos, heating, plumbing issues.
That's kind of a mockery of tenants who face mold, asbestos, heating, plumbing issues.
December 9, 2025 at 8:44 PM
There's a lot going on in this article. But I'm like 99% sure you can't say that the loss of on-site parking makes your apartment *uninhabitable*
That's kind of a mockery of tenants who face mold, asbestos, heating, plumbing issues.
That's kind of a mockery of tenants who face mold, asbestos, heating, plumbing issues.
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"Now we've been put in a space where we don't have anywhere to park tonight. All we can do is try to hold them off physically and stop them from doing in type of construction." abc7.com/post/koreato...
December 9, 2025 at 7:06 PM
"Now we've been put in a space where we don't have anywhere to park tonight. All we can do is try to hold them off physically and stop them from doing in type of construction." abc7.com/post/koreato...
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December 9, 2025 at 8:26 PM
RENTERS!! If you rent, and you think that lower property taxes will mean lower rent, then you've pretty much ignored 47 years of California tax law that proves otherwise.
Supply. Demand. That's what determines prices. Including rent prices.
Vote for Fligor for Santa Clara County Assessor by 12/30!
Supply. Demand. That's what determines prices. Including rent prices.
Vote for Fligor for Santa Clara County Assessor by 12/30!
December 9, 2025 at 8:00 PM
RENTERS!! If you rent, and you think that lower property taxes will mean lower rent, then you've pretty much ignored 47 years of California tax law that proves otherwise.
Supply. Demand. That's what determines prices. Including rent prices.
Vote for Fligor for Santa Clara County Assessor by 12/30!
Supply. Demand. That's what determines prices. Including rent prices.
Vote for Fligor for Santa Clara County Assessor by 12/30!
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Periodic reminder to tell everyone you know to never vote for Rishi Kumar for any of the 1284719 offices he has run for, and will run for in the future.
If you're in Santa Clara County, please remember to vote for Neysa Fligor in this run off election for assessor. Fans of Rishi are... just look:
If you're in Santa Clara County, please remember to vote for Neysa Fligor in this run off election for assessor. Fans of Rishi are... just look:
December 8, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Periodic reminder to tell everyone you know to never vote for Rishi Kumar for any of the 1284719 offices he has run for, and will run for in the future.
If you're in Santa Clara County, please remember to vote for Neysa Fligor in this run off election for assessor. Fans of Rishi are... just look:
If you're in Santa Clara County, please remember to vote for Neysa Fligor in this run off election for assessor. Fans of Rishi are... just look:
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one of the most cynical things was that Republicans blocked several gigawatts of offshore wind power in New Jersey and then turned round and blamed Democrats for high electricity prices.
Republicans are driving up our electricity bills & killing jobs by blocking clean energy progress
The climate crisis IS a kitchen table issue
The climate crisis IS a kitchen table issue
America is Losing Power Projects When It Needs Them Most
Developers have cancelled 1,891 power projects this year with a combined capacity of 266 GW, with clean energy accounting for 93% of cancellations.
www.distilled.earth
December 9, 2025 at 3:53 PM
one of the most cynical things was that Republicans blocked several gigawatts of offshore wind power in New Jersey and then turned round and blamed Democrats for high electricity prices.
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It’s worth reading the whole thread.
This is the totally wild letter I was thinking of - from after the county abandoned the coastal hazard planning update but in response to the "Adaptation and Resilience Collaborative" report from this past summer. Page 2 is where the gloves really come off.
December 9, 2025 at 7:12 AM
It’s worth reading the whole thread.