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Zack Haber @zackhaber.bsky.social · 19h

Statement from Jerusalem Coffee House. Someone smashed a window of the Palestinian owned cafe Tuesday morning...

Brandon Harami @brandonsedai.bsky.social · 19h

The city of Oakland budget is not balanced yall. It’s anticipating money from a ballot measure that hasn’t even been fully fleshed out yet. So if someone says it’s balanced, they are misinformed.

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Brandon Harami @brandonsedai.bsky.social · 1d

This is crazy and even crazier is it has only been flagged by the Oakland Observer

Jaime Omar Yassin [TNH] @hyphyrepublic.bsky.social · 7d

Last Rules, Chair Jenkins pulled reappointments of Police Commission Chair & an alternate from agenda claiming there were concerns about appts and directing SP to review. But it doesn't seem like he alone had that power, & so CAO brought it right back w/no intervening SP mtg

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Brandon Harami @brandonsedai.bsky.social · 1d

She gets the benefits of Thao's work, and I am glad it is her who gets it rather than the alternative.

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LGBTQ Nation @lgbtqnation.com · 1d

Gavin Newsom vetoes gender education bill, declines to sign other trans protections - buff.ly/MTUAV85

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Brandon Harami @brandonsedai.bsky.social · 1d

We need to break down barriers to housing access if we want folks off the streets and into safety, not create more.

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Brandon Harami @brandonsedai.bsky.social · 1d

San Francisco has lost its damn mind. We can absolutely have sober housing, but not at the expense of real, science-based solutions to drug addiction and homelessness which are both a result from our lack of investment into universal housing and public health.

KVNDRY SINGS @kvndry.bsky.social · 1d

What PSH Tenants want is for the integrity of Housing First to be upheld. Sober housing is a good idea, but only if it’s a choice. Dorsey’s primary concern is creating a new funding category so that Salvation Army, who refuses to submit to Medicaid standards, can get funded.

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Brandon Harami @brandonsedai.bsky.social · 1d

This timeline sucks

AI wealth has created a new dynamic in S.F. real estate: Not enough mansions

San Francisco has long been a market for the affluent, but luxury homes across the city are being sold at record speed as a new wave of wealth floods the city with fresh riches.

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Brandon Harami @brandonsedai.bsky.social · 1d

Good morning from this sleepy bb

Brandon Harami @brandonsedai.bsky.social · 1d

The fact the lobbying firm for the landlords even received city funding is ridiculous. Especially when landlords are the #1 business in terms of not paying taxes.

Jaime Omar Yassin [TNH] @hyphyrepublic.bsky.social · 1d

EBRHA has one of the worst performances of an Oakland contactor I've ever seen in contract to rep landlords in RAP processes. They helped only a dozen or so in a substantive way, refused to track ethnicity demographics, & 3/4 of clients weren't Oakland residents.

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Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 2d

This is how propaganda works. They slapped an image on this from Los Angeles in 1992 during Rodney King riots.

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Two National guardsmen stand guard outside a burning donut shop in Los Angeles on April 30, 1992.
The National Guard was called in to aid police during the second day of rioting in the city. (Mark
Elias/AP)

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Carter Lavin @carterlavin.bsky.social · 2d

Good times chatting with the Stop Requested podcast crew about #transit advocacy and my upcoming @islandpress.bsky.social book -- give it a listen here
open.spotify.com/episode/2omu...

Fighting to Win Better Transit with Author & Advocate Carter Lavin

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The Oaklandside @oaklandside.org · 2d

Leaders of the health sciences university hope to double their enrollment and bring much needed foot traffic to the city center.

Samuel Merritt University's $240M campus to bring 2,000 students to downtown Oakland

Leaders of the health sciences university hope to double their enrollment and bring much needed foot traffic to the city center.

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Brandon Harami @brandonsedai.bsky.social · 2d

Breaking news: local man lands the cutest boyfriend, more at 11.

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Brandon Harami @brandonsedai.bsky.social · 3d

Had a lovely hike at Sibley yesterday afternoon with some friends. Normally I am a morning hiker but it was nice to see some herps while out. Snagged photos of a Western Fence lizard and a Northern Alligator Lizard. And of course Mt. Diablo in all her glory.

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Carter Lavin @carterlavin.bsky.social · 4d

Happy Week Without Driving! Tens of millions of people cannot drive and countless people have few options to get around besides driving. But everyone can help win changes to their community to make it easier to get around without a car and this book is here to help
islandpress.org/books/if-you...

If You Want to Win, You've Got to Fight

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Brandon Harami @brandonsedai.bsky.social · 4d

Helping this QT get a new ebike at The New Wheel.

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Brandon Harami @brandonsedai.bsky.social · 5d

Just found out that Jaurez appears to be lobbying at city hall again but is not a paid lobbyist. Again for ABC security. What is going on???

And thanks to the Oakland Observer @hyphyrepublic.bsky.social for catching this!

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Brandon Harami @brandonsedai.bsky.social · 5d

I’d rather be unemployed than a lying, pathetic, rejected mouthpiece for the Nerd Reich.

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Brandon Harami @brandonsedai.bsky.social · 5d

Kids in their enclosures

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Brandon Harami @brandonsedai.bsky.social · 5d

Just a reminder that the key witness in the FBI probe in the East Bay is known for this kind of stuff. He owes a lot of other people money too. He’s also tight with the people who ran the recalls, and both Sam Singer and Seneca Scott uplifted some of his projects.

oaklandside.org/2025/10/02/o...

Key figure in Oakland FBI corruption case sought $225,000 in city grants

Three years before an alleged plot to bribe Oakland’s mayor surfaced, Mario Juarez applied for city funds to invest in properties — alarming at least one city staffer.

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Brandon Harami @brandonsedai.bsky.social · 7d

Yall recalled the Mayor and DA who started thus trend fyi

Jaime Omar Yassin [TNH] @hyphyrepublic.bsky.social · 7d

Despite a recent worrisome uptick in violence, Oakland's stats show a marked crime reduction from 2024--itself reduction from 2023. Rather than ask what's working, how crime fell with OPD staffing at record lows, CMs follow exploitative media's lead & pretend crime has increased

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Brandon Harami @brandonsedai.bsky.social · 7d

I might need to leave the Oakland Animal Services Foster Care group because the number of euthanized dog posts I’m seeing is too high. Perfectly healthy babies put to death early because we can’t fund our animal shelter.

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Brandon Harami @brandonsedai.bsky.social · 9d

The part where they have to pay your attorney fees if you win one is so nice.

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Brandon Harami @brandonsedai.bsky.social · 9d

I think you don’t understand this motion very well if you think it includes discovery too. It take a real idiot to go into a legal motion without researching it first. Especially if you brag it’s going to do something it doesn’t.

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