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great-offices.bsky.social
@great-offices.bsky.social
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Political dilettante who stumbled into SF politics without realizing how tribal it was. If we can't figure it out in 7x7 miles, can we figure it out anywhere? Here hoping the internet can still host genuine curiosity.
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#democrats #politics #sfpolitics
August 7, 2025 at 8:54 PM
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#art #photography #tech #ai #sanfrancisco
Sticker found on the back of a road sign in San Francisco featuring a photorealistic illustration of Mark Zuckerberg's face and the word "BITCH" printed in red lettering across his forehead. In white lettering, a website is advertised at the bottom: MarkZuckerbergIsABitch.com. I did visit the website, and it's a simple animation that allows you to slap Zuck in the face and call him a bitch. It reminds me of peak Newgrounds.com flash games. I find early internet nostalgia is a salve for the soul in the dark days of 2025. Real violence is not supported or condoned, of course, but this little Zucker famously carried a card that read, "I'm CEO, bitch," and if it's okay for him to address his general audience as bitch, I think it's okay that we return the favor. Maybe it's even a term of endearment for some? Who knows. I'm sure there are fans somewhere for an oligarch obsessed with imperialism. His recent glow up and alpha combat training successfully rebranded his tech dork persona. He still seems like an unsocialized dweeb though, right? Is that the problem with our latest oligarchy? Is it a ridiculous stretch to prefer a robber baron who built train tracks, steel, or pipelines to the one that supercharged rage baiting with cute thumbs-up logos? Bald, buff, alpha Bezos carries a similar energy. Is it their loud small dick energy what makes them a more insufferable kind of billionaire? Or am I falling for the same trap as the early internet nostalgia? Golden Age Thinking. Was it better then? Carnegie gave us a bunch of public libraries at least. But, no. It was called the gilded age for a reason, and we're entering a new gilded age now. One where we need to face down wealth inequality, big money in politics, and election reform for a new progressive era... just like we did in the past. Until then, I think we've earned the right to virtually slap an oligarch at least a few times. I think he would prefer that to an actual revolution if given the choice. You're welcome, Z
August 6, 2025 at 10:55 PM
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Lefty #Democrats nurture politics that focus on figuring out who isn't on our side and making it known, rather than inviting people into the conversation that agree on most things. @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social genuinely seems to be looking for where you agree with him; I hope it catches on #politics
August 6, 2025 at 9:47 PM
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Would like to see more of these conversations. Are Saikat and Zephyr the right reps for the anti-'Abundance Bros?' I see a lot of agreement here. Yes: big money out of politics. Yes: state capacity can solve ambitious problems.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ib1w...

#Democrats #Politics #SFPolitics
Three Visions of Where Democrats Went Wrong | The Ezra Klein Show
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August 6, 2025 at 8:12 PM
great-offices.bsky.social
Entertain us

#art #photography #sanfrancisco #sfpolitics
Stenciled street art reads, “slaves of boredom and fear” in white lettering on a red aluminum sheet wrapped around a telephone pole. In 2025, everything is presented as entertainment. That positioning has been coming for every aspect of our culture for some time now, and it’s what leads us to the collective sense that IRL Idiocracy is happening in our government and politics. New media’s broad, but fractured reach replaces a unified message that was once reported, critiqued, and discussed in relative coherence. In its place, the willing audiences (i.e all of us) are served curated sound bites. Personalization, man. Now viewers can cheer on their favorite team, dawning their colors proudly on their officially licensed (or not) hats and t-shirts. Every win, a Super Bowl of ecstasy. Each loss, the result of the idiotic officials who should be fired. Anger is more fun than boredom like any positive integer is greater than 0. Obvious truths and defined enemies relieve the fear and anxiety that comes with uncertainty. Economic uncertainty. The uncertainty of finding purpose, acceptance. That pesky human condition itself. All solved by consumable entertainment. A front row seat to wherever passive, personalized, segregated, willingly ignorant participation gets us. And I’m right there with you sad 😢🍿
August 5, 2025 at 9:04 PM
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The comments are as predictable as the Left is impossible to appease.
acyn.bsky.social Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · Aug 4
Murphy: Kamala Harris ran a campaign asking people to defend democracy, when a lot of people looked at this version of democracy and said, if this is the version of democracy that you're defending, I don't want it. Democrats need to be for a version of democracy that’s clean and not corrupt
August 4, 2025 at 4:00 AM
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Weird choice unless you *really* feel strongly about the long shot MAGA candidate for CA Governor. Silly personal political move, and really not helping the brand of the "moderates" in SF who supported his re-election. #sfpolitics

missionlocal.org/2025/08/chad...
S.F. sheriff's endorsement of MAGA Trumper makes no damn sense
‘There isn’t a good reason to do this,' political strategist says of Paul Miyamoto. 'There isn’t even a bad reason to do this.’
missionlocal.org
August 4, 2025 at 8:48 PM
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Is it all too little too late for #Progressives that have been banging this drum for ages? Or is there still a window for moderate #Democrats to come to their senses on #Gaza? Wondering if this issue is a permanent deal breaker for a coalition.

www.politico.com/news/2025/08...
#politics #sfpolitics
Moderate Democrats change their tone on Israel
Ritchie Torres is threading a needle after emphatic defense of Israel for most of the war.
www.politico.com
August 4, 2025 at 8:39 PM
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@rbreich.bsky.social which candidates are embracing this? Can they win without the big money we need to get rid of?
rbreich.bsky.social Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · Aug 4
Busting up big corporations and tackling Wall Street’s greed.

Getting big money out of politics. 

Strengthening unions and fighting for higher wages.

Medicare for all, paid family leave, universal childcare...

This is the progressive populist agenda we need in America.
August 4, 2025 at 8:05 PM
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1.6% of donations make it to actual campaigns, and the irony of “End Citizen United” being one of the PACs under this umbrella. Grifting is becoming too normalized on both sides. Campaign financing today is a problem. #politics #democrats
adambonica.bsky.social Adam Bonica @adambonica.bsky.social · Aug 3
The annoying spam texts destroying the Democratic brand:

$678M raised through those spam tactics

$282M to one consulting firm: Mothership Strategies.

$11M to actual campaigns (1.6%)

The party isn’t just treating donors like marks—it’s being fleeced itself yet continues to back Mothership.
The Mothership Vortex: An Investigation Into the Firm at the Heart of the Democratic Spam Machine
How a single consulting firm extracted $282 million from a network of spam PACs while delivering just $11 million to actual campaigns.
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August 4, 2025 at 3:38 AM
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For sure haunted.

#photography #horror #SanFrancisco
A ouija board box on the side of the road with a post-it note that reads, “Free.” If I didn’t have plans this weekend, I’d pick this up for a light haunting. Just a 3-day adventure. Nobody gets hurt, but there’s some excitement, and we have a whole new perspective on the universe in the end. Sounds fun.
August 1, 2025 at 11:33 PM
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Shots fired by @jackiefielder.bsky.social. Love a #Progressive rejecting NIMBYs (it's 100% affordable housing here, people). Pretty searing #Abundance anaphora though; no love lost between the #Democrat crews. Eye opening police spending too... damn. #SFPolitics

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August 1, 2025 at 11:23 PM
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This sticker still sticks with me.

#politics #sfpolitics #sf #sanfrancisco #tech #capitalism #photography #streetphotography #existentialcrisis
Photo of a sticker reads, "you don't hate Mondays, you hate capitalism." Phew. Do I hate capitalism? Made me think about being raised in America, and seeing rich people as generally "successful," and dreaming with my friends for so long to be rich myself... and the pressure to earn, achieve, stay busy, get good titles. And the long path to realizing that McKinsey management consultants aren't actually good at everything, despite getting handed executive jobs after 2 years of making PowerPoints, and, man, I made so many powerpoints too... I hate powerpoint, haha. But I also struggle with the fact that this IS the system, and is it really only revolution that can change it? I find I'm always pulled back to pragmatic incrementalism instead, and I am quiet when my friends brag about their expensive purchases, or callously refer to bums on the street. San Francisco, man. It's a microcosm of late stage capitalism. I once watched someone getting paid to wash a bright yellow Lamborghini parked directly next to a homeless encampment in SOMA. What even is that? I had a friend come visit the city and say it had "been a long time since I had to walk by a homeless person and wonder if it was a pile of garbage or a human being." He meant that to be a dig at the city... and without thinking, I told him: whether he saw homeless people in his suburb or not, we're living in the same system. He's participating in it as much as anybody else is; it's just that we can see it in the city. He rolled his eyes, "Oh, so San Francisco is noble because it has visible homelessness?" Fuck, man. Maybe. Maybe that's what it takes to question the status quo. Maybe.
July 31, 2025 at 7:27 PM
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Ah, so populism is path forward for Dems. I still dream of an Abundance + Progressive coalition. The 'optimize capitalism' vs 'capitalism is broken' crews could unite around: affordable housing, universal healthcare, tax wealth not work... and crucially: campaign finance reform tinyurl.com/47hs948z
Poll: Democratic voters prefer "populism" over "abundance"
Democrats are asking themselves some hard questions as they ponder how they lost the 2024 election.
tinyurl.com
July 31, 2025 at 6:58 PM
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Agree with the premise, but unsure of the strategy. American 'populism' is always a performance because campaigns need funding. It's more about picking which elites to scapegoat publicly while keeping donor money flowing privately. That's a tough needle to thread. #Democrats #Politics 1/4
rokhanna.bsky.social Ro Khanna @rokhanna.bsky.social · Jul 31
We need a rebirth of the Democratic party. We need to be a new populist party. That is why I am pushing so hard for the full release of the Epstein files. The question is: whose side are you on?
July 31, 2025 at 6:40 PM
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"Focused on the cost of living and promoted the “abundance” housing movement, "slammed what he described as the Israeli government’s “genocide” in Gaza, called for wholesale structural changes to U.S. foreign policy, and denounced Trump’s climate and immigration policies" 🤔 #sfpolitics #politics #sf
July 31, 2025 at 4:50 AM
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Snapped 2 blocks apart. Heavy-handed stuff.

#sf #ai #tech #politics #streetphotography
Two photos taken blocks apart. In the first photo, some savvy tech marketer thought it would be worth the controversy to buy a billboard with the moronic headline: Stop Hiring Humans. "Our AI SDR has the bandwidth to filter out all of the complaints and prank phone calls... it's genius!" Meanwhile, 2 blocks later, some office is advertising "Private Islands, Mega Yachts, and Floating Villas" right above a man fishing for cans in a recycle bin. Not great, not great. Cynicism is a solid coping mechanism I personally subscribe to, but it doesn't help us as we face challenges the real challenges of the future of work and AI. Let's capture some of this increased productivity for a 4-day work week or universal income or something, man. And maybe tax the shit out of mega yachts. The full picture on the left may was actually even bleaker with the SF ICE Field Office looming in the background. This is 2025. This doesn't define San Francisco, but this is a side of it that's very real.
July 30, 2025 at 8:32 PM
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It's old, but if there are other late bloomers that need an intro, this is a good one. I heard it 2 years ago, and have blamed the duopoly for something every day since.

freakonomics.com/podcast/amer...

#politics #democrats #duopoly
America’s Hidden Duopoly - Freakonomics
America’s Hidden Duopoly - Freakonomics
freakonomics.com
July 30, 2025 at 6:44 AM