J Flom
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Oh hey.
@sfgate.com won its first two Society of Professional Journalists awards ever this year, which is great, but what's better is our Senior Photo Editor Charles Russo sitting down to talk about the story behind one of the winners: our photo spread from the A's final game in Oakland.
@sfgate.com won its first two Society of Professional Journalists awards ever this year, which is great, but what's better is our Senior Photo Editor Charles Russo sitting down to talk about the story behind one of the winners: our photo spread from the A's final game in Oakland.
December 16, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Oh hey.
@sfgate.com won its first two Society of Professional Journalists awards ever this year, which is great, but what's better is our Senior Photo Editor Charles Russo sitting down to talk about the story behind one of the winners: our photo spread from the A's final game in Oakland.
@sfgate.com won its first two Society of Professional Journalists awards ever this year, which is great, but what's better is our Senior Photo Editor Charles Russo sitting down to talk about the story behind one of the winners: our photo spread from the A's final game in Oakland.
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In Feb 2023, I attended a climate skeptics conference in Orlando. I was the only reporter.
David Stevenson told me there that the offshore wind industry would “crumble” before it reached South Carolina. And that he was leading the opposition.
I followed him for 3 years and wrote this story.
David Stevenson told me there that the offshore wind industry would “crumble” before it reached South Carolina. And that he was leading the opposition.
I followed him for 3 years and wrote this story.
The man behind the fall of offshore wind
David Stevenson has solar on his roof and drives a hybrid. How did he become the leader of the movement that helped Trump crush offshore wind farms?
www.canarymedia.com
December 11, 2025 at 2:44 PM
In Feb 2023, I attended a climate skeptics conference in Orlando. I was the only reporter.
David Stevenson told me there that the offshore wind industry would “crumble” before it reached South Carolina. And that he was leading the opposition.
I followed him for 3 years and wrote this story.
David Stevenson told me there that the offshore wind industry would “crumble” before it reached South Carolina. And that he was leading the opposition.
I followed him for 3 years and wrote this story.
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Wild how the Fed chair saying that *entire regions of the United States* won’t be able to get a mortgage in the next decade barely registered as a news event
June 18, 2025 at 8:14 PM
Wild how the Fed chair saying that *entire regions of the United States* won’t be able to get a mortgage in the next decade barely registered as a news event
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Zillow, the United States’ largest real estate marketplace, has removed climate risk information from home listings on its website.
Zillow is dropping climate risk scores. Here’s why it matters
Zillow, the United States’ largest real estate marketplace, has removed climate risk information from home listings on its website.
bit.ly
December 3, 2025 at 2:40 AM
Zillow, the United States’ largest real estate marketplace, has removed climate risk information from home listings on its website.
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And we knew this. This wasn't speculation. We studied it, we had the talking points. We trained volunteers to explain this to people. It's not a surprise. Rich people don't flee places with good quality of life when we increase the quality of life. They might try to cheat us, but they don't leave.
NEW: The first two years of Massachusetts' millionaire tax has raised $3 billion more than expected.
And rather than driving the rich away, IPS researchers found that the number of millionaires has *increased.*
Tax the rich. Greg Ryan in @bloomberg.com:
And rather than driving the rich away, IPS researchers found that the number of millionaires has *increased.*
Tax the rich. Greg Ryan in @bloomberg.com:
Millionaire Tax That Inspired Mamdani Fuels $5.7 Billion Haul in Massachusetts
A millionaire levy in Massachusetts that New York City mayoral frontrunner Zohran Mamdani holds up as a model for taxing the rich has generated $3 billion more in revenue than expected without forcing...
www.bloomberg.com
November 14, 2025 at 4:16 AM
And we knew this. This wasn't speculation. We studied it, we had the talking points. We trained volunteers to explain this to people. It's not a surprise. Rich people don't flee places with good quality of life when we increase the quality of life. They might try to cheat us, but they don't leave.
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They warn you about sleep deprivation and losing your identity when you have a newborn but not about the suffocating weight of human history and the early morning meditations on our fleeting mortality
Oops! All existential crises!
November 10, 2025 at 1:33 PM
They warn you about sleep deprivation and losing your identity when you have a newborn but not about the suffocating weight of human history and the early morning meditations on our fleeting mortality
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At Terner Fall Colloquium, Buffy Wicks signals that the next big reform for the state legislature is going to condo liability reform and ownership housing units
November 7, 2025 at 2:00 AM
At Terner Fall Colloquium, Buffy Wicks signals that the next big reform for the state legislature is going to condo liability reform and ownership housing units
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What the fuck do you mean I got a longer prison sentence than Diddy
NEW YORK (AP) — Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs sentenced to 4 years and 2 months in prison in case involving sex workers, violence and ‘freak-offs’.
October 3, 2025 at 9:40 PM
What the fuck do you mean I got a longer prison sentence than Diddy
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The president gets to harm as many Americans as he wants defying whatever laws he pleases and our job is to be nice to him and make sure everyone agrees he's cool. Not sure what you people don't understand about that.
September 6, 2025 at 8:28 PM
The president gets to harm as many Americans as he wants defying whatever laws he pleases and our job is to be nice to him and make sure everyone agrees he's cool. Not sure what you people don't understand about that.
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Prop 13 ground zero, Howard Jarvis' old house in L.A., available again after selling just last June but priced so high the sellers took it off the market in May, now for rent at $14,900: www.zillow.com/homedetails/...
515 N Crescent Heights Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90048 | Zillow
This 3020 square feet Single Family home has 5 bedrooms and 5 bathrooms. It is located at 515 N Crescent Heights Blvd, Los Angeles, CA.
www.zillow.com
August 4, 2025 at 9:09 PM
Prop 13 ground zero, Howard Jarvis' old house in L.A., available again after selling just last June but priced so high the sellers took it off the market in May, now for rent at $14,900: www.zillow.com/homedetails/...
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Bari’s key insight as an entrepreneur is that there is a bottomless demand for rich people to have their existing opinions sold back to them as forbidden knowledge
FT Exclusive: Weiss has met with David Ellison, the incoming owner of CBS News, over a potential deal to sell her three-year-old media company, according to several people familiar with the matter. https://on.ft.com/4eZ6WbM
July 22, 2025 at 9:11 PM
Bari’s key insight as an entrepreneur is that there is a bottomless demand for rich people to have their existing opinions sold back to them as forbidden knowledge
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If your economic development strategy isn't engaged with people under 30, your city will fail to compete
Young people arent going in the Bay Area, killing nightlife. But young people ARE out in many cities and we do have a few examples of successful vibrancy in the Bay. It's time for merchants and planners to update their commercial areas for modern times.
darrellowens.substack.com/p/bay-area-n...
darrellowens.substack.com/p/bay-area-n...
Bay Area Nightlife Sucks. Here's How To Fix It
Why young people are staying home or abandoning the Bay Area, killing local businesses and bars.
darrellowens.substack.com
July 23, 2025 at 1:11 AM
If your economic development strategy isn't engaged with people under 30, your city will fail to compete
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Lowest common denominator of sociopaths who don't feel bad about *tragedy* and idiots who don't want to learn about *statistics*
July 4, 2025 at 5:25 AM
Lowest common denominator of sociopaths who don't feel bad about *tragedy* and idiots who don't want to learn about *statistics*
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Genuinely just the sickest fucks
July 3, 2025 at 11:53 PM
Genuinely just the sickest fucks
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Imagine the Olympics coming to LA in 2028
Mexican boxer Julio Cesar Chavez Jr., who fought Jake Paul on Saturday in CA, has been arrested by U.S. immigration officers and is being processed for expedited removal from the country, the Department of Homeland Security said in a statement Thursday.
DHS: Mexican boxer Chavez Jr. arrested by ICE
The Department of Homeland Security said Mexican boxer Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. has been arrested by U.S. immigration officers and is being processed for expedited removal from the country.
spr.ly
July 3, 2025 at 7:40 PM
Imagine the Olympics coming to LA in 2028
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Climate change is already as costly as the Great Depression & will soon match the Great Recession in financial impact. Though everybody wants to split the two, climate policy is actually economic policy.
My column for
@opinion.bloomberg.com
Now with 🎁 link:
www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...
My column for
@opinion.bloomberg.com
Now with 🎁 link:
www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...
July 2, 2025 at 7:15 PM
Climate change is already as costly as the Great Depression & will soon match the Great Recession in financial impact. Though everybody wants to split the two, climate policy is actually economic policy.
My column for
@opinion.bloomberg.com
Now with 🎁 link:
www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...
My column for
@opinion.bloomberg.com
Now with 🎁 link:
www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...
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Everybody's talking about the CEQA reform that just passed on California. I highly recommend this podcast with the architects of that reform:
The fight to build faster in California
Buffy Wicks and Scott Wiener explain how they're reforming CEQA, the California law that lets anyone with a lawyer delay housing projects for years.
www.volts.wtf
July 1, 2025 at 3:34 AM
Everybody's talking about the CEQA reform that just passed on California. I highly recommend this podcast with the architects of that reform:
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👀 Scoop: Trump and Republicans want USPS to sell off its brand new EVs and chargers.
That would mean literally **ripping up post office parking lots** to auction off assets with no private-sector value.
It’s buried in the Senate’s “One Big Beautiful Bill.”
www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
That would mean literally **ripping up post office parking lots** to auction off assets with no private-sector value.
It’s buried in the Senate’s “One Big Beautiful Bill.”
www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
June 21, 2025 at 1:22 PM
👀 Scoop: Trump and Republicans want USPS to sell off its brand new EVs and chargers.
That would mean literally **ripping up post office parking lots** to auction off assets with no private-sector value.
It’s buried in the Senate’s “One Big Beautiful Bill.”
www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
That would mean literally **ripping up post office parking lots** to auction off assets with no private-sector value.
It’s buried in the Senate’s “One Big Beautiful Bill.”
www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
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History does not yield to censorship or political ideologies. It demands honest, transparent conversations and a commitment to having an evolving understanding of how the past shapes the present and the future.
www.sfgate.com/california-p...
www.sfgate.com/california-p...
Signs to police 'negative' history went up at Manzanar. Historians are nervous.
"It sends a pretty clear message that your story is not welcome here."
www.sfgate.com
June 18, 2025 at 6:29 PM
History does not yield to censorship or political ideologies. It demands honest, transparent conversations and a commitment to having an evolving understanding of how the past shapes the present and the future.
www.sfgate.com/california-p...
www.sfgate.com/california-p...
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Time for some tax bill graphletics!!!
One Big Beautiful Bill Act is policy design at its worst.
In this thread, I show through some charts just how much MORE expensive it is to give a tax break to rich people than it is to provide services to poor ones.
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One Big Beautiful Bill Act is policy design at its worst.
In this thread, I show through some charts just how much MORE expensive it is to give a tax break to rich people than it is to provide services to poor ones.
1/
June 19, 2025 at 4:53 PM
Time for some tax bill graphletics!!!
One Big Beautiful Bill Act is policy design at its worst.
In this thread, I show through some charts just how much MORE expensive it is to give a tax break to rich people than it is to provide services to poor ones.
1/
One Big Beautiful Bill Act is policy design at its worst.
In this thread, I show through some charts just how much MORE expensive it is to give a tax break to rich people than it is to provide services to poor ones.
1/
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The Trump Administration is backing out of the deal with Pacific Northwest tribes to restore salmon runs in the Columbia and Snake Rivers.
Trump Administration Abandons Deal With Northwest Tribes to Restore Salmon
The Trump administration canceled a deal, signed under President Joe Biden, that would have enabled the removal of four hydroelectric dams along the Columbia River that are considered harmful to…
www.propublica.org
June 18, 2025 at 6:01 PM
The Trump Administration is backing out of the deal with Pacific Northwest tribes to restore salmon runs in the Columbia and Snake Rivers.
Costco sold a combo DVD set of the last castle and gladiator (also peak dad movie). They knew what they were doing, and so did my mother who bought it for my brother and me. Now she's a grandma of 4. Fatherhood is forged in the films.
the last castle (2001) is to me the absolute pinnacle of dad movies. robert redford as the noble, wrongly imprisoned army dad. james gandolfini fills the unbearable boss role in the form of a vainglorious and cruel warden. if you want a spectacular Regular Movie this is the one for you
What are some of your favorite Dad movies? Dad movies aren't only about or for Dads. They're enjoyed by everyone but give off Dad vibes. The kind of movie a middle-aged man will stand and watch. A few good ones have already been mentioned so I'll start a list
Field of Dreams
Ford v Ferrari
Heat
Field of Dreams
Ford v Ferrari
Heat
June 15, 2025 at 7:06 PM
Costco sold a combo DVD set of the last castle and gladiator (also peak dad movie). They knew what they were doing, and so did my mother who bought it for my brother and me. Now she's a grandma of 4. Fatherhood is forged in the films.
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Based on crowd-sourced records of No Kings Day event turnout, and extrapolating for the cities where we don't have data yet, it looks like roughly 4-6 million people protested Trump across the U.S. yesterday. That's nearly 2% of the U.S. pop!
Mobilized anti-Trump resistance is exceeding 2017 levels
Mobilized anti-Trump resistance is exceeding 2017 levels
"No Kings Day" protests turn out millions
Our unofficial estimate is that around 4 million people attended a protest event yesterday. Anti-Trump resistance is outpacing 2017.
www.gelliottmorris.com
June 15, 2025 at 11:10 AM
Based on crowd-sourced records of No Kings Day event turnout, and extrapolating for the cities where we don't have data yet, it looks like roughly 4-6 million people protested Trump across the U.S. yesterday. That's nearly 2% of the U.S. pop!
Mobilized anti-Trump resistance is exceeding 2017 levels
Mobilized anti-Trump resistance is exceeding 2017 levels
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Possible that California is hit by its first significant heat wave of the year late next week. 100+ degrees probable in the Central Valley, but some models advertising temperatures as high as 110 degrees, which would shatter May records. #CAwx
May 24, 2025 at 12:14 AM
Possible that California is hit by its first significant heat wave of the year late next week. 100+ degrees probable in the Central Valley, but some models advertising temperatures as high as 110 degrees, which would shatter May records. #CAwx