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Either option is disqualifying imo.

In addition, Bilal has one of the most conservative voting records in recent BoS history. I's like to see some acknowledgement of this from a self-proclaimed "progressive".
November 7, 2025 at 8:41 PM
... "blocked housing".

These are the same talking points used by Grow SF and other neoliberal attackers. My take is that either a) he was extremely uninformed about local politics and did not think much about a $10k+ donation, or b) he was informed but cannot admit that he was wrong about Bilal.
November 7, 2025 at 8:41 PM
For context: I am a DSA SF member and went to one of Saikat's SF resident zoom calls.

When I asked Saikat why he donated to Bilal, he said he believed they were both progressives but he though Bilal would do more to get housing built, and that he was disappointed in some of Dean's votes that...
November 7, 2025 at 8:41 PM
October 21, 2025 at 3:55 AM
I don’t mean to imply that living in the suburbs makes you a racist, but you have to know how history has impacted the modern state of our cities.
August 10, 2025 at 11:12 PM
Ope looks like someone didn’t want to acknowledge that they may have benefited from systemic racism
August 10, 2025 at 11:11 PM
If you can’t see that all suburban wealth, including yours, is built on racial and economic segregation, then how are you supposed to begin to right these historical wrongs?
August 10, 2025 at 10:52 PM