Once again, the @sfbos—particularly @AaronPeskin and @conniechansf—is doing everything in its power to ensure we are locked in a permanent state of not enough housing, pushing rents and evictions and homelessness ever higher. Just insane. sfchronicle.com/sf/article/May…
When you insure that no housing developments are built—even when 25% or more of units are affordable—you are not being progressive. You're throwing a can of gasoline on a regional crisis of epic proportions and benefiting the rich most of all.
If you live in Oakland and you wonder why rents there have gone through the roof, look to @sfbos (and all the towns on the peninsula)
Grizzled reporter here but, as a rule of thumb, if you block something from coming to a full vote, you're almost always carrying water for something.
3/ There is no more vital topic, and we don't silo it off from the rest of the newsroom, or treat it like an afterthought. But we want candidates to tell us how they'd like to approach the beat in 2022. motherjones.com/jobs/climate-r…
1/ Attn screenwriters & true crime podcasters: the further down this rabbit hole you go, the more insane this story gets. Top line is that this guy, a rape suspect, fakes his own death, flees to Scotland, where he's found on a ventilator for Covid. But... nytimes.com/2022/01/13/us/…
2/ a few minutes of Googling unearths so much more. he claimed that he was abused in RI's child welfare system. Became a state legislative page at 14. There a state rep felt so bad he offered to adopt him. He was waived off by a family judge (!!)
3/ Do you know how sus you have to be for a family court judge to warn a state rep not to adopt you? I mean... (also, the judge's name is Jeremiah Jeremiah? That's just insanely on the nose, writers.)
1/ @daveweigel is a great reporter, and no piece for a national audience can summarize a 2+ multifront debate but from where I sit, couple of things this misses washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/…
2/ First, I think it's a mistake to look at the SFUSD recall as mostly/just a progressive vs moderate debate. There are a lot of very left people who've had it with the school board.
3/ Nor are people who are pro SFUSD recall necessarily aligned with the Boudin recall. Some are, some aren't. Lots of people passionately care about one and don't really care about the other.
1/ It's a mistake to think that kids' mental health problems are just because of school closures as opposed to pandemic trauma broadly, plus climate change, school shootings, and all the ways adults are fucking their future.
just as...
2/...it's a mistake to think that teachers are concerned only with their own health. Or that the POC parents who were among the most reluctant to send kids back before vaccines were available/pandemic ebbed aren't making nuanced risk assessments of relative risks to their kids.
3/ You don't have to have kids to recognize that these tradeoffs aren't easily reduced, you only need to listen to a wide variety of parents, kids, and educators.
Lot of liberal pundit handwringing to the effect of "we can close schools now that we know of the great harms to kid's mental health"
which, yes, but...
(CTU maybe aside) is anyone pushing closures that aren't solely prompted by staff shortages due to their own infections?
Like pundits seem to be fighting the last war. Excepting SFUSD, they've been mostly back for a year. And even SFUSD isn't headed toward indefinite closures.
But if 30% of a school's staff is out sick/isolating, then yeah, duh, there are going to be some closed schools or classes.
NPR spent more time this morning dancing around the fact that his language was "more vulgar" than they would repeat/Anglicize than what (if anything) he was trying to signal re strategy.
"make life really shitty for if they won't get vaccinated" is pretty different than just "shit upon."