Video editing & motion graphics. Plants. Art History major. Recovering visualist/underground events producer. Urbanist/YIMBY.
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Jon 👾👾👾💥👾👾 retweeted
Proud to be part of the largest incoming class of Democratic freshmen since FDR was President!
Jon 👾👾👾💥👾👾 retweeted
This new Reuters report is stunning.
A week before the U.S. captured Venezuela's leader, JD Vance reportedly met at a private Montana ski club with John Addison, an oil trader who had given $300,000 to help elect Vance to the Senate in 2022. Vance allegedly asked how fast Venezuela's oil could be sold if America took control of it.
Both men deny the meeting.
Flight records show their planes parked together that day.
Two days after the Venezuela operation, Energy Secretary Chris Wright called Addison and offered his company, Vitol, the job of selling Venezuela's oil. There was no public bidding. Vitol and one rival have since made hundreds of millions of dollars.
Addison and his wife also gave $7 million to help elect Trump, and he now chairs a board advising Secretary Wright.
Congress has a duty to act.
We should bring Secretary Wright, Vitol, and Addison in to testify under oath. We should demand the phone records, emails, and flight logs. We should find out whether anyone got a heads-up about a military operation. And we should require open, competitive bidding before any company profits from our foreign policy.
If nothing was wrong, let’s see the records.
reuters.com/business/energy/…
Jon 👾👾👾💥👾👾 retweeted
Q: President Trump said Liz Cheney should go to jail and Adam Schiff should go to prison. He declared Barack Obama guilty of treason. What specifically have Democrats said that crosses a criminal line in your view that the President’s statements don’t?
Blanche: Free speech is allowed but there can come a point when a criticism becomes a threat and when a threat becomes something criminal.
Jon 👾👾👾💥👾👾 retweeted
This is f*cking insane
Everyone is talking about Jensen Huang's affair this week. Almost nobody is talking about what he said about paying $8 billion in taxes
Nvidia CEO, asked about California's billionaire tax:
"The fact that I can afford to pay $8 billion in taxes over five years is a privilege"
"I'm not afraid of paying taxes. I'm just afraid of being poor"
In 3 minutes, he explains why he's fine paying it while other billionaires spend millions fighting it:
0:31 - "I don't mind paying taxes. Why not?"
0:33 - The one thing he hates: tax dollars wasted
1:05 - "I am the ultimate American dream"
2:13 - The question: $8B over five years, still worth it?
2:37 - Afraid of being poor, not of taxes
2:51 - Why he pays his people as much as possible, not as little
When billionaires fight a tax, most people blame greed
Jensen is teaching the math underneath:
country → education → company → merit → success → taxes
Old way: pay as little as possible, to the state and to your people
New way: paying more is the proof you won
Better than any $2,000 finance course I've seen
Is he right or is that easy to say when you're a billionaire?
Jon 👾👾👾💥👾👾 retweeted
NEW: Sources inside the Presidio expect Interior Secretary Doug Burgum to take a seat at the table as the Presidio Trust’s new, Trump-appointed board meets in person for the first time Thursday.
@sfchronicle
shorturl.at/7OIfm
Jon 👾👾👾💥👾👾 retweeted
The depravity will continue
NEW: The @nytimes confirms that ICE deliberately electronically "disappeared" tens of thousands of people in detention and ordered contractors to refuse to reveal where they're held to family or lawyers.
30% of all immigrants detained in ICE jails now have their location hidden.
Jon 👾👾👾💥👾👾 retweeted
A more crowd-pleasing take: The New York Times’ 1944 article introducing the world to pizza is a lot of fun.
Jon 👾👾👾💥👾👾 retweeted
On average, Supervisor Connie Chan earned the votes of lower-income and working-class parts of San Francisco — but more ideologically leftist areas actually leaned toward Sen. Scott Wiener. sfchronicle.com/election/art…
Jon 👾👾👾💥👾👾 retweeted
I haven't seen a better example of the NIMBY paradox.
In 2024, majority of neighborhood adjacent to waterfront voted AGAINST closing it to cars. They lost, cars were banned. This year, same issue up for vote again, this time the same NIMBY neighborhood voted to KEEP the park.
San Francisco's Westside voters, who strongly opposed transforming the Great Highway into a park in 2024, have come around.
Most voters in the Richmond and the Sunset are against Prop. G, which would’ve turned Sunset Dunes back to a road on weekdays.
by @junyao98 @kellywaldro
Jon 👾👾👾💥👾👾 retweeted
Went back to the piece I wrote when Sec Hegseth was a nominee. He didn’t learn or grow in a job that requires both, and more.
"My concerns were that nominee Hegseth seemed unaware of the demands of the job, what he needed to learn, and that he might not possess the humility, curiosity, and temperament necessary to grow into the job." @MarkHertling was right. NEW:
lnk.thebulwark.com/3VaTcFo
Jon 👾👾👾💥👾👾 retweeted
1. Illegal war on Iran in violation of War Powers Res.
2. Illegal war on Iran AFTER Congress disapproved
3. War on Iran in violation of War Powers Res. time limits
4. Illegal killings of civilians
5. Extrajudicial killings in South America
6. Attack on free speech of veterans (eg Sen. Kelly)
7. Kidnapping of a sovereign foreign leader (Maduro)
8. Another illegal war in Yemen.
npr.org/2026/11/09/nx-s1-603…
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New: Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky is committing $100 million to SF parks in what Mayor Lurie's administration says will be the largest contribution the city has ever received from 1 donor. sfchronicle.com/sf/article/a…
Jon 👾👾👾💥👾👾 retweeted
It's good to have tech companies starting in SF and staying in SF. We should do whatever we can to avoid losing these companies to the Peninsula (as Stripe was unfortunately forced to do because of our stupid tax policies) as they scale.
New: Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky is committing $100 million to SF parks in what Mayor Lurie's administration says will be the largest contribution the city has ever received from 1 donor. sfchronicle.com/sf/article/a…
Jon 👾👾👾💥👾👾 retweeted
Proud to be a member of the Congressional Progressive Caucus, which will play a critical role advancing priorities to lower people’s cost of living and to stand up for democracy and the rule of law.
Jon 👾👾👾💥👾👾 retweeted
1/ I'll explain exactly how this happened because I'm the person at Forbes who calculates these numbers.
This is going to take some unraveling, but here's a spoiler: The president's answer here is nonsense.
Jon 👾👾👾💥👾👾 retweeted
alright the people Quibbled with my blocs, so I iterated, and also am letting you see what it looks like with 5 and 6 blocs.
Westside gets its own bloc at 5, and the urbanists split into tax-loving and relatively tax-skeptical factions at 6.
all the deets and appealing maps in replies
The 4 voting blocs in SF:
35% establishment Dems, Scott/Connie split, party-line, Yes on taxes, even 38
27% neoliberal urbanists, voting for Scott, Ben Allen, No on G, No on 40
22% labor left, voting for Connie, Jane Kim, No on G (🫶), Yes on 40
16% conservatives, voting for Connie (‼️), Hilton, Yes on G, No on taxes.
