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Michael Torres retweeted
absolutely did not expect this but HUGE for Raman and shows where this race is leaning
TMZ: Arnold Schwarzenegger is opening doors for Los Angeles mayoral candidate Nithya Raman... bringing her face-to-face with some of the city's biggest power players.
Sources with direct knowledge tell us Schwarzenegger hosted an off-the-record meeting at his L.A. office last week, where leaders in Hollywood, business and nonprofits could ask Raman anything they wanted.
tmz.com/2026/09/25/arnold-sc…
Michael Torres retweeted
The lesson of the masking drama at the Massachusetts lesbian bar is that you can't negotiate with terrorists, even ones with Long Covid:
theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0…
Michael Torres retweeted
In the Mayor Lurie vs Mayor Mamdani Abundance sweepstakes, there is no contest
Mamdani's housing agency is upzoning for Missing Massive to turn its HQ—one building—into half a decade of new SF housing
Lurie, meanwhile, is fighting in court to avoid fully implementing SB79
Every day @sfgov decides to make opening beloved small businesses a kafkaesque nightmare while subsidizing open crack dealing on sidewalks and playgrounds.
Widely popular San Francisco bakery nixes plan to open second location, cites issues with city permitting
STORY: kron4.com/news/food-business…
Michael Torres retweeted
Want to sit next to someone who *isn’t* masturbating? $30.
United employees forced a 25 year old woman to return to her seat next to a man who was masturbating because the flight was full. After landing, the airline told the woman it was her responsibility to contact police and gave her a $100 travel credit.
nbcnews.com/news/us-news/pas…
San Francisco needs more homes, safer streets, and busy storefronts. Manny wants to build 10,000 homes in District 8 over eight years, get fentanyl dealers off our streets, and fill vacant storefronts.
Vote Manny Yekutiel for District 8 Supervisor.
Michael Torres retweeted
Liza Minnelli has outlived the Saturday mask mandate at Last Ditch, a COVID-conscious lesbian bar in Massachusetts.
Michael Torres retweeted
At what point do we acknowledge what’s happening here? Or do we just stand by like good Germans?
A 36-year-old Costa Rican man whose family says he complained of missing insulin shots and meals to manage his diabetes is the third detainee to die in less than six months at an ICE facility in Louisiana. nbcnews.com/news/us-news/cos…
Michael Torres retweeted
The lesbian bar story is a sad microcosm of much of modern leftist culture. All the most annoying and punitive people are given infinite social capital and anyone who holds them accountable is relentlessly harassed by their orbiters.
Michael Torres retweeted
This is Supervisor Connie Chan’s neighborhood. Shopkeeper John Tewolde got beaten to death with a bat at Richmond Market trying to stop a guy stealing beer. She spent years talking about everything except more cops on the street. Now she wants to go to Congress. Watch this.
@conniechansf
Connie Chan opposed housing. Opposed transit. Opposed public safety measures. Opposed the school board recall. Opposed outdoor dining. Even opposed a ferris wheel.
What has she actually done as supervisor besides say no?
growusa.org/everything-conni…
The Bay Area is being held hostage by its transit agencies. They want, again, to raise taxes, claiming they need more or they threaten to shut down.
This is a false choice. There is plenty of funding. It gets incinerated by graft and incompetency that the agencies refuse to name and address.
Facing a fiscal cliff, Bay Area transit systems are planning major service cuts. SPUR measured the human toll of the cuts in traffic delays, carbon emissions, and dollars & cents. It’s not a pretty picture—but it's avoidable if we pass props RTM and H. spur.org/bumpertobumper
Michael Torres retweeted
He's absolutely right, and GrowSF did it first
🚨 At the U20 Mayors Summit, Mamdani Says the Left Has Ceded “Quality of Life,” “Efficiency,” and “Fraud and Waste” to the Right
This was one of the more interesting arguments Zohran Mamdani made today at the U20 Mayors Summit, and a reminder that he can be genuinely sharp when he drops the “central casting” routine.
“In New York City, there are certain words that have taken on ideological associations.”
“Quality of life has come to be seen as somehow a right-wing concern. Efficiency… has been taken on as a right-wing concern, rooting out fraud and waste, a right-wing concern.”
Mamdani’s argument is that refusing to engage those issues actually helps the Right.
“If you are staring at an example of social disorder or social inefficiency, and the left refuses to explain either why it has happened or how they will fix it, then the right gets to point at someone in the immediate area and say, ‘That’s who did it.’”
The harder question is how much of the broader Left is actually prepared to follow the advice.
