Tootfinder

What the actual fuck? #BikeNYC

We now know where Kansas City Chiefs' first-round pick will land in 2026 NFL draft https://www.sportingnews.com/us/nfl/kansas-city-chiefs/news/we-now-know-kansas-city-chiefs-first-round-pic…

fun psych pop. think I might buy this SF band's album for #bandcampFriday and/or go see them at 4 Star Theater on 12/13
(when they are playing with Mayya, my favorite local band, which is how I found em)
https://

For anyone in #Chicago, here's an opportunity to stand up for your public library and fight against the devastating proposed cuts: https://www.afscmelocal1215.org/event/loca

🥺 https://plush.city/@PsyChuan/115837472713018286

Psy Chuan :therian: (@PsyChuan@plush.city)
Attached: 1 image anyone in glasgow attend this? how was it? :thumbs_up_paw_e1:

So the city of Houston is blaming its firefighters for clicking on a link in an email the city sent to them that intended to share information about the firefighters’ promotion exam but instead linked to a bunch of social security numbers in the clear.
Houston data breach exposes firefighters’ personal info, union says they’re being blamed

Houston data breach exposes firefighters’ personal info, union says they’re being blamed
Houston firefighters say they’re being unfairly blamed after a city email exposed 7,500 Social Security numbers in a data breach.

Outspoken Democrat Zohran Mamdani beat Trump-endorsed serial sexual harasser Cuomo to become New York City Mayor.Outspoken Democrat Zohran Mamdani beat Trump-endorsed serial sexual harasser Cuomo to become New York City Mayor.
https://abcnews.go.com/Po…

Mamdani makes history with improbable, meteoric rise to become New York's next mayor, ABC News projects
The democratic socialist is set to become the city's first Muslim mayor.

Voter turnout in #NYC mayoral elections is only around 25 % in recent years. To find a mayor elected with more votes than #Mamdani you have to go back to 1965?! John Lindsay was elected with 1,149,106 votes or 45 % on an 80 % turnout.

1965 New York City mayoral election - Wikipedia

I grew up in a large city in a western democracy, with a socialist city government and it was fine.
There was basically no crime. People didn’t go hungry. Housing was affordable. Rent was regulated. Public transport was amazing. Education was free. Everyone had healthcare. Taxes were practically the same as in the US.
It was also much, much easier to start a business there than in the US. (Literally took an hour!)
People who wanted to get rich still could do it (there’s a few Austrian billionaires even).
I don’t understand how Americans got themselves so brainwashed that “socialism” is used as a term that sort of means “iworse than death”.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯

MINORITIES NON-CHRISTIAN RELIGIONS REJECTION OF GREED ADVOCACY OF THE SOCIETAL WHOLE TRUE DEMOCRACY OMG WHAT ARE WE TO DO
#ReleasetheEpsteinfiles
✅ MAGA Melts Down Over Mamdani’s Mayoral Victory: “New York City Has Fallen” | Vanity Fair

MAGA Melts Down Over Mamdani’s Mayoral Victory: “New York City Has Fallen”
The right-wing decries the “major Islam problem in America” as Trump himself vows to retaliate against New York City. The incoming mayor’s response: “To get to any of us, you will have to get through all of us.”

The New Orleans City Council Dec. 3 launched an online portal
for residents to report civil and human rights abuses by ICE and CBP paramilitary units occupying the city during the Trump regime’s anti-migrant occupation.
The launch of the portal, came as CBP forces began disappearing residents in the city, Kenner and other suburban areas of the Greater New Orleans area and parts of the River Parishes

New Orleans launches portal to report human rights abuses by Trump paramilitary units
The New Orleans City Council Dec. 3 launched an online portal for residents to report civil and human rights abuses by ICE and CBP paramilitary units occupying the city during

foursquare_global: Foursquare global check-ins (2013)
A bipartite network of users and locations, representing check-in events worldwide on Foursquare, from April 2012 to September 2013. Metadata include country, city name, city type (e.g. national capital), and vender's latitude and longitude.
This network has 3935215 nodes and 22809624 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Unweighted, Metadata, Timestamps

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #JazzTheatre
sunking:
🎵 Circuit City
#sunking
https://sunkingexperiment.bandcamp.com/track/circuit-city
https://open.spotify.com/track/7sDXOAEwI7MCZkQYehiy0k

Von Miller explains what it's like to be traded, plus Week 10 fantasy prep https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6777648/2025/11/04/von-miller-trade-rams-history-nfl-deadline-scoop-city/

OSINTtechnical (@Osinttechnical): "Major Ukrainian precision strike targeting the Russian city of Belgorod tonight, reportedly knocking out power and water to large portions of the city. Russian channels report that Ukrainian rockets hit the Luch thermal power plant and additional infrastructure." | XCancel
https://xcancel.com/Osinttechnical/status/1974916740799922547?t=y9n_Qrq-boIvl3Qb-y6cpw&s=19

"The Warmth of Collectivism" Comes to City Hall (Adam Lehodey/City Journal)
https://www.city-journal.org/article/zohran-mamdani-inauguration-ceremony
http://www.memeorandum.com/260103/p37#a260103p37

Premier League - Manchester City lässt spät Punkte liegen #News #Nachrichten

Proposed development in Marina is only 11% affordable, a pathetically low percentage, yet “It would…provide six times more affordable homes than have been built in the Marina District in two decades — only 14 below-market-rate units have been constructed since 2005.”
Says so much about the degree to which affordable housing has been both underinvested in and kept out of wealthy neighborhoods.

Johannesburg is showing African cities how climate action gets done.
The city is racing toward net-zero by 2050 with bold moves: diverting 100% of garden waste from landfills by 2040, building micro-grids in informal settlements, and creating jobs while cutting emissions.
Their approach is becoming a model for scalable climate solutions across the continent.

As Enrique Peñalosa, former mayor of Bogotš, said (and Gustavo Petro repeated):
“An advanced city is not one where the poor can get around by car, but one where even the rich use public transportation.” https://sfba.social/@markmetz/115493639268091062

Democracy, innit?
Wonder how the corporate Democrats feel about having Trump’s endorsement. https://dmv.community/@AliceMarshall/115492411417922038

Las Vegas Raiders Week 18 Inactives vs. Kansas City Chiefs https://www.raiders.com/news/las-vegas-raiders-week-18-inactives-vs-kansas-city-chiefs-010426

#ciddle 2025-11-04 (50)
1. ❌ ↘️ 50km
2. ✅
https://ciddle.winklerweb.net

A profile of Riley Walz, whose tech-related pranks in San Francisco blend technical skill with social commentary, including a viral site to track parking police (Heather Knight/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2…

The Tech Jester Who Pranks San Francisco
Riley Walz, 23, has gained fame for his online antics. His latest stunt has upset city officials.

One guess is that they got some region-based data on where the brown and Black people are, and are just going off that.
Another guess is that are targeting specific city council members. This I doubt — unless they’re getting that from local police depts, which I could totally believe.
My own theory is that they really, really, really don’t want white people to see what they’re doing, except through the eyes of the right-wing camera crews that follow them around.
Whatever it is, it’s pretty striking.
2/2

NYC election moments: during the amalgamation, Westchester County voted against joining the City by one vote.

TIL even though everyone in SF colloquially calls it “rent control,” the actual legal term for what we have is “rent stabilization”
The more you know!

foursquare_global: Foursquare global check-ins (2013)
A bipartite network of users and locations, representing check-in events worldwide on Foursquare, from April 2012 to September 2013. Metadata include country, city name, city type (e.g. national capital), and vender's latitude and longitude.
This network has 3935215 nodes and 22809624 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Unweighted, Metadata, Timestamps

Ukrainian drones hit Temryuk port, Syzran refinery, and Grozny-City tower in overnight strikes: https://benborges.xyz/2025/12/05/ukrainian-drones-hit-temryuk-port.html

A shocking cybercrime has shaken India’s digital security landscape, with hackers stealing at least 50,000 CCTV clips over nine months from facilities across the country and selling them online, feeding them into an international porn fetish network for profit.
80 CCTV dashboards in seven cities were compromised using 'admin123' default passwords

Inside India’s voyeur web: 80 CCTV dashboards hacked across 20 states; hospitals, schools, homes streamed to porn channels; 50,000 clips sold | Rajkot News - The Times of India
A shocking cyber scandal has exposed widespread CCTV breaches across India, with hackers exploiting a default password, \"admin123,\" to access intimate

So, apparently, Mamdani is the new mayor of NYC. This could be a huge deal for modern democraciea and the societies that want to retain them. https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/world/577912/us-politics-zohran-mamdani-wins-election-for-new-york-mayora…

Atlanta:
An entire city surrounded by an airport.

Moody Urbanity - Urban surrealism 👒
情绪化城市 - 都市超现实主义 👒
📷 Pentax MX
🎞️ Ilford HP5 Plus 400, expired 1993
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite

This morning we can feel like we're in the big city in our village of 3,000 people: The power outage already lasted long enough to deplete our UPS batteries. It's basically like we'd be living in Berlin 😅
https://www.dw.com/en/germany-power-back-for-some-berliners-but-others-freeze-on/a-75382671

Local. Elections. Matter.
In my city we have a vote today to push back against overreach by the state into local governance. There are just over 75,000 eligible voters.
Gainesville folks - take time today to tell the state to stay out of local governance. Vote Yes for Local Public Utilities.

People complain about the roads but don't do anything about it... well, some of us do.
I've been avoiding these two potholes on my ride home for weeks now, got fed up, finally stopped to report them to the city last week and they just got filled...
In four days. The city street crew filled them in less than a week. Hell Yeah.
(The first photo is what I submitted, second is from the road crew after repairs.)

Increasingly combative tactics used by federal immigration agents are sparking violence and fueling neighborhood tensionsin the nation’s third-largest city.
“They are the ones that are making it a war zone,” Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker said Sunday on CNN.
“They fire tear gas and smoke grenades, and they make it look like it’s a war zone.”
U.S. citizens, immigrants with legal status and children have been among those detained
in increasingly brazen and aggressive encounter…

Immigration agents use increasingly aggressive tactics in Chicago, alarming activists and residents
Activists, residents and elected leaders say increasingly combative tactics used by federal immigration agents are sparking violence and fueling neighborhood tensions in the nation’s third-largest city. That includes storming an apartment complex by helicopter as families slept and deploying chemical agents near a public school. About 1,000 immigrants have been arrested since an immigration crackdown started last month in the Chicago area. But U.S. citizens, immigrants with legal status and c…

Wonder why this #Indonesia #fire, which I only just read about, didn't get nearly as much attention as the one that happened in #Switzerland a week later.

Manado retirement home fire kills 16, victims' identification ongoing
A fire at a retirement home in Manado City, North Sulawesi, on Sunday (December 28) killed 16 occupants, and local police said the identification process was ...

Not a bad read on #Wythenshawe and the redevelopment plans.
The battle for the garden city - Manchester Evening News
https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/ne

The battle for the garden city
Campaigners say Wythenshawe's £500m revamp has 'a real sense of gentrification', but Manchester council points out that it's building 422 all-affordable homes to kick the project off. Ethan Davies reports on the battle for the garden city

Thanksgiving NFL games averaged nearly 45M viewers each, up from 34.5M in 2024, driven by enhanced Nielsen measurement; streaming averaged 2.2M viewers, up 58% (Sara Fischer/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/12/04/nfl-games-chiefs-cowboys-thanksgiving-record

NFL shatters Thanksgiving Day viewership records
The nail-biter between the Dallas Cowboys and the Kansas City Chiefs is now the most-watched regular season game of all time.

Renewables: the only source of energy that actually is too cheap to meter. And that is why Trump, the Republicans and their Billionaire bosses want to make sure renewables are at least slowed down if not stopped.… See more https://polyglot.city/@carbsrule_en/115487780310346171

From these photos one may wonder if the government of Israel retains its legitimacy....
(I support the existence of a self-governing Israel living in peace and safety; I support the same for Palestinians.)
"Photos from inside Gaza show destruction wrought by Israeli military efforts to root out Hamas"

Urban neighborhood in northern Gaza reduced to rubble by Israeli forces
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) — The few buildings still standing in this expanse of northern Gaza protrude from the earth like broken bones.

"Glasgow City Council is currently consulting on active travel improvements around Thornwood Roundabout and National Cycle Network Route 7 (NCN7)."
#cycling

I’m happy to hear about the results in New York. Less so my county and city elections. But tomorrow is another day, and we’ll try again then.

Hong Kong logs warmest October on record #HongKong

Hong Kong logs warmest October on record
Hong Kong's weather service said Tuesday the city endured the hottest October on record, as scientists warn extreme heat will become more frequent and intense because of human-induced climate change globally.

IE 11 is not supported. For an optimal experience visit our site on another browser. (NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2025-elections/new-york-city-mayor-results
http://www.memeorandum.com/251105/p5#a251105p5

only 2 more days to get tickets for the SF Transit Riders gala. see you there?
https://sftransitriders.org/2026-giving/

Game Recap: Raiders' season closed out with walkoff 60-yard field goal over Kansas City Chiefs https://www.raiders.com/news/game-recap-raiders-season-capped-off-with-60-yard-field-goal-over-kansas-city-chiefs

foursquare_global: Foursquare global check-ins (2013)
A bipartite network of users and locations, representing check-in events worldwide on Foursquare, from April 2012 to September 2013. Metadata include country, city name, city type (e.g. national capital), and vender's latitude and longitude.
This network has 3935215 nodes and 22809624 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Unweighted, Metadata, Timestamps

Chiefs vs. Raiders prediction: Kansas City closes tough campaign with a win for Travis Kelce

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/chiefs-vs-raiders-where-to-watch-pick-odds-predi…

At Zohran Mamdani’s victory party at the Brooklyn Paramount on Tuesday night, Democracy Now! spoke with Congressmember Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.
“We’re not going to be intimidated,” Ocasio-Cortez said.
“We’re going to fight for working families. We’re going to stand with immigrants. We’re going to stand with the diversity of this city.”
Brad Lander, former mayoral candidate who cross-endorsed with Mandani in the Democratic primary, commented on the power of having a “Muslim…

This Is How to Fight Fascism: Naomi Klein, AOC & Brad Lander on Mamdani Victory
At Zohran Mamdani’s victory party at the Brooklyn Paramount on Tuesday night, Democracy Now! spoke with Congressmember Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. “We’re not going to be intimidated,” Ocasio-Cortez said. “We’re going to fight for working families. We’re going to stand with immigrants. We’re going to stand with the diversity of this city.” Brad Lander, former mayoral candidate who cross-endorsed with Mandani in the Democratic primary, commented on the power of having a “Muslim …

Progressives may flip Aurora council as voters reject Danielle Jurinsky and other incumbents (Kyle Harris/Denverite)
https://denverite.com/2025/11/05/aurora-city-council-elections-progressive-flip/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251105/p177#a251105p177

When people say "it's socialism for the rich, but rugged capitalism for the poor" I always want to correct them. "Socialism for the rich" is not socialism at all. That's just capitalism. That's the definition of the capitalist state: a committee that manages the collective interest of the whole bourgeoisie.

Russia amasses 170,000 troops near Pokrovsk in bid to encircle the city, Ukrainian soldier says: https://benborges.xyz/2025/11/05/russia-amasses-troops-near-pokrovsk.html

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #AfternoonShow
Horsegirl:
🎵 Rock City
#Horsegirl
https://thisishorsegirl.bandcamp.com/track/rock-city
https://open.spotify.com/track/2fyxdNYZGJVESN4ToVw0lM

Ugh, Vickie Paladino is still in City Council.
Booo!

*sees it start pouring rain while the cafe i'm in is about to close*
damn
*realizes this is a great excuse to browse at the legendary bookstore across the street*
hell yeah

Isaiah Likely landing spots: Could the Ravens TE become Travis Kelce's successor in Kansas City?

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/isaiah-likely-free-agenc…

"also said immigration raids “haven’t gone far enough.”
Trump Brags He Could Invade Your City Whenever He Wants – Mother Jones
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/11/trump-brags-he-could-invade-your-city-whenever-he-wants/

'There is no Mamdani effect': Manhattan luxury home sales surge after mayoral election, undercutting predictions of doom and escape to Florida (Sasha Rogelberg/Fortune)
https://fortune.com/2025/12/04/mamdani-effect-new-york-city-real-estate-manhattan-luxury-millionaires-billionaires/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251205/p45#a251205p45

Live Game Updates: Raiders vs. Chiefs https://www.raiders.com/news/live-game-updates-las-vegas-raiders-vs-kansas-city-chiefs-week-18-010426

I am super impressed with how Ohio newspapers and Ohio journalists in general report on cyber incidents. They've got game.
Cyberattack that crippled Middletown's systems shows how hackers target smaller cities
https://www.cinci…

Cyberattack that crippled Middletown's systems shows how hackers target smaller cities
Over 2 months after a cyberattack took the city's utility payments offline, Middletown can't charge locals. The hack is part of a growing trend.

I can't wait to see this fucker lose by double digits tonight. I know it's unlikely, but I hope he finishes behind Sliwa! #FuckAndrewCuomo
https://nyc.streetsblog.org/20…

Tuesday's Headlines: Cuomo to the End Edition - Streetsblog New York City
The Dodge Charger was nowhere to be found on Monday — replaced by a scofflaw Ford Bronco and OJ jokes. Plus other news.

Las Vegas Raiders 2026 opponents https://www.sportingnews.com/us/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/news/las-vegas-raiders-2026-opponents-kansas-city-chiefs-buffalo-bills/107ea032a0b02b52b55ca5a2

foursquare: Foursquare NYC restaurants (2012)
Two bipartite networks of users and restaurant locations in New York City on Foursquare, from 24 October 2011 to 20 February 2012. In one network, an edge denotes a check-in event of a user at a restaurant. In the other, an edge exists if a user left a tip/comment on a restaurant. Metadata include comments.
This network has 6410 nodes and 10377 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Unweighted, Metadata

Zohran Mamdani’s third day as mayor of New York City was supposed to be dedicated to a long-stalled #pedestrian #safety plan,
the kind of local quality-of-life issue he had made central to his campaign.
Instead, after the U.S. military captured

For Mamdani, a Break With the President Just Three Days Into His New Job
New York City’s newly elected mayor planned to spend Saturday announcing a pedestrian safety plan. Then President Trump brought a captured foreign leader to his doorstep.

Facts: “The report shouldn’t be a shock to anyone...because zoning is just one factor of 100. I’m afraid ‘We’re going to sue the government until the capital markets do what we want’ is basically the textbook definition of San Francisco YIMBYism.” - @…

eu_procurements: EU procurement contract networks (2008-2016)
A bipartite network of public EU procurement contracts, from 2008 to 2016, between issuing buyers (public institutions such as a ministry or city hall) and supplying winners (a private firm). Contracts are aggregated into annual snapshots, edges are annotated with contract value information. Nodes are annotated with location information, including country of origin.
This network has 839824 nodes and 4098711 edges.

A Georgia judge on Tuesday tossed out racketeering charges against dozens of defendants accused of a yearslong "conspiracy" to halt the construction of a police and firefighter training facility that critics call “#Cop #City.”
Fulton County Judge

Charges against dozens of 'Cop City' protesters tossed
A Georgia judge has tossed racketeering charges against dozens of defendants accused of a yearslong conspiracy to halt the construction of a police and firefighter training facility. Critics call it “Cop City.” Fulton County Judge Kevin Farmer tossed the charges Tuesday. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports that Farmer said Republican Attorney General Chris Carr didn’t have the authority to secure the 2023 indictments. Carr’s office said they plan to appeal. The 61 defendants faced …

Mamdani wins New York City mayor's race (Caroline Vakil/The Hill)
https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/5588198-mamdani-progressive-politics-nyc/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251104/p160#a251104p160

I wonder if the bike movement in SF should pivot to bike lockers on residential streets.
"I don't bike in the city because I have no place to store a bike in my apartment building" is almost as common a story as "...because I'm scared of traffic." Maybe we would get less resistance pushing there at this moment. #sfpol

physician_trust: Physician trust network (1966)
A network of trust relationships among physicians in four midwestern (USA) cities in 1966. Edge direction indicates that node i trusts or asks for advice from node j. Each of the four components represent the network within a given city.
This network has 241 nodes and 1098 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Unweighted

Kansas City Chiefs vs Las Vegas Raiders: ¿Cómo, cušndo y dónde ver el duelo de la Semana 18 en la NFL? https://www.chiefs.com/news/kansas-city-chiefs-vs-las-vegas-raiders-como-cuando-y-donde-ver-el-duelo-de-la-semana-18…

White House deputy chief of staff and Homeland Security adviser
Stephen Miller posted an ominous, captionless threat after democratic socialist Zohran Mamdani won the New York City mayoral election on Tuesday night. 
“Almost 50 percent of New Yorkers live in households with at least one immigrant,”
read the screenshot he posted from NYC.gov titled “Family Household Types by Immigration Status”
“Over one million children, equaling 62 percent of the children in New York …

Stephen Miller Posts Cryptic Threat After Zohran Mamdani’s Win
The Trump administration is already vowing to go after New York following Zohran’s election win.

SF's Local Agency Formation Commission "LAFCo" is hiring a policy analyst. This role would be key in the development of a green public bank, which will be on the ballot next year, and potentially in starting a social housing program!
https://careers.sf.gov/role/?id=374399

LAFCo Policy Analyst - Local Agency Formation Commission (LAFCo) - Board of Supervisors - (1823 Senior Administrative Analyst)
Specific information regarding this recruitment process are listed below:Application Opening: November 25, 2025Filing Deadline: December 31, 2025 Recruitment ID: RTF0162212-01148363APPOINTMENT TYPEPermanent Exempt (PEX), Category 18: The San Francisco Local Agency Formation Commission (LAFCo) Policy Analyst position is exempt from Civil Service Rules and serves at the pleasure of the Appointing Officer, the Executive Officer of LAFCo. This is a limited term position with a maximum of one (1)…

Most Immigrants Arrested in City Crackdowns Have No Criminal Record (Albert Sun/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/12/04/us/ice-arrests-criminal-records-data.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/251205/p19#a251205p19

board_directors: Norwegian Boards of Directors (2002-2011)
224 networks of the affiliations among board directors due to sitting on common boards of Norwegian public limited companies (as of 5 August 2009), from May 2002 onward, in monthly snapshots through August 2011. Some metadata is included, such as director and company names, city and postal code for companies, and gender for directors. The 'net2m' data are bipartite company-director networks, while the 'net1m' ar…

Why Raiders' Matchup vs. Chiefs Is Setting Up to be Memorable https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/onsi/kansas-city-why-raiders-matchup-setting-up-memorable

seriously the new-as-of-6-months-ago Stereolab album is so good
it keeps revealing new delights to me on repeated listens. "Immortal Hands" didn't stand out on first listen but is brilliant it turns out

The most celebrated architect of his age, a wry, pugnacious, singular genius,
Frank Gehry, died Friday at 96
In Bilbao and Berlin, New York and, especially, Los Angeles
— where the Canadian-born Gehry settled and became inseparable from the city
— he left behind playful, polarizing, materially and technologically stunning buildings

Frank Gehry: 12 Essential, Stunning Projects
A singular genius, Gehry redefined architecture with joyful buildings like the Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles and the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao.

I've got a bold plan to emphasize some text by making the letters thicker and darker

Life during wartime in New Orleans as feds terrorize Latinos who saved a city (Will Bunch/The Philadelphia Inquirer)
https://www.inquirer.com/opinion/new-orleans-immigration-raids-begin-20251204.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/251204/p85#a251204p85

Magic Fig's Valerian Tea is my favorite 2025 album by a Bay Area band. I'm so happy to have found Magic Fig. The title track, "Flammarion" and "Goblin" are early standouts for me.
https://magicfig.bandcamp.com/album/valerian-tea

If the November 2025 election was a referendum on President Trump, the Democrats have a lot to celebrate tonight.
Democratic candidates swept key races:
Zohran Mamdani, a 34-year-old Democratic socialist, beat Trump-endorsed former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo in a historic election for New York City mayor.

Former Rep. Abigail Spanberger, a 46-year-old Democrat who previously worked as a CIA officer, beat a Republican candidate to become Virginia governor.

Rep…

Voters approve Prop. 50, California redistricting, in a win for Democrats
Prop. 50, California’s congressional redistricting measure, was on the ballot on a high-profile election day that saw Democratic wins in New York, New Jersey and elsewhere.

Feds Bust into Jackson Heights Apartment Building In Pre-Dawn Raid (Gwynne Hogan/The City)
https://www.thecity.nyc/2025/12/04/homeland-security-jackson-heights-immigration-raid/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251204/p90#a251204p90

Archaeologists in Peru have found new evidence showing how the
oldest known civilization in the Americas adapted and survived a climate catastrophe without resorting to violence.
A team led by the renowned Peruvian archaeologist Ruth Shady, 78,
concluded that about 4,200 years ago, severe drought forced the population to leave the ancient city of Caral, and resettle nearby.
In the new settlements, they left intriguing friezes depicting victims of a famine with message…

On the one hand, this is absurd. On the other hand, I encourage Alan Wong to lead by example and demolish his own Sunset home to replace it with a parking lot.
Yup, this is the quality of our Lurie-appointed D4 supervisor #sfpol

Voter Turnout Highest in Three Decades as Mamdani Phenomenon Galvanizes Electorate (Mia Hollie/The City)
https://www.thecity.nyc/2025/11/04/record-voters-ballots-cast-mamdani-cuomo-sliwa/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251104/p143#a251104p143

For a guy who talks a lot about how much he hates drugs
— and is now floating it as a pretext for knocking off the odious Maduro regime
— Trump has developed a strange habit of giving pardons to drug dealers.
A day after his latest inauguration, Trump pardoned the founder of the Silk Road website, which was notorious as a dark web drug den.
This was followed by the strange commutation for the founder of the Gangster Disciples in Chicago, who flooded the Windy City wi…

Trump Is Trying to Legalize Corruption by Abusing His Pardon Power
The president has issued over 2,000 pardons since taking office, many to loyalists convicted of serious crimes

The ObamaCare Blue-City Bailout (Allysia Finley/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/the-obamacare-blue-city-bailout-e7d72bee?st=h29y4M
http://www.memeorandum.com/251103/p3#a251103p3

Progressive topples former New Jersey Gov. Jim McGreevey in Jersey City mayoral runoff (Ry Rivard/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/12/02/james-solomon-jersey-city-mayoral-race-00674050
http://www.memeorandum.com/251202/p170#a251202p170

The 12-Folsom/Pacific: whenever you need it, it just came and the next one is in 22 minutes! I have the worst luck with this bus

“Many AVs are electric, but the metals and minerals used to build them often come from environmentally harmful mining operations that damage communities—especially Indigenous communities—and ecosystems abroad.”
Appreciate @… calling this out! Cars aren't green, AV or not. Sign her petition to let California counties vote on whether we wan…

Let the People Decide: Give Us a Vote on Autonomous Vehicles
Autonomous vehicles (AVs) have flooded San Francisco’s streets, raising serious safety and traffic concerns for residents, pedestrians, animal advocates, and local businesses. In 2025 alone, both Waymo and Zoox recalled over 1,200 vehicles due to crash risks. AVs have also blocked emergency vehicles, caused traffic jams, and created dangerous situations for people walking, biking, and driving. Ride-hailing services like Uber and Lyft already made traffic worse, accounting for about half th…

some of these centrists are so thirsty for power, they'd kill an unaligned ant if they thought it would get them elected

hope to see some of you at SFBike winterfest tonight!

This is the best critique of SF's Family Zoning Plan I've seen, from Fernando Martí, who knows his stuff.
“Zoning is not the primary constraint to construction today — not in SF where it costs $800,000 or more to build a unit of housing. Nor is environmental review or planning approvals. If these were the constraints to production, then we wouldn’t have tens of thousands of already approved market-rate units unable to get construction financing”

SF protest against the bombings in Venezuela, via a group chat. 1pm at Market and Powell

I still have an SF YIMBY coffee mug from when I was a member, with the former slogan, "Legalize Housing." So much for that. Every SF YIMBY–endorsed member of the Board of Supervisors voted for this cruel RV ban with tacit YIMBY approval, criminalizing people's homes and banishing them from the city.
Can't speak for other #YIMBY movements around the world, but the SF version ha…

Tow trucks are coming for S.F.’s RVs. Their residents struggle for reprieve.
With San Francisco's RV parking ban starting on Nov. 1, dozens of RV dwellers say they were missed in a city-wide count of RVs parked on public streets.

Muni is free tonight from 8pm to 5am the 1st! Extra Muni Metro service until 2am. AC Transit, SamTrans, and Caltrain also free from 8pm on, with extra service on Caltrain.
Details at #SanFrancisco

Is Muni Free?