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"On March 28, local residents and activists gathered on the Burnett Avenue overpass in Morgan Hill, California, one week after someone hung a red flag with a black swastika in a white circle from it…multiple organizations including Showing Up for Racial Justice and Silicon Valley De-Bug came together with dozens of community members to actively 'take back the overpass.'"

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leftcoastrightwatch.organti-racists protest swastika flag, trump supporters protest anti-racists in... | Left Coast Right WatchAnti-racists showed up to protest a swastika flag hung on an overpass. Trump supporters showed up to protest the anti-racists.

Once again, people are wrong on the internet. This time about hillside letters -- and the related category of hillside figures -- in the San Francisco Bay Area. While there are lots of resources on both, all of them were incomplete or riddled with errors -- so I'm setting out to make a definitive list of where these hillside letters and figures can be found in the Bay Area. 🧵 #sfba

Hahaha, Mercury News (no link, fuck em) covered the Tesla Takedown protests today by asking for comments from…the president of Silicon Valley Association of Conservative Republicans, whose pearl of wisdom was that the “far-left” AOC will “destroy” the Democratic party. What the fuck.

What absolute, irrelevant, bothsides-ing horseshit. Fuuuuck you Mercury News, for forcing a protest story into the tired old “Democrats in Disarray” cliché. Glad I dropped my subscription years ago.

Project I do not have time to do: A cargo bike filled with pens, paper, envelopes, stamps, markers and crayons, making stops along JFK Drive or Ovean Beach Park or similar places, allowing people to write letters and make art, to be called “The Stationery Bike” #bike #sfba #art #puns

Staffing shortage puts office that forecasts weather for SFO in ‘uncharted waters’

A National Weather Service office in the Bay Area that provides weather forecasts for major California, Hawaii and Nevada airports, including San Francisco International Airport, is critically low on staffing amid a federal hiring freeze.

The Center Weather Service Unit Oakland, which is located within the Federal Aviation Administration air traffic control center in Fremont, is down to just one meteorologist, according to Dalton Behringer, a local steward for the National Weather Service employees organization. #weather #SFBA #SFO #NWS
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Straight out of a dystopian movie, this clip shows a group of people cheering the unveiling of one of 33 speed cameras that went live in #SanFrancisco #sfba this week.

I think these cameras are a giveaway to the supplier. It’s very difficult to find out how much these cameras cost, but it appears to be around $50k per camera per year, or $8M for a five-year pilot period hxxps://banthecams.org/posts/2024/12/29/san-francisco-speed-cameras/. They are operated by Verra Mobility (Redflex). If the city really wants to slow cars down, there are other traffic-calming techniques that are much cheaper in the long run.

I’ve also found it distasteful that WalkSF has been continually promoting these speed cameras under the guise of “pedestrian safety”, while having events sponsored by Verra Mobility. Smells super astroturfy to me. hxxps://www.instagram.com/walksf/p/C-_SnX9SGnO

Video source: hxxps://www.instagram.com/reel/DHbvRDwSjpd/

First time attending a Trans Day of Visibility event as an openly trans person :heart_transgender: :heart_nonbinary: :heart_agender:

Grateful for the community, and delighted that Rohnert Park Mayor Giudice and Sonoma County Supervisor Coursey attended, both recognizing the need to step up, especially as our Governor is failing us.