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Gotta get that bag - at whatever the cost.
Great story @brandonphooo.
San Francisco's civic and political scene is a natural breeding ground for operatives at the world's leading AI giants.
Some are more obvious than others — most recently:
A former spokesman for the embattled former supervisor candidate Manny Yekutiel.
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brandon pho retweeted
San Francisco's civic and political scene is a natural breeding ground for operatives at the world's leading AI giants.
Some are more obvious than others — most recently:
A former spokesman for the embattled former supervisor candidate Manny Yekutiel.
missionlocal.org/2026/10/con…
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New from me:
San Francisco's civic and political scene is a natural breeding ground for operatives at the world's leading AI giants.
Some are more obvious than others — most recently:
A former spokesman for the embattled former supervisor candidate Manny Yekutiel.
missionlocal.org/2026/10/con…
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brandon pho retweeted
It's sad what's become of media literacy. Our piece simply stated that state law lets this halfway house operate, & that Supervisor Mahmood said "there’s not much at this time that we can do."
But reporting that is helping "convicted child rapists." Everything is Manichean now.
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At a candlelight vigil outside the Warfield, friends and family remembered Ulysses “Bear” Davis, a father of six killed while working security — and a life he had worked hard to build.
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We spent the day with San Jose Batman as he handed out supplies to homeless people.
You've probably see him speaking out at local city council meetings, but here he in his daily work: piped.video/watch?v=RiR8swwr…
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We spent weeks combing through campaign finance filings to understand who the major players are in the San Francisco election.
w/ @brandonphooo and Christina Baris
Check out our graphic to see how they are all connected:
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I don’t speak unless I’m spoken to
I don’t smoke unless you’re smoking too
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Really great reporting from Mission Local on this piece!
TL;DR once Lurie became mayor a lot of really rich people who’d never given money in San Francisco politics before started donating to his ballot measures.
BigMoneySF: How Mayor Lurie's attempts to remake City Hall remade San Francisco's donor class.
Be sure to click on the interactive graphic that connects everything and everyone.
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I think our data & politics team is among the best in the biz, & today's piece is an example why: a network map of San Francisco's interconnected, billionaire-backed groups, politicos & more.
Gobs of money & a new class of donors that Lurie has brought in—explore it all below.
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Big props to @kellywaldro for programming the dollars in this November election into an interactive web (link in quoted tweet) that you can play with to draw your own threads of power and influence this cycle.
Mayor @DanielLurie 's campaign to amend the city charter -- and expand his own power -- has been about taking on a status quo of corruption and government waste at City Hall.
And yet -- He IS City Hall.
New for @MLNow :
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Mayor @DanielLurie 's campaign to amend the city charter -- and expand his own power -- has been about taking on a status quo of corruption and government waste at City Hall.
And yet -- He IS City Hall.
New for @MLNow :
missionlocal.org/2026/10/big…
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when i have really dumb questions i'll ask chatgpt or gemini because i don't want claude to think i'm stupid
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Laurene Powell Jobs Invested $250 Million in David Ellison’s Skydance
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Darshini Patel wants you to know: That GrowSF endorsement came "without my consent."
"I said no in so many different ways," says the District 8 candidate.
From @esksf
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It’s 9:37a and I’m about to embark on a 10 hour movie marathon for @sfstandard including the Musk doc, the Liz Holmes doc, and the Social Reckoning.
I have an egg McMuffin in hand and a head full of intrusive thoughts on the nature of regret.
Anyways, smash that subscribe!
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Even after Connie Chan's $1.1 million quarter, Scott Wiener still has raised more money than her — and has more PAC support.
via @io_y_g @Yujie_ZZ
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Breaking News: Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s administration is making a $30 million investment to build a quantum research lab at New York University. In exchange, the city will receive 15% of any proceeds from intellectual property developed in that lab. nyti.ms/4jUe7GD
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Funny how Ukraine bombs a Russian data center and suddenly the comment sections under stuff like this are overwhelmingly people taking this chud to task for his dystopian slop.
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