Newsom calls the Democratic brand 'toxic' as he defends his podcast latimes.com/california/sto… “Now the challenge is, the question will be, at what point does that stop seeming like someone adapted to changing times and start seeming inauthentic, if not outright fake?”

Meet the 23-Year-Old Student Who Raised $25 Million in Democratic Losses nytimes.com/2025/04/04/us/… I don't think most Americans understand just how deep the grift goes. Think three times before you send your $3.

How Mayor Daniel Lurie made it morning again in San Francisco  missionlocal.org/2025/04/how-ma… via Mission Local Daniel Lurie has made a number of minor missteps, but he's got one thing 100 percent right. We've got a mayor rooting for SF again, and that feels really good.

San Jose Considers Arresting Homeless People Who Refuse Housing nytimes.com/2025/04/20/us/… “Homelessness can’t be a choice,” Mr. Mahan said. “Government has a responsibility to build shelter, and our homeless neighbors have a responsibility to use it.”

This is what a digital coup looks like (Carole Cadwalladr | TED2025) go.ted.com/VdJcj via TED Talks "We are already living inside the architecture of totalitarianism...We now have to start acting as if we live in East Germany, and Instagram is the Stasi."

Mayor Lurie gets an A in vibes, San Francisco City Hall veterans say  missionlocal.org/2025/05/sf-may… via Mission Local The good vibes extend to Mission Local and Manny’s!. Extraordinary how they can gather so many people who care so much about San Francisco (on an Golden State Warriors playoff night no

latimes.com/california/sto… Gavin Newsom is so much better, and smarter, than this. First he drastically weakens his LGBTQ base. Then he blows up his signature career issue - universal healthcare. Why? (And the answer is not because it is good politics).

kqed.org/news/12041884/… “They’re fighting what they perceive to be the problem of performative politics with more performative policies,” said Eric Jaye, a political consultant. “And if it wasn’t so sad, it would be laughable.”

S.F. Mayor Daniel Lurie will loom large over the city’s next recall fight sfchronicle.com/sf/article/sf-… via San Francisco Chronicle It's the classic political dilemma - does Daniel Lurie 丹尼爾·羅偉 invest political capital to help Joel Engardio or does he husband his resources for another day?

Deserted S.F. art campus has a new name, and vision for its future sfchronicle.com/sf/article/art… via San Francisco Chronicle This is just incredibly good news.

‘Gavin got his groove back.’ How Newsom’s fight with Trump broke his moderate mirage sfstandard.com/2025/06/10/new… via The San Francisco Standard I think we are seeing (mostly) the "real" Newsom. But we sure have seen a lot of different Newsoms in just a few short weeks.

thetimes.com/us/american-po… Gavin Newsom going head to head with the Donald J. Trump. It was just a matter of time.

If you know you know.

The Swells Come for the Sunset – and the Sunset Fights Back open.substack.com/pub/ericjaye/p… It is about more than a road. It is about what San Francisco should be or stay - and who it is for.

California Politicians Define a Minor Speed Bump as Major Roadblock and Take a Premature Victory Lap on Housing open.substack.com/pub/ericjaye/p… What do you say when all the headline writers are wrong about something so important to California? This is what I said – trying my best to

Will she or won't she? The California governor's race waits on Kamala Harris latimes.com/politics/story… Kamala Harris has run some very good campaigns and some terrible campaigns. But this "pre-campaign," if that's what she is doing – is an unmitigated disaster.

Democrats’ 2024 Autopsy Is Described as Avoiding the Likeliest Cause of Death nytimes.com/2025/07/19/us/… Shocking, not surprising. Of course they (we) want to blame everyone but ourselves.

Jake Tapper’s “Original Sin” Is a Not-Very-Original Cover-Up. open.substack.com/pub/ericjaye/p… The Democratic establishment looks for scapegoats – and finds them with Jake Tapper's help.

One Freshman Textbook Cannot Explain San Francisco’s Housing Markets open.substack.com/pub/ericjaye/p… The data is in - and "trickle down" housing doesn't work as a policy for affordability in global cities like San Francisco. So why are politicians like Daniel Lurie 丹尼爾·羅偉 embracing it?

YIMBYs are on a winning streak — so where's the housing? Three ideas to fix the crisis sfstandard.com/2025/07/31/yim… via The San Francisco Standard Very much worth a read. There actually are tools out there to create more affordable housing, we just are not using them (yet).