Neighbors Together Oakland is a great group with an innovative outdoor speaker series that has featured Lee Fang, Batya Ungar-Sargon and others. If you live here (or elsewhere), they're worth your attention and support. youtube.com/watch?v=Xi-Xlg…

The recent wave of hysterical “SF is going right wing bc of tech money” news carefully avoids any actual policies they want, which are scary ideas like… more responsive public safety? Building housing to lower costs? Portugal-style interventions to help the addicted? Oh no…

Tapping the sign! leefang.com/p/inside-the-f…

Thank you so much Henry Lee for amazing story of the NAACP and the Pastor of Oakland,

Oakland pastors and the NAACP pray for an end to the crime wave in the city.

Thanks to the entire COMPACT team for being a much needed and consistent force for generative political thought. Please chip in and help us continue to bring the most brilliant minds in American politics to speak to Neighbors in our urban farm. youtube.com/watch?v=Xi-Xlg…

Google & Facebook are moving to finish off destroying the journalism industry w ad market monopoly, algorithm & UX tweaks. Don’t care at all about annoying woke digital media — VICE deserved to die — but we’re headed to almost no media left in virtually every rural & small city.

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My book is finally available for pre-order! If you've ever wondered what it's like to grow up in a crackhouse, get adopted into a rich neighborhood when you're 12, then become a chronically homeless drug addict criminal for 10 years, then escape it, and then outline a plan on how

Another must read from NTO leader Tim Gardner. Subscribe to the fantastic work they are doing at Oakland Report!

61 people died of overdose in March in San Francisco. 75% died at a fixed address. We already know that at least 37 people die of overdose inside Permanent Supportive Housing. We need recovery housing more than ever.

Congress just released its big report on alleged Chinese firms manufacturing fentanyl chemicals for export. Let's see how one of the companies identified in the report is doing in reaction to the news.