Cameron Poetzscher @cpoetzscher Twitter profile

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Cameron Poetzscher

@cpoetzscher

3 months

Europe only has 4 major business lines: 1. Selling luxury goods to American & Chinese consumers 2. Selling weight loss drugs to Americans 3. Selling tourism services to American & Chinese travelers 4. Taxing American tech co's Yes, I'm exaggerating, but not by much.

Science Is Strategic

@scienceisstrat1

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Europe 🇪🇺 is way behind in tech 💻

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I don't understand how they arrest this guy but can't seem to arrest any of the dozens or hundreds of people brazenly dealing drugs in the Tenderloin, resulting in an average of 2 overdose deaths per day.

Betty Yu

@bett_yu

2 years

🚨 BREAKING: San Francisco art gallery owner arrested @BrookeJenkinsSF issued warrant. Collier Gwin will be charged with misdemeanor battery for the alleged intentional and unlawful spraying of water on and around a woman experiencing homelessness.

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Khanna is spot on here. Twitter just handled this horribly. No matter how much you like or dislike various political candidates, criminal defendants, etc, you should always put principles (free speech, due process, etc) above partisanship & the desire for an outcome you like.

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@GavinNewsom Could you be any more misleading? CA is 47th (out of 50 states + DC) per capita in % of state residents vaccinated & % of available doses injected.

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And also 4 major hobbies: 1. Under-spending on defense 2. Implementing insane energy policies 3. Importing/cultivating crazy anti-Semites, religious fanatics, & other assorted lunatics 4. Sanctimoniously lecturing Americans about European moral superiority

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2 years

Dude lost rent control on his SF pied-à-terre because he was spending too much time in his Sonoma country house. My heart aches at the injustice.

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4 years

Over 20% of people exonerated by DNA had falsely confessed. Yet many people are wrongly convinced that no one would falsely confess. Innocent people, faced w/ police trickery or prosecutorial leverage due to excessive sentences, confess all the time.

Innocence Project

@innocence

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#SedleyAlley was executed in 2006 without DNA testing of the evidence in his case. More than a decade later, his daughter April is still seeking the truth in his case.

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3 years

Just sell drugs as side dishes. Then you won't need any permits & no one will try to stop you. Only a truly fucked city, run by complete fuckwits, makes it so much harder to operate a legal biz that feeds people than an illegal biz that kills them.

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4 years

@washingtonpost Ah yes, one of the oldest human pastimes: shooting the messenger. Also one of the most foolish and nasty.

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11 months

The unprecedented peace & prosperity the West enjoyed since 1989 made normal people complacent, allowing a relatively small quasi-religious cult of illiberal leftists (mostly native born, but abetted by some radical immigrants) to become culturally dominant. It's suicidal.

Rita Panahi

@RitaPanahi

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The Sydney Opera House was lit up in the colours of the Israeli flag but Jews were told to stay away by NSW police for their own safety. Pro-Palestinian groups chanted “fuck the Jews” & “fuck Israel”. Depraved.

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3 years

Travel bans may make sense in very limited circumstances, eg early in an outbreak to buy more time to understand things. The current travel ban on African countries makes no sense & is only punishing them for proactively identifying the Omicron variant.

Opinion | Biden’s Highly Selective Travel Ban Doesn’t Make Sense (Published 2021)

And don’t make the same mistake again.

www.nytimes.com

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3 years

Recalling Chesa Boudin is infrastructure.

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3 years

@TrungTPhan In your picture on the left, the symbol before "280" should be "less than or equal to" not "less than".

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3 months

Stunt driving in San Francisco is completely unacceptable, & if it happens again we will be forced to send another tweet saying that it's completely unacceptable. We will keep tweeting hard until this behavior stops.

San Francisco Police

@SFPD

3 months

Stunt driving in San Francisco is UNACCEPTABLE. Over the weekend there were several stunt driving events that took place around the Bay Area including several in San Francisco. We will be working to hold these people accountable and impound vehicles in the coming days and weeks.

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2 years

We should be aggressively recruiting talent from all over the world, but especially from China, Russia, Iran & other talent-rich but hostile & authoritarian states.

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2 years

Reminder: One of China's biggest fears is that someday the United States might actually fix its broken immigration system

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@Business_yields If you made/make your money elsewhere (& thus don't care about the European economy) there's no better place to live/visit. Tremendous sights, food, culture, history, etc. That's why selling tourism services to wealthy foreigners will endure as a strong business line!

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2 years

An SF city-run bank would be subject to so much corruption, incompetence, political favoritism, etc, that it would likely soon be costing taxpayers hundreds of millions of dollars per year. Can you imagine the loan write-offs they'd have? It would be an epic disaster.

Lee Edwards

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2 years

Buried lede: members of the Board of Supervisors of San Francisco, who can’t figure out how to build a toilet for less than $1.7M, want to START A BANK.

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3 years

They should just find a really big jazz club in which to hold the marathon.

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4 years

@GavinNewsom I trust in your next campaign you won't object to your opponents saying "CA has more murders than any other state".

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3 years

@mtaibbi It's either satire, stupidity, or dishonesty. I'm betting on the third, but it's possibly the second.

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5 years

Congrats to the entire Uber team on pricing the IPO today! It's a huge achievement!

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@cpoetzscher

3 years

@JasonWilliamsNY @realKunalAShah "100x more oxygen than regular water". I recently shed my gills & have started getting my oxygen from the air, using lungs, rather than from water. I find it much more convenient.

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2 years

"His story is not just another tale of a longtime resident priced out of a gentrifying housing market." Actually, his story is not *a* tale of this, let alone *another* tale.

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3 years

@brenna__smith No matter what they're accused of, everyone is entitled to due process, including a robust defense. And if members of the public are willing to help fund that, we shouldn't stop them just b/c we despise the defendants.

Cameron Poetzscher

@cpoetzscher

3 years

Due process is the most important thing in our legal system & among the most important in our entire democracy. Due process requires competent public defenders. Everyone is entitled to a fair trial & proper representation, no matter who they are or what they're accused of.

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@asymmetricinfo Just Googled it, & apparently Randi Weingarten is actually president of the Teachers' Union, not the Kids' Union. I'm thinking that might explain a few things.

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@cpoetzscher

3 years

"Last week, the CDC acknowledged what many of us have been saying for almost nine months about cleaning surfaces to prevent transmission by touch of the coronavirus: It’s pure hygiene theater." We are living in a hyper-performative world.

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3 years

"But if she and other school board members can condemn Americans on the basis of actions a century or more ago, then surely a Twitter post from 2016 should be fair game in the assessment of an elected official."

Editorial: Education of a wayward school board

Could anything more be done to damage the reputation of San Francisco’s school board?...

www.sfchronicle.com

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@cpoetzscher

3 years

Only ~206K people voted in the 2019 DA election, held simultaneously with the SF Mayoral election. And Chesa only received ~69K first round votes. With 83K petitioners for his recall, I'd say he is in very serious trouble. Don't be complacent. Vote in the recall election.

The Successful Recall of Chesa Boudin

@safersfnoboudin

3 years

83,000+ Signatures Submitted to Force SF District Attorney Chesa Boudin into Recall Election

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4 years

@delrayser I just don't get the anti-mask thing. (Although the early mis-info by WHO & CDC saying don't wear masks prob didn't help.) The cost/inconvenience of wearing a mask is extremely minor for most activities and the collective benefits are huge.

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2 years

Reminds me of the nuts at Uber who used to complain loudly/repeatedly in all-hands meetings that the free food wasn't to their liking. It's often the folks most privileged (not just in the world today but in all of history) who complain the loudest about the most trivial things.

Wesley Yang

@wesyang

2 years

The future belongs to he/him

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4 years

@jhung0 @micsolana But, as compensation for the above, at least we get to enjoy: * really high taxes * very expensive real estate

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3 years

"Boudin has tried just 23 cases resulting in 16 convictions…In 2020, SFPD presented 6,333 felonies to Boudin’s office.…[in] Alameda County 6,331 felony cases were presented, resulting in 1,413 convictions. Alameda dismissed only 11.4% of cases, while SF' dismissal rate was 40%"

💥Susan Dyer Reynolds🗞️

@SusanDReynolds

3 years

April #ReynoldsRap : Chesa Boudin’s first year has been about reducing charges, plea deals, and punting cases; filling the DA’s office with inexperienced attorneys and allies for the cause; and conflicts of interest from his days as a public defender.

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3 years

"Gillian Morris, a startup founder…describes SF as 'the most dysfunctional place I’ve ever lived when it comes to the protection of property & public safety'…All this is despite SF's budget more than doubling since 2010 while the population rose <9%."

Why San Francisco’s city government is so dysfunctional

Covid-19 has exposed many of the city’s old problems—and some new ones, too

www.economist.com

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3 years

@Carnage4Life She's underselling the benefits. First, you save on taxes by checking the "exempt" box on your W-4. Second, you drastically lower your cost of living by getting free room and board in a Federal penitentiary.

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Israel was 2nd in public vote but only 12th in jury vote. It got 14.7% of public votes but only 2.4% of jury. Its ratio of public/jury votes was 6.2x (avg is ~1.0x). Its delta of public-jury votes was 271, by far the highest. The public loves Israel & the cultural elite hates it.

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4 months

The Eurovision results are a strong proxy for how rigged things will be against Israel the next decade

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4 years

@jaltma @michelletandler Probably 200x not just 2x :) To the point that my daughter and I had it memorized at one point.

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Australia was having an incredible Olympics. A nation of 27 million people w/ the 3rd most gold medals (behind only global giants US & China). And then Raygun showed up w/ perhaps the most magnificently bad Olympic performance in history.

Your Best Friend's Black Friend

@IAmStatMatt

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There is no way I laugh harder for the rest of 2024 than after watching a 36 year old Australian college professor named Raygun "breakdance" against teenagers

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3 years

Official stats: 710 reported shoplifting incidents SF-wide in 1st 4 months of 2021. Reality: 1,989 incidents in just one Target store. Crime is so out of control & enforcement so ineffective that people don't even bother reporting it anymore. Wasted time adds insult to injury.

Erica Sandberg 舊金山的神奇女俠

@EricaJSandberg

3 years

Excellent piece dispelling myths and confirming truths. One Target store has nearly 2000 thefts this year, by @SusanDReynolds

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2 years

How did CA's fiscal fortunes change so quickly? B/c while the spigot of cash from Uncle Fed & state capital gains tax (buoyed by insane stock valuations) was gushing, Gavin splurged like a lottery winner buying votes with huge unwise giveaways instead of saving for a rainy day.

San Francisco Chronicle

@sfchronicle

2 years

Gov. Gavin Newsom on Tuesday predicted a $22 billion deficit for the upcoming fiscal year, a dramatic turnaround from last year, when the state had a $100 billion surplus. How did the state’s fiscal fortunes change so quickly? Here's what to know.

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@brenna__smith "Person X is a bad person whom I detest, therefore they should not get a fair trial or good defense lawyer & no one should be allowed to financially support their defense." That's how dictatorships work. Not liberal democracies.

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@michelletandler @LondonBreed @mayorsforagi Race should not be a factor. Wealth, income & other socio-economic considerations should be. Those two approaches may well produce quite similar outcomes, but the former is wrong & the latter is right.

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2 years

@3YearLetterman @earth_locations If the Grand Canyon were a planet, it would be the third largest planet in the solar system.

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"when you live in a city with a progressive prosecutor & you get robbed, the only proper response is to say, 'thank you!' Or, 'I’m sorry for owning private property.'"

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2 years

Possibly the most incompetent big city government in America thinks it can run a public bank? How about you earn your stripes by first building a public toilet for less than $1.7M?

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3 years

'New poll numbers indicate S.F. board members in danger if recall election is held" Let's hope so.

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2 years

Civil asset forfeiture is one of the most outrageous, yet least publicized, things that American governments are legally allowed to do. It's mafia-style government, plain & simple.

Billy Binion

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2 years

Translation: We stole what may have been someone’s life savings—potentially ruining his life—for no tangible public safety benefit. And then we acted like that was heroic. It’s legalized larceny, & it’s routine.

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@paulg @DavidSacks I'm sure David would fully support American efforts to retake America, just as he may support Ukrainian efforts to retake Ukraine. He's questioning unlimited US support for retaking Ukraine, just as I'm sure he would not expect unlimited Ukrainian support for retaking America.

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The reason you can't get insurance is not b/c of climate change; it's b/c of incompetent & politically driven regulators preventing a market-clearing price that reflects the reality of inflation, climate change, property crime, etc.

Josh Ellis

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To all the people who can't get house insurance now due to climate change: have you tried showing your insurance company a bunch of random graphs about how humans are doing better than ever? 😂

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@balajis Recipe is always the same. Defy laws of economics (supply/demand) & human nature (tragedy of commons w/out pvt property, incentive-driven, etc.) & then be astonished & enraged when the predictable happens. See also: USSR, PRK vs KOR, East vs West Germ, pre-1978 CN, VEN, etc.

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@cpoetzscher

3 years

We all know, without exaggeration, that if you tried to open a restaurant without all the frustratingly expensive & time consuming permits, you'd be shut down & fined pretty damn quick. Yet hundreds of drug dealers operate in the heart of the city with near impunity.

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@cpoetzscher

3 years

I was a fan of Newsom when he was SF mayor. Now I can't stand him. In the (still unlikely) event he loses the recall, we may well end up with someone worse. But I still want him to lose, just to send a message to all the arrogant & incompetent & lying politicians out there.

David Sacks

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3 years

Can we please #RecallNewsom so we don’t have to listen to his bad acting anymore? He fist-bumps with @chesaboudin , appoints Boudin pals to state positions, then blames non-existent Republicans for failing to enforce the law. He’s the problem folks.

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4 years

1/ In response to this original thread, I tried to dig into SF crime stats (using @JohnSungKim 's guide to data sources) with a focus on the DA end of things. New thread below.

Cameron Poetzscher

@cpoetzscher

4 years

@TheMarinaTimes The DA's office should have an online dashboard like SFPD showing (by category of crime & for first-time vs repeat offenders) the funnel: * Arrested * Release w/out charge vs RORd / Bailed / Remanded * Plead guilty or convicted * Sentence given * Paroled

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7 years

Uber's merger with Yandex, Russia's largest tech company has been approved via @FortuneMagazine

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@micsolana If only there existed 200+ years of litigation & judicial rulings around appropriate limits to free speech that we could use as a guideline for what's considered reasonable in our society.

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3 years

"Speech is violence." But using actual violence to stop speech is fine. Got it.

FIRE

@TheFIREorg

3 years

@CMCnews @UChicago @UofNH @EmoryUniversity @floridastate @BostonCollege @WakeForest @LSU @MarquetteU @DePauwU Some of the most troubling findings from the national survey: 66% of all students support speaker shout-downs — up 4 percentage points from last year. 23% even support using violence to stop a speaker — up 5 percentage points from last year

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@michelletandler School board members think they're signaling their virtue. They're actually signaling their incompetence & negligence. "The board’s Tuesday night agenda did not include items related to the academic or health impact on students or about reopening schools"

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@michelletandler Everyone who cares about SF needs to vote carefully on every single ballot race/measure, no matter how trivial it seems, & we need good crowd-sourced voter guides to clearly analyze candidate actual positions based on past actions (easier for incumbents) not self-proclaimed BS.

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Big diff between Collins, who made these comments as an adult just over 4 yrs ago, hasn't apologized, & has actual political power over Asian students, vs Teen Vogue editor who made comments 10+ yrs ago as kid, has apologized, & has no political power.

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2 years

The problem in SF is not that we don't have enough laws. It's that we don't enforce them.

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3 years

@JamesSurowiecki If you're trying to see if lockdowns crushed small businesses the better stat (which I don't have) would be how many existing ones folded. The new ones may have been in very different fields (eg virtual services) & many may have been started out of necessity (laid off workers).

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When you wish upon a star…

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@tribelaw Weird thing about VP is, on one hand, you have very little power, and any power you have is basically b/c POTUS voluntarily includes you in stuff. But on the other hand, you're about the only person in the entire Exec Branch POTUS can't fire (other than some Indep agencies).

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@JamesSurowiecki @jayrutgers09 I can't really speak to other aspects of San Diego (culture, etc), but there is a good argument that regarding climate, it is the best place not only in the US but in the world.

The Ideal Climate

(And Why You Can't Beat Coastal California)

poetzscher.substack.com

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Truly absurd that a self-proclaimed progressive prosecutor who seems very uninterested in prosecuting most crimes is suddenly going all-in on punishing an unlucky victim who used self-defense against the career criminal assaulting him.

Billy Binion

@billybinion

2 years

New video footage shows Jose Alba, the NYC bodega clerk charged with murder, trying his best to avoid that deadly fight after he was told that Austin Simon was about to come in and "fuck [him] up." Drop the charges, @AlvinBraggNYC . My latest:

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Polis & Shapiro are clearly the 2 best Dem guvs. Smart, principled, competent, effective. Sadly, our partisan primaries prefer geriatrics, identity-merchants, panderers, & other assorted fools. What a huge disservice to sensible general election voters & the country as a whole.

Jared Polis

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This kind of cap would lead to less affordable housing being built and substantially increase hosting costs

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In 1776, Washington was 44, Revere 41, Adams 40, Hancock 39, Jefferson 33, Jay 30, Madison 25, Hamilton 21. Why do we have so many 70-80+ year-olds serving us in DC today? Time for term limits.

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I'd bet big $ that this white man frequently talks about the evils of white supremacy—yet there he is, attempting to steal petitions from a group of mostly Asian folks trying to exercise their democratic rights. If it wasn't criminally tragic, you'd almost appreciate the irony.

San Francisco Chronicle

@sfchronicle

3 years

San Francisco police are investigating a theft of petitions in a signature drive to recall three members of the city’s school board.

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@MattHaneySF Nice platitudes. Now let's get specific: * Do you support teaching algebra in 8th grade? * Do you support the new lottery-based admission policy at Lowell? * Do you think SFUSD was correct to keep schools shut for so long during Covid?

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She should be fired. Officers of the law (cops, DAs, judges, etc) should be held to the highest standards. This is completely unacceptable & if it had been a normal citizen they would probably be in jail right now or possibly even shot by cops.

Unlimited L's

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NEW: Monroe County DA refuses to stop for police after she was caught speeding; ‘I didn't feel like stopping…’ Sandra Doorley was driving 55 mph in a 35 mph zone on Phillips Road in Webster when she chose not to pull over Instead, she called Webster Police Chief Dennis

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Immigration has always been America's superpower & we need to keep it that way, which means increasing skills-based legal immigration while getting control of the border. If we don't do that, an American Le Pen will "fix it" & it will be our own fault.

Alec Stapp

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Immigration is America’s superpower. Four key points from @jasonfurman : 1. Immigrants support American retirees through their labor & taxes 2. Immigrants bring innovation that increases economic growth 3. Immigrants are consumers who generate demand & the need for more jobs

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@andrewchen Imagine if they could invent a phone where you could use your fingerprint to unlock it

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3 years

@balajis Coinbase drove out the handful of low performers (the activists & politicians) with Armstrong's "mission-focused company" approach. Academia increasingly does the opposite. It drives out the high performers by rewarding radically destructive & irrational activists & politicians.

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@cyantist @DeanPreston @chesaboudin Exactly. Crime has effectively increased by any fair analysis of the data, not decreased, as Chesa & his supporters misleadingly claim.

Cameron Poetzscher

@cpoetzscher

4 years

1/ This is misleading for several reasons. Unlike the #ProtectChesaAtAllCosts people, I actually did my homework when it comes to crime data. Thread below.

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@cpoetzscher

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This is a brutal crime. It looks like pure sport, not even an attempted robbery gone wrong (not that would be an excuse). This is a 20-year old brutally murdering an 84-year old for the fun of it. My condolences to the victim's family.

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@cpoetzscher

5 months

"I’m sure this would all be described as quality-of-life crimes, silly things, privileged desires like not getting your nose broken. It’s like, have you just tried not having a nose?"

The Free Press

@TheFP

5 months

TGIF: WWIII May Come Tomorrow, But... @NellieBowles : →Google remembers it’s a workplace. →Kari Lake comes out as really pro-choice. →Trump’s Gettysburg Address. →Latine is hot right now. →NPR’s CEO doesn’t love the First Amendment. →Gen Z is rich.

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Cameron Poetzscher

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4 years

Hard problem. Moderates are less motivated to run in SF: * Low chance of winning * Get personally attacked/demonized by radicals during campaign & once elected * Have better ways to spend time, unlike radicals who view School Board etc as stepping stone to political/union career

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Cameron Poetzscher

@cpoetzscher

4 years

@MyTwolffamily I'm working on an app that will quickly calculate the value of goods you're about to steal, so you can get as close to the $950 limit as possible to maximize the efficiency of each trip. Just need to double check that if an item is on sale, it's the sale price that counts.

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Cameron Poetzscher

@cpoetzscher

3 years

@chesaboudin Let this be a warning to anyone planning to commit crimes in SF against the AAPI community or anyone else: I will use the full powers of my Twitter acct & my full repertoire of platitudes to denounce your actions—but fear not, I won't prosecute you.

Cameron Poetzscher

@cpoetzscher

3 years

"Boudin has tried just 23 cases resulting in 16 convictions…In 2020, SFPD presented 6,333 felonies to Boudin’s office.…[in] Alameda County 6,331 felony cases were presented, resulting in 1,413 convictions. Alameda dismissed only 11.4% of cases, while SF' dismissal rate was 40%"

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Cameron Poetzscher

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9 months

The most important reason to advocate liberal principles like free speech & due process is that they're essential to democracy & liberty. The 2nd most important reason is that if you abandon them when you have power, they'll sooner or later be used against you when you lose it.

Leighton 明 Woodhouse

@lwoodhouse

9 months

This supposed academic freedom advocate at Penn openly calls to restrict free speech on campus, citing only two examples of “hate speech”: the “from the river to the sea” chant and calls for “intifada,” neither of which are explicit calls for “genocide” or are even necessarily

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Cameron Poetzscher

@cpoetzscher

4 years

@GavinNewsom Dude, maybe some updates on the vax rollout, hey? At this point, that is about the single most critical thing we can actually control (and, so far, it's going terribly).

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Cameron Poetzscher

@cpoetzscher

2 years

@jdcmedlock Coastal CA has the world's best climate, & the only other places that even come close tend to be in the Mediterranean or on the west coasts of continents in mid latitudes, due partly to prevailing wind/current patterns caused by the Coriolis effect.

The Ideal Climate

(And Why You Can't Beat Coastal California)

poetzscher.substack.com

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Cameron Poetzscher

@cpoetzscher

4 years

I wish this tale of judicial system ineptitude culminating in the death of an innocent person still shocked me, but sadly it is now common in SF. The facts are appalling.

Deadly crash near SF's Lake Merced followed a lifetime of crimes

A suspect in a deadly crash had a lifetime of crime before Thursday's deadly episode.

www.ktvu.com

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Cameron Poetzscher

@cpoetzscher

14 days

Let's be clear. It's not that they're more willing; it's that they're more able. Thank goodness for the First Amendment.

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Cameron Poetzscher

@cpoetzscher

4 years

This is easily one of the best essays of the year. I urge you to read it in full.

Mike Solana

@micsolana

4 years

technology workers did not "extract" value from the bay area, they are what makes the bay area valuable. fight or flight is a choice we all have to make, but we are not the property of any government, and certainly not a local government that hates us.

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Cameron Poetzscher

@cpoetzscher

4 years

@michelletandler Most millennial white men are perfectly normal, but there is a small subset of them that are the wokest of the woke. I would love to create a special utopia for them to inhabit exclusively so they can bask in their mutual moral superiority & leave the rest of us the fuck alone.

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Cameron Poetzscher

@cpoetzscher

3 years

"Both the Constitution and the Civil Rights Act make clear that it is wrong to hire people based on race. That’s the law for a wide range of jobs. But it would be especially wrong to select judges based on race."

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Cameron Poetzscher

@cpoetzscher

10 months

"the idea of kids playing with one another outdoors for open-ended periods has gone from the default to something many parents imagine in horror" One of the great tragedies of the last 30 years & probably responsible for a lot of the insanity on campuses.

Opinion | The Trap of the Overprotected Childhood

I wish my kids had the open-ended, play-filled days I had growing up.

www.nytimes.com

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Cameron Poetzscher

@cpoetzscher

2 months

Fact check: true

Corey A. DeAngelis, school choice evangelist

@DeAngelisCorey

2 months

Annette Albright: "Sadly, I've repeatedly seen that the Democrat Party cares more about appeasing the teachers union than they do about prioritizing the needs of our kids."

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Cameron Poetzscher

@cpoetzscher

4 years

@paulg 100%. If you give an entire profession virtual immunity from criminal prosecution, civil liability, and job termination, you're going to get a lot of bad behavior.

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Cameron Poetzscher

@cpoetzscher

11 months

Major steps required to return SF to normality: * Vote in a majority of sensible Supervisors (at least 6 of the 11) * Appoint sensible people to the police commission so cops can reasonably do their jobs * Elect sensible judges who will hold people reasonably accountable

Raj Mathai

@rajmathai

11 months

What’s slowing down the recovery of #SanFrancisco ? Revealing town hall w/ @BrookeJenkinsSF who says certain City Supes, Judges and Police Commission are impeding SF when it comes to crime…and punishment. Powerful q&a w/ 300 people at @TheBatterySF . @nbcbayarea

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Cameron Poetzscher

@cpoetzscher

3 years

In SF, the label "radical right winger" actually means centrist Democrat. And the label "center left" means Marxist.

💥Susan Dyer Reynolds🗞️

@SusanDReynolds

3 years

Not that it’s any of their business but I voted for Biden, Obama twice, and I voted for Hillary. In fact I still have my #ImWithHer T-shirt 😂

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Cameron Poetzscher

@cpoetzscher

3 years

@StephenMPinto Can we tax the vacant craniums of the DSA SF members?

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Cameron Poetzscher

@cpoetzscher

4 years

AB5 is pretty much a bill of attainder now. It's such a stupid law with such bad consequences that they've had to exempt almost every industry it applies to except ridesharing & food delivery (which is want Gonzalez wanted anyway).

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Cameron Poetzscher

@cpoetzscher

3 years

"San Francisco Mayor London Breed says cutting hours is not the answer." She's right. Replacing our corrupt and/or incompetent politicians is the answer. But until that happens, hard to blame Target.

ABC7 News

@abc7newsbayarea

3 years

All San Francisco Target locations reducing operating hours due to recent spike in crime

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Cameron Poetzscher

@cpoetzscher

3 years

@jamiequint One of the many problem w/ our incredibly polarized society is that talismans have become so important to signify tribal identity. Many people realize the folly of mask-wearing in uncrowded outdoor areas, yet wear a mask anyway b/c they "don't want to look like a Trump voter".

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Cameron Poetzscher

@cpoetzscher

1 year

The Jones Act is atrocious & deeply misguided protectionism that produces almost none of the intended benefits (healthy domestic ship-building & ship-operating industries) while imposing huge direct & indirect costs on our country & its people.

The Atlantic

@TheAtlantic

1 year

"'Ship American' sounds nice in theory," @scottlincicome writes. "This is what it looks like in practice: Not shipping much of anything in America at all."

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Cameron Poetzscher

@cpoetzscher

4 years

@justinamash "Timid men...prefer the calm of despotism to the boisterous sea of liberty" - Jefferson "But a Constitution of Government once changed from Freedom, can never be restored. Liberty once lost is lost forever." - Adams

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Cameron Poetzscher

@cpoetzscher

3 years

I don't always agree with him, but Lee Kuan Yew was undoubtedly one of the greatest statesmen and nation builders of the last 100+ years, and a brilliant thinker & insightful geopolitical strategist as well.

Rob Henderson

@robkhenderson

3 years

“a wholesome society...will not follow the American model...The top 3 to 5 percent can handle this free-for-all...If you do this with the whole mass, you will have a mess. To have, day to day, images of violence and raw sex, it will ruin a whole community”

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Cameron Poetzscher

@cpoetzscher

4 years

@sarahcpr Imagine if you could instantly watch any movie in the comfort of your own home, w/out the inconvenience & risk & annoyance of driving & strangers' germs & noise. You'd pay so much more for that than a movie theater. Wait? You're telling me it's actually massively cheaper too?

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Cameron Poetzscher

@cpoetzscher

1 year

You're the governor of CA. Your constituents voluntarily live in CA because we agree it is (or was) the best state. We just want you to focus on fixing the many, many problems in CA & stop showboating about red states, where we don't live & you don't govern. Stop being a tool.

Gavin Newsom

@GavinNewsom

1 year

Here are the facts about @GOP led states they DON’T want you to know: - 8 of the top 10 murder states are red - 7 of the top 10 dependent states on the feds are red They have: - lower life expectancy - higher infant mortality - higher maternal mortality

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