Sharing my personal endorsements for the November 2024 election in San Francisco.
This election cycle, after a year of genocide in Gaza, there needs to be:
1) some measure of accountability & memorialization of the damaging rhetoric + actions that have negatively impacted both
@CBSMornings
Imagine being so indoctrinated by propaganda, bias & anti-Palestinian racism that you waste everyone’s time defending your own insecure worldview justifying apartheid during a live national broadcast with race scholar Ta-Nehisi Coates like anchor
@tonydokoupil
.
@nytimes
Staying in mosques overnight for prayer + worship is common practice amongst Muslims during Ramadan. It happens all over the world.
Framing it as they had "barricaded themselves" conveniently fits the oppressor's dehumanization of these ppl but is not accurate. Check your
Why is the San Francisco District Attorney accepting gifts from the Israeli government?
One of the gifts was accepted THREE days before charging Bay Bridge protestors. The SFDA has gone on to charge some protestors who shut down the Golden Gate Bridge with *felonies*.
The DA’s
The lawyers say two gifts of wine that District Attorney Brooke Jenkins received from Israeli government officials presents a conflict of interest, and that she should back out of the case.
@MsPackyetti
@paulkrugman
Agreed - delete this. The experience of being Muslim in the 9/11 era was incredibly oppressive. Do a google search or DM me and I’ll tell you stories about how each Muslim person I know was affected by intolerance or ignorance as a direct result.
@prem_thakker
What an absolute grift. The U.S. chooses not to recognize a Palestinian state because it is inconvenient to Israel's goal of ethnically cleansing & annexing all of Palestine.
Reminder that 75% of
@UN
member states recognize Palestine as a state. The U.S. is in the minority.
It’s estimated that somewhere between 1200-1500 people are currently at San Francisco city hall in line to comment on the ceasefire resolution.
The line runs outside of the building.
@SymoneDSanders
The people who refer to Israel & Palestine as “complicated” are either:
1) ignorant to the actual facts & history
2) heavily propagandized
3) seek to benefit from Israel’s dominance & oppression of the Palestinians in some shape or form
4) fear retaliation for being honest
Y’all remember when 150 racist, supremacist, Islamophobic & pro-genocide Zionists in Hollywood tried to get the Emmy’s to rescind
@wizardbisan
’s Emmy nomination?
Bisan won her Emmy award tonight.
💯💯💯
@prem_thakker
Blinken is a disgrace & will be remembered as a genocide apologist + enabler who actively supported a regime as it killed American citizens.
Bill Clinton saying we need more affordable housing when he proudly dismantled public housing in the city he's speaking in...can we please move on from him.
“Hi Beto, my name is Nadia and I’m from Texas.” I thanked
@BetoORourke
for visiting all 254 counties in Texas, and changing the ground game for democrats in the state during his Senate campaign.
#texans
🤠
@LailaAlarian
Huma has been terrible on the Gaza genocide all year. She’s “both-sidesed” it throughout; stopped posting & then restarted to promote her work & show.
She hasn’t criticized the propaganda campaign Hillary Clinton has been running all year either.
Huma is a shameless sellout.
“Berkeley Mayor Jesse Arreguin told me his city has no plans to consider a resolution on the conflict.”
Why won’t Berkeley produce a reso on Israel-Gaza when it did so recently for the Ukraine-Russia war?
Likely because Arreguin took a free trip to Israel in 2022. (1/6)
I have spoken to 3 women other than Sasha who said they were raped and/or abused by Jacobo & am aware of one additional survivor. That is 5 women total.
Elevating rapists sends a destructive message & creates more dangerous spaces for us all.
Almost two years have passed since SF nonprofit housing exec Jon Jacobo allegedly raped a woman.
But, far from being canceled, it appears Jacobo's career trajectory is once again on the rise.
In fact, his name is being floated for political office.
This week,
@Scott_Wiener
, one of the hardest working legislators in CA came under attack from QAnon trolls. He’s received death threats and he & his 80 year parents have been the target of homophobic and anti-Semitic attacks. This is not OK. We’re with you Scott.
#ImwithScott
How dare Yee lie & claim TODCO wasn’t aware “of the issues raised today” - that’s a lie.
Both Yee & Elberling of TODCO were aware that there were multiple women who made allegations of abuse & rape against Jacobo.
Receipts: I sent them the email below on March 14, 2023.
@LailaAlarian
Huma is literally sandwiched between two hateful anti-Palestinian, pro-war propagandists.
Mandana Dayani is also a propagandist who has been sharing hateful, genocidal & pro-war content all year.
This tweet is INCREDIBLY disappointing & inaccurate based on multiple accounts of people who attended.
Playing politics around non-violent protests as the Palestinians in Gaza face ethnic cleansing, mass displacement & genocide is not acceptable.
This fans the flames of hate.
BREAKING: The 5th Circuit in Texas just struck down the federal domestic violence restraining order gun prohibition. Given that domestic violence is often a precursor to gun violence, this ruling is a death sentence for women and families in the US.
These racist students making ape sounds at this brave Black anti-war protestor at Ole Miss reminds us that all forms of racism & supremacy are connected.
This is about justice across the board. It is a shared struggle & our liberation will be collective; not selective.
The juxtaposition of
@RepMaloney
’s
#MetGala2021
dress championing the Equal Rights Amendment vs. her appropriation of a burqa on the House floor in 2001 to advocate for the invasion of Afghanistan is peak white feminism failing women of color.
@Amir616
@dananessel
@UMich
The current San Francisco District Attorney is doing the same with anti-war protestors here. The corruption within our political system is egregious - weaponizing the law to signal politically for cred with the AIPAC crowd is an abuse of power & degrades the rule of law.
It’s disappointing to see
@UCSF
’s knee jerk response to a *clearly* coordinated attack against its faculty of color for asking legitimate questions about the the role of ideology + systems of supremacy on medical outcomes.
As someone whose parent has suffered medical… (1/2)
My family celebrated the marriage of my brother Mujtaba to his wife Maria over the long weekend.
It was a traditional Pakistani American wedding with events over 3 days (more below).
Pakistani weddings are beautiful & full of customs dating back to pre-partition India. 🧵
🧿
We send heat outreach caravans to the fields, with chilled water and basic information on how to keep each other safe and report violations. We should not be killed by heat as we feed this country.
You can donate to our efforts.
#WeFeedYou
#Calor
Four short years ago,
@MattHaneySF
beat YIMBY standard-bearer
@SonjaTrauss
for SF supervisor and suggested they didn't know how to build a coalition. Tonight, Haney rode to victory on a campaign built on YIMBY talking points. Here's more on YIMBYs' rise:
An elderly Muslim man on an express train in India’s Maharashtra state was physically and verbally attacked by fellow passengers as they accused him of carrying beef
At the beginning of July, I spent one week on a self-financed & self-planned trip in which I visited Israel & Palestine. Tel Aviv & Haifa in Israel, and East Jerusalem, Hebron & Bethlehem in occupied Palestine.
Timeline of Events
Sunday
•Joe Biden drops out.
•Kamala Harris announces campaign with Biden endorsement.
•Kamala Harris says she is going to work hard to earn the nomination.
•Kamala Harris makes calls to party delegates.
Monday
•Kamala Harris continues making calls to
Tweets like this demonstrate that even elected leaders do not prioritize engaging in good faith & finding ways to collaborate to address the systemic issues that hold SF back.
@SFyimby
was literally in the news on St. Francis Wood less than a week ago.
So disappointing to see an official of my country, the U.S., deny the decades long military occupation of Palestine. This is why it has become an endless occupation with so many lives lost - officials fail to speak the truth.
This is revisionist history & it will not age well.
This is beyond disgusting, it’s criminal.
Biden's State Department refused to describe Palestinians as living under Israeli military occupation
#Israel
I am not spending a dollar at Walgreens moving forward. I would encourage everyone who can to switch your prescriptions to another pharmacy and avoid shopping there.
When I first moved to SF, ppl told me to avoid the TL entirely. I didn’t & discovered some of my fave places in the city. We can’t turn our backs on our neighbors.
“If this happened in Noe Valley, the Marina or Pac Heights, would the city’s response be the same? Of course not.”
My latest: Kids from the Tenderloin went to San Francisco City Hall to hand a letter to Mayor Breed demanding help for their neighborhood. Gun violence there has spiked this year, and open-air drug dealing is rampant. “You have failed us,” the letter said.
“When it comes to housing, San Francisco isn’t progressive at all.”
Brava
@hknightsf
for covering the most divisive issue in SF. Coverage like this is the only way we will hold our leaders responsible for killing projects & leaning on Byzantine process & bureaucracy as excuses.
My latest: A major Northern California city just approved allowing four units on any parcel now slated for one house. That’s a progressive, visionary move to tackle our housing crisis — so of course it wasn’t San Francisco. Will SF follow suit? Unlikely.
Harris’ campaign marketing clearly screams targeting young voters.
The gap is likely that
@KamalaHQ
feels they can capture young people based on *vibes* alone and not by shifting platform or policy. They are in for a rude awakening…
We all need to push HARD in this moment.
Yet another glaring reminder that the Anti-Defamation League is an anti-Palestinian hate group grifting as a social justice organization.
This time, the ADL is actively undermining international law & the International Court of Justice.
Unbelievable yet completely believable.
The ICJ has once again chosen political gestures over justice by issuing an undeniably prejudiced ruling on Israel's policies towards the Palestinian Territories. The opinion distorts the reality of the Israel-Palestine conflict and makes a negotiated solution harder to reach. 🧵
"Harris is not Humphrey. Gaza is not Vietnam. 2024 is not 1968. Nevertheless, the similarities that do exist are too glaring to ignore."
My latest for The Guardian, on the lessons Harris should learn from Vietnam & Humphrey's narrow loss to Nixon in 1968:
Imagine being so indoctrinated by propaganda, bias & anti-Palestinian racism that you waste everyone’s time & energy on defending your own insecure worldview justifying apartheid during a live national broadcast with race scholar Ta-Nehisi Coates.
The anchor: Tony Dokoupil.
Ta-Nehisi Coates’ new book, “The Message,” is a trio of interconnected essays that examine how the stories people tell — or avoid telling — can shape and even distort reality: “I am most concerned always with those that don’t have a voice.”
@BenjaminPDixon
Arabs & Muslims are two distinct communities & segments of voters that are often ignorantly conflated with one another.
Quote tweeting a tweet about Arab Americans & then talking about Muslims & a Muslim ban feeds this ignorance.
Please do better.
@emanabdelhadi
She won’t because it will turn off the conservative voters she needs who are fans of the death penalty.
She needs those voters because she chose to throw away Muslim & Arab American voters.
I strongly endorse
@Scott_Wiener
’s re-election to California state Senate in district 11. Vote for Scott when you get your ballot!
@sfchronicle
: Re-elect Sen. Scott Wiener, a leader on issues that matter
As an organizer in SF politics, I've seen 1st hand how the city's toxic political culture enables abusers + people w/influence look away from the behavior of their problematic friends & allies.
It's time to start calling people out for bad behavior 🧵
The USA should not welcome or celebrate war criminals, let alone an authoritarian-inclined leader enacting a genocide & maintaining an increasingly violent decades long military occupation.
A dark day & new low for American government & governance.
"It took multiple victims coming forward about the sexual & domestic violence inflicted upon them by Jon, & engaging with the criminal legal system over several years for us to get to this point today.""
The credit goes to the survivors who pushed for accountability for YEARS.
Here to witness the San Francisco Board of Supervisors pass a ceasefire resolution.
#CeasefireNow
San Francisco, a Democratic stronghold, will be the largest U.S. city to pass a ceasefire resolution thus far.
The Sunset Night Market started with a tweet from Supervisor
@JoelEngardio
& manifested for real tonight.
Amazing turn out to the inaugural market. A huge portion of the city came to the Sunset tonight.
Thank you to everyone who helped make this dream a reality! 💯
San Francisco: an apparently stolen car barreled down Cabrillo, didn’t stop at any of the stop signs between Park Presidio & 8th Avenue, and crashed into an apartment building in my neighborhood, the Richmond District.
Thank goodness no one was killed. This is ridiculous.
The San Francisco Board of Supervisors overrode the mayor's veto to downzone the waterfront, ensuring that rich homeowners living on the hill would never have their view obstructed, including that of the bill's sponsor. The city approved 6 new housing units in January.
Fascism on full display at
@UMich
.
Who will condemn it & who will celebrate it? And who will remain silent knowing that what’s taking place in the video below is wrong & unjust?
BREAKING: Arrests made at the University of Michigan after police mobilized to stop a pro-Palestine demonstration at The Diag during Festifall on campus
@Evan_Low
Demonizing Californian constituents who are expressing their right to protest a literal genocide our country is actively enabling to signal your cred to the AIPAC crowd is classless & this tweet of yours will not age well. It will haunt you in the years to come.
My latest, from Allen, Texas.
There’s more than one way to die in a gun massacre.
I went to the Allen Premium Outlets, and how gun violence can take people’s lives… without killing them.
Quite the referendum indeed - a 27 point differential. San Francisco wants to build more housing.
Congratulations
@MattHaneySF
& congratulations YIMBYs.
"Haney was seen as being more amenable to building housing quickly. He won the endorsement of the pro-housing group YIMBY Action..."
@sfchronicle
calls the race for
@MattHaneySF
:
Happy to share that I have been appointed to serve as a California Democratic State Central Committee (DSCC) delegate.
I look forward to representing the interests of women of color, families of immigrants, Muslim Americans & the larger SWANA diaspora in
@CA_Dem
. (1/2)
San Francisco is home. I’m committed to staying & believe the City’s best days are still ahead.
“What did you do to try to invest in the Bay Area?
Were you active civically?
Did you try to use your money philanthropically to alleviate the problems?
I kind of doubt it.” 🔥
My latest: A parade of tech leaders has left San Francisco during the pandemic for Austin, Miami and elsewhere and nastily blasted the city on the way out.
@jeffiel
, CEO of
@twilio
, has words for them — and shares why he’s more committed to SF than ever.
This is so uncalled for. Y’all can disagree with someone’s opinions without maligning them & trying to assassinate their character, even when tensions are high.
@Bobakkabob37
is a good person & doesn’t deserve this.
@prem_thakker
So glad that Harris didn’t pick Shapiro as her VP. She’s bad on the issue but at least she doesn’t have this guy anchoring her in an insanely bad position for the next four years.
This weekend, by the grace of God, under a full moon and as the observances of Ramadan, Easter and Passover converged for the first time in 30 years, I completed my first Umrah at the age of 36 (1/6)
In a place as politically ambitious & blue as San Francisco, villainizing people you don't agree with is a central tenet of the city's tribal politics.
This toxic behavior is one of the reasons it is so hard for ppl to work together towards solving the city's issues.
My latest column: A group of parents on San Francisco’s west side wanted to form a Democratic club and get chartered by the San Francisco Democrats.
But soon, party leaders were grilling them about being secret Republicans and racist — based on nothing.
Peak privilege: “We consider backyards to be sacrosanct” = “I prioritize land + my own individual comfort over people + an inclusive society.”
San Franciscans need to know how far we’ve drifted from San Francisco values. Thanks for reporting on it
@hknightsf
.
Lots of progressive and actionable results in 2020 in the first 9 months alone from the hardest working senator in the California state senate. That’s why I am voting for
@Scott_Wiener
.
I’m proud to have passed 6 new laws in 2020, tackling mental health, racial justice,
#COVID19
,
#LGBTQ
equality, & climate change.
I’ve passed 42 laws overall.
Being a legislator is about making people’s lives better. It's an honor to serve our community.
“The reports of my death are greatly exaggerated.”
@X
apparently has a bug that allows
#MuslimTerror
ists to overwhelm its system with spam complaints which automatically suspend an account after a certain number. I was targeted overnight by several of these pro-Hamas accounts.
As we entered the city center of Hebron, IDF soldiers stopped us and asked us to identify our religious backgrounds. Since I am a Muslim & the IDF has created separate entrances for Muslims & Jews for the Tomb of the Patriarchs, they rerouted our entire group to a diff entrance.
All the actions behind Mike Lee's forced removal & retirement from Sonoma State are abusive, underhanded & unconscionable.
This is a total abuse of power & weaponization of rules to help a genocidal foreign government evade accountability. Full stop.
Pandemic mask game: 💯. SF: vote to re-elect state Senator
@Scott_Wiener
🦒 on/before November 3. Everyone: vote as early as you can. Make the plan now!
#election2020
@mehdirhasan
Please don’t put a target on our back, Mehdi - we’re already dealing with enough shit from Blue MAGA liberals.
Per the most recent national polling, very few Muslim (11%) & Arab (2%) voters would vote for Trump.
I believe this is far less than any other group based on race or
Thankful to the women who spoke out & to
@Josh_Koehn
for bringing their stories to us.
There's an issue of cronyism + a lack of accountability across tribes in SF politics that allows for abuse.
EVERYONE needs to hold their friends accountable for predatory + abusive behavior.
NEW: In a series of interviews, I spoke w/ 3 women who filed police reports against San Francisco nonprofit housing director Jon Jacobo—a once-rising star in local politics.
They filed reports after he was publicly accused of rape by Sasha Perigo in 2021.
The interview is about returning SF to some bygone era (2007?) rather than creating a vision for the future.
& included some NIMBY dogwhistles:
- “Don’t change the landscape of SF & ruin what we have”
- “I do not believe we need to upzone every single neighborhood in SF”
A shocking story about assault & abuse broke in the
@sfstandard
last week that sent shock waves through the SF political community & now you have another man in said community threatening women with legal action a week later?
What exactly is going on?
I’m tired of seeing qualified women pushed out of leadership roles.
How many women are in political leadership in SF? Not enough.
@jennyhlam
has proven she has what it takes to stabilize the
@SFUnified
& lead it to positive outcomes for students (1/2)
A new battle may be brewing over who will lead the San Francisco school board, after a close election changed the balance of power on the board and put a progressive majority back in the driver’s seat after less than a year of moderates running the show.
The line of thinking that one needs to be situated in one place for their entire existence to care about it or have good ideas + outcomes for it is such a limited belief.
I hope you come from all over, travel the country & world + bring your best ideas back to San Francisco.
@PhilGordon46
Your admin has been enabling this genocide for a year without facing the Americans impacted IN PERSON & only connecting with people who have NOT been publicly critical of your principals.
How many times have you met in person with 🇮🇱 advocates?
This is not democracy in action.
Arreguin on taking the 2022 trip: “to be a more effective advocate for peace in the Middle East.”
So why take a free trip to a foreign country when you’re an elected official at the local level & and don’t think your city should weigh in on foreign affairs? (2/6)
@BrookeJenkinsSF
This is the result of the type of rhetoric you’re using. Stop immediately.
We don’t care if you denounce Islamophobia while using your platform to put blood in the water for sharks to come & feed on us.
A 6-year old boy stabbed 26 times, just for being Muslim, according to detectives.
This is unspeakable.
I pray that love can prevail in these times of so much hate.
It takes real guts to run in a place as competitive as San Francisco. Bilal’s campaign energized a lot of new people into paying attention to local politics. Thank you for running
@bilalmahmood
!