Kim-Mai Cutler @kimmaicutler Twitter profile

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Kim-Mai Cutler

@kimmaicutler

6 years

I can’t believe this tweet isn’t going viral. Do people not really care that Facebook may have systematically charged the Clinton campaign an order of magnitude or two more than it was charging Trump to reach American voters? (Which is not allowed in other mediums by law.)

Brad Parscale

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6 years

@nxthompson I bet we were 100x to 200x her. We had CPMs that were pennies in some cases. This is why @realDonaldTrump was a perfect candidate for FaceBook.

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3 years

“Job applicants said they were excited to join a company that took employee safety seriously. United has received 20,000 applications for about 2,000 flight attendant positions, a much higher ratio than before the pandemic.”

The New York Times

@nytimes

3 years

Scott Kirby, the chief executive of United Airlines, decided that it was time to require employees to get vaccinated after learning two employees had died of Covid-19. The effort, one of the largest of its kind, worked.

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2 years

Can't believe I have to do this again. The last guy to add an additional seat to SCOTUS was this guy because the court had ruled that paper currency was unconstitutional and then he added two seats and they overturned the previous ruling:

Mike Solana

@micsolana

2 years

packing the court would essentially dissolve an entire branch of power, circumventing the democratic process for decades and ceding the country to a single party. it’s a declaration of war. serious people should stop suggesting this.

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6 years

Remote work is the future of affordable housing.

Alexis Ohanian 🇦🇲

@alexisohanian

6 years

Remote work is the future of work.

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@kimmaicutler

5 years

Never forget. From a May 20, 1978 newspaper clipping. Universities used to be free in California until the homeowners cut and capped their property taxes 40 years ago. That generation of voters chose to indebt you in your tuition and housing costs.

Kim-Mai Cutler

@kimmaicutler

5 years

@justindross It goes back several decades farther than that in California. In 1978, then @jerrybrowngov warned voters if they passed Proposition 13 to roll back and cap their property taxes, it would probably mean CA universities would have to start charging tuition. (Yes, they were free.)

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@kimmaicutler

6 years

A train station started at 6 p.m. and completed by 3:30 a.m. in Southwestern China. A Bus Rapid Transit line down Van Ness. First studied by San Francisco planners in 2001. Recently delayed by two years until 2020.

South China Morning Post

@SCMPNews

6 years

1,500 Chinese construction workers built this train station in just nine hours.

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@kimmaicutler

4 years

Holy crap. San Francisco exodus:

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@kimmaicutler

7 years

I wish we had these kinds of problems.

The New York Times

@nytimes

7 years

Iceland's president apologized after he said pineapple pizza should be outlawed. His approval ratings remain high.

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@kimmaicutler

6 years

These two dudes standing outside Twitter HQ (via @WEISSforMayor ).

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@kimmaicutler

3 years

Ostensibly freedom-loving California-to-Texas tech transplants have been conspicuously silent on a day when women have lost their freedoms.

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Kim-Mai Cutler

@kimmaicutler

4 years

Not now, San Andreas.

San Francisco Chronicle

@sfchronicle

4 years

QUAKE ALERT | Magnitude 5.6 earthquake strikes off the coast of Northern California.

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@kimmaicutler

2 years

Lots of male founders step away from being CEO and become executive chairperson of the board. Do we write stories saying it’s the end of manbosses?

The New York Times

@nytimes

2 years

Emily Weiss, founder of Glossier and a face on the Mount Rushmore of start-up culture, will no longer be the beauty company’s CEO. She's the latest of the so-called girlbosses to step away from their creations, effectively marking the end of the archetype.

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@kimmaicutler

7 years

There should be a term for this. Maybe “algorithmic radicalization.”

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@kimmaicutler

4 years

“The Bay Area and New York City had about 300 and 450 cases, respectively, when the Bay Area stay-home orders were issued on March 16. Four days later, when Cuomo shut down the state, New York City had 5,500 cases. The Bay Area: 539.” #StayHomeSaveLives

San Francisco Chronicle

@sfchronicle

4 years

Coronavirus erupted throughout New York, but public health officials are wondering why the same rate of the outbreak hasn't happened on the West Coast.

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@kimmaicutler

4 years

Wow. “Pinterest terminated its massive 490,000-square-foot lease, ...citing a shift towards more remote work amid the coronavirus pandemic. The company will... pay a one-time fee of $89.5 million to cancel the Bluxome lease.”

Roland Li

@rolandlisf

4 years

Pinterest cancels massive Central SoMa lease at 88 Bluxome, citing remote work shift from coronavirus. Biggest sign of reduced tech office demand yet and a blow to a giant project with community benefits, including land for affordable housing, public pool

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5 years

“There is accumulating evidence that the economy is more sclerotic & slower-growing than it might be if the Millennials were able to buy homes, have families, start businesses & spend like other generations—if the young were not existing just to pump up asset values for the old.”

The Atlantic

@TheAtlantic

5 years

Millennials are already in debt and without savings. After the next downturn, they’ll be in even bigger trouble, argues @AnnieLowrey :

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@kimmaicutler

4 years

New rule of the discourse: If you're on here saying we should adopt the no-lockdown Swedish model, then you should be equally forceful in your advocacy of adopting a similar social safety net and universal health coverage. (Otherwise, I can't take you seriously.)

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Kim-Mai Cutler

@kimmaicutler

8 years

San Franciscans voted to confiscate tents from homeless people (Q) and failed to pass the funding that would've provided them housing (K).

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@kimmaicutler

7 years

WHY DID YOU SPEND $5B ON A HQ WITH 11K PARKING SPOTS? BUILD A MASS TRANSIT EXTENSION TO YOUR HQ.

Insider Tech Business

@insidertechbiz

7 years

Apple is borrowing $1 billion to fight climate change

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Kim-Mai Cutler

@kimmaicutler

5 years

Time to remind everyone again that @UofCalifornia had no tuition until voters passed Prop. 13 and cut property taxes. (Yes, a previous generation chose to indebt you so they could have overvalued houses.)

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Kim-Mai Cutler

@kimmaicutler

5 years

Wow. Here she comes. Climate change. Mass power outages. Half billion dollar sea walls, etc.

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@PaulRogersSJMN

5 years

San Francisco International Airport plans to construct a $587 million, 10-mile-long wall to protect its runways and buildings against flooding from rising San Francisco Bay waters due to climate change

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@kimmaicutler

8 months

My God. Maintaining this road amid climate change is like 1/10th the cost of CA high speed rail.

Warren J. Wells, AICP 🚴🏙️🦀

@WarrenJWells

8 months

There are some pretty eye-popping costs to maintaining SR 37 between Vallejo and Marin. This will involve both widening and, eventually, raising of the roadway to address sea level rise. Total cost is estimated at $11.4 billion at the high end.

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@kimmaicutler

5 months

👏 California’s 👏 revenue 👏 model 👏 is 👏 structured 👏 around 👏 capital 👏 gains 👏 aka 👏 Silicon 👏 Valley 👏 IPOs 👏

Jeremy B. White

@JeremyBWhite

5 months

Head-spinning to see California go from a nearly $100 billion surplus to a $68 billion deficit in just two years

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Kim-Mai Cutler

@kimmaicutler

6 years

West Coast Americans have it backward. The nice weather doesn't attract homeless people here. The nice weather causes voters to absolve themselves of providing a right to shelter with adequate funding and resources for people without housing the way that East Coast cities do.

Liam Dillon

@dillonliam

6 years

@NLIHC A @UCLA study also just found a strong link between high housing costs and homelessness. Also takes aim at myths I hear all the time, such as the majority of homeless residents are mentally ill or drug addicted. And that homeless move here for the weather

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Kim-Mai Cutler

@kimmaicutler

5 years

We need protected bike lanes, now.

Peter Flax

@Pflax1

5 years

San Francisco police identify the woman killed riding a bike on Howard. Her name was Tess Rothstein. She was 30. She was a designer who worked at Medium. Her death was preventable. RIP Tess Rothstein.

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Kim-Mai Cutler

@kimmaicutler

3 years

I owe my life to this.

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@kimmaicutler

3 years

Not to alarm you — but actually to alarm you — a bunch of our California teenaged salmon have been transported to the “Noah’s Ark” of hatcheries from the delta/Central Valley — because the rest might die this weekend from this heat dome bringing the species to near extinction.

The Sacramento Bee

@sacbee_news

3 years

A near-total wipeout of juvenile salmon ‘greatly increases the risk of extinction for the species.’

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Kim-Mai Cutler

@kimmaicutler

3 years

How is it legal for this guy to earn $500K a year in coal dividends while doing this and condemning future generations of Americans to the public health impacts, financial instability and irreversible losses of climate change?

David Roberts

@drvolts

3 years

Manchin is specifically demanding to eliminate the single most effective climate policy in the bill.

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Kim-Mai Cutler

@kimmaicutler

5 years

Surprise. @ewarren ’s plan is the most substantive, while the others risk creating rental subsidies that then just get captured by property owners.

Data for Progress

@DataProgress

5 years

We want to help progressives understand the 2020 Presidential race through the lens of policy. That’s why we are releasing deep dives on all the candidates’ housing policies.

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Kim-Mai Cutler

@kimmaicutler

5 years

Cough. Give credit to @DavidChiu , who authored it!

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

@AOC

5 years

Wow. Congratulations to the California grassroots for this enormous victory. Kudos to @GavinNewsom for signing this. Public banking is next level! #PeopleOverProfit

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@kimmaicutler

6 years

I do not agree with every single thing in this tweetstorm, but man, did this guy touch every single Third Rail in California politics. Real.

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Kim-Mai Cutler

@kimmaicutler

4 years

"We must radically alter the way we live, or our lands will be uninhabitable."

Robert Reich

@RBReich

4 years

West is on fire. Air can't be breathed. Sky is pink. A half million fleeing Oregon. An environmental reckoning has come. Whatever we call it -- Green New Deal, Climate Revolution, End of Fossil Fuels -- we must radically alter the way we live, or our lands will be uninhabitable.

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@kimmaicutler

6 years

OK, I’m done here. “Parents fear the new site... the teacher housing could affect property values, by bringing renters into their Almaden Valley neighborhood.”

KTVU

@KTVU

6 years

Proposal for affordable teacher housing causes uproar among San Jose parents

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Kim-Mai Cutler

@kimmaicutler

6 years

"Housing is eating the world" because we designed it to do exactly that. We made homeownership the de facto social safety net in this country in the absence of making a more robust, diversified social safety net. And so, when it started outpacing wage gains in the 1970s....

Nathan Taylor

@ntaylor963

6 years

“Remarkably Enrico Moretti (2013) estimates that 25% of the increase in the college wage premium between 1980 and 2000 was absorbed by higher housing costs.” And the last sentence of @ATabarrok post: “Housing is eating the world.”

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Kim-Mai Cutler

@kimmaicutler

4 years

Wrong question. The wildfires we’re seeing are in part of a consequence of a legacy of 100 years of fire suppression (and climate change).

Jude Gomila

@judegomila

4 years

What kind of wild fire prevention technology and fire stopping tech are people working on?

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Kim-Mai Cutler

@kimmaicutler

3 years

It’s the housing policy, stupid (California vs. Texas edition).

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Kim-Mai Cutler

@kimmaicutler

2 months

How many times do I have to repeat this every spring? California's revenue model is highly dependent on capital gains. Stock market go up = big budget. Stock market go down and/or no IPOs = big deficit. The voters don't want to change it because they don't want to pay more

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Kim-Mai Cutler

@kimmaicutler

4 years

Finally. A national news story.

Hospitals say feds are seizing masks and other coronavirus supplies without a word

As hospitals battle the coronavirus, they're baffled as the Trump administration seizes hard-to-stock medical supplies.

www.latimes.com

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Kim-Mai Cutler

@kimmaicutler

3 years

Bad news. The new variant appears to impact school-aged children more substantially than the previous version.

Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan

@MayorofLondon

3 years

BREAKING: The Govt has u-turned and now none of London's primary schools will open on Monday. My full statement.

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Kim-Mai Cutler

@kimmaicutler

7 years

This is a great two paragraph @verge post:

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Kim-Mai Cutler

@kimmaicutler

6 years

No more docked bikes for you. No more dockless bikes for you. No more scooters for you. Just cars, cars, **CARS** and **PARKING** in one of America’s densest cities at a time when the state is setting higher and higher temperature records.

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Kim-Mai Cutler

@kimmaicutler

2 years

Someone is going to spend $1.5-2M to buy a house, like $300K to demolish it, then $600/sqft to build four units (maybe this project is $5M+ total) and then decide to operate half the units at a loss forever. Okay.

Ahsha Safai 安世輝

@Ahsha_Safai

2 years

Just introduced my #4plex legislation which allows for up to 4 units in RH1 and RH2 zoned areas. If 4 units are built- 2 units must be affordable. If 3 units are built at least 1 unit must be affordable. Each of the affordable units must be comparable in size to market rate.

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@kimmaicutler

3 years

You can leave California but you can’t leave climate change.

Tony Plohetski

@tplohetski

3 years

NEW: Hotels in Austin are utterly booked as people escape freezing homes. There is availability at a Ramada by Wyndham in South Austin. Price? $999.

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@kimmaicutler

5 years

Reminder that Apple’s headquarters city of Cupertino is currently fighting the construction of 2,400 homes, of which 50% are affordable, in court.

Medical emergency cuts short much-anticipated Vallco hearing

Friday’s courtroom battle was supposed to be the culmination of a years-long fight over Vallco Shopping Mall, and also a test-case for a controversial new state law.

www.mercurynews.com

The New York Times

@nytimes

5 years

Apple announced a $2.5 billion plan to help address the California housing crisis. It includes $1 billion for an affordable housing investment fund and $1 billion to help first-time home buyers find mortgages.

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2 years

I has the receipts. Good job, lol. 40% of 0 is 0.

Jane Kim 金貞妍

@JaneKim

2 years

San Francisco went from 10% to 15% to 18% and even 33% and 40% affordable + middle income housing in market rate housing projects I’m really proud to have led this for my city. Don’t hate the player. I played the game + we won for San Francisco.

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Kim-Mai Cutler

@kimmaicutler

8 years

A Swedish entrepreneur picks Beijing over Silicon Valley for founding a company:

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@kimmaicutler

1 year

Just walking my dog this Friday morning in Berkeley, Calif.

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Kim-Mai Cutler

@kimmaicutler

4 years

Wow, OK. We're now in a "Western States Pact" about re-opening. So much for the federal government.

Governor Jay Inslee

@GovInslee

4 years

COVID-19 doesn’t know borders. The quick action of our states slowed the spread of COVID-19. It's going to take all of us working together to protect that progress. I’m glad to have partners like @GavinNewsom and @OregonGovBrown . Our statement:

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5 years

What gives other neighbors the right to control whether you can or can’t have awesome dinosaur statues on your own property in your backyard?

Hillsborough calls Flintstone House a ‘public nuisance’

Recognizable for its bright hues and bulbous shape, views of the “Flintstone House” from Interstate 280 have captured the imaginations of many who have passed by the Hillsborough home for

www.smdailyjournal.com

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Kim-Mai Cutler

@kimmaicutler

8 months

At current pace, Oakland is on track for one out of every 30 residents to have their car stolen this year.

Betty Yu

@bett_yu

8 months

Oakland police report auto theft epidemic; more than 10,000 stolen this year via @KPIXTV @DaKPIX

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Kim-Mai Cutler

@kimmaicutler

5 years

Dysfunctional immigration policy is America’s loss and Canada’s gain:

The Economist

@TheEconomist

5 years

Toronto added more tech jobs in 2017 than San Francisco Bay area, Seattle and Washington, DC, combined

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Kim-Mai Cutler

@kimmaicutler

5 years

I love that @jack did a 10-day Vipassana retreat and also his product and company are literally the most antithetical experience in the entire world to everything that Vipassana retreats stand for.

jack

@jack

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For my birthday this year, I did a 10-day silent vipassana meditation, this time in Pyin Oo Lwin, Myanmar 🇲🇲. We went into silence on the night of my birthday, the 19th. Here’s what I know 👇🏼

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Kim-Mai Cutler

@kimmaicutler

3 years

SF teachers' union: Refused to re-open schools for a whole year unless they got access to vaccines (& pushed themselves to the front of the line ahead of other essential workers like MTA). Now defends the right of anti-vaxxers to expose your unvaccinated child to Delta variant.

UESF

@UESF

3 years

UESF supports the requirement that workers either be vaccinated or be offered regular testing as a measure to keep workers, students and communities safe. We reject the idea that workers would lose their jobs for being unvaccinated, particularly in the midst of an economic crisis

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@kimmaicutler

1 year

@sama Feed it raw notes from meetings and have it make a summary

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4 years

@samstein

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@kimmaicutler

3 years

Alamo Square homeowner whitesplains gentrification to a young Black Bay Area community leader who has literally spent years writing about gentrification. 🍿

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@kimmaicutler

3 years

$600 “Don’t Recall Me” checks.

Emily Hoeven

@emily_hoeven

3 years

BREAKING: @GavinNewsom will today unveil an $11.9 billion proposal to send $600 stimulus checks to 2/3 of Californians and another $500 check to families with children. It's part of a new $100 billion economic recovery plan. Details in my newsletter ⬇️

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Kim-Mai Cutler

@kimmaicutler

4 years

NIMBY Twitter is like this over #SB1120 right now, which is just about allowing duplexes in California. If CA can’t allow more duplexes, my God I don’t know what to tell you about climate readiness & affordability. Call your local reps here tomorrow & Mon:

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Kim-Mai Cutler

@kimmaicutler

3 years

I don’t think she should resign because of a five-year-old tweetstorm, which was opportunistically re-surfaced this week. I think she should resign because she actively prevented the superintendent from creating a COVID or re-opening plan last June.

Heather Knight

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3 years

BREAKING: San Francisco school board vp Alison Collins is under fire for racist tweets targeting Asian Americans and their "white supremacist thinking to assimilate and get ahead." A third of students in SF public schools are Asian. Via @jilltucker .

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6 years

Don't you feel like critiques of leftist "virtue signaling" reached a fever pitch at the same time it became painfully obvious that the GOP could no longer credibly stand for Christian or family values?

Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇸🇺🇦

@Noahpinion

6 years

"Competitive wokeness", like "virtue signaling" and "preference falsification", seems to be something people on the right say in order to pretend that people on the left don't really believe what they claim to believe.

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6 years

The Silicon Valley peninsula is becoming a glorified retirement community with real estate equity for boomers propped up by proximity to corporate HQs who then export their workforce's housing needs to other parts of the Bay Area.

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@kimmaicutler

3 years

Wowowowowowowowowow! I started writing about this issue just seven years ago and we actually changed it.

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Kim-Mai Cutler

@kimmaicutler

5 years

"Philadelphia is now burning about 1/2 of its 1.5M residents’ recycling material in an incinerator that converts waste to energy. The Memphis international airport still has recycling bins around the terminals, but every collected can, bottle and newspaper is sent to a landfill."

The New York Times

@nytimes

5 years

Recycling is collapsing in many parts of the United States

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@kimmaicutler

3 years

This is the most genius.

Alexis Gallagher

@alexisgallagher

3 years

Woke up to walk the dog on Christmas morning here in San Francisco and at Corona Heights park a mysterious GINGERBREAD MONOLITH has appeared!

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Kim-Mai Cutler

@kimmaicutler

4 years

Still ridiculous how badly this country screwed this up. California, which is thought of as having done a good job, has 14X more new cases per day than the whole of Germany right now.

Helen Branswell 🇨🇦

@HelenBranswell

4 years

1. The good news: @CDCgov held a full scale #Covid19 briefing today, the first in 3 months & 3 days. The not-great news: They sidestepped most of the questions.

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London has like six “London” airports, most of which aren’t actually in London. SFO needs to get over itself.

‘Confusion and chaos’: S.F. sues Oakland over airport renaming, says Bay Area tourism will suffer

The lawsuit argues the new name violates San Francisco’s trademark and creates unfair...

www.sfchronicle.com

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@kimmaicutler

5 years

The moon doesn't have NIMBYs on it.

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Kim-Mai Cutler

@kimmaicutler

6 years

Btw it costs $780M per mile to build BART underground today & Berkeley has three underground stations. It is totally irresponsible to leave low-density and single-family zoning near billions of dollars of public infrastructure that taxpayers have paid for.

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Kim-Mai Cutler

@kimmaicutler

5 years

In Japan, train companies can earn revenue from rents in surrounding station areas on top of fares. In CA, we can invest billions in infrastructure and subsequent spikes in nearby land/property values are captured almost wholly by the people who happen to own nearby property.

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Kim-Mai Cutler

@kimmaicutler

5 years

Also your constituents don't allow new housing to be built, and you abet them in this and make up ridiculous reasons as to why you can't support state legislative changes to make more housing possible.

Ro Khanna

@RoKhanna

5 years

Owning a home has been a staple of the middle class and the American dream for decades, but many millennials are locked out of that dream today. The reason: $1.6 trillion in student loan debt.

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Kim-Mai Cutler

@kimmaicutler

5 years

Siri, why is housing expensive in San Francisco?

Supes reject plan that would shadow Soma park - 48 hills

In direct rebuke to mayor, board says that a developer can't buy off the city when it comes to blocking sunshine in a crowded neighborhood.

48hills.org

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Kim-Mai Cutler

@kimmaicutler

3 years

The city council of a major American city with a $13 billion budget is now spending several hours debating on whether this coffee shop can open.

S.F. cafe owner battles red tape and ‘folks who just hate everything’ in fight to open in the...

Ivor Bradley has sunk $60,000 and nine months into a proposed coffee shop he’s still...

www.sfchronicle.com

The Frisc

@TheFrisc

3 years

We're listening to public comment and debate for an environmental impact appeal to a coffeeshop before @sfbos at 1801 Mission Street. It's already called a "tech hub" cafe, a "high-end" cafe, and a "luxury" business twice.

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Kim-Mai Cutler

@kimmaicutler

4 years

I’m so embarrassed for our country.

Tom Inglesby, MD

@T_Inglesby

4 years

Vietnam, country of 95M that has border w/ China, has 0 COVID deaths, avg of <10 cases/day. How? stay at home orders at start, extensive testing+contact tracing, clear communication, strict mask use. Has allowed them to reopen. Great report by @Ep1Chrissy

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@kimmaicutler

3 years

Look at the photo of this guy strangling economic opportunity and mobility for the next generation of Californians.

Neighborhood groups are still battling UC Berkeley to cap enrollment and build more beds

Neighborhood groups contend that UC Berkeley should not increase enrollment unless it builds more housing.

www.berkeleyside.org

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Kim-Mai Cutler

@kimmaicutler

6 years

Thank God. The Californian coast is for all Californians, Americans and the public.

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@PaulRogersSJMN

6 years

Breaking: US Supreme Court refuses to hear Martins Beach appeal from billionaire Vinod Khosla in major victory for surfers and environmental groups over beach access in California #martinsbeach

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@kimmaicutler

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She led a political movement to kill 60 senior low-income apartments and instead to enable 16 single-family homes in their place.... which are now selling for $5 million each!

Lydia Kou

@lydia_kou

5 years

YIMBY policies hasten the construction of cities only accessible to the rich. YIMBYs view the nightmares of housing and homelessness as a matter of supply and demand, ignoring the basic human right to shelter.

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@kimmaicutler

5 years

Japan does not culturally treat housing and homeownership as a store of wealth the way America has for most of a century and as a result, all of its downstream policies like taxation, subsidies, zoning, etc. don’t enable housing to appreciate disproportionately faster than wages.

Henry Blodget

@hblodget

5 years

No rent control in Tokyo (and, perhaps, easier regulations) lead to housing supply keeping up with demand. 2BR rent still under $1,000/mo. NYC and SF take note...

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@kimmaicutler

3 years

They held in-person school hostage for well over a year, demanding front-of-the-line access to vaccines, and now this:

San Francisco Chronicle

@sfchronicle

3 years

NEW: San Francisco public school employees will not be required to show proof of vaccination to return to the classroom, officials said at a town hall meant to reassure parents on Tuesday.

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Kim-Mai Cutler

@kimmaicutler

6 years

If people are leaving/not coming to the Bay, I'd say it's less because of the discourse/political correctness, and more because the combined cost of living & newly uncertain immigration landscape makes it harder to attract and keep talent that is working on experimental ideas.

Sam Altman

@sama

6 years

E Pur Si Muove:

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@kimmaicutler

6 years

“When I get back to San Francisco, I joke with people that I have not traveled in China — I have time-traveled.”

Letter from Shenzhen

A dispatch from the Other Bay Area.

logicmag.io

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@kimmaicutler

4 years

American policy is mostly oriented around making housing more expensive as homeownership is our country’s primary wealth building tool in the absence of a more broadly diversified social safety net.

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@kimmaicutler

4 years

Winners & losers from today's WFH announcement: 🔺Bay Area renters 🔺Startups that want a presence in the Bay 🔺Parents/mid-career (esp. moms!) that want WFH 🔺POC that want to work from diverse cities 🔺Budgets of second-tier US cities 🔺Property owners in Santa Cruz, Napa, etc

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@kimmaicutler

3 years

This is the funniest shit. A socialist who campaigned on social housing arguing against converting a hotel into homeless housing because of Japanese internment. This is state seizure of a boutique hotel from a $11B publicly traded company for affordable housing!

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@kimmaicutler

4 years

Hi. Red alert. They want to kill vote-by-mail in a pandemic so they can depress turnout and win in a sham election.

The Washington Post

@washingtonpost

4 years

White House rejects bailout for U.S. Postal Service battered by coronavirus

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Kim-Mai Cutler

@kimmaicutler

6 years

Anything, literally anything, except for building housing.

Roland Li

@rolandlisf

6 years

Berkeley considers creating a cryptocurrency to hedge against federal cuts and fund affordable housing.

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Kim-Mai Cutler

@kimmaicutler

3 years

What an embarrassment. “Yu, a 30-year-old San Francisco native and father of two little kids, now has a huge debt to pay off with nothing to show for it.”

Heather Knight

@hknightsf

3 years

My latest: Remember Jason Yu and his nightmare trying to open an ice cream shop in the Mission? After nearly two years and $200,000, he’s given up. Meanwhile, Prop. H, passed in November, has led to just two small business hopefuls getting permits to open.

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@kimmaicutler

3 years

There's been a ton of speculation of what Silicon Valley is going to look like after the pandemic when companies return to work. I've been interested in this for several years and I thought I'd add data to the conversation based on our founder surveys:

DATA: Post-Pandemic Silicon Valley Isn’t A Place

Where are tech companies going to go once the pandemic subsides as vaccines reach more and more Americans? I wanted to provide granular data to the question of how concentrated the technology in the...

blog.initialized.com

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Kim-Mai Cutler

@kimmaicutler

4 years

Mark Zuckerberg’s pledge last night to donate 0.01% of his wealth to racial justice doesn’t make up for how his product fuels hysteria and fear feeding punitive and incarceral approaches to solving racial and economic inequity.

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Kim-Mai Cutler

@kimmaicutler

9 months

Gosh, it's almost like homelessness is society's choice or something.

Jeff Stein

@JStein_WaPo

9 months

🚨Homelessness on the rise after steep pandemic era drop, via WSJ

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@kimmaicutler

3 years

Spoiler: She's pushing to bringing back fossil fuel-emitting cars to Golden Gate Park and the Great Highway.

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@kimmaicutler

6 years

Omg, don’t tell this elected public official that the world’s financially sustainable public transit systems like in Japan rely on land rents around stations and the others that are fare recovery negative in North America don’t.

Berkeleyside

@berkeleyside

6 years

"I don't want to see BART in the developer business," says CM Kate Harrison. Says she thinks BART is trying to make money to "bail out a failing transit system." #berkmtg

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@kimmaicutler

6 years

They were born into a world with practically free higher ed, inexpensive housing, and pensions and are leaving behind a wall of crushing private and public debt, environmental degradation and a shattered state that had once enabled their upward mobility.

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@kimmaicutler

6 years

@bennygruber @lydiadepillis how do you actually know that? Philanthropy doesn't have to report when it misallocates because it's only accountable to the donor, so the public almost never sees its mistakes.

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@kimmaicutler

4 years

I don’t even know which fire this is. Is this the #BearFire , the #CreekFire , the #SlaterFire , the #OakFire or just one undifferentiated smoke mass with the residuals of the #LNULightningComplex , #CZULightningComplex and #SCULightningComplex ?

Drew Tuma

@DrewTumaABC7

4 years

Truly wild to be waking up to another apocalyptic orange sky this morning. Can anyone’s camera capture it well?? Mine keeps color correcting like “oh no your sky can’t be THAT orange right now” 📸

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Kim-Mai Cutler

@kimmaicutler

6 years

@tolles the way the dynamics of FB’s platform may charge extremist, inflammatory messaging a fraction of the cost of more moderate, pragmatic messaging — which has troubling implications for the cohesiveness of democracies globally going forward.

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Kim-Mai Cutler

@kimmaicutler

2 years

Whoa, actual supply sided progressivism.

Ariel Kelley

@ArielKelley

2 years

BREAKING: California just announced that it will manufacture its own insulin. This will make the drug *significantly* more accessible and affordable for millions of residents of our state.

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@kimmaicutler

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If you came to San Francisco in the 1970s and 1980s "when it was cool" and are complaining about how tech has ruined the city and you're only paying a few grand in property tax a year on $2M+ in home equity, ask yourself... how does my city pay for things?

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Kim-Mai Cutler

@kimmaicutler

5 years

Wow! Finally. Possible congestion pricing in NYC. Ending parking minimums in SF. Ending single family zoning in Minneapolis. Things are moving!

Eric Holthaus

@EricHolthaus

5 years

Biggest climate news of the day: There's a good chance New York is about to launch congestion pricing for lower Manhattan. If it does for NYC what it's done elsewhere around the world, that means a cleaner, quieter, safer, and more climate-friendly city.

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@kimmaicutler

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Man who pays ~$1K in property taxes on a $3M duplex and has spent 40+ years opposing new housing in his neighborhood complains about lack of affordable housing and underinvestment in public infrastructure.

48 Hills

@48hills

6 years

OPINION: SF needs a mayor who will tax, spend, and regulate. #housing #sfmayor

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Kim-Mai Cutler

@kimmaicutler

6 years

California is a parody of itself.

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