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If you National Guard or other military being called to LA and you don’t want to uphold authoritarian violence against your fellow human, here is a thread of resources for you. Please share widely. 🧵

Still taking it all in. Thank you, Oakland, for showing up in every way—for the music, the prayers, the cheers, the kids dancing in the aisles, and the generations of families who made their way to Jack London Square to witness this moment. This wasn’t just a ceremony. It was a

Oakland Mayor Barbara Lee reverses course, asks not to receive $1.7 million pay raise for her staff eastbaytimes.com/2025/06/09/oak…

I rarely go to lengths of calling my work "exclusive", but given that Oakland Observer was the only media org that had a concise overview of the Council's budget amendments in time for it to be of any use to the public, it fits here oakland-observer.ghost.io/budget-focus-c…

Breaking: A federal judge halted President Trump’s deployment of California National Guard soldiers in Los Angeles, finding that he broke the law in ordering them to put down urban unrest without consulting Gov. Gavin Newsom. cal.news/4l4l7y9 📸 Ted Soqui

The OO newsletter is live: an outraged community came out in the dozens to push back on the freeze of the Cultural Affairs Manager, and CM Ramachandran's role in it; Becker's unusual contract approved; OPD's 4 MM rentals contract passes w/out discussion oakland-observer.ghost.io/city-council-r…

While running for Mayor, Loren Taylor owed biz license tax for his rental property. Now he's ended up on lien list. For years, Taylor was a scofflaw on business tax & he ran for Mayor in same year landlord biz tax scofflawing was primary concern at council oakland.legistar.com/LegislationDet…

Taylor owed tax from 2021 to 2024 on a rental property, one of the landlords who contributed to such poor collection Council actually passed legislation to recoup it. But Taylor was not on lien list for those years. Worth looking into whether Finance deliberately kept him off

Taylor was one of hundreds of landlord business tax scofflaws blamed for a significant decline in City revenue from 2020 onward. Now that the City is focusing on BLT, Taylor's name is on the list to forward 4 years of unpaid BLT to County for lien placement on his rental property

Great breakdown of the dark money behind the Gotham By the Bay company funded by billionaires. A lot of mystery is hovering around this org which includes Gotham Oakland aka Seneca Scott. I wonder if this is how he can afford Dhillon Law to represent him.

Fighting fascism can be fun: La Peña celebrates 50 years of creative struggle eastbayyesterday.com/episodes/fight…

Former Emeryville Mayor and failed Alameda Supervisor Candidate John Bauters has become ED of the consolidated astorturf organizations, Abundant Oakland and Revitalize East Bay🧵

It seems Bauters is taking his new position very seriously — using his transition time to star in a Fox News series called “The Snake” where he uses his deception skills to convince people to do things they normally wouldn’t. A great skill to have when running an astorturf org.

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🚨Big news: County will vote to approve transfer of Coliseum DA from A's to AASEG Tuesday, last big step in closing deal w/City & County. Some final steps need to occur, including settling CBE suit, but I hear negotiations are very positive. Haters hate, but Coli is happening

Oakland Mayor Barabara Lee is the first speaker, of several Oakland electeds. "voters chose to support Measure W because they wanted real solutions to very real problems in community..."

Absolutely despicable.

Were the recalls a property investment strategy undertaken by two men who have apparently flourished in a market of luxury high rises that was out of their reach previously?

Pretty easy to spot astroturf in Oakland these days--look at the RTs. If only non-Oakland right wing is RTing them, they aren't from here, don't represent Oakland, and are probably getting paid. Know the signs, ignore, never, repeat, *never* give them the benefit of the doubt

Black Action Alliance, which KTVU presented as a legit community org sponsoring Taylor/Lee debate, received 2 donations from individuals for $350. Rest totaling $52.5K came from 4 intertwined committees: Revitalize; Empwer Oakland; Responsible Leadership/Taylor; Better Bay Area