My latest coloring page for my collection of Animals Who Hate Billionaires. The Swaison’s Hawk is one of many, many species that will be impacted by the #californiaforever crew of #billionaires who plan to gentrify and flip #suisuncity and #solanocounty ‘s open spaces. Of course, the ecosystem is not the only thing that will be hugely impacted. Read up on #solanotogether ‘s website (https://www.solanotogether.org/ ) and learn how the #flanneryassociates real estate flip will be a costly drain on our County’s infrastructure and resources, and how their promises for jobs and housing are essentially empty on close inspection.

Anyway, look at this majestic bro! What a wingspan! What fun facts!

My latest coloring page for my collection of Animals Who Hate Billionaires. The Swaison’s Hawk is one of many, many species that will be impacted by the #californiaforever crew of #billionaires who plan to gentrify and flip #suisuncity and #solanocounty ‘s open spaces. Of course, the ecosystem is not the only thing that will be hugely impacted. Read up on #solanotogether ‘s website (https://www.solanotogether.org/ ) and learn how the #flanneryassociates real estate flip will be a costly drain on our County’s infrastructure and resources, and how their promises for jobs and housing are essentially empty on close inspection.

Anyway, look at this majestic bro! What a wingspan! What fun facts!

🧵 1. Oligarchs apparently have nothing worthwhile to do with their money so they invest it in stupid and harmful Olympian projects like this.

#MarcAndreesen #ReidHoffman #FlanneryAssociates #Solano #California #Democrats

https://nypost.com/2023/10/31/business/silicon-valley-titans-used-strong-arm-tactics-to-get-land-for-utopian-city-local-farmers/

Silicon Valley titans used 'strong-arm tactics' to get land for utopian city: local farmers

Silicon Valley-backed Flannery Associates allegedly pressured California landowners into selling their property.

New York Post

Silicon Valley execs seem to be following Ayn Rand's playbook by buying up farmland in order to found a new, shining — and privately-held — city.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/25/business/land-purchases-solano-county.html

Except that the "men of the mind" in Rand's "Atlas Shrugged" also went on strike to protest governmental heavy-handedness.

Dear mental men: Please don't forget the the strike.

#FlanneryAssociates #AtlasShrugged

Michael Moritz, Reid Hoffman and Other Silicon Valley Titans Said to Be Behind Mysterious Land Deals

A mysterious company has spent $800 million in an effort to buy thousands of acres of San Francisco Bay Area land. The people behind the deals are said to be a who’s who of the tech industry.

The New York Times

#California #SiliconValley #FlanneryAssociates

The Guardian US:
Silicon Valley elites revealed as buyers of $800m of land to build utopian city

"Group Flannery Associates, backed by prominent investors, quietly buy 55,000 acres of farmland in northern California."
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/aug/26/silicon-valley-elites-buy-800m-land-new-city

Silicon Valley elites revealed as buyers of $800m of land to build utopian city

Group Flannery Associates, backed by prominent investors, quietly buys 55,000 acres of farmland in northern California

The Guardian
The Times’ article makes clear there will be a tsunami of advertising and politicking to influence public opinion on the #FlanneryAssociates project. It’s being couched in all the things that tickle the #YIMBY fancy, but at the end of the day, it’d be greenfield sprawl on what’s currently rural land.
The @sfchronicle had just this morning published its latest reported piece on the #FlanneryAssociates mystery and some of the concern it has caused in the community. https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/flannery-associates-land-investor-18327848.php
NYT scoops @sfchronicle on the #FlanneryAssociates mystery in #SolanoCounty: Silicon Valley wealth is backing a huge (and hugely speculative) real estate gambit on the rural periphery of the #SFBA. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/25/business/land-purchases-solano-county.html
Michael Moritz, Reid Hoffman and Other Silicon Valley Titans Said to Be Behind Mysterious Land Deals

A mysterious company has spent $800 million in an effort to buy thousands of acres of San Francisco Bay Area land. The people behind the deals are said to be a who’s who of the tech industry.

The New York Times