Jeffrey Gray

@phoca2004@sfba.social
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my main mastodon profile is at @phoca2004. I will post here only things that are of significance to the San Francisco Bay Area community.
Enduring Democracy: the Monterey petition

Enduring Democracy: the Monterey petition
The accepted state of driving and street safety in San Francisco, the Bay Area and beyond.
Your reminder that the only race is the human race. We are all one species, Homo sapiens. Anyone trying to divide us by religion or skin color or national origin deserves censure and ridicule, not attention.
Opinion | Home-Schooled Kids Are Not All Right

Not once, in the four and a half years I learned at home, did anyone from the state come to assess what sort of education I was receiving, or even just check on me.

The New York Times
Opinion | What Trump’s Immigration Policies Are Doing to People Here Legally

Something new is happening in the breadth and ferocity of efforts to change the makeup of this country.

The New York Times
Had to repeat the procedure again at all the drains - it clogged and formed large backups at two blocks. Cleared again. Many more jerky drivers this time and one woman who insisted I needed to go clear a drain elsewhere because her daughter dropped her phone in a puddle while I was nearly knee deep in a large lake of a backup. #volunteering
The rain and winds have knocked leaf litter and trash plugging storm drain grates. Cleared two nearly knee deep backups along with all my other adopted drains and a handful of others. #sfadoptadrain Only one jerk in a Tesla drove at speed through a puddle I was trying to clear. #unthinking #unkind #unsurprised @sfpuc Try to be decent to the volunteers and public workers trying to make things better for you.
Jaysus, that UCI Track World Championships Womens Madison was brutality. Seemed more like a demolition derby with human bodies instead of cars. #UCI #Safety #RiderWelfare
Marc Benioff exposed himself as craven and hollow. He has company. 

Salesforce CEO's inane call for siccing the National Guard on San Francisco is met with performative inanity

Mission Local

S.F. day laborers showing up for work, but often struggle to get paid

Day laborers in the Mission are struggling to find work. When they do, some employers take advantage of their undocumented status to underpay them.

https://missionlocal.org/2025/10/s-f-day-laborers-showing-up-for-work-but-often-struggle-to-get-paid/

S.F. day laborers showing up for work, but often struggle to get paid

Day laborers in the Mission can hardly find work. When they do, some employers take advantage of their undocumented status to underpay them.

Mission Local