Pretty good turn out in front of city hall today, despite the short notice and blustery weather. The speakers were excellent, and it felt great like a great place to start with all going on. Also really nice to see all the young adults out here for likely their first events. Props to https://www.allrisealameda.com/ for setting it up.

As I was walking out the door this morning, I found a piece of paper taped to my door which read - “Fellow Americans and **** **** Apartment neighbors - if it hasn’t become abundantly obvious to you at this point this apartment complex, and my apartment, more specifically, is ground zero for the Make America Great Again movement in the West Coast.

Nobody is representing MAGA in the way I am for as far and wide as the eye can see.

MAGA is loud. MAGA is unapologetic MAGA is unstoppable MAGA will not be silenced

I will do my very best to respect sleep patterns and whatnot, but ultimately I need to live my life and refuse to continue self censoring myself and living in fear of people based on vitriol and attitude that I have had to navigate for the past 36 years.

MAGA is not going anywhere MAGA is growing in strength with every passing second.

I don’t care what color you are, what you sound like, where you were born or who you like to fuck or how you like to fuck, or what you had for breakfast lunch or dinner.

As the expression goes - if you can’t beat ‘em, join ‘em.

Take heed and trust the process comrade.

We are MAGA We are legion We will rock you

God bless you and god bless the United States of America”

Jesus fucking Christ on a motherfucking pogo stick, how the fuck can I get rid of this fascist piece of shit? Help!!

EDIT as of 10:50am 1/21/25 -found out this fascist jackass isn’t even a tenant. He was the roommate of the person who left the complex a while back. Jackass got left behind and the landlords have been trying to evict him from the unit for the last 2 months. For those of you who provided actual sound advice, thanks oh so much. For everyone else who said to ignore this guy, fuck that shit. No one should have to tolerate, much less have to ignore hate filled bullshit. That shit adds up.

I just read this review on Yelp (if you don’t want to read the screenshots, it looks like an 18-month-old wandered out of the daycare facility, only LINCOLN AVENUE (one or the most dangerous streets for any pedestrian, let alone a TODDLER), and a random person had to call the police to bring him back to the daycare where they hadn’t noticed he was gone??

Does anyone have any more information? Because if this is all true, that place should be shut down immediately. That poor baby.

And to the person ripping down the signs - fascists come for everyone, even the bootlickers. You can’t lick that boot hard enough! The rights we fight for are yours as well as mine.

I ❤️ my neighborhood🤸🏽‍♂️🧙🏻‍♂️🎃

Thank you all for coming out and supporting!

We sure are lucky to get to see this once a day in Alameda. Hope you all have a great Labor Day weekend!

When we came home today, this was taped on our building. I added a little note about rights on it for our neighbors.

If the person who wrote this is in this subreddit, thank you so much for the heads up! And to anyone else, stay safe and know your rights. No signed, judicial warrant, no entry to the building.

Took this picture and thought I should share!

News is spreading quickly within the city that at 12:30am, Councilmember Trish Spencer, while attending the annual League of California Cities expo in Long Beach, was found blackout drunk on the 100 Block of Pine Street, across from the expo hall. She was found with a serious head injury and was medically evacuated by police and EMS. She apparently was wearing her official Councilmember for the City of Alameda name tag when she was found. Still waiting for a case number and police report from the Long Beach PD but I'm sure the local news will be covering this soon. She was on this trip on the city's dime, representing the city. Beyond disappointing.

Alameda had a wonderful, spirited, peaceful protest today. Chief of Police (who was very supportive) estimated over 3000 people attended. Note this is more than 3.5% of our population!

Photo from last night, red skies were truly amazing!

I love you. Thanks for showing up. ❤️🤍💙

ETA: 3,000 people!

• Trish Spencer and the City Council learned about the Building 43 Winery lawsuit against the Alameda Food Bank as early as August 27th.

• The lawsuit was filed September 10th.

• On September 13th, in the trashiest possible way that only Trish Spencer could do, she held her campaign kick-off event at the Building 43 Winery - the same plaintiff who is putting the Alameda Food Bank in danger of closing.

• On September 17th, when protesters showed up at City Hall to voice their displeasure with Building 43, Mayor Ashcraft spoke out to condemn the lawsuit. Trish Spencer was silent.

• According to form 497 filings, Trish Spencer received at least $3,000 on September 12th or 13th.

• The Alameda Food Bank feeds over 6,000 Alamedans every week, up to 10,000 during the holidays.

For an elected representative to personally benefit from the free hosting of an event by the same business that's working against the city by suing to shut down the Alameda Food Bank is a major conflict of interest. And this is just par for course for Trish - she fought against the Wellness Center to serve homeless seniors, she fought against housing for teachers and staff, she fought against the minimum wage increase, she fought against the anti-bullying curriculum for LGBTQ students. She needs to go - because we're not going back!

Shame on you. This has to be some kind of HIPAA violation. I can hear everything you’re saying. Patient first names, asking personal details “are you married? Live alone?” who their PCP is, “sounds like your depression is getting worse” “your xray shows arthritis in both your knees” etc. You’re not disclosing to patients that you’re in a crowded coffee shop.

I’m going to put in my earbuds so I don’t continue to overhear anything. I could continue to listen in and catch your name and report you somehow but I don’t feel comfortable hearing patient info like this.

EDIT: I ended up leaving and thinking about it more and it’s definitely a HIPAA violation. I know for a fact that his laptop was open without a privacy screen and he was looking at patient records. “I’m looking at your X-rays now” “I can see you’re on x y z medications”. His laptop was facing the interior of the coffee shop. If I stood over his shoulder briefly I absolutely could have seen these peoples full names while he spoke with them. He said out loud their first name, their weight, their xray results, their prescription medications, and a few other things but those are the worst ones. I didn’t catch his name but I think I know enough about his employment specifics to report him. I’m at least going to try because this was fucked up. He kept telling patients “I’m here at Kaiser Walnut Creek” and uhm no hello brother, you’re in a crowded coffee shop.

Sidenote; I work in healthcare IT. Setting aside the ethics of it, the laptop thing alone is 100% a HIPAA violation.

EDIT PT2: I called Kaiser’s Ethics and Compliance line. I gave all of the details I could remember including exact times I was at the coffee shop and the representative was a) gobsmacked at how egregious this was and b) absolutely certain that they’d be able to identify him based on what I remembered. I’m going to get a follow up from the case manager to find out how they handled it.

Spoke to owner recently, super nice guy.

They are really struggling and are just hanging on. During lunchtime on some weekday days, they can barely cover labor...

So if you're able to, please go visit or get take out (avoid the apps).

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EDIT: Thank you in advance to the community. Let's show up for our small businesses so they are able to ride through these wild, unprecedented times.