The Phoenix Project
@PhoenixProjNow
Over the last 5 years, a network of SF political pressure groups has emerged, secretly funded by a handful of conservative tech and real estate robber barons.
This is not going to last long. Meanwhile, San Francisco is going ahead with staking all of its future dreams on the success of an AI bubble filling up the city the way Airbnb and Pinterest did a decade ago. But it's probably already peaked in an era of layoffs.
Hey Scotty, who are the grifters here? The head of the latest billionaire funded PAC? Or the non profit workers who make a fraction of his paycheck helping our city’s most vulnerable? #MakeBillionairesUncomfortableAgain
The Coalition on Homelessness is another grifting organization amidst the constellation of orgs that feed off our city’s bloated budgets.
who’s gonna tell the yimbys?
WOW: New California Home Ownership Data - Nearly 20% of homes in California are owned by investors - Investors purchased 26.8% of all residential property sales during the first quarter of 2025 - Sierra County has a whopping 82% of single-family houses owned by investors -…
Buddy you work for an organization funded by a right-wing billionaire and nobody is buying what you’re selling
The Coalition on Homelessness is another grifting organization amidst the constellation of orgs that feed off our city’s bloated budgets.
Bay Area connection to this one. Zohran here with Jamaal Bowman. Bay Area tech billionaires from Coinbase, Ripple, and a16z spent $2 million on attack ads against Bowman in 2024, and around $200 million against progressives nationwide.
WU-TANG FOREVER 👐🏽
planningreport.com/2025/07/25/sto… Storper gets it right. It’s not about NIMBY. I it’s about the price of the dirt. “A growing body of serious research—which mainstream journalists at The Atlantic, The New York Times and many other outlets either do not know or do not care to consider…
So what Scotty and his project called Blueprint is doing is right out of the TogetherSF playbook. To “grow and sustain movement of community dissatisfaction”… they are literally dividing us by demonizing one group aka “non profits” …
California Forever continues to announce plans for its “utopian” city, and this time it’s a 2,100-acre “industry and technology” zone- the “Solano Foundry.” They claim this plant will bring 40,000 new jobs to Solano with industries such as defense, logistics, energy, and robotics
Check out Michael Shellenberger giving personal thanks to San Francisco's crew of crime panic influencers for a Donald Trump executive order expanding the state's Gestapo quotient. Seriously. This all has its genesis in liberal San Francisco.
There is zero difference – and minimal distance – between Trump and what are called Moderate Democrats in San Francisco. Lots of same financial backing, people, policy. It's all tone and aesthetic. Trump can be openly exterminationist, and Dems need to couch in liberal-speak.
1) This Trump executive order is extremely dangerous to civil liberties. For starters, the term “vagrancy” hasn’t been used in an official capacity in decades. (By the way, “vagrancy” is how racist Southern sheriffs put people into chain gangs.) It gets worse, so let’s begin⬇️
Paul Williams made a pretty glaring omission. When he talks about how yimby groups started in SF, he represents them as scrappy activists. He neglects to mention that they were funded by the CEO OF YELP and have since gone on to get millions in tech money.
The Abundance debate and discussion you didn’t know you needed w @IsabellaMWeber, @BigMeanInternet, @PEWilliams_. The book; the discourse; the underlying economic and political questions; the actual but mystified capitalist social relations. Bringing light, not heat. Link below👇
after 25 years in this work, I’m genuinely amazed that it took everyone this long to finally realize what’s been going on the entire time
reposting a deleted tweet more clearly: the parts of this ep where a guest makes assertions about the origin & ideals of abundance in SF are factually incorrect. they defended Airbnb, opposed rent control, & displayed deep hostility to redlined communities facing displacement
The Abundance debate and discussion you didn’t know you needed w @IsabellaMWeber, @BigMeanInternet, @PEWilliams_. The book; the discourse; the underlying economic and political questions; the actual but mystified capitalist social relations. Bringing light, not heat. Link below👇
This part is Andruil. Palantir only does software. “(4) Edge Hardware Support for Disconnected/Disadvantaged Users.”
The Pentagon just announced a no-bid contract that will be awarded to Palantir for "the integration of artificial intelligence (AI) into the field of geospatial intelligence." This means Palantir will have unprecedented access to maps, satellite imagery, GPS data, and more.
Tech Billionaires Accused of Quietly Working to Implement "Corporate Dictatorship" (via @futurism) Not so sure about the "quietly" part! But otherwise a good and succinct analysis of my work. futurism.com/billionaires-c…
Meet the New Centrist Democrat Copying Zohran Mamdani This is incredible @heycappello
Oh my god this is every billionaire-funded Democrat in San Francisco. Which is all of them but a couple at this point. This is so brilliant.
Meet the New Centrist Democrat Copying Zohran Mamdani This is incredible @heycappello
Remember back in 2023 when Abundant SF was partying with GrowSF, TogetherSF Action, Stop Crime SF, Neighbors for a Better San Francisco and the venture capitalists from Palantir?
NEW: Garry Tan hosted an election party in the Mission last week, but this wasn’t an average celebration. According to several people who attended, a shift is underway in how local political organizations coordinate—and they could spend $15M in 2024. sfstandard.com/2023/11/13/san…
NEW EPISODE: The San Francisco BOS passed Mayor Daniel Lurie’s budget last week. The budget cuts the social safety net and increases funds law enforcement. Seems like SF is now GOP-controlled, but was it ever progressive? @Dscot510 youtu.be/NMRE_HuL-yw