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In San Francisco, 25% of sex offenders with registered addresses live in taxpayer-funded buildings.
Nearly all of them are next to elementary schools, daycares, and parks.
Let that sink in — you’re paying for the sex offender who lives next door.
EXCLUSIVE: California is dumping convicted pedophiles into residential neighborhoods in San Francisco. The state has placed dozens of sex offenders in free housing right next to daycares, playgrounds, and elementary schools.
The neighbors are terrified.
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More than one-quarter of SF’s registered sex offenders with listed addresses live in taxpayer-subsidized housing—158 people in 65 buildings. One Tenderloin facility houses at least 31 of them, just 400 feet from a daycare and a short walk from schools, in a neighborhood with the city’s highest concentration of children. Neighbors often have no idea. Our latest California investigation:
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Read the full investigation at City Journal:
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It is not a good sign when the IRGC shifts from "Death to America" to "Vote Democratic." The IRGC is reportedly encouraging Americans to vote against the GOP in the midterms. nypost.com/2026/09/29/world-… ...
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What an absolute embarrassment
Xavier Becerra, the Democratic candidate for California governor, has taken substantial corporate funding from oil companies like Chevron. He assured us that he won’t take money from just any company, though. Watch the full interview: sf.news/3VVgRcN
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The Man City drama is the most interesting thing happening in sports right now. Hard to convey the scale of it. Every trophy won by the prem’s most successful club for 15 years cast into doubt
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what a sloppy piece of fiction from this Vanity Fair "journalist." I think she might just be a little miffed that I called the protestors she brought along "freaks." 😭
But I appreciate the pic they ran of me rallying the crowd. I'll happily lead this pro-progress revolution!
I FIGHT FOR FREEDOM!
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Now is the time to serve your country. Take the way things used to be done and grind it under your heel. A new era is dawning of revolutionizing how America can serve its people.
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Chief Design Officer @jgebbia officially unveils America.gov, the new online home for the United States of America
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Republicans do plenty of dumb crap, but they’re also just infinitely better at cutting through bureaucracy and making government simpler than the Democrats, who try to make government do everything and then end up making it harder to do anything.
Department of State
Chief Design Officer @jgebbia officially unveils America.gov, the new online home for the United States of America
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Today was a major whitepill. I actually think conservatives can give major pushback to the left by showcasing basic long overdue improvements to government systems like this. We need it at the state and local level too. Anyone that remits taxes knows how bad gov websites are.
Impressive. This set of talks, along with the new America dot gov website, has the unmistakable feel of an Apple launch event. They're rebooting the federal government as a tech startup. Several observations.
(1) First, with this new AI interface to the entire federal government, if it works as promised, there won't be a single American who can't say their life wasn't helped at least in part by AI, or that the benefits accrued solely to zillionaires. This in itself cannily mitigates anti-datacenter sentiment.
(2) Second, Joe Gebbia and Marco Rubio's talks on simplifying name changes and passport filings introduce a completely new era where the US government is actually launching tangible features that benefit users.
(3) Third, this launch event in and of itself may visibly drive reform. It could become much more important than the State of the Union. Unlike laws, code is user-visible, and can be instantly audited by the public, as Obama found out with the failed obamacare website launch. So: the annual America dot gov event may be substance, whereas SOTU is traditionally optics. I wouldn't be surprised to see the President present at the next one.
(4) Fourth, this kind of event is a perfect example of where tech and red cooperate best. They both hate bureaucracy. Automating paperwork with code reduces the power of statists over both capitalists and nationalists. It's also hard to undo by other admins: once you digitize a process, hard to turn it back to paper.
(5) Fifth, it's an obvious point perhaps, but think about how much influence YCombinator has had in 20 years. From Gebbia's Airbnb joining their 2009 batch to a complete overhaul of the user interface of the US bureaucracy, and thus the US government.
(6) Sixth, this is another take on the network state. The functional part of the US (the network, meaning tech) is merging with and partially reforming the dysfunctional part (the state, meaning bureaucracy) by automating 20th century paper forms.
As a tech startup, there will no doubt be bugs and user issues and so on, but unlike with paper laws those issues will be visible and the code fixes will be verifiable. A new era of AI America. Rooting for them.
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A strange party role-reversal is underway.
Dems: The most critical thing right now is slowing down the pace of technological progress.
Meanwhile, the Trump Administration:
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My friend Joe Gebbia is doing extraordinary work for America.
In our lifetime, no man as wealthy or accomplished as him from US Tech went full time into government to BUILD.
Joe’s brought in A+ talent with him, and paired it with a bold administration for fast, amazing results.
Thanks @BretBaier for having me 🇺🇸
Airbnb co-founder leads Trump admin in creating 'concierge' to navigate government foxnews.com/video/6405770809… #FoxNews
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Just arrived in the mail, a special issue keyed on Karl Jaspers’s idea of the Axial Age, the extraordinary period from around 800–200 BCE when China, India, Persia, Israel, and Greece independently produced the first lasting, reflective traditions of philosophy and religion that placed the individual, ethics, and transcendence at the center of thought. Noema’s contributors, including philosopher Michael Sandel and physicist Carlo Rovelli, explore whether, with AI, a new Axial Age is opening…
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This is a great idea and could save Americans a lot of time and money
A new national front door to the federal government.
One trusted place to help people find answers. Whatever you need from government, start here: AMERICA.GOV
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Impressive. This set of talks, along with the new America dot gov website, has the unmistakable feel of an Apple launch event. They're rebooting the federal government as a tech startup. Several observations.
(1) First, with this new AI interface to the entire federal government, if it works as promised, there won't be a single American who can't say their life wasn't helped at least in part by AI, or that the benefits accrued solely to zillionaires. This in itself cannily mitigates anti-datacenter sentiment.
(2) Second, Joe Gebbia and Marco Rubio's talks on simplifying name changes and passport filings introduce a completely new era where the US government is actually launching tangible features that benefit users.
(3) Third, this launch event in and of itself may visibly drive reform. It could become much more important than the State of the Union. Unlike laws, code is user-visible, and can be instantly audited by the public, as Obama found out with the failed obamacare website launch. So: the annual America dot gov event may be substance, whereas SOTU is traditionally optics. I wouldn't be surprised to see the President present at the next one.
(4) Fourth, this kind of event is a perfect example of where tech and red cooperate best. They both hate bureaucracy. Automating paperwork with code reduces the power of statists over both capitalists and nationalists. It's also hard to undo by other admins: once you digitize a process, hard to turn it back to paper.
(5) Fifth, it's an obvious point perhaps, but think about how much influence YCombinator has had in 20 years. From Gebbia's Airbnb joining their 2009 batch to a complete overhaul of the user interface of the US bureaucracy, and thus the US government.
(6) Sixth, this is another take on the network state. The functional part of the US (the network, meaning tech) is merging with and partially reforming the dysfunctional part (the state, meaning bureaucracy) by automating 20th century paper forms.
As a tech startup, there will no doubt be bugs and user issues and so on, but unlike with paper laws those issues will be visible and the code fixes will be verifiable. A new era of AI America. Rooting for them.
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Important @DailySignal analysis on Solzhenitsyn's @Harvard Address by Daniel J. Mahoney
Why Solzhenitsyn’s 1978 Speech About America Still Demands Attention dailysignal.com/2026/09/28/s… @SolzhCenter
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Hayekian reflections on AI--by Adam Thierer: city-journal.org/article/fri…
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