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Mark E. Sackett retweeted
Donald Trump is already laying the groundwork to undermine this election.
We have election lawyers and voter protection teams at the ready to fight back and make sure every last vote is counted and certified.
Mark E. Sackett retweeted
This election is our last chance to at least rein in some of the foolishness of this Administration.
We need real leadership with concrete plans to lower costs, make health care more affordable, make housing more affordable, and get utility bills under control.
Let’s do what we can to make @KeishaBottoms the next Governor of Georgia. Let’s go send Jon @Ossoff back to the Senate. And let’s put this country back on the path to a better future.
Mark E. Sackett retweeted
Before Hollywood, I was living in a van in Hawaii and waiting tables at Bubba Gump Shrimp Company. One day, the incredible Rae Dawn Chong walked into the restaurant, and naturally, I went up to her table and said, “Hey, you’re a movie star! What are you doing here?”
She asked if I could act, and I said, “Fuck yeah, put me in your movie!”
She asked for my phone number. The only problem was I didn’t have one. So I gave her my buddy Mike’s number instead. A couple days later, Mike casually mentions, “Oh, by the way, someone called you.” ARE YOU KIDDING ME, MIKE?!
I called her back, and sure enough, she was serious. I drove over to pick up the script, went back to Mike’s house, and read all 120 pages three times in a row. First script I’d ever read. My character's name was Devon, and I remember thinking, “Sweet! I could totally play a Devon!”
I showed up to the audition with every line and inflection mapped out in pencil. Rae told me I could act and offered me the part. I asked if we were shooting in Hawaii. Nope. Los Angeles.
I had about $60 to my name, a bag of clothes, and some rollerblades.
Then Rae told me they'd fly me out. And I remember thinking right then and there, my life just changed forever. I'm going to be an actor.
That little movie was Cursed Part 3, a low-budget horror comedy that opened the door to Hollywood for me.
I'll forever be grateful to Rae for taking a chance on a kid working at a shrimp restaurant. Everybody starts somewhere, and this is where it all began for me.
Mark E. Sackett retweeted
Obama is all out of fucks tonight. The fact that he double downed on everything that made MAGA’s head spin and went even further tonight is glorious.
Mark E. Sackett retweeted
Everyone NEEDS to spend 5 Minutes listening to this clip tonight of Obama Talking about Trump's Reaction to his Cheesecake Factory comment.
It's not only hilarious, but so true.
Every American needs to watch this.
Yes nothing has changed and it’s getting worse! Great summation @DanielLurie as I said the other night… the shine is wearing off
November 8, 2023.
The day 3 years ago I took this photograph of Daniel Lurie.
Daniel had read my posts on X and reached out to meet. 3 years ago. Just him and me. No PR flaks. No security. We agreed to meet at the old Hibernia Bank building where he was attending a Salvation Army lunch that day.
I said, let's walk the Tenderloin. He did not hesitate. Turk, Eddy, Larkin, Leavenworth, Jones. Drug deals in the open. Addicts using in the open. Bodies hunched over and passed out on the sidewalk.
I pointed at those bodies and asked him if he would support MANDATED care. Yes, he said.
He promised to re-empower the police, build MANDATED recovery beds, and stop handing out pipes and tinfoil that enable addicts. "I'm in it to win it," he told me.
I asked him how he'd clean up the Tenderloin and he told me he'd put a cop on every corner in the Tenderloin if he had to.
I believed him. I called myself his supporter and his friend. He looked me in the eye and sold me a cleanup story that never came.
Politicians lie all the time of course, but I still believe in accountability.
Three years later he is not a mayor cleaning up a city. He is a cheerleader with a PR budget, spending his own money to sell himself, showing up for restaurant pop ups on Instagram, and repeating the same tired line over and over and over and over again that we "still have a lot of work to do."
That is not leadership.
We are still a sanctuary city. Illegal drug dealers still poison our citizens with impunity on the same corners we walked three years ago.
Watch JJ's attached video. This is Turk & Jones last week. JJ filmed pipes handed out. No treatment offered. No rescue. No cleanup.
Same street we walked. Same poison. Same bodies on the sidewalk. The only thing that changed is Lurie got the power, and we got the lie.
Mark E. Sackett retweeted
Hot off the press! sure the masked "free Palestine" peeps added drama, but the Market St demo was most fascinating.
Residents want "a grocery store; The Gap and Banana Republic; Pet Food Express; Crate & Barrel; Pottery Barn; Sur La Table; theaters and venues; outlet stores; a bookstore; independent artist shops; and a roller-skating rink." anything but more smoke shops, liquor stores and payday lenders. Oh, and to open Market St to cars.
Read on @TheVOSF
thevoicesf.org/san-francisco…
So @DanielLurie ? What’s up?
Mark E. Sackett retweeted
this rally was organized by SF politicians angry that a murderer was arrested by ICE. read my latest about hypocrisy, delusion, and grandstanding at City Hall.
I emailed every supervisor this morning asking for comment about Milton Ramos-Rodriguez. He is not in the US legally and -in addition to the voluntary manslaughter conviction- has a very serious record of other dangerous criminal offenses. so far, crickets.
thevoicesf.org/abolish-ice-r…
ICE is in SOMA TODAY stay alert @SOMAWestNbrhood @WestSoMaVoice @SOMAWestCBD @TheBoxSFevents #record #photograph #report @mattdorsey @DanielLurie
Mark E. Sackett retweeted
Late stage MAGA is so disgusting and unrecognizable to me, and I find this shocking as one who attended more Trump rallies than I can count.
A woman with a “Release The Epstein Files” shirt stands at a Trump rally shouting at Trump to release the Epstein files and gets physically beaten by the MAGA men around her, who probably call themselves Christians.
Then our obese President makes fun of her calling her “fat” and “him” claiming she’s a paid protestor.
She got thrown out and the men who attacked her got to stay.
MAGA rallies used to be filled with people who agreed with releasing the Epstein files, defended women, and would step in if a woman was attacked.
Now the dying remnant of MAGA is made up of people who emulate their cult leader.
Attacking women, making fun of their looks, and turning on the victims of the elites.
It’s a cult, an ugly grotesque cult that does not display Christian values because the cult leader himself is not a Christian even though the vast majority who attend his rallies would identify as Christian.
Know them by their fruit.
The fruit is rotten.
Because the cult leader himself is a wolf in sheep’s clothing who has led the flock astray.
Mark E. Sackett retweeted
Normalized. Nothing new. Expect nothing but rhetoric, gaslighting and blatant lies. The Hondos have won the war on drugs.
Mark E. Sackett retweeted
So @DanielLurie when will this nightmare end for residents? Why don’t you care about us?
"I called earlier but wanted to file here as well. This couple have been on this corner overnight for weeks. They are often belligerent, yelling obscenities in the morning and harassing people, like the City worker this morning. Their dog is loud and barky, their Smoke Gets into my house, depending on the wind direction, we both work from home, and my husband is ill. Thank you in advance"
A later report of the same issue was cancelled by the city today: "Case Cancelled. outreached provided for the sleepers. no tent, not violating sit/lie when they stand up."
