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LilMikeSF<p><a href="https://c.im/tags/Facebook" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Facebook</span></a> front office grabbed great publicity from its bold <a href="https://c.im/tags/billion" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>billion</span></a> dollar public <a href="https://c.im/tags/pledge" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>pledge</span></a> to help solve the <a href="https://c.im/tags/BayArea" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BayArea</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/housing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>housing</span></a> crisis, then after the cameras, clicks and likes disappeared so did it's phony commitment, as <a href="https://c.im/tags/Meta" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Meta</span></a> quietly cut the funding teat and <a href="https://c.im/tags/ghosted" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ghosted</span></a> the topic. </p><p> Money did flow at first , as public entities provided matching funds, but <a href="https://c.im/tags/Zuggerfugger" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Zuggerfugger</span></a>'s <a href="https://c.im/tags/PaloAlto" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PaloAlto</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/SocialMedia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SocialMedia</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/boardroom" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>boardroom</span></a> backed shills quietly cut and run, committing far less than a quarter of the publicly pledged total. The vast majority of money from Meta, a company lacking a corporate charitable arm, came back to their HQ, repaid as low 2% interest rate loans of up to $15m to developers, not actual donations.</p><p>5 years after the flurry of <a href="https://c.im/tags/publicity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>publicity</span></a>, the unfulfilled propaganda pipe dream went deferred, projects were few and far between, impacts largely lost and untold in a region still desperately in need of more affordable housing.</p><p><a href="https://www.eastbaytimes.com/2025/05/23/meta-affordable-housing-donation/?share=sfsrsw3uc3tc3wn0term" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">eastbaytimes.com/2025/05/23/me</span><span class="invisible">ta-affordable-housing-donation/?share=sfsrsw3uc3tc3wn0term</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/GiftLink" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GiftLink</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/SharedStory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SharedStory</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/SiliconValley" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SiliconValley</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/HousingCrisis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HousingCrisis</span></a></p>
LilMikeSF<p><a href="https://c.im/tags/DJT" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DJT</span></a>'s Massive <a href="https://c.im/tags/Medicaid" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Medicaid</span></a> Cuts That Provided Much Needed <a href="https://c.im/tags/Healthcare" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Healthcare</span></a> Access Across <a href="https://c.im/tags/USA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USA</span></a> Are Not Going To Be Easy For <a href="https://c.im/tags/GOP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GOP</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/MAGATS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MAGATS</span></a> To Defend To Cursed Congressional Constituents </p><p><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/08/us/politics/republicans-medicaid-budget-dilemma.html?unlocked_article_code=1.Fk8.cULD.OMjjQtDjSThp&amp;smid=nytcore-android-share" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">nytimes.com/2025/05/08/us/poli</span><span class="invisible">tics/republicans-medicaid-budget-dilemma.html?unlocked_article_code=1.Fk8.cULD.OMjjQtDjSThp&amp;smid=nytcore-android-share</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/GiftLink" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GiftLink</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/SharedStory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SharedStory</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/NewsToday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NewsToday</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/NYTimes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NYTimes</span></a></p>
LilMikeSF<p><a href="https://c.im/tags/CalTrain" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CalTrain</span></a> deputy director Joseph Vincent Navarro found <a href="https://c.im/tags/guilty" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>guilty</span></a> of misappropriation of $40k in public funds for conspiring with contractor during pandemic era and converting <a href="https://c.im/tags/Burlingame" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Burlingame</span></a> train station office into secret personal residential getaway with private gym. </p><p>Navarro, who now lives in Pennsylvania and previously told the <a href="https://c.im/tags/MercuryNews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MercuryNews</span></a> that his criminal charge was “overstated” and that he did nothing wrong. His co-conspirator <a href="https://c.im/tags/contractor" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>contractor</span></a> had built himself similar living quarters inside the <a href="https://c.im/tags/Millbrae" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Millbrae</span></a> Cal <a href="https://c.im/tags/trainstation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>trainstation</span></a> and plead <a href="https://c.im/tags/guilty" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>guilty</span></a>, turning States <a href="https://c.im/tags/evidence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>evidence</span></a> against Navarro.</p><p>Navarro , whose attorneys claimed it was not a <a href="https://c.im/tags/secret" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>secret</span></a> , that he had given the key to his secretary, allowed his girlfriend to stay there, and the conversion was done with knowledge of his supervisor, still faces sentencing under judge's discretion which could range from actual <a href="https://c.im/tags/prison" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>prison</span></a> time, to more likely <a href="https://c.im/tags/probation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>probation</span></a>.</p><p><a href="https://www.mercurynews.com/2025/04/30/caltrain-secret-apartment-station-trial-jury/?share=c2oarcethlscruenanuo" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">mercurynews.com/2025/04/30/cal</span><span class="invisible">train-secret-apartment-station-trial-jury/?share=c2oarcethlscruenanuo</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/GiftLink" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GiftLink</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/SharedStory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SharedStory</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/PaywallLift" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PaywallLift</span></a></p>
LilMikeSF<p><a href="https://c.im/tags/TrumpAdmin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TrumpAdmin</span></a> Threats To Global Community Working... Future flight ✈️ &amp; hotel bookings from abroad rapidly declining during Drumpf's second term. Travel from abroad puts over a trillion dollars into the US economy annually but this year, may be down by as much as one third of that.</p><p>International <a href="https://c.im/tags/Travel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Travel</span></a> into <a href="https://c.im/tags/USA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USA</span></a> from foreign nations down by 12% overall this month alone thus far. Some regions sending far less visitors, many by 33% decline from previous years, figures reveal European visits down by almost 20% and 26% less tourism coming from nearby Caribbean islands. </p><p>Economic losses are billions of dollars gone in spending on hotels, meals, theme park admissions, airline flights etc ...</p><p>Declining <a href="https://c.im/tags/tourism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>tourism</span></a> totals currently similar to numbers seen at peak of <a href="https://c.im/tags/Coronavirus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Coronavirus</span></a> as <a href="https://c.im/tags/UltraNationalist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>UltraNationalist</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Moronavirus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Moronavirus</span></a> mouths run rampantly 24-7 from DC... </p><p> <a href="https://c.im/tags/GiftLink" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GiftLink</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/SharedStory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SharedStory</span></a> via The Washington Post <br> <a href="https://wapo.st/3YJbVGz" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">wapo.st/3YJbVGz</span><span class="invisible"></span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/WaPo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WaPo</span></a></p>