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LilMikeSFAfter over 130 yrs of providing food to America, ranging from <a href="https://c.im/tags/Pineapples" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Pineapples</a> to <a href="https://c.im/tags/Pears" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Pears</a> to <a href="https://c.im/tags/Peaches" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Peaches</a> to <a href="https://c.im/tags/PetFoods" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#PetFoods</a>, modern marketing <a href="https://c.im/tags/mismanagement" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#mismanagement</a> puts <a href="https://c.im/tags/California" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#California</a> cannery <a href="https://c.im/tags/DelMonte" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#DelMonte</a> into big <a href="https://c.im/tags/Bankruptcy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Bankruptcy</a> blaming "borrowing" binge that led to billions in 21st century debt. Current company HQ claims they secured another nearly a billion in <a href="https://c.im/tags/loans" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#loans</a> to keep operating as they seek a buyer. Once one of the great west coast companies, "Del Monte Plant No. 1" built in post earthquake <a href="https://c.im/tags/SanFrancisco" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#SanFrancisco</a> was heralded as the largest <a href="https://c.im/tags/fruit" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#fruit</a> and <a href="https://c.im/tags/vegetable" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#vegetable</a> cannery in the world, employing 2,500 people and producing 200,000 cans of Del Monte brand food per day.Later, it became a subsidiary of RJ Reynolds tobacco, and owner of <a href="https://c.im/tags/SunKist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#SunKist</a> oranges & <a href="https://c.im/tags/StarKist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#StarKist</a> tuna. In 2006, Del Monte became the second largest pet foods corp by purchasing Meow Mix & Milk Bone brands, but since then, HQ moved to suburban Walnut Creek CA and many of the Del Monte operations & brands have been thinned out and sold off. In 2025 brands still include <a href="https://c.im/tags/Contadina" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Contadina</a>, College Inn <a href="https://c.im/tags/soups" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#soups</a>, and since 2001, a similar subsidiary 100+ yr old <a href="https://c.im/tags/canning" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#canning</a> brand called S & W and a more recent foray into burgeoning bubble teas. <a href="https://www.mercurynews.com/2025/07/02/del-monte-economy-food-fruit-vegetable-court-bankrupt-bay-area-jobs/?share=muabystysmrmasntycab" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.mercurynews.com/2025/07/02/del-monte-economy-food-fruit-vegetable-court-bankrupt-bay-area-jobs/?share=muabystysmrmasntycab</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/GftLink" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#GftLink</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/SharedStory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#SharedStory</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/MercuryNews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#MercuryNews</a> <a href="https://abcnews.go.com/GMA/Food/canned-goods-company-del-monte-foods-files-chapter/story?id=123409670" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://abcnews.go.com/GMA/Food/canned-goods-company-del-monte-foods-files-chapter/story?id=123409670</a>

LilMikeSF<a href="https://c.im/tags/Facebook" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Facebook</a> front office grabbed great publicity from its bold <a href="https://c.im/tags/billion" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#billion</a> dollar public <a href="https://c.im/tags/pledge" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#pledge</a> to help solve the <a href="https://c.im/tags/BayArea" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#BayArea</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/housing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#housing</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" target="_blank">#Meta</a> quietly cut the funding teat and <a href="https://c.im/tags/ghosted" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ghosted</a> the topic. 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" target="_blank">#Zuggerfugger</a>'s <a href="https://c.im/tags/PaloAlto" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#PaloAlto</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/SocialMedia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#SocialMedia</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/boardroom" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#boardroom</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.5 years after the flurry of <a href="https://c.im/tags/publicity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#publicity</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.<a href="https://www.eastbaytimes.com/2025/05/23/meta-affordable-housing-donation/?share=sfsrsw3uc3tc3wn0term" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.eastbaytimes.com/2025/05/23/meta-affordable-housing-donation/?share=sfsrsw3uc3tc3wn0term</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/GiftLink" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#GiftLink</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/SharedStory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#SharedStory</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/SiliconValley" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#SiliconValley</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/HousingCrisis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#HousingCrisis</a>

LilMikeSF<a href="https://c.im/tags/DJT" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#DJT</a>'s Massive <a href="https://c.im/tags/Medicaid" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Medicaid</a> Cuts That Provided Much Needed <a href="https://c.im/tags/Healthcare" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Healthcare</a> Access Across <a href="https://c.im/tags/USA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#USA</a> Are Not Going To Be Easy For <a href="https://c.im/tags/GOP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#GOP</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/MAGATS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#MAGATS</a> To Defend To Cursed Congressional Constituents <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/08/us/politics/republicans-medicaid-budget-dilemma.html?unlocked_article_code=1.Fk8.cULD.OMjjQtDjSThp&smid=nytcore-android-share" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/08/us/politics/republicans-medicaid-budget-dilemma.html?unlocked_article_code=1.Fk8.cULD.OMjjQtDjSThp&smid=nytcore-android-share</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/GiftLink" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#GiftLink</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/SharedStory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#SharedStory</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/NewsToday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#NewsToday</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/NYTimes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#NYTimes</a>

LilMikeSF<a href="https://c.im/tags/CalTrain" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#CalTrain</a> deputy director Joseph Vincent Navarro found <a href="https://c.im/tags/guilty" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#guilty</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" target="_blank">#Burlingame</a> train station office into secret personal residential getaway with private gym. Navarro, who now lives in Pennsylvania and previously told the <a href="https://c.im/tags/MercuryNews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#MercuryNews</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" target="_blank">#contractor</a> had built himself similar living quarters inside the <a href="https://c.im/tags/Millbrae" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Millbrae</a> Cal <a href="https://c.im/tags/trainstation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#trainstation</a> and plead <a href="https://c.im/tags/guilty" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#guilty</a>, turning States <a href="https://c.im/tags/evidence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#evidence</a> against Navarro.Navarro , whose attorneys claimed it was not a <a href="https://c.im/tags/secret" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#secret</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" target="_blank">#prison</a> time, to more likely <a href="https://c.im/tags/probation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#probation</a>.<a href="https://www.mercurynews.com/2025/04/30/caltrain-secret-apartment-station-trial-jury/?share=c2oarcethlscruenanuo" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.mercurynews.com/2025/04/30/caltrain-secret-apartment-station-trial-jury/?share=c2oarcethlscruenanuo</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/GiftLink" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#GiftLink</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/SharedStory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#SharedStory</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/PaywallLift" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#PaywallLift</a>

LilMikeSF<a href="https://c.im/tags/TrumpAdmin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#TrumpAdmin</a> Threats To Global Community Working... Future flight ✈️ & 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.International <a href="https://c.im/tags/Travel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Travel</a> into <a href="https://c.im/tags/USA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#USA</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. Economic losses are billions of dollars gone in spending on hotels, meals, theme park admissions, airline flights etc ...Declining <a href="https://c.im/tags/tourism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#tourism</a> totals currently similar to numbers seen at peak of <a href="https://c.im/tags/Coronavirus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Coronavirus</a> as <a href="https://c.im/tags/UltraNationalist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#UltraNationalist</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Moronavirus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Moronavirus</a> mouths run rampantly 24-7 from DC... <a href="https://c.im/tags/GiftLink" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#GiftLink</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/SharedStory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#SharedStory</a> via The Washington Post <a href="https://wapo.st/3YJbVGz" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://wapo.st/3YJbVGz</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/WaPo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#WaPo</a>

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