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Margot
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maiforus.bsky.social
Tis the Season to Take On the Billionaires!

Join ACCE Action, the California Working Families Party, the National Union of Healthcare Workers, No Dems Left Behind, and PowerPAC+ for A Merry Mai Mixer to raise funds for our community driven campaign.

RSVP at: maiforus.com/merry
December 4, 2025 at 1:17 AM
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maiforus.bsky.social
Today I am joining thousands of elected officials across the country who've taken the No Fossil Fuel Money pledge! The residents of District 7 see the effects of climate change every day, and I want to make very clear that I am putting the climate - and our health - first.
October 28, 2025 at 1:49 AM
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maiforus.bsky.social
Ballots are here! Join Team Mai to walk for Yes on Prop 50!

📅 Date: Saturday, October 25, 2025
🕙 Time: 10:00 AM – 1:00 PM
📍 Location: McClatchy High School, 3066 Freeport Blvd, Sacramento, CA 95818

Bring your friends, family, and walking shoes — together, we can make a difference.
October 20, 2025 at 7:02 PM
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leyawn.bsky.social
perverts, centrist dems, right wing freaks, and zionists assembling into a giant monster to challenge zohran mamdani like that one bloodborne boss thats a grotesque mass of undead bodies
June 25, 2025 at 4:09 AM
margoto.bsky.social
God I love my comrades ❤️
June 25, 2025 at 3:04 AM
margoto.bsky.social
My sister was Lord Farquad as the master of ceremonies for my other sister’s bridal shower today.

Get into itttt! 💅💅💅
June 1, 2025 at 1:50 AM
margoto.bsky.social
American River Trail run this morning! 🌞 Beautiful day to PR my mile time :)
March 20, 2025 at 10:39 PM
margoto.bsky.social
Oof

Big oof
March 15, 2025 at 5:59 AM
margoto.bsky.social
NOOOOOOOOO
February 24, 2025 at 9:22 PM
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radicalgraffiti.bsky.social
"When you ride TESLA, you ride with Hitler.
Join Public Transportation Today!"

Reworked WW2 poster spotted in Oakland
February 19, 2025 at 12:30 AM
margoto.bsky.social
❤️❤️❤️
December 3, 2024 at 10:24 PM
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sacdsa.bsky.social
Sacramento Democratic Socialists of America general membership meeting coming up on Saturday, June 22! Find the date, address, and Zoom link through our LinkTree (in our bio) or by visiting the "Events" page at sacdsa. org
#dsa #sacramento #sacdsa #sacramentodsa #socialism #socialistorganizing
June 12, 2024 at 11:42 PM
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peoplesbudgetsac.bsky.social
Our very own amazing mayoral candidate Dr. Flo Cofer succinctly and completely laying out the reasons for the way many view homelessness and the ways efforts have not been evidence based and the ways it can be adequately addressed by following the evidence and leading with empathy.
VerenValtaan Are you concerned that the perception that you are "soft" on homelessness is going to cost you this mayoral race? For example, you've mentioned that you are against sweeping homeless camps. Residents are dealing with picking up used syringes during their kids' soccer games, having their property and personal safety threatened, getting assaulted, etc etc, while the mayor's office, county and state play hot potato with people's #1 issue. How much patience are you expecting from the city of Sacramento on this sense of lack of public safety? flojaune OP thank you for asking this question! I'm combining my responses here because you both asked similar things. I hope that's okay. I am not soft on homelessness. What I am is more concerned with effectiveness than misperceptions. I am grateful for the long form space to dispell several. Our housing crisis is caused by at least 13 different factors. Homelessness is as complex and the causes as multifaceted as the people experie 1) The overwhelming majority of people with mental health and substance use issues are housed. Why am I mentioning that? Because mental health and substance use have a bi-directional arrow with homelessness. They may increase the risk of homelessness, but the experience of homelessness also creates and exacerbates mental health and substance use issues. We need only too look at the pandemic to begin to understand this. As soon as stay-at-home policies were passed -- and we were all scared for our lives and many for our livelihoods -- the sales of alcohol skyrocketed. When we are stressed we turn to substances and our mental health suffers. 2) Sacramento county went from 2500 people experiencing homelessness in 2013 to 3900 in 2019 to 9278 in 2022. And 57% of people experiencing homelessness have at least one chronic health condition. 3) We need plans that work. Not performances and theatrics. We currently sweep people from block-to-block -- when we want to while swearing we don't I am not saying it is okay for people to sleep on our porches, drop needles in our parks, or expose themselves in front of our schools. I'm saying just because white men are the most likely demographic to shoot up public places, doesn't mean we should pass policies banning all white men from public spaces. In the same way that just because someone experiencing homelessness commits a crime doesn't mean we pass a ban on all people experiencing homelessness. Especially when we know that people experiencing homelessness are far more likely to be victims of violence than perpetrators. I'm saying that there is a much more cost-effective and solution-driven way to a crisis being driven by poverty than putting people in the county jail for trespassing where they will stay for 24 hours to 10 days and then be released at 2am without so much as a transit pass. My immediate plan is to work with each neighborhood to identify sites and establish safe ground so we have a place where people and the It isn't either/or. It is both/and. We should do what works for all of us and makes our communities healthy, not what is expedient and harmful in the long run. As a public health professional, I have worked with people experiencing homelessness for years. What I have learned is this: I have yet to meet a person who is truly "service resistant." Even when people say no to an offer of services, it is always more complicated than that if we take time to understand. Just like NIMBYs are often more complicated than just saying no; there are valid fears and concerns behind their position that we can address if we listen. What I learn when I take time to establish trust and show respect is that behind the no is: They're frustrated, exasperated, sick, or distrustful. Frustrated because they've been on a list for years with not reprieve. Exasperated because what we have to offer is insufficient for their needs or hard to access. Too sick to move constantly -- or have processing issues that mak
March 2, 2024 at 5:23 AM
margoto.bsky.social
Listening to buttrock ironically is all good and dandy until you’ve replayed Higher 20 times in one day… and uh oh now we’ve got a situation on our hands
February 2, 2024 at 10:00 PM
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peoplesbudgetsac.bsky.social
Exactly the type of leadership Sacramento deserves. The type it needs. The type that prioritizes citizens and not corporate interests. That treats every, last, one of us as a priority to ensure consensus building.

Please share x.com/flo4sacramen...
January 22, 2024 at 6:05 PM
margoto.bsky.social
Def my last year co-chairing but hyped to go into 2024 with the best steering committee crew 🥲
@sacdsa.bsky.social
January 14, 2024 at 5:46 PM
margoto.bsky.social
among other dumb shit I will also always be a sucker for brainless surf rock. Took you five minutes to make this? Idc I will eat that shit up!!
December 30, 2023 at 1:09 AM
margoto.bsky.social
In the year of our lord 2023 riddle me why I’ve been struck with the repeated urge to listen to the Ying Yang Twins
December 27, 2023 at 7:03 PM
margoto.bsky.social
Margot’s organizing astrology for Dec 15th says:

One cannot trust organizers that always try to hand off menial labor to someone else.

Either you do the menial work AND sexy work or u will not be taken seriously.
December 15, 2023 at 11:09 PM
margoto.bsky.social
Had the most productive day in a while now I’m eating my frozen Trader Joe’s samosas on the couch like a gremlin
December 5, 2023 at 2:49 AM
margoto.bsky.social
Out of everything that happened this weekend the most egregious were the “team pelosi” face masks in the convention swag bags
November 19, 2023 at 7:19 PM
margoto.bsky.social
I had big ambitions for the box of salad I bought the beginning of last week
November 15, 2023 at 4:26 AM