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Garry's List

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Garry's List

@garryslist

A citizen's union for radical centrism. Advocating effective government, housing, education, pro-tech, and pro-prosperity

California

Joined February 2026

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Jun 30
California's pragmatic center is growing. Little-tech founders, nurses, teachers, immigrant business owners, public-safety leaders—united not by ideology, but by a desire for government that actually works. Garry's List is turning that energy into donors, volunteers, and
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Oakland recorded 1,100 encampment fires last year, averaging 3 a day. Los Angeles averages 46 a day. California is sacrificing working class neighborhoods to cater to reckless illegal encampments.
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Jun 29
At least a couple times a week (like right now), I have to shut all my windows in Oakland because an RV or other vehicle is on fire—sometimes even a building. It's almost always connected to homeless encampments. These fires are extremely toxic, yet I have yet to hear a single
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Read our full investigation here:
California's Encampment Fire Crisis
From garryslist.org
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Oakland saw a massive wave of small business closures the end of 2025, with owners citing the "increasingly impossible math" of staying open in the Bay Area. Now the city is considering nearly doubling the minimum wage to $30/hr, making the math even harder.
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According to a new Civic Grand Jury report, 25% of drug OD deaths in San Francisco happened in taxpayer-funded permanent supportive housing. In one case, it took almost two weeks for staff to discover that a tenant had died — despite promised check-ins every 72 hours.
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If you're tired of funding the do drugs til you die approach to our addiction crisis, go to garryslist.org and join the citizen's union fighting for radical centrism in California.
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A 501(c)(4) civic engagement organization for the Bay Area and California.
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A Quarter of SF's Overdose Deaths Happen in City-Funded Housing
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The meteoric rise of Urban Alchemy, whose revenue has tripled in the past few years, shows how nonprofits begin with a narrow scope (cleaning public toilets in UA's case) then relentlessly expand to become "multi-function service providers" managing vast housing projects.
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The report warns that homeless service nonprofits are becoming "too big to fail" and that staff placed in high-volatility situations often don't have adequate training or authority.
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Jul 1
California's cities are kneecapping state housing bills by burying them in regulations — from lot requirements to HOA sign-offs and affordability covenants. In 2024, CA permitted just 258 houses per 100k residents, compared to a nat'l average of 435 and Texas rate of 722.
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Read the full investigation here:
California Legalized the Housing. It Just Didn't Get Built.
From garryslist.org
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Jul 1
Two reports from @SamLyman33 and @bitcoinpolicy document a coordinated foreign influence campaign against American AI — running through CCP state media, a Shanghai-based Marxist's nonprofit network, and foreign billionaire dark money that has funneled $2B+ into US advocacy
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The Party for Socialism and Liberation (PSL), whose leadership is drawn directly from executives of Singham's nonprofits, ran 21 campaigns across 14 states that delayed, scaled back, or blocked $23.6 billion in AI infrastructure investment.
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The PSL's finances are exempt from public reporting — meaning whether China or foreign actors are funding this nationwide mobilization is invisible to the public. Americans have real concerns about data centers. But the movement amplifying those concerns has foreign fingerprints
Foreign Influence in the Campaign against American AI | Bitcoin Policy Institute
From btcpolicy.org
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Jun 30
California's June primary showed that voters want competence over ideological theater. In SF, the moderate coalition consolidated around Mayor Lurie while the once-dominant progressive machine fractured into infighting. November's ballot, a one-time tax on the wealthiest, will
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SF's Prop D was sold as a tax on overpaid CEOs. It would have fallen hardest on grocers and fast-food chains with low-wage workers. Voters saw through it — and defeated it. The same instinct is now on the statewide ballot in November.
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Jun 30
The billionaire tax earmarks proceeds for healthcare — but the state's own nonpartisan analyst warns it could bleed the income-tax base by hundreds of millions a year as targets simply leave. A balm for the budget that does nothing for the bill at the register. November is the
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The people with the most at stake aren't billionaires; they can absorb a broken system. It's the two-person startup, the small-business owner, the engineer deciding whether to build here. California's hardest problems have to be governed through, not taxed away.
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The billionaire tax targets wealth on paper, not income — a new category of taxation with no clear stopping point. The threshold is a billion today. But a tool built for the very top doesn't always stay there.
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