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Tuesday: Three Morning Takes

Brief

Pirate Wires Daily's 'Three Morning Takes' (published May 12, 2026) delivers three punchy cultural notes: a weekend campaign gaffe by Steve Hilton — a British‑American former Fox host and one of 62 gubernatorial hopefuls — who sparked online ridicule for calling a hard‑shell taco a 'street taco'; a housing snapshot linking last October's OpenAI secondary sale (more than 600 employees sold roughly $6.6 billion in shares, with about 75 reportedly netting ~ $30 million each, per the WSJ) to escalating San Francisco rental extremes (the newsletter cites a 1BR in Alamo Square at $8,000/month and reports of bids requiring six months' rent upfront from The Standard); and a profile of Rachel Dolezal/Nkechi Diallo pivoting to sex coaching amid OnlyFans activity and a Daily Mail‑reported $8,847 welfare‑fraud charge. The piece mixes sourced facts with sarcastic commentary on politics, housing, and culture.

Why it matters

Steve Hilton, a British‑American ex‑Fox News host running as one of 62 candidates for California governor, drew online backlash after a recent weekend appearance in which he mischaracterized a hard‑shell taco as a 'street taco.'

Key details

  • OpenAI's secondary sale last October involved more than 600 employees selling about $6.6 billion in shares (WSJ); the newsletter reports roughly 75 employees made ~$30 million each, and links that windfall to intensified San Francisco rental pressure — citing a 1‑bed in Alamo Square listed at $8,000/month and rental bidding demands like six months' rent upfront (The Standard).
  • Rachel Dolezal (now using the name Nkechi Diallo) is profiled as moving into sex coaching after controversy; Pirate Wires notes her OnlyFans activity and a Daily Mail‑reported welfare‑fraud charge alleging $8,847 in improper benefits.
  • Pirate Wires frames these items with a snarky, opinionated tone and references WSJ, The Standard, and the Daily Mail as sources.
Cleaned source text

taco tuesday / 1br in alamo square: $8k rent, child sacrifice / white-hot desire

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1. Taco Tuesday

2. 1BR in Alamo Square: $8K rent, child sacrifice

3. White-hot desire

Taco Tuesday

Saturday, Steve Hilton, the British-American former Fox News host running as one of 62 candidates for CA governor, stood under a pounding sun and misgendered a hard-shell taco as a street taco. The backlash was swift: _“ Clearly Steve Hilton is not a Californian_,” remarked one commenter, as California briefly shape-shifted into France, where even if you muster your best high school French to ask “where is the brie?” they still freak at your American accent. (Source: lived experience.) Look: there are plenty of gubernatorial candidates (too many) to critique, and I don’t wanna live in a state where we give no quarter to the chap risking melanoma to become a public servant, but let a Senior Deputy in Santa Clarita Valley who said mandatory spay/neuter laws are culturally insensitive off the hook. Plus, Hilton looked overjoyed holding his dumb fake taco, and one thing we don’t do in California? Harsh people’s mellow. Chill out, taco narcs!

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1BR in Alamo Square: $8K rent, child sacrifice

In OpenAI’s secondary sale last October, more than 600 employees sold $6.6 billion worth of their shares, with about 75 of them making $30 million each, per the WSJ. This pre-IPO wealth creation was unprecedented — so it’s no wonder we have to talk, yet again, about housing in SF _._ Leave aside the insanity of trying to buy a single-family home or even having to _bid for a rental_. Per a December article in The Standard: the bidding wars for rentals are getting _worse,_ with increasingly insane requirements like six months of rent upfront. Given hundreds of OpenAI employees just made $6.6 billion, this new trend makes a lot of fresh sense. Idiots will blame capitalism. I blame The Supposed Paris of the West. She would rather us sacrifice our firstborn to live in 400 square feet of tetanus before erecting one single apartment building.

White-hot desire

Looking to add some color to your sex life? Tired of the same-old, black-and-white missionary every night? Want to channel your inner African warrior-princess in the bedroom and finally let your dreadlocks down? Rachel Dolezal, the transracial former college instructor dropped by Eastern Washington University following widely-publicized revelations this self-presenting black woman was actually born to white parents in Montana, who subsequently changed her name to Nkechi Diallo before joining OnlyFans and getting charged with welfare fraud for lying about her income to receive $8,847 in government benefits, is here to help. ~~Dolezal~~ Diallo told the Daily Mail recently she’s becoming a sex coach, looking to use her erotic know-how to “help single moms boost their sex lives,” and we fully support this sista’s foray in teaching women how to get down and freaky like they do in Harlem. After all, intimacy, much like skin color, doesn’t have to be vanilla if one so chooses.

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