“We are edging closer to the crossing that fateful line when the military is called to put down civil unrest that has not just been provoked but sought after by a president eager to use retributive violence against his political foes”

“the last nonprofit art and design school in Northern California, announced on Tuesday that it will “wind down its current operations” and close by the end of the 2026–2027 academic year.”

“[…] failing to meet a deadline on a ballot measure to bring cars back to the Great Highway, after he made a big to-do over announcing the effort.” Some good news then. This has been decided, move on.

There’s no way any ethical journalist could look at those videos and think the story is anything other than what is clearly in those videos. It’s right there. In multiple videos. And eye-witnesses accounts. There aren’t two sides. There’s one set of very clear videos.

Members of Congress: stop posting online and APPEAR, PHYSICALLY on the steps of the Capitol to decry this unconstitutional violation of domestic & international law. SHOW THE PEOPLE the level of danger we are facing as a country. @housedemocrats.bsky.social @senatedemocrats.bsky.social

Just woke up even angrier. Impeach, convict, remove. Draft articles now. Either we have a representative government or we don’t. Do not shut up about this until there’s a vote.

“…starting in January, travel startup Lunatrain will begin offering a private charter service attached to Amtrak trains on the California Zephyr route from Emeryville to Denver and the Coast Starlight stretch from Oakland to Los Angeles.”

Im surprised it narrowed down so easily! “But trust us, the competition was stiff.”

“I’m here tonight because my family, like so many others, is exhausted in the annual ritual of budget crisis and the fear it creates in our schools,”

“Huntington Beach has run out of excuses in our state’s courts. It was required to submit a compliant housing element on October 15, 2021, more than four years ago. Rather than follow the law, the City has been squandering public money to avoid building its fair share of housing”

Finally! The fare discounts and family management options are very due

I am a sucker for these stories “…pricing represents a 92% discount to the more than $1 billion already invested in the Oceanwide Center project before construction came to a full stop in 2020, with only its foundation completed.”

“Not only has Tahoe seen a lack of natural snowfall, but warmer temperatures have also stopped the ski resorts from creating as much human-made snow as they would normally.”

Perfect

“according to AC Transit spokesman Robert Lyles. A white SUV crossed in front of the bus at the intersection, causing the two vehicles to collide before the bus jumped a curb and slammed into All Bout Cars Auto Body & Repair…”

“These locations are described as the “high injury network,” that is, the 8% of Oakland street intersections that manage to account for 60% of the city’s fatal and/or very severe traffic collisions.”

“What’s more, Zillow estimates the average home in the San Francisco metro area has lost about 15% of its peak value, reflecting a more significant decline than the average of 10% nationally.”

Official alerts from Oakland schools, OUSD, about ICE activity.

Jack London Square is in serious trouble, Strong and other workers told KQED.“ Restaurants don’t survive. I’ve seen dozens come and go. There’s no draw,” Strong said.”

“De La Cruz, like Díaz, was inspired by his station’s energetic spark. “I went with lots of signature curl movements in my piece that, for me, kind of represent the trolley coming down and spinning in front of the station,” he said. “

Interesting! “Amtrak restored passenger service between Oakland and Bakersfield in March 1974, calling the train the San Joaquins. The route was already under threat due to Amtrak cuts in 1979, when ridership was merely 123,000 riders annually, but California stepped in to subsidize it”

Hard not to laugh “The minimum bid was $133 million, which is exactly what the conglomerate of banks offered. They were the only bidders.”

1 week? “Alacaraz’s public flameout is Lurie’s first significant misstep in office. City Hall had been abuzz for the last week with questions over how Lurie’s team had missed such major concerns with Alcaraz’s business experience, which he touted last week in his announcement of her appointment.”

Juicy “CORE, which has a location in New York and one either opened or planned in Milan, was supposed to debut in San Francisco in 2023, but the opening was later postponed until 2025, and then indefinitely.”

“We haven’t addressed our real financial crisis,” Hutchinson said during the Nov. 12 school board meeting. “Instead we’re doing things like hiring freezes and trying to incentivize losing our most experienced staff.”

“The suspected shooter fled on foot and has not been located.”

“Like Epstein, Trump built a career on a transactional chumminess, mutual self-indulgence, and an alarmingly high tolerance level for misbehavior by the layers of political, business, media, and cultural elites surrounding him.”

“There's no way to cut $100 million—roughly 20% of our unrestricted general fund budget—without significant pain. People we know and care about will lose their jobs. Programs our students love will be reduced or eliminated. Services our families depend on will change.”

“The measure, championed by Gov. Gavin Newsom, was a direct response to Trump’s demands that GOP-led states, including Texas, rework their congressional boundaries to benefit the president’s party ahead of the midterm elections.”

“A report from City Economist Ted Egan released yesterday said that Lurie’s plan would only result in 40% of the units required for that 82,000-unit goal, and even that 40% wouldn’t materialize until 14 years after the 2031 target date”

Noooo “Since then, a battle has been brewing between preservationists, art historians, skateboarders, and 96-year-old Vaillancourt himself, on one side, and city officials and fountain detractors on the other side, a battle which threatens to slow or even derail the city's plans…”

WTF “Shortly before 3:30 a.m. on Oct. 15, a suspect or suspects broke into the museum’s off-site collection storage facility, according to a press release from OPD. They stole more than 1,000 items, ...”

“…the judgment could be staggering: in previous court filings, Insight has argued that it is owed damages worth $673,658,000. In a deposition, the city’s own expert conceded that damages could be at least $230 million.”

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“Owner Ellen Thomsen, who inherited the miniature steam railroad from her father, told park directors during public comment this week that after 73 years in Tilden she needs a multi-year lease to make capital improvements and plan for succession.”

“The I-team also found six sergeants in the Sheriff's Office who live out of state - in Idaho, Nevada, Texas and Tennessee. Two of them work on the bomb squad where they made almost $600,000 in pay and benefits last year. They're supposed to respond to a bomb threat within one hour”

Doctors hold the keys to life and death. We grant them a lot for that. And they need to live up to that at critical moments. This applies to all of us in our own ways.”

“According to June state data, there are 5.5 million Californians on CalFresh, the food nutrition program that supports lower-income residents and families. These include hundreds of thousands of people living in the Bay Area, where Alameda County has the highest share — 176,133…”

And what are our representatives going to do? Where are they? Hands Off and previous No Kings have been significant but we see no leadership. Democracy requires action and people keep showing up. I need our government to show up, too.

Oakland #nokings is getting started

“Again, most of us will not be billionaires. But what’s the point of being one if you’re still a groveling sycophant? Or, as it was more artfully put in the King James version: For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?”

Kcuitario struggles, at first, to sound at the word. When he gets it, Cole congratulates him and walks away. For Kcuitario, it was the beginning of a celebration. “Goals! Do another, do another!” he says. And then, quietly under his breath, “I’m so smart.”

“ That may represent the entire San Francisco housing stock of what was once the city’s largest landlord. A separate Sept. 18 filing with the city describes the 66 buildings as the “Veritas SF Portfolio.” “

“The 800 Market property now counts as Fountainhead’s second deeply discounted acquisition in San Francisco. The company also purchased 795 Folsom St. last year for $48.5 million”

No way!

I get hopeful knowing we have smaller, independent media outlets taking off where the legacy ones have disappeared or cored out.

“But most of the people waiting — who ran the gamut from Gen-Zers to to new parents with strollers to seniors — were shocked to learn of the nonconsensual nature of Baggu’s BART merch. When they did, they were not pleased.”

Disappointing, but shows the risk in doing the right thing for a lot of elected officials. “The recall was successful in part because Engardio had alienated his base by championing Prop. K to close the Great Highway, and that created an angry and energized electorate — a movement.”

That was a wake up call

“The vision is: how do we create the conditions necessary to make the Tenderloin truly into a place where the children can walk outside and enjoy the basic luxuries that everyone, every other child in the city, gets to enjoy,” said Supervisor Bilal Mahmood