Are you more than 6 months old? Time to get the new COVID vaccine! www.berkeleyside.org/2025/09/18/c...

This is *stunningly* disingenuous, and the fact that Singal continues to enjoy a career writing at the highest levels about a topic that he either unwilling or incapable of discussing honestly is such an indictment of the Anglo-American prestige media.

whoa!!

the boat tram should go to ocean beach

OAKLAND WE DID IT!!!! 🏆

Latest projection suggests that more than 505,000 adults and kids have died due to USAID's illegal dismantling by Musk, Rubio, and Lewin Source: www.impactcounter.com/dashboard?vi...

Not really the biggest issue here, but does Tom Homan just get to keep $50,000 of the FBI’s cash now?

some muni heritage weekending

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Nick Kristof went to talk to some of the moms losing their beloved children to Trump’s aid cuts. We are paying storage on already existing food rather than release it to starving kids. “I loved my child so much” www.nytimes.com/2025/09/20/o...

I just Googled Breezewood PA for the hell of it, and that Taco Bell is now called Sultan Kabob Restaurant Breakfast Shop. If that's not a perfect encapsulation of the promise of this country, I don't know what is. maps.app.goo.gl/bLTm5s4yJ4Y7...

This is the predictable next step for the people behind the Engardio Recall who are utterly dis-interested in addressing our housing shortage and actively trying to get San Francisco to lose it's local control + another 100 million dollars in state funding. sfstandard.com/2025/09/19/f...

Worth noting that the highest profile and most successful Democratic elected official currently in those states is Laura Kelly, the Governor of Kansas, who seems to not believe in Ezra Klein’s theory of politics!

CDC’s ACIP members spent their second session COVID vaccines, ending today with four votes on new recommendations. ACIP didn’t publicly post the text for the recs prior to the vote, and some members hadn’t read the text. Folks should take note of what happened with votes 1, 3, and 4...

The ACIP vote was tied 6-6 for requiring everyone to get a prescription for the COVID19 vaccine. The chair broke the tie by voting NO. Prescriptions will NOT be required.

Really begging the question: what are the cops doing?

Hey remember last fall, when members of the press credulously reported that Trump would increase high-skilled immigration? This will end it pretty much entirely. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Eliminating OPT is one of those highly technical things that people are going to overlook that will have a huge impact on the future of the US

ACIP just voted to change the CDC's recommendation for Covid vaccination to "individual decision making"

Disco Elysium is truly the most leftist game of all time, the studio immediately collapsing into bitter infighting demonstrates the depth of its authenticity

the ACLU has sued ICE, saying its San Francisco holding cells are filthy, freezing, & unconstitutional and in its suit, it cites Mission Local's reporting *three* times

Map of California, c. 1896, showing roads for "cyclers". Around the perimeter of the map are advertisements for California bicycle shops and riding schools.

Some smart publication should reach out to every single person who signed the Harper’s letter and get their comment / explicit no-comment

From Caltrans District 8 on Facebook and CHP reports: Highway 38 to Big Bear "completely washed out" from mudslides according to CHP on QuickMaps. "Closed in both directions from Valley of the Falls to the bottom of South Fork," Caltrans said on Facebook Photo credit: Caltrans

we're up to a record high 6 on the anecdotal-but-alarming "people I know who actively have COVID" index (who got it independently from each other) right now it's going around really bad. get vaccinated

every covid shot still feels like a goddamn miracle

I, too, find it odd that a 90-year-old woman found the offerings at the dollar store so enticing that a bear swiping at her was not enough to deter her from her shopping

The latest from @gwynnefitz.bsky.social: www.thecity.nyc/2025/09/18/d...

@loweringthebar.bsky.social an aquatic escape!!

Another first in my ~20 years of watching ACIP meetings: committee members asking questions to CDC subject-matter experts as if they were attorneys cross-examining witnesses. Asking questions to which they have their own answers ready, no matter how CDC responds.

Still beautiful; still one of SF’s most popular parks. Sunset Dunes forever.

Post script: We will go to the mat to protect Sunset Dunes. We’re not going to let this incredibly popular & successful park be converted back to a crumbling highway.

People in positions of power literally want to eradicate people like me and yet I still find myself having to argue about what to do with a couple miles of beachfront highway for the foreseeable future. Y’all it’s fucking exhausting

This isn't just a case of them thinking too small. The fix they're proposing will shield their Republican colleagues from facing any blowback in the midterms over the health care cuts they voted for. They've got one card to play and they're using it to bail out the GOP. Unfuckingbelievable.

as usual, @esksf.bsky.social has it "San Franciscans have been nurtured in their anger for some time now, to the exclusion of quantifiable facts. This was a dangerous game to play [...] And San Francisco offers a veritable smörgåsbord of potential political meals in the not-too-distant future"

I do think the SF democratic party and elected officials failed Joel and SF politics as a whole. They should have come forcefully against the recall. I fear we will now see more strategically timed recalls with the goal of one off elections and having reduced turnout because of this.

What I keep thinking about the most is how in both the D4 recall and in US politics at large, we've lost any sense of sharing an objective reality. Someone insists their neighborhood has been utterly "destroyed" by traffic; their next door neighbor says "what traffic? do you see any traffic here?"

I've always believed in the potential of the Sunset District (not complimentary)

This cat’s cool AF though (didn’t shoot the scores and all so as to not spoil it for late time zones)…

1/ On Thurs and Fri, ACIP—the external body that sets vaccine policy—will hold a special session. The MMRV vaccine will be discussed and we’re expecting a few falsehoods to start making the rounds about the vaccine and febrile seizures. Here’s a quick breakdown of what you should know👇

NEW: Tesla's 'self-driving' software fails at train crossings, some car owners warn www.nbcnews.com/tech/elon-mu...

It just boggles my mind that there is this Weird Jurisdictional Trick, aka, extraordinary rendition to a cooperating foreign country, upon which our Article III courts are helpless

GUAC OFF GOES INTERNATIONAL

you could not design a panel more aggressively targeted specifically to my interests. this is going to be a great transit month event!

Arguello, where this crash took place, was supposed to get protected bike lanes three years ago after Ethan Boyes was killed. Despite $1.25M in state funding being allocated, there's been no progress and no particularly good reason why not. This is the result.

This article on SF's homelessness street teams from newly launched @coyotemedia.org is revealing: www.coyotemedia.org/sf-wanted-to... I live on 6th st since 2021. Even before this consolidation I barely saw the street team. Have seen them maybe twice since then.

love the way @nuala.bsky.social explains quoting unnamed city workers in this @coyotemedia.org piece on street health teams. I think it's so important to talk about how opaque cities have become and what it does to accountability when workers can't talk publicly and press statements are vague.

This article provides a pretty balanced overview of the big suite of climate and energy bills CA passed this week. Some good (imo) but controversial stuff, some improvements that don't go far enough, some bad. The hope is that the center of gravity here is net good. No one knows for sure yet.

There are many news organizations in this city, and yet the most up-to-date ICE information dissemination is falling on the *two* people that run this account 👇

The bills to renew the Cap & Trade program just passed, including: * $200 million in continuous funding for transit service. * $400 m in continuous funding for transit & rail capital * $800 m for affordable housing near transit * $125 m for transit passes * ongoing funding for high speed rail