I appreciate French's awakening, but he still can't get past his bothsidesism. On the right, the violent rhetoric comes straight from the top, including POTUS & VP, and is repeated lockstep by the whole party and its allies. On the left, it comes from TwerkingTuvix69 with 200 followers.

The crackdown on people for accurately describing Charlie Kirk is outrageous and appalling but don't let your anger lead you to boost some tiny conflict-hunting account when you could be yelling at Jeff Bezos or Ezra Klein instead

San Francisco always sends its best

White(s only) Castle

just saying, if an pro-transit mayor wants to fund some ambitious policies, there is a massive goldmine of 3 million free parking spaces in New York City just sitting there waiting to be metered

Moving serious weight (by my standards) #boss

This (bins and single-stream recycling) is extremely triggering for New Yorkers

He’s got a(n ecclesiastical) record a mile long. And he’s Catholic

NBC somehow found a Chicagoan in St. Peter’s Square, who happily proclaimed “we’re not the Second City anymore.”

Someone in this Parisian bar just told the person next to them that the new pope is American and they responded with horror lmao

Say what you want about “Donald J Trump” and “debasing the presidency” and “the death of democracy” but it’s because of him a bunch of San Francisco local news reporters get to go to Alcatraz in absolutely screamingly nice weather today

One under appreciated aspect of California is the auto accidents caused at four way intersections by someone who only too late noticed which of the four gas stations at the intersection has 87 octane for four cents cheaper

Paranoia along the old US 101 in Willits.

Not me, I paid $9 to be in the friend congestion relief zone

It happened quietly because there’s too much more going on, but sure looks like Trump’s DC US attorney just launched a crackdown on legal cannabis stores in the District. outlawreport.com/breaking-doj...

They should get Pitt and Affleck back for the sequel

We already knew this but the plan is to deport American citizens. *TRUMP: WOULD LIKE TO GET HOMEGROWN CRIMINALS OUT OF THE US TOO

Sometimes I forget San Francisco the muscular port city does have a container terminal — it’s just hard to get to and small and Oakland’s isn’t and so it just kind of sits there

One fun aspect of “modernity” is how much of the old stuff is too well built, too costly or just too expensive to move

This is my favorite tree in San Francisco California

You went to the pro-natal conference. Your ancestors “homesteaded” in Natal. You are all the same

Not touching the natalist discourse today since I’m old enough to remember the same people scolding people who *did* have children — and in difficult circumstances — for inadequate “personal responsibility” or whatever. Which one is it, fam

“Earlier this month, the owner said another man wrote the word ‘Sad’ on the window of their truck with his fingers at a local gas station.”

NYU canceled a planned speech by the former president of Doctors Without Borders because she planned to discuss the humanitarian crisis in Gaza and cuts to US AID. This is what actual campus censorship looks like.

If you told me before I moved here the resources and effort New Yorkers invest in being nerdy goofballs I’d never believed you

Been thinking of this LSD study from 2020 since I saw it the other day. 200 micrograms is 20 tabs. Some poor slob was melting face for 24 hours. MK Ultra type shit. “Subjects experienced significant anxiety” no shit what did you think was going to happen, professor

A real origin story for current rightwing comedy is Dennis Miller getting angry at Michelle Wolf and saying he was going to come up with some incredibly cutting jokes about her and then never being able to because he was completely washed and forgot how to do anything but complain

Found those takes you dropped

OH MY GOD www.nytimes.com/2025/03/28/b...

Rep. Nadler speaks.

This may be the biggest free speech crisis in living memory. The president now bragging about detaining a lawful permanent resident and smearing him as 'pro Hamas', no outlining any specific crimes he is accused of or charged with. This is what a fascist takeover looks like.

California is so addicted to regressive taxes it’s amazing

Some personal news

Which way, Frisco man

Is this real? ...Tell me it can't be real. The document is real. This is insane.

Sometimes I become annoyed or despondent my work doesn’t get more traction. And then I remember a non-insignificant portion of my audience legitimately believes this is visual evidence of a government conspiracy

Sometimes I wonder why illicit cannabis stores are doing so well and then I remember this preroll cost about $10 at a legal store

The GOP has a Christian nationalist leading DOD, a guy who suggested COVID was designed to spare Jews probably running HHS, a lady who pushed Great Replacement at the UN, a guy too tied to white supremacists for Trump 1 headed to State, and a guy who podcasted w a Holocaust denier running FBI 1/2

If you think the homeless and housing crises are bad now wait until what inadequate resources Washington sends the (blue) states and (blue) cities is halted by Trump. He will blame it on Democrats and people will believe it.

What you forget first about New York City after leaving for even six weeks is how much time you must spend in transit going places and standing around waiting for the transit to take you to a place

The best zoo in San Francisco is the airport, where you encounter bizarre specimens like this fellow wearing an X the everything website cap (one assumes unironically)

I’ve known Martin Olive for many years and I know him to be among the very best of us. If this can happen to Martin on Ninth Street it can happen to anyone. SFPD needs to tell us why this happened and the entire city must ensure this never happens again. sfstandard.com/2025/01/27/s...

MAGA banner on Hyde and Geary in the tenderloin.

On the one hand you can declare it absurd and criminal that city-owned gyms and rec centers in San Francisco are closed on Sundays and have limited hours on weekends and holidays, but then you remember nothing is ever actually about improving the quality of life for people who would use such things.

“Surprise!” I shout, to the large crowd of people, who have been watching me caper for the past few years, in the same voice and manner I’ve been using the whole time

what's it called when someone wants to "clean out" people of a specific ethnicity

One surprising aspect of San Francisco’s downtown vacancies is how many empty offices keep the lights *on*. Couple floors per building minimum.

The same night Witkoff flew to harass Netanyahu on Shabbos was the same night the Keffiyeh truck appeared in the Tenderloin. The signs are all around us for those of us with eyes to see

Really enjoyed working with Tom at @defector.bsky.social on this one. bonus special treat/surprise: the illo from @mattielubchansky.com, whose work I’ve always admired! The Navy researcher who wondered if the 49ers would survive nuclear war: defector.com/the-naval-sc...