Please take a minute to scroll through this—and share it. It's the story of our time. The Authoritarian Stack: How Tech Billionaires Are Building a Post-Democratic American—And Why Europe Is Next. www.authoritarian-stack.info

The National Association of the Deaf is celebrating a legal victory against the White House. A judge ordered ASL for briefings conducted by the press secretary or President Trump.

ICE trying to poach NYPD officers by claiming they'll offer them "respect." gothamist.com/news/ice-tar...

Michael Jacobs, an alleged killer, was too mentally ill to stand trail so officials put him in a locked mental ward. But the private SF facility had a record of losing track of its patients. Now he's no longer in the Crestwood healing center. He's headed to trial. sfstandard.com/2025/11/06/c...

Michael Jacobs is accused of decapitating one woman and trying to kill another in 2018. His mental health issues have kept him out of the courtroom until now. sfstandard.com/2025/11/06/c...

When Trump threatened to send federal forces to the Bay Area local politics pushed back by saying such agents may be arrested if they break the law. SF cops we spoke to were not enthused. sfstandard.com/2025/11/03/s...

!!!!! pagesix.com/2025/11/03/e...

Coast Guard Island’s immigrant detention past oaklandside.org/2025/11/03/r...

SF politicos threatened federal agents with arrest. Cops call it fake news sfstandard.com/2025/11/03/s...

“One Battle After Another, prepared and shot before Trump’s reelection, is something more than prescient; it seems to have won an existential gamble.” —Jonathan Lethem

“It’s important to note that it’s still the case that most people don’t vote in the United States. So we cannot look at the recent Trump election and take it as a kind of measure of the ideology of the working class.”

In what is now the third such ruling, a federal judge disqualified Bill Essayli as acting U.S. attorney in Los Angeles. The ruling has major implications for the corrupt political prosecutions of former FBI Director James Comey and New York AG Letitia James. talkingpointsmemo.com/morning-memo...

While San Francisco is home to about 42,000 undocumented residents, Santa Clara County is home to more than double that number, 119,000. Alameda County has 103,000 undocumented residents. Contra Costa and San Mateo counties... 68,000 and 56,000 respectively. missionlocal.org/2025/10/sf-b...

Telegraph sale in turmoil after lead bidder linked to China’s politburo

for @coyotemedia.org, I wrote about Uber, Waymo, sexual assault, surveillance, and Kit Kat, the feline mayor of 16th street — who deserved better, as do we all www.coyotemedia.org/in-which-we-...

The DOJ tried to subpoena an online trans health care provider. A judge quashed it.

SF’s mayor asked Trump for more federal cooperation instead of troops or ICE, but local law enforcement is already working closely with feds. sfstandard.com/2025/10/29/l...

New: Videos show ICE/CBP agents are scanning peoples' faces on the street to verify citizenship. ICE has tool to instantly look up unprecedented number of databases with just a photo “I’m an American citizen so leave me alone” “Alright, we just got to verify that” www.404media.co/ice-and-cbp-...

There is a serious uprising in farm country over tariffs and bailing out Argentina and then also buying their beef and cuts to SNAP and USAID too

Elon Musk’s new competitor to Wikipedia says apartheid wasn’t that bad, cites the Kremlin, and gives legitimacy to “white-genocide theory.” Musk is constructing a parallel universe in his own image.

Lurie asked feds to assist on drug cases, other crimes. Here’s how they already team up sfstandard.com/2025/10/29/l...

"Consider, for example, Owsley County in Kentucky. The county is 96 percent white, and last year it cast 88 percent of its votes for Trump. Also, 37 percent of residents are on SNAP." paulkrugman.substack.com/p/the-hunger...

SF progressives pitch tax on ridesharing, CEO pay sfstandard.com/2025/10/26/s...

She helped prosecute SF's biggest corruption case. Now she’ll be its most powerful watchdog sfstandard.com/2025/10/28/s...

Troy McAlister, who sparked Chesa Boudin recall, denied drug court diversion www.sfchronicle.com/crime/articl...

Hey, just want to mumble that this is wildly illegal and inappropriate and would prompt impeachment proceedings if we still had a functional Congress instead of one run by a blind, deaf and mute Renfeld wannabe.

Mayor Barbara Lee and other East Bay leaders reaffirmed their support for immigrants after Trump called off a crackdown in San Francisco.

Meanwhile Coast Guard Island is fairly quiet from the water.

Breaking: Lurie says Trump calls off federal deployment to San Francisco sfstandard.com/2025/10/23/l...

Pete Buttigieg endorses aid restrictions to Israel, Seth Moulton is running away from AIPAC at full speed, Mallory McMorrow says it's a genocide, meanwhile Cory Booker says that asking if Netanyahu is a war criminal is unfair. What the hell is happening? I take a stab at it in the piece below.

‘Are you part of the invasion?’: Protesters look for signs of federal surge sfstandard.com/2025/10/23/b...

To celebrate our 25th anniversary, we asked 25 writers we admire—from @jeetheer.bsky.social to @anamariecox.bsky.social—to reflect on a moment from the past 25 years of digital media. Read @joshtpm.bsky.social's intro to the project: Pivots, Trolls + Blog Rolls talkingpointsmemo.com/tpm-25/the-o...

JUST IN: DC Circuit panel splits, 2-1, upholding stay against FTC investigation into liberal group Media Matters' role in encouraging boycott of X by advertisers. Majority: Wilkins/Millett(Obama). Dissent: Walker(Trump) Doc: media.cadc.uscourts.gov/orders/docs/...

Vice President Vance's scathing remark came as he wrapped up an Israel trip, as the Trump administration attempts to keep up momentum on the U.S.-brokered ceasefire between Israel and Hamas in Gaza. n.pr/4owS2gp

The government may be shut down, but at least one Democratic senator is still working. trib.al/hO171T7 “Trump wants us to believe that Portland, Oregon, in my home state, is full of chaos and riots. Because if he can say to the American people that there are riots, he can say there’s a rebellion."

Tenure means nothing. www.mississippifreepress.org/fired-millsa...

San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie announced emergency actions ahead of an anticipated escalation in federal immigration enforcement, warning that the Trump administration aims to provoke “backlash, chaos and violence” in American cities.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/22/b... Among them are Tim Pool, a right wing influencer paid “to make videos for a company clandestinely funded by Russian state media actors to promote division in the United States.”

sfstandard.com/2025/10/22/c... first reported by the Chron.

Breaking: the U.S. Coast Guard confirmed to me a contingent of Customs and Border Patrol will be staging an unknown number of agents starting tomorrow at Coast Guard Island between Alameda and Oakland.

Bull market in hyperscaler “circularity” graphics. 😏 @bloomberg.com @wsj.com

Everybody suddenly has a lot to say about Russ Vought but it was @isabelaalhadeff.bsky.social who wrote what is still the definitive profile of him warning us all of his plans back BEFORE the election www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

In case you missed it: Recently retired SF sheriff chief-of-staff Richard Jue allegedly fled the scene of a hit-and-run and concocted a bogus excuse about the damage. sfstandard.com/2025/10/21/s...

JUST IN: Paul Ingrassia has pulled out of a scheduled hearing for his nomination to lead the Office of the Special Counsel after several GOP senators warned they'd vote against him following reports of racist text messages.

Judge permits questioning of top Border Patrol boss Greg Bovino in lawsuit over treatment of protesters in Chicago From @chicago.suntimes.com: chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

BREAKING: SF Sheriff’s ex-chief of staff dodges trial in hit-and-run cover-up case sfstandard.com/2025/10/21/s...

Tom Homan reportedly accepted $50,000 stuffed into a takeout bag from undercover F.B.I. agents. We must continue to ask where the money went, Ruth Marcus writes. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/zn2Q1B

The Treasury Department instructed employees not to share to share photos of the demolition of parts of the White House’s East Wing

It really does seem remarkable how often protest activity from the right is treated as the voice of the people and protest from the left no matter how big tends to be questioned and downplayed.