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Billionaires bought the SF Democratic Party. Why are we suprised at its endorsements?

The Big Tech slate won control of the DCCC. Now they're using it for their agenda. It's a total embarrassment
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Opinion

OPINION: These police sex-worker stings have got to stop

Why are the cops and the news media obsessing about the sex lives of consenting adults?
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Stage Review

Drama Masks: A drag disaster to die for

Farewell, Dolly Parton. And hello 'Disastrous!'—D'Arcy Drollinger's latest uproarious sendup of '70s genre flicks.
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Campaign Trail

Billionaires bought the SF Democratic Party. Why are we suprised at its endorsements?

The Big Tech slate won control of the DCCC. Now they're using it for their agenda. It's a total embarrassment
Tim Redmond -
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Opinion

OPINION: These police sex-worker stings have got to stop

Why are the cops and the news media obsessing about the sex lives of consenting adults?
Maxine Doogan -
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Stage Review

Drama Masks: A drag disaster to die for

Farewell, Dolly Parton. And hello 'Disastrous!'—D'Arcy Drollinger's latest uproarious sendup of '70s genre flicks.
Charles Lewis III -
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Housing

How cities are going to lose all control over housing development, soon

Wiener's housing laws are set up for cities and counties to fail, allowing developers to do almost anything they want, for many years to come
Michael Barnes -
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Opinion

Jenkins sends a Trump-like message with bridge protester trial

San Francisco DAs have never charged peaceful protesters with felonies and forced them to trial. Now it's happened
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Humor

Here’s a trade deal: Lurie for Mamdani and maybe a Knicks’ point guard

Steph Curry is off the table, but maybe our billionaire mayor would like to ride a Waymo down Fifth Avenue
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Remembrance

RIP, Dolly: Read our 2011 interview about drag queens, dance floors, honky tonk preaching

“I couldn’t really get much gaudier—unless maybe I walked out with a beaver on my head!” We'll miss you, Country Queen.
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The Agenda

Ro Khanna’s endorsement of Connie Chan could make a difference with Chakrabarti voters

Plus: Will the local Democratic Party side with the billionaires—and why is Lurie opposing affordable housing? That's The Agenda for Aug. 23-30
Tim Redmond -
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Business + Tech

Communities are aligning to fight data centers: A report from rural Wisconsin

Across the political spectrum, people are organizing against Big Tech—and it could have national implications
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Opinion

OPINION: The danger of Stefani’s nuisance law for sex workers and people of color

AB 2001 allows city attorneys to weaponize past charges to seize property and shut down businesses
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Lit

Kiev, 1911: the Bund, revolution, and a sparkling work of historical fiction

'Radiant as the Stars' tells of a young woman who returns from the US to fight in the Russian Revolution—and it's based on a real story
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Campaign Trail

Lurie attacks affordable housing plan—and undermines his own proposal

By saying housing money hurts the cops, he may be undermining support for his own Housing Trust Fund.
Tim Redmond -
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The Agenda

The Marina Safeway project has a serious toxics and sewage problem

And yet, thanks to Wiener, there's no EIR. Plus: Punk politics in the 1970s—and today. That's The Agenda for Aug. 16-23
Tim Redmond -
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Campaign Trail

Why IE campaign corruption matters

The contribution limit rules exist for a reason. If we allow the IEs to coordinate with campaigns, those rules become pointless
Tim Redmond -
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Campaign Trail

‘Independent’ super PAC paying Wiener campaign staffers, records show

It's illegal for IEs to coordinate with candidates; this is at the very least close to the line, experts say
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Movies

Director Jane Schoenbrun: ‘I’m trying to queer the rules of horror’

'Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma' puts Gillian Anderson and Hannah Einbinder through a bloody libidinal portal.
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The Agenda

Wiener’s attacks on Chan backfire, badly

Plus: What are the candidates going to do to make Larry Ellison pay for Social Security? And what's up with Matt Dorsey's $25K slush find? That's The Agenda for Aug 9-16
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Labor

As wider layoffs hit, videogame workers’ union launches hardship fund

UVW-CWA aid initiative and innovative Necrosoft bundle aim to support affected workers from indie orgs and big corps.
Leah Isobel -
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Campaign Trail

Wiener’s racist, sexist Anthropic AI chatbot attacks Chan–and it’s weird and stupid and gross

Why is nobody in the Democratic Party establishment or the news media calling out Wiener on this?
Tim Redmond -
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The Agenda

How the fall election is shaping up

Chan and Wiener are essentially tied; how will the Marina Safeway project impact that race? That's The Agenda for Aug. 2-9
Tim Redmond -
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News + Politics

Fighting back against the growing surveillance state

Protests large and small are disabling Flock cameras and resisting repeated violations of privacy by police and corporations.
Ian Firstenberg -
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Lit

Devouring the indomitable spirit of Bambi Lake

Posthumous poetry collection from often abrasive, endlessly creative trans punk icon celebrates a life led 'too soon.'
Brendan McHugh -
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Opinion

Labor, Gordon Mar, and Connie Chan

OPINION: Labor and community coalitions have won in the past. Will that happen in November?
Tim Paulson -
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Humor

I was a fake chatbot in San Francisco

Confessions of an A.I. impersonator
Joel Schechter -
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The Agenda

What’s up with our new Planning Commission members?

Plus: Another developer giveaway. That's The Agenda for July 27-Aug 2
Tim Redmond -
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News + Politics

Clint Reilly had some bad clients —and at least one really good one

He got rich working for the insurance industry—but he also came through for the neighborhoods in the 1986 Prop. M campaign
Tim Redmond -
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Stage Review

Drama Masks: Drag haven Oasis reopens with a bang—and some questions

Plus: 'Beauty and the Beast' is a tale as old as time, and 'The Prince, Part 1' sets wily classic in motion.
Charles Lewis III -
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Art

Flushing things out with artist Blake Cedric

'Leave AI to the heteros!' says high camp hand-painter, whose work adorns toilet stalls from SoMa to Detroit.
Marke B. -
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The Agenda

Trans community, allies condemn Wiener for exploiting a march he was asked to leave

Plus: No Planning Commission? No Sunshine Task Force? That's The Agenda for July 19-26
Tim Redmond -
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City Hall

After 10 years, advocates finally have a chance to make public bank a reality

Just a vision in 2016, it's now coming before the voters. But will Mayor Lurie stand in the way?
Ian Firstenberg -
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Police

Billionaire Chris Larsen gifts more millions to SF’s growing surveillance state  

Police Commission approves another huge donation to SFPD's Real Time Investigation Center, whose operations have not been secure.
Ian Firstenberg -
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Lit

Exploring SF’s recent history: New book looks at 1990 to 2024

Booms, busts, tech, evictions, Burning Man... We talk to 'City on the Edge' author Jonathan Weber about our contentious moment.
Tim Redmond -
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Police

After police violence over Pride weekend, trans leaders deliver demands to Lurie

Speakers described being attacked by cops in full riot gear, violent arrests, cars driving into Trans March
Marke B. -
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The Agenda

Why change the disclosure rules for developers and political consultants?

Plus: Key Charter amendments—and it looks as if the DSA housing initiative is going to be hard to defeat. That's The Agenda for July 12-19
Tim Redmond -
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Police

The other problem with police drones: They don’t work well in San Francisco

The slick marketing gloss entirely ignores the basic laws of meteorology and aerodynamics
Shaun Haines -
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Environment

Public power moves a step forward

Planning Commissioners loyal to Lurie vote to certify EIR for PG&E takeover
Tim Redmond -
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City Hall

The political transformation of Sup. Alan Wong

In just two years, he went from a progressive to a corporate conservative. There's a sad lesson here.
Tim Redmond -
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Humor

Why can’t all that campaign money go to public services?

The Supreme Court could help us save Muni and public health. Maybe.
Joel Schechter -
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City Hall

Public bank moves forward

Supes, 9-2, put measure before the voters. What is up with Sup. Alan Wong?
Tim Redmond -
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Police

What happened to SF’s privacy culture?

In just a few years, this city has moved from a leader in surveillance guardrails to a place where we are spied on everywhere, even in gay bars
Ian Firstenberg -
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