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Your social feed is drowning in Loonen

The Berkeley-based company is selling water filtered through stainless steel and tested for microplastics and forever chemicals. Lots of influencers are totally buying it

May 28, 2026

Aella wants to know how you’d defile a cow

Could you hack it in a house full of AI doomer rationalist influencers? I’m willing to try

May 28, 2026

Face Time: Saikat Chakrabarti may be a centimillionaire, but he still dreams of dollar tacos from Pancho Villa

The progressive Democratic congressional candidate has big ideas about housing, AI as a public utility, and taming corporations

May 27, 2026

SFUSD is extending the school year by five days. That is, if kids actually show up

To make up for days lost to the teachers’ strike, administrators are trying to convince students to give up a week of summer break

May 27, 2026

Everybody’s confused about the smoking ban

A haze of conflicting information surrounds the D7 supervisor’s effort to snub out smoking on bar patios

May 26, 2026

An incomplete history of Boots Riley’s incredible hats

The ‘I Love Boosters’ director’s Uptown Yardie hats have gotten almost as much attention as his movies

May 21, 2026

How many people are actually being brought to the new RESET sobering center?

The mayor boasted of ‘dozens and dozens’ in the first 24 hours; the sheriff’s office cites 320 in two and a half weeks. Yet many of the center’s chairs appear empty

May 21, 2026

Sergey Brin fled California, but he keeps throwing money at SF politics

Even from Nevada, the Google co-founder is fighting the Overpaid CEO tax and funding a right-wing extremist (among others) for governor

May 20, 2026

From Sam Altman’s ‘fun’ hair to Elon Musk’s ‘twisting’ lips: How courtroom artists capture giants

Three trial veterans describe their approaches to depicting the rich and infamous during the Musk v. Altman trial

May 20, 2026