Politics
San Francisco’s newest affordable housing complex has sparked an election-season brawl
Supervisor Dean Preston is touting his role in 160 subsidized housing units opening at 730 Stanyan — but rival Bilal Mahmood says he can’t take any credit. Who’s right?
Reboot 2024 promised a ‘New Reality.’ It was mostly conservative bluster
Billed as disruption to the status quo, the all-day event at Fort Mason on Thursday mostly fixated on the radical vibes of the technocrat class and fantasies of a libertarian future
The crypto industry shows its hard-right heart at Reboot
Industry experts at the tech conference laid bare why conservatism is the linchpin for an ‘abundant’ crypto future — and how the industry is shaping the election
In SF, renewed sweeps are sending unhoused people back to square one
Gazetteer SF visited two sweeps of encampments — and witnessed a revolving door of punishment
Conservative journalist and SF supervisor settle absurdist suit over block from non-existent X account
The city says goodbye to a very serious case
Making SF’s Cash Not Drugs program work will be a lot harder than its proponents want to admit
Last month, SF announced a plan to offer county welfare recipients $400 a month to stay off drugs. The city’s most vulnerable residents wonder if it’s really meant for them
Plot twist: Brooke Jenkins is a ‘woke DA,’ according to a bunch of racists
Eddie Kim unpacks a Daily Mail headline on SF’s DA — and how nonsensical, and virulent, a culture war against Black people and the City can look
Abuse, disease, and near-slave labor: Protesters lash out at conditions in ICE detention centers
Activists crowded the sidewalk outside of San Francisco’s ICE office on Wednesday, calling for essential care and the end of privately-owned immigrant detention centers
Great Highway closure protests attract a Who’s Who of anti-woke culture warriors
San Francisco wants to turn a road into a park. Protesters against the plan have included January 6th insurrectionists, among other fringe right-wingers
X fights California regulation it says infringes on right to host ‘awful but lawful’ content
SF’s Ninth Circuit will hear company’s appeal to halt state law forcing platforms to disclose how they handle disinfo, hate speech