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Garry Tan’s mudslinging against SFMTA Chief Tumlin is a bizarre battle over the ‘tech singularity’

One of SF’s loudest activists is trying to get Tumlin fired, but it’s bigger than cars, buses and trains — he’s talking “deceleration,” e/acc, and the paranoid fight for human evolution

May 31, 2024

Campus anti-war encampments may have birthed a new generation of Bay Area activists

The tents are down and negotiations are on pause, but these student protesters say the pro-Palestine encampments have had a profound impact on their beliefs, tactics, and ambitions

May 24, 2024

A night out in North Beach with the Republican Club of San Francisco 

Over eggplant parmigiana at the Italian Athletic Club, Joan Leone details her Democrat-free social circle and former supe Tony Hall hints at mayoral run

May 17, 2024

The last stand of John Dennis 

Contrarian and Libertarian SFGOP boss battles ‘hostile takeover’ by what he calls anti-Trump Briones Society, lawsuit threatened

May 9, 2024

Sexual assault committee member’s former top consultant is being sued for sexual assault 

Supervisor candidate Trevor Chandler has directed the majority of his campaign funds to BaughmanMerrill, whose eponymous founder is facing a sexual assault lawsuit

May 7, 2024

Mayor wants credit for SF’s declining crime, but does she deserve it?

Correlation does not equal causation, and it’s never as good or as bad as it seems

April 11, 2024