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🌁 Featured News
Today's lesson from the Bay Area Current: Know Your Enemy.
As a weapon, AI doesn’t have to be that good to be lethal; it just has to be good enough. It’s okay if the chatbot occasionally hallucinates, if it’s cheaper than hiring a person. - Wendy Liu
Wendy Liu
The real enemy is all around us: corporations that show only contempt for working people and their desire for a life worth living.
Xueer Lu
“The termination of any of the current countries that receive Temporary Protected Status directly affects our immigrant communities in San Francisco,” said District 9 Supervisor Jackie Fielder
Tim Redmond
We have seen this kind of action before: When the late Ed Lee was mayor, he in effect ordered the SFMTA and the Taxi Commission not to interfere with Uber and Lyft, despite the clear evidence that they were operating illegal taxis. Now the SFMTA is again allowing a mayor to usurp its authority—and pedestrians, bicyclists, and Muni are paying the price.
📰 Local Headlines
City Hall
SFMTA Planning Cuts Across All Departments to Stave Off Fiscal Cliff
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S.F. takes aim at ‘dumb rules’ that Lurie administration says have to go
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Stud music venue liquor license approved by SF supes
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An S.F. park has been in the works since 2012. It was just halted.
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S.F. passes legislation supporting immigrants on the verge of losing legal status
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San Francisco refuses Trump administration’s demand for voters’ personal info
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Muni riders, bus drivers, bikers, people who walk beg SFMTA Commission to do its job
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SFMTA Proposes Removing 29-Sunset Bus Stops To Address Overcrowding
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SF Muni could see less cleanings as SFMTA warns of budget cuts
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City Hall: Connie Chan
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Politics
Judge Rules Trump Violated Law by Sending Troops to Los Angeles
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Newsom’s Prop 50 campaign compares Trump to Hitler as redistricting battle intensifies
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Dems rally for California’s Prop 50, tell Trump: ‘Don’t poke the bear’
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Former Acting Labor Secretary Calls Out Trump’s “War on Workers”
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Nancy Pelosi endorses S.F. Supervisor Joel Engardio in his fight to defeat recall
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Nancy Pelosi ‘strongly’ opposes recall of Joel Engardio
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Day Around the Bay: Two United Airlines Planes Collide at SFO, No Injuries
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Tennessee Grill Breakfast Club’s Sessions Serve Politics and Opinions
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Lurie backs higher property taxes to save struggling Muni
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Criminal Justice
S.F. DA charges two men with murder in connection with 2023 drive-by shooting
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Elizabeth Holmes is tweeting from jail. How?
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Facing 20 years on fraud, arson charges — and still allegedly towing cars
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Public Safety
Tuesday Morning Topline: Fight Leads to Possible Homicide In SoMa
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Deploying National Guard In Los Angeles Was Illegal, Rules Federal Judge In SF
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Parent outrage spurs S.F. to hurry hiring of crossing guards
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Trump’s L.A. National Guard deployment was illegal, federal judge rules
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Some Joker Does Flips Off a Waymo, Sets Off Chain of Events That Confuses and Stalls Three Waymos
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Immigration
Volunteers Help Monitor For ICE Activity Near Where Day Laborers Gather
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Labor
Protests Fill Bay Area Streets on Labor Day, Rallying Against Trump, Billionaires
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Business
AI Company’s Billboards Say Workers Are Disposable. But Are We?
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Exclusive: Two of S.F.’s biggest hotels are being sold. These are the buyers
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Judge Stops Short of Making Google Sell Chrome, Forces It to Share Search Data With Competitors
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San Francisco’s two largest distressed hotels finally have a buyer
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2 college students created an all-female hacker house in San Francisco to disrupt the startup landscape
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‘We Have to, And Are Proud To’: Silicon Valley Embraces the U.S. Military
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Environment
Pacifica whale watching group excited as humpback whales continue to visit area
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‘A new level of idiocracy’: Trump cuts $427M from California offshore wind project
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Education
Ethnic Studies Debate Follows Students Into San Francisco Classrooms
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Opinion
Letter to the Editor: Sunset Residents Prefer Single-Family Homes Over Luxury Condos
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Letter to the Editor: Recall Engardio to Restore Accountability
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The theory of everything bagels
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Report: Grok's Responses Have Indeed Been Getting More Right-Wing, Just Like Elon Musk
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Using ChatGPT at the tailor? Your suit guy might hate you
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Arts and Events
VOTE NOW in the 2025 Best of the Bay Readers’ Poll!
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🔶 Things To Do In The Greater Ingleside: Muni Art Activity
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Diego Rivera’s ‘Mexican Mona Lisa’ hangs in an SF home. But not for long.
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Palm Springs to unveil LGBTQ flag; reopen historic theater
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Yes, Someone Actually Gave Birth to a Baby at Burning Man This Year
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Good Taste: Kitchen Table’s fabulous food and urgent politics
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Oakland Pride festival will see new location, stage this year
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Treasure Island Is Getting Its First Major Park, and It Will Have Food Truck Parties
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Going to Portola Music Festival 2025? What to Know, From Bag Policy to Parking
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The latest authentic dining experience? The record scratch
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Win tickets to an evening with Samin Nosrat
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Sports
Valkyries playing Liberty for the last time this season. Here's how to watch
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How Rafael Devers' home run led to a Giants-Rockies fight: 'We're a very unified team'
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Valkyries stun reigning WNBA champs in landmark win: 'We've written it our own way'
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Miscellaneous
Flight from SFO to Baltimore returns to San Francisco over burning smell
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United Airlines planes collide on ground at SFO; another returns mid-flight
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