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🚨🚨🚨The @SFStandard is hiring a new features reporter. It's a great job on a fabulous team covering a fascinating beat in a city that is still (yes) awesome.
jobs.sfstandard.com/p/243457…
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Home security video captured three ICE agents cornering and questioning a man Monday morning in SoMa. One, a plainclothes officer, drew his gun on the man, who appeared unarmed.
When an agent asked why he ran, the man replied “I don’t know who you guys are,” explaining that he was on his way to work. “You’re violating my rights as a U.S. citizen.”
Read the full story: sf.news/4i5pfhs
🎥: Courtesy Juan Carlos
📝: @low___impact
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This is interesting. SF and other CA cities could implement a rent freeze for rent control homes, but advocates there aren't interested.
(A 0% increase vs. 1.6% isn't that significant.)
In CA, the big, elusive prize for tenant advocates is vacancy control — keeping rents at a similar rate from one tenant to the next.
NYC significantly strengthened its vacancy control policy with the 2019 rent law. It reduces the incentive for landlords to try to evict rent control tenants. But some landlords say it makes it uneconomical to rent their units, leading them to keep homes empty and off the market.
sfstandard.com/2026/09/11/lu…
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In his photographs, the skateboarder Jerry Hsu captures Los Angeles’s manic extremes. He maps a city of leftovers and castoffs; portraits of friends and strangers in the street are full of dazed, inscrutable expressions. Many of his images, even the faintly violent ones, possess an absurdist humor. “Maybe this is corny,” Hsu said, “but all this chaos and these little beautiful secrets I found here reminded me of myself.” See more of his photos: newyorkermag.visitlink.me/XV…
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Someone try to prove me wrong:
This looks like the single largest donation by an individual to a supervisor/council race in the whole U.S. (maybe ever?)
Spent last night researching but couldn’t find one >$500K. (Inflation ofc may change that claim.)
sfstandard.com/2026/09/03/la…
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ICE has gotten deportation numbers up by targeting people who abide by the rules, because they are easier to track down
Important piece from David Wallace Wells. nytimes.com/2026/08/19/opini…
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BOMBSHELL:
San Francisco moving to dissolve multimillion-dollar funding of HomeRise — once called gold standard for public housing for the formerly homeless — following investigation by @sfchronicle and @UCBerkeleyIRP.
By @susieneilson @mitchell_m22494 sfchronicle.com/bayarea/arti…
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This was fantastic! Truly one of the best news articles I’ve ever read on skateboarding. Great work MHC!
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PLANK's got a mention alongside some skate media legends in Farran's cover story on cover stories. Much love to Free, Skate Jawn, Closer, Mess, and QS. Truly in great company.
Who's up 🕯️ we got the most #longform thing we have published in a minute and it's everything you ever wanted to know about magazine covers quartersnacks.com/2026/05/ne…
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your man dreams of going to the "Met Gala"
i just took a hike in the redwoods and "Met Gaia"
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Just in: Sam Altman’s home appears to have been the target of a second attack Sunday morning, a mere two days after a 20-year-old man allegedly threw a Molotov cocktail at the property.
📝: Jonah Owen Lamb sfstandard.com/2026/04/12/sa…
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This mosaic of cult leader/mass murderer Jim Jones outside an L.A. elementary school has now been there for almost two years with no explanation.
A couple weeks ago I finally found the guy who made it. He told me the whole story. lamaterial.com/p/mosaic-of-j…
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‘He’s in charge’: Inside a San Francisco church leader’s public housing fiefdom
"Bobby Sisk leads nonprofits that award security contracts for church-owned housing complexes. He also owns the security company."
By @low___impact sfstandard.com/2026/03/31/bo…
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Showing up at a city planning meeting in futuristic sunglasses and saying I'm a XIMBY and not explaining what that means
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On her way out of office, Kristi Noem praised San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie, saying he worked "very well" with federal immigration forces. "He probably doesn't want me to talk about it a lot," she added. @ggreschler + Jonah Owen Lamb 👇
sfstandard.com/2026/03/05/kr…
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SF standard picking up my reporting. H/t @low___impact sfstandard.com/2026/02/25/ne…
