Public input opportunity on the city's move to take peer counselors off the crisis intervention teams:

Tenderloin Voice@tlvoice.bsky.social · yesterday

Tomorrow morning, the SF Fire Commission is slated to end peer counselors' participation in the Street Crisis Response Team. We've put it on our community calendar. Pass it around. tockify.com/tl.events/de...

We're breaking with conventional journalistic norms to meet this community's needs. We work with locals, editing them and publishing their writing. And in recent months we helped mobilize the neighborhood to guard it against budget cuts from City Hall. newsrelaynetwork.org/newsroom-fin...

Our newsroom is finding its place in this community

From amplifying locals to mobilizing, we’re helping people in San Francisco’s Tenderloin secure their goals.

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this seems like uhhhh... catnip for people here cat zines for sale and some proceeds go to local cat rescues, TNR groups, and the gallery has adoptable cats (Long Beach, CA) coolcatcollective.co/collections/...

Cat Zine Fest: Featured Zines

Boutique & gallery for cat people with adoptable cats.

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Optima Prime with boob-cannons is genius and goes incredibly hard. Plus Kaylan is a delight. (Look at the way she added material so the flame extends beyond the border of the flag I mean COME ON) Also go check out St. Joseph's, it's a whole experience!

Tenderloin Voice@tlvoice.bsky.social · last mo.

Artist Kaylan Rose re-imagined Optimus Prime as transgender for an installation at the St. Joseph's Arts Society. Kaylan transitioned in her 60s. "I always had a weird feeling, like I wasn’t living the right life," she said.

Corporations are making it harder to repair your devices—locking you out and forcing you to pay for repairs and replacements you don't need. Join EFF along with Adam Savage and iFixit CEO Kyle Wiens. We'll explore the Right to Repair and answer your questions live! www.eff.org/livestream-r2r

Today we beat Stephen Miller’s lawsuit mill in court! For 3 years I’ve been a defendant in a case filed by America First Legal on behalf of Gateway Pundit & a random antivaxxer we’d never heard of until she sued us. The plaintiffs claimed we “censored” them. It was a lie. They just lost.

Huge congratulations to these incredible journalists for organizing with @pacificmediaguild.bsky.social Being in the guild as a Chronicle reporter changed how I thought about my role in the newsroom and taught me about solidarity. It's great to see reporters build that together.

San Francisco Public Press Workers Guild@sfppworkersguild.bsky.social · last mo.

🧵 We are unionized! We are the staff of the San Francisco Public Press, a nonprofit investigative newsroom dedicated to breaking the surface level on deeply rooted issues in the city. We just formed a union and got voluntary recognition from our management!

Public testimony is so important. I made a comic about it:

Jay Edidin@edidin.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Public testimony is a GREAT way to reach elected officials and make an impression. If you’re someone interested in testifying at a city council or other meeting but not sure where to start, I am happy to help! And if you’re an org who wants to give that info to its members, I have a whole workshop!

An absolutely devastating thread. Both the statistics and the individual stories are completely horrific.

Lauren Dobson-Hughes@ldobsonhughes.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Tor Top lost his mother Nyarietna, in South Sudan’s worst cholera outbreak, caused by $20m in USAID cuts She started vomiting, he put her in his canoe and paddled 8 hours to the nearest hospital. She died in his arms less than halfway www.propublica.org/article/usai...

It's the final week of negotiations over the city budget and we've compiled a list of opportunities for community members to weigh in.

Here’s how to fight for your neighborhood!

The proposed city budget would cut funding to Tenderloin programs and services. You can help ease or prevent the cuts.

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👩‍⚕️ ICYMI, CLINIC CLOSING: A site dedicated to senior mental health is on the chopping block in the latest city budget cuts. Patients + workers say the alternatives can't compare. @taybarton.bsky.social reports on why @sfpublichealth.bsky.social has it slated for closure. thefrisc.com/inside-sfs-m...

Inside SF’s Mental Health Clinic for Seniors That’s Marked for Closure

For Latino elders, it’s also a community center. But in a budget crunch, DPH says low volume requires consolidation.

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The budget cuts would leave “potentially irreparable” holes in San Francisco’s social safety net, “and untold numbers of people would fall through,” said the head of Hospitality House. www.tlvoice.org/service-prov...

Service providers say: If City Hall Slices, this is who gets hurt

In their own words — not ours — local leaders map the pain that would come with budget cuts.

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Someone texted me to say this list of programs on the chopping block reads like a list of names of disaster victims, where the disaster is man-made. I can see that, but!! these cuts are not final, and organizers are doing their damndest to win restorations.

Tenderloin Voice@tlvoice.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Here’s a list of cuts expected to affect the Tenderloin and opportunities for residents to give input on budget decisions.

Happy Pride!🌈✨ Bonedust Press is a queer owned and operated publisher of illustrated novels and novellas. Buying our books directly supports queer writers and artists! bonedustpress.com/shop This June, 10% of all shop sales will be donated to Advocates for Trans Equality: transequality.org

Using DuckDuckGo can be frustrating because it just kiiinda misses the mark, relatively often. But this is next level.

I'm probably about to be laid off because of these specific cuts. Our Tenderloin neighbors will be even worse off. Please voice your anger.

Tenderloin Voice@tlvoice.bsky.social · 3mo ago

In the Tenderloin, city budget cuts are expected to affect services like case management, job training, and a youth clinic. Organizers are pushing back on those decisions — and inviting the community to participate.

UGH. So over billionaires in media. I hate all of this. If you do too, take a stand and send some love to an indie media outlet today. Become a member of our pack coyotemedia.org/#/portal or send us a tip coyotemedia.org/tip-jar We are worker owned and none of us will ever be billionaires!!

The New York Times@nytimes.com · 3mo ago

Breaking News: James Murdoch is buying New York magazine, Vox Media’s podcast network and the Vox website for more than $300 million, a dramatic expansion in U.S. media for the younger son of the media mogul Rupert Murdoch.

So it turns out the early childhood intervention systems in this city are really, REALLY difficult to navigate. I learned a ton writing this story, including that some specialists refuse to work with kids in the TL because they're afraid to come here. A real-world consequence of its reputation.

How can SF close gaps in early childhood services?

Ages 0-5 are especially critical for a kid's development.

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Lots going on in the budget-advocacy world. One of these (with the SF People's Budget Coalition) is happening today!

Tenderloin Voice@tlvoice.bsky.social · 3mo ago

The proposed city budget makes significant cuts to services and programs in the Tenderloin. We've made a list of some upcoming events advocates are organizing to inform, engage, and rally neighbors who want to make their concerns heard:

Crowdsource: Are there orgs/groups in your area doing really great community organizing work? I am building a directory of places for people to plug in, and I am trying hard to launch with coverage of top metro areas in the country, every state, and cool groups people haven't heard of.

Our Nursing Home Inspect tool allows you to search over 90,000 nursing home inspection reports to look for trends or patterns, evaluate nursing homes near you and compare nursing homes by state. Check it out 👇

Nursing Home Inspect

Search inspection reports and find problems at over 14,000 nursing homes across the country.

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My latest — a profile on our TL office-mates who are celebrating the one-year anniversary of their organization. Here's what they've been up to in that time:

Tenderloin Voice@tlvoice.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Even though overdose deaths have decreased slightly, racial disparities persist. With their year-old nonprofit Brothers Against Drug Deaths (BADD), Theris Coats and Richard Beal are creating the services and programs they believe can help address inequities and save lives.

Hello from the D5 Budget Town Hall at the Kelly Cullen Community in the TL. The People's Budget Coalition is handing out these postcards for residents to share their funding priorities with the Mayor

All, please be aware.

U.S. court restricts abortion access by blocking mailing prescriptions of pill

A federal appeals court has restricted access to one of the most common means of abortion in the U.S. by blocking mailing of prescriptions to mifepristone.

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Just had a driver pull into the opposing lane to pass me, honk at me, and flip me off because I had the audacity to be riding my bike in the main lane on Market...literally riding on the sharrows that have little bike symbols in them. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I hate "budget season" so much. Hardworking, principled people have to throw themselves into desperate battle to try to save programs that people love and in some cases depend on. And too often the thing gets cut anyway, the public is less well served, and the advocates get more jaded and burnt out.

This group is really something special.

Tenderloin Voice@tlvoice.bsky.social · 4mo ago

At a rehearsal for an upcoming Skywatchers performance, we got a peek at the artistic process of this ensemble. Their work is distinguished by care and mutual respect, but also humor and a willingness to be playful.

Heads up, this is happening *today*

Tenderloin Voice@tlvoice.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Staff at the Michael Baxter clinic said they were blindsided by the news that it would be closed. On Monday, workers and union organizers will head to a commission hearing to advocate for it to remain open.

Monte was becoming someone who defied easy classification. The doctors wouldn’t let that happen. In this honest, arresting essay, they chronicle their loss of identity as an adolescent. And they challenge us all to challenge ourselves, to push society to grow. www.tlvoice.org/price-of-pre...

Price of prejudice: What’s lost when we reject trans identity

Gender-diverse people face discrimination and violence. We can build a better world that values who they are.

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Staff at the Michael Baxter clinic said they were blindsided by the news that it would be closed. On Monday, workers and union organizers will head to a commission hearing to advocate for it to remain open.

TL youth clinic supporters push to save it

Allies will rally Monday at City Hall to restore funding.

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