As the confetti settles after Pride month, the trans community and its supporters are rallying to ensure that the heavy-handed SFPD mobilizations that interrupted the Trans March and the Stud Alley block party never happen again.

San Francisco District Attorney Brooke Jenkins has yet to file charges after a Fourth of July fireworks display shut down the Golden Gate Bridge for hours. The event was organized by San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie and resulted in hours-long travel delays and gridlock.

The feds have erected a cruel and unusual Rube Goldberg deportation machine in the Bay Area. First they announced that San Francisco's immigration court would close at the end of 2026 and 100,000 pending cases would be relocated to a court in Contra Costa county.

Last year, the 16-unit apartment building at 1120 Jackson St. was sold to a new owner or group of owners under the guise of an LLC called Nabob Hill.

A Chronicle poll from earlier this year is still being used to support the claim that San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie is popular.

Whether getting drinks or just getting groceries, San Franciscans are having their faces scanned and checked against facial recognition databases at an increasing number of local business.

In Pittsburg, CA, more than 300 community members packed a recent City Council meeting to oppose a 300,000 square foot data center on a former golf course, forcing the city to put the project on pause.

Bloomberg reports that a third to half of all data centers proposed in 2026 have been delayed or cancelled.

On July 14, the San Francisco Board of Supervisors voted 7-4 in favor of a 362-page ordinance that "deletes or consolidates" 174 unique reporting requirements in one fell swoop.

The AI Boom is the single largest economic phenomenon in the US, and it is squarely centered on the city of San Francisco. In recent years, local companies have taken in hundreds of billions dollars in investments from all over the world, contributing to an obscene level of inequality in the city.

Zohran Mamdani’s ran and won on taxing the rich to fund the badly-needed economic programs for working people in his platform. Taxing the rich polls well in 2026, and it’s no wonder with everyday people struggling to survive. Here in San Francisco, we have a VERY different type of mayor.

The Cow Palace in Daly City is a treasured cultural institution for the people who loved San Francisco and the Bay Area before AI came to town. It's home to the annual Dickens Christmas Fair a month long community costume party and immersive theater experience providing Victorian delight since 1970.

During the COVID pandemic, many lines including the #33 were suspended. MTA brought the 33 back, but just as the line was recovering, they switched from a 15 minute to a 20 minute headway, meaning people had to wait 20 minutes instead of 15.

San Francisco's OpenAI and Anthropic are key drivers of a massive global data center buildout that is breathing new life into the fossil fuel industry, requiring the development of new energy capacity and extending existing coal and gas fired power plants' operating lifetimes.

From California to New York, voters are increasingly eager to tax the rich in order to repair and rebuild a social safety net worthy of a wealthy, developed nation. The rich, by and large, don't like that.

San Francisco's per capita police spending is higher than anywhere else in the country, by a longshot. Last year, San Francisco budgeted $1,017 on policing for every resident. New York City came in a distant second at $746 per resident.

Average rents are up 22% since last year, meaning San Francisco doesn't just have the highest rents in the nation but also the fastest-growing.

The AI Industry's voracious appetite for land, power and water has come to the Bay Area in the form of proposed data centers at 8 fairgrounds across the region.

The San Francisco Chronicle recently ran a feature entitled, "How San Francisco’s Black population changed, block by block over 50 years." Nowhere in the article does the paper acknowledge its role, as the City's paper of record, endorsing every effort to gentrify and evict Black residents from SF.

Mayor Daniel Lurie arrived at Dolores Park on Friday, June 26, well before the crowds showed up, to shoot an Instagram video celebrating the annual Trans March. "To our trans community: San Francisco sees you, celebrates you, and is proud to march with you," he said.

A new study by the California Policy Lab analyzed California unemployment data and suggests a spike in unemployment claims among Bay Area workers with a bachelors degree or higher. The report is part of an ongoing effort by the State of California to track the impacts of AI on the labor market.

If you work in San Francisco, your employer is required to pay you AT LEAST $19.61 per hour as of July 1st, up from $19.18. San Francisco voters raised the minimum wage in 2014 and included an annual July 1st increase tied to the Consumer Price Index.

Daniel Lurie has raised millions of dollars from his favorite tech billionaires to put a measure on the San Francisco ballot to ensure only billionaires can ever put measures on the San Francisco ballot from now on.

Scott Wiener got ushered out of the Trans March and immediately went on Bari Weiss' CBS News to complain about it (while his campaign raised funding off the episode).

One of Mayor Daniel Lurie's signature policies is an effort to streamline the City's permitting processes and bring them all under one roof.

Daniel Lurie is not only the Mayor of San Francisco, he has also installed himself as the city's most visible ersatz event promoter, regularly coordinating free public concerts through his nonprofit Civic Joy Fund, hyping them on his Instagram, and encouraging street drinking in Entertainment Zones.

Last year, the 16-unit apartment building at 1120 Jackson St. was sold to a new owner or group of owners under the guise of an LLC called Nabob Hill.

In its first month of operations, 418 people cycled through the new RESET Center in the SOMA, brought in by the police because they were suspected of public drug use, held for up to 24 hours without access to methadone or buprenephrine, offered peanut butter sandwiches, pudding, yogurt and crackers

Help may finally be on the way for those who struggle to afford San Francisco housing prices, because the crisis is so bad it now impacts people the mainstream media and our elected officials actually care about.

A visibly crestfallen and noticeably unscripted Lurie took to Instagram during the crisis to salvage the vibes. "Fog and fireworks, we did it the San Francisco way, and now I want everybody to also just look out for each other, be kind, it's gonna take a while for these clogged streets to empty out