Sad Francisco
@sadfrancisco.bsky.social
Podcast covering the end of capitalism from a “far Left” perspective. Support / get new episodes early on Patreon https://patreon.com/sadfrancisco Listen on all the podcast platforms https://pod.link/1653309103
The men protagonists in Mumblecore movies tend to be losers that women wind up having to take care of. On the new pod ep we watch Medicine for Melancholy, one of the few Mumblecore films with a Black director and leads. w/ Jemma DeCristo & dee(dee) c. ardan #gretagerwig #lenadunham #barryjenkins
Lots of Daniel Lurie’s SFPD officers make $800,000+ a year but their greed knows no bounds so they’re eyeing the affordable housing budget
Balaji Srinivasan’s Network State school was not loved by some in the Malaysian Government, which opened an investigation on some of its digital nomad members. He announced it will relocate to Kazakhstan.
I’m so sorry guys but California Forever isn’t gonna solve the housing crisis
Chappell Roan was attacked by bots in March. Was it punishment for being outspoken on Epstein, Palestine, or being a lesbian woman in the year 2026? Discussing with Matthew Lawson from Eating for Free on the new SAD FRANCISCO episode, up now on all the podcast platforms.
The Mix doesn’t wanna give up on Big Brother. But the backlash toward the other two bars in the Castro, Badlands and Toad Hall, apparently got them to stop using PatronScan. @fightforthefuture.org
Ian Firstenberg describes how tech oligarchs like Peter Thiel and Chris Larsen ushered in an era of extreme surveillance where almost nothing we do is private (new episode is up now)
this was done intentionally by thousands of people knowingly (or unknowingly) littering the reddit and insta with misinformation. it's not an accident and I'm glad it worked lol
✨queer commie terrorist✨@britculpsapp.bsky.social · 2w agothis is honestly so fucking funny
FLOCK hires lobbyists who resort to lying to sell its surveillance cameras to cities across the US. Just one example: Trevor Chandler, who worked for AIPAC before getting a job at FLOCK, claimed FLOCK partnered with the ACLU in New Mexico. Never happened.
See @darrenfrancisfinance on TT and @edzitron.com if you want takes about the AI industry without corporate media hype speak
Joseph McCarthy has returned to haunt us in the form of blacklists, prison sentences and witch-hunts. w/ Ian Firstenberg on the new episode of the podcast.
KRON4 headline saying San Franciscans all love the surveillance state doesn’t make it obvious where the poll data came from: dark money group GrowSF. (BTW this week’s podcast is on surveillance, link in bio.)
Blackstone keeps acquiring property in SF & every time they do I am reminded how Daniel Lurie brags about Blackstone gobbling up of more & more of the city. Blackstone owns more data centers than anyone else in the US; shared hotel guestlists w/ ICE; & its CEO is tight w/ Trump & Howard Lutnick
Judith Butler reads Les Feinberg’s afterword to Stone Butch Blues, at the live show in June. The full show is now up on the Sad Francisco pod feed. #lesliefeinberg #stonebutchblues #judithbutler
How is Friends of Lowell High School still a thing? Founded by rightwing grifter #dianeyap of the #manhattaninstitute
6/24: On the mic Charlie Hinton, witness to the 1979 White Night Riots, talks abt the police riot @ Elephant Walk gay bar (where the closed Harvey’s is) when SFPD smashed the bar & its patrons. Brooke Jenkins is still going after Golden Gate 26 & ~25 ppl arrested during Pride @gay-shame.bsky.social
Sexual violence is the Zionist way. Manny Yekutiel is just hoping everyone pretends Brad Chapin never made allegations against him. Manny, Brooke Jenkins and Scott Wiener discussed on the latest episode
Police murdered a Black man in the street in Madison WI today. Shot point blank in the head while on the ground, tased, and surrounded by four cops. It looks like an execution. Multiple videos circulating online. Things are about to get very bad here.
Conor Johnston’s van went from anti-Saikat Chakrabarti to anti-Connie Chan #darkmoney via @eddiekimx.bsky.social
San Francisco D.A. Brooke Jenkins is following in her predecessor Kamala Harris’s footsteps: anti-police accountability, pro-surveillance state, & anti-free speech of protesters. w/ Joshua Reyes & Frisco Voices
Trans people were beaten and jailed this Pride as the fascist Blue MAGS in local politics cheer them on.
Ruth Mahaney remembers the White Night Riots in San Francisco. May 21, 1979, queers responded en masse to lenient sentencing for Dan White, the cop-turned-politician who assassinated gay politician Harvey Milk & Mayor Moscone inside SF City Hall… (1/3)
1) San Francisco Pride Weekend- Via @p.u.m.l (Punch Up Media Lab) in collaboration with @sadfrancis.co on instagram. You can follow @sadfrancisco.bsky.social as well for similar content.
The Vaillancourt Fountain’s last days at the Embarcadero, as recounted by Max Blue, arts writer for the @sfexaminer.bsky.social and @hyperallergic.com
Dutch Burning Man-goer and tech billionaire Sid Sijbrandij is behind the influx of 100 large scale public art sculptures hitting San Francisco. Art critic Max Blue of @sfexaminer.bsky.social is on the new Sad Francisco