Daniel Lurie making his way through The City en route to his swearing in as the next mayor of San Francisco.

For this tweet to have been accurate, it must have been sent no more than four minutes and 30 seconds into a speech that lasted approximately 19 minutes. (@ 4:30: “… recovery is possible …. it [recovery] must be our mission.”

Before Daniel Lurie was sworn in as San Francisco Mayor, he walked the neighborhood that has become synonymous with the city’s challenges. What tenderloin residents say they’d like to see from the new administration. m.youtube.com/watch?v=_dtmM4…

Mayor Lurie announces a new fire chief, in an event defined almost entirely by the catastrophe in Los Angeles, as well as this morning‘s 3.7 reminder of the stakes in San Francisco. A decidedly serious and sober tone this morning at city hall.

I hope it’s just this platform/social media/bots etc., but the accelerating detachment from reality - and humanity - is profoundly bleak.

A lot of attention on the #MossLandingFire right now. As a little background for you, here's the unveiling of that facility back in June of 2022. youtube.com/watch?v=YRYRaT…

Insane story. thebignewsletter.com/p/did-a-privat…

The military did not enter California. The federal government restarted federal water pumps after they were offline for maintenance for three days. State water supplies in Southern California remain plentiful.

“A decision to take summer water from local farmers and dump it out of these reservoirs shows a complete lack of understanding of how the system works and sets a very dangerous precedent."

Solid shake/roll right there. Whew. 😬