Updated guide to the Yes on H/Recall Chesa sock puppets, AKA The Wencils.

Viola Davis has spoken about how ignoring her creative calling affected her mental health. it highlights something important: when you consistently deny a core part of yourself, it doesn’t just disappear quietly.

The MAGA tech bros in the Bay Area piloted fake AI social media accounts in the Bay Area first. Once they worked in local elections they rolled it out on a national level. x.com/i/status/15286…

I just did a quick search comparison on East Bay Times for "Jones Dickson" in a headline since her tenure began, vs "Pamela Price" when she served as DA. Price appeared in many headlines. My search has no mentions of Jones Dickson in a headline. This is pure bias, & its shameful

Indicted Maduro-raid Polymarket trader Gannon Ken Van Dyke, accused of making $400,000 the prop bet, has been deemed "eligible for appointment of counsel at government [public] expense," according to order just docketed @SDNYLIVE- Inner City Press story coming

Also, if I can be frank, I find the attempts to make our condition 'relatable' to the American metropole both intellectually hollow and morally cowardly. When we see white phosphorus over southern Lebanese villages we aren't seeing a 'preview' of American overpolicing but the

NBC confirms for the first time what many of us already suspected or knew: the Iranian Air Force bombed US bases in the opening phase of the war.

Reporters working at dinner after incident

The Jewish National Fund just acknowledged it has been funding programs designed to groom at-risk youth into settler terrorists. Imagine daring to protest one of the countless US synagogues that has helped them fundraise….

Watching the City basically push homeless people via several eviction filters from 12th st and safe parking sites to 75th next to Coliseum, where a camp rivaling Wood St is growing, should be the main scandal for local news. It's invisible instead. It's truly bizarre to watch

OPD's Flock read a total of 638 million license plates in Oakland in 2025, averaging around 50 million plates a month, many of these were plates captured multiple times a day, the full spectrum of you and your neighbors going about their daily lives

I will never understand why this isn't the lede in these stories. East Oakland saw biblical sweeps in the last two years, only to watch homeless migrate to the San Leandro Blvd corridor and around BART, where encampments are at their densest in years mercurynews.com/2026/05/05/bay…

Why are two San Francisco public school officials speaking at an American Enterprise Institute event tomorrow? The American Enterprise Institute is an explicitly right wing political organization. Neighbors for a Better SF, an astroturf funded by local-ish right wing donors, is co-hosting.

SF’s most right wing city supervisors will be there as well. But we’re told repeatedly that everyone in SF is progressive, except for “moderate centrists”. This must be them. adisf.americandream.is

One of the SFUSD speakers was the lone vote against ethnic studies last week, BTW. I’m sure it’s a coincidence and not ideological alignment.

Shout out to SF Sleuths Y Disassembler and Emily Mills for spotting this

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Houston made a poster of Feather River Camp's poor D7 attendance and paraded it to council. Turns out he'd already spoken to Rec Director then had same convo performatively. Worse. numbers he was showing were not from FRC. OPRYD couldn't reserve FRC due to lack of funds last year