This San Francisco jail inmate *can't wait* to be sent to state prison.

And he's not the only one.

From @esksf

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NEW: Balaji Srinivasan, the #NetworkState VC who wants to ban Democrats from San Francisco, funds a startup that's pushing for a new tech-dominated campus here.

'De-Blueification is the goal,' Balaji has said of his vision for SF.

Scoop via Mission Local!
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One of the groups pushing a tech 'campus' within one square mile of SF is backed by Balaji Srinivasan.

He's the VC who has envisioned tech-governed territories around the world called 'Network States.'

From gil duran in @mlnow

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The San Francisco Democratic Party held the first of several meetings into sexual misconduct w/in city political circles tonight—& speakers shared personal stories of abuse.

'I am a victim of rape,' said the first of many similar speakers.

via Joe Rivano Barros
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Ahead of the San Francisco Dems' hearing tonight on sexual misconduct, past allegations against a top politico are back in the spotlight.

Jay Cheng, a moderate operative, was accused of attempted rape in college. He denied the allegations.

via Joe Rivano Barros
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A Black queer man's hanging death from a tree in a San Francisco park has been preliminarily ruled to be a suicide.

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A longtime Black resident found a doll with racist caricatured features, a noose around its neck, and written racial slurs on his porch when he stepped outside on Friday morning.

Police are investigating the incident as a hate crime.

via Eleni Balakrishnan missionlocal.org/2024/05/sfpd-i…

Want to fund an election? U.S. tax law makes it relatively easy—though you do have to jump through some hoops.

Here's how to do so: A guide to 501(c)(3)s, 501(c)(4)s, PACs, and how they all intermingle to flood politics with money.

via Joe Rivano Barros
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A San Francisco federal judge said today she was inclined to advance the civil rights lawsuits from teens arrested during the Dolores Park hill bomb.

The city had asked the judge to toss out the claims, & argued the same in court today.

via Joe Rivano Barros
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By many measures, San Francisco is safer than it has been in a long time.

But for mayoral contender Mark Farrell, crime appears to be more about sentiment than data. “Just ask anybody in the city if they feel safer,” he said.

via Kelly Waldron

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New from Darwin BondGraham & I on Oakland PD's metastasizing command staff scandal: EIGHT officers, most of them brass, disciplined by independent oversight agency for derailing IAD investigation into Sgt Phong Tran's alleged bribery of murder witnesses oaklandside.org/2024/04/30/oak…

NEW:

Clustering techies want to turn Hayes Valley & a few other S.F. hoods into a utopian 'City Campus.' The group has ties to the 'Network State' & could raise elitism/exclusion concerns, but the founders say they're not exiting society.

By Laura Waxmann sfchronicle.com/sf/article/tec…

The strange and terrible saga of San Francisco incredible shrinking ethics delinquent list

By Joe Eskenazi and Kelly Waldron missionlocal.org/2024/04/the-st…

Ray Patlán, an internationally esteemed Chicano muralist once dubbed mayor of San Francisco’s colorful Balmy Alley, died this month in Oakland.

via Eleni Balakrishnan
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I got to speak to the indomitable Kieu Chinh for VANITY FAIR: vanityfair.com/hollywood/stor…

Once again, San Francisco government borrows a line from the film 'Animal House':

'You fu**ed up! You trusted us!'

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The list of delinquent filer SF workers shrank from 479 to 158 when it turned out many simply left their jobs.

But a Mission Local analysis reveals only around 30 of the 158 so-called delinquents are still on city payroll.

From @esksf and Kelly Waldron
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This week in our 'See how they run' series, we'll be following Mark Farrell on the campaign trail.

Today: Farrell hits every farmers market he possibly can.

From Kelly Waldron

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A woman this week says an unknown man pursued her and groped her near Holly Park.

She says three other women have contacted her alleging similar attacks near Holly Park — perhaps by the same man.

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thank you Raffi 😭