By Adrienne Fong Am not posting on a regular basis RESOURCES: STAY UPDATED WITH BAY RESISTANCE and get plugged to actions you can support, text “Resist” to 888-850-0928 GI HOTLINE (877) 477-4497 – Share this number to people who know active duty service members There are events listed on Indybay… Continue reading
by Randy Shaw on December 1, 2025 (BeyondChron.org) Ongoing 6th and Market evening drug market Overdoses are down. Arrests are way up. Tents are way down. Treatment facilities have opened. A fentanyl emergency is in effect. These are positive developments. But they do not change a core measuring stick for San Francisco in… Continue reading
by Randy Shaw on December 1, 2025 (BeyondChron.org) 1993 flyer. What tenants faced prior to the BIC Five city officials with no connection to tenant groups is trying to eliminate San Francisco’s most vital tenant protection body: the Building Inspection Commission (BIC). Minutes from a recent meeting of the Streamlining Committee reflect the… Continue reading
I know my poem won’t / prevent the next bomb / won’t even save itself / from choking under the rubble. Basman Derawi Abed El Hameed (Abood). Photo: Basman Derawi I know my poem won’tprevent the next bomb,won’t even save itself,from choking under the rubble.So why do I write in… Continue reading
US Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) speaks during a news conference on October 29, 2025 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images) “Yes, let’s extend the ACA tax credits to prevent a huge spike in healthcare costs for millions,” said Sen. Chris Van Hollen. “Then, let’s finally create a… Continue reading
by Neil G. Ballard and Sage Ríos Mace December 2, 2025 (MissionLocal.org) In September, we published an illustrated look back at how immigration enforcement changed in San Francisco during the nine months since President Donald Trump took office. In the three months since, it’s changed again. In the fall and winter, there have been fewer arrests in… Continue reading
For the first time all year, arrests of immigrants without criminal convictions surpassed arrests of those with one by Kelly Waldron December 2, 2025 (MissionLocal.org) For the first time this year, almost half of the people being arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement in Northern California have no criminal record, recent… Continue reading
The “Nixonland trilogy” refers to a series of books by author Rick Perlstein that chronicles the rise of modern American conservatism, focusing on the political and cultural landscape of the late 1960s and 1970s. While Nixonland is the second book in the series, the term is sometimes used loosely to describe the first… Continue reading
