Rusty Staples, MLIS

Gavin Newsom vetoed a 2023 bill that would have stopped the unscrupulous practice of county governments using foster children's benefit checks (e.g. social security survivor benefits) to reimburse themselves.

The bill was sponsored by @ib2real.bsky.social, himself a former foster child.

And before that he was a city commissioner, a seat also handed to him by the then-mayor

That is false. I have more than one Proton account and did not have to provide payment or backup to get them

You are mistaken, we do not respond to legal requests from anywhere other than the Swiss authorities.

It is unlikely that one could build a business through ignoring the laws of the jurisdiction that it is in. The mail provider you're moving to included.

I don’t get why some of the response is “why didn’t the mayor help” instead of “the mayor is enjoying this”

Have you ever seen the video of the near-death Steve Jobs at the Cupertino city council blackmailing them into getting the Apple spaceship campus for zero taxes or community givebacks

Raymond Turner - Weird Little Guys | iHeart <p>Just about every source of information about nazi serial killer Joseph Paul Franklin gets the name of one of his victims wrong. In my search for information about the man who was murdered in Falls ...

@socialistdogmom.bsky.social Molly Conger's most recent episode of Weird Little Guys is one of the best essays on the topic of racism in America ever written. It should be a required part of every high school curriculum. I am not exaggerating. Listen: it'll be the best thing you do today.

I had the same thought in CA. I normally flinch at anything Newsom puts on the ballot but not our redistricting measure

Seeing the mayor stand there while his thugs beat up his constituents

Video shows Mayor Lurie’s security shoving man to ground before Tenderloin fight Video shows moments before SFPD officer slammed to ground by man in Tenderloin brawl, calling into question the officer's narrative.

JUST IN: New video posted to TikTok shows Mayor Lurie's security detail shoving a man to the ground *before* the man tussles w/the SFPD officer.

The video calls into question the officer's version of the incident. Two men were arrested in the attack.

missionlocal.org/2026/03/vide...

Have you noticed that people who spend too long chatting with chatbots, stop making any fucking kind of sense?

The reason why is that the bot will never, ever, go "what the fuck are you talking about? What are you even trying to communicate here?"

THIS MONTH

The Tenderloin is often in the news for crime & street chaos, but its residents have long struggled w/something else: a lack of green space.

S.F. is home to hundreds of thousands of trees & world-class parks that the TL lacks. Come to our panel to hear why.

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Speaking of chapters from your book repeating themselves

bsky.app/profile/sf.g...

living in a walkable city where you can get anywhere you need by walking, by bus, or train is goated in an economic collapsed based entirely on gas prices

Nazis in Your Neighborhood: Anti-fascist researchers out an extremist music label operating in the Tenderloin Based in a supportive housing building, the one-man distributor sells fascist music and merch from all over the world

NEW: A man in the Tenderloin is operating a fascist music label that promotes Neo-Nazi materials from all over the world.

Here's how antifascist researchers found him — and what he has to say now that he's been outed:

sf.gazetteer.co/nazis-in-you...

Kristi Noem says she’s friendly with S.F. mayor Daniel Lurie. It just makes sense. #corruption #taxcuts #republicans

This was so well done, with Molly’s excellent care and attention. I hope his family or community get to hear it somehow

The “city hall source” can prove it by releasing his phone records on a rolling basis

Old acronym for people like Daniel Lurie: DINO (Democrat In Name Only)—but now the two parties are so similar…

Ousted DHS chief Noem praises Lurie, saying he works ‘very well’ with feds “[Lurie] probably doesn’t want me to talk about it a lot,” said Kristi Noem at a big city police conference in Tennessee on Thursday. “He has been cooperative, we have great conversations and we talk ...

Breaking: Ousted DHS head Christi Noem praises SF mayor in Daniel Lurie sfstandard.com/2026/03/05/k...

Announcing the Bring @culvers.com to California gubernatorial platform, which blessedly comes with a ready-made meme cache

BART has rules posted saying headphones are required. Can we at least get that? I feel bad for the operators

Feels like the teacher who works with the spirit club should’ve said, uh, no.

Thanks!

Go away with your AI crap

Diamond Dave Whitaker, a San Francisco icon and legend, dies at 88 - 48 hills He turned Bob Dylan on to pot and Woody Guthrie. He organized underground poetry and political protest. He was part of the city's radical soul, and we will miss him

"Diamond Dave Whitaker died March 2, and with him went a part of San Francisco’s soul," writes Tim Redmond.

Does Runza have locations in Wisconsin? That’s another Midwestern chain everyone should get to try

I think he should start going to debates and make this demand

My youngest is voting for the first time this year and has said he will vote for the gubernatorial candidate who will bring Culver’s to California