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@shoresofcal

Bay Area stan with a totally healthy and equal interest in urbanism, fashion, beauty, Cali/US/LatAm politics, and child-like humor.

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U.S. at Fault in Strike on School in Iran, Preliminary Inquiry Says

Confirmed by the NYT, the US was behind the strike on school

11.03.2026 15:50 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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French Laundry chef again scolds Bay Area town over affordable housing project "I have reached out to every one of you; none of you has reached out to me."

“In March 2025, the Yountville Town Council approved conceptual planning for Yountville Commons, which would include 150 workforce housing units. The affordable housing project is expected to be constructed over the former Yountville Elementary School, which closed in 2020”

08.03.2026 16:09 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Chinese seniors are using AI translation to build political muscle in S.F. "People keep talking about freedom of speech in America, but they can’t even understand what we are saying."

This part was a really good point about why tools can make the difference “… made elders vulnerable to bilingual political operatives who have a lot to gain by using them as silent political props — and mistranslating speech in both directions.”

04.03.2026 02:57 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

congress sounds cool i wish it was real

28.02.2026 19:41 👍 8318 🔁 1326 💬 63 📌 22
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Awaiting the Supreme Court Decision That Could ‘Completely Erase’ the ‘Civil Right Movement’s Crowning Achievement’ A set of Supreme Court decision days, beginning Friday, could feature a...

“All three branches of government are currently working in tandem to unravel voting protections and impose new restrictions, just months before a midterm cycle Republicans fear will go poorly for them.”

20.02.2026 04:19 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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News Publishers Are Now Blocking The Internet Archive, And We May All Regret It Last fall, I wrote about how the fear of AI was leading us to wall off the open internet in ways that would hurt everyone. At the time, I was worried about how companies were conflating legitimate …

“Now major news publishers are actively blocking the Internet Archive—one of the most important cultural preservation projects on the internet—because they’re worried AI companies might use it as a sneaky “backdoor” to access their content.“

13.02.2026 22:34 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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The Supreme Court lets California use its new, Democratic-friendly congressional map The Supreme Court has cleared the way for California to use its new congressional map for this year's midterm election. Voters approved it as a Democratic counterresponse to Texas' new GOP-friendly ma...

A win and a relief

04.02.2026 19:56 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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FOX 11 to host California gubernatorial debate on Feb. 3: What to know Ahead of the 2026 election, FOX 11 and KTVU FOX 2 will host a gubernatorial debate with the candidates vying to become California's next governor.

Currently on - the first debate for the upcoming California Governor race (primary in June). Interesting, but missing a few key candidates.

04.02.2026 02:08 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Feds Identify “Leader of Antifa” The list they're creating says so, anyway

“They show that since almost the beginning of the Trump administration, DHS has been desperate to pull together evidence—no matter how thin—of an epidemic of left-wing domestic terrorism.”

03.02.2026 16:58 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Maya Angelou Was San Francisco's First Black Streetcar Conductor | WNYC | New York Public Radio, Podcasts, Live Streaming Radio, News Maya Angelou, the poet, writer, and performer who passed away at the age of 86, also has a place in civil rights transportation history: at the age of 16, she says she became San Fr...

What now?!

03.02.2026 06:35 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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City Hall photo exhibition puts San Francisco transit history on view - The Voice of San Francisco History and public transit buffs can take a step back in time to see how people traveled on San Francisco’s transit system as part of a new free photo exhibition at City Hall.  The exhibition highligh...

“History and public transit buffs can take a step back in time to see how people traveled on San Francisco’s transit system as part of a new free photo exhibition at City Hall.”

02.02.2026 04:39 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

“agents are tapping into a database, built by the data analytics company Palantir, that combines government and commercial data to identify real-time locations for individuals they are pursuing”

30.01.2026 16:58 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 1
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Exclusive: Hegseth boosts Minneapolis immigration siege, approving use of military base In an email obtained by the Chronicle, U.S. Customs and Border Protection asked for use of Fort Snelling to house federal immigration agents, weapons, vehicles and aircraft.

This doesn’t sound like deescalation. “On Monday morning, Hegseth approved the request, according to correspondence obtained by the Chronicle.”

27.01.2026 17:29 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Who needs a Jumbotron when you’ve got history? Oakland’s newly renovated Henry J. Kaiser Center for the Arts offers a deep connection to the past that’s lacking in sterilized modern venues

"Due to unsustainable maintenance costs, Oakland’s City Council voted to close the auditorium in 2005 [...] Now that major renovations have been completed, the next chapter is set to begin with an “Opening Festival” lineup of events happening this weekend.

27.01.2026 03:29 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Airbnb rules have literally split this Bay Area beach town in two Half of town has some of the strictest short-term vacation rental rules on the California coast. The other half is still waiting.

Funny, I think of Pacifica as purposefully non-tourist friendly. “The proposed rules will make it more expensive for guests and families to visit Pacifica, impacting local businesses that rely on tourism and tax revenue for the city,”

27.01.2026 03:24 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

What's the plan, Chuck? I run a fake news website. You're the Senate Minority Leader. What's the plan?

24.01.2026 19:11 👍 20798 🔁 3293 💬 427 📌 96
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Aramark tells Yosemite workers it's axing most of their housing rights "It's basically like a big f—k you."

“They want temp employees, the ones that just come and go, that they can put in bunk housing with low pay,…”

24.01.2026 04:12 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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California is now the only state without some level of drought or dryness. #CAwx https://x.com/NWSBayArea/status/2014494389146444143

23.01.2026 00:42 👍 21 🔁 5 💬 2 📌 6
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Landlord of fire-ravaged Oakland building attempts to evict displaced tenants The city attorney demanded a prominent Oakland real estate owner withdraw "unlawful notices" of termination.

Wow, this is heartless and audacious.
“Dozens of renters displaced by a monstrous blaze in their downtown building Monday quickly received a letter from their landlord announcing their leases had been “terminated.”

21.01.2026 06:26 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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San Francisco’s largest mall set to close as BART seals Powell Street entrance San Francisco Centre, once the city’s largest shopping mall, will close permanently on Jan. 26, according to an employee at its final remaining store.

With a whimper, I guess

21.01.2026 05:48 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Two-Thirds of SF Families Qualify for the City’s Free Subsidized Child Care, But Few Know About It San Francisco expanded an existing program this week launched by former mayor London Breed that now provides free or deeply discounted child care for two-thirds of SF families with children five and u...

“San Francisco expanded an existing program this week launched by former mayor London Breed that now provides free or deeply discounted child care for two-thirds of SF families with children five and under, but due to lack of public awareness, most eligible families still don’t know it exists.”

17.01.2026 20:31 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
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Oakland Unified saw uptick in transitional kindergarten, drastic decline in newcomer enrollment this year At Wednesday’s school board meeting, there were few updates on the $100 million in budget cuts for next year, but a special meeting is scheduled for next week.

“This year, OUSD’s enrollment exceeded projections by more than 500 students, which means roughly $7 million more in state funding for the district. Eleven schools came in under projections, while 64 schools exceeded projections…”

16.01.2026 05:49 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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With Blood on His Hands, Trump Is Eager To Invoke Insurrection Act Programming Note Join me for the first Morning Memo Live event on...

“We are edging closer to the crossing that fateful line when the military is called to put down civil unrest that has not just been provoked but sought after by a president eager to use retributive violence against his political foes”

15.01.2026 15:47 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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California College of the Arts Will Close in 2027 Vanderbilt University will take over the campus of the Bay Area’s last remaining nonprofit art school.

“the last nonprofit art and design school in Northern California, announced on Tuesday that it will “wind down its current operations” and close by the end of the 2026–2027 academic year.”

14.01.2026 14:30 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Supervisor Alan Wong Fails to Get His Ballot Measure to Bring Cars Back to the Great Highway Newly appointed District 4 Supervisor Alan Wong just flunked his first big test, failing to meet a deadline on a ballot measure to bring cars back to the Great Highway, after he made a big to-do over ...

“[…] failing to meet a deadline on a ballot measure to bring cars back to the Great Highway, after he made a big to-do over announcing the effort.”

Some good news then. This has been decided, move on.

14.01.2026 06:21 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

There’s no way any ethical journalist could look at those videos and think the story is anything other than what is clearly in those videos. It’s right there. In multiple videos. And eye-witnesses accounts. There aren’t two sides. There’s one set of very clear videos.

08.01.2026 02:59 👍 116 🔁 11 💬 3 📌 0

Members of Congress: stop posting online and APPEAR, PHYSICALLY on the steps of the Capitol to decry this unconstitutional violation of domestic & international law. SHOW THE PEOPLE the level of danger we are facing as a country.
@housedemocrats.bsky.social
@senatedemocrats.bsky.social

03.01.2026 17:17 👍 25802 🔁 7900 💬 719 📌 923

Just woke up even angrier. Impeach, convict, remove. Draft articles now. Either we have a representative government or we don’t. Do not shut up about this until there’s a vote.

03.01.2026 13:48 👍 40110 🔁 9479 💬 757 📌 316
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You can now book a ‘private jet’-like train car from the Bay Area to L.A. Here’s how much it costs Starting in January, a private charter service attached to Amtrak trains will start on the California Zephyr from Emeryville to Denver and the Coast Starlight from Oakland to Los Angeles.

“…starting in January, travel startup Lunatrain will begin offering a private charter service attached to Amtrak trains on the California Zephyr route from Emeryville to Denver and the Coast Starlight stretch from Oakland to Los Angeles.”

25.12.2025 04:56 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Oakland’s most busted, pothole-ridden roads? Here’s the definitive list The Oaklandside dug through the city’s last paving report and it’s official: two streets are tied for the worst. But trust us, the competition was stiff.

Im surprised it narrowed down so easily! “But trust us, the competition was stiff.”

23.12.2025 23:42 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0