COHSF uses gift cards as an enticement to get people to show up to their protest. I wonder where the funding for these gift cards came from, could it be SF Gov? 🤬

“When Ms. Williamson was indicted last year, her attorney said that federal agents first approached her during the Biden administration. She was working for Mr. Newsom at the time, and the agents asked her if she would cooperate in an investigation of the governor.”nytimes.com/2026/06/15/us/ne… via @NYTimes

As I have reported several times and now acknowledged by the Governor of California...Gavin and his wife are under federal investigation... what he failed to tell you... This began during the Biden Admin. Kind of a big detail.

Agreed

“Why does SF Unified appear consumed with far-left ideology rather than giving kids the tools they need to succeed in college, jobs and civic life?” - bc it’s led by teacher’s union which actually doesn’t represent teachers nor students “Why are just 53% of the district’s students proficient in language arts and why do even fewer –– 46% –– show proficiency in math, per data from October?” - bc merit and competence is racist & even after boe recall, policy failures continue

If Connie Chan wins Pelosi's House seat, Mayor Daniel Lurie gets to appoint her replacement on the Board of Supervisors, shifting it in a more moderate direction. A more moderate BOS, or one more meaningless vote in Congress? What's in San Francisco's best interest? 🤔

The 49ers mourn the passing of former LB Aldon Smith. 📰 49rs.co/4a0Qjv8

The Great Highway Compromise (open for all on weekdays and closure on weekends) needs your help now more than ever. As we look ahead to the citizens initiative to measure, the deadline is early July, we need all hands on deck. The next few weeks will be critical, and your help can make a real impact. Can we count on you to join us? 📍 Saturday, June 13: 26th Ave & Vicente, 11:00 AM- 4:00 PM. 📍 Sunday, June 14: 30th Ave & Geary, 12:00 PM - 5:00 PM I will be helping on both days. If you can't volunteer, please share our signature locations with neighbors, friends, and family living in San Francisco. We appreciate your help 🙏 Let's keep the momentum going and finish strong!

I spoke with someone who contributed to another report, separate from the academic senate report, that advised Napolitano in her SAT decision-making. What he said, paraphrasing: “Jelani, what if the admissions objective is not to admit the students who will perform the best academically, but to admit the students who would benefit the most from a Berkeley degree, say as measured by increase in lifetime earnings.” Of course, if you start producing graduates that are substantially weaker, high-paying employers will notice and cut back on hiring your graduates. Their counter is some idealized/wishful thinking that the university experience is so transformational that it can turn any student into a diamond coming out, even if they didn’t know how to add fractions coming in. Link to the second report: ucop.edu/institutional-resea…

Catherine Lew is Barbara Lee’s puppet master. For decades, Lew and her firm The Lew Edwards Group have quietly engineered nearly $50 BILLION in new taxes across California, using a two-phase scam: First, they get cities to pay them with taxpayer money to run “educational” campaigns that scare residents into believing their fire stations, libraries, and schools will collapse without new taxes. Then they seamlessly transition into running the union-funded “Yes” campaigns that actually pass the measures. Her firm’s own strategy memos openly advise threatening to close fire stations and slash library hours if voters don’t approve the tax. And when one of her clients got caught sending ILLEGAL campaign mailers with public funds, the state hit them with an FPPC violation that directly named Lew’s firm. Lew has trained the very politicians who later hire her, creating a closed-loop machine that keeps extracting more money from working people while she pulls the strings behind the scenes. Barbara Lee has been part of that machine for years. This is the corrupt system running Oakland.

Learning more about the person involved in this morning’s incident at Trader Joe’s. According to employees, the suspect previously worked at the store for about six months and was known to staff. Workers say he entered before opening through an unlocked sliding door, went to the wine aisle, and took a bottle while employees yelled for him to leave. Coincidentally, officers were already in the parking lot investigating a vehicle fire when the theft occurred. Police attempted to stop the suspect, leading to the incident that followed. Information is preliminary and subject to change as more details become available.

Berkeley math professor: “Today, the more successful a public high school is at preparing its students, the lower its graduates' chances of getting into top UC campuses like Berkeley and San Diego.” Berkeley admitted 45% of applicants from a high school where nearly 94% of “students failed to meet the state standards in mathematics.” It admitted less than 14% of applicants from a school where “nearly 100 percent of its students in AP Calculus BC pass the national exam with a perfect score of 5.”

Joel Engardio is at tonight's Sunset Night Market. He told Great Highway Compromise volunteers, aka my D4 neighbors, that they don't belong there. Joel Engardio told them to leave the Sunset Night Market. And yes, his buddy Scott Wiener is also at the Sunset Night Market.

City Hall steps are the new panhandling site.

Michael Moritz, who is the sole funder of @sfstandard and donated millions to @DanielLurie pet projects, has petitioners in the Tenderloin handing out money for signatures — even if it’s not your own. Is @FitzTheReporter going to cover this?

Columbia University has reinstated standardized testing for admissions — the last Ivy League school to do it. “Through a multi-year faculty review, it was determined that test scores, among other factors, were a useful indicator of potential student success.”

RT @markdfabela: Wishing the injured officers a full recovery. Incident footage below.

Update: judge released him from jail

California's lost at least $3-4 billion in tax revenue so far from Elon's and SpaceX' move to Texas. But this is a loss that will compound over time. SpaceX is part of the massive Musk ecosystem, which includes vendors, suppliers and contractors, and the total economic activity is enormous and growing. Having driven out the most dynamic companies on earth, California is now aiming at the AI industry and its VC ecosystem. Most of the $3-4 billion lost is a loss of Musk's personal income tax. The largest piece is capital gains on his 2021–2022 Tesla sales (~$20–25 billion in gains that followed his residence to Texas, worth ~$2.7–3.4B at California's 13.3% rate). Notably, his move did not save him most of the tax on the famous $23 billion option exercise — California sources option income by workdays over the grant-to-exercise period, so ~85–90% of that spread was California-taxable anyway. And the corporate franchise tax loss is approximately zero: under single-sales-factor apportionment, headquarters location is irrelevant — California taxes sales to California customers wherever the company sits, and the company is running operating losses besides. The IPO was a primary issuance (proceeds go to the company), Musk is locked up for a year, and employees face customary lockups, so the IPO itself realized almost no taxable gains for anyone. The real future leakage is Texas-resident employees and early holders selling low-basis stock post-lockup — plausibly $0.5–1.5 billion in California tax that will never materialize. cost California real money, but it's measured in single-digit billions, concentrated in one taxpayer's 2021–2022 transactions.

As an immigrant, I welcome legal immigration that strengthens families, fills economic needs, and embraces the values of the country people choose to call home. Europe is finally learning that diversity alone is not an immigration policy. Integration matters. If you reject the rule of law, equal rights, or the dignity of women, you’re not integrating. It’s really that simple: if you can’t integrate, you shouldn’t immigrate.

Morning question: Did the left spend a decade calling everyone and everything they don’t like Hitler and Nazi’s to desensitize everyone to those words so they could eventually became the fascist they always dreamed of being?