Bay Area Current covers working-class life and culture across the Bay Area.

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For the planners: mark your calendars, for the type-b chillers, bank this one away in the group chat. Be ready to roll up with the crew, to conspire over another year of blasting the doors off the Bay’s tech-landlord-do nothing elite. Pull up and PARTY for our ONE YEAR BDAY!
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For the planners: mark your calendars, for the type-b chillers, bank this one away in the group chat. Be ready to roll up with the crew, to conspire over another year of blasting the doors off the Bay’s tech-landlord-do nothing elite. Pull up and PARTY for our ONE YEAR BDAY!
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For the planners: mark your calendars, for the type-b chillers, bank this one away in the group chat. Be ready to roll up with the crew, to conspire over another year of blasting the doors off the Bay’s tech-landlord-do nothing elite. Pull up and PARTY for our ONE YEAR BDAY!
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Vibe with drink in hand over food and vitriol for the enemy. Get a tattoo on site, because its 2026 and the future is either ours for it doesn’t exist. Find your real friends and talk socialism ‘till the dancing starts. Get in for a long night, belong to the present moment 🕯️
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hi yes this is us...yr very own working-class publication that covers the bay from the left....subscribe today and get yr very own bumper sticker: bayareacurrent.com/signup/#/…
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Whatever is on Spotify is not all that there is. Music columnist Gabriel Lopez on 'death to Spotify' six months later. bayareacurrent.com/death-to-…
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"Spending one’s brief time on this mortal coil trying to convince companies to fire their customer support teams and replace them with AI voice agents is not the act of a grounded person, in touch with their humanity." — @dellsystem bayareacurrent.com/ai-slop-s…
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The National City Police Department wrote that in one quarter its Flock cameras aka AI license plate cams sent police 364 Automatic License Plate Reader alerts and that 293 alerts were wrong. bayareacurrent.com/shoplifti…
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Cops across California are getting incentivized to arrest more people for stealing from chain stores with the help of millions of dollars in grant money that they can use to buy surveillance technology from companies like Flock. bayareacurrent.com/shoplifti…
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actual sf is back: 250 gather on a random weekday to celebrate luddism, hate on ai billboards and the tech right
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"the capitalist system has failed [parents and children]. A new, better system is desperately needed." Similar to the experience described here, becoming a parent increased my dedication to socialism. bayareacurrent.com/socialist… Great piece, @BayAreaCurrent
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I’m at the combination @BayAreaCurrent and @machinekillspod event
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Silicon Valley is openly embracing antidemocratic and reactionary ideas. Far from being isolated to tech billionaires, such ideologies are now commonplace in Bay Area tech culture: jacobin.com/2026/03/tech-far… (via @bayareacurrent)
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“It’s a matter of life and death that we organize.” Three elderly and disabled Noe Valley tenants recently settled with their landlord in court after a a three-year eviction battle. But organizers say that the fight may be far from over. bayareacurrent.com/sf-elders…
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We are doing a TMK live show in San Francisco next week with the wonderful folks at @BayAreaCurrent and @DSA_SF. Come join us for a night of left-wing tech criticism!
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New in our SF Strike Newsletter: —We hear from pro-strike parents, murmurs about negotiation details —The NY Post's sad attempted strike take-down —SFUSD bosses post a $300K/Yr admin job w/ job description that reads: "bring your whole selves to work" bayareacurrent.com/after-sch…
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Meet SF's Billionaire Simps. We wanted to hear directly from the elite-lovers at their “March for Billionaires” in San Francisco — here’s just a few of the "interesting" things we heard. bayareacurrent.com/meet-sfs-…
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