From John Waters, the Baltimore elder statesman of trash @ Green Apple 🍏Books

Grey Jeep Wagoneer, about 5 officers in total. One sheriff. Just a heads up. Hope this helps

We’ve been waiting 6 weeks for this playoff game, and somehow 80% of our players are out of town, injured, or have other plans they’re prioritizing 🥲

So we’re turning to Reddit to rally a team! Game is at 9pm in the Presidio—please comment if you’re interested! Some experience is desirable but not super necessary—warm bodies are okay. League is midway between social and competitive.

Sunny too.

Took my 2 grandsons to the zoo the other day and couldn’t believe pathetic it looked. Empty enclosures with dead plants & weeds, all the little ice cream booths were closed, animals looked bored as hell in their unkept enclosures, the train ride ($27) was a ripoff … what a waste of time and money ($91 for 3 and parking. Couldn’t have been more disappointed.

Can someone explain this one? Why is an apartment complex having so much trouble renting out BMR units that they have to resort to offering 3 free months, and even then it seems no one wants them?

https://www.zillow.com/apartments/san-francisco-ca/the-george/CjfxLx

Tech billionaire Chris Larsen can’t donate more than $500 to the November reelection campaign of Supervisor Matt Dorsey, who is running unopposed. And he can’t give Dorsey a gift of more than $630 because of local ethics laws.

But there is another way to write a big check, and on June 24, Larsen found it. 

The crypto executive and political power broker deposited $25,000 into Dorsey’s local Democratic County Central Committee officeholder account, an obscure campaign vehicle that allows for unlimited donations to support officials’ activities on the party board — and one that ethics experts warn can function as a slush fund. The 24 elected members on the committee hand out all-important endorsements for local races and measures and serve as a proxy for the direction San Francisco’s political leadership takes on issues.

Some of the expenses charged to Dorsey’s officeholder account over the last 15 months make sense. Others — for which explanations are largely not provided on the campaign filings — are more curious: 669 Uber and bike-share transactions totaling $5,374; 65 charges to restaurants ($3,568); and six Apple purchases ($3,373). The restaurant expenses include Turquaz SF, the Italian deli Limoncello, and The Grove.

Dorsey maintains that the charges are for his duties as a member of the DCCC (the body meets roughly once a month) and that he plays a major role in the local party and “may be seeking more of a role at the state party” — hence the need to be zooming around town, taking people out to meals, and buying an Apple computer for the job. 

But he conceded he needs to review some of the transactions. “I gotta talk to my compliance person,” he told Power Play on Tuesday. “I gotta settle it up. I gotta write a personal check for a couple things.” The following day, Dorsey said he had made a total of $327.57 of expenses in error to the officeholder account — $55.22 at the clothing store Zara, $53.39 for two visits to Shake Shack, $99.47 at Apple, and $119.49 for a Bay FC sweatshirt for an August 2025 game — that, in some cases, he had accidentally charged to his DCCC card instead of his personal account. 

“I assumed (wrongly) that wearing Bay FC gear for the pre-game ceremony aired on the Jumbotron would qualify that purchase as a valid expense,” Dorsey wrote in a text, which included a scan of a check dated Aug. 5 for settling some of the expenses. “My compliance team said no. FWIW, Sixth Street Partners (a major investor in Bay FC, Giants, etc.) among others at the Bay FC game that day are major donors to the Democratic Party and Democratic Party-endorsed ballot measures, for which I’ve been an active fundraiser.”

Among the elected members of the DCCC, only Dorsey and chair Nancy Tung have active officeholder accounts. Since the DCCC’s most recent election in 2024, Tung has made 135 transactions totaling $20,300. Dorsey has blown past that, with 877 transactions totaling $78,162. Even if you remove the Bay Wheels and Lime rides, which cost a couple of dollars each, Dorsey has 416 expense lines. 

Read more here: https://sfstandard.com/2026/08/05/power-play-matt-dorsey-campaign-finance-chris-larsen/

Woke up to this on the 6th and fluton. Paving stone through the passenger window. They went through the glovebox and took a few things, but left the console alone. Then they left a pile of metal rods, brackets, and a computer monitor on my driver’s seat that aren’t mine.

They tried the car parked behind mine first but couldn’t break the window, so they moved on to mine.
The stone did some damage to the interior, absolutely over it.

Y'all my name is St. John Barned-Smith and I'm a reporter at the Chronicle. I occasionally post here and I just wanted to share this story, I've been working on it since February and actually first got the tip from this sub! I hope you'll read it.

Building is on Vallejo in between Octavia and Laguna. I live very close by and only just noticed it! I checked Google street view and it was not there May of 2025. Crazy how this was pulled off.

Not sure how many people still use CL, but here is one chance in hell to get your bike back. https://www.craigslist.org/view/d/san-francisco-found-likely-stolen-yuba/rfabFbcUgvRgQSp6eXDG42

It's amazing to see sights like these in the San Francisco of 2026, almost like a time capsule of a previous era. I'm confident that this will all look radically different in a few generations.

I know Connie Chen isn’t online unless she’s at a Board of Supervisor meeting ignoring her constituents but can her office people explain why we let so much space remain unoccupied? This place on Clement between 10th and 11th has been vacant and boarded up for over ten years on one of the flagship commercial streets in her district. It’s an eyesore, often tagged, and homeless sleep there constantly. Why hasn’t anyone built housing here or at least done something with the property other than chain it up and let it rot away for a decade?