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Wiener Introduced His Trans Privacy Bill the Day Before Trump's Inauguration. Now It Has Teeth.

San Francisco Senator Scott Wiener introduced SB 59 on January 8, 2025 — the day before Donald Trump's second…

PoliticsJuly 9, 2026

Five Former xAI Employees Tell the Same Story. The SpaceX IPO Made the Stakes Clear.

A new account of extreme working conditions at Elon Musk's AI lab is consistent with everything already on record — and…

TechJuly 9, 2026

Giants at Home: A Rocky Mountain High for San Francisco's Moneyline

The Dissent does not chase news, we report it.

SportsJuly 9, 2026

Patiyochella Returns to Donkey & Goat Winery With Three Stages and a Charity Tie

What started as a backyard party in 2016 is now a three-stage all-ages festival at a Berkeley winery — and half the…

EventsJuly 9, 2026

Prologis Wants to Build a 99‑Megawatt Data Center in South San Jose. The Site Was Only Cleared for a Warehouse.

Prologis has filed city planning documents for a 516,000-square-foot, 99-megawatt data center in South San Jose — but…

TechJuly 9, 2026

Julius' Castle Is Returning to Telegraph Hill After Nearly 20 Years Dark

Paul Scott, operating through Julius' Castle Redux LLC, is reportedly moving toward reopening the 1922 landmark…

FoodJuly 9, 2026

SFO International Terminal Computers Went Down Wednesday Night, Forcing Manual Check‑ins on Up to 14 Flights

A Wednesday-night computer outage at SFO's international terminal knocked out ticket-counter systems and forced manual…

TechJuly 9, 2026

Startups Claim It, Agencies Deny It: Bay Area's Two‑Sided AI Accountability Problem

Two Bay Area stories from the same week reveal opposite failure modes for AI accountability: a startup launches an…

TechJuly 9, 2026

Dumpling Specialist Closes at 1123 Taraval After Seven Years

The Outer Sunset dumpling shop registered with the city in 2018 has gone dark with no reopening date.

FoodJuly 9, 2026

SF Symphony Plays Return of the Jedi Live — Single Tickets Drop This Friday

The SF Symphony performs Star Wars: Return of the Jedi in Concert on September 10 and 12.

EventsJuly 9, 2026

C&H Sugar's Strike Lands Raw Sugar — and a Health Question — at a Richmond Industrial Terminal

A cargo diversion triggered by a four-week labor dispute at C&H Sugar's Crockett refinery has put raw sugar alongside…

TechJuly 9, 2026

Ahoy Launches AI Meeting App with Pirate Party Inside SF's Pink Painted Lady

An AI startup co-founded by two ex-HubSpot engineers threw a free, pirate-themed open house at Alamo Square's historic…

TechJuly 8, 2026

FasTrak’s Phantom Tolls Expose ALPR Weakness, Alameda County Commission Points to "High Confidence" Misreads

An Alameda County Transportation Commission license plate reader repeatedly misidentified a Los Angeles woman's plate…

TechJuly 8, 2026

On Murphy Avenue, Sunnyvale’s Pedestrian Future Takes Shape with 479 New Units

The 100 block of South Murphy Avenue in Downtown Sunnyvale, recently converted into a permanent pedestrian mall, is now…

CultureJuly 8, 2026

Global Stack LLC's Undeclared Backing for Bay Area Data Centers Undermines Grand Pitches

A newly formed company, Global Stack LLC, is actively pitching a network of 8 data centers at Bay Area fairgrounds.

TechJuly 8, 2026

Jenny Lin Foundation Brings Free Concert to Chabot College Saturday, 32 Years On

The Jenny Lin Foundation's annual free youth music concert takes place Saturday, July 11 at Chabot College in Hayward —…

CultureJuly 8, 2026

Chronic Tacos Opens Danville Outpost, Franchisees Drive Bay Area Expansion

Chronic Tacos, a Southern California-based Mexican food chain, has opened its first Bay Area location in Danville…

TechJuly 8, 2026

Altman Arson Suspect Found Eligible for Mental Health Diversion — Defense Says No

A court-ordered mental health evaluation found Daniel Moreno Gama eligible for diversion, but his own defense attorney…

TechJuly 8, 2026

Muon Space Puts Three FireSat Satellites in Orbit; the $69M Behind Them Belongs to a Nonprofit

Three wildfire-detection satellites built by Muon Space lifted off from Vandenberg on July 7 aboard SpaceX's…

TechJuly 8, 2026

City College Launches Taishanese Class, Spotlighting Heritage Language Demand in Chinatown

City College of San Francisco is launching a highly anticipated Taishanese language class at its Chinatown/North Beach…

CultureJuly 8, 2026

Tilden Park's Grizzly Peak Corridor Is Being Stripped of Eucalyptus. The Project That Would Have Done More Just Ran Out of Funding.

EBRPD is actively removing eucalyptus across 56 acres along Tilden Park's Grizzly Peak Trail, but a multi-agency fuel…

CultureJuly 8, 2026

Berkeley's Oldest Cohousing Community Faces a 30‑Year Affordability Reckoning — With No Easy Answers

The city-backed deed restrictions that kept Berkeley Cohousing one of the Bay Area's most affordable intentional…

PoliticsJuly 8, 2026

SF's Only Sober Shelter Posts 83% Housing Exit Rate — Then Got Tagged a MAHA Priority

Hope House, the Salvation Army's drug-free shelter on Sixth Street, has moved 83% of its residents into housing in its…

PoliticsJuly 8, 2026

Dodgers‑Rockies: Hammer the Over as Pitching Woes, Debut Jitters Collide

Sal Moreno, Sporting here, and if you're looking for fireworks tonight, Chavez Ravine is the place to be.

SportsJuly 8, 2026