Abraham Woodliff - Bay Area Memelord

Loard’s Ice Cream Is Back In Oakland
I was sitting at Heyma Coffee, a Yemini-owned coffee shop in Berkeley, mindlessly doom scrolling when I read something miraculous: Loard’s Ice Cream was back. Not only was it back, but it was open. The first thing I did in this situation was the only appropriate thing to do. I

Another One Bites The Dust: Fog City Diner Is Closed For Good
To open a business in San Francisco, you need two things: balls of steel and a delusional level of confidence. And don’t even get me started on what it takes to be a successful business in a city filled with so much red tape that it feels less like government

SF Protesters Call for AI Regulation to Prevent “Extinction of Humanity”
As the years go by, the world looks more and more like a science fiction dystopia than what we all know, or at least used to know as real life. We have all the ingredients to create whatever kind of society we want, and it seems that the well-financed elite

Why BART Should Be Free
The Bay Area is arguably the most economically unique region in the United States. Most metropolitan areas only have one city center and suburbs that sprawl somewhere between 20 and 50 miles in every direction of it. The San Francisco Bay Area has three city centers: San Francisco, Oakland and

Rookie SFPD Officer Drunk Drives, Crashes Car, Injures Five
I imagine when cops drive drunk, they probably think to themselves, “who’s going to pull me over? The police? I am the police!” precisely as their car gets permanently pulled over by a light pole. This is precisely what happened in San Francisco’s Outer Sunset on Saturday morning. Except the

Drug Overdose Deaths Skyrocket In San Francisco
San Francisco has been fighting on the front lines of the Fentanyl crisis for nearly a decade now, and while there has been some success in recent years curbing its fatality, all of that progress has seemed to disappear as drug overdose deaths skyrocketed 50% since Daniel Lurie has taken

Charlie Kirk Scheduled to Speak at SF State
Update: You can read about how the event went right here. Charlie Kirk is bringing the “American Comeback tour” to San Francisco, and if you ever wanted to punch a Nazi, now’s your chance. I don’t endorse assault or violence of any kind, I’m just saying, you have the opportunity

Is Trump Really Going To Reopen Alcatraz?
President Donald Trump says he wants to bring Alcatraz prison back to life, turning the historic island into a maximum-security facility for America’s most dangerous criminals. In a Truth Social post, Trump said he’s ordering the Bureau of Prisons, DOJ, FBI, and Homeland Security to rebuild and reopen a bigger,