Politics

Rainbow Washing: The Problem with Pride-for-Profit in June
By now, most all y’all know Pride started as a riot in 1970, but most companies didn’t even recognize the existence of the LGBTQ+ community for another 3-4 decades. Thus the mid-aughts brought us pinkwashing, or what is now referred to as, rainbow washing. Essentially, it’s the performative-for-profit strategy and

Why 2023 Has Been A Crazy Year For The Bay Area
It’s been less than seven months since the start of 2023 and with that in mind, it’s worthwhile to take a second to reflect on some of the strangest happenings in one of California’s strangest locales.

Why A Bunch Of Rich Techies Got Mad At Me On SF Twitter
If you read BAS, you may have seen my article, “It’s Time To Ban Self-Driving Cars In San Francisco.” For whatever reason, this piece pissed a lot of rich people off. What rich people am I referring to? The rich people at GrowSF and their followers on Twitter. If you

It’s Time To Ban Self-Driving Cars In San Francisco
San Francisco is probably America’s most undriveable major city. This isn’t news to anyone who has ever found themselves behind the wheel here. There are streets in San Francisco that look like walls, enough traffic to turn a pacifist into a psychopath and cyclists who think they’re invincible. It’s a

Why The “Doom Loop” Isn’t Real.
Hey, I’m not sure if you know this, but Downtown San Francisco is struggling. I know, this is news that is entirely new. This isn’t a horse that has been beaten to death by every struggling media agency on the planet in a desperate attempt to get a few clicks

This Cat Just Started Working at The San Francisco Airport
On May 31 a new candidate entered the San Francisco political disarray to help set things straight. Duke Ellington Morris joined SFO’s Wag Brigade, making him the first cat to work in those hallowed halls. The Wag Brigade, for those uninitiated, is a therapy animal outfit that patrols the airport

Why Was Tucker Carlson’s Twitter Debut a Flop?
Author’s note: This article is biased. Extremely biased. Everyday I wake up hoping to read that Tucker Carlson has died from a combo flesh eating bacteria/elephant stampede. Also I’ve made a conscious decision to not include the first episode of Tucker Carlson’s Twitter show because gross. It’s weird to

Pro-Trans Protest Being Organized by 12 and 16 Year Old Activists
Over the past few years, transgender people – especially transgender youth – have been the target of escalating war from The GOP. As Robert Reich so astutely points out, “Republican leaders have mastered the art of manufacturing crises to divert the public’s attention from the real crisis of our era