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The cult beer reviewer Prime Mutton just bestowed "Absolute Creamer" status on a 20-ounce pint of stout at Casements. 📝: Astrid Kane sfstandard.com/2025/07/10/pri…

Oakland nightlife may take a hit as officials begin enforcing a law that bans smoking on bar patios and outside entrances. 📝: @low___impact sfstandard.com/2025/07/25/oak…

President Donald Trump and Gov. Gavin Newsom’s wildly different visions for regulating AI could determine who sits in the White House in 2028. 📝: @Josh_Koehn sfstandard.com/2025/07/25/gav…

California cops are breaking a key surveillance law that dictates how they can share license plate data. It's unclear who's going to stop them. New findings show that cops continued to make illegal searches even after receiving warnings from the AG. sfstandard.com/2025/07/23/cal…

Diana and her kids escaped domestic abuse in Peru. They built a life in the Bay Area. But ICE just sent them on a hellish journey back to where they started. 📝: @low___impact sfstandard.com/2025/07/21/abu…

Under pressure from Lurie, citywide homeless shelters go from mandate to suggestion / ✍️ @lihanlihan sfstandard.com/2025/07/16/she…

City Hall’s ‘incredibly hard’ budget is done. Here are the winners and losers / ✍️ @ggreschler sfstandard.com/2025/07/16/san…

I asked Newsom's team whether the Sig Sauer 365X pistol that conservative podcaster Shawn Ryan gave him was the gov's first gun (on its way to CA from TN). "The Gov was raised in a household with firearms," @iGardon said. "This will be the first firearm registered in his name."

Tourists continue to pile into Powell Street, one of the signature cable car lines in San Francisco. For years, what they've seen is 70% plus vacancy. That's finally starting to change. @jillianiles.bsky.social👇 sfstandard.com/2025/07/16/pow…

City attorneys warned commissioner about potential ethics breach. She ignored them / ✍️ @ggreschler sfstandard.com/2025/07/15/san…

Comments made by a San Francisco deputy chief have sparked a debate on whether police will side w/ federal immigration agents over protesters. Police can't legally assist ICE, but SFPD sees coordination as arrests & providing info—not blocking protesters. sfstandard.com/2025/07/15/san…

SF's @JackieFielder_ asks police for answers after our reporting found the SFPD is illegally sharing license plate data with federal law enforcement. static1.squarespace.com/static/6502392…

SCOOP: San Francisco and Oakland police appear to have repeatedly broken state law by sharing data from automated license plate cameras with federal law enforcement. In one instance, OPD fulfilled a request related to an ICE case. sfstandard.com/2025/07/14/oak…

Amid an uptick of ICE arrests in San Francisco, downtown workers have started carrying their U.S. passports in fear of harassment and racial profiling. 📝: @leahygarrett sfstandard.com/2025/07/14/san…

"Despite a highly publicized crackdown that led to more than 7,500 arrests for drug use & dealing over the past two years, San Francisco’s notorious open-air drug market lives on — just at different hours." The real story on drugs in SF by @david__sjos sfstandard.com/2025/07/11/san…

There’s few others that can write like @david__sjos. A must read sfstandard.com/2025/07/11/san…

Under Aaron Kyro, SF’s Church of Scientology became the world’s top recruiter — growing 5x in a year, per a Church spokesperson. But as his influence rose, his business began to collapse. New from @low___impact and me in @sfstandard: sfstandard.com/2025/07/09/you…

What seemed like an odd guerrilla marketing campaign for a realtor turned out to be an ex-boyfriend going scorched earth. @allaboutgeorge.com has got the deets 👇 sfstandard.com/2025/07/09/rea…

Just in: Videos captured outside a San Francisco courthouse Tuesday morning show protesters clinging to and climbing on an ICE van as it's driving away. 📝: @Journojoeburn sfstandard.com/2025/07/08/ice…

Six months into the job, Mayor Daniel Lurie is backing away from his signature promise to add 1,500 new shelter beds. 📝: @Josh_Koehn and David Sjostedt sfstandard.com/2025/07/08/san…