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Wiener launches 2028 bid for Nancy Pelosi's seat in Congress

13 hours ago | sfstandard.com | Josh Koehn

State Sen. Scott Wiener filed paperwork Friday to officially run for Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi’s seat in Congress — the only question is how soon. Filings list Wiener as a candidate in 2028, and he’s repeatedly said that he would never challenge the two-time former House speaker from San Francisco since launching an exploratory committee in 2023.
Drug market blitz: Cops make 97 arrests in one day

1 day ago | sfstandard.com | Ryan Fonseca

San Francisco police announced 97 arrests were made Wednesday in an operation officials said “appears to be the largest one-day fugitive-focused enforcement in recent history.”The action, which included multiple law enforcement agencies, is the latest crackdown on drug markets around the city. Of the 97 people arrested, 79 had arrest warrants, police said in a press release.
New York mayor’s race sparks progressive PTSD in San Francisco

2 days ago | sfstandard.com | Josh Koehn

Zohran Mamdani’s stunning victory Tuesday in the Democratic primary for mayor of New York City has left political pundits and powerbrokers muttering in disbelief. Democratic insiders have spent months advising a shift back to the center following last year’s election collapse, so the rise of a progressive firebrand who wants to tax the rich, freeze rents, launch publicly funded grocery stores, and supplement police with a new community safety department wasn’t on most politicos’ bingo cards.
‘It’s a disaster: Cow Hollow residents sound off on SF’s upzoning plan

2 days ago | sfstandard.com | Garrett Leahy

Inside the Marina Theater Tuesday, a different kind of show was playing out. It wasn’t just the smell of stale popcorn permeating the air, but tension and anxiety. Cow Hollow residents, most of whom were older homeowners, packed into the movie palace for an informational town hall about the city’s plan to allow developers to build higher and denser across swaths of the neighborhood, at times breaking into applause or jeering, depending on who was speaking.
An AI video about dating in SF was all too real. Meet the twin sisters who created it - The San Francisco Standard

2 days ago | sfstandard.com | Emily Shugerman

Jenny and Chrissy are like a lot of the young grads streaming into San Francisco these days. The identical twin sisters graduated last year with degrees in computer science from an elite university (Princeton), they work in AI, and they excel at making the technology do difficult things — like producing videos of real-looking humans having real-sounding conversations.
Bay Area casual carpool plans a comeback

3 days ago | sfstandard.com | Tomoki Chien |Ryan Fonseca

Cross-bay commuters may soon have a new way to get to work. Well, not new — revived. A grassroots movement is resurrecting the Bay Area morning tradition known as “casual carpooling,” which died off in the pandemic. For the uninitiated: East Bay commuters line up at intersections, BART stations, highway overpasses, or other meeting places. Drivers swing by, pick up the first two people in line — enough to qualify for discounted tolls — then head west on the Bay Bridge into San Francisco.
Kawakami: Warriors Offseason Potential Target List — from Porzingis to Portis Jr. to Brown

3 days ago | sfstandard.com | Tim Kawakami

Want the latest Bay Area sports news delivered to your inbox? Sign up here to receive regular email newsletters, including “The Dime.”For the first time in years and years, the Warriors might not do much serious big-name, big-money shopping this offseason, which, of course, probably frustrates all those aggressive executives inside team HQ just a little bit. It’s more fun to put every famous player on the white board than to start with a very limited list.
The Golden Gate Bridge is dangerously woke, CEO warns

3 days ago | sfstandard.com | Josh Koehn

The head of the public agency that operates the Golden Gate Bridge wants to rescind policies that discourage racism, sexual harassment, and implicit bias due to fears that the Trump administration will slash federal funding.
The San Francisco lawyer rewriting civil rights in Trump's America

4 days ago | sfstandard.com | Josh Koehn

Harmeet Dhillon knows the sting of bigotry. Three days after an assassin’s bullet clipped Donald Trump’s ear at a presidential campaign rally last summer, Dhillon, a conservative lawyer and party leader, appeared onstage at the Republican National Convention, where she recited the Ardās, a Sikh prayer. Many in the crowd clapped, and one woman shouted “We love you, Harmeet!” But her mention of the “one true God” in remarks kicked off an avalanche of online abuse and accusations of blasphemy.
Why Joel Engardio should keep his job

4 days ago | sfstandard.com | Adam Lashinsky

Joel Engardio has a plaque over his desk: “What would Jimmy Carter do?”It’s not the kind of question your typical poll-minded pol would ask. And that’s the point: The Sunset district’s supervisor isn’t, or at least doesn’t want to be, a politician who does only what is necessary to keep getting himself elected.