Activism
Canvass for Bernie Sanders This Weekend in the Mission
Our friends at DSA San Francisco are teaming up with Bernie’s California team to do some canvassing this weekend. If you want to see real change in the United States, here’s your chance to help make it happen. All the info from the FB event is below: Come support Bernie with
San Francisco Gave Me a Certificate of Honor!
A couple days ago Supervisor Matt Haney presented me with a Certificate of Honor on behalf of the Board of Supervisors of the City and County of San Francisco. It was to celebrate BAS publishing more than 10,000 articles over the past 10 years! If you wanna make sure BAS is
It Says Something When the Wealthy Turn On Trump Too
Political protests are often associated with youth, but across the Bay Area Tuesday night we saw a large presence of people well beyond the age of 50. One particular rally in Walnut Creek provided an interesting perspective on how age and economic status play into this whole impeachment thing. Hint:
Live Like NYC is Sinking Into the Ocean (Because It Is)
by Hannah Harkness Two years ago, my friend said to me “NYC is every Doomsday movie’s bitch-don’t worry about it.” This is because I told her, with conviction, that I wanted to move here before it sinks. While I love me a good disaster movie, I can’t put NYC sinking
PG&E Themed Beers From Sonoma County Blackout/Fire Survivors
In Windsor California, the brewer Barrel Brothers released a canned beer called Mandatory Blackout, an imperial porter to commemorate the brewery losing power for 10 days during this fall’s wildfire warnings. As you can clearly see, the Imperial Porter’s label is inspired by the PG&E Logo.
Christopher Columbus was the 15th Century’s Epstein
by Xan Holbrook Little of the phony gravitas of Christopher Columbus remains nowadays. Not the first man to discover the Americas, nor the one who proved the world was round, nor a pious man, not even a man who loved the land he found… Columbus is an empty icon. More
Why is Makeup and Beauty YouTube Dominated by Men?
by Amaya Oswald Youtube sensation Shane Dawson is decorating his beauty room. A few months ago, Shane didn’t know the difference between a moisturizer and a primer, and today, as he shuffles through his eyeshadow palettes sitting on a bathroom countertop in his large Hollywood home he bought last year
Meet Scabby: Union Advocate, Revolutionary, Giant Disgusting Inflatable Rat
by Hannah Harkness Yesterday morning on my Twitter feed, a post from user @jaynooch popped up on my feed with a familiar sight for any city with organized labor: a giant inflatable cartoon rat with festering scab wounds on its stomach. Scabby the rat is outside of wework today so