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10 Sep 2018

The World’s First Unmanned Oceanic Garbage Collection System Gets a Bay Area Send Off

Our ship, The Harbor Emperor, had just passed the “Welcome Home” mural on the end of Pier 31 when we got our first glimpse of it. In the distance, there was the San Francisco fire boat perfectly hidden by the great spouts of water it was sending off, and beyond

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07 Sep 2018

Power Exchange Owner Has Gone Full MAGA-Proud Boy

Tenderloin BDSM and bondage club the Power Exchange has been a San Francisco kink community playspace for more than 20 years. But BrokeAssStuart.com has learned the club’s owner Michael Powers has now joined up with the Proud Boys, the “western chauvinist” and  “anti-white guilt” organization classified as a hate group

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06 Sep 2018

We Went to Burning Man to Tell Tech: Stop Supporting ICE

By Marisa Franco In the midst of the twisted metal and neon light art installations of Burning Man, we added one more: a tall wooden cage, like those in prisons throughout the country where President Trump has locked away thousands of immigrants. Immigrants have been rounded up and imprisoned by Immigration

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06 Sep 2018

Hopeful Stories in Dark Times: The SF Green Film Festival

As fires raged in Napa and Sonoma counties, San Franciscans woke up to their cars covered with ash. The color of the sky morphed into an ominous shade of brownish orange.

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06 Sep 2018

Bad Balls and Mutiny: News for the Week of Sept. 6

This has been a week of sports ball controversy and straight-up political mutiny. We sum up some of the bigger stories for you here and then we should all head out and do some day drinking. Let’s go… Screw you guys: Raiders threaten to take their toys and run According

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05 Sep 2018

Pranksters Pwn ‘Homeless Tax’ Opponents Yet Again

The big business interests working against November’s tax measure to fund homeless services have been hilariously trolled once again. Some online pranksters keep buying up the web domains and social media accounts that anti-tax groups want to use, and are posting satirical websites with fake quotes on those domains. The

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05 Sep 2018

What it’s Like Being a Black Gentrifier

This is a story about what happens when you are a minority in a city whose minority population is shrinking, and what it means to be part of that gentrification.

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