The Trump administration’s proposal to reopen Alcatraz as a prison is a reminder of the need to rethink incarceration and instead focus on anti-racist and queer-focused organizing, as well as addressing local issues such as police overtime and the city’s budget.

The “CAREN Act” (Caution Against Racially Exploitative Non-Emergencies) was introduced in July at a San Francisco Board of Supervisors meeting by Supervisor Shamann Walton of District 10. The ordinance is one step closer to becoming a law. On Tuesday, the board unanimously passed the act. Next week, the bill has

It’s Springtime in San Francisco, which means it’s time to put your phone on silent for a while and step out into our fair city to sing, eat, and play with the wonderful people and programming on offer. Whether in the flesh or on a live stream, the journalists and

Guest post by Wesley Wells We’re sitting through the San Francisco Board of Supervisors meetings and breaking them down for you so you don’t have to! Here’s the mini minutes for the Board of Supervisors on Tuesday, July 28, 2020. The full agenda can be accessed on the BoS website.

“we don’t want them in our city,” he continued, “I don’t eventually want to see them leave this city,” he said. “I would have liked for them to have been gone yesterday.” 

Yes, young, broke and beautiful readership, you read that right.  We here at BAS have put together our very first election endorsement. It may seem odd to some that Broke-Ass Stuart’s Goddamn Website would presume to offer our last, moth-bitten two cents in the political arena- tacos, dives, fairs, and