09 June 2025
A 2018 San Francisco demonstration against ICE and Trump immigration polices. Now, as of 9 June 2025, Trump has ramped up deportations and a travel ban from 12, mostly African, countries. He has now federalized the California National Guard and is threatening to send in the US Marines. As yet his administration does seems to be leaving businesses alone.
What Now? Audacious Imagery Outside Immigration Court, Calling BS on the Trump-Musk “Melee,” and Researchers’ Fury | Reading the Pictures
Name withheld, 59. Has been homeless for one and half years. She won’t go into a shelter because she has found them unsafe. She would be good with an SRO but to get on a list requires giving her history, being interviewed and an ID. She has had 3 IDs, all lost, and is hesitant to get another, or give her history as she believes she is being stalked. She has been sleeping on the ground between a fence and bridge abutment for several weeks.
Mayor Daniel Lurie is prioritizing interim shelter beds in his proposed budget, and wants to fund them by taking $89 million in Prop C funds earmarked for housing - Mission Local
Man Stabs 12 in Spree at Oregon Homeless Shelter, Police Say - New York Times
Jasmine Lynn-Byron, 39, update. Visiting friends near 9th and Bryant, Jasmine reports that as San Francisco moves away from harm reduction she has seen a return to unsafe practices such as reusing discarded needles, increasing the likelihood of HIV and hepatitis. Narcan, perhaps most responsible for a decline in drug deaths, has also become much more difficult to get and overdose deaths are expected to rise.
S.F.’s response to drug dealing could lead to more overdoses | Nuala Bishari/SF Chronicle
The hands of an unhoused man on Dore Street.
The Reads
Forensic Architecture's normal approach "meaningless" in face of Gaza war says Eyal Weizman | Nat Barker/Deneen
Levelling the world (The Diggers) | Rowan Wilson/Aeon; edited by Sam Dresser
Social housing is America's "missing tool" to solve housing crisis says Alex Lee | Nat Barker/dezeen
Photography, Culture, Art
Photographer’s Project Captures China’s Growing Influence in Africa | Matt Growcoot/PetaPixel
Where They Still Remain | Photos Austin Bryant; Essay Magali Duzant/Lensculture
A Historic Archive’s Nightmarish Portrait of America | Matthew Newton/Aperture
SIGN OF THE TIMES - MAY 29 - AUGUST 1, 2025 | Howard Greenberg Gallery
Podcasts
The Vietnam Tapes of Lance Corporal Michael A. Baronowski | Rob Rosenthal
256 - Marc Wilson | A Small Voice
Ancient Art, Wages, and Strikes: A 3000-Year-Old History of Labor | Sarah E. Bond/Hyperallergic
The mortician, the 'werewolf' and the keeper of brains | BBC Outlook
Science
Natural Intelligence - Mushrooms made the world what it is | Maria Popova/Orion
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