30 December 2024
The Photos
Parking lot at 16th and Potrero. San Francisco, California. Photo: Robert Gumpert 26 December 2024
Encampment on a raining morning along San Francisco’s Embarcadero, across from the Ferry Building. While San Francisco has increased its “sweeps” of encampments over the last months of 2024, the City does not, has not, provided long term housing, or in many cases even a short term bed in a shelter. The sweeps have successfully forced the unhoused onto different streets and underground parking lots. Photo: Robert Gumpert 28 December 2024
Fallen palm frond, blown off in a storm, along San Francisco’s Embarcadero. Photo: Robert Gumpert 28 December 2024
Bus stop ad on Van Ness at Filbert. San Francisco, California. Photo: Robert Gumpert 26 December 2024
Podcast
Mark Steel, comedian | Desert Island Discs
The Reads
‘Everything is so bad’: Argentina’s poor hit hard by Milei’s ‘chainsaw’ measures | Harriet Barber, Tom Phillips and Facundo Iglesia/The Guardian
How America Created the Enemy It Feared Most - The United States killed its own allies, sabotaging itself in a part of Afghanistan where it never needed to be. | Azam AhmedPhotographs by Bryan Denton/NY Times
Black Hole Jet Stumbles Into Something in the Dark | Lee Mohon/NASA
How Texas Jails Built Migrant Incarceration - Following a 1925 investigation, immigrant detention in the Galveston County Jail was declared “a crime against humanity.” | BRIANNA NOFIL/Texas Observer
The Atlantic Editor-In-Chief Jeffrey Goldberg warns newsroom decay is how 'democracy decomposes’ | Oliver Darcy/Status
Might be a good time to buy the book
“Division Street” – Order from Dewi Lewis: Orders: U.S.A – Britain - Canada