My body is breaking down. My mother is collapsing from exhaustion. My cousin cheats death every day for a morsel of aid. Gaza's children are dying in front of our eyes, and we are powerless to help them. By Ruwaida Amer in southern Gaza. 972mag.com/hunger-gaza-fo…

If professional objectivity means journalists can't speak out about Israel starving a million children in Gaza, can they at least speak out about the starving of their fellow journalists?

Biden deported a decade-high 270K people last year. Trump wants to deport 1 million per year. The Big Beautiful Bill gives ICE an extra $75 billion, 25% of which the White House says it will use in 2026. This would triple ICE’s annual budget:

I'm not sure that people realize how abnormal it is for journalists to be killed in wars. More have been killed in Gaza (232) than in the Civil War, World Wars I and II, the Korean War, the Vietnam War (+Cambodia and Laos), the Yugoslav wars, and the Afghanistan war, combined.

An indigenous woman in San Francisco immigration court today spoke neither English nor Spanish. She seemed not to understand the proceedings, & even DHS agreed to postpone her hearing. It didn't matter. ICE agents arrested her in the hallway anyway. missionlocal.org/2025/08/sf-ice…

early in human history, I assume, men figured out they could woo women by adopting their interests. this behavior has a new mascot on social media: the “performative male.” to understand the phenomenon, I entered a performative male contest last night: sfstandard.com/2025/08/23/per…

it’s time

high-end clothiers are baffled by a new wave of customers who pay top dollar for bespoke suits — and then defer to chatgpt on every design choice. had a good time chatting with tailors and derek guy for my latest 👇

SCOOP: San Francisco police let out-of-state cops run more than 1.6 million illegal searches of the city’s license-plate reader database At least 19 were marked as related to ICE. sfstandard.com/2025/09/08/sfp…

Efron and Andy Mac in the same issue. We made it work.

I highly recommend this essay by Ismail Ibrahim, a former fact-checker at The New Yorker about what it's like to work at a place like that when you have a brain or a conscience. bidoun.org/articles/house…

I'm looking to speak with H1-B visa holders in the Bay Area this morning for an The San Francisco Standard story. Is that you? Please email or DM me

new york writer weighs in on sf’s most pressing issues

My feet are on The New York Times homepage today for a very special reason: For our Voyages issue, I went to Malmo to skate the city's to-the-centimeter recreation of Love Park, made out of material salvaged from Philadelphia.

pants artisan insights 👇 with Sam Mondros sfstandard.com/2025/10/19/sma…

thrasher font spotted

Brooke Jenkins and Nancy Pelosi are talking tough, threatening that ICE agents who violate local law could face arrest. SF cops say it's political theater. 📝: Jonah Owen Lamb sfstandard.com/2025/11/03/sf-…

Love it or hate it, the 54-year-old Vaillancourt Fountain in Embarcadero Plaza will soon be torn down. 📝: max hc sfstandard.com/2025/11/03/vai…