Welcome to the Doomloop Dispatch, the show covering the worst parts of the San Francisco Bay Area. This episode Scot and Kevin speak to Alison Collins, the San Francisco school board commissioner who was blitzed with a recall campaign back in 2022. She discusses the recall, it's connection to a larger right wing movement, and how the district is a mess without her.

Check out Allison's YouTube podcast:

www.youtube.com/@alimcollins104

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Welcome to the Doomloop Dispatch, the show covering the worst parts of the San Francisco Bay Area. This episode Scot and Kevin speak to Chris Carlsson, a San Francisco-based activist who co-founded Critical Mass as well as the influential magazine Processed World. We discuss how Reagan's presidency was the beginning of the end of progressive San Francisco, how he predicted the Internet making everything worse and how bike infrastructure is being used to gentrify cities.

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Sources:

Processed World: A political history

https://notesfrombelow.org/article/processed-world

Processed World website

https://processedworld.com/home.html

Nowtopians: Chris Carrlson’s blog

https://nowtopians.com/

FoundSF

https://www.foundsf.org/index.php?title=Main_Page

Welcome to the Doomloop Dispatch, the show about the worst parts of the San Francisco Bay Area. In this episode, we talk with Jesus Figueroa Cacho, a housing activist who is unhoused herself just because she's injured. She's working with the Alliance of Californians for Community Empowerment (ACCE) to push Governor Gavin Newsom to build AFFORDABLE homes.

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Sources:

Six unhoused women arrested during peaceful protest in Sacramento

https://www.kalw.org/bay-area-news/2024-10-02/six-unhoused-women-arrested-during-peaceful-protest-in-sacramento

Alliance of Californians for Community Empowerment (ACCE)

https://www.acceaction.org/

The group’s demands to Governor Newsom

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1u_au2n8wDdlL-GCLhDMI6xVP80EgSUC2v6og6GTCmvw/edit

Welcome to the Doomloop Dispatch, the show covering the worst parts of the San Francisco Bay Area. On this episode D. Scot Miller and Kevin L. Jones weigh in on the slate of propositions going before voters in California this November. Some just make sense, others are the brainchildren of Satan himself. Listen in and learn something!

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Our Endorsements:

Props 2-33, 35: Yes

Props 34 & 36: No

Sources:

CalMatters Voting Guide:

https://calmatters.org/california-voter-guide-2024/propositions/

Retail Theft is Overblown

https://www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/openforum/article/San-Francisco-s-shoplifting-panic-desperately-16327614.php

League of Pissed off Voters:

https://www.theleaguesf.org/

Bay Area Rising:

https://app.bayrisingaction.civicengine.com/s?bid=17937497&et=xMnd74M7t1iztHLxzt1rRtW2&lng=en-US-BayRising&sid=6192f1f1-feaf-4358-9af1-bb78e8159e67

Welcome to the Doomloop Dispatch, the show covering the worst parts of the San Francisco Bay Area. On this episode we talk to Kalimah Priforce, a hacktivist turned Emeryville City Council Member. We talk about the history of Emeryville, it's strange reputation for crime and the negative effects of catering to YIMBYs has done to the city.

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Kalimah on X

https://x.com/priforce

Candidates for Emeryville City Council (Kalimah endorsed Mia Esperanza Brown and Calvin Dillahunty)

https://www.ci.emeryville.ca.us/1094/Candidates

Travel article: https://www.thetravel.com/most-dangerous-place-in-california-emeryville/

Welcome to the Doomloop Dispatch, the show covering the worst parts of the San Francisco Bay Area. On this episode, we talk to Matt Ray and Mat Wranovics of Left In The Bay, who provide leftist history from the Bay Area. They tell us everything we could ever want to know about the history of Berkeley's People's Park and it's glorious.

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Left In The Bay: https://leftinthebay.com/ 

LITB Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/leftinthebay 

LITB on X: https://x.com/leftinthebay

LITB Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/leftinthebay 

Sources:

https://www.peoplespark.org/wp/the-false-narrative-of-peoples-park/ 

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2024/04/berkeley-peoples-park-university-california-supreme-court/ – written by a sellout

https://guides.lib.berkeley.edu/peoplespark/history_early

https://www.peoplespark.org/wp/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/The-Ever-Expanding-University_-Property-Claims-and-the-Battle-Over-Peoples-Park-2.pdf 

Welcome to the Doomloop Dispatch, the show covering the worst parts of the San Francisco Bay Area. In this episode Scot and Kevin talk to Brandee Marckmann of the San Francisco Education Alliance. We discuss London Breed's pick for a new school board president, charter school Administrator Phil Kim, and the district's push to close schools because of budget issues.

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Meet the new guy tasked with cleaning up the SF school district’s mess

https://sfstandard.com/2024/08/23/phil-kim-school-board-appointment-sfusd/

Breed’s new school-board appointee faces concern, opposition

https://www.sfexaminer.com/news/education/phil-kim-appointment-to-sf-school-board-cues-staff-concern/article_30186150-657d-11ef-a26b-c33f20b80b07.html

Breed names gay education official Kim to SF school board

https://www.ebar.com/story.php?ch=news&id=335001

SF School Board President Resigns Ahead of Tense Season, Mayor Appoints Replacement

https://sfist.com/2024/08/23/sf-school-board-president-resigns-ahead-of-tense-season-mayor-appoints-replacement/

S.F. school board president abruptly resigns as city schools face yet another big challenge (might as well read Jill Tucker’s take)

https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/sfusd-school-board-president-resigns-19715564.php

Great breakdown of school closure presentation from SF Education Alliance

https://www.sfeducationalliance.com/blog/dont-be-gaslit-on-school-closures

Matt Alexander website

https://www.mattalexandersf.org/about

Another great school closure breakdown

https://www.sfeducationalliance.com/blog/2eobsqv8a2mfj1e7d739c3em18h01u

Tearing down rural schools

https://barnraisingmedia.com/what-is-moms-for-liberty-the-dark-money-defunding-rural-schools/

Welcome to the Doomloop Dispatch, the show that covers the worst parts of the San Francisco Bay Area. This is a longer episode because it's two interviews Scot and I did with Ami Chien Mills on her radio show, Moment of Truth on KSQD in Santta Cruz/Monterey. Scot and I could talk about this stuff all day so it was a ton of fun for us.

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Moment of Truth with Ami Chien Mills.

Part 1:

https://ksqd.org/sad-francisco-jd-vance-and-the-tech-bros-of-san-francisco-part-1/

Part 2:

https://ksqd.org/jd-vance-and-the-tech-bros-of-san-francisco/

Welcome to the Doomloop Dispatch, the show covering the worst parts of the San Francisco Bay Area. On this episode we talk with Christin Evans, a San Francisco business owner and homeless activist. She recently reported on a homeless sweep in San Francisco for the SF Standard. Her piece humanized the victims of these cruel sweeps while also showing how the sweeps hurt more than help.

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SOURCES:

Christin’s Piece

https://sfstandard.com/opinion/2024/08/07/homeless-sweeps-cruelty/

SF Sit-lie ordinance losing usefulness

https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/What-happened-to-SF-s-controversial-sit-lie-13303216.php

Christin on Twitter

https://x.com/christinevans

Christin on how housing is cheaper than shelter for homeless

https://x.com/christinevans/status/1826753826273329505?s=46&t=zC9nJ96L_9gHyQjYwvWTow

Update on apartment subsidies

https://sfstandard.com/2024/08/21/this-is-a-win-families-are-moving-from-rvs-to-apartments-at-last/?utm_campaign=SF+Standard+Daily&utm_medium=email&utm_source=SF+Standard&utm_content=latest-news-list

Welcome to the Doomloop Dispatch, the show about the worst parts of the San Francisco Bay Area. On this episode Scot and Kevin talk to Ali Winston, co-author of the "The Riders Come Out At Night: Brutality, Corruption, and Cover-up in Oakland." We get into the history of the Oakland Police's violent culture and more recent scandals, as well as current movement by elites to takeover the city.

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SOURCES

Ali Winston's Bleeding Edge blog: https://bleeding-edge.ghost.io/

The Riders Come Out At Night: https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Riders-Come-Out-at-Night/Ali-Winston/9781982168605

Before raids, FBI probed expensive Oakland police unit tasked with fighting Chinatown crime

https://www.siliconvalley.com/2024/08/01/fbi-raids-oakland-police-chinatown/

LeRonne Armstrong and another OPD chief were investigated and faulted for leadership failures

https://oaklandside.org/2024/07/25/leronne-armstrong-investigated-disciplined-phong-tran-internal-affairs-case/