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Welcome to another episode of the Doomloop Dispatch, the news show covering the worst parts of the San Francisco Bay Area. On this episode, Kevin speaks with Kate Willett, the comedian and host of the Dystopia Now podcast. We get into the big topics of the day, like Peter Thiel’s AntiChrist lectures and the Wired story about Chorus, before her show at the Lost Church on September 12. Just try and count all the laughs, I dare you.

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Kate’s website

https://www.katewillett.com/

Kate’s show at the Lost Church on September 12

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/kate-willett-live-in-san-francisco-tickets-1608345457559?aff=oddtdtcreator

Peter Thiel event

https://luma.com/antichrist

S.F. ‘tech bro’ writes open letter to mayor: ‘I shouldn’t have to see the pain, struggle, and despair of homeless people’, ‘riff raff’

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2016/02/18/s-f-tech-bro-writes-open-letter-to-mayor-i-shouldnt-have-to-see-the-pain-struggle-and-despair-of-homeless-people/

Welcome to another episode of the Doomloop Dispatch, the news show covering the worst parts of the San Francisco Bay Area. On this episode, Kevin and Scot talk with Jen Snyder, former chief of staff for Dean Preston and the founder of Red Bridge Strategies. We talk about her Jacobin article about how billionaires stopped progressive policies in San Francisco. We also get into her past and what progressives need to do to win in the future.

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Dean Preston’s campaign manager draws fire for flipping SF Democratic Party ‘the bird’

https://www.sfexaminer.com/archives/dean-preston-s-campaign-manager-draws-fire-for-flipping-sf-democratic-party-the-bird/article_b7816b06-1b17-5d43-a903-84e88558045c.html

Jen Snyder on Key Wiki

https://www.keywiki.org/Jen_Snyder

Dean Preston accused of lying about housing record in lawsuit

https://sfstandard.com/2024/06/25/lawsuit-dean-preston-housing-misinformation/

Welcome to another episode of the Doomloop Dispatch, the news show covering the worst parts of the San Francisco Bay Area. On this episode, Kevin and Scot discuss recent headlines, such as the failures of Prop 36, the expansion of the surveillance state in San Francisco, and the spread of fascism all over the Nation. Are we stuck in a duopoly? Is anyone fighting on the left? We discuss it all.

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Prop 36 is failing… to house people

https://www.mercurynews.com/2025/08/17/prop-36-homeless-drugs-crime-bay-area/

https://x.com/ethanvarian/status/1957501545962152112

SFPD surveillance unit’s close ties to crypto billionaire

https://48hills.org/2025/08/sfpd-surveillance-units-close-ties-to-crypto-billionaire/

ICE arrests one asylum-seeker from S.F. immigration court

https://missionlocal.org/2025/08/ice-arrests-asylum-seeker-thursday/

SF schools chief wants to focus on kids, not culture wars. If only it were so easy

https://sfstandard.com/opinion/2025/08/18/sfusd-superintendent-maria-su/

Democrats Urged to Bow Down to Tech Fascism

https://www.thenerdreich.com/democrats-urged-to-bow-down-to-tech-fascism/

A pro-Palestinian activist came to Oakland to practice medicine. An outrage campaign followed

https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/project-esther-oakland-doctor-20799405.php

Welcome to another episode of the Doomloop Dispatch, the news show covering the worst parts of the San Francisco Bay Area. On this episode, Kevin and Scot talk with Brandon Harami, a former staffer for the city of Oakland who worked for both Mayor Sheng Thao and Kevin Jenkins before being fired for BS reasons. Brandon talks to us about how he was treated by his political foes, the FBI case against Thao and the forces working against progress in the city.

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Brandon on Bluesky

https://bsky.app/profile/brandonsedai.bsky.social

Restraining order against Oakland activist denied by judge

https://oaklandside.org/2025/07/31/restraining-order-against-oakland-activist-denied-by-judge/

Gay Oakland mayoral staffer placed on leave amid City Hall shake-up just ahead of special election

https://www.ebar.com/story/153996

Man settles restraining order against gay former Oakland mayoral staffer he harassed

https://www.ebar.com/story/337807

Oakland NAACP leaders applaud the firing of Sheng Thao staffers

https://oaklandside.org/2025/04/07/naacp-hanson-harami-fired-oakland-thao/

Oakland Interim Mayor Fires Most Staff w/ Brandon Harami

https://kpfa.org/area941/episode/oakland-interim-mayor-fires-most-staff/

The San Francisco Chronicle and the Astroturf Network

https://www.phoenixprojectnow.com/phoe

Welcome to another episode of the Doomloop Dispatch, the news show covering the worst parts of the San Francisco Bay Area. On this episode, Kevin and Scot interview Tom Ammiano, a legend in San Francisco politics. We discuss Tom’s political battles and what he’s accomplished, and how the powers that be are trying to take that all back. Don’t let Republicans pink wash the death of San Francisco!

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Gay SF supe Dorsey’s call to end same-sex partners benefit law sparks shock

https://www.ebar.com/story/156199/News/Gay%20SF%20supe%20Dorsey%E2%80%99s%20call%20to%20end%20same-sex%20partners%20benefit%20law%20sparks%20shock

Tom Ammiano’s feisty memoir ‘Kiss My Gay Ass’ tells all

https://www.sfbg.com/2021/02/28/tom-ammianos-feisty-memoir-kiss-my-gay-ass-tells-all/

He Won a Varsity Letter at 16. He Finally Got It When He Was 79.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/28/nyregion/tom-ammiano-gay-varsity-letter.html

Welcome to another episode of the Doomloop Dispatch, the news show covering the worst parts of the San Francisco Bay Area. On this episode, Kevin and Scot discuss the budget drawn up by San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie and passed by the board of supervisors this week. It’s basically a Republican budget, full of cuts to the social safety net but increased funding for police. Does this make San Francisco a Republican city? Or wasn’t it always one?

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SFBOS passes Lurie’s budget

https://sfstandard.com/2025/07/16/san-francisco-budget-mayor-daniel-lurie-supervisor-vote/

Mayor’s Budget Proposal Sparks Outcry Over Cuts to Police Oversight Amid Law Enforcement Spending Boost

https://www.sfpublicpress.org/mayors-budget-proposal-sparks-outcry-over-cuts-to-police-oversight-amid-law-enforcement-spending-boost/

Increases police, even though what’s needed for crime to drop is Ceasefire-like programs

https://popular.info/p/the-secret-to-baltimores-extraordinary

Great Instagram video on the SF budget

https://www.instagram.com/p/DLi1u7hSaXv/?hl=en

Jackie Fielder on housing the homeless

https://www.instagram.com/p/DL0dIB6BRud/?hl=en

Lurie gets to misuse Prop C funds

https://48hills.org/2025/07/opinion-preserve-the-housing-money-and-stop-the-mayors-power-grab/

No 1,500 shelter beds and now no shelters need to be built

https://sfstandard.com/2025/07/16/shelter-citywide-mahmood-lurie/

Ban on longterm RV parking in SF

https://www.kqed.org/news/12048307/sf-just-voted-to-ban-long-term-rv-parking-what-happens-to-the-people-inside

Budget Cuts 5 Muni lines

https://abc7news.com/post/muni-cut-5-bus-lines-san-francisco-starting-weekend-transit-agency-warns-coming-fiscal-cliff/16784203/

Billionaire Chris Larsen's $9.4 million donation to fund new SFPD investigation center

https://www.cbsnews.com/sanfrancisco/news/sfpd-real-time-investigation-center-upgrade-chris-larsen-ripple-donation/

SF gets Microsoft AI 

https://www.sf.gov/news-mayor-lurie-brings-ai-technology-to-san-francisco-government-cementing-city-as-global-ai-leader

Public Housing rally

https://missionlocal.org/2025/07/s-f-public-housing-tenants-rally-at-city-hall-urging-mayor-lurie-to-step-up/

California Forever Wants to Build a Manufacturing Town

https://www.kqed.org/news/12048321/california-forever-wants-to-build-a-manufacturing-town

Welcome to another episode of the Doomloop Dispatch, the news show covering the worst parts of the San Francisco Bay Area. On this episode, Kevin and Scot talk with Alison Collins, the former SFUSD board member and one of the school district’s smartest critics. We get into how “parental rights” are once again being used to attack San Francisco schools and what’s really happening in the debate over ethnic studies. 

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How News Reporters Are Being Deceived by Fake Groups of ‘Moms’ and ‘Parents’ Attacking Public Schools

https://www.citywatchla.com/voices/30567-how-news-reporters-are-being-deceived-by-fake-groups-of-moms-and-parents-attacking-public-schools?fbclid=IwY2xjawLb6fxleHRuA2FlbQIxMABicmlkETE0V25TcjhyVGxyd2daMjduAR7oSm7_Z_WlGMPF9Yx1lTVjkLJGpHtPP3kCuhKTy2kxNWJCLmtUnYuyMbIn6Q_aem_liGdfiJ-m9ybwRmdtsjLoA

SF PARENT COALITION RECOGNIZED WITH PRESIDENT’S AWARD FROM NATIONAL PARENTS UNION

https://sfparents.org/press-release-sf-parent-coalition-recognized/

The Plan to Eliminate Public Schools Has Started in San Francisco

https://www.phoenixprojectnow.com/phoenix-review/blog/the-plan-to-eliminate-public-schools-has-started-in-san-francisco

Ideology or education? New ethnic studies class has parents mad

https://sfstandard.com/2025/05/30/sfusd-new-ethnic-studies-mandate/?taid=683a51740b4bc10001b6c134&utm_campaign=trueanthem&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter

Angry San Francisco parents push back on SFUSD ethnic studies: ‘Ideology over education’

https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/sfusd-ethic-studies-school-20353723.php?taid=683aef5c0b4bc10001b6ca65&utm_campaign=trueanthem%2B3988&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter

Welcome to another episode of the Doomloop Dispatch, the news show covering the worst parts of the San Francisco Bay Area. On this episode, Kevin talks with Lydia Bransten, the executive director of the Gubbio Project. Using the strategy of harm reduction to help drug addicts in San Francisco’s Mission District, her org provides a safe space and other necessities like clothes and healthcare. On the podcast we get into her history, her views on drug rehabilitation and what it’s been like to run the Gubbio Project as it faces intense scrutiny from right wingers in the city.

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The Gubbio Project

https://www.thegubbioproject.org/

To some S.F. neighbors, the city-funded Gubbio Project is a blight. To others, it’s a sanctuary.

https://missionlocal.org/2025/05/sf-neighbors-debate-gubbio-project-blight-unhoused-sanctuary-drug-treatment/

Project Gubbio at St. Boniface: sanctuary of sleep

https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Project-Gubbio-at-St-Boniface-sanctuary-of-sleep-3407103.php

Welcome to another episode of the Doomloop Dispatch, the news show covering the worst parts of the San Francisco Bay Area. On this episode, Scot and I talk about a few headlines, such as the Network State-related project to take over a former Naval base in Alameda and some possible Garry Tan L’s. Also, those that supported Lowell’s merit-based admissions were proved wrong.

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Frontier Valley:

Startup seeks Trump AI emergency for California tech city

https://www.thenerdreich.com/startup-seeks-trump-ai-emergency-for-california-tech-city/

Frontier Valley video

https://x.com/_FrontierValley/status/1934346177388106033

James Ingallinera supports Trump

https://x.com/JRIngallinera/status/1812329215049740739

Lurie Budget cuts and Police Commission

Spike in Homelessness Stalled After SF Started These Programs. Lurie Is Slashing Them

https://www.kqed.org/news/12044180/spike-in-homelessness-stalled-after-sf-started-these-programs-lurie-is-slashing-them

The Lurie budget is great for bad cops

https://48hills.org/2025/06/the-lurie-budget-is-great-for-bad-cops/

Board greenlights Lurie’s ouster of reform-minded police commissioner

https://www.sfexaminer.com/news/politics/sf-supervisors-back-mayor-lurie-remove-max-carter-oberstone/article_af221d68-f3eb-11ef-be7b-af6e662ea445.html

S.F. Police Commission sheds another police critic as potential successors line up

https://www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/police-commission-sheds-critic-successors-line-up-20305532.php

Lowell Recap

First Cohort of Lowell High ‘Lottery Kids’ Just Graduated, and They Did Pretty Well Academically

https://sfist.com/2025/06/06/first-batch-of-lowell-high-lottery-kids-graduates-and-they-did-pretty-well-academically/

These graduating Lowell students were called ‘lottery kids.’ The stigma never went away

https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/lowell-school-lottery-student-20357551.php

Welcome to another episode of the Doomloop Dispatch, the news show covering the worst parts of the San Francisco Bay Area. In this episode we speak to Kate Hallinan, an appellate attorney at Beales and Beales. Kate is working on a few resentencing cases in Alameda County – cases that the new district attorney attempted to withdraw from this week. We get into why these cases are so important and the questionable tactics being used to undo decades of progressive work in our justice system.  

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Why is Alameda County’s new DA undoing death penalty case reviews?

https://oaklandside.org/2025/06/05/death-penalty-case-resentencing-ursula-jones-dickson-alameda-county-da/

Alameda County prosecutors allegedly excluded Black people and Jews from death penalty juries

https://oaklandside.org/2024/04/22/alameda-county-prosecutors-allegedly-excluded-black-people-and-jews-from-death-penalty-juries/