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02/14/2025

We’ll be at A Room of One’s Own in Madison on Friday, March 7 at 6 PM to talk ATMOSPHERES OF VIOLENCE and MISS MAJOR SPEAKS. Come through!
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A Room Of One’s Own Bookstore
2717 Atwood Avenue
Madison, WI 53704

02/10/2025

Two co-founders of the prison abolition movement, Craig and Ruth Wilson Gilmore, speak on the prison industrial complex’s California roots. Also: Why focusing on closing private prisons is too narrow a vision, and Gavin Newsom’s campaign to put a kinder, gentler face on mass incarceration via the medicalization of imprisonment (eg. increasing conservatorship, forced rehab, and slapping the words “Rehabilitation Center” on San Quentin). New episode of SAD FRANCISCO up on all the podcast platforms.

02/05/2025

San Jose State prof. Sang He Kil is currently on leave for showing solidarity with students who were protesting against the genocide in Gaza. She speaks on the difference between what happened at SJSU and San Francisco State’s encampments, on the new episode of the pod

01/30/2025

10 years since the fire at 22nd & Mission. It’s still a hole in the ground since landlords Hawk Ling and Ketty Lou have been waiting it out to move richer renters into the area — and the city is letting them.

01/19/2025

Banned by Red Note for posting same stuff as I do on here 😊

01/13/2025

Tracy Rosenthal and Leonardo Vilchis helped co-found the union & wrote ABOLISH RENT (out now from ). On the new episode of .co -👂on all the podcast platforms

01/06/2025

NEW .co EPISODE, now up on all the platforms! Hanin, Mai and Nadina met and became friends through the Palestine solidarity movement in Tokyo a little over a year ago. We cover some of the recent successes of the movement, including Israeli defense company Elbit Systems losing contracts, and Israel being disinvited from the yearly event in Nagasaki that memorializes the day the US dropped an atomic bomb. They speak to some of the particularities of organizing against imperialism from inside Japan, and ways to sustain the organizing as the latest wave of genocide in Gaza continues.

01/01/2025

In no particular order, these are the five most listened to episodes of the podcast. THANK YOU to everyone who spent time with us on the podcast this past year. .pitta .dean PS. Tomorrow, New Year’s Day, the first episode of ‘AIPAC Zombies’ w will be on all the platforms. xo

11/02/2024

ICYMI catch up on recent eps on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, YouTube, etc. including: the Sunset’s own Brandon Lee , who was politicized during the 2001 anti war protests that shut down SF; Jeremy Mack of on the dark money group TogetherSF; and hosting Jeremy, .zembla, on the limits of representative politics and elections!

10/10/2024

Zionists have infiltrated so much of the traditional press. If you run an alternative media outlet and are not a monster, join this podcast and others and commit to the Palestinian Campaign for the Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI).Support autonomous action against the police, the state, and empire.�� End “Israel”writersagainstthewarongaza.com | bdsmovement.net | Sad Francisco

09/17/2024

New episode of .co : BAY2GAZA MUTUAL AID with + Lauren Gutierrez of + /// Come out to the benefit for with bands, food, more .secret on 9/20! /// Listen to the episode on all the podcast platforms, or at this 🔗 : https://pod.fo/e/269f5c

08/17/2024

Want to take this time to thank all of our Patreon Subscribers for supporting us. We still can’t believe there are 42 of you willing to donate. And we appreciate every single cent.
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07/14/2024

Stoked invited me to be part convo on Wednesday around SILICON VALLEY IMPERIALISM hosted by . July 17 at 6 pm PST online—RSVP at Eventbrite. (Also check Erin’s episode of .co from April!)

07/08/2024

Abe Woodliff needs his own podcast! For now this episode will have to suffice… Abe talks about how it’s impossible to actually predict when a meme will hit; writing; and the shocking lack of negatives there are to existing authentically. Plus his recent piece on who wins and loses from fake narratives around crime rates . Links to listen in bio!

07/06/2024

Our next episode with is up on our Patreon for our paid subscribers!!
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Episode will go public on all of our regular platforms THIS MONDAY. Stay tuned!

07/01/2024

YIMBY billionaires are buying up thousands of acres northeast of the Bay, to build a planned community of rich tech types. To sell the East Solano Plan (f.k.a. “California Forever”) to locals, its founders launched a PR campaign complete with artwashing and more. Vallejo-based Anna Kirsch, of Artists Against Billionaires, is part of the resistance. Link in bio!

06/24/2024

Kevin L. Jones from pod (“the podcast about the worst parts of the San Francisco Bay Area”) reached out! K and Toshio speak on the ongoing death of traditional corporate news, plus background on the origins of Sad Francisco…link in bio as always xoxo

06/17/2024

In this reupped episode (link in bio), get to know the gay Zionist Burner Manny Yekutiel, of Manny’s cafe in the Mission, and why a boycott of Manny’s was called for in 2018 by Gay Shame and Qu**rs Undermining Israeli Terrorism (QUIT!), among others!

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Social media platforms definitely breed self-censorship around “controversial” subjects, but talking about cops being cops seems harmless and nonthreatening. Am I wrong?

Craig Gilmore: The struggle against fascism and the struggle against police are one and the same. More Craig (and Ruth Wilson Gilmore) on the new episode of Sad Francisco—up on all the podcast platforms. #prisonindustrialcomplex #abolition #defundthepolice

Why are so many tech CEOs the kind of gay guys who have no friends who are women #samaltman #peterthiel #broligarchy #techoligarchs #selfloathing #alexandrwang

Budget surplus in CA - yet cuts still coming to relatively inexpensive programs like Gender Studies at #sonomastate. #gavinnewsom #bluemaga

US colleges remain thick with Zionist-initiated repression and censorship. Sang Hea Kil was put on leave at San Jose State after being the sole member of the SJSU faculty to join the Palestine solidarity encampment there. She’s talks about ways out of the mess —stronger unions; ending the neoliberal corporate model of university administration — on the new episode of Sad Francisco.

Sales exec Aaron Dawson ID’ed as the man who threw eggs at a sleeping homeless man in San Francisco’s Upper Haight this week

A few of the reasons people loathe Waymo and Zoox #robotaxis clogging up the streets of San Francisco, w/ Jasmine Lee Ehrhardt on the new ep.!