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Jonah Owen Lamb
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Senior reporter at SF Standard

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“He can’t stand trial, and you can’t lock him up forever for a crime he has not been convicted of.” sfstandard.com/2025/08/12/a...
An alleged killer is living near Golden Gate Park in a facility where patients go missing
Michael Jacobs’ story illustrates how even a ‘homicidal’ defendant can end up living right next door.
sfstandard.com
Homeland Security Wants Social Media Sites to Expose Anti-ICE Accounts www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/t...
Homeland Security Wants Social Media Sites to Expose Anti-ICE Accounts
www.nytimes.com
February 14, 2026 at 3:51 AM
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NEW: Minneapolis residents aren't buying that ICE is finally ending its campaign of terror in their communities, despite border czar Tom Homan declaring the surge is over.

“This is a good day for sure, but I don’t trust the fuckers." www.huffpost.com/entry/what-m...
Minnesota Says ICE Won’t Be Defeated Until This Thing Happens
The mood in Minneapolis may not be what you would expect.
www.huffpost.com
February 13, 2026 at 5:18 PM
This story, ahem, requires a bit of background. Here goes: For the last decade, SFPD has been in reform mode. Many of the reforms centered on how the department needs to be transparent and responsive to keep the public trust, which it had lost after a series of killings.
February 13, 2026 at 6:12 PM
Why everyone hates the streamlining of the SF police commission sfstandard.com/2026/02/13/d...
Don’t call it reform: Nobody likes the proposed ‘streamlining’ of the SF Police Commission
Even the task force chairman and the police union say changes are a bad idea.
sfstandard.com
February 13, 2026 at 3:38 PM
Breaking: SF mayor 'requested' PG&E restore power to opera before daughter’s ‘Nutcracker’ performance.

At a hearing about December’s blackout, PG&E's CEO said Lurie pushed for power at the opera.

**The company is now disputing its CEO's comments.** sfstandard.com/2026/02/12/p...
Lurie requested PG&E restore power to opera before daughter’s ‘Nutcracker’ performance
At a hearing about December’s PG&E blackout, CEO Sumeet Singh said the mayor pushed for power at the opera house, while swaths of the city remained dark.
sfstandard.com
February 13, 2026 at 5:51 AM
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Some personal news
February 12, 2026 at 1:10 AM
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This is the second account - the first being in Chicago - of DHS agents mass detaining people and then *sorting them by race*.
More than 400 people, including hundreds of citizens, were “sorted” at gun point into racial and ethnic groups by 200 ICE agents who fired flash-bang grenades into cars with people inside, pointed guns at children & demanded their zip tied parents not comfort them. apple.news/Ausdx6kWtT0e...
Idaho families sue over immigration raid that swept up hundreds, including U.S. citizens — NBC News
About 400 people, including children and U.S. citizens, were detained for four hours while they were denied food and water in the raid, according to the lawsuit.
apple.news
February 12, 2026 at 2:26 AM
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Tulsi Gabbard, the embattled director of national intelligence, has shuttered the task force she created to pursue Donald Trump’s political vendettas.
Trump’s Spy Chief Shutters Revenge Task Force After Backlash
Tulsi Gabbard has scrapped a task force critics accused of serving as a vehicle for Trump’s retribution campaign.
trib.al
February 11, 2026 at 4:15 AM
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NEW: Trump DOJ tries, fails to secure indictment over Democratic lawmakers' social media video on unlawful orders. www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...
Trump administration fails to secure indictment in connection with Democrats involved in 'illegal orders' video
President Donald Trump had accused six Democratic lawmakers of "seditious behavior" after they urged members of the military and intelligence communities to refuse unlawful orders.
www.nbcnews.com
February 11, 2026 at 1:13 AM
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A federal judge ordered the Trump administration to reduce overcrowding and squalid conditions at a Manhattan holding room. Months later, he finds ICE merely shifted floors.

www.thecity.nyc/2026/02/09/2...
ICE Moved Detainees to Previously Undisclosed Floor of 26 Federal Plaza
A federal judge ordered the Trump administration to reduce overcrowding and squalid conditions at a Manhattan holding room. Months later, he finds ICE merely shifted floors.
www.thecity.nyc
February 10, 2026 at 5:49 PM
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A historical thingy happened here, but we can't tell you what it is
February 10, 2026 at 5:49 PM
Exclusive: 49ers’ Keion White shot after dispute involving rapper Lil Baby at SF stripper party sfstandard.com/2026/02/09/4...
49ers’ Keion White shot after dispute involving rapper Lil Baby at SF stripper party
Keion White was holding a private party inside a Mission District club when he was shot in the leg, a police report says.
sfstandard.com
February 10, 2026 at 4:43 AM
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“There was zero plan, except causing pain,” said one U.N. official about the Trump administration’s decision to stop funding the group with no notice or communication. “And that is not forgivable.”

(Published Dec. 2025)
After Trump Officials Cut Food Aid to Kenya, Children Starved to Death
“Brutal and traumatizing”: Interviews and a trove of internal documents show government officials and aid workers desperately tried to warn Trump advisers about impending disaster and death.
www.propublica.org
February 9, 2026 at 9:25 PM
“It’s absolute pension-spiking,” said a former command staff member, who noted that the practice has been common for years.
February 9, 2026 at 7:49 PM
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Great explainer from @ericlevitz.bsky.social about whether Trump is trying to rig the midterms (yes) and whether it'll work (almost definitely not, but the fact that we're having this conversation at all is not great, bob) ... gift link
Trump has a plan to steal the midterms. It will probably fail.
The nightmare scenario for American democracy is no longer unthinkable.
www.vox.com
February 9, 2026 at 2:44 PM
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NEW: The Trump admin certainly put on a show last week about changing tactics in Minnesota after ICE agents killed Alex Pretti, a 37-year-old VA nurse.

Trump even suggested it's time for "a softer touch."

Except residents say nothing has changed. At all. www.huffpost.com/entry/ice-mi...
Trump Using A ‘Softer Touch’ With ICE In Minnesota? Residents Say Don’t Be Fooled.
Two weeks after Alex Pretti’s killing, federal agents have shown no signs of backing down. The resistance definitely hasn't.
www.huffpost.com
February 8, 2026 at 4:41 PM
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very strange to read a piece whose premise seems to be “i think you are too stupid to go look at the magazine i run and the writers i employ and see if i am telling the truth”
February 9, 2026 at 3:49 PM
Interim SFPD chief sticks around to help replacement, while boosting his own pension sfstandard.com/2026/02/09/i...
Interim SFPD chief sticks around to help replacement, while boosting his own pension
After Derrick Lew became chief, his predecessor Paul Yep said he’d continue to provide guidance. By staying, Yep also gets a fat pension bump.
sfstandard.com
February 9, 2026 at 2:42 PM
“I’m glad Will Lewis has been fired. I wish it had happened before he fired all my friends.”
February 7, 2026 at 11:03 PM
Ex-San Francisco mayor appointed Bloomberg pal to key seat in hopes of landing a job: sources nypost.com/2026/02/06/u...
Exclusive | Ex-San Francisco mayor appointed Bloomberg pal to key seat in hopes of landing a job: sources
Ex-San Francisco Mayor London Breed hoped to land a job through Michael Bloomberg’s connections when she appointed his protégé Stephen Sherrill to a coveted political seat.
nypost.com
February 7, 2026 at 2:20 AM
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As the crisis in Minneapolis unfolded and we saw the feds thwart local efforts to independently investigate the fatal shootings of two U.S. citizens, it was hard not to think about the Mexican man killed by ICE agents a few miles from my house in Chicago.

www.propublica.org/article/why-...
“You’re Not Going to Investigate a Federal Officer”
It doesn’t happen often, but local law enforcement can arrest and charge federal agents. Legal experts say there’s a moral obligation to at least try to hold federal immigration officers accountable w...
www.propublica.org
February 5, 2026 at 12:41 PM