Martha Bridegam
@mbridegam.bsky.social
One representative from organized labor. Not even a single representative for tenants. Unclear if there is any formal connection to administrative process in a municipal redesign effort that could affect all of us in San Francisco. missionlocal.org/2026/01/sf-c...
Meet the 28 people tasked to reshape San Francisco's constitution
To reform S.F.’s 548-page city charter, Mayor Daniel Lurie and Board President Rafael Mandelman formed a 28-member working group.
missionlocal.org
January 5, 2026 at 5:07 PM
One representative from organized labor. Not even a single representative for tenants. Unclear if there is any formal connection to administrative process in a municipal redesign effort that could affect all of us in San Francisco. missionlocal.org/2026/01/sf-c...
@joqatana.bsky.social
Got some fungi for you. No idea what kind but they're dramatic. That largest clump is over a foot wide.
Got some fungi for you. No idea what kind but they're dramatic. That largest clump is over a foot wide.
January 3, 2026 at 4:22 AM
@joqatana.bsky.social
Got some fungi for you. No idea what kind but they're dramatic. That largest clump is over a foot wide.
Got some fungi for you. No idea what kind but they're dramatic. That largest clump is over a foot wide.
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Happy New Year! We love sharing these pro-book posters from the Works Projects Administration Poster Collection in the Library's Prints and Photographs Division. Of the 2,000 WPA posters known to exist, the Library of Congress's collection of more than 900 is the largest.
January 1, 2026 at 11:00 AM
Happy New Year! We love sharing these pro-book posters from the Works Projects Administration Poster Collection in the Library's Prints and Photographs Division. Of the 2,000 WPA posters known to exist, the Library of Congress's collection of more than 900 is the largest.
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In San Francisco, a scheduled power outage was interrupted by an unscheduled power outage. Last week, 1/3 of the city was in the dark.
SF, for years, has been moving to buy out PG&E. Could it use eminent domain if PG&E says no?
It just might.
@esksf.bsky.social
missionlocal.org/2025/12/pge-...
SF, for years, has been moving to buy out PG&E. Could it use eminent domain if PG&E says no?
It just might.
@esksf.bsky.social
missionlocal.org/2025/12/pge-...
'Fire sale': S.F. moving to buy out PG&E — even, potentially, if PG&E says no
Public power: It’s not just for lefty conspiracy theorists anymore. Could San Francisco use eminent domain to break up with PG&E and municipalize electric service? It may yet try.
missionlocal.org
December 29, 2025 at 3:33 PM
In San Francisco, a scheduled power outage was interrupted by an unscheduled power outage. Last week, 1/3 of the city was in the dark.
SF, for years, has been moving to buy out PG&E. Could it use eminent domain if PG&E says no?
It just might.
@esksf.bsky.social
missionlocal.org/2025/12/pge-...
SF, for years, has been moving to buy out PG&E. Could it use eminent domain if PG&E says no?
It just might.
@esksf.bsky.social
missionlocal.org/2025/12/pge-...
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In America, where irony is dead, a hotel chain uses a policy denying shelter to local people, for fear of accidentally housing homeless persons…
To deny a reservation to the author of a much-lauded book on how American economic unfairness forces working people into homelessness.
To deny a reservation to the author of a much-lauded book on how American economic unfairness forces working people into homelessness.
A Hampton Inn in Asheville just canceled my family's reservation because our address (incorrectly) showed Asheville—and the hotel bars locals within 50 miles.
When I asked why, they said, "because of our homeless population," adding that most hotels here have similar policies.
This is outrageous.
When I asked why, they said, "because of our homeless population," adding that most hotels here have similar policies.
This is outrageous.
December 29, 2025 at 2:46 AM
In America, where irony is dead, a hotel chain uses a policy denying shelter to local people, for fear of accidentally housing homeless persons…
To deny a reservation to the author of a much-lauded book on how American economic unfairness forces working people into homelessness.
To deny a reservation to the author of a much-lauded book on how American economic unfairness forces working people into homelessness.
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I'm grateful for my brilliant students. One wrote about impacts of last weekend's debacle: "if we only talk about #Waymo, we will miss a critical, broader conversation around how San Francisco’s innovation policy still treats the city as a laboratory first and a community second." archive.ph/x6Iyq
San Francisco should learn from Waymo’s power outage debacle — and enact tech rollout standards
OPINION: “The weekend outage gave us a clear, non-theoretical glimpse of what happens when new systems meet old infrastructure,” Michael Redmond writes.
www.sfchronicle.com
December 24, 2025 at 10:27 PM
I'm grateful for my brilliant students. One wrote about impacts of last weekend's debacle: "if we only talk about #Waymo, we will miss a critical, broader conversation around how San Francisco’s innovation policy still treats the city as a laboratory first and a community second." archive.ph/x6Iyq
"We felt abandoned."
And this was in the more prosperous, hence more attentively served, Richmond District -- not South of Market or the Tenderloin.
missionlocal.org/2025/12/sf-r...
And this was in the more prosperous, hence more attentively served, Richmond District -- not South of Market or the Tenderloin.
missionlocal.org/2025/12/sf-r...
‘We felt abandoned’: Richmond District seniors describe nightmare 48 hours in S.F. blackout
Without cell service or elevator access, seniors were unable to access information or resources from the city.
missionlocal.org
December 23, 2025 at 4:42 PM
"We felt abandoned."
And this was in the more prosperous, hence more attentively served, Richmond District -- not South of Market or the Tenderloin.
missionlocal.org/2025/12/sf-r...
And this was in the more prosperous, hence more attentively served, Richmond District -- not South of Market or the Tenderloin.
missionlocal.org/2025/12/sf-r...
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Betty Reid Soskin, the National Park Service’s oldest ranger, has died. She was 104.
Betty Reid Soskin, Oldest U.S. Park Ranger and Trailblazing Historian, Dies at 104 | KQED
Betty Reid Soskin, the nation’s oldest National Park Service ranger and a pioneering historian at Rosie the Riveter WWII Home Front National Historical Park, devoted her life to preserving Black histo...
www.kqed.org
December 22, 2025 at 4:03 AM
Betty Reid Soskin, the National Park Service’s oldest ranger, has died. She was 104.
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This new piece from @shannonmattern.bsky.social about the role of libraries in public life is extraordinary. There's so much I want to quote from it, but I'd encourage you to take the time to read it yourself instead...
placesjournal.org/article/extr...
placesjournal.org/article/extr...
Extralibrary Loan: Making the Civic Infrastructure We Need
Amid a war on public knowledge, libraries are pushing outward, enlarging the commons through new configurations of civic and creative life.
placesjournal.org
November 11, 2025 at 7:54 PM
This new piece from @shannonmattern.bsky.social about the role of libraries in public life is extraordinary. There's so much I want to quote from it, but I'd encourage you to take the time to read it yourself instead...
placesjournal.org/article/extr...
placesjournal.org/article/extr...
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On Trans Day of Remembrance, we remember and amplify the memories of all those we have lost to anti-transgender violence.
November 20, 2025 at 1:00 PM
On Trans Day of Remembrance, we remember and amplify the memories of all those we have lost to anti-transgender violence.
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Her last post was about being laid off from Teen Vogue. Terrible.
Heartbroken to hear of @sfdirewolf.bsky.social ‘s transition to be a crip anscestor AND feeling so honored to have been alive in the time as this brilliant human, and gotten to learn from her.
May her memory continue to always be a blessing.
May her memory continue to always be a blessing.
November 15, 2025 at 6:06 AM
Her last post was about being laid off from Teen Vogue. Terrible.
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I don’t want to formulate words yet, but my friend Alice Wong, @sfdirewolf.bsky.social of the Disability Visibility Project, has passed.
Here are the words she left behind:
www.instagram.com/p/DREMDNBjnq...
Here are the words she left behind:
www.instagram.com/p/DREMDNBjnq...
Alice Wong on Instagram: "ID: Yellow background with black text "This is Alice's friend Sandy Ho, posting. Per Alice's wishes, this message is being shared at the time of her passing. Hi everyone, it ...
423 likes, 73 comments - alicatsamurai on November 14, 2025: "ID: Yellow background with black text "This is Alice's friend Sandy Ho, posting. Per Alice's wishes, this message is being shared at the t...
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November 15, 2025 at 5:57 AM
I don’t want to formulate words yet, but my friend Alice Wong, @sfdirewolf.bsky.social of the Disability Visibility Project, has passed.
Here are the words she left behind:
www.instagram.com/p/DREMDNBjnq...
Here are the words she left behind:
www.instagram.com/p/DREMDNBjnq...
And now Alice Wong is gone. This post was nine days ago.
It’s been a pleasure working with Lex and everyone in the politics vertical at Teen Vogue. I’m heartbroken that my column, Disability Visibility, is gone. Teen Vogue was one of the few places that published disabled journalists regularly. I just spent the last 2 months working on my next column
I was laid off from Teen Vogue today along with multiple other staffers, and today is my last day.
certainly more to come from me when the dust has settled more, but to my knowledge, after today, there will be no politics staffers at Teen Vogue.
certainly more to come from me when the dust has settled more, but to my knowledge, after today, there will be no politics staffers at Teen Vogue.
November 15, 2025 at 8:32 AM
And now Alice Wong is gone. This post was nine days ago.
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#MushroomMonday
It’s 80° and winter is coming! These are also right in front of my building. Not a clue what they are. Other than #mushrooms #FungiFriends 📷🍄
It’s 80° and winter is coming! These are also right in front of my building. Not a clue what they are. Other than #mushrooms #FungiFriends 📷🍄
October 6, 2025 at 9:45 PM
#MushroomMonday
It’s 80° and winter is coming! These are also right in front of my building. Not a clue what they are. Other than #mushrooms #FungiFriends 📷🍄
It’s 80° and winter is coming! These are also right in front of my building. Not a clue what they are. Other than #mushrooms #FungiFriends 📷🍄
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It should be needless to say, but it is perhaps at this moment worth saying, that transgender individuals have the same right as anyone else to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
September 14, 2025 at 2:32 PM
It should be needless to say, but it is perhaps at this moment worth saying, that transgender individuals have the same right as anyone else to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
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A Borges story about a guy who gets AI to summarize all the world’s information for him, and then summarize the summary, until the AI has the whole world summarized into a single word. He sits alone at his desk, staring at the word, repeating it endlessly, certain he is experiencing everything
July 14, 2025 at 3:02 PM
A Borges story about a guy who gets AI to summarize all the world’s information for him, and then summarize the summary, until the AI has the whole world summarized into a single word. He sits alone at his desk, staring at the word, repeating it endlessly, certain he is experiencing everything
Someone has painted dark gray over the 8th and Brannan mural of Ghostbusters characters drawn in cartoon form as if appearing on "The Simpsons". I'm glad I kept at least this one picture. The mural isn't clearly shown in this twilight-sunset photo but at least you can see the Sta-Puf Man.
San Francisco: the Sta-Puf Man mural and Sutro Tower from under Highway 80 at Brannan.
July 7, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Someone has painted dark gray over the 8th and Brannan mural of Ghostbusters characters drawn in cartoon form as if appearing on "The Simpsons". I'm glad I kept at least this one picture. The mural isn't clearly shown in this twilight-sunset photo but at least you can see the Sta-Puf Man.
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This story is incredible. Norman Wong is 70. His great-grandfather was Wong Kim Ark. His father was detained at Angel Island in the 20s when he was a teenager when he came here from China. His mother was interned during WWII. So much immigration history in one family.
“Over a century after his great-grandfather Wong Kim Ark fought to establish birthright citizenship in the U.S., Norman Wong is picking up the torch to defend his family's legacy and the rights of all Americans.” documentedny.com/2025/05/14/s...
May 15, 2025 at 2:02 PM
This story is incredible. Norman Wong is 70. His great-grandfather was Wong Kim Ark. His father was detained at Angel Island in the 20s when he was a teenager when he came here from China. His mother was interned during WWII. So much immigration history in one family.
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I’ll always associate Justice Souter with one of my favorite SCOTUS oral-argument moments, in Chicago v. Morales (anti-gang loitering law), when he asked plaintively why it isn't enough of a "purpose" for being in a public place if you just want to sit outside and watch the cars go by ❤️
May 9, 2025 at 1:21 PM
I’ll always associate Justice Souter with one of my favorite SCOTUS oral-argument moments, in Chicago v. Morales (anti-gang loitering law), when he asked plaintively why it isn't enough of a "purpose" for being in a public place if you just want to sit outside and watch the cars go by ❤️
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Has anyone ever said "My rights are a distraction?" It's always someone else's rights, right?
April 22, 2025 at 4:04 AM
Has anyone ever said "My rights are a distraction?" It's always someone else's rights, right?