Susie Cagle
@suze.bsky.social
writing THE END OF THE WEST for Random House / enterprise editor @sfstandard.com / Signal: susiecagle.24
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Susie Cagle
@suze.bsky.social
· Mar 31
THE END OF THE WEST has won the Lukas Work-in-Progress book award. Totally thrilling and slightly anti-climactic, because you can't read it yet. But here's what the judges think. journalism.columbia.edu/news/lukas-p...
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For the last few months, @anyaviolet.bsky.social has delved into SF's mishandling of domestic violence. Today's installment in the series is a heartbreaker.
Family court dysfunction forced one father to become an expert in international child abduction. sfstandard.com/2025/11/09/s...
Family court dysfunction forced one father to become an expert in international child abduction. sfstandard.com/2025/11/09/s...
How one judge’s decision led to a child’s abduction — and exposed a broken system
A toddler was abducted after a court ruling that allowed one of his parents to take him out of the country. Our investigation reveals how SF family court’s secrecy and lack of oversight puts families ...
sfstandard.com
November 9, 2025 at 7:40 PM
For the last few months, @anyaviolet.bsky.social has delved into SF's mishandling of domestic violence. Today's installment in the series is a heartbreaker.
Family court dysfunction forced one father to become an expert in international child abduction. sfstandard.com/2025/11/09/s...
Family court dysfunction forced one father to become an expert in international child abduction. sfstandard.com/2025/11/09/s...
For the last few months, @anyaviolet.bsky.social has delved into SF's mishandling of domestic violence. Today's installment in the series is a heartbreaker.
Family court dysfunction forced one father to become an expert in international child abduction. sfstandard.com/2025/11/09/s...
Family court dysfunction forced one father to become an expert in international child abduction. sfstandard.com/2025/11/09/s...
How one judge’s decision led to a child’s abduction — and exposed a broken system
A toddler was abducted after a court ruling that allowed one of his parents to take him out of the country. Our investigation reveals how SF family court’s secrecy and lack of oversight puts families ...
sfstandard.com
November 9, 2025 at 7:40 PM
For the last few months, @anyaviolet.bsky.social has delved into SF's mishandling of domestic violence. Today's installment in the series is a heartbreaker.
Family court dysfunction forced one father to become an expert in international child abduction. sfstandard.com/2025/11/09/s...
Family court dysfunction forced one father to become an expert in international child abduction. sfstandard.com/2025/11/09/s...
My husband dresses his music venue up every year for Halloween with a Spirit Halloween banner, but things are so grim for Bay Area bars in 2025 that some people think it’s actually a Spirit Halloween now
October 30, 2025 at 1:59 AM
My husband dresses his music venue up every year for Halloween with a Spirit Halloween banner, but things are so grim for Bay Area bars in 2025 that some people think it’s actually a Spirit Halloween now
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Incredible reporting by @sfstandard.com on the non-profit legal team representing people in SF's immigration courts.
Their work to secure same-day release and avoid transfers to remote immigration jails via on-site intake and immediate habeas petitions is life-saving. sfstandard.com/2025/10/20/c...
Their work to secure same-day release and avoid transfers to remote immigration jails via on-site intake and immediate habeas petitions is life-saving. sfstandard.com/2025/10/20/c...
The pro bono attorneys performing miracles at immigration court
Just before the judge arrives at immigration court, attorney Diana Mariscal prepares the dozen migrants for their hearings. She explains in Spanish that there’s a chance ICE will detain them today. Bu...
sfstandard.com
October 21, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Incredible reporting by @sfstandard.com on the non-profit legal team representing people in SF's immigration courts.
Their work to secure same-day release and avoid transfers to remote immigration jails via on-site intake and immediate habeas petitions is life-saving. sfstandard.com/2025/10/20/c...
Their work to secure same-day release and avoid transfers to remote immigration jails via on-site intake and immediate habeas petitions is life-saving. sfstandard.com/2025/10/20/c...
Just before the judge arrives at immigration court, attorney Diana Mariscal prepares the dozen migrants for their hearings. She explains in Spanish that there’s a chance ICE will detain them today. But what comes next surprises them all.
New longread from Jesse Alejandro Cottrell @sfstandard.com:
New longread from Jesse Alejandro Cottrell @sfstandard.com:
The pro bono attorneys performing miracles at immigration court
Just before the judge arrives at immigration court, attorney Diana Mariscal prepares the dozen migrants for their hearings. She explains in Spanish that there’s a chance ICE will detain them today. Bu...
sfstandard.com
October 20, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Just before the judge arrives at immigration court, attorney Diana Mariscal prepares the dozen migrants for their hearings. She explains in Spanish that there’s a chance ICE will detain them today. But what comes next surprises them all.
New longread from Jesse Alejandro Cottrell @sfstandard.com:
New longread from Jesse Alejandro Cottrell @sfstandard.com:
Another thing they don’t tell you is that Play Doh does not in fact come in dozens of colors. This is but the transient state of Play Doh before it matures into its true and only color: brown.
October 17, 2025 at 12:18 AM
Another thing they don’t tell you is that Play Doh does not in fact come in dozens of colors. This is but the transient state of Play Doh before it matures into its true and only color: brown.
Something they don’t tell you about parenthood is how many different types of small batteries you will be forced to own. Sizes and styles you never would’ve dreamed of, each of them bespoke for just one toy, but only sold in packs of 144.
October 17, 2025 at 12:12 AM
Something they don’t tell you about parenthood is how many different types of small batteries you will be forced to own. Sizes and styles you never would’ve dreamed of, each of them bespoke for just one toy, but only sold in packs of 144.
This post-disaster angle always perplexes me. We should do everything possible to support people after a community-destroying fire, but slow rebuilding isn’t necessarily failure. Where I’ve seen towns fast-track rebuilds, they’ve guaranteed the same future hazards. www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
The LA Fires Destroyed 11,000 Homes. Less Than 10% Have Permits to Rebuild
Of the thousands of residents needing to rebuild after this year’s California wildfires, Andy Weyman would seem especially well positioned. The TV and stage director had remodeled his Malibu home just...
www.bloomberg.com
September 26, 2025 at 3:40 AM
This post-disaster angle always perplexes me. We should do everything possible to support people after a community-destroying fire, but slow rebuilding isn’t necessarily failure. Where I’ve seen towns fast-track rebuilds, they’ve guaranteed the same future hazards. www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
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1/ A longtime Wired editor just wrote a mush-brained essay about how he totally missed the political rot of Silicon Valley (& still doesn't get it).
But in the late 1990s, a Wired journalist warned of a toxic ideology bubbling up from tech. Paulina Borsook has largely been erased. Let's change that
But in the late 1990s, a Wired journalist warned of a toxic ideology bubbling up from tech. Paulina Borsook has largely been erased. Let's change that
September 24, 2025 at 6:36 PM
1/ A longtime Wired editor just wrote a mush-brained essay about how he totally missed the political rot of Silicon Valley (& still doesn't get it).
But in the late 1990s, a Wired journalist warned of a toxic ideology bubbling up from tech. Paulina Borsook has largely been erased. Let's change that
But in the late 1990s, a Wired journalist warned of a toxic ideology bubbling up from tech. Paulina Borsook has largely been erased. Let's change that
The U.S. relies on undocumented workers to clean up and rebuild after disasters but will not help when those undocumented people are the disaster victims. bsky.app/profile/zoes...
DHS is barring disaster-relief orgs that receive FEMA money from offering assistance to undocumented people. Shelters, food assistance, search and rescue. A lot of these groups are faith-based, which "could create constitutional concerns." www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2025...
DHS moves to bar aid groups from serving undocumented immigrants
Disaster aid groups said the new contracts would make it harder for nonprofits to help the most vulnerable Americans in the aftermath of a disaster.
www.washingtonpost.com
September 11, 2025 at 2:13 PM
The U.S. relies on undocumented workers to clean up and rebuild after disasters but will not help when those undocumented people are the disaster victims. bsky.app/profile/zoes...
Read this gut punch by Hannah Dreier and you might better understand some of the genuine moral impulse behind a gold rush to fight fire with more tech and fewer people. But you still have to care for the people before the robots can do the job (assuming they ever can). bsky.app/profile/broo...
Such a breathtaking confluence of societal failures in this Hannah Dreier story. You've got crippling healthcare costs, lack of worker protections, worsening climate-fueled wildfires, poverty, lack of opportunity for young men... www.nytimes.com/2025/09/07/u...
‘If I Live to 25, I’ve Lived a Good Life’
www.nytimes.com
September 7, 2025 at 10:49 PM
Read this gut punch by Hannah Dreier and you might better understand some of the genuine moral impulse behind a gold rush to fight fire with more tech and fewer people. But you still have to care for the people before the robots can do the job (assuming they ever can). bsky.app/profile/broo...
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When people say "We used to drink raw milk from our own cow and it was fine,"
That's... usually not the case!
In families w their own cow, the mom usually boiled it before using.
We just forgot bc that's a boring chore that mom did. And who pays attention to that?
youtu.be/vKDPast9WFk
That's... usually not the case!
In families w their own cow, the mom usually boiled it before using.
We just forgot bc that's a boring chore that mom did. And who pays attention to that?
youtu.be/vKDPast9WFk
"Everyone Drank Raw Milk!" No They Didn't
YouTube video by Farm to Taber
youtu.be
September 3, 2025 at 6:30 PM
When people say "We used to drink raw milk from our own cow and it was fine,"
That's... usually not the case!
In families w their own cow, the mom usually boiled it before using.
We just forgot bc that's a boring chore that mom did. And who pays attention to that?
youtu.be/vKDPast9WFk
That's... usually not the case!
In families w their own cow, the mom usually boiled it before using.
We just forgot bc that's a boring chore that mom did. And who pays attention to that?
youtu.be/vKDPast9WFk
“The more Mr. Jones screams at the judge, the more visitation time he gets.”
In SF, 9 out of 10 domestic violence survivors represent themselves in court cases that drag out for twice as long as the state average.
New from Anya Schulz: sfstandard.com/2025/08/28/s...
In SF, 9 out of 10 domestic violence survivors represent themselves in court cases that drag out for twice as long as the state average.
New from Anya Schulz: sfstandard.com/2025/08/28/s...
Survivors tethered to their abusers: An SF court’s lockdown on lives
“The more Mr. Jones screams at the judge, the more visitation time he gets.”
In SF, domestic violence survivors seeking safety find themselves trapped in family court for years, co-parenting with th...
sfstandard.com
August 29, 2025 at 4:59 PM
“The more Mr. Jones screams at the judge, the more visitation time he gets.”
In SF, 9 out of 10 domestic violence survivors represent themselves in court cases that drag out for twice as long as the state average.
New from Anya Schulz: sfstandard.com/2025/08/28/s...
In SF, 9 out of 10 domestic violence survivors represent themselves in court cases that drag out for twice as long as the state average.
New from Anya Schulz: sfstandard.com/2025/08/28/s...
I've been wanting to draw immigration court in SF for years but could never get the assignment. Now I'm an editor so I could make the assignment.
A heartbreaker from Jesse Alejandro Cottrell and Dan Bransfield. sfstandard.com/2025/08/11/a...
A heartbreaker from Jesse Alejandro Cottrell and Dan Bransfield. sfstandard.com/2025/08/11/a...
The children facing quick deportation, alone, in SF immigration court
At rarely seen hearings, unaccompanied teenagers and families with toddlers face lawyers for the government.
sfstandard.com
August 11, 2025 at 9:49 PM
I've been wanting to draw immigration court in SF for years but could never get the assignment. Now I'm an editor so I could make the assignment.
A heartbreaker from Jesse Alejandro Cottrell and Dan Bransfield. sfstandard.com/2025/08/11/a...
A heartbreaker from Jesse Alejandro Cottrell and Dan Bransfield. sfstandard.com/2025/08/11/a...
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Journalist Anas al-Sharif with his daughter Sham and son Salah.
Today's assassination of al-Sharif and four other Al Jazeera staff brings the number of journalists killed by Israel to 237.
www.middleeasteye.net/news/al-jaze...
Today's assassination of al-Sharif and four other Al Jazeera staff brings the number of journalists killed by Israel to 237.
www.middleeasteye.net/news/al-jaze...
August 10, 2025 at 11:43 PM
Journalist Anas al-Sharif with his daughter Sham and son Salah.
Today's assassination of al-Sharif and four other Al Jazeera staff brings the number of journalists killed by Israel to 237.
www.middleeasteye.net/news/al-jaze...
Today's assassination of al-Sharif and four other Al Jazeera staff brings the number of journalists killed by Israel to 237.
www.middleeasteye.net/news/al-jaze...
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An entire team of journalists, outside a hospital in a tent for journalists, killed by Israel. www.bbc.com/news/article...
Anas al-Sharif: Four Al Jazeera journalists killed in Israeli strike near Al-Shifa hospital
Al Jazeera had condemned a "campaign of incitement" by the IDF against its reporters, but the military claims one of the journalists was part of Hamas.
www.bbc.com
August 10, 2025 at 11:43 PM
An entire team of journalists, outside a hospital in a tent for journalists, killed by Israel. www.bbc.com/news/article...
Prop 13 ground zero, Howard Jarvis' old house in L.A., available again after selling just last June but priced so high the sellers took it off the market in May, now for rent at $14,900: www.zillow.com/homedetails/...
515 N Crescent Heights Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90048 | Zillow
This 3020 square feet Single Family home has 5 bedrooms and 5 bathrooms. It is located at 515 N Crescent Heights Blvd, Los Angeles, CA.
www.zillow.com
August 4, 2025 at 9:09 PM
Prop 13 ground zero, Howard Jarvis' old house in L.A., available again after selling just last June but priced so high the sellers took it off the market in May, now for rent at $14,900: www.zillow.com/homedetails/...
"Ramon and Susana planned to wait things out, hoping the immigration raids would fizzle out. ‘But things just got more intense,’ Ramon says. ‘So we decided, no, let’s get out of here.’"
New from Jesse Alejandro Cottrell, on the people hiding, and leaving, before ICE: sfstandard.com/2025/07/23/s...
New from Jesse Alejandro Cottrell, on the people hiding, and leaving, before ICE: sfstandard.com/2025/07/23/s...
Bracing for the ICE storm: SF immigrants go underground
Empty shops, workers staying home, and some even self-deporting. This isn’t the calm before the storm, but an anxious scramble — a collective rush to bar the doors, board up the windows, and get the h...
sfstandard.com
July 23, 2025 at 3:29 PM
"Ramon and Susana planned to wait things out, hoping the immigration raids would fizzle out. ‘But things just got more intense,’ Ramon says. ‘So we decided, no, let’s get out of here.’"
New from Jesse Alejandro Cottrell, on the people hiding, and leaving, before ICE: sfstandard.com/2025/07/23/s...
New from Jesse Alejandro Cottrell, on the people hiding, and leaving, before ICE: sfstandard.com/2025/07/23/s...
There are wildfire scenarios that would see Berkeley’s narrow roads filled to capacity before all residents could evacuate. It’s why the city has suggested preemptive evacuation in past fire weather. Walking is a bad idea imho but there aren’t many good ideas to be had here. bsky.app/profile/rebe...
Here's the language recommending not walking or biking to evacuate.
Too many people have died in California fires because there's not enough road capacity to quickly evacuate everyone by car.
For folks who are able to evacuate by walking or biking, we should encourage that when it's safe.
Too many people have died in California fires because there's not enough road capacity to quickly evacuate everyone by car.
For folks who are able to evacuate by walking or biking, we should encourage that when it's safe.
July 22, 2025 at 7:48 PM
There are wildfire scenarios that would see Berkeley’s narrow roads filled to capacity before all residents could evacuate. It’s why the city has suggested preemptive evacuation in past fire weather. Walking is a bad idea imho but there aren’t many good ideas to be had here. bsky.app/profile/rebe...
The internet reminded me that I drew this ten years ago.
Now everyone seems even more certain that the robots are taking our jobs imminently, but UBI seems further away than ever.
Now everyone seems even more certain that the robots are taking our jobs imminently, but UBI seems further away than ever.
July 3, 2025 at 1:21 AM
The internet reminded me that I drew this ten years ago.
Now everyone seems even more certain that the robots are taking our jobs imminently, but UBI seems further away than ever.
Now everyone seems even more certain that the robots are taking our jobs imminently, but UBI seems further away than ever.
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hard to predict the vibes tomorrow, but historically the instigators most likely to disrupt a protest with violence are the police
June 14, 2025 at 1:26 AM
hard to predict the vibes tomorrow, but historically the instigators most likely to disrupt a protest with violence are the police
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Come work at @freedom.press, and help us keep journalists and whistleblowers safe!
We have an important job opening for the manager of our SecureDrop team. Apply in the next week, and reach out if you have questions:
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Are you a software engineer with management experience and a passion for open-source projects and press freedom?
@freedom.press is hiring an engineering manager for its @securedrop.org team.
Learn more and apply here: freedom.press/careers/job/...
@freedom.press is hiring an engineering manager for its @securedrop.org team.
Learn more and apply here: freedom.press/careers/job/...
June 12, 2025 at 6:42 PM
Come work at @freedom.press, and help us keep journalists and whistleblowers safe!
We have an important job opening for the manager of our SecureDrop team. Apply in the next week, and reach out if you have questions:
We have an important job opening for the manager of our SecureDrop team. Apply in the next week, and reach out if you have questions:
Me, weakly, pleading, cold and near death on the hill:
“No more ‘clashes’ in headlines”
“No more ‘clashes’ in headlines”
June 9, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Me, weakly, pleading, cold and near death on the hill:
“No more ‘clashes’ in headlines”
“No more ‘clashes’ in headlines”