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Steve Rhodes
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photojournalist in San Francisco. tigerbeat on twitter & instagram (because I’ve been part of PaperTiger TV & couldn’t get my name in 2007 & 2010). Cover photo of choreographer Jo Kreiter after a Flyaway Productions performance of If I Give You My Sorrow
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California state senator Scott Wiener who will soon announce he is running in 2026 in Nancy Pelosi’s district (he previously said he was going to wait til she announced her retirement)

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Scott Wiener (center) in the San Francisco No Kings march
October 19, 2025 at 2:57 AM
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Yes this is an image from her Facebook
Amber Jones Robinson ••• 25 August 2021 • Matt and I went up to Logan with Tyler to help him move in. Driving away without him was one of the most difficult things l've had to do in a long time. He's so excited to start this journey and it's going to be so amazing for him! - and photos including the one that was photoshopped
September 12, 2025 at 5:32 PM
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At a Labor Day rally in San Francisco
Trump is dead (inside) sign in Dolores Park in San Francisco
September 1, 2025 at 9:21 PM
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Kaitlyn Chen in a Valkyries image with the final score 90 a 59
August 16, 2025 at 1:48 AM
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To remember the real Terry Bollea (Hulk Hogan) watch Nobody Speak: Trials of the Free Press by @brianknappenberger.bsky.social on Netflix & listen to www.cbc.ca/listen/live-...

Nobody Speak was shown at the 60th #SFFILM Festival at the Roxie Theater in 2017

#hulkhogan #gawker #peterthiel
Nobody Speak: Trials of the Free Press announced as a marquee presentation at the 60th San Francisco Film Festival in 2017. SFILM used a photo by Eve Edelheit of Terry Bollea, aka Hulk Hogan, walking out of the courthouse after he was awarded $115 million in damages in his lawsuit against the gossip website Gawker in March 2016. Brian Knappenberger introducing Nobody Speak: Trials of a Free Press at the 60th San Francisco Film Festival at the Roxje Theater in April 2017
July 25, 2025 at 6:02 PM
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Again many of us who live in San Francisco can tell you Gavin Newsom isn’t the best candidate to win in 2028

Newsom is vulnerable in many ways. He’s in the tradition of John Glenn, Rudy Giuliani, Ron DeSantos, Fred Thompson, Rand Paul, Beto O’Rourke & many other “winners” who ran awful campaigns
Rand Paul on cover of Time in 2014 - “the most interesting man in politics” There was another cover on Marco Rubio
July 24, 2025 at 10:16 PM
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The image in the Times story doesn’t give a sense of how large the painting is.

I saw Amy Sherald: American Sublime at SFMOMA in San Francisco December.

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At the Whitney in NYC through August 9

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Looking closely at Trans Forming Liberty, a large painting of a black trans woman in a blue dress as the Statue of Liberty in December 2024 at SFMOMA Wall text at SFMOMA: Trans Forming Liberty 2024 Oil on linen Courtesy the artist and Hauser & Wirth "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free." —Emma Lazarus, from "The New Colossus" (1887), inscribed on the Statue of Liberty In her most recent paintings, Sherald has responded directly to the increasing threats, violence, and legislation against gay, transgender, and gender nonconforming people across the United States. Her recasting of the Statue of Liberty radically redefines this iconic symbol of American freedom and demands that the ideal of acceptance inscribed on the sculpture be applied unequivocally to all citizens, regardless of gender, identity, or sexual orientation.
July 24, 2025 at 8:28 PM
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The @gsvalkyries.bsky.social
pride art was by Faviana Rodriguez www.instagram.com/p/DLVG-MHRVsW/
Art by Faviana Rodriguez at the Valkyries Pride game
June 28, 2025 at 7:14 PM
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And now you can buy prints of some of the photos www.instagram.com/lorenelliott...
lorenelliottphoto • Instagram stories • • • For those inquiring about purchasing prints of SF coyote images... Image of coyote on a hill in San Francisco lorenelliottphoto • Instagram stories Please email me at LorenElliottPhoto@Gmail.com (two T's in Elliott!) Closeup of a coyote lorenelliottphoto • Instagram stories I'm having them done by a pro printing house and then can ship to you. Thanks! Photo of two coyotes
June 2, 2025 at 7:11 PM
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Emily Fromm is posting updates on the mural on instagrams stories www.instagram.com/emilylfromm
Great Highway's new look begins Mural to capture Sunset's past part of larger project for park - front page San Francisco Chronicle Monday Feb 24 Article continues with two photos of the mural & one of Emily walking with a can of paint San Francisco Chronicle Monday Feb 24
February 25, 2025 at 6:08 PM
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No to ethnic cleansing’: over 350 rabbis sign ad in Feb 13 New York Times assailing Trump’s Gaza plan https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/13/rabbis-ad-trump-gaza-plan

Full list which is growing https://www.saynotoethniccleansing.org

#Trump #NYTimes
NEW YORK TIMES, THURS, FEB 13, 2025 ADVERTISEMENT [full page] Trump has called for the removal of all Palestinians from Gaza. Jewish people say NO to ethnic cleansing! Ben Cohen (not full list in ad) Joey soloway Boots Riley Judith Butler Naomi Klein Peter Beinart Sandi DuBowski Tony Kushner Wally Shawn Rabbi Art Donsky, MSW, MPH Rabbi Becky Silverstein Rabbi Bob Rottenberg NEW YORK TIMES, THURS, FEB 13, 2025 ADVERTISEMENT [top of full page ad] Trump has called for the removal of all Palestinians from Gaza. Jewish people say NO to ethnic cleansing! Bottom of full page ad in New York Times with many names of Rabbis & others who signed
February 13, 2025 at 11:44 PM
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Delete Facebook
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Musk is a Nazi

Wake up!

Fascist regime is on the way

FIGHT for Democracy!

Also on 24th St in #SanFrancisco #graffiti #elonmusk #facebook #instagram #twitter #streetphotography
Graffiti: Delete Facebook Insta , WhatsApp Twitter Musk is a Nazi Wake up! Fascist Regime is on the way FIGHT for Democracy!
February 9, 2025 at 9:16 PM
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Delete

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on 24th St in San Francisco #graffiti #streetphotography #facebook #insta #instagram #meta #twitter #elonmusk
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February 9, 2025 at 1:29 AM
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Langston Hughes was photographed by members of Group f.64 when he spent time in Carmel & is included in Around Group f.64: Legacies & Counterhistories in Bay Area Photography through July at #SFMOMA www.sfmoma.org/exhibition/a...
Langston Hughes By-the-Sea "The blue curve of the bay with its rocks and pines here at Carmel is something to go crazy about," Langston Hughes (1901-1967) once wrote to a friend. The young poet was taken with Carmel-by-the-Sea, like many other artists who flocked to the reclusive and peaceful shores of Monterey County. Hughes was invited to the town in 1932 by art patron Noël Sullivan, who offered him a cottage, cook, and German shepherd by the name of Greta. Hughes was a writer and activist, and the intersection of this work informed both his creative pursuits and political organizing in California. He crossed paths with Group f.64-sitting for portraits with several members-but he also complicated the collective's broader relationship with politics. Hughes and Edward Weston separately attended meetings at the Carmel chapter of the Communist-leaning John Reed Club, and Hughes enlisted the local creative community into events for racial justice. Alongside other radical residents of Carmel, Hughes demanded political action for Black life, from advocating for the wrongly imprisoned Scottsboro Boys of Alabama to supporting the 1934 West Coast longshoremen's strikes. Through Hughes, we can ponder the wonders of Carmel's landscapes; the jubilance of leisure, creativity, and friendship; and the weight of anti-Blackness as it permeates the purported tranquility of such beachside retreats. The curators wish to thank Paula B. Freedman for sharing her extensive research on Edward Weston and Langston Hughes's Carmel intersections at early stages in the planning of this gallery. Photo of Langston Hughes by Sibyl Anikeef Cover of Scottsboro Limited by Langston Hughes Wall text for Consuelo Kanaga photo of Hughes in the previous post. Langston Hughes ca. 1934, printed 1992 Gelatin silver print Brooklyn Museum, printed from negative courtesy the Estate of Wallace B. Putnam Writer Langston Hughes regularly visited Northern California. Kanaga and Hughes met through mutual acquaintances, and both frequented Carmel-by-the-Sea's John Reed Club, a leftist intellectual organization. While in Carmel in 1934, Hughes arranged an auction for the Scottsboro Boys Defense Fund, which aided nine young Black men wrongly convicted of raping two white women in Alabama and sentenced to death. Hughes gathered manuscripts, artworks, and other objects from members of his creative community to sell in support of the fund. Kanaga's donation to the cause is not known, but it could have been one of her many portraits of Hughes.
February 8, 2025 at 9:15 PM
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Consuelo Kanaga closes Sunday at #SFMOMA https://www.sfmoma.org/exhibition/consuelo-kanaga-catch-the-spirit/ will be @brooklynmuseum.org March 14 - Aug 3 https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/exhibitions/consuelo-kanaga

Consuelo Kanaga was a reporter then photojournalist @sfchronicle.com
February 7, 2025 at 10:22 PM
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This a a free article The Sound of Fear on Air It is an ominous sign that Morning Joe felt it had to apologize for something I said. By David Frum
December 5, 2024 at 4:18 AM
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Someone printed out or showed Trump a @pbsnews.bsky.social story on the #PressAct

On TruthSocial, he posted “Republicans must kill this bill!”

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@freedom.press.bsky.social on the Press Act
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Republicans must kill this bill! Trump posts on TruthSocial showing a PBS Newshour story with a image of Trump pointing at a reporter [Donald probably didn’t like the image] Text from Newshour story: Political divisions threaten bill to protect press freedom How political divisions bipartisan bill to protect press freedom [Trump wrote in all caps]
November 20, 2024 at 8:15 PM
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Til 6 pm today is the last chance to see Marie Watt at Catherine Clark Gallery in San Francisco cclarkgallery.com/exhibitions/...

Dwelling by Marie Watt can be seen in Dwelling: New Acquisitions at Cantor Arts at Stanford museum.stanford.edu/exhibitions/...
Transformer by Marie Watt Skywoman in neon & reflection in glass & on the floor Transformer by Marie Watt Skywoman in neon & reflection in glass & on the floor Signal (Free Lenny), 2024 by Marie Watt & Telegraph both work with bikes of reclaimed blankets & metal towers Signal (Free Lenny), 2024 Free Leonard Peltier label on blanket with portrait of Peltier Made in America
November 16, 2024 at 6:49 PM
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350 books in alphabetical order by author in The Bookstore of Painted Books by Bridget Watson Payne at Park Life in San Francisco www.instagram.com/p/DBuOJw7zKk8/ through the end of the year www.parklifestore.com
Valencia by Michelle Tea painted on a copy of the book Three shelves in The Bookstore of Painted Books by Bridget Watson Payne at Park Life in San Francisco Two shelves of books in The Bookstore of Painted Books by Bridget Watson Payne at Park Life in San Francisco Poster for The Bookstore of Painted Books by Bridget Watson Payne Nov 15 - Dec 31, 24 & a Park Life store & gallery sign on the sidewalk
November 16, 2024 at 5:34 PM
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Minor Feelings is one of the 350 books in The Bookstore of Painted Books by Bridget Watson Payne at Park Life in San Francisco www.instagram.com/p/DBuOJw7zKk8/ through the end of the year www.parklifestore.com
Minor Feelings by Cathy Park Hong painted on a copy of the book The H section includes books by Tiffany Haddish, Dashiell Hammet, Lorraine Hansberry, & Cathy Park Wong Poster for The Bookshop of Painted Books Bridget Watson Payne Nov 15 - Dec 31, 20024 And a painted Park Life store & gallery sign on the sidewalk
November 16, 2024 at 4:59 PM
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Don’t let the bastards grind you down @margaretatwood.bsky.social

Sunday on Cortland Ave in Bernal Heights in San Francisco
Don’t let the bastards grind you down - M Atwood stenciled posters
November 11, 2024 at 7:06 PM
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There were a couple of these on Valencia St in San Francisco
#ElonMusk
Fuck Elon Musk sticker
October 8, 2024 at 1:11 AM
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Last chance to see, hear, & watch Richard T. Walker NEVER HERE / ALWAYS THERE til 5 pm today at Fraenkel Gallery, 49 Geary, San Francisco fraenkelgallery.com/exhibitions/...
Richard T. Walker NEVER HERE / ALWAYS THERE seen through the door of the gallery Photographing Richard T. Walker NEVER HERE / ALWAYS THERE A speaker in a photograph plays sound in Richard T. Walker NEVER HERE / ALWAYS THERE A video of drums near the water projected in Richard T. Walker NEVER HERE / ALWAYS THERE
October 21, 2023 at 6:10 PM
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Last chance to see Lonely Car Company
by Gus Powell at the Leica Store San Francisco til 4 pm today www.leicastoresf.com/gus-powell-l... They also have many photo books www.leicastoresf.com/bookshop-home
Gus Powell, I could have been an entrepreneur. from The Lonely Ones Photo of a typewriter in a plastic bag & the bottom of an office chair on bricks on a brick wall at the Leica store in San Francisco The Lonely Ones & Family Car Trouble ($24.95) & other books by Glenn Powell in front of a photo by Fred Lyon
October 21, 2023 at 6:02 PM