1/For years, the mother of mass shooter Elliot Rogers has been quietly helping experts prevent future massacres. For the past two years, she's been talking to Mark Follman. This is an important story, unlike any other: motherjones.com/criminal-justi…

The data London Breed is promoting only tells part of the story from S.F.’s new point-time-count.

While the number of folks in tents and structures is down 13%, overall homelessness is up 7%. Vehicular is up 37% and family up 94%.

Full picture here: sfchronicle.com/sf/article/sf-…

S.F. homelessness rises despite city spending hundreds of millions of dollars, new count shows sfchronicle.com/sf/article/sf-… via San Francisco Chronicle

Perry was convicted even without the jurors seeing an impressive cache of his violent and racist messages, including “I might go to Dallas to shoot looters.'

The governor's seen that cache, though, and still wants to pardon him

Daniel Perry was an explicit racist and white supremacist who posted repeatedly that he wanted to go to a BLM protests and shoot somebody, and eventually he did. This really sends a message.

San Francisco’s “summer” weather is in full swing, with the fog and wind making for a chilly week in the city.

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A year ago, San Francisco launched an experiment to reduce the number of homeless-related calls police were responding to.

The new program has succeeded at that, but few calls are leading to shelter or treatment placements. w/ St. John Barned-Smith ⚔️

sfchronicle.com/sf/article/hea…

NEW: S.F. experiment is sending police on fewer homeless calls. Here’s how it's going sfchronicle.com/sf/article/hea…

A GOP Texas school board member campaigned against schools indoctrinating kids. Then she read the curriculum.

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After a borderland shootout, a 100-year-old battle for the truth wapo.st/3QN0OZc

Hey Houston Public Media, what gives?

BREAKING: The Justice Department says Boeing has violated an agreement that shielded it from prosecution after the 737 Max crashes. apnews.com/article/boeing…

Tara and Barba have been killing it on this story. Give it a read

NEW A stalled condor habitat is one of several recent infrastructure projects at the San Francisco Zoo that have faced delays or remain unfinished, raising questions about its plan to host giant pandas.
By Michael Barba and me
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EPA ‘failed to protect’ East Palestine residents after train derailment: Whistleblower
—Whistleblower Robert Kroutil is calling the agency's testing into doubt
—He said agency also told him not to use the words 'East Palestine' in emails
—Residents have reported ongoing health

Pandas at the S.F. Zoo? Some say it should fix ‘dilapidated’ conditions first sfchronicle.com/sf/article/zoo… via San Francisco Chronicle

Abbott's tenure as Governor is old enough to beat you at Fortnite and the age of Republican single party control in Texas is old enough to drink but somehow Abbott thinks he isn't responsible for the school budget crisis

NEW:

'A stalled condor habitat is one of several recent projects at the S.F. Zoo that have faced delays or remain unfinished, raising questions about whether it is equipped to take on its most ambitious project: hosting pandas.'

By Tara Duggan & Michael Barba sfchronicle.com/sf/article/zoo…

A “managed alcohol program” gives homeless people free booze in San Francisco.

It may sound counterintuitive, experts say, but managed alcohol programs can help keep people off the streets and out of emergency rooms, jails — or the morgue. trib.al/9Q2dchM