Jul 13, 2026
May 1979: queer protesters set cop cars ablaze in San Francisco’s Civic Center, in response to cop-turned-politician Dan White's relatively light sentence for the assassination of gay politician Harvey Milk and the Mayor, George Moscone.
Four people who were there describe the riots, and the related police riots where...
Jul 6, 2026
Max Blue is one of San Francisco's few remaining art critics in legacy media (see: his column in SF Examiner); he also contributes regularly to Hyperallergic.
Max gives the best brief introduction of the big art movements San Francisco is most well known for, and names names including:
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BXP, the company that...
Jul 1, 2026
Brutal honesty is all we have for Boots Riley's overstuffed filmic ode to shoplifters and maybe communism, I Love Boosters.
Topics discussed include:
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The Coup's early work
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Betrayal by union leaders
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Megan Ellison, the alleged black sheep of the Zionist Ellison dynasty
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Tax credits they give you to film a movie set...
Jun 17, 2026
A monologue revisiting a Truthout piece I wrote back in 2014 for this solo episode and stroll down memory lane featuring a Gay Shame action, crying in eviction court, and one of eviction lawyer Daniel Bornstein’s boring-ass webinars where he explains the tricks of his trade.
Daniel (who runs Bornstein Law—formerly...
Jun 1, 2026
Ian covers local oligarchs and the surveillance state for 48Hills and The Phoenix Project. We talk about FLOCK adding microphones to their camera network, state repression after the anti-cop protests of summer 2020, and how crypto oligarch Chris Larsen bought off the Trump regime.