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@NualaBishari

2 years

Hello! I have some *professional* news to announce! Next week I start a new role as a columnist and editorial writer at @sfchronicle . I’m really excited to blend investigative reporting and opinion writing, and to continue covering this city. More soon!

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NEW: Over the past 10 months, as part of a fellowship with @ProPublica and @SFPublicPress , I’ve investigated SF’s homelessness-to-housing process. One of my findings: we have a major vacancy problem in our permanent supportive housing. 1/4

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The narrative that homeless people’s personal failings led to their state of despair have made it easy to dehumanize them. Why treat them as people, many seem to think, when they are such an incredible nuisance? New, for @sfchronicle :

Be outraged, but don’t be shocked that an S.F. gallery owner sprayed a homeless woman

There is an epidemic of violence happening against homeless people in San Francisco....

www.sfchronicle.com

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@NualaBishari

1 year

New column: When a young, unhoused, hungry, Black trans person is shot and killed over $14 worth of candy, it’s time for a serious moment of reckoning.

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Some news! I'm so excited to partner with @SFPublicPress and @propublica for a year-long investigation into homelessness in San Francisco.

Public Press Reporter Nuala Bishari Selected for ProPublica Local Reporting Network Fellowship

ProPublica, a national nonprofit investigative journalism organization, has selected San Francisco Public Press reporter Nuala Bishari as one of three fellows for its Local Reporting Network. Bishari...

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@NualaBishari

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NEW: In a bizarre twist, SF has pulled all mental health clinicians from its only mobile crisis response team. Those clinicians say this is a massive step backward in having an effective, compassionate alternative to police.

‘Policing in red rather than blue’: SF’s street crisis response team is in crisis

San Francisco’s Street Crisis Response Team was working well: In two years it responded...

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@NualaBishari

2 years

It finally happened. "The new lawsuit in San Francisco alleges the city violates Martin v. Boise, the Eighth Amendment and California’s Constitution."

S.F. sued over homeless camp sweeps. Advocates say it would take $4.8 billion to build homes for...

The lawsuit alleges San Francisco and Mayor London Breed engage in mass criminalization of...

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@NualaBishari

3 years

Is anyone else in the Bay Area suffering from terrible allergies? I don’t want to waste a COVID test on what I’m 99% sure is my respiratory system having a panic attack over plant sex, but also wow this fatigue.

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This morning I watched a talented group of people save two lives in the Tenderloin. They were there as part of a pop-up overdose prevention center, launched without the city's knowledge or permission on #OverdoseAwarenessDay .

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@NualaBishari

1 year

Is this really the best use of our resources, SF 😣

Joe Rivano Barros

@jrivanob

1 year

They’re taking photos of the zip-tied teens one by one and putting them in the back of their vans There is a large pile of zip ties on the ground, the majority of the group is still awaiting processing There are at least four vans here to cart them off

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2 years

It seems like everyone's forgotten this 2011 incident where an SFPD robot seriously fumbled a bag full of grenades. Then ran over them.

SFPD FAIL: Robot fumbles grenade

Sometimes a robot just can’t replace a human, as was the case this morning in Potrero Hill when the San…

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@NualaBishari

3 years

@darth Is there anything better than puppy naps Darth

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I carry naloxone everywhere I go because I care about people who use drugs, and I want them to live. Last week, I finally had to use it. My latest for @sfchronicle -

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2 years

I’ve been writing about SF’s sweeps for four years. The trauma of covering them (let alone experiencing them!) has been intense, and honestly despite being a deep optimist, I’d kind of given up on anything changing. Tonight, that finally happened.

HDizz

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BREAKING: Judge grants partial preliminary injunction and orders San Francisco to stop sweeps as we know them!!

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2 years

Weather arriving at Stinson Beach vs weather an hour later 😂 thanks @KarlTheFog

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It’s unlikely Breed’s absence from the parade will be noticed by most attendees. But the symbolism of her support holds weight at a time when politicians are threatening the rights of queer people across the country.

As LGBTQ rights come under attack across the country, S.F. officials worry about police uniforms

Instead of participating in a valuable conversation about community safety at Pride,...

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@NualaBishari

2 years

Anyone else in the Bay Area have a dog on a total bathroom strike? 🌧️

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@NualaBishari

4 months

Seeing my old job replaced by AI is surreal. Old-fashioned shoe-leather reporting has been replaced by fake people who’ve never set foot in any of the neighborhoods they write about — because they don’t have feet. My latest for @sfchronicle

What it’s like to watch AI colonize your old job

From community journalism to farmed AI content, Hoodline’s devolution raises...

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@NualaBishari

1 year

Exclusive: St. James Infirmary is closing, ending its 24-year legacy of serving San Francisco's sex worker and trans communities. Now, its vital programs are at risk.

In S.F., one of the only trans homeless shelters in America is in danger

St. James Infirmary is shutting its doors, leaving key programs to help trans homeless...

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@NualaBishari

3 years

New city data suggests SF could be in violation of Martin vs Boise, a 2018 ruling which requires cities provide adequate shelter bed options for homeless people before conducting sweeps

Report Calls SF’s Homeless Sweeps Practices Illegal

On Thursday, a damning report dropped, offering new data on San Francisco’s practice of sweeping encampments. Authored by the Coalition on Homelessness, the report alleges the Healthy Streets...

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@NualaBishari

2 years

Homeless sweeps have always been a veneer, an attempt to act like the city is responding to its residents’ concerns over the homelessness crisis, while doing very little to remediate it. This lawsuit may finally hold SF to account.

Will a new lawsuit finally convince San Francisco its homeless sweeps are futile?

Traumatic, violating, and cruel: for years, San Francisco’s practice of sweeping its...

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@NualaBishari

2 years

The Tenderloin Center figured out how to keep people alive. Knowing that and not having a replacement at the ready is unconscionable. Now more than ever, overdose deaths will be the result of policy failures and a lack of political will.

‘There’s going to be bodies everywhere’: Why S.F.’s streets are about to get even grimmer

The Tenderloin Center provided lifesaving services for homeless people and those who use...

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@NualaBishari

3 years

Interesting: according to this, only 32% of unhoused people in the TL accepted a congregate shelter bed in recent months. But the city’s own data from July 2020 shows that when it was offering people shelter-in-place hotel rooms, 83% accepted.

Report Calls SF’s Homeless Sweeps Practices Illegal

On Thursday, a damning report dropped, offering new data on San Francisco’s practice of sweeping encampments. Authored by the Coalition on Homelessness, the report alleges the Healthy Streets...

www.sfpublicpress.org

London Breed

@LondonBreed

3 years

In recent months our homelessness outreach system held 45 operations in the TL. 122 people went to shelter, 256 people declined. By opening a new linkage center in the TL under my emergency declaration, we'll have a new option to connect folks with services & treatment.

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3 years

I KNOW I’m not the first to tweet about this, but I’m trying to get from the Mission to Haight tonight and… what?! 33 and J have no predictions. Flywheel doesn’t have drivers. Lyft is $37 to go 1.5 miles. This is just ridiculous. Really wish I’d brought my bike.

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@NualaBishari

1 year

“America talks a lot about fear, but we seldom ask whose fear is it that America cares about. We don’t ask because we’d quickly discern that it’s not those who should be most afraid, those who this country beats down and discards.” @msolurin

There Isn’t Anything to Debate About Jordan Neely’s Killing

The focus should be on the ex-Marine who choked someone to death.

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@NualaBishari

3 years

Devastated. During the 3 years I worked here the threat of closure constantly loomed over our fierce tiny team, but we poured our hearts into creating the best alt-weekly we could. So sad for the existing staff and brilliant freelancers. What a loss.

SF Weekly is Shutting Down for an "Indefinite Hiatus" - Broke-Ass Stuart's Website

Well, SF Weekly is shutting down. Maybe not permanently, but certainly indefinitely. The unfortunate news came down from management on Friday. The paper will stop printing at the end of this month...

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@NualaBishari

3 years

How is Fleet Week still a thing

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@NualaBishari

1 year

NEW COLUMN: @hooleil and I tackle the closure of the Civic Center Whole Foods, a 63,737 sq ft store stocked with gourmet cheese and sustainable caviar. (Spoiler alert: we're not convinced one of the biggest corporations in the world is a victim.)

Whole Foods says its Civic Center location closed over safety concerns. That’s not the whole story

San Francisco’s liberalism didn’t cause the corporation’s Civic Center closure. Bad...

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@NualaBishari

2 years

It rained on @jachristian ’s wedding day and it was absolutely *exquisite* ❤️🌦️🌈 So happy for this incredible couple that I love so much!

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@NualaBishari

2 years

WOW. This is... almost real.

Han Li 李晗

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@NualaBishari LOLLLLLLLL

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3 years

There are 888 units of permanent supportive housing sitting empty, even as 1,633 homeless people sit on a waitlist. SF says 400 of those have been waiting to be connected to a home for more than a year. 2/4

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@NualaBishari

8 months

Very proud to work for @sfchronicle today ❤️ may these lives never be forgotten.

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@NualaBishari

1 year

Banko Brown faced huge waitlists and a shortage of resources in his hunt for safe housing. “He said ‘I need housing around other trans people. When they place me in the binary … I’m experiencing violence on both ends’.”

Why couldn’t S.F. house Banko Brown before he was shot at Walgreens?

Despite recent efforts to help homeless trans people get off the street, there simply...

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@NualaBishari

1 year

I am *pretty psyched* wild parrots were chosen as SF’s official animal — as evidenced by this tattoo (from 2019, how did I know?!)

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@NualaBishari

2 years

ICYMI 😉

Why is S.F.’s drug crisis so out of control? Stop blaming Chesa and look at Walgreens

In recent years, Walgreens has positioned itself as a victim of rampant crime. But an...

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@NualaBishari

5 months

“The reality is that SF’s politics — progressive and moderate alike — are exceptionally toxic. The way our political system functions, and the cronyism embedded within it, allows abusive people to fail up without consequence.” Great piece by @nadiarahmansf

How San Francisco’s toxic political culture enables abusers

Accusations about repeated sexual abuse by rising political star Jon Jacobo were no...

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@NualaBishari

1 year

Post eviction, residents of Oakland’s Wood Street encampment have largely been forgotten. But they’re still around, still fighting for community — and still throwing epic parties 💜

It was one of the biggest homeless sweeps in California history. Here’s what happened after

As arguments around homeless sweeps heat up in San Francisco and across the state, former...

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@NualaBishari

1 year

“We have to ask the uncomfortable questions: Why are men so afraid? Why are they so fragile that they shoot or harm first and ask questions later? Why do they believe death or injury is an appropriate response to human fallibility?”

Opinion | Making People Uncomfortable Can Now Get You Killed (Published 2023)

People who deem themselves judge, jury and executioner walk among us, and we have no real way of knowing when they will turn on us.

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@NualaBishari

2 years

“In rejecting the bill, Newsom appears to have adopted the national Democratic Party playbook of equivocating, triangulating and ultimately capitulating in the face of politically tough decisions that would make for good, progressive policy.”

Editorial: Political cowardice wins the day in California, again, on supervised drug sites

Gov. Gavin Newsom vetoed SB57, which would have established safe drug consumption site...

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@NualaBishari

1 year

“People use drugs to alleviate their pain and misery. That need is what fuels the drug economy, not Honduran migrants.”

Deporting Honduran migrants won’t solve S.F.’s drug crisis. The Chronicle’s investigation shows why

The key to any antidrug strategy is the one thing San Francisco, and California more...

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@NualaBishari

9 months

Thrilled to get 1st place from @SFPressClub in the "non-daily newspapers - investigative reporting category" for my @SFPublicPress @propublica stories examining the path from homelessness to housing in San Francisco. Read them here:

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@NualaBishari

3 years

Capitalism breeds innovation.

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@NualaBishari

1 year

Oooh boy, sounds like Walgreens hasn't quite figured out how to sell Narcan over the counter yet 😬 But they COULD figure out how to dispense 6.4M opioid pills in San Francisco between 2006 and 2020, including 86,000 prescriptions from *one doctor* 🤔

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@NualaBishari

2 years

I regret to inform you the Craigslist’s Bay Area furniture for sale section has been taken over by office pod “phone booths.”

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@NualaBishari

1 year

I’m obsessed with a massive coast live oak in East Oakland, and went down a rabbit hole trying to uncover its history

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@NualaBishari

3 years

At the annual Homeless Persons Memorial, which somehow feels extra heartbreaking this year, not just because I knew several whose names are listed. More than 370 names are being read — but it’s not a complete list; the Medical Examiner only provided names through October.

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@NualaBishari

2 years

“In painting San Francisco as a rogue hellhole, and itself as a victim, Walgreens successfully distracted from any responsibility in perpetuating what is arguably the city’s biggest and most pernicious drug crime.”

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@NualaBishari

4 years

NEW for @SFPublicPress : San Francisco has 766 units of permanent supportive housing sitting empty, a 9.9% vacancy rate.

1 in 10 SF Housing Units for Homeless Sit Vacant

Nearly one in every 10 of San Francisco’s permanent supportive housing units — earmarked for people experiencing homelessness — is now sitting empty. The number of vacant units has climbed 58% since...

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@NualaBishari

2 years

Got a full page for my column in the @sfchronicle today (so of course bought out a 7-11’s entire stock of Sunday papers). Read it here!

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@NualaBishari

3 years

🚨 big story coming tomorrow... 👀

Nuala

@NualaBishari

4 years

Some news! I'm so excited to partner with @SFPublicPress and @propublica for a year-long investigation into homelessness in San Francisco.

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@NualaBishari

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Bruce’s alcohol use was so extreme he almost lost use of his legs. Lisa had frequent, dangerous seizures. A managed alcohol program run by @SF_DPH saved their lives. My latest for @sfchronicle

This program gives some S.F. residents free alcohol. Why it’s not as controversial as it sounds

San Francisco’s managed alcohol program served its vulnerable population quietly until...

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@NualaBishari

2 months

A basic income program for pregnant Black women, a small anti-affirmative action group, and a SF lawsuit. I thought this was a simple story, but then I found connections to right-wing conspiracy theorists and the Heritage Foundation. New for @sfchronicle :

This right-wing lawsuit against San Francisco is a preview of what’s to come under Trump and...

A small but powerful group has filed a lawsuit against San Francisco over several small...

www.sfchronicle.com

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@NualaBishari

1 year

I set up my brand spanking new 50 gallon rain barrel 22 hours ago and it’s already full 😳 🌧️

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@NualaBishari

2 years

NEW for @propublica & @sfpublicpress : If homeless people in SF want housing, they must answer 16 questions, which are then scored by an algorithm. But can pre-written questions and a limited set of answers capture the nuances of human experience? 1/4

San Francisco Rations Housing by Scoring Homeless People’s Trauma. By Design, Most Fail to Qualify.

Co-published with ProPublica. Tabitha Davis had just lost twins in childbirth and was facing homelessness. The 23-year-old had slept on friends’ floors for the first seven months of her pregnancy,...

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@NualaBishari

8 months

Ummm I don’t have a choice 🤷‍♀️

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2 years

House hunting in the Bay Area: for $4,000 a month you can live with this bizarre design decision

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2 years

My mom just texted me to say she prints out my columns and stores them "with my first grade stories." 37 years old and still her kid.

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@NualaBishari

3 years

Just to echo what everyone else is saying: getting a timely COVID-19 test in San Francisco right now is really fucking difficult. Some days it feels like we've learned nothing.

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@NualaBishari

6 months

Ciara was hit head on by a car fleeing SFPD at 80mph. Her story is important: just because Prop E passed doesn’t mean police should launch more reckless car chases. My latest for @sfchronicle :

She was collateral damage from a police chase. Can S.F. implement Prop. E to avoid more stories...

Voters just granted police permission to launch more car chases. What can be done to make...

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@NualaBishari

3 years

Edward Norton??

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3 years

Most random parklet design award goes to Eddie’s Cafe

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"We can’t simply wait for more people to die on our streets before we look at how to fix them," says the @sfchronicle editorial board.

What Paris can teach San Francisco about safe streets in aftermath of West Portal crash

After the death of a family of four, San Francisco is on track to surpass the 25...

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@NualaBishari

3 years

Why are so many of SF’s permanent supportive housing units vacant? There are myriad reasons, but I drilled into two big ones as part of this investigation. 3/4

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@NualaBishari

1 year

"It is crucial that judges decide matters based on their best view of the law and facts in each case, not to please voters in the next election."

San Francisco and Newsom’s targeting of judges is a threat to judicial independence

Everyone understandably wants to feel safe. But we should also want judges to decide...

www.sfchronicle.com

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@NualaBishari

3 years

PSA: the wet parks in SF smell spectacular today 🥰

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@NualaBishari

3 years

Bravo, @Raemondjjjj . This is the best article I’ve read on fnnch yet. “In the past 12 months, San Francisco has become so oversaturated with fnnch’s honey bears that what was once an occasional sugar rush now feels like a nausea-inducing force-feeding.”

How fnnch’s Honey Bears Became the Most Despised Street Art in San Francisco | KQED

As the honey bears proliferate across San Francisco, local artists confront fnnch on walls, in person and online.

www.kqed.org

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@NualaBishari

1 year

New!

What exactly is the point of those new ‘Fentalife’ ads in the Tenderloin?

A series of new ads from a San Francisco political action group are confusing and deeply...

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@NualaBishari

3 years

This chronic vacancy crisis raises an important question: as SF continues to acquire more permanent supportive housing, how fast will it actually be able to fill it? 4/4

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@NualaBishari

6 months

After a COVID infection in December, I can no longer drink alcohol without feeling deeply fatigued and unwell. I investigated why for my latest @sfchronicle column, getting blood work done and talking to experts at Stanford. Here’s what I found out:

My body can’t tolerate alcohol anymore after getting COVID. I’m not alone

A mild case of COVID in December led to newfound intolerance to alcohol. My doctor...

www.sfchronicle.com

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@NualaBishari

2 years

I can't put into words how absolutely psyched I am that @hooleil is joining the @sfc_opinions team! We are going to do some STUFF and it will be awesome.

Soleil Ho moves to The Chronicle's Opinion section

The former Restaurant Critic will take on a new role as columnist and cultural critic.

www.sfchronicle.com

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@NualaBishari

4 months

Wait. What? Our elected officials weren’t talking about the fentanyl crisis before the “That’s Fentalife!” campaign?? That is quite a claim!

J.D. Morris

@thejdmorris

4 months

BREAKING: TogetherSF Action has canceled its Monday SF mayoral debate after Mayor Breed, Aaron Peskin and Daniel Lurie all pulled out. Mark Farrell and Ahsha Safai were willing to debate each other, but Together just pulled the plug in the email below.

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3 years

I acquired some new friends this weekend!

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It’s a good day to bike around with your best friend.

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For the last month I’ve fostered 5 kittens through Oakland Animal Services. The city is seeing a kitten boom, with the population surging year over year. What do you do if you find a litter? I break it down in @sfchronicle : (photos by @jachristian )

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@NualaBishari

3 years

Me: oh look, an adorable little white spider Spider: I HAVE A HUMAN FACE

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3 years

@CVielehr @bclemms Fire is so bizarre… look at that one house (the violin shop??) that was spared.

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@NualaBishari

3 years

GAHHH. Why must all good things be bought and ruined?

Charlotte Clymer 🇺🇦

@cmclymer

3 years

Wordle Jan. 2022 -- Jan. 2022 RIP.

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Someone is enjoying this warm weather.

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1 year

“In a study we recently conducted with over 100 Latino substance users in SF, we found that a significant percentage of our participants did not access drug treatment services due to fears of being intercepted by police or immigration authorities.”

No, deporting undocumented immigrants won’t solve the fentanyl crisis

After several decades of merging anti-drug efforts with immigration enforcement, it is...

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@NualaBishari

1 year

I started this on Tues. and only got to 27% - bizarre, as when I can’t sleep I list SF street names (seriously). I was so out of it and was like “huh maybe I’ll take a COVID test.” Aaaand it was positive. So if your score is lower than you think it should be… test for COVID? 😝

chris arvin

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sf friends, here's my lil' challenge for you: what % of san francisco's street network can you name from memory? just start typing names and press enter :)

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11 months

I wrote about crows in downtown Oakland, and how their growth in numbers means more poop! (amazing spooky photo by @jachristian )

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@NualaBishari

4 years

Over the past few weeks, the city has quietly shifted duties away from the Department of Homelessness and created a new office. I got the scoop:

SF Creates New Office Tasked With Relocating Homeless Hotel Residents

A new city agency, founded in the wake of rising concerns about the Department of Homelessness and Supportive Housing’s ability to house the city’s homeless population, aims to bring 2,000 people...

www.sfpublicpress.org

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@NualaBishari

9 months

"We can step aside the facile and deeply cynical ideas that siding with victims means getting revenge; that mass death is ever justified; and that seeking peace through non-violent means means letting 'bad guys' get off scot-free." 👏 @hooleil

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@NualaBishari

2 years

Spending the afternoon negotiating fair wages with @SFCGuild and my bestie @jachristian !

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@NualaBishari

3 years

Ed Yong's reaction to winning a Pulitzer is A+

Ed Yong is not here

@edyong209

3 years

I’ll be splitting the prize money between everyone who worked on my pieces last year—every editor, copy editor, fact checker, artist, and more. Even when individuals win Pulitzers, their work depends on a community. I want to honor mine.

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@NualaBishari

3 years

PSA for other desperate, San Francisco-based New Mexicans: this green chile from Bi-Rite is LEGIT.

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@NualaBishari

3 years

Oops.

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@NualaBishari

1 year

"I can assure you that lasting recovery can’t be rushed or forced. Building trust and relationships is foundational for behavioral change; it enables people to think differently and begin to take positive steps to improve their health."

Here’s the truth of what happened inside S.F.’s controversial Tenderloin Center

For 11 months, I helped run one of the most innovative drug overdose prevention center...

www.sfchronicle.com

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@NualaBishari

3 years

Less than what I paid last year as a freelance journalist. Fuck this.

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@NualaBishari

3 years

With omicron surging, it's no surprise people may be hesitant to accept a bed in a large facility. Remember when 92 people got COVID at a congregate shelter in March 2020?

'It could have been averted': How 92 residents at a San Francisco homeless shelter got Covid-19

Outbreak at MSC South shelter comes after weeks of advocates warning city it needed to do more to protect homeless people

www.theguardian.com

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@NualaBishari

11 months

It’s been a really depressing and demoralizing day mourning the newsroom’s loss of this amazing talent. I can’t imagine what it’ll be like to walk into work and not see some of my dearest friends 💔

San Francisco Chronicle Guild

@SFCGuild

11 months

We are devastated to learn of management’s decision to lay off eight talented members of our newsroom, including six Guild members, from the Chronicle's SFNext team and audio team.

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@NualaBishari

2 years

This is amazing

Joe Eskenazi

@EskSF

2 years

San Francisco is rotting and dying — and here's why I'm leaving. Yes, now *you too* can write your own San Francisco dystopia Mad Libs-type game!

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@NualaBishari

3 years

Just got a call from US Customs and Border Control (which according to the area code is based in Mountain View CA) to tell me they found my “courier filled with drugs.” No idea what the end game is but this is the best spam call I’ve had in weeks!

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@NualaBishari

2 years

NEW for @sfchronicle : There’s a difference between cracking down on the corporate greed that resulted in the prescription opioid epidemic and instituting rules so strict and time-consuming that patients can’t access the drugs they legitimately need.

How a new kind of drug crisis is descending on the Bay Area

As the federal government, drug distributors and pharmacies try to improve oversight in...

www.sfchronicle.com

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@NualaBishari

2 years

Phew, finally a NYTimes take on the Bay Area I can get behind. This is such a beautifully executed story. Worth a full read.

The Elusive Future of San Francisco’s Fog (Published 2022)

Its ebb and flow has long defined life along the California coast. Now, some scientists fear climate change is causing an ethereal companion to fade away.

www.nytimes.com

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@NualaBishari

3 years

Doing investigative reporting really killed my Twitter persona 😂 just over here deleting drafts of tweets, trying not to scoop myself.

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@NualaBishari

1 year

These weird “lethal dose” calculations are just going to keep being pushed, aren’t they 🙃

San Francisco Chronicle

@sfchronicle

1 year

OPINION: "Sensationalizing the number of people fentanyl can kill doesn't get us any closer to solving this public health crisis," writes @nualabishari .

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@NualaBishari

1 year

Just tried to book a COVID booster — because of the summer surge, and the fact that I'm flying to see my parents who have pre-existing conditions — and was told I'm not eligible until *August 2049* 😳 So that's nice.

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@NualaBishari

1 year

SF could rethink how it responds to symptoms of extreme poverty and design policies that do not violate the law or constitutional rights. Or it could fight to retain the status quo, even as these tactics are proven to be ineffective.

Lawsuits are stymieing San Francisco’s homeless sweeps and vehicle tows. That’s a good thing

S.F. seems determined to protect the status quo when it comes to homeless sweeps and...

www.sfchronicle.com

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@NualaBishari

3 years

I don't know why our obsession with capitalism continues to astound me, but it does. "Do your best to avoid catching COVID" is a mind blowing public health recommendation, but okay!

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