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FCC aggressively shut down nearly 1,400 violators this year; new consumer threats emerge from AI deepfakes, SIM-swapping Four years after Congress required phone companies to start thwarting scam and telemarketing robocalls, we’re getting more of these annoying and sometimes Read More » The post New report: Spam robocalls hit 6-year high as fewer phone companies protect us appeared first on Beyond Chron.| Beyond Chron
The Eddy and Gough Streets side of Jefferson Square Park was damaged by vandalism last year. One of the vandals, Ignacio Dzul AKA Nacho,39, still lives at the park (moving around between the Gough side and the Eddy side of Read More » The post Supervisor Sherrill Works to Protect Jefferson Square Park appeared first on Beyond Chron.| Beyond Chron
Jafar Panahi, director of “It Was Just An Accident,” does not direct films in the most anodyne sense of the phrase. The best of his works do more than make leaps for the low-hanging fruit of entertaining the viewer fortunate Read More » The post “It Was Just An Accident” and “The Invisible Mammal”–Reviews appeared first on Beyond Chron.| Beyond Chron
Will the Oct 18 No Kings protests equal or surpass the 5 million who marched last June? Trump’s poll numbers keep dropping with his escalating attacks on democracy. People are hungrier than ever for ways to act and resist. And Read More » The post The Traps of “If You Build it They Will Come”—Have Event Maps Displaced Organizing? appeared first on Beyond Chron.| Beyond Chron
In communities across San Francisco and the nation, we are facing a devastating truth: fentanyl has changed everything. For decades, public health strategies included harm reduction methods such as distributing pipes, foil, or other paraphernalia in the name of reducing Read More » The post No Safe Use: End Distribution of Smoking Paraphernalia, Expand Drug-Free Environments appeared first on Beyond Chron.| Beyond Chron
“Bamako Chic:Threads Of Power, Color, And Culture,” the new short from the longtime Les Blank collaborator Maureen Gosling and cultural anthropologist Maxine Downs, Ph.D., is the good kind of introduction to a facet of a culture different from that of the Western viewer. It piques curiosity and spurs admiration of yet another example of the […]| Beyond Chron
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The San Francisco Unified School District (SFUSD) aims for 70% third-grade literacy by October 2027—a bold goal that has been off track for two years. We’re at 49-52% now, and we can do much better. We should not at all be pleased with making progress to 20% literacy for african american students and 16% literacy […]| Beyond Chron
America has now abandoned democracy and has slid into totalitarianism and fascism. Garrett Graff points out looking for the specific day this happened is a pointless exercise. The process consisted of small steps that cumulatively did not trigger mass alarms. Certainly, the lack of public outrage over the Orange Rapist’s recent “joke” that Americans wanted […]| Beyond Chron
Barack Obama has been careful to avoid obvious hints as to his choice of running mate, forcing pundits to assemble the smallest of clues. This week, one-time frontrunner Virginia Governor Tim Kaine saw his chances fall dramatically when his predecessor, Mark Warner, was assigned to give the keynote Convention speech; Obama is not likely to […]| Beyond Chron
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Let’s have some big changes from the San Francisco Unified School District as we start this first week of school and map out where we want to be when school ends in June. Thankfully we have seen many concerns go to our rear view. The work ahead of increasing attendance and helping students read and […]| Beyond Chron
On Friday, August 8, 2025, a Washington D.C. appellate court halted an inquiry into contempt charges for the Trump Administration’s infamous disobedience of a court order not to deport alleged gang members while the court was considering their cases. They ended up in El Savador. By a 2-1 vote, the court stopped the contempt proceedings […]| Beyond Chron
Too bad Andrew Goldberg’s anger-inducing documentary “White With Fear” doesn’t end with an image of disgraced former president Richard M. Nixon laughing at the viewer. It was Nixon who first rode to campaign success by exploiting white voters’ fears about race without needing to use openly racist insults. He sadly wasn’t the last such political […]| Beyond Chron
Who knew talking about when to use “who” vs. “whom” could be a basis for emotional connection? Yet these and other grammar questions provide the wellspring for repeated conversational magic throughout SF DocFest’s entertaining and educational Opening Night Film, Brandt Johnson’s “Rebel With A Clause.” Grammarian Ellen Jovin began her Grammar Table project on […]| Beyond Chron
Viewers of Jennie LIvingston’s classic documentary “Paris Is Burning” will remember interviewee Venus Xtravaganza was tragically murdered before the film’s completion. Kimberly Reed’s documentary “I’m Your Venus” shows how the Pellagatti and Xtravaganza families work together to bring a proper remembrance for the slain sibling. Whether it’s having Venus’ home designated as a historic landmark […]| Beyond Chron
City Hall must address Tenderloin drug crisis| Beyond Chron
As a union rep who worked in northern New England and upstate New York for more than three decades, I became very familiar with down and out working class “spaces.” De-industrialization in the northeast spawned a service sector that didn’t quite match up to the offerings of the old, manufacturing-based economy. The resulting lower wages, […]| Beyond Chron
Why is progress on closing drug-markets lacking?| Beyond Chron
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