Broke-Ass Stuart

A San Francisco legend has passed out of this realm and into the great swamp in the sky. A press release that I just received today relayed the sad news that Claude, the famous albino alligator at the California Academy of Sciences is no longer with us. They also announced it on Instagram.

76X-Marin Headlands Express You know how they say, ‘You don’t know what you got, til it’s gone?’ Light a votive and hold your loved ones close tonight, for the 76X was once among us. The 76X-Marin Headlands Express was a jewel of a route, chronically late and underappreciated throughout its life. Before SFMTA revamped the route, the bus reportedly ran only once every 90 minutes. Born during America’s bicentennial year, the original line ran from 1976 to 2012.

Agents put people into a van at a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement office in Stockton on Saturday, Oct. 25, 2025. (Photo by Annie Barker/Stocktonia/CatchLight Local/ Report for America) This story was originally published by Times of San Diego and Stocktonia The Mexican woman appeared at the Immigration and Customs Enforcement office in downtown San Diego on Oct. 17 for what she had been told was an annual, routine check-in.

Larry Bushart Jr.’s mugshot 61-year-old Larry Bushart Jr is an anomaly in Lexington, Tennessee.

Early morning clashes. Image by movementphotographer. Coast Guard bridge, Oakland, CA As Federal agents began attempting to cross a bridge between a small, federally controlled island in the San Francisco Bay and into Alameda County, Oakland, they were met with a wall of peaceful, human picketers. Near dawn, on Thursday morning (10/23/25) ICE and CBP agents began firing flash bang grenades at point-blank range into a picket line of interfaith leaders and community members on the bridge.

Leonardo Garcia Venegas was detained by immigration agents while filming a raid on his worksite, despite having a REAL ID on him and telling the officers he was a citizen. Photo by Sarahbeth Maney When the Supreme Court recently allowed immigration agents in the Los Angeles area to take race into consideration during sweeps, Justice Brett Kavanaugh said that citizens shouldn’t be concerned.

Come hang out as we celebrate The Worst of Broke-Ass Stuart: 20 Years of Love, Death, and Dive Bars! This book is 21 years in the making! It’s gonna be an epic night with burlesque, drag, a circus performer, live music, a DJ, and a book reading + Q&A! Tix are sliding scale! 📝Stuart’s Note Well it’s almost here! You’ll stop here me yammering about my new book and the release party after this week. But there is one more event on my tour.

A screenshot from the cam that caught the American Badger You’d expect to spot a badger in the Midwest plains, or maybe skulking across some rural highway in Idaho. What you would not expect is to see one waddling through a forgotten lot in the middle of San Francisco’s Twin Peaks. Yet here we are. At 12:47 a.m. on June 17, 2021, cameras captured a living, breathing American badger in an overgrown lot long mislabeled as 4512 23rd Street. The address itself is outdated, but the wildlife is very real.

Mark Benioff, co-founder and CEO of Salesforce – the cloud-based, AI-powered CRM giant with more than 1,400 federal contracts – has joined the growing list of tech billionaires eager to bend the knee and bootlick President Trump.

Solidarity Against Hate Crimes in Grove City, OH. Photo via Wikimedia Commons This story was originally published by CalMatters Whether by design or by quiet submission to a rapidly-evolving digital landscape, the world’s largest social media companies have allowed their platforms to become factories of division, dehumanization and, increasingly, real-world violence. What began as tools for connection have become engines of rage. It’s no accident. It’s business.