• SF bookstore the Booksmith has stopped selling books by JK Rowling in response to the author’s ongoing anti-trans rhetoric. Rowling recently made a public announcement that she’s using her private wealth from the Harry Potter series to create a fund that aims to remove transgender rights “in the workplace, in public life, and in protected female spaces.” [Underscore_SF]

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• Dr. Marvin Boomer, the Oakland teacher killed during a CHP pursuit, saved his partner’s life by pushing her out of the way before he was fatally struck. As she recovered from her injuries, Nina Woodruff described being interrogated and denied help by officers at the scene, while Boomer’s family questioned why a dangerous police chase was allowed in a residential neighborhood. [KTVU]

• Parents and students expressed outrage after the Tamalpais Union High School District voted to cancel contracts for the Black Student Success Support Team, despite data showing improved attendance and academic performance. While the board cited financial concerns over the $250,000 cost, BoE member Ida Green and others criticized the decision as minimizing the needs of Black students and disregarding community voices. [KGO]

• A CBS News investigation found that Meta platforms, including Instagram and Facebook, hosted hundreds of ads promoting AI-powered “nudify” deepfake tools that generate nonconsensual sexual images of real people, many of which remained active even after Meta pledged removals. [CBS News]

National:

• San Antonio police walked back an earlier statement dismissing a possible hate crime in the fatal shooting of actor Jonathan Joss, with Chief William McManus admitting the comment was made prematurely and without sufficient information. Joss’ husband and others say the couple faced years of anti-gay harassment from neighbors, raising serious concerns about the motive behind the killing. [NBC News]
• Mid-2000s site, Digg, is attempting a comeback under original founder Kevin Rose and Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian. Digg hopes to recapture its early internet magic while promising a mobile-first, human-driven platform focused on community feedback and light monetization for creators. [Hustle]
• A recently obtained DHS memo outlines plans to deploy up to 20,000 National Guard troops for immigration enforcement—including night operations, rural interdiction, detainee transport, and riot control in detention facilities—marking the first time the Guard would be used in such domestic law-enforcement activities. [NPR]

Video of the Day:

• Can you guess where this secret spot is? It offers a "front-row seat to the Bay Bridge, the skyline, and a swing that feels like it was never meant to be found."

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Check out Last Week, This Week for a few weekend events we featured last Sunday. Plus, some additions:

• Cheese Plus celebrates its 20th anniversary on Saturday, with a free Artisan Food Festival Block Party on Polk Street in San Francisco, featuring local craft brews, live music, comedy, and a craft market with vintage vendors and live screen printing. [FunCheapSF]
• Also on Saturday, La Peña Cultural Center in Berkeley celebrates its 50th anniversary, with a full-day festival of music, art, storytelling, and community celebration. [Eventbrite]
• Pop-Ups on the Plaza celebrates Juneteenth on the Waterfront on Saturday, featuring over 20 vendors offering food, drinks, crafts, music, live screenprinting, and kids’ activities. [Foodwise]

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Giving literal meaning to the axiom that Reddit is revolting, today volunteer moderators from the website are essentially on strike in response to the mysterious firing of a key employee.

The network of subreddit forums often defined by their basest counterparts (here's looking at you, r/womenhate) is having a bloody revolution as subreddit moderators from r/funny to r/TodayILearned flip the "private" switch, darkening their doors one by one. Update: these and other subreddits are flickering back online.

Publications from Buzzfeed to Business Insider are dancing on Reddit's partially-dug grave, pointing to the site's homepage, now little more than ominous references to the once-towering network state Digg along with pointed criticism of Reddit's corporate leadership.

The motivation seems to be the mysterious firing of Reddit's u/chooter or Victoria Taylor, who managed r/IAMA, the evergreen Ask Me Anything component of the site. There, guests from Barack Obama to most recently Jesse Jackson would field a bevy of questions from redditors. That last AMA proved particularly disastrous, causing some to wonder if Taylor's termination was related to the fiasco.

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It's also possible that the company, which was founded in 2005 and is based in San Francisco, may have been weeding out non-San Francisco employees like Taylor, who is based in New York. Currently the site is helmed by Interim CEO Ellen Pao, who famously brought and lost a gender discrimination case against her previous employer Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, a venture capital firm.

Currently, a change.org petition for her removal is seeing a flurry of signatures.
Meanwhile, on the ask me anything subreddit, redditors are requesting that Taylor herself step in to answer pressing questions.

Over the weekend, Digg founder and Google partner Kevin Rose heard his dog, Toaster, "crying and yelping in pain" in the wee hours of the morning. Concerned, he went outside only to discover his dog being attacked by a raccoon. Rose then ran downstairs and grabbed the creature off of his pooch, bare hands and all, tossing it down a stairwell.

Security surveillance footage captured the harrowing scene. Do not try this at home! Rose writes in the video's opening scene, "I do not encourage animal violence. I wanted to get the wild animal as far away from us as possible."

Except for a few claw and bite marks, Toaster is recovering nicely.

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"I just had a sargasm."

"Obamafont for the win."

"Yes marriage is an institution ....it amazes me people actually want to join it!"

"{Update: At least this sign calls to attention how ridiculous the "institution of marriage" is in this country. With the 50% divorce rate, and all the negative connotations of 'marriage' you'd think we'd be okay with people who actually want to give it an honest shot.}

To me, gay marriage is more real than straight marriage. They actually care enough to fight for it. If you can't say that about your own marriage, you have no place denying it to anyone else."

"The designer in me is asking: why does the second half of the sign change to green?"