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- With good reason, Bay Area immigrant tech workers are pulling out of buying local real estate over concerns that President Trump's H1-B visa plan could force them to return to their home countries. [Business Times]
- Relatedly, the New York Times discusses "Why Silicon Valley Wouldn’t Work Without Immigrants.” [NYT]
- Nancy Pelosi tweeted her support for more women portraying Trump cabinet members on SNL, but as our own Eve Batey suggests, Kathy Bates would be a far more "accurately terrifying" Steve Bannon than Rosie O'Donnell. [SFGate]
- The site of that terrible 2015 fire at Mission and 22nd has hit the market. It has no asking price but it was previously estimated to be worth $20 million. [Socketsite] [SFist]
- There's going to be another protest at Twitter headquarters on Saturday. [IndyBay]
- The massive SF Shipyard project in Hunter's Point has been delayed after a contractor admits to faking soil samples. [Business Times]
- Supervisor London Breed on Tuesday called for the creation of a task force to explore the possibility of creating safe injection sites for drug users. [CBS 5]
- It turns out that officials in Pittsburgh are also pissed at Uber’s self-driving car effort and now feel like their city has been taken advantage of by the company. [Quartz]
- The parents of 38-year-old Thu Phan, the disabled woman in a wheelchair who was struck and killed last year on Market Street by a city-owned vehicle, are expected to settle their lawsuit against San Francisco for $2.9 million. [Examiner]
- Cars and pedestrians were left fending for themselves for nine hours in one of the city’s worst six-way intersections (16th/Castro/Noe) Wednesday due to a power outage that took out all the traffic signals. [Hoodline]
- Pokemon Go (remember that old thing?) is planning a Valentine's Day event. [Forbes]
- Here's an animated data map that Uber CEO Travis Kalanick used in a TED Talk to show how Uber Pool reduces traffic congestion. [Inverse]
- In the wake of all the recent rain, SF's shelter waitlist has hit a new all-time high. [Examiner]
- Facebook is closing hundreds of its Oculus VR pop-ups in Best Buy stores after some stores went days without a single demo. [Business Insider]
- A dismembered foot still inside its shoe washed ashore south of Bodega Bay, and is being investigated. [CBS 5]
- It looks like GM has been testing their self-driving Chevy Volt around San Francisco. [The Verge]
