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- Peter Thiel's company Palantir is working with ICE to create deportation technologies for President Trump providing the "engine" for the anti-immigrant leader he helped elect and for whom he served as a transition team member. [The Intercept]
- Almost twice as many San Franciscans think the city is headed in the right direction, 42 percent, as did just months ago, 24 precent in September — and one theory holds that the flip is due not to a changing sense of San Francisco but a changing sense of the country around it. [Chron]
- An Oakland music venue cancelled a show by a Swedish metal act over allegations they used Nazi imagery. [Chron]
- The SFMTA plans to test out closing the freeway-adjacent block of Octavia to traffic, where cars rarely drive anyway, to make more room for pedestrians. [Hoodline]
- An angry crowd packed a community meeting in protest of a Sunset District pot club, to be its first purveyor of the devil's weed. [CBS5
- The family of a 12-year-old boy is suing BART under the claim that there were insufficient security measures at the El Cerrito del Norte station when he was robbed at gunpoint. [NBC Bay Area]
- Homicides were up, but violent crime and property crime were down in January. [Ex]
- The Board of Supervisors' Budget and Finance Committee has at last reached a compromise to allow SF's public defender enough extra budget to hire three new attorneys and one new paralegal immediately, but the Mayor’s office has yet to approve the extra budget measure, which would defend immigrants facing deportation under Trump. [Chron]
- Uber’s VP of product and growth, Ed Baker, has resigned... is it because of sexual harassment claims? [Recode]
