• Garrison Keillor pens an essay to set all panicking Democrats (and anti-fascists) straight: "This is a gang of freaks that social media gives the power to unite — in a nation of 323 million, you can Google the secret words and get 700 sociopaths to come to Charlottesville. This is not a meaningful phenomenon. You could also get 700 people who are getting messages from Lucifer through their dental fillings or 700 apocalyptic Episcopalians who know the world will end on Thursday." [Washington Post via SFGate]
  • Saying he's making America less safe, Nancy Pelosi renewed her call to have Steve Bannon fired from his position in the White House Monday, saying he's an “alt-right white supremacist sympathizer and a shameless enforcer of those un-American beliefs." [CBS 5]
  • A man has been convicted and sentenced in connection with an illegal marijuana farm that caused damage to an archaeological site in Domeland Wilderness, northeast of Bakersfield. [CBS 5]
  • Drone footage shows whales chasing anchovies in Monterey Bay. [Instagram]
  • Mom says parasites from Sacramento Raging Waters water park infected her son. [KRON 4]
  • Yet more Mission GoBikes have been vandalized, and Stanley Roberts has thoughts. [KRON 4]
  • The Alameda County Sheriff's Department says someone there accidentally retweeted a post about a white nationalist news conference. It honestly sounds like somebody didn't know how to use Twitter. [East Bay Times]
  • Why can't 19th Avenue just be one long tunnel to the Golden Gate Bridge? Because that would be incredibly expensive and complex. [Mercury News]
  • The SF DA's office is now saying that a city-funded non-profit miscalculated the risk assessment score of the Twin Peaks homicide suspect who was released on bail shortly before the shooting. [Chronicle]
  • Benchmark Capital just sent a letter to Uber staff saying that they warned former CEO Travis Kalanick over a month ago that they would sue him, which they just did last week. [Recode]
  • Facebook is underwriting a study looking into possibly rebuilding a former rail bridge across the Bay next to the Dumbarton Bridge, near their Menlo Park headquarters. [CBS 5]