• The Dublin City Council (in the East Bay) just voted down a request to raise a rainbow flag over City Hall for LGBT Pride Month. The council has one openly gay member who said he was not surprised by the vote, but there were some disturbing public comments during the meeting. [Chronicle]
  • SFist co-founder and former SFist senior editor Eve Batey has just launched a newsletter all about true crime TV, and you should check it out! It's called Best Evidence, and it's a collaboration with Sarah Bunting, a co-founder of Television Without Pity. [Blotter Presents]
  • A new report suggests that despite SF being a pitiful hellscape no one wants to live in, it now boasts the world's highest salaries and disposable income. The report by Deutsche Bank says SF has unseated Zurich for the honor. [NBC Bay Area]
  • Lyft is adding a new in-app panic button. [ABC 7]
  • Drag elder and "legend of San Francisco drag" according to a recent Vogue piece, Phatima Rude, has succeeded in getting housed in an RV following a Chronicle piece about her homelessness and a subsequent GoFundMe campaign. [Chronicle]
  • Bay Area native and notorious "American Taliban" John Walker Lindh gets released from federal prison on Thursday. [Associated Press]
  • Trump just got his sixth federal judge confirmed on the Ninth Circuit, with a seventh on the way. [Chronicle]
  • Metallica's Lars Ullrich hosted a "day of service" at the SF-Marin Food Bank today. [ABC 7]
  • Tony Taccone, the artistic director of Berkeley Repertory Theatre for the last 33 years, talks about his retirement with Berkeleyside.
  • SF-based Postmates is expanding... to Nashville. [SF Business Times]