• A state bill that's been vociferously opposed by Uber, Lyft and other "gig-worker" companies just advanced in the state Assembly. Assembly Bill 5, which would reclassify many gig workers as employees, has until September 13 to be approved by both houses. [Examiner]
• PETA activists brought a petition to a Levi's shareholder meeting in San Francisco on Wednesday. They want the company to stop using leather patches on its jeans and pants. [ABC 7]
• Federal fish and wildlife officials have withdrawn a plan to dump tons of rat poison on the Farallon Islands to rid them of invasive mice. Hearing concerns about unintended consequences, officials say the plan is going to get revised. [CBS SF]
• In another one of its into-the-wee-hours meetings, the Oakland City Council voted early Wednesday to shut down the street behind a Home Depot that's become a magnet for the homeless. Home Depot is paying for a fence that will block off a dead-end portion of 37th Avenue. [Chronicle]
• Police are seeking the public's help in finding the owner of the silver BMW that rammed a tourist at the Legion of Honor. [Chronicle]
• Two suspects, a man and a woman, were arrested after leading police on a high-speed chase in and around San Jose Airport Wednesday night. [NBC Bay Area]
• The FCC has just struck down a portion of a San Francisco ordinance that disallowed landlords from blocking access to multi-unit buildings' wiring for broadband companies, in order to discourage monopolies. [Chronicle]
• San Francisco just received a $9.3 million state grant to fund programs to protect youth at risk of sexual exploitation or trafficking. [Bay City News]
• Now that the plastic straw ban is in full effect, there has been plenty of grumbling at SF restaurants (and boba tea shops) about how shitty paper straws are, and how quickly they become useless. [Chronicle]
• President Trump is holding a "social media summit" today for his most ardent (and insane) supporters on Twitter — but no actual employees at Twitter. [New York Times]

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