• SoMa LGBTQ nightclub Oasis was robbed at gunpoint Thursday morning, and thieves pried open a door, stole a cleaning crew's wallets and cellphones, damaged office equipment, and stole liquor from the basement. Other SoMa clubs have been targeted with break-ins recently, including an attempted break-in that same morning at the SF Eagle nearby. [Chronicle / Instagram]
• Billionaire investor Michael Moritz, who is the funder of the SF Standard, has publicly added himself to the list of big Democratic donors telling Biden to get out of the race. "He can either condemn the country to dark and cruel times or heed the voice of Father Time. The clock has run out," Moritz wrote in a Friday email to the New York Times.
• A prolific retail thief, 32-year-old Bernard Appel, was convicted this week and sentenced to two years in jail for "boosting" merchandise from two Lululemon locations in SF. District Attorney Brooke Jenkins says in a release that her office "will continue to do everything we can to ensure there are consequences for organized retail theft in San Francisco." [DA's Office]
• The SFPD is searching for a missing 76-year-old man, Kelley Guest, who is known to "frequent" the 1600 block of Pine Street, and was last seen Sunday afternoon on the 1000 block of Chestnut Street. [KRON4]
• Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff wrote a paragraph on X yesterday calling on San Francisco to "re-fund" and empower the police department, and to create a neighborhood policing model that rewards officers for protecting their assigned districts. [MarcBenioff/X]
• The struggling Cutting Ball Theater, the 25-year-old, 80-seat experimental black-box theater in the Tenderloin that has been having financial woes, is officially shutting down at the end of this year, and they blame lost grant money from the city, in part. [KQED]
• Some Democrats are chattering that Donald Trump's RNC speech was a huge missed opportunity to not sound crazy, and maybe this opens the race up again. [Chronicle]

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