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Sunday Links: Thousands Take to SF Streets Saturday for Dyke March and Queer Visibility

Democrats in the Senate are imposing a full reading of the 940-page “big, beautiful bill” this weekend in order to stall a late-night vote; a man is in critical condition after falling from a Russian Hill high rise; and thousands took part in SF’s Dyke March on Saturday.

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Video: Mayor Lurie Booed Out of Dolores Park as SF Trans March Kicks Off Pride Weekend

SF’s 2025 Pride Weekend opened Friday with more than 10,000 people attending the annual Trans March from Dolores Park to the Tenderloin District. Prior to the march, Mayor Daniel Lurie was loudly booed, shouted down, and chased away from Dolores Park by attendees.

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Bay Area Joins Millions Nationwide in Record-Breaking ‘No Kings Day’ Marches Against Trump

Tens of thousands gathered across the Bay Area on Saturday as part of the nationwide “No Kings Day” protests, opposing the Trump administration on his 79th birthday. The demonstrations, potentially the largest in U.S. history, coincided with Trump's military parade in DC.

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A Year After Murder of 19-Year-Old Lowell Grad In Dolores Park, One Suspect Arrested

The community mourned last June when recent Lowell High grad Luis Arguello Inglis was shot and killed in Dolores Park. Now a year later, a suspect has been arrested and is in custody.

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Sunday Links: US Cyber Command Ordered to Remove Russia From Cyber Threat List

Russia has been de-prioritized at the US Cyber Command; the new park along Great Highway is opening up on April 12 — help name it; and some background info on the guy who wears the light-up dinosaur costume in Dolores Park.

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Dolores Hill Bomb Happens Despite Police Blockade, Moving One Block Over to Church

The skaters and their fans would not be deterred on Saturday, and instead of doing the traditional hill bomb on the Dolores Street hill between 19th and 21st, they just bombed down Church Street from 20th.

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You Can Win Outside Lands Tickets By Helping Clean Dolores Park Saturday (Though It Might Be During the Dolores Hill Bomb?)

Here’s a nice volunteer opportunity: You can win free tickets to Outside Lands by volunteering to help clean up Dolores Park this Saturday. But it will be sunny with a chance of riots and mass arrests, because the infamous Dolores Hill Bomb might be the same day.

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Mission District Community Divided Over Dolores Hill Bomb Event, Which Might Happen This Saturday

The annual, unsanctioned skate punk joyride known as the Dolores Hill Bomb might be happening this Saturday, and at a community meeting to discuss police plans, neighbors were split on whether the event should be welcomed, or cracked down upon even harder.

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Just 10 Days Out From the Annual Dolores Hill Bomb, SFPD Gearing Up For More Skateboard Mayhem

The annual, unpermitted and outlaw Dolores Hill Bomb event is being advertised as happening on Saturday, July 6, and neither police nor event organizers appear to be changing their approach after last year’s fiasco that saw 81 minors arrested.

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Runaway Vendor Cart Rolls Down Dolores Park Hill, Injures Woman

A freak accident happened Saturday in Dolores Park in which a vendor's pushcart rolled away down a steep embankment and into a crowd of people.

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Shooting In Dolores Park Kills 19-Year-Old Man

A man was fatally shot in Dolores Park Wednesday night, in a rare event for the area but neighbors say they have been asking for more police presence around the park.

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Day Around the Bay: SF City Attorney to Try to Toss Out Dolores Hill Bomb Civil Case

SF is trying to get a class-action civil case thrown out that was brought by teens arrested for the Dolores Hill Bomb last year; the Joe Simitian/Evan Low recount is down to one vote again; and another United Airlines jet had to divert to SF, this time over smoke in the cabin.

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Photos: ‘Jesus Ken’ Wins Hunky Jesus Contest as Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence Celebrate Their 45th Anniversary

‘Barbie’-mania had one more hurrah at Easter Sunday’s Hunky Jesus Contest in Dolores Park, with a perfectly Mattel-produced Jesus Ken winning the title and the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence honoring their 45th anniversary.

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SFPD Hit With the Inevitable Lawsuit Over ‘Dolores Hill Bomb’ Mass Arrest of 81 Minors

Parents said they would sue over July’s draconian mass arrest of 117 people (83 of them minors) during this year’s Dolores Hill Bomb skateboarding meetup, and that lawsuit against the SFPD has now arrived.

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DA Jenkins Drops Charges for Pretty Much Everyone Arrested at Dolores Hill Bomb Last Month

It's a predictable ending to the mass arrest of everyone who happened to be standing near last month’s Dolores Hill Bomb skateboard rally — the DA is dropping the charges against all but two of the 34 adults arrested in the roundup.

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Parents Fume That Their Kids Were Injured In Dolores Hill Bomb Arrests as SFPD Defends Harsh Tactics

The controversial mass-arrest of 81 minors (and 32 adults) at the year's unsanctioned Dolores Park Hill Bomb has some parents alleging brutal treatment of teens, but SFPD and Mayor Breed are doubling down on the need for that heavy response.

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Police Crack Down on Skateboarders' Dolores Hill Bomb Saturday, Arrest and Detain Dozens

Hundreds of police officers in riot gear shut down the notorious Dolores Hill Bomb event Saturday night, arresting and detaining dozens of adults and teenagers in a chaotic scene.

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Luxury Condo In Converted Christian Science Church on Dolores Park Sells For $2.1M Under Its 2017 Sale Price

The Light House condominiums — the four units that were carved out inside of the domed former Second Church of Christ, Scientist on Dolores Park — have been a thing of fascination for everyone who's looked at the building from the park and heard about its conversion almost a decade ago.

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In Biggest Hunky Jesus Contest Ever, Ensemble Group ‘Haus of Jesus’ Takes Crown, and We Have Videos

JFC, there were more than 50 Jesuses competing for the coveted Hunky Jesus title Sunday at the annual Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence Easter party, including several ensemble-cast groups with puppets and stage productions.

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Man Arrested In Weekend Incident In Dolores Park Will Face Hate-Crime Charges

A 60-year-old San Francisco man is being charged with a hate crime after allegedly chasing and yelling threats at a woman of color in Dolores Park on Sunday.

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Mission District Couple Describes Brutal Attack Near Dolores Park on Super Bowl Sunday

A couple walking on 18th Street outside Mission High School on Sunday says they were set upon and assaulted by two female suspects, allegedly for no reason, or because they were blocking the path of the suspects' electric scooters.

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Mark Zuckerberg Has Sold His Dolores Heights Home After 10 Years

The neighbors must be thrilled that the Chan-Zuckerbergs have unloaded their Dolores Heights area home for a reported $31 million, but Google Maps has blurred the residence, because Big Tech does respect certain people’s privacy.

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Dolores Hill Bomb Returns, Self-Driving Waymo Car Gets Given the Business by Skate Punks

Things really went downhill at the notorious annual Dolores Hill Bomb skater celebration Saturday, and while it appears there were no human injuries, a passing Waymo self-driving car got mobbed, jumped on, and tagged.

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Owners of Puppy Killed by Off-Leash Dog at Dolores Park Demand Justice

Weeks after a golden retriever puppy was mauled to death by a dog at Mission Dolores Park, the puppy’s owners are demanding the attacker be held responsible.

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Alley Near Dolores Park to Be Renamed In Honor of Founding Sister of Perpetual Indulgence, Sister Vish-Knew

A one-block street in SF's Mission District, just two blocks away from Dolores Park and near the location where two gay men donned nun's habits in the late 1970s and birthed a drag-activist movement and culture, is set to be renamed in honor of a founder of the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence.