The Weekly Digest (November 24, 2024)

Happy Sunday, Brionies! 

Here’s what you need to know about local politics this week and beyond:

San Francisco City Hall 

• Underscoring their essential service to the City, the Supes will not hold regular meetings this week.

Happenings around town

• Conversation with New District 5 Supervisor, Bilal Mahmood

• Manny’s, Monday, November 25, 6:30-7:30pm

• SFPD Community Meetings

• Mission District, Tuesday, November 26, at 5pm

• Richmond District, Tuesday, November 26, at 5pm

What we’re reading

• This week, Mayor-Elect Daniel Lurie announced his transition team, including former City Controller Ben Rosenfield, retired SFPD Commander Paul Yep, former Fire Chief Joanne Hayes-White, and San Francisco Democratic Party chair Nancy Tung. Our invite may have gotten lost in the mail, but Brionies are standing by and ready to serve!

• Speculation is heating up over Mayor Breed’s impending appointment to replace District 2 Supervisor Catherine Stefani, who was elected to the State Assembly and will vacate City Hall on December 2. Will Breed pick former staffer Conor Johnston, a “notorious political prankster” known as Breed’s “guard dog”? Or will she tap Eileen Mariano, granddaughter of the late Senator Dianne Feinstein? Polymarket isn’t taking bets, so we’ll have to sit tight and wait.

• Neighbor no more? Mayor-elect Lurie shuns controversial political operative

• A 129-year-old San Francisco lawsuit could stop Trump from ending birthright citizenship 

• Is SF ready to repeal rent control?

• Prop K could prove to be an own goal for SF moderates

• How Mayor Lurie can revive mid-Market

• WaPo smears SecEd nominee McMahon over nonsense 

• Horrific stabbing spree in Manhattan shows how politicians still won’t lock up the dangerous mentally ill

• The misinformation racket 

• Higher education after October 7: Drain the swamp

• What working-class voters wanted