San Francisco's June 2026 ballot is shaping up as a major test of city policy, with Prop D's "Overpaid CEO Tax" drawing scrutiny for exempting major tech firms while hitting grocery stores and pharmacies with an 800% rate hike. Meanwhile, SFUSD's board just approved a controversial ethnic studies curriculum over open-meetings law objections, and SFMTA quietly gutted 365 of 465 promised affordable housing units from the Potrero Yard project after admitting the funding never existed. From rigged curriculum reviews to broken housing commitments to ballot measures that do the opposite of what they claim, San Francisco's institutions are under fire on multiple fronts simultaneously.
Prop D's 800% rate hike exempts every major tech company while hitting grocery stores, pharmacies, and coffee shops hard.
The board voted 6-1 to commit to a curriculum validated by a rigged process. But litigation is incoming.
Federal data projects a 15.7% enrollment collapse by 2031, the worst of any major state. Meanwhile, Idaho and Florida are growing. This isn't inevitable—it's what happens when the cost of housing skyrockets and the quality of education declines.
The billion-dollar ideology behind the violence finally produced what it always promised.
The Mission spent eight years in working groups designing housing that SFMTA admitted was only ever a future possibility — never a funded commitment. Then the city cut 365 units and called it a compromise.
For five years, SF courts haven't reported a single data point to the state—even as they resolve fewer and fewer cases.
Waymo cleared every safety bar and got exiled to the Rental Car Center. Meanwhile, Uber and Lyft keep 800,000 monthly trips.
SB 1074 bans Amazon, Apple, Google, and Meta from rigging their platforms against startups. The fight DC couldn't win lands in Big Tech's backyard.
SF makes restaurant owners navigate four agencies and wait six months to serve wine legally. Two blocks away, stolen bottles trade with impunity.
A San Francisco judge just suspended the sentence of the man who killed an 84-year-old Asian grandfather in cold blood. This is the state of "justice" in the city.