The Standard spent a thirsty Thursday asking Gen Z what they actually think about drinking. 📝: @lhsaria and @kevinbtruong

SCOOP @PuckNews: Paramount is on the verge of acquiring Bari Weiss’s The Free Press and tossing her the keys to CBS News. The deal is on the 1-yard line, I’m told. https://t.co/jSVeF1b2nR

My favorite part of this story: OpenAI suggested that one of the groups opposing it was being funded by Elon Musk because the group's president lived in a house owned by Tesla Place, LLC. We called the owners of Tesla Place, who are a very nice elderly couple from Maryland. They

That mysterious editor also strangely deleted info about Lurie's Jewish background, even though he literally is the son of a rabbi

Everyone's writing about the dead mall in downtown San Francisco. I say, let's just buy the damn thing ourselves. https://t.co/Cd9Go7pOUj

A "homesick Chinese expat" tells his nostalgic & traumatic history with @PandaExpress. 🫶 By @KevinNguyen_89 https://t.co/Id5ORgJngw

These are the folks who made Newsom an ALL CAPS poster

Want to know what life is like in our nation's capital? This piece is a good start, and it may be coming for your city soon. https://t.co/zoAxCZDReF

absolutely stunning: at the same time Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan pulled funding from a free school for local kids, they were running a private school for their own children out of their house

not a headline but probably the best thing the Onion has ever done

A person's 26th birthday party typically isn't an incredibly notable milestone, but in America, it has become the benchmark where you're booted off your parents' health insurance. https://t.co/eWZ13QwQsI

The Warriors unenthusiastically engaged in a few sign-and-trade discussions, but a source says they're now out on those talks and that Jonathan Kuminga will be on the team this season. What this means and also my simple compromise proposal. https://t.co/ewdJ3d14hz

ICE arrested him in S.F. after 29 years. He returned to a Mexico he no longer remembers. https://t.co/kbo2Y5Yz8Z via @MLNow

New: SF city attorney warned a planning commissioner about voting on projects involving her past employer she continues to get income from. She ignored them. https://t.co/zMgD28boSl

aaron kyro and his wife have together donated more than $1 million to the church of scientology. if he had the cash for those big donations, why couldn’t he keep his business afloat? new from @Sam_Mondros and me in @sfstandard #skatetwitter https://t.co/2cvb1xn0iF

Labubu lovers, rejoice: A new location of a wildly popular Chinese toy store is coming to Union Square. https://t.co/wUB9glz1oA

Breaking: A San Francisco official gets paid up to $100K a year by an architecture firm while approving its projects on the planning commission. https://t.co/AT10elb9gu

We ranked every restaurant at SF's best mall, from Supreme Dumpling and Le Soleil to Onigilly and Shake Shack. Here are the best — and worst — things to eat at Stonestown Galleria. 📝: @lhsaria, Astrid Kane, @kevinbtruong, and Sara Deseran

With its robotaxis being vandalized and torched amid recent ICE protests, Waymo has instituted a no-go zone that will likely stay in place through the weekend. See the map: 📝: @kevinbtruong and @reeyopeeyo

Your Monday AM must-read: @reeyopeeyo on how two young coders came to San Francisco looking to improve government — wait for it — through tech, only to join DOGE within two years and gut it. "The U.S. government didn’t and couldn’t work like a startup." https://t.co/KIE0zk5fvo