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Not Safe For Work

From a complaint filed by Elizabeth Scott against UploadVR in a California Superior Court in May. UploadVR is a virtual reality company based in San Francisco. Scott, who was hired…

Total Eclipse of the Heart

From a Craigslist ad posted in the San Francisco area in August, preceding a total solar eclipse that passed over Oregon and other parts of the United States.

San Francisco

by Anna Wiener,

Since Inauguration Day, across Silicon Valley I’ve been hearing software engineers who earn six figures talk about solidarity, collective action, and the rise of labor against capital. In July, word…

Ojai Valley, California

by Chad Ress,

Beginning in 2011, a historic drought struck California. It was officially declared over this April, largely because of rainfall in the northern half of the state. Parts of the south,…

Now and Then

by Rebecca Solnit,

The present is by common definition the instant between the not yet and the already, a moment as narrow and treacherous as a tightrope. But you might instead define it…

Eat, Memory

by David Wong Louie,

A life without food

Confirmation B.S.

From a quiz drafted by the police department of Long Beach, California, and used as part of a training presentation. The quiz was cited in a report by the A.C.L.U.…

On the Border

by Jason Novak,

The story of a Tibetan refugee living in California, as told to the illustrator

Christmas in Prison

by Kenneth E. Hartman,

Greeting the holidays in an age of mass incarceration

Untitled

by Nick Waplington,

Coming Apart