Michael McLaughlin
@mclaughlinnews.bsky.social
Journalist with The San Francisco Standard
The victim of a deadly stabbing in San Francisco was trying to defend a group of strangers, including children, from a suspect who was harassing them at a Muni stop.
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San Francisco crime: Cyclist mourned as hero after stabbing death
He stood between girls and a man who was harassing them. Then he was stabbed in the neck.
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July 31, 2025 at 10:02 PM
The victim of a deadly stabbing in San Francisco was trying to defend a group of strangers, including children, from a suspect who was harassing them at a Muni stop.
With @allaboutgeorge.com
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With @allaboutgeorge.com
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The Clipper card system failed last week, resulting in free rides for passengers on Muni and BART, due to a calendar file that expired on June 30. The meltdown cost transit agencies about $658K in lost fares. With @allaboutgeorge.com
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Clipper card glitch cost cash-strapped transit agencies $650K in one day
Bay Area transit agencies lost out on approximately $658,000 in fares when the Clipper card system malfunctioned last week, forcing BART and Muni to allow passengers to ride for free, according to off...
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July 11, 2025 at 8:16 PM
The Clipper card system failed last week, resulting in free rides for passengers on Muni and BART, due to a calendar file that expired on June 30. The meltdown cost transit agencies about $658K in lost fares. With @allaboutgeorge.com
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A lesson on how to write a headline.
Man Afraid to Ride Subway Named Head of NASA
Trump has tapped Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy as NASA administrator.
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July 10, 2025 at 5:44 PM
A lesson on how to write a headline.
BART, Muni, and other Bay Area transit systems were free for passengers due to a glitch with the Clipper card on the very day fares went up.
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Clipper card chaos: Free rides for all as system crashes
A Clipper card system glitch on Tuesday forced Muni, BART, and other Bay Area transit systems to allow passengers to ride for free.
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July 1, 2025 at 7:33 PM
BART, Muni, and other Bay Area transit systems were free for passengers due to a glitch with the Clipper card on the very day fares went up.
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San Francisco coffee scion accused of Tesla security guard attack
Austin Hills was caught with a pressure cooker, gas mask, drone, extended shell casings, gas cans, and alcohol, a police warrant shows.
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June 16, 2025 at 9:35 PM
A woman and her children, ages 5 and 10, were not given food and slept on the floor after ICE detained them yesterday in San Francisco, the woman's sister said.
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ICE detains mothers and children in SF, officials say
The immigrants taken into custody have been marked for immediate deportation, Supervisor Jackie Fielder said.
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June 5, 2025 at 5:00 PM
A woman and her children, ages 5 and 10, were not given food and slept on the floor after ICE detained them yesterday in San Francisco, the woman's sister said.
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New: The White House Correspondents Association is considering how it would respond to the White House taking over the press seating chart in the briefing room. One idea: a “sit-in” style protest.
March 31, 2025 at 10:59 PM
New: The White House Correspondents Association is considering how it would respond to the White House taking over the press seating chart in the briefing room. One idea: a “sit-in” style protest.
Police swept through a San Francisco park that’s recently become a drug haven, making more than 80 arrests last night.
Cops storm drug market in late-night park raid
An operation involving San Francisco police, sheriff's deputies, and other agencies stormed Jefferson Square Park on Wednesday night, clearing out a public space that's become a haven for drugs and il...
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February 27, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Police swept through a San Francisco park that’s recently become a drug haven, making more than 80 arrests last night.
A man seen throwing eggs in SF in a viral video had actually been pelting a homeless person, witnesses said.
Man in viral rampage video threw eggs at homeless man, locals say
A smartly dressed man was caught on video during a bizarre rampage near Haight Street, where he was seen pelting a building with eggs and arguing with bystanders. According to witnesses, he also threw...
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January 28, 2025 at 10:22 PM
A man seen throwing eggs in SF in a viral video had actually been pelting a homeless person, witnesses said.
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SF State Will Be 1st to Require Climate Justice Course for All Students
“Our students’ lives are already being impacted by climate change, and so it’s part of our responsibility as a university to prepare students.”
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“Our students’ lives are already being impacted by climate change, and so it’s part of our responsibility as a university to prepare students.”
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SF State Will Be 1st to Require Climate Justice Course for All Students | KQED
San Francisco State University will be the first major public university in the United States to require students to complete coursework on climate justice, not just climate change, officials announce...
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January 28, 2025 at 3:53 PM
SF State Will Be 1st to Require Climate Justice Course for All Students
“Our students’ lives are already being impacted by climate change, and so it’s part of our responsibility as a university to prepare students.”
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“Our students’ lives are already being impacted by climate change, and so it’s part of our responsibility as a university to prepare students.”
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Prosecutors say this SF cop collected Covid funds for a day care center that does not exist while he says he thought he’d gotten a loan for people who needed help with child care expenses.
San Francisco cop invented fake daycare to scam cash, DA says
An SF officer got $20,000 for a nonexistent day care, prosecutors say, but he says he thought the loan was for personal child care expenses.
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January 28, 2025 at 1:44 AM
Prosecutors say this SF cop collected Covid funds for a day care center that does not exist while he says he thought he’d gotten a loan for people who needed help with child care expenses.
A man whose family has made sausages in SF for more than 100 years was just arrested for allegedly assaulting police during the Jan. 6 Capitol riot.
SF salami scion charged with assaulting Capitol cops on Jan. 6
A man whose family has made celebrated Italian sausages in San Francisco for generations has been arrested by the FBI on suspicion of assaulting police officers during the riot at the U.S. Capitol on ...
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January 16, 2025 at 7:00 PM
A man whose family has made sausages in SF for more than 100 years was just arrested for allegedly assaulting police during the Jan. 6 Capitol riot.
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Thank you to the U.S. Air Force for this document about its social media surveillance practices
January 16, 2025 at 2:12 AM
Thank you to the U.S. Air Force for this document about its social media surveillance practices
Remember the guy who was seen walking around with a dead raccoon in S.F.? Here’s what happened when he got on Muni.
Man rode Muni with dead raccoon, terrifying passengers, video shows
The Standard can now reveal, based on video obtained through a public records request, that the man boarded at least one Muni train with the dead raccoon.
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December 17, 2024 at 2:38 PM
Remember the guy who was seen walking around with a dead raccoon in S.F.? Here’s what happened when he got on Muni.
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ICYMI: I did a deep dive into sheriff recalls in California for
@kqednews.bsky.social. It turns out they're increasingly rare -- evidence of the last successful one is in 1976 -- so San Mateo County has its work cut out as it tries to remove Sheriff Cristina Corpus: www.kqed.org/news/1201828...
@kqednews.bsky.social. It turns out they're increasingly rare -- evidence of the last successful one is in 1976 -- so San Mateo County has its work cut out as it tries to remove Sheriff Cristina Corpus: www.kqed.org/news/1201828...
California Sheriffs Are Rarely Removed From Office. San Mateo Is Trying Anyway | KQED
Supervisors are trying two different ways to remove Sheriff Christina Corpus from office — one has never been successfully used and the other hasn’t happened in nearly half a century.
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December 16, 2024 at 5:38 PM
ICYMI: I did a deep dive into sheriff recalls in California for
@kqednews.bsky.social. It turns out they're increasingly rare -- evidence of the last successful one is in 1976 -- so San Mateo County has its work cut out as it tries to remove Sheriff Cristina Corpus: www.kqed.org/news/1201828...
@kqednews.bsky.social. It turns out they're increasingly rare -- evidence of the last successful one is in 1976 -- so San Mateo County has its work cut out as it tries to remove Sheriff Cristina Corpus: www.kqed.org/news/1201828...
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Another remarkable Luigi Mangione photo.
Here he is yelling to reporters about something being "an insult to the intelligence of the American people" as police shoved him into the courthouse for a hearing today.
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Here he is yelling to reporters about something being "an insult to the intelligence of the American people" as police shoved him into the courthouse for a hearing today.
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December 10, 2024 at 8:18 PM
Another remarkable Luigi Mangione photo.
Here he is yelling to reporters about something being "an insult to the intelligence of the American people" as police shoved him into the courthouse for a hearing today.
📸 by Jeff Swensen / Getty Images
Here he is yelling to reporters about something being "an insult to the intelligence of the American people" as police shoved him into the courthouse for a hearing today.
📸 by Jeff Swensen / Getty Images
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Luigi Mangione reported missing to SFPD weeks before shooting
Luigi Mangione, the 26-year-old identified as a “strong person of interest” in last week’s slaying of a health insurance executive on the streets of Manhattan, was reported missing to San Francisco po...
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December 10, 2024 at 4:52 AM
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Fit-for-duty SF cops are driving with disabled plates sfstandard.com/2024/12/10/d...
Is that a cop in your disabled parking spot?
Fully fit cops use loopholes to get disabled privileges.
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December 10, 2024 at 3:51 PM
Fit-for-duty SF cops are driving with disabled plates sfstandard.com/2024/12/10/d...
The person of interest detained today for questioning about the UnitedHealthcare executive’s killing has connections to San Francisco.
Person of interest in UnitedHealthcare shooting has SF connections, cops say
Luigi Mangione, the person of interest in the slaying of a health insurance executive outside a Manhattan hotel, reportedly has ties to San Francisco.
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December 9, 2024 at 7:50 PM
The person of interest detained today for questioning about the UnitedHealthcare executive’s killing has connections to San Francisco.
Police divers found the body of an 18-year-old woman who was last seen in San Francisco on Halloween, her sister said.
Police divers find body of teen last seen in SF, sister says
The body of Mai Sai Vue, an 18-year-old woman who went missing in San Francisco on Halloween, was found by police divers, her sister posted online.
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December 4, 2024 at 5:03 PM
Police divers found the body of an 18-year-old woman who was last seen in San Francisco on Halloween, her sister said.
Ricci Wynne, a drug dealer turned activist known for Fox News appearances and for trashing San Francisco online, was arrested on suspicion of pimping and pandering.
“You don’t expect neighbors like that in a building like this," said a neighbor in his luxury tower.
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“You don’t expect neighbors like that in a building like this," said a neighbor in his luxury tower.
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Ricci Wynne, Fox News darling and SF hater lands in jail as suspected pimp
Ricci Wynne, a drug dealer turned activist known for Fox News appearances and trashing San Francisco online was arrested Monday morning on suspicion of pimping.
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November 25, 2024 at 9:08 PM
Ricci Wynne, a drug dealer turned activist known for Fox News appearances and for trashing San Francisco online, was arrested on suspicion of pimping and pandering.
“You don’t expect neighbors like that in a building like this," said a neighbor in his luxury tower.
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“You don’t expect neighbors like that in a building like this," said a neighbor in his luxury tower.
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Controversial opinion: If more local news articles had ledes like this, more people would care about things like the fiscal state of their public transit agency. Simple, to the point, a little fun, a bit of edge. @kevinbtruong.bsky.social @sfstandard.com
November 22, 2024 at 4:02 PM
Controversial opinion: If more local news articles had ledes like this, more people would care about things like the fiscal state of their public transit agency. Simple, to the point, a little fun, a bit of edge. @kevinbtruong.bsky.social @sfstandard.com