Rachel Norton
@rpnorton.bsky.social
Nonprofit leader, San Franciscan, politics junkie
Muni having a meltdown this am. Got to 1x stop at 8:05, and it’s 8:25 and I just got a bus for downtown ( the 38R instead)
December 2, 2025 at 4:25 PM
Muni having a meltdown this am. Got to 1x stop at 8:05, and it’s 8:25 and I just got a bus for downtown ( the 38R instead)
This guy. Lots of sad and upsetting things in the world now. He helps.
October 15, 2025 at 1:08 AM
This guy. Lots of sad and upsetting things in the world now. He helps.
This episode of a long form video podcast was fascinating, chilling, and completely worth your time. www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/vi...
The Deepfake Detective
Discover how deepfakes are detected and what the future holds for truth in the digital age.
www.pbs.org
October 8, 2025 at 3:45 AM
This episode of a long form video podcast was fascinating, chilling, and completely worth your time. www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/vi...
People protesting the expansion of Chez Panisse is like peak, peak Berkeley. And I know because I was born and raised there.
October 8, 2025 at 3:40 AM
People protesting the expansion of Chez Panisse is like peak, peak Berkeley. And I know because I was born and raised there.
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I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.
October 7, 2025 at 11:29 PM
I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.
So happy for my friend Phil Ginsburg but feeling bittersweet for SF. Phil has worked tirelessly to transform the park system here. I’m very grateful to him! Phil Ginsburg, head of S.F. Rec and Park, to step down
www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/p...
www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/p...
Phil Ginsburg, head of S.F. Rec and Park, to step down
The city announced Monday that Phil Ginburg is leaving his position to become the next president of the Resources Legacy Fund, an environmental nonprofit.
www.sfchronicle.com
September 22, 2025 at 8:39 PM
So happy for my friend Phil Ginsburg but feeling bittersweet for SF. Phil has worked tirelessly to transform the park system here. I’m very grateful to him! Phil Ginsburg, head of S.F. Rec and Park, to step down
www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/p...
www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/p...
This is one of the saddest cartoons I’ve ever seen.
July 25, 2025 at 8:14 PM
This is one of the saddest cartoons I’ve ever seen.
This looks like the beginning of a Very Serious Conversation
July 5, 2025 at 3:32 PM
This looks like the beginning of a Very Serious Conversation
In 2016 Sandra Fewer and I worked together to propose a "CTIP flip" which would have lessened the incentive for this kind of fraud. We couldn't get it through. Maybe it's time to try again? sfstandard.com/2025/04/29/s...
Parents cheat school lottery with fake addresses. SF has given up stopping it
SFUSD has not confirmed a single case of address fraud in the last three school years, The Standard has learned. Current and former employees say the district has abandoned investigating them altogeth...
sfstandard.com
May 4, 2025 at 4:16 PM
In 2016 Sandra Fewer and I worked together to propose a "CTIP flip" which would have lessened the incentive for this kind of fraud. We couldn't get it through. Maybe it's time to try again? sfstandard.com/2025/04/29/s...
Secretary “MAHA” is dangerously misinformed. I know many autistic people who hold jobs, have friends, and lots of other things too.
1. As part of his dangerous anti-vaxx crusade, Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert Kennedy Jr. spread horrific lies about autistic people by saying they “will never pay taxes. They’ll never hold a job, they’ll never play baseball. They’ll never write a poem. They’ll never go out on a date”
April 17, 2025 at 12:16 AM
Secretary “MAHA” is dangerously misinformed. I know many autistic people who hold jobs, have friends, and lots of other things too.
Hyper-local PSA that serves as a diversion from all the terrible national and global news: Saying you are a "native" or an "nth generation" San Franciscan is not the flex you think it is. #SanFrancisco
April 15, 2025 at 2:40 PM
Hyper-local PSA that serves as a diversion from all the terrible national and global news: Saying you are a "native" or an "nth generation" San Franciscan is not the flex you think it is. #SanFrancisco
Few things I enjoy more than exploring a new park in San Francisco onna beautiful sunny Sunday.
April 14, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Few things I enjoy more than exploring a new park in San Francisco onna beautiful sunny Sunday.
Oh, right. Because if we just don't ask any more questions, we will magically end climate change.
BREAKING from @science.org: The Trump admin is seeking to kill nearly all climate research at NOAA, its climate science agency.
Its near-final budget proposal would end all NOAA research labs, academic institutes, and regional climate centers. And it wants to fully end the NOAA Research division.
Its near-final budget proposal would end all NOAA research labs, academic institutes, and regional climate centers. And it wants to fully end the NOAA Research division.
Trump seeks to end climate research at premier U.S. climate agency
White House aims to end NOAA’s research office; NASA also targeted
www.science.org
April 11, 2025 at 3:54 PM
Oh, right. Because if we just don't ask any more questions, we will magically end climate change.
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This is where you go to tell the National Park Service to restore the word "transgender" in its entry on the Stonewall monument.
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Stonewall National Monument (U.S. National Park Service)
Before the 1960s, almost everything about living openly as a lesbian, gay, bisexual (LGB) person was illegal. The Stonewall Uprising on June 28, 1969 is a milestone in the quest for LGB civil rights a...
www.nps.gov
February 13, 2025 at 10:53 PM
This is where you go to tell the National Park Service to restore the word "transgender" in its entry on the Stonewall monument.
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Park systems - national, state, local - rely on being able to hire seasonal workers for busy visitor seasons. The freezes will be nothing short of catastrophic for Yosemite and other popular national parks. www.sfgate.com/california-p...
'Honestly terrifying': Yosemite National Park is in chaos
The Trump administration is derailing decades of conservation efforts in California's most loved park.
www.sfgate.com
February 14, 2025 at 3:38 AM
Park systems - national, state, local - rely on being able to hire seasonal workers for busy visitor seasons. The freezes will be nothing short of catastrophic for Yosemite and other popular national parks. www.sfgate.com/california-p...
As a former NYT staffer and a loyal reader this makes me so sad. Daily journalism is a shadow of what it used to be. Working at The Times was one of the best jobs I've ever had, even though it was often miserable too. Still, we've lost something precious. open.substack.com/pub/contrari...
Departing the New York Times
I left to stay true to my byline
open.substack.com
January 28, 2025 at 11:22 PM
As a former NYT staffer and a loyal reader this makes me so sad. Daily journalism is a shadow of what it used to be. Working at The Times was one of the best jobs I've ever had, even though it was often miserable too. Still, we've lost something precious. open.substack.com/pub/contrari...
Feeling this song so much . . . sending it out to all the haters :) 🌞🍷♥️ 🐻 www.youtube.com/watch?v=7wld... #California
John Craigie - I Am California - Westy Sessions (presented by GoWesty)
YouTube video by Westy Sessions
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January 23, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Feeling this song so much . . . sending it out to all the haters :) 🌞🍷♥️ 🐻 www.youtube.com/watch?v=7wld... #California
www.nytimes.com/2025/01/17/o...
I am SO dying for @karaswisher.bsky.social 's take on this interview.
I am SO dying for @karaswisher.bsky.social 's take on this interview.
Opinion | How Democrats Drove Silicon Valley Into Trump’s Arms
Marc Andreessen explains the newest faction of conservatism.
www.nytimes.com
January 17, 2025 at 3:40 PM
www.nytimes.com/2025/01/17/o...
I am SO dying for @karaswisher.bsky.social 's take on this interview.
I am SO dying for @karaswisher.bsky.social 's take on this interview.
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It also makes it harder for them to ban books.
December 22, 2024 at 11:58 PM
It also makes it harder for them to ban books.
Tonight my daughter proclaimed that paying for dating app subscriptions is lame and that "I refuse to pay for anything that costs more than Spotify" - TBH she has a point.
December 23, 2024 at 6:26 AM
Tonight my daughter proclaimed that paying for dating app subscriptions is lame and that "I refuse to pay for anything that costs more than Spotify" - TBH she has a point.
It’s just incomprehensible to me that this-ugliness and ignorance- is how the US Congress “welcomes” a new Member.
The right-wing media world was happy to shower attention on someone willing to attack the first trans member of Congress and Nancy Mace was happy to oblige. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
Column | Rep. Nancy Mace finally mastered the right-wing media universe
All it took was abandoning her past positions and targeting a marginalized newcomer to Congress.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 22, 2024 at 3:59 AM
It’s just incomprehensible to me that this-ugliness and ignorance- is how the US Congress “welcomes” a new Member.