October 1, 2026

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Located in the Tenderloin, the Taylor Street Center is one of San Franciso’s most populated sex offender residences. It currently houses at least 32 registered sex offenders and can hold up to 240.

Alarmingly, the complex is located just five blocks away from a preschool, 1,000 feet from a middle school, and 400 feet from a daycare center. Residents can come and go relatively easily, though several are “in violation” of their sex-offender-registration requirements, and at least one has been accused of additional offenses during his time living there.

California didn’t always allow sex offenders to live so close to children. Voters passed an initiative in 2006 that banned sex offenders from living within 2,000 feet of parks and schools, but a group of offenders sued the state, arguing that the restrictions made it hard for them to find housing. In 2015, the California State Supreme Court agreed, allowing sex offenders to live around schools.

To get a better understanding of how San Francisco became a dumping ground for sex criminals, Christopher Rufo and Haley Strack visited the Taylor Street Center and a nearby daycare and spoke with community members. Read their investigation here.

Earlier this week, New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s administration released a report about the rise of hate crimes against Jews in the city. The report highlights recent anti-Semitic attacks, like the 2017 Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, and the 2018 Tree of Life synagogue shooting. But it doesn’t mention a number of other attacks, such as the murder last year of two Israeli Embassy employees in Washington, D.C., or the firebombing last year against a group advocating for Israeli hostages, or the recent stabbing of two men near synagogues in New York City.

In addition, the report mentions October 7 only twice, noting an increase in anti-Semitic crimes following that horrific day. “One would think the report’s solutions would contend with that finding,” Josh Appel writes. “Instead, this insight is largely ignored in favor of pages of public-opinion data and paragraphs placing anti-Semitism within the broader context of other biases.”

Read more about the report.

For years, Rachel Dolezal, a Washington State NAACP official, claimed to be black. In 2015, she admitted that she was, in fact, white. Now, Philadelphia schoolteacher Hannah Gann has been outed for claiming that she was black, Tunisian, and Palestinian, when she is actually white and Jewish.

Perhaps more disturbingly, though, Gann was a leader in Philadelphia Educators for Palestine (PEFP). The group states that “all resistance is righteous” and “reject[s] false equivalence between the violent systems that oppress us and our responses to them.” And it has involved high school students in its organizing work. “In other words, students are being included in a group that endorses violence as a means of political action,” Mika Hackner writes. The group has even included students in its Signal chats, conduct that could violate school district rules governing communications between teachers and students.

Read more about Gann, PEFP, and the broader teacher-activist network that’s exploiting classrooms to influence children.