Monthly Archives: January 2026

HUFFsters, by popular demand, will be trudging through the rain to a New Year’s Day warm-up at the Sub Rosa Cafe 1:30-3:30 PM January 1, 2026. We’re still next to the Bike Church corner of Spruce and Pacific

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HUFF  Rough Agenda for 1-1-26  

Clarification and Additions…Street Reports… Coral St. 12-30 Sweep…Street response to Stall on Homeless Services…Winter Crisis:  No Winter Drop-In Shelter/Warming Center: Strategies…”People First” Emergency Shelter–Fact or Fiction?…Hometown Homeless prior showing…Rest=Resistance & Other Reading…. Thomas’s Tips…Updates perhaps on MHCAN; Stupes’ RV Tow Bill; Funding Matters March Closure…216 Posting at Armory bus pick-ups; collating citations …Shelter, Courts reports …Salinas Homeless Union 10th Anniversary… New Flyer Distribution at Coral St….Vets Hall Tabling Results …Weather Update: Rain predicted Thurs, Sat, Sun, and Monday.
The actual agenda will likely include a few more items with the usual coffee/tea, cookies, carrots, and the occasional sandwich.

Don’t forget to check out the Town Clock’s New Year’s Day noon meal compliments of Jumbo-Gumbo Joe Schultz.

Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides December 28, 2025 show– Homeless Deaths 2025 Street Memorial and a Flashback to Jan 28, 1999 on the City Council’s Task Farce to Divert Opposition to the Sleeping Ban

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The December 28, 2025 show includes:

The Flashback to January 28, 1999 includes: [some distortion in first half of show]

  • Bathrobe’s update on the latest Task Farce to Examine the Camping Ordinance sub-committee meetings
  • Oral Communications with the Task Farce: Bernard Klitzner, Peter Eberle, Kate Wells, David Silva, Linda LeMaster, Emily Riley, Paul Brindel, Robert Norse
  • Becky Johnson on the Homeless Services Center Board of Directors meeting
  • Controversy around Kitten Reynolds alleged snitching, surveillance, and sabotage on local homeless activists
  • Silva calls for “positive” approach to upcoming Task Farce meetings
  • Norse reads most of the Eichorn decision requiring courts to consider a necessity defense in Camping Ban cases

Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides December 25th, 2025 show is a Flashback to the complete January 24, 1999 show featuring the Silva, Norse, and Johnson on Council’s diversion & dissection of the Camping Ban, Perusha Obluda on Palo Alto’s Anti-Homeless laws

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The Thursday December 25, 2025 show is a Flashback to January 24, 1999. 

It includes:

  • S.F. Chronicle article 1-22-99 “Palo Alto Sets Up Cart Swap”
  • Palo Alto civil right activist and KKUP broadcaster Purush Obluda Interview on proposed attack on homeless people pushing corporate shopping carts
  • “Feed the People” activist Teara on her 1st S.C. sleeping ticket; 2nd hand reports of 7 with bats attacking homeless
  • Terra and Bathrobespierre discuss federal court prospects around Sleeping Ban rulings & City Council’s latest
  • Committee to Repeal the Sleeping Ban visits the Task Farce to Protect the Ban (aka Task Force to Examine the Camping Ordinance) featuring Vice-Chief Jeff Locke, “Sticky Fingers” Butchie Baker, & Council Cucks
  • “Dead On” David Silva reports on upcoming right-wing agenda and urges sweet talk to City Council.
  • Further examination of police case for retaining the Ban vs. activist urging restoration of basic right to sleep.