Tuesday: Three Morning Takes
taco tuesday / 1br in alamo square: $8k rent, child sacrifice / white-hot desire
PW Daily
May 12, 2026
Taco Tuesday
Saturday, Steve Hilton, the British-American former Fox News host running as one of 62 candidates for CA governor, stood under a pounding sun and misgendered a hard-shell taco as a street taco. The backlash was swift: “Clearly Steve Hilton is not a Californian,” remarked one commenter, as California briefly shape-shifted into France, where even if you muster your best high school French to ask “where is the brie?” they still freak at your American accent. (Source: lived experience.) Look: there are plenty of gubernatorial candidates (too many) to critique, and I don’t wanna live in a state where we give no quarter to the chap risking melanoma to become a public servant, but let a Senior Deputy in Santa Clarita Valley who said mandatory spay/neuter laws are culturally insensitive off the hook. Plus, Hilton looked overjoyed holding his dumb fake taco, and one thing we don’t do in California? Harsh people’s mellow. Chill out, taco narcs!
1BR in Alamo Square: $8K rent, child sacrifice
In OpenAI’s secondary sale last October, more than 600 employees sold $6.6 billion worth of their shares, with about 75 of them making $30 million each, per the WSJ. This pre-IPO wealth creation was unprecedented — so it’s no wonder we have to talk, yet again, about housing in SF. Leave aside the insanity of trying to buy a single-family home or even having to bid for a rental. Per a December article in The Standard: the bidding wars for rentals are getting worse, with increasingly insane requirements like six months of rent upfront. Given hundreds of OpenAI employees just made $6.6 billion, this new trend makes a lot of fresh sense. Idiots will blame capitalism. I blame The Supposed Paris of the West. She would rather us sacrifice our firstborn to live in 400 square feet of tetanus before erecting one single apartment building.
White-hot desire
Looking to add some color to your sex life? Tired of the same-old, black-and-white missionary every night? Want to channel your inner African warrior-princess in the bedroom and finally let your dreadlocks down? Rachel Dolezal, the transracial former college instructor dropped by Eastern Washington University following widely-publicized revelations this self-presenting black woman was actually born to white parents in Montana, who subsequently changed her name to Nkechi Diallo before joining OnlyFans and getting charged with welfare fraud for lying about her income to receive $8,847 in government benefits, is here to help. Dolezal Diallo told the Daily Mail recently she’s becoming a sex coach, looking to use her erotic know-how to “help single moms boost their sex lives,” and we fully support this sista’s foray in teaching women how to get down and freaky like they do in Harlem. After all, intimacy, much like skin color, doesn’t have to be vanilla if one so chooses.
