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Apologizing to his tenant for circumstances that were beyond his control, local landlord Eddie Turley was reportedly forced Monday to raise the rent due to thinking of a bigger number. “You can re-sign your lease, but I have to raise it by $250 a month because I realized there was a bigger number your rent could be,” Turley informed his tenant of six years, attributing the rent increase to a need to keep up with the rising numbers he could envision.

There is nothing to celebrate here.

We shouldn’t be singing right now; we should be grieving. We should be sitting vigil for the country we could have had but may never see. We should be mourning over how little independence has trickled down to the people in the streets. We should be lamenting how commonplace hatred has become in this supposed “sweet land of Liberty.”

Most of all, we should be mortified that no matter how it happened, Democracy has all but died on our watch here.

Gnarly wave underneath the Golden Gate Bridge

Ocean Beach, San Francisco . .

Costumes from The Pacific Northwest Ballet's Sleeping Beauty,

Preston Singletary and Paul Tazewell