After coming off of the high of participating in citywide teacher strikes, a group of around 20 people gathered at Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital's courtyard for a different cause. "We're going to get the Zuckerberg off of San Francisco General Hospital," said Sasha Cuttler, a retired nurse and organizer of the event. The effort was simple; get a group of 10 people to replace each letter in Zuckerberg's name with a hand-made construction paper box to spell out "Pretti Good," the last names of two Minnesotans who were shot dead by federal immigration officers in Minneapolis.
This winter, they present the Alt Awards, a lineup of films from last year that are influential, innovative, and (in their opinion) the all-around best of 2025. Some of the selections overlap with anticipated Oscar darlings (One Battle After Another, Sentimental Value), while others are less mainstream (Fuck My Son!, If I Had Legs I'd Kick You). Categories include most brutal, cover-your-eyes gore (The Ugly Stepsister), most tense family dinner scene (Father Mother Sister Brother),
Nellie attended Oakland High School when her family moved to a neighborhood outside of Chinatown after World War II, the beginnings of integration for ethnic Chinese residents who'd lived under the Chinese Exclusion Act (1882-1943). Her early life, into her late 20s, was rooted in the patriarchal culture in Chinatown and the white American mainstream. That oppression did not sustain her. Nellie's intelligence, creativity, and compassion yearned to break free.
Long before Congress failed to pass a funding bill, the Trump administration essentially started shutting down the government bit by bit, Gorman says. At NASA, entire offices have been shuttered, including her own at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland. She had been using data science to predict the cost of future NASA missions. Due to cuts proposed in Trump's budget request, she was reassigned to a new position working on a lunar communications project.