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TGIF: Kyle Rittenhouse on Trial
Kyle Rittenhouse waits for the jury to enter the room during his trial at the Kenosha County Courthouse on November 10, 2021. (Sean Krajacic-Pool/Getty Images)
Plus: The recall of San Francisco's DA; why Gen Z is sick and unhappy; and this week’s best reads.
By Nellie Bowles
11.12.21 — TGIF
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Welcome back to TGIF. We’ve got the news we can’t stop talking about (mostly on the theme of public safety), a few good reads, and a summary of this week in Common Sense.

You’ll also find a short interview with a longtime progressive prosecutor who quit the San Francisco District Attorney’s office and has joined the effort to recall him. 

First, the bigge…

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Nellie Bowles
Nellie Bowles is a co-founder for The Free Press and its head of strategy. She was previously a reporter at The New York Times, where she won the Gerald Loeb Award for investigative journalism and the Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award. She started her career at her hometown paper, the San Francisco Chronicle.
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