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Alt-Right Figures Distance Themselves From SF Rally Organizer, With One Proud Boy Vowing a 'Better Planned' Event in SF

After yet another right-wing Twitter figure was embarrassed by poor turnout and overwhelmed by counter-protester turnout in San Francisco on Saturday, self-styled alt-right pundits have spent the last 48 hours ridiculing him and distancing themselves from the embarrassment.

Berkeley Campus Braces For Potential Protest Chaos As Ann Coulter Arrives

Conservative opportunist Ann Coulter has landed in the Bay Area for a speaking engagement at UC Berkeley — making good on her promise to set foot in the home of the Free Speech Movement, albeit two years late.

Kyle 'Based Stickman' Chapman's Car Vandalized In Berkeley, He Blames Antifa

One of the Antifa Terrorist left a big clear hand print on the window of my suv. Berekley CSU is pulling the print now. pic.twitter.com/XETAWM9NRt— Based Stickman (@BasedStickMan_) October 18,

Chelsea Manning Addresses Crowd In Berkeley At The 'March Against White Supremacy'

In further evidence that Chelsea Manning is now a resident of the Bay Area, she showed up as a surprise speaker at a Berkeley rally Saturday to address crowds of anti-fascist marchers and

Berkeley Braces For Ben Shapiro Showdown With 'Extreme Security'

This is why we can’t have alt-right things. The city of Berkeley is going into a state of lockdown today in anticipation of tonight’s 7 p.m. Ben Shapiro lecture at

Who Are Antifa In The Bay Area, And Can They Be Negotiated With?

Is this black bloc's biggest ever showing in the Bay Area? pic.twitter.com/qX1Ck3j8Sh— Michael Montgomery (@MichaelMontCIR) August 27, 2017 We used to use the term "anarchists" or "black bloc" to describe

Alt-Right Activist Behind Cancelled Berkeley Rally Gives Insane Press Conference, In Antioch

Much like she did a week ago Tuesday in downtown Berkeley, Amber Gwen Cummings gave a rambling press conference in Antioch Wednesday, the main point of which seemed to be to call out

Nancy Pelosi Calls For Violent Antifa To Be Arrested

Heeding calls from some on the left to condemn the documented violence of "antifa" activists on Sunday who attacked the vastly outnumbered right-wing rally-goers who showed up in downtown Berkeley on Sunday, Nancy

Berkeley Police Overwhelmed At Sunday Rally, Allowed Militant Activists Past Barriers Into Park

Tense standoff at police command post. #ABC7now pic.twitter.com/yXZjWCAUuW— Dan Noyes (@dannoyes) August 27, 2017 In contrast to the largely controlled chaos and peaceful rallying that went on a day earlier

Meet The Pro-Trump Trans Woman Behind Sunday's 'Anti-Marxism' Rally In Berkeley

In the event description for Saturday's Patriot Prayer rally at Crissy Field in San Francisco, organizer Joey Gibson has been touting that he has a "transsexual" speaker in his lineup, and he's been

Berkeley Denies Permit For 'No To Marxism' Rally Sunday, But Expect A Street War Anyway

In addition to the planned and permitted "Patriot Prayer" rally in San Francisco's Crissy Field on Saturday, there's been a planned "No to Marxism" rally in Berkeley on Sunday that is semi-connected, and

Here Are All The Counter-Demonstrations Planned During Saturday's Alt-Right Rally In SF

While a lot of Bay Area residents and San Franciscans especially are angry about a planned rally of alt-right activists and Trump supporters coming to this town for the first time during this

SF & Berkeley Mayors, Supervisors Seek Any Means To Halt Alt-Right Rallies

The Bay Area is grappling with how with to solve a problem like Nazis in the Marina, as two alt-right/white nationalist rallies are planned for next weekend in San Francisco and Berkeley.

Neo-Nazis And Alt-Right 'Patriots' To Bring Racism Road Show To Bay Area This Month

This weekend’s awful and disheartening events at the white nationalist/alt-right rally in Charlottesville were met with the requisite Bay Area condemnation, with a protest shutting down I-580 Saturday night, more gatherings

Protest In Oakland Over Charlottesville Shuts Down 580

About 450 people joined a demonstration Saturday night in Oakland in solidarity with counter-protesters in Charlottesville, Virginia, some of whom were victims of a violent vehicular attack in which a lone 20-year-old man

Arts & Entertainment

Noted Sensational 'Rape Rock' Band The Mentors Coming To Oakland's Stork Club Next Month

Attention-getting, sensationally (and perhaps actually) chauvinist heavy-metal/punk band The Mentors, who are now men in their 50s and still shilling what they dubbed "rape rock" going back to the 1980s, are scheduled

Like Berkeley, Portland Struggles To Keep Peace As Pro-Trump And Anti-Fascist Contingents Collide

One man taken in to custody. He came in to Terry Schrunk, exchanging words with Trump supporters, pushing one #KOIN6News pic.twitter.com/GL156Lyxom— Cole Miller (@ColeKOIN) June 4, 2017 A planned rally

Berkeley Braces For Ann Coulter Speech Thursday, Which She Insists On Doing Outdoors For Maximum Mayhem

Ann Coulter pledges to be in UC Berkeley's Sproul Plaza, a central outdoor gathering place on campus, sometime this Thursday — not indoors on campus next week, as is formally planned — and that means

Snopes Takes On Punched Antifa Woman In Berkeley, Whether She Was Holding Glass Bottle Or IED

Earlier this week there was quite a dustup online between the alt-right and the left regarding whether or not white supremacist/separatist Nathan Damigo was justified in assaulting a 95-pound woman during the

Woman Punched By White Supremacist In Berkeley Speaks Out

20-year-old Louise Rosealma came to the frontlines of Berkeley Saturday with a group of friends in order to express their outrage at neo-nazis and the alt-right. She and her boyfriend both left the

At Least 15 Arrested Amid Violence At Alt-Right Rally And Counter Protest In Berkeley

#BREAKING UPDATE: Berkeley police have made 15 arrests and "anticipate more" as violent protesters swarm city roads. https://t.co/s1SrxHksnZ pic.twitter.com/i38hv9jH0E— NBC Bay Area (@nbcbayarea) April 15, 2017 In

Berkeley Braces For Another Pro-Trump Rally Saturday, Cancels Farmers Market

A "Patriots Day" rally is scheduled in Berkeley's Civic Center Park on Saturday, April 15, and authorities there are, rightly, concerned that it will just be a repeat of the violent events of

Berkeley College Republicans Insist Milo Yiannopoulos Will Be Back To Speak On Campus

Because college kids are really big on standing on principle, and because: free speech, campus conservatives at UC Berkeley say that they will, "without qualification," be bringing Milo Yiannopoulos back to speak on

Alt-Right March Planned In Berkeley March 4

This should go well! A gathering of "patriots" who support "free speech" will be descending on Berkeley on March 4 to show all those silly liberals what America really looks like. The already