SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: Newsom Blames Fox News for 'Creating the Culture' That Led to Pelosi Attack The motive in the killing of Oakland dentist Lili Xu was allegedly financial, Newsom denounces Fox News and its culture of hate villainizing Democrats, and Trump has spoken out calling the attack on Paul Pelosi "a terrible thing" but saying crime in SF is "worse than Afghanistan."
SF News Day Around the Bay: State Charges Filed Against Pelosi Attacker; Santa Clara County Sheriff Laurie Smith Resigns DA Brooke Jenkins announced attempted murder and other charges against Pelosi attack suspect David DePape, Elon Musk dissolved Twitter's board, and Santa Clara County Sheriff Laurie Smith is retiring a couple months earlier than planned.
SF Politics Republicans Continue to Rewrite and Spin Pelosi Story Because, Ultimately, They Don't Want to Offer Sympathy It doesn't exactly work for the broader narrative of Republican superiority and "Crazy Nancy's" hold on the "evil" Democratic Party if anyone acknowledges that a crazed lunatic apparently attacked an elderly man and wanted to maim and kidnap the Speaker of the House.
SF News [Update] Pelosi Attacker David DePape Now Facing Federal Kidnapping and Assault Charges, Said He Would 'Break Her Kneecaps' In addition to being charged locally with the attempted murder of Paul Pelosi, alleged assailant David DePape was charged Monday by federal prosecutors with the attempted kidnapping of Nancy Pelosi, as well as the assault of an immediate relative of a U.S. official.
Business & Tech Twitter to Charge $20/mo Subscription For Blue Checkmarks; Musk Polls Users About Bringing Back Vine As we await word on how swift and widespread layoffs may be at Twitter, Chief Twit Elon Musk is making moves and hinting at others — and still acting like a child with a new toy he may break any second.
SF News Gypsy Taub Speaks Out About Ex-Boyfriend David DePape, Confirms He Wasn't a Trumper, But Had Mental Illness It's both a surprising twist in the long narrative of Bay Area kooks and political dramas and an inevitable "of course" that an incident involving an unhinged attack on a national political figure in SF should somehow circle back to Gypsy Taub, but it has.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: Prescribed Burn Sends Smoke Into Bay Area An 800-acre prescribed burn in Humboldt County sent a lot of smoke into the North Bay, DA Brooke Jenkins corrected some misinformation about the Pelosi attack, and a man was injured in a shooting near the Balboa Park Safeway.
Business & Tech Elon Musk Promises Facebook-Style 'Moderation Council' to Make Content and Ban Decisions at Twitter New Chief Twit Elon Musk announced Friday that he will be allowing some content moderation to happen at Twitter after all — but it won't be staff doing it, it will be an independent "content moderation council" like Facebook has.
SF News Reactions and Condemnations Flow In From National, State, and Local Leaders Following Attack at Pelosi Home The toxic and vitriolic energy of our body politic erupted into the city of San Francisco once again Friday morning with an attack by a conspiracy-obsessed loon on the home of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi that left her husband seriously injured.
SF News Rain Is Coming Next Week, But When Will Be the First Atmospheric River? Rain is in the forecast for the Bay Area next week, likely Tuesday and Wednesday, but this won't be much of a storm.
SF News Will Trump Be Allowed to Mouth Off on Twitter Again Before the Midterms? We're counting down the minutes or days before Donald Trump is welcomed back on Twitter by new Chief Twit Elon Musk. Because what's a 246-year-old democracy worth when you'd rather be "saving humanity" through unfettered dialogue and free speech.
SF News Two Arrested In Slaying of Oakland Dentist; One Is Victim's Longtime Boyfriend Two men were arrested Thursday in connection with the August murder of Lili Xu in Oakland's Little Saigon neighborhood, and one of the suspects is Xu's longtime boyfriend who was with her at the time of the killing.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Top Twitter Execs Fired as Musk Takes the Helm The Elon Musk Era at Twitter has officially begun, a second fatal pedestrian crash happened in the Sunset, and 41 of the 47 Alameda County sheriff's deputies put on leave over their psych evaluations are now back on active duty.
SF Politics [Update] Jane Fonda Is Speaking About Climate Change at Manny's and Oasis On Wednesday The legendary Jane Fonda will be in San Francisco on Wednesday, six days ahead of the election, to talk about her life, career, and her Jane Fonda Climate PAC — as well, presumably, as her support for Prop 30.
SF News Third Employee of Dublin Federal Women's Prison Pleads Guilty to Sex Abuse Crimes The third of five officers and employees of the federal women's correctional facility in Dublin to be charged with sex abuse crimes, former prison cook Enrique Chavez, pleaded guilty Thursday to two counts of groping an inmate.
Business & Tech Have You Had a Lot of Uber Drivers Cancel Trips On You Recently, Or Refuse to Take You Somewhere? Are You a Driver? We'd Like to Hear From You Rideshare services, while still private companies with their own profit motives and foibles, have become like utilities we take for granted. But the days of quick and easy Uber rides seem to be gone since the pandemic.
Business & Tech Aww, Elon Musk Says He Bought Twitter For the Good of Humanity, Doesn't Want It to Become a 'Free-For-All Hellscape' Elon Musk says his intentions are really pure and selfless in deciding to buy Twitter for $44 billion and take it private, and he's doing this "to help humanity, whom I love."
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: Oakland City Council Candidate Under Fire For Tweet Supporting Ye Oakland City Council candidate Nenna Joiner tweeted some troubling support for Kanye West, a Solano County high school student was caught with a gun at school, and an Alameda community theater has been going through some tensions over diversity and race that have bubbled up to the Chronicle.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Bloomberg Dumping Money Into Yes on 31 Campaign A woman was arrested in SF in connection with the killing of a boy found in a suitcase in Indiana, a federal judge rules partly against the SF's "lifetime lease" law, and Michael Bloomberg just put $29M into Yes on 31.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SF-Born Brewery and Distillery Seven Stills Is Shutting Down Its Flagship Facility In Mission Bay In another clear case of a local business that went into expansion mode at just the wrong time before the pandemic, Seven Stills Brewery and Distillery in Mission Bay has announced it will close after Halloween weekend.
SF News Pair of Suspects Charged With Arson In Antioch Case of Woman Found Burned, But No Murder Charges Yet The death of 25-year-old Mykaella Sharlman, whose family reported her missing the same day her burned remains were found on an Antioch trail last week, remains under investigation. But two men are in custody and have been charged in connection with her death.
SF News Driver Who Allegedly Killed Pedestrian In Sunset Was High, Police Say A 47-year-old man from the East Bay has been identified as the suspect driver in a horrific pedestrian collision in the Outer Sunset on Monday, and police now say he was high on prescription drugs and cannabis.
SF News 19-Year-Old Woman Shot and Critically Injured In Bernal Heights A shooting occurred just before midnight on Tuesday about a block away from the Bernal Heights Safeway on a quiet block of Coleridge Street.
SF News Humpday Headlines: Chilly Fall Temps Are Here It's going to be a windy day and a chilly night tonight, around 90,000 people received early warnings about Tuesday's earthquake, and a teen stabbed in Novato is in critical condition.
Business & Tech Major Investor Says Meta 'Needs to Get Its Mojo Back,' Says Pivot to the Metaverse Was Too Hasty Another shoe may be dropping for Facebook/Meta, and for CEO Mark Zuckerberg, as a key investor in the company speaks out publicly, on behalf of investors, saying that the company needs to dial back its investment in the metaverse and lay off about 20% of its employees.
