SF Politics DA Boudin Seeks Injunction To Force DoorDash To Make Its Drivers Employees Boudin had already sued DoorDash in June over classifying drivers as contractors, now he wants a court order demanding that they hire their drivers as employees before the October trial.
Business & Tech Far-Right Boogaloo Movement Evaded Facebook Ban In Pretty Much One Single Day It took all of one day for the disaffected bros of the alt-right to beat their Facebook ban, as all they had to do was adopt new and different keywords.
SF News Breed Allocates Nearly Half a Billion Dollars to Fight COVID-19 In New Budget The mayor sets aside $446 million for coronavirus relief and services, but that’s contingent on no “second surge” of infections, and full reimbursement that the federal government has promised.
Business & Tech Now Twitter Is Looking Into Acquiring TikTok Amid Looming Trump Ban Twitter is in the mix with Microsoft to acquire the video app, as the clock is ticking on the September 15 deadline of a mandatory TikTok sale.
SF News Marin Public Housing Actually Exists, But Residents Sue Over Squalor and Disrepair Yes, Marin County actually does have some public housing, but residents have filed suit because the county won’t do anything about the rats, exposed electrical wires, and general disrepair.
SF News ‘Fat Mark’ Gets Life In Prison For Mendocino Double Murder of ‘Shrimp Boy’ Rivals More wheels of justice turn in the Shrimp Boy affair, as an Oakland crime figure gets a life sentence for the murder of two other crime figures at a fake Mendocino pot farm.
Business & Tech Despite Bans, QAnon Exploding in Popularity Facebook, Google, and Twitter QAnon posts are now dominating Facebook’s daily ‘top ten,' while Youtube is unwittingly allowing the peddlers of satanic pedophile pizza conspiracy theories to monetize small fortunes.
SF News Martinez Couple Who Painted Over 'Black Lives Matter' Mural Plead Not Guilty to Hate Crime The MAGA couple who took black paint to a Black Lives Matter street mural in the East Bay has pleaded not guilty, blaming George Soros for their legal predicament because of course they did.
Bay Area Sports Stanford, Cal Football Players Threaten to Boycott College Football Season Over COVID-19 Concerns “Hundreds” of players from across the Pac-12 say they will not take the field unless college football cleans up its safety protocols and gives them health insurance.
SF Politics Breed’s New Budget Defunds Police by $120 Million to Cut $1.5 Billion Deficit SFPD and the sheriff’s department get defunded by the tune of $120 million in Mayor Breed’s just-announced, $26 billion two-year budget.
SF News Big Sur Tribe Gets Little Sur Land Back, 250 Years After It Was Colonized Yes, there is a Little Sur, and 1,200 acres of it are going back to the Esselen Tribe of Monterey County in the first-ever granting back of their lands.
SF News California Investigating Whether COVID-19 Disproportionately Affects LGBTQ Community The state will start reporting sexual orientation and gender identity in its COVID-19 counts, as LGBTQ activists suspect their community is particularly hard-hit.
SF News Sinking, Tilting Millennium Tower Slated for a $100 Million Fix This Fall The tallest residential butt of jokes in San Francisco will supposedly finally get fixed, as its permits and approvals for repairs are at long last complete.
SF News Muni Baseball Bat Attack May be Investigated as a Hate Crime New allegations emerge in last week’s attack of a Muni driver, with claims that the deplorable teens punched and spit on the driver, and accused him of having COVID-19 because he’s Asian.
SF Politics More Supes Call for Stripping Zuckerberg’s Name from SF General Hospital Supervisors Gordon Mar and Matt Haney revive a proposal to nix the “Zuckerberg” from Zuckerberg General Hospital, and hospital staff apparently hate the name too.
Business & Tech Twitter Mulls A Paid Subscription Model, As Congress Calls Jack Dorsey In To Testify Fresh off a highly embarrassing data breach, Twitter would like your credit card information — but Congressional Republicans want to grill Jack Dorsey first.
SF News Bay Area Doing Great On Census Responses, But Trump Still Trying to Game Who Gets Counted Three weeks out from “door knockers” being dispatched, the Bay Area is outpacing the country in responding to the delayed COVID-19 Census. Yet Trump still hopes to whittle our numbers.
SF Politics Vandals Tag the Hell Out of Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf’s House Messages of "Cancel Rent," "Defund OPD," and "Wake Up, Libby" were among the less profane messages in a 2 a.m. graffiti and fireworks hit job on Libby Schaaf’s house.
SF News SFMTA Director Speaks to New York Times About Agency's Dire Finances The SFMTA is on course to lose more than a half billion dollars in revenue over the next four years, and director Jeffrey Tumlin warns we’re seeing a “transit death spiral.”
SF Politics FBI Probing Whether City Hall Power Couple Directed Contracts to the Person Who Sold Them Their House The widening Mohammed Nuru DPW investigation is now looking into why the City Administrator and SFPUC General Manager directed $8 million in contracts to the woman who sold them their house.
SF News Nationwide Retail Chains Make Masks Mandatory; Benioff Wants Unmasked People to Be Fined Walmart, Target, Starbucks, and a long list of other national chains are ignoring the culture war and requiring face coverings, and even Trump’s top toady at the CDC is now on the mandatory mask bandwagon.
SF News Police May Have Buried Evidence in Marin Kids’ Italian Murder Trial Graphic courtroom testimony caused emotional outbursts in Rome, but the two NorCal youngsters accused of killing an Italian cop have an emerging defense of a police cover-up.
SF Politics Facebook Loophole Allows Climate Change Deniers to Have a Misinformation Field Day By labeling blatant lies as “opinion,” fossil fuel industry pundits have found “a loophole that you can drive a Mack truck through.”
SF News Sean Monterrosa’s Family Demands More Body Cam Footage From Police Shooting The Vallejo Police Department has now changed its story over the fatal shooting of 22-year-old Sean Monterossa, and famed civil rights attorney John Burris wants answers.
SF News Zillionth Version of High-Speed Rail Plan Introduced, Funding Totally Uncertain For just $714 million, riders will be able to get from SF to San Jose in a mere 45 minutes under the umpteenth iteration of the high-speed rail plan.
