SF Politics New January 6 Video Shows Pelosi Calling Trump a 'Domestic Enemy In the White House’ Then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi had choicer words than we realized for Donald Trump in the aftermath of the January 6th insurrection, calling Trump “a domestic enemy in the White House” and saying, “He’s gotta pay a price for that.”
SF News SF Performing an Audit of City’s 98 Statues to Determine If Any Should Be Removed for Being Racist or Sexist An outside firm has been hired to perform an audit of the 98 statues and monuments in SF, and recommend which ones should be removed or altered if they "no longer represent the values that we say the city stands for.”
SF News SFDPH Is Handing Out Anti-Psychotic Drugs to Meth Users to Keep Them Out of the Emergency Room For the last two years, SF General Hospital has been proactively trying to limit ER visits and public episodes among meth users by providing them with an anti-psychotic drug called Olanzapine that’s being called “the next Narcan” for stimulant addiction.
SF News New Oakland PD Chief Vows Sex Work Crackdown; In SF, Mission Residents Sue City Over the Scene on Shotwell There’s pushback against the sex worker situation on both sides of the Bay, as the new Oakland Police chief is promising a coming crackdown on International Boulevard, while Shotwell Street residents have sued SF over sex work on that street.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Pop Star M.I.A. Goes on Pro-Trump Rant Just a Month Before Portola Festival Set Tesla batteries are being blamed for a grass fire in Lafayette; Bay Area biotech giant Genentech will lay off nearly 100 employees; and pop singer M.I.A just took a hard Trumper turn a month before her Portola Festival performance in SF.
Bay Area Sports Levi’s Stadium Getting a $200 Million Facelift as Super Bowl and World Cup are Coming In 2026 With the 2026 Super Bowl and several World Cup games coming to Levi’s Stadium, the 49ers say they’re sprucing the place up with plenty of enhanced 4K, 5G, and whatever amenities there are in the pricey luxury suites.
SF News Update: Parent and Four Teens Attack Dublin High Student, Football Players Break It Up We don’t know why a parent and four other teens followed a high school student into a locker room and beat him up Friday, but the school’s principal is vowing that arrests are on the way.
Business & Tech Zuckerberg Once Again Capitulates to Conservatives Over COVID Misinformation, Hunter Biden Laptop Faced with right-wing criticism that taking down false posts somehow “censored Americans,” Facebook-Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg threw in the towel and said that his social media companies will be more hands-off with misleading posts.
Business & Tech Amazon Submits Their Plans for That Mission Bay Delivery Warehouse They Had to Put On Ice The SF Board of Supervisors put Amazon’s proposed Mission Bay “fulfillment center” in a two-year time-out, but that pause is now finished, and Amazon just unboxed their plans for the facility at Seventh and Berry streets.
SF Politics Mayor Breed Yanks Her Support From Commission Reform Measure, Alleging It’s Just a Slush Fund for Mark Farrell SF Mayor London Breed just un-endorsed the Prop D ballot measure to trim the number of commissions at City Hall, amidst continuing allegations that rival Mark Farrell is just using the Prop D contributions to finance his own mayor’s race.
Bay Area Sports Las Vegas Sets Date to Blow Up Tropicana Hotel So the Oakland A’s Can Build Their Ballpark There The now-defunct Tropicana Las Vegas resort and casino has been sentenced to death by implosion on October 9 so the carpetbagging Oakland A’s can try to build a stadium there, and the destruction will come complete with "a drone and fireworks show."
SF News Alameda County Firefighter Placed on Leave as Racist Confrontation Goes Viral on TikTok An unidentified Alameda County Fire Department officer has been placed on administrative leave after a TikTok video showed him confronting a driver and calling that driver a “dumbass Mexican” who was “going to work some f***ing lawn job.”
SF News Dirt Bike Mayhem Swarmed Both Sides of the Bay Sunday; Oakland Store Robbed, Traffic Held Up In SF The motorbike gangs were particularly brazen on both sides of the Bay Sunday afternoon, halting traffic on the Bay Bridge, allegedly robbing a store in Oakland, and creating bedlam in the Castro, Mission District, and North Beach.
SF Politics New Trump PAC Ad Unloads on Kamala Harris Over 2008 Incident When She Was SF DA You won’t see this TV ad in California, but it’s all over the swing states, dredging up a 2008 incident where an undocumented immigrant whom Kamala Harris released on drug charges committed a purse-snatching that ended in the victim’s skull being fractured.
SF News After SF Supes Banned It Locally, Rent Price Software RealPage Gets Sued by US Justice Department Less than a month after the SF Board of Supervisors banned a rental price algorithm tool from being used here, the company called RealPage that makes that tool was just sued by the US Department of Justice for illegal price-fixing.
SF Politics Trouble for Trumper Silicon Valley Billionaires: Project 2025 Is Actually Pretty Anti-Tech Even though some of the biggest Silicon Valley venture capitalists are jumping on the Trump train, the Project 2025 that would apparently guide a second Trump term says that tech companies "prey on children, like drug dealers."
SF Politics SF Police Union Endorses London Breed for Mayor, But Members Complain There Was No Actual Vote Mayor London Breed won the coveted SF Police Officers Association endorsement Thursday, but members of the union are grumbling off the record that there was no real vote, and claim that there’s more support for Mark Farrell among the ranks.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Cancellation of Oakland’s Hiero Day Leads to Plenty of Finger-Pointing Bernal Heights Outdoor Cinema has released its 2024 schedule; three people were injured when an AC Transit bus hit another vehicle; and the cancellation of Hiero Day has many complaining about unpaid bills.
Business & Tech Beleaguered Self-Driving Car Company Cruise Teams Up With Uber for Their Comeback Bid Robotaxi company Cruise currently has its California permits suspended, but they are definitely plotting their comeback, and just announced they’re partnering to offer self-driving Cruise rides on the Uber app.
Business & Tech Elon Musk’s Secret List of Twitter Buyout Investors Made Public; It Includes Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs Elon Musk’s $44 billion Twitter takeover was largely financed by a secret group of wealthy investors. Those investors’ names are now public, and the list includes Jack Dorsey, Larry Ellison, and Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs.
SF Politics Daniel Lurie Campaign Paying Google to Run Fake, Anti-Mark Farrell Headlines on Real News Articles The latest skullduggery in the SF mayor’s race has Google search results for Mark Farrell that make it look like prominent local publications ran headlines declaring “Don’t Trust Mark Farrell.” But the headlines are fake, and the Lurie campaign appears to be paying Google to manipulate them.
SF News Dog Shelter Muttville Gets Power Shut Off by PG&E, Dogs Reportedly Being Euthanized Because of It If you need another bone to pick with PG&E, they cut off the power for the beloved senior dog rescue operation Muttville, and the disruption in electricity is apparently resulting in elder dogs being euthanized instead of getting a chance at a new home.
SF Politics Report: Mark Farrell Took $100K Check From Employer the Day He Became Interim Mayor, Which Seems Not Exactly Legal It is illegal for the Mayor of San Francisco to hold a second job. So is it odd that Mark Farrell got paid more than $100,000 by his employer, just hours before being sworn in as interim mayor in 2018?
SF News Twin Peaks Tunnel About to Shut Down Again for Eight Days, Starting Thursday Heads up, those who ride Muni’s K, L, M, and S lines — the West Portal and Forest Hill stations, and all of the Twin Peaks Tunnel, will be closed for eight whole days, effective Thursday morning.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Now Bissap Baobab Can Stay Open Until 4AM on the Weekends, Thanks to New Permit At one point last year, neighbors were trying to get Bissap Baobab’s alcohol license revoked because of music playing past 10 pm. But the Senegalese restaurant won that fight, and now can stay open until 4 am on Friday and Saturday nights.
