SF Politics Trump Yanks Mark Zuckerberg’s Leash Again, Meta Deletes Page That ICE Didn’t Like Mark Zuckerberg said Facebook content moderation had “gone too far” earlier this year, and promised less censorship. Until his boss man Trump told him to censor a Facebook page that ICE complained about, and Zuck quickly complied.
SF News That Half-Cent Sales Tax To Save Public Transit From ‘Fiscal Cliff’ Will Indeed Be on the November 2026 Ballot Would you pay a half-cent extra in sales tax so BART and Muni don’t have to slash their service? That choice will be before you in November 2026, as a ballot measure was just approved to help Bay Area transit avoid a ‘fiscal cliff.’
SF News Newsom Signs Bill Allowing Immigrant Parents to Name Caretakers for Their Kids If They’re Deported Governor Gavin Newsom just signed a fairly sensible-sounding bill allowing immigrant parents to name a caregiver for their kids in case they are deported. Crazed conservatives are reacting by calling it the “Legalized Child Kidnapping Bill.”
SF News SFO Overwhelmed by Flight-Delay Chaos Right as Dreamforce Kicks Off, Nearly Half of Flights Delayed The ‘perfect storm’ of an actual storm, government shutdown short-handedness, and a deluge of Dreamforce attendees left SFO all higgledy-piggledy on Monday, with thousands of travelers facing flight delays and reroutes.
SF News California Will Indeed Have Reparations for Descendants of Slaves as Newsom Signs Reparations Bill A newly formed Bureau for Descendants of American Slavery will administer reparations in the state of California after Gavin Newsom just approved that bureau’s creation, but there’s still no word on what the reparations will look like.
SF News Union Square Macy’s Was Evacuated Saturday Over Reports of an ‘Explosive Device’ Attention Macy’s shoppers, the downtown SF Macy’s was evacuated late Saturday afternoon after reports of an "explosive device,’ though a bomb squad did not find any evidence of explosives, and the store reopened for business Sunday.
SF News CHP Says Speeding Caused April Marin Crash That Killed Four Teens; 16-Year-Old Driver May Face Charges The California Highway Patrol is telling a whole different story than the two teens who survived a fatal crash in Marin County this April, saying that the 16-year-old driver was speeding, and recommending vehicular manslaughter charges.
Bay Area Sports 49ers Get Whomped 30-19 In Tampa Bay, Lose Star Linebacker to Injury for the Rest of the Season The 49ers not only lost the game Sunday to the Buccaneers, they continued their frustrating pattern of losing one of their best players to injury seemingly every week, and All-Pro linebacker Fred Warner is now done for the season.
SF News Supervisor Walton Not at All Happy With Plan to Move 16th and Mission Tiny Home Cabins to Bayview Former Supervisor Hillary Ronen fought like heck to get ‘tiny homes for the homeless’ cabins at 16th and Mission. Now that those cabins are moving to the Bayview, Supervisor Shamann Walton is on a warpath against them, even though they will be empty.
SF News 2024 SF Tesla Arsonist Found Guilty on 10 Counts, Because He Torched Six Other Cars Too The man arrested for torching two Teslas within a block of each other in SoMa on the same night in early 2024 was indeed a serial carsonist, as he was just found guilty at trial of also having torched five other cars the week before.
SF News Nordstrom Opens Its Very Small New Boutique 'Nordstrom Local’ on Upper Fillmore Two years after Nordstrom pulled their gigantic department store out of San Francisco, the high-end retailer is back with a small shop that just opened in the Upper Fillmore, though this shop only offers pick-ups, returns, and alterations.
SF News SF Sheriff’s Brother-In-Law Alleged to Have Been Growing Marijuana and Smoking It In County Jail Some more highjinks from the SF Sheriff’s Office: Sheriff Paul Yamamoto’s brother-in-law has incident reports alleging he grew marijuana plants in a locker at SF County Jail 3, and openly smoked weed while working as a plumber there.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Scandal-Tainted SF Nonprofit Somehow Wins Court Decision to Keep Getting City Money The family of four killed in Westwood Park has been identified; a drone show dazzled and confused passersby in the Embarcadero; and the Collective Impact nonprofit accused of bribery survived a legal attempt to cut off their city funding.
SF Politics Pelosi Challenger Saikat Chakrabarti Officially Kicks Off His 2026 Campaign at SF’s The Chapel The 39-Year-Old Bernie bro who’s running against Nancy Pelosi next November launched his campaign in SF Wednesday night, with the curious profile of a self-proclaimed Democratic Socialist who’s also made $170 million in tech.
Business & Tech Sam Altman-Backed SF Company Making ‘Legal Ecstasy’ Wins Approval to Conduct Clinical Trials An SF-based biotech company is working on a safer, reformulated version of MDMA, better known as ‘molly’ or ‘ecstasy,’ and we’re not tripping when we say they just won FDA approval to begin Phase 1 clinical trials.
SF Politics SF Elected Officials Get an Earful Over Lurie’s Rezoning Plans, Everyone Uses ‘Miami Beach’ as a Boogeyman Mayor Lurie, Scott Wiener, and D2 Supervisor Stephen Sherrill all took some heat at SF town halls this week over Lurie’s proposed “family zoning” plan, with both critics and supporters saying the other side would turn SF into Miami Beach.
SF News SFPD Arrests Three Men for Alleged SF Citywide Construction Tool Theft Ring This haul of power tools was allegedly stolen from a construction site in the Outer Sunset, by a crew police say was hitting houses under construction in overnight heists in the Mission, Bayview, and beyond.
SF News Bernal Heights Residents Demand Changes After Late-Night Hit-and-Run That Killed 30-Year-Old Man We’re now learning that the victim of this past weekend’s late-night Bernal Heights hit-and-run was 30-year-old father Binod Budhathoki, and neighbors want something done after Cortland Avenue’s ninth dangerous crash in three years.
Arts & Entertainment SF ‘Gay Grifters’ Scandal Gets the ‘Dateline’ Treatment In a Friday Night Two-Hour Episode The 2008 saga of four SF and LA gay men who murdered a Palm Springs art dealer and sold off his possessions (while hiding his body for nine years!) is getting its close-up this week, as NBC’s ‘Dateline’ explores this yesteryear scandal.
SF News Caltrans Removes I-280 Junipero Serra Statue In Hillsborough, and Boy Is SF’s Nutty Archbishop Mad The statue of Junipero Serra along I-280 was removed by Caltrans two months ago, and nobody really noticed. Now its removal is suddenly a big controversy, with SF Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone calling it anti-Catholic persecution.
SF News Condor Club General Manager Shot and Killed Outside His Santa Rosa Home The general manager of SF’s famed first topless club The Condor was shot and killed Friday near his Santa Rosa home, and police are flummoxed as to who shot Mark Calcagni, and why.
SF News Lurie Gets His 20 New Liquor Licenses for Union Square, After Newsom Signs Bill Allowing These There may be 20 new bars coming to Union Square, or maybe existing restaurants given the newfound right to serve booze, as Governor Newsom granted Mayor Lurie and Scott Wiener their wish for 20 new liquor licenses for Union Square.
SF News Day Around the Bay: SF Gets Its First Nation’s Giant Hamburgers in Fisherman’s Wharf Smoke filled the Embarcadero BART station on the Tuesday evening commute; Dolly Parton is apparently having some serious health issues; and SF got its own Nation’s Giant Hamburgers which opened on Tuesday.
Arts & Entertainment SF Board of Supervisors Declares October 17 ‘Broke-Ass Stuart Day’ in San Francisco It may not surprise you that the SF Board of Supervisors declared an honorary commemoration day with the word “Ass” in the title, but it might surprise you that they declared October 17 as “Broke-Ass Stuart Day.”
SF Politics WTF, South Lake Tahoe? Mayor Pro Tem Arrested for Assault, One Day After Mayor Admits Embezzlement Just one day after the Mayor of South Lake Tahoe admitted to embezzling money from a church, we learn that the city’s second highest-ranking elected official was arrested for assaulting an employee at a bar he had been 86’d from.
