Business & Tech Facebook, Twitter, and Google Face Angry Lawmakers In First Congressional Hearing Since Biden's Inauguration The CEOs of Facebook, Twitter, and Google were testifying before Congress on Thursday for the first time in the post-Trump era, and for possibly the last time before lawmakers begin debating sweeping changes to how they're allowed to do business.
SF News Nancy Pelosi Calls DC Shooting 'Despicable And Cowardly' House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi and other Bay Area politicians have responded to this morning's shooting at a baseball diamond outside Washington, DC that involved several Republican members of Congress. Among
Arts & Entertainment GOP Super PAC Ad Trades Cable Cars For Golden Gate Bridge After SFMTA Legal Threat This GOP attack ad out of Georgia is the gift that keeps on giving here at SFist, and today the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports that the super PAC behind the ad has swapped
SF News Dumb Commercial For Georgia House Race Gets San Francisco All Wrong There is currently the most expensive House election EVER going down in Georgia's 6th District between right-wing Republican Karen Handel and Democrat Jon Ossoff. Both Handel and Ossoff want the
SF News Three Ninth Circuit Judges Ask Congressional Committee Not To Split Up The Court Three judges from the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals not the same three involved in the decision to uphold an injunction against President Trump's ban on travel from seven Muslim-majority
SF News Video: Martin Shkreli Repeatedly Invokes 5th Amendment, Calls Congress 'Imbeciles' By now we're all familiar with the man shaping up to be America's greatest heel: Martin Shkreli. Shkreli, you surely remember, is the once-hedge fund manager who made
SF News Rep. Barbara Lee Is Angling To Be Ambassador To Cuba Alameda County Congresswoman and hero to Bay Area liberals Barbara Lee is said to have a "gentlewoman's agreement" with President Obama to become our new ambassador to Cuba, should
SF News Pelosi Confirms She's Not Retiring Yet House Minority Leader and SF homegirl Nancy Pelosi, remarkably not exhausted by the last year of bullshit in Congress, confirms this week that she will be running for her House seat again in
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Toddler Who Bargains Like The Tea Party CollegeHumor's Favorite Funny Videos Well, the Republicans maybe did not get to torpedo our credit rating and burn down Congress today, but they may yet still. Please enjoy this clever little
SF News Pelosi Never Wants To Be Speaker Again We don't know if she's just being coy, but House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi just gave an interview in which she says that she's not interested in
SF News Nancy Pelosi Really Wants To Retire, Says Daughter According to daughter (and independent filmmaker) Alexandra Pelosi, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi really wants to retire from Congress, but her biggest donors won't let her. Now, perhaps we should take
SF News The Suspected Arizona Gunman, Jared Lee Loughner, Has a YouTube Channel The events today in Arizona were horrific and disturbing to say the least. Our hearts go out to the families of the victims, including federal judge John Roll, and Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, who
SF News DiFi Among Those Putting Breaks On Obama Health Plan Call it what you will, but hometown gal Nancy Pelosi's push to get the President's health care initiative through Congress before their August recess appears to be failing, and
SF News Anti-Abortion Protester Interrupts Sonia Sotomayor Hearing During opening remarks by Sen. Dianne Feinstein in the Supreme Court confirmation hearing of Judge Sonia Sotomayor this morning, an anti-abortion protester stood up, shouted something about genocide and the unborn, and
SF News Former <em>Examiner</em> Editor Adriel Hampton Runs for Congress What will journalists do after newspapers finally fold? Many things. Starting their own PR companies will be big. Writing for online internt weblog sites will tempt many. (Most, however, will fail to grasp
SF News House Defeats $700 Billion Bailout Bill, Dow's Drops 777 Points While we convert our money into gold, porn, and cocaine, check out how local California house members voted on the bailout, which was defeated (29 in favor, 24 opposed) today. In favor: Nancy
SF News Breaking News: Letter to Congress Claims Responsibility for Today's New York City Explosion Offices in Capitol Hill received a manila envelope with a letter claiming responsibility for today's bombing of a landmark military recruiting station in Times Square, NYC. Our parent site, Gothamist, tells
misc San Francisco Congressman Lantos, RIP Congressman Tom Lantos died this morning from esophageal cancer at the age of 80. He represented most of the Sunset, as well as a big chunk of San Mateo County. He was the
misc Give the Peace Center a Chance Proposition C is a call to "convert" Alcatraz into a "Global Peace Center." The idea being that Alcatraz gives off negative vibes and so should be replaced by an
misc Net Neutrality Symposium at USF and on Your PC Come and see NN guru Tim Wu, Art Brodsky, Richard Clarke, Lawrence Spiwak, and a host of others. Why should you care about Network Neutrality? Here's why. Al Gore took the
misc Fun Filipino Factoid About Frederick N. Funston Dispatches from TJICistan points out a delightful fact about General Frederick N. Funston--the apparently sensitivity-free Medal of Honor recipient known for his manliness in both the Spanish-American War and the
misc Behold: Frustrating Claims of Trent Lott (Sort Of, Maybe, Not Really) Having Homosexual Liaisons After reading this, we were fit to be tied. BigHeadDC claims that recently-retired Trent Lott has a taste for male escorts. Sort of. We think. Coochie-choochie-coo. Who the hell knows.
misc Wiretapping Immunity (Again) The secret room at AT&T's Folsom Street facility is in the news again. Staffers from the San Francisco-based Electronic Frontier Foundation are in DC this week and next,
misc We Are All Equal...Except You, Tranny Queer rights groups freaked out, threw a tizzy (understandably), and nixed their support for a workplace discrimination civil rights bill "after House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of San Francisco and Rep. Barney Frank,
