SF Politics Six Presidential Debate Watch Parties Tuesday In San Francisco The microphones won’t be muted at these six Bay Area presidential debate watch parties Tuesday night, many featuring booze, bingo, or comedians just making fun of the whole thing.
SF Politics Jennifer Siebel Newsom's Cousin Hosting Trump Fundraiser In Woodside The billionaire CEO Tom Siebel, who is a second cousin of California's First Partner Jennifer Siebel Newsom, is a big Trumper, and he's hosting a Trump fundraiser this week.
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 Politics Trump Reposts Blowjob Joke About Kamala Harris and Willie Brown And in the latest example of Donald Trump acting less like a president and more like a crude teenage boy, he reposted a joke on Truth Social that makes an off-color reference to both Hillary Clinton and Kamala Harris.
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 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 RFK Jr.’s Bay Area Veep Pick Says Campaign Might Soon Throw In the Towel and Endorse Trump The RFK Jr. presidential campaign must be feeling bearish about their chances, as his VP pick Nicole Shanahan just admitted on a podcast that they’re thinking of quitting and endorsing Trump.
SF Politics Willie Brown Says He'll Sue Trump If He Continues to Tell False Helicopter Story Former SF Mayor Willie Brown is now threatening legal action against Donald Trump over a story he told, involving alleged comments about Kamala Harris, and involving a helicopter having mechanical problems.
SF Politics United Auto Workers Union Files Federal Labor Charges Against Trump and Elon Musk Over Anti-Union Comments Elon Musk and Donald Trump’s rambling Twitter Spaces interview Monday night is making more news, as the United Auto Workers union has now filed federal labor charges against both of them for saying striking workers should be fired.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: Yet Again, Musk Provides Candidate Glitchy Livestream Elon Musk's X did a glitchy livestream with Trump Monday night; a San Francisco woman may sue police over a jaywalking arrest; and a brand new high school just opened in the East Bay.
SF Politics Actually, Trump May Have Confused Willie Brown With Another Black Politician From California In Helicopter Story This story about Trump's memory of an apparently harrowing helicopter ride just keeps getting funnier, and it sounds like we now have a good explanation for Trump's insistence that this helicopter ride did happen — only it still wasn't Willie Brown he was riding with.
SF Politics Trump Mixes Up Willie Brown and Jerry Brown In Helicopter Story, Newsom Says Willie Brown calls bullshit on Trump's story about sharing a bumpy helicopter ride, but it turns out Trump did ride in a helicopter once with a California politician named Brown.
SF Politics Trump Claims In Bizarre Press Conference That Willie Brown Said ‘Terrible Things’ About Kamala Harris When he wasn’t claiming that he drew bigger crowds than Dr. Martin Luther King at his meandering Thursday press conference, Donald Trump also claimed that Kamala Harris’s mentor Willie Brown said “terrible things” about her, without elaborating about what these things were.
SF Politics JD Vance In Palo Alto Monday Night for Big-Bucks Trump Fundraiser Republican vice presidential nominee JD Vance will be in the Bay Area for a fundraiser Monday night, with tickets as much as $50,000 per couple, but you can pay your admission in crypto.
SF Politics Elon Musk Shares Altered Deepfake Video of Kamala Harris, as Silicon Valley Bigwigs Go to War Over 2024 Election Twitter/X owner Elon Musk’s latest volley in the 2024 presidential campaign is a completely fake doctored video of Kamala Harris, clearly intended to deceive people, as the Trump-Harris election has Silicon Valley’s wealthiest tech bros at each other’s throats.
SF Politics Wingnut MAGA Lawsuits Funded by Trump’s Project 2025 Are Shutting Down SF Basic Income Programs One SF basic income benefiting Black and Pacific Islander residents appears doomed, and another benefiting trans people has already been shot down, as Trumpworld lawsuits against SF are shutting down programs that don’t benefit straight white men.
SF Politics Never Forget: Donald Trump (and Ivanka) Donated to Kamala Harris's Attorney General Campaign Over a decade ago, years before Donald Trump imagined he'd be president let alone imagined he could be running against her, he donated $6,000 to Kamala Harris's campaign to become California's attorney general.
SF Politics Billionaire David Sacks Takes His Turn Bashing San Francisco at RNC It wouldn't be a Republican convention — hell it wouldn't be a day at Fox News — without someone using "San Francisco" as a symbol for all that is wrong with Democrats and the Left. And at this year's Republican National Convention, it was billionaire David Sacks's turn at the podium.
SF Politics Elon Musk, Now All In For Trump and Pledging $180M to a Republican PAC, Will Get to Use X to Do Trump's Bidding Maybe it's all because he has a trans kid who won't speak to him, or maybe it's because it's not macho to vote Democrat anymore because fuck democracy. But Elon Musk has now gone all in for Trump, and that's further reason to feel doomed about this election.
SF Politics JD Vance, a Onetime San Francisco Venture Capitalist Who Compared Trump to Hitler, Is Named as Trump's Running Mate As the Republican National Convention gets underway in Milwaukee, and as President Trump prepares to give a video address to discuss the attempt on his life Saturday but purportedly trying to deliver a "uniting" message, he has just formally announced his pick of running mate: Ohio Senator JD Vance.
SF News In Goodwill Gesture, Gavin Newsom Sending More Than 60 State Police to Republican Convention In the wake of Saturday’s assassination attempt on Donald Trump, Governor Gavin Newsom is sending five dozen Highway Patrol and state police officers to help keep the calm at the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee.
SF Politics Trump Flags Come Out in Lafayette After Assassination Attempt on Trump A small rally covered a Lafayette highway overpass with Trump flags and a small handful of Trump supporters, with Saturday’s attempt on Trump’s life continuing to resonate across the Bay Area.
Business & Tech Supreme Court Deals Second Blow This Term to Republicans Seeking to Punish Social Media Platforms Over Censorship The Supreme Court issued a unanimous decision Monday tossing two cases back to lower courts, stymieing a Republican-led effort to litigate their feelings about social media platforms' handling of the 2020 election, and of Donald Trump after January 6th.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Trumpers Descend on SF for Rally, Met by Inflatable Trump Chicken We now know where that Union Square Nintendo store is going to be; San Franciscans are suddenly smoking less weed than they have in years; and MAGA masses are in the Marina to cheer on Trump — but they’re met by a giant Trump Chicken in a prison jumpsuit.
SF Politics Tonight’s SF Trump Fundraiser Shows the MAGA-fication of So-Called ‘Moderates’ Bay Area VC billionaires and podcast bros will roll out the red carpet for convicted felon Donald Trump Thursday night at a Pacific Heights fundraiser, a sign of the increasing commingling of political “moderates” with full-on Trumpers.
