Business & Tech Elon Musk Will Let Trump Back on Twitter, Saying Permanent Bans 'Fundamentally Undermine Trust' In the Platform So even though Musk claims to want what's good for democratic society, he's happy to hand the megaphone back to the man who's bent on destroying it.
SF Politics Watch: Trumper Trucker ‘Convoy’ Gets Pelted With Eggs in East Bay, Tries But Fails to Find Pelosi’s House A weekend appearance in the Bay Area by the trucker “People’s Convoy” was greeted by a pelting of eggs in Rockridge, they unsuccessfully tried to find Pelosi’s house in SF, and ultimately dragged their tails back to Sacramento.
SF Politics California Rep. Kevin McCarthy Is the Biggest Hypocrite About Trump Besides Mitch McConnell A new recording of a phone call from shortly after January 6th, 2021 proves that House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) was seriously considering asking Trump to resign rather than face a second impeachment.
SF Politics Watch: Former President Obama Speaks at Stanford About Dangers of Disinformation Former President Barack Obama gave the keynote address at a conference on disinformation in the digital age today, and he delivered some pointed words about the miasma of lies we were pummeled with in the Trump era, and are still being served in our newsfeeds.
Business & Tech Trump's Truth Social Platform Takes Another Step Toward Implosion With Two Key Resignations Donald Trump's much touted social media platform that he hoped would be a new conservative alternative to Twitter, Truth Social, has just reportedly lost two key executives six weeks after its launch.
Business & Tech Trump's Twitter-for-Bigots, Truth Social, Launches Without a Working App Remember how Trump's new media company was launching its own social network, dubbed Truth Social, and Devin Nunes left his job in Congress to help lead this company and this new thing they imagine will go toe to toe with Twitter?
SF News January 6th Lawsuit Brought Against Trump By Eric Swalwell Moves Forward A judge on Friday ruled that a lawsuit against Donald Trump filed a year ago by East Bay Congressman Eric Swalwell could move forward, acknowledging that it is an unprecedented civil prosecution of a U.S. president.
SF Politics Kim Guilfoyle Claims She Raised $3 Million for January 6 Insurrection, Leaked Texts Show While Pelosi gets dragged for bringing Dick Cheney and the ‘Hamilton’ cast for a Jan. 6 remembrance, new evidence emerges that Kimberly Guilfoyle says she raised $3 million to finance the Trump rally that day, and angled to get Alex Jones and Steve Bannon speaking slots.
SF Politics East Bay Man Sentenced to Three Years for Death Threats to CNN Hosts Who Reported That Trump Lost CNN’s Don Lemon and Brian Stelter both testified at the sentencing of a 36-year-old Bay Point man who threatened to kill CNN hosts, their parents, and their children over the network's lack of faith in Trump’s claims about the 2020 election results.
SF News Mill Valley Capitol Rioter Hit With More Charges of Assaulting Police, But He’s Still In Belarus A new indictment presents video of Mill Valley hotel heir Evan Neumann punching capitol police, but he’s sought asylum in Belarus, so we’ll see what happens.
SF Politics Devin Nunes Bets It All On Trump and His Twitter Knockoff, Quits the House California Congressman Devin Nunes has served a reliably Republican district in Tulare County for 19 years, but that was likely coming to an end with redistricting, so he's jumping onboard the Trump train.
SF Politics Trump Could Have Given Biden COVID At First Debate, Tested Positive Days Earlier According to New Account Former Trump Chief of Staff Mark Meadows details how Trump initially tested positive for COVID last fall days ahead of his first debate in Cleveland with Joe Biden, but went ahead with his schedule anyway.
SF Politics Steve Bannon Indicted for Contempt, Scheduled to Surrender to Authorities Monday Hold on to your liver spots, because the January 6 commission has won two indictments against Trump insurrection adviser Steve Bannon for refusing to comply with congressional subpoenas.
Business & Tech Oversight Board Unhappy That Facebook Hid How It Handles VIP Accounts, Says It Will Review 'XCheck' System The ostensibly independent Facebook Oversight Board is pointing back to a Wall Street Journal story last month and basically saying Facebook employees concealed a vital detail from them in the Trump suspension case, and this whole policy around VIP accounts needs to be audited.
SF News Napa Man With 'White Privilege Card' and Accomplice Charged With Plotting to Blow Up Democratic Headquarters 45-year-old Ian Benjamin Rogers of Napa and 37-year-old Jarrod Copeland of Vallejo are in some hot water over their Trump-fueled rage following the 2020 election.
SF Politics New Book Says Kim Guilfoyle Grossed Out GOP Donors with Tales of Don Jr.’s Costume Fetish The forthcoming Trump campaign tell-all from a Wall Street Journal reporter delves into Kim Guilfoyle’s TMI revelations about Don Jr’s turn-ons, “including how he liked it when she wore a cheerleading outfit.”
SF Politics Trump Is Now Suing All the Tech Companies Who Banned Him Donald Trump is busying himself with a new crusade that is likely to fail, and it's a class-action lawsuit against Facebook, Twitter, and Google.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Kanye West Dined at Nari, Assistant Lied to Get Him Table The Trump Organization and its CFO have been indicted in a 15-year tax scheme, Kanye West's people apparently told the restaurant Nari that they were from Noma in Copenhagen to get a last-minute table, and that Goop store in Pac Heights is gone for good.
Business & Tech Facebook Is Suspending Trump for Two Years, Or Until He's No Longer a Danger to the Republic Facebook says that Trump's punishment for inciting a riot at the Capitol on January 6th will be a two-year suspension, and that suspension will only be lifted if he no longer represents a "risk to public safety."
SF Politics ROFL: Trump Shuts Down His Blog After One Month Because No One Is Reading It In an entirely predictable turn of events, our former president has abruptly shut down his "From the Desk of Donald Trump" weblog, barely a month after it launched.
Business & Tech Facebook 'Supreme Court' Verdict Is In: Trump Ban Stands (But Maybe Not Forever) Facebook's appointed Oversight Board has just issued its most notable content moderation decision to date, and they say that the ban of President Trump in the wake of January 6th was justified.
Business & Tech LOL: Trump Is Going to Launch His Own Version of Twitter Oh this should be fun and embarrassing. Serial shyster Donald Trump, who used to hold some kind of government job, is reportedly planning to launch his own social media platform now that he's been banned from Twitter and Facebook.
SF Politics East Bay Congressman Eric Swalwell Sues Trump and Giuliani Over Capitol Riot Adding to the list of lawsuits Donald Trump will be facing in the coming year or three, Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-Dublin) has filed a civil suit against the former president and his co-conspirators for inciting the January 6 riot at the Capitol.
Business & Tech Report Shows Facebook Rarely Tagged Trump’s Lies as ‘False,’ Showed Different Versions of Fact-Check Labels to Different Users An outside company has analyzed reams of Facebook data, and found that ‘false’ or ‘disputed’ tags were shown to some users, but not others, possibly based on geography, and almost never slapped on Trump posts.
SF Politics Pelosi Announces 9/11-Style Commission to Investigate Capitol Riot; Graham Suggests Harris Could Be Impeached House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Monday announced the creation of an independent commission to investigate and report on what led to the events of January 6, and what happened when rioters stormed the Capitol that day.
