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.
Business & Tech Twitter Insists Trump Is Permanently Banned, Even If He Runs Again Trump cannot ever return to Twitter again and his deleted tweets are truly gone forever, but those very tweets are haunting him bigly at today’s impeachment trial proceedings.
SF Politics New Election Data for SF Shows Pockets of Trump Voters In Chinatown, the Tenderloin, the Marina, and the Avenues Of course people all over the country like Donald Trump for a variety of misguided and ignorant reasons. But it's bizarre to know that in multiple corners of San Francisco, not only did Trump pick up new voters between 2016 and 2020, there were hundreds of SF residents who voted for him.
SF News Napa Man Arrested For Explosives Had 'White Privilege Card', Allegedly Planned to Blow Up Twitter and Gavin Newsom A Napa businessman whose January 15 arrest we learned of last week, turns out to have been allegedly plotting to attack the state Capitol, as well as Twitter and Facebook, all in the name of Donald Trump.
SF Politics Bay Area Man Arrested After He Allegedly Went Nuts Threatening Democratic Congressman and His Family on Jan. 6 In yet another story of a conspiracy-addled right-wing Trump fanboy unraveling in the waning days before the inauguration and allegedly turning to criminal threats and other craziness, we bring you the case of 35-year-old Bay Point resident Robert Lemke.
Business & Tech Facebook Oversight Panel Deciding Fate of Trump's Account Is Taking Public Comment Facebook's long promised but still barely operational Oversight Board — the so-called "Supreme Court" of content moderation — is taking on the case of Trump's locked account. And they want to hear from you.
SF Politics San Francisco Breathes Sigh of Relief and Gratitude as Biden Is Sworn In, Trump Departs With a Whimper The Bay Area was still quiet Wednesday morning after a couple of days of noisy wind, and as most of us woke up to the sight of a new Democratic leader taking office — without incident, and with a stirring rendition of the national anthem by Lady Gaga. Lots of you probably cried a little.
Business & Tech Trump Pardons Anthony Levandowski, Convicted Thief of Autonomous Vehicle Trade Secrets Former Alphabet employee, Marin County resident and self-driving technology wunderkind Anthony Levandowski was one of 143 people to receive a last-minute pardon from Donald Trump on his way out of the White House.
Bay Area Sports Giants Owner Charles Johnson Disavows QAnon Congresswoman, Says He's Asked for Campaign Donation to Be Returned Following news last week that one of the principal owners of the San Francisco Giants had donated campaign money to a Republican congresswoman from Colorado who has already proven herself to be a traitorous Trump-obsessed, conspiracy-peddling loon, there's been a reversal.
SF Politics Trump Is Now the Only President Ever Impeached Twice; Senate Trial Not Likely Before Biden's Inauguration Day As New York Democrat Hakeem Jeffries said, "Donald Trump is a living, breathing impeachable offense. It is what it is."
SF Politics Sacramento Braces for Pro-Trump, Anti-Government Mobs At the State Capitol Building in Sacramento, security is being beefed up this week as it is at capitols around the nation as governors and law enforcement brace for a possible replay of what happened last week in Washington.
Business & Tech Pro-Trump Protest at Twitter HQ Fails to Materialize There was much ado about nothing Monday morning outside Twitter headquarters, where police and journalists waited for a deluge of pro-Trump protest chaos that never came.
SF Politics Pelosi Restates the Case On '60 Minutes' That Republicans Need to Push Trump to Resign "I remember when Republicans in the Senate went to see Richard Nixon and said, 'It's over,'" Pelosi said. "That's what has to happen now."
SF Politics Arnold Schwarzenegger Makes Viral Video Denouncing Attack on the Capitol, Implicitly Compares Trump to Hitler Former California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, a frequent critic of President Trump since prior to the 2016 election, gave a speech on a video posted to Twitter Sunday that has quickly gone viral.
Business & Tech Boom — President Trump Has Been Permanently Banned From Twitter With only 12 days left in his presidency, the sitting American president has been permanently removed from his favorite late night, all-caps messaging platform.
SF Politics Pelosi Invokes Nixon, Presses Republicans to Secure Trump's Resignation To avoid a historically unprecedented second impeachment, less than two weeks before he's Constitutionally scheduled to depart the White House, Trump needs to resign immediately, says House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.
SF Politics Menlo Park Candy Shop Owner Faces Local Wrath After She's Photographed at Trump Rally/Riot Suzi Tinsley, the owner of Sugar Shack in Menlo Park, is the latest to receive the wrath of local liberals and anyone who understands that President Trump is racist and insane, after she was photographed at Wednesday's rally in D.C.
SF Politics Onetime SF Mayoral Candidate Ellen Lee Zhou Was at the Trump Rally-Slash-Insurrection Social media posts show how former fringe mayoral candidate Ellen Lee Zhou was in attendance at Wednesday's disturbing DC madness, and we watched her videos so you don’t have to.
Business & Tech Facebook Locks Trump's Account Indefinitely; Will Twitter Be Next? Following temporary locks on Donald Trump's Twitter and Facebook accounts that began Wednesday night, Facebook has escalated its crackdown on the president's lies and decided to suspend his access to the platform indefinitely.
SF Politics Woman Shot At Capitol Identified As San Diego QAnon Zealot; Shirtless Man In Horned Costume Also a QAnon Nut The woman who was fatally shot while allegedly trying to break into the House chamber in the U.S. Capitol Building on Wednesday has been identified as a 35-year-old Air Force veteran from San Diego.
SF Politics Video Shows Bay Area Trump Supporters Chanting 'U.S.A.' On Plane to D.C. A video has emerged from a United flight on Tuesday from SFO to Washington D.C. that appears packed with MAGA-hat wearers who were heeding the call from the president to come protest the election that he lost fairly and clearly to the eyes of most Americans.
Business & Tech Twitter Locks Trump's Account, Facebook and YouTube Remove Video After His Continuing Lies Fail to Discourage Rioters Twitter has stepped in to lock President Trump's account for 12 hours and blocked access to several tweets from Wednesday citing risks of violence, and along with Facebook and YouTube they have removed a video Trump posted from the Rose Garden Wednesday afternoon.
