SF Politics Bay Area Leaders Call Capitol Breach 'Terrorism' and 'An Attempted Coup' As the United States Capitol Building remains in a state of chaos as the sun sets on the East Coast, Bay Area leaders are reacting with disgust at what President Trump has wrought in his final days as president.
SF Politics Updates: Trump Supporters Storm Capitol in Washington After President Incites Riot, One Person Dies President Trump implored ardent supporters at a rally Wednesday behind the White House to walk to the Capitol Building and "show strength" and "fight." Many of them have, and they breached the building and forced a stop to the electoral vote count in Congress.
SF News SF’s ‘Trump Tower’ Taken Off The Market, Denying Trump Big Payday The 555 California Street building, which the Trump family co-owns, is no longer for sale, and Trump can’t be happy that he won’t get his $1.5 billion payout anytime soon.
SF Politics Over 56,000 People in San Francisco Voted for Trump Liberal bubble though it may be, there are more Trump voters in our midst than we may think here in SF. And not everyone in this town is immune to the attraction to an authoritarian strongman who spends his days doing his own PR on Twitter.
SF Politics Deluded Trump Supporters Rally In Danville, Insist He Won Reelection Because He Said So Here in the Bay Area we don't need to look further than eastern Contra Costa County to find some Trump supporters who think the election is far from decided.
Business & Tech Biden Press Secretary Lambasts Facebook Over Post-Election Misinformation Facebook continues taking it from all sides in this election year, with Democrats generally livid that President Trump continues to have a presence on the platform at all, and conservatives and Trumpists generally annoyed that Facebook has done what little it's done to curb the president's lies.
SF Politics SF Offices of Law Firm Jones Day Targeted With Protest As Lawyers Continue to Press Trump's Baseless Election Challenges If you want to know what enablers of an autocrat look like in the years before a country a plunges into autocracy, look no further than spineless Republicans this week, and law firm Jones Day, which has an SF office.
SF Politics Kim Guilfoyle Reportedly Offered Trump Donors Lap Dances, Hot Tub Parties How big is Kimberly Guilfoyle’s unfolding sex-and-unprofessionalism scandal? GOP donors were apparently offered lap dances and Kimmy G hot tub parties for campaign contributions.
SF News Election Updates: Twitter Bans Bannon For Beheading Comments; Biden to Make Evening Speech Joe Biden pulled ahead in the Pennsylvania count today, and the final result of that count could potentially put him on the most immediate path to declaring victory. Biden's lead in Nevada also expanded on Friday.
SF Politics Trump Rallies Caused 30,000 COVID-19 Cases, 700 Deaths, Stanford Study Finds Stanford researchers ran the numbers and linked Trump rallies to 700 deaths, with the depressing kicker that these were “not necessarily among attendees.”
SF Politics Trumpist Caravan Terrorizes Marin County, Targets Black Community In Marin City for Intimidation A pro-Trump car and pickup truck caravan that seems to have originated in Santa Rosa traveled south to Marin County on Sunday, following a spate of similar caravans around the country that looked unsettlingly like those ISIS caravans from a few years back with their large flags flapping.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: Dia de Los Muertos In a Pandemic Dia de los Muertos takes on greater significance for the Latinx community hit hardest by the pandemic, meteorologists issue a sneaker wave warning for local beaches, and businesses are boarding up anticipating election unrest.
SF Politics Bay Area Law Enforcement Preps for Possible Election Week Unrest Compounding fears that Trump may not lose this election are fears that he and his most ardent supporters may try to sow chaos in the days and weeks following Election Day in an effort to delegitimize the vote-counting process. But here in the Bay Area?
Business & Tech Twitter Suspends Trump Campaign Account for Three Hours, as Trump-Twitter Battle Escalates Trump is threatening a “big lawsuit” after his campaign account was given a three-hour timeout on Twitter, and Senate Republicans have subpoena'd Jack Dorsey because they think this is the equivalent of Pearl Harbor.
SF Politics Pelosi Wants to Create Commission on Presidential Capacity In Order to Invoke 25th Amendment for Future Presidents Pelosi and Rep. Jamie Raskin on Friday introduced proposed legislation to create a commission that would assess a president's physical and mental capacity to serve — in the case of future presidents who, say, catch a deadly disease and seem to act erratically after taking a steroid.
Business & Tech Facebook Actually Removes Trump Post Containing False COVID Claim; Twitter Temporarily Freezes Trump's Account Facebook manned up and actually took down a post that Trump put up on Tuesday in which he, egregiously and falsely, claimed that COVID is less lethal than the flu.
SF Politics Of Course Trump Is Using His COVID Infection to Tell the Country 'Don't Be Afraid of COVID.' You Can Bet He's Afraid. True to form, President Trump used Twitter and his recent, clearly very serious case of COVID-19 to once again politicize the pandemic and tell his followers "Don't be afraid of COVID."
Business & Tech Biden Campaign Calls Out Facebook For Allowing 'Claptrap' From Trump About Mail-In Ballots to Continue Being Posted Once again the Trump campaign, and Donald Trump Jr. in particular, are spreading misinformation about Democrats trying to flood the election with bogus or duplicate ballots, via a campaign ad, and the Biden campaign is calling Facebook out for allowing this to be amplified.
SF Politics SF Woman From DNC Whose Trump-Supporting Father Died From COVID Invited to Debate By Biden Tuesday night's debate in Cleveland between President Trump and former Vice President Joe Biden will feature a special guest invited by the Biden campaign: Kristin Urquiza, the SF woman who spoke out about her father's death at the Democratic Convention.
SF Politics There Is an Election Scenario In Which the House Will Choose the President, and One In Which Pelosi Becomes President A LOT has been written in recent weeks about nightmare scenarios with this sitting president as we approach this nightmare election in a year rife with nightmares. But there are a few positive details enshrined in the Constitution for crises like this that might provide some comfort.
SF Politics Trump Lands In Sacramento For Wildfire Briefing, Gets Greeted By Protesters Trump was doing his best to seem presidential and look like he cared as he met with state leaders in Sacramento about the wildfire response, and Governor Gavin Newsom did his best not to spit in his face.
SF Politics Pelosi Tears Into Trump Over Revelations That He Openly Admitted to Downplaying Virus Threat Revelations coming from on-the-record interviews that Trump (bafflingly) did with veteran journalist Bob Woodward for his forthcoming book 'Rage' have provided insight into the president's disgustingly flawed approach to the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic.
Business & Tech As Trump Reverses and Recommends Mailing In Ballots and Voting Twice, Twitter Slaps Label On Tweet The President continued his unhinged lunacy on Thursday, changing course in his rhetorical war on mail-in voting by recommending that voters — presumably only those who vote for him — to mail in ballots and then show up in person at polling places as well.
Business & Tech Will TikTok Youth Rock the Vote? Or Will Conservatives Game Facebook to Win Trump Another Four Years? Right-wingers have already won the fight to dominate Facebook engagement, but rival social media upstarts could blaze a new path, or go down in flames of election misinformation.
SF Politics Recalling Trump's Bizarre Behavior In 2016, Pelosi Says Biden Should Boycott Debates House Speaker Nancy Pelosi gave some unprompted remarks during her weekly Thursday news conference suggesting that Joe Biden should skip all the scheduled debates with President Trump, saying that any event where Trump is included will be "an exercise in skulduggery."
