SF News Trump Calls San Francisco a 'Dangerous and Disgusting Slum' President Trump has been tweeting up a storm Friday morning as the House holds its second televised day of impeachment hearings, and in one tweet attacking House Speaker Nancy Pelosi he refers to her "District of San Francisco" as a "dangerous & disgusting Slum."
SF News Saturday Links: Trump Attacks San Francisco On Twitter While California Continues To Burn Fires continue to scorch California, Trump sent some very presidential tweets regarding San Francisco this morning, San Jose is knee-deep in a street art renaissance, and more Saturday headlines.
SF Politics Another Giuliani Associate Arrested in SF Over Alleged Marijuana Scheme The Ukraine scandal comes to San Francisco (and Livermore!), as Giuliani associate Andrey Kukushkin was arrested by the FBI for his alleged role in a marijuana bribery scheme.
SF Politics SF Judge Threatens Betsy DeVos With Jail For Violating Court Order Education Secretary Betsy DeVos ignored a court order to stop collecting certain student loan payments, and a San Francisco federal judge threatened to throw her in the slammer.
SF News Pelosi Pushes For Swift Inquiry, Suggests Russian Influence In Trump's Ukraine Dealings Speaker Pelosi went on MSNBC's 'Morning Joe' this morning to talk about the need for an inquiry that moves "with purpose and expeditiously" and doesn't "drag on."
Business & Tech Why Bay Area Company CrowdStrike Figures Into Trump's Impeachment-Worthy Ukraine Call A Sunnyvale-based cybersecurity firm called CrowdStrike that has figured into a right-wing conspiracy narrative has now bubbled up into the unprecedented July 25 phone call that President Trump had with the newly elected president of Ukraine.
SF News Trump's EPA Chief Pens Letter To Newsom About Homeless Poop Affecting Water Quality Following through on President Trump's promise to his base to call California to task for its homeless problem, recently appointed head of the Environmental Protection Agency, Andrew Wheeler, sent a letter to Governor Newsom today.
SF News Pelosi Finds Her Groundswell, Announces Impeachment Inquiry Following a weekend of high drama in D.C. over revelations that President Trump may have improperly encouraged a foreign power to investigate his political rival, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is set to announce a formal impeachment inquiry today at 5 p.m. Eastern, 2 p.m. Pacific.
SF News Report: Ben Carson Mocked Trans People During SF HUD Office Visit Trump's chosen Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, Ben Carson, made some shockingly offensive if unsurprising remarks denigrating trans women while visiting the San Francisco HUD office this week.
SF Politics 23 States Sue Trump Over Rollback Of California Auto Emission Standards California sued the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration this morning, and 22 more states have jumped in on the lawsuit to preserve higher fuel-efficiency standards.
Business & Tech This Photo Of Mark Zuckerberg Looking Trump In the Eyes Is Everything Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg — whom I'd be inclined to call beleaguered if it weren't for the willfully monotonous way in which he's weathered all of his company's scandals over the last two years — went to D.C. this week to mend some fences.
SF News Trump Threatens San Francisco With EPA Violation Related To Homelessness The president's latest soundbite for Fox News is that he's putting San Francisco "on notice" over the homelessness problem, claiming the city is violating environmental rules by letting used hypodermic needles end up in the Pacific Ocean.
SF News Trump Fundraiser Went Down At Portola Valley Home Of Sun Microsystems Cofounder Scott McNealy The 32,000-sf compound owned by Sun Microsystems cofounder Scott McNealy and his wife, which hit the market last year for $96.8 million, was the setting for President Trump's fundraising luncheon in Portola Valley this afternoon. And yes, the big Baby Trump balloon followed him there.
SF News Trump Likely Only Touching Down in Bay Area For Three Hours; Ben Carson Headed To SF The details of the Trump fundraiser luncheon in the Bay Area today remain secretive, with even Republican donors who are planning to attend being kept in the dark about the exact location, but we do know one thing: Air Force One is landing in Palo Alto around 11 a.m.
SF News Day Around the Bay: 'Baby Trump' Balloon To Fly During President's Bay Area Visit Gov. Newsom penned an open letter to Trump asking for more federal funding to combat homelessness ahead of the President's California visit, and SF's libraries are doing away with all overdue book fines.
SF News Trump Plans To Tell SF It Has a Homeless Problem During Tuesday Visit During a fundraising trip to the Bay Area this week, President Donald Trump allegedly has plans to join housing secretary Ben Carson in San Francisco to discuss solutions to our homelessness problem. What could go wrong?
SF News Trump Is Coming To The Bay Area For The First Time In Three Years President Trump is scheduled to appear at an as-yet-undisclosed location in the Bay Area for a campaign fundraising luncheon on September 17, and this will be the first time he's dared set foot anywhere here since he became President.
SF Politics SF and Santa Clara Counties Sue Over Trump's New Wealth Rule For Immigrants As part of a swift backlash against the Trump Administration's Monday announcement about restricting citizenship only to those immigrants who do not require public assistance, the counties of San Francisco and Santa Clara filed suit in federal court on Tuesday.
SF News SF Soul Cycle and Equinox Locations See Protests After News Of Owner's Trump Fundraiser San Franciscans who patronize Soul Cycle and Equinox gyms are facing a moral quandary over their fitness choices this week after it was revealed that Equinox Fitness owner Stephen Ross was hosting a high-ticket fundraiser for President Trump in the Hamptons.
SF News Florida Pipe-Bomb Sender Who Targeted Tom Steyer and Kamala Harris Sentenced To 20 Years Cesar Sayoc, the Trump-supporting van dweller from Florida who funneled his Fox News-fueled rage at the liberal establishment into a mail bomb campaign last fall, was sentenced Monday to 20 years in federal prison.
SF News Trump Blames California Democrats For Homelessness, Offers No Solutions At a campaign rally in Cincinnati on Thursday, President Trump assailed California for having a homeless problem, specifically San Francisco and Los Angeles, calling it a "disgrace to our country."
SF Politics California Lawmakers Demand Trump Tax Returns, Or He Won't Be On Primary Ballot Setting the stage for another California vs. Trump showdown, state lawmakers have passed a bill that would require all candidates for president to disclose five years worth of tax returns in order to be eligible for inclusion in a state primary.
SF News Dede Wilsey Is Co-Hosting a Trump Fundraiser In San Francisco July 17 Rich Republicans who call the Bay Area home will have a chance to attend a local fundraiser for Donald Trump's reelection this month — though the location, for obvious reasons, isn't being publicized.
SF News Twitter Co-Founder Ev Williams Says Fox News Is Way More 'Destructive' Than Twitter Speaking at a tech conference in Toronto on Tuesday, Twitter co-founder Ev Williams sat down with CNN to talk about Donald Trump's Twitter habit.
Business & Tech Facebook and Twitter Sign On With 'Christchurch Call' To Quash Extremist Content; White House Refuses The White House is signaling to white nationalists that it wants to protect their free speech rights by refusing to sign on with multiple Western governments to a non-binding pledge to stem the tide of extremist content.
