SF News Former CIA Agent Valerie Plame Launches Symbolic Campaign To Buy Twitter, So She Can Ban Trump Former CIA agent Valerie Plame Wilson, who was famously put in harm's way by former president George W. Bush in 2003 after his administration leaked her identity as an agent as
Arts & Entertainment History: Donald Trump Tried To Buy The SF Giants Back In 1985 If you thought the San Francisco Giants 2010 world championship season was “Torture,” wait ‘til you contemplate an alternate history that kind-of almost came to pass. Local hardball blog McCovey Chronicles tags
SF News Peter Thiel Quoted As Saying There's A 50 Percent Chance Trump Administration 'Ends In Disaster' It turns out that billionaire Trump backer Peter Thiel's public support for the president is not all that it seems. According to a piece by BuzzFeed News that relies on statements
SF News ICE Director: 'Sanctuary Cities Are A Criminal's Best Friend' In the latest salvo from the Trump Administration against sanctuary city policies, Acting Immigration and Customs Enforcement Director Thomas Homan spoke out during a White House press corps briefing Thursday vowing to crack
SF News Scenes From The Castro March Against Trump's Plans For Trans People In The Military Protesters turned out in droves in the Castro Wednesday evening to express resistance to President Trump's Twitter declaration that transgender people would no longer be able to serve in the US
SF News 'Emergency Protest' Planned In Castro Following Trump's Ban On Trans People In The Military Following this morning's tweet-announcement by the president of a ban on trans people serving in the military something that could effect over 2,000 active-duty troops an "emergency
SF News Chelsea Manning, Nancy Pelosi And Others React To Proposed Trans Military Ban President Trump's announcement via Twitter Wednesday morning that he planned to ban trans people from military service is already sending waves of anger through the LGBT community and has hopefully, finally,
SF News A Majority Of Americans Wish Trump Would Get Off Twitter While President Trump shows no signs of weaning himself off his near daily Twitter habit, six months into office, a new poll shows that a majority of Americans find his tweets inappropriate, insulting,
SF News Anti-Trump Protest Briefly Shut Down Part Of Embarcadero Sunday A group of protesters hit the Embarcadero on Sunday to call for the impeachment of President Trump, causing lanes on the street to be temporarily closed in the midst of the holiday weekend,
SF News Revised Travel Ban Takes Effect Thursday, Lawyers Camped At SFO The new, revised, and more limited version of President Trump’s travel ban takes effect at 5 p.m. PDT today, and it will not be surprising if, just like the January attempt
Arts & Entertainment Comedian Kathy Griffin Has Appearances Canceled In Napa, Grass Valley, And LA In Wake Of Trump Controversy While some are going to argue that Americans are generally forgiving and everyone except OJ Simpson can ultimately have a comeback, fans and non-fans remain upset about Kathy Griffin's controversial
SF News Elon Musk Snubs Trump, Quits Advisory Council Over Climate Deal Exit President Trump’s Thursday withdrawal from the Paris Climate Accord has elicited various denouncements and superlatives from left-wing heroes and elected officials, with reactions like “an international disgrace” (Sen. Bernie Sanders), “an
SF News Mad Dad In New Ad Blames Sanctuary City Policy For Son's Death Business is booming for TV ads that blame San Francisco for America's ills, as another such spot is hitting the statewide airwaves this week. Don Rosenberg, seen above, lost his son
SF News Jeff Sessions Confirms That Sanctuary Cities' Punishment Mostly Just A Wrist-Slap A month after a federal judge in San Francisco told the Trump administration that they could not block federal funding from sanctuary cities like SF that had nothing to do with immigration or
SF News Newly Appointed Special Counsel Robert Mueller Spent Much Of His Career In San Francisco Former FBI Director Robert Mueller has been appointed as the special counsel to investigate any Russian interference in the 2016 Presidential Election and any possible ties to the Trump campaign. This is a
SF News Peninsula Assemblyman Introduces Measure To Call On Congress To Impeach Trump A California legislator introduced a resolution Wednesday, obviously symbolic, calling on Congress to begin impeachment proceedings for President Donald Trump. Assemblyman Evan Low (D-Campbell), and as CBS 5 reports, it actually calls
SF News Dumb Commercial For Georgia House Race Gets San Francisco All Wrong There is currently the most expensive House election EVER going down in Georgia's 6th District between right-wing Republican Karen Handel and Democrat Jon Ossoff. Both Handel and Ossoff want the
SF News Local Politicos React To Trump's Firing Of James Comey Yesterday President Trump took the dramatic step of firing FBI Director James Comey, a move that many in particular the editorial board of the New York Times are declaring a turning point in
SF News More Details From Mark Zuckerberg's Surprise Dinner With That Random Ohio Family 32-year-old Facebook CEO and Mission District resident Mark Zuckerberg recently announced plans to travel to the 30 American states he's never visited and like, connect with the flyover people.
SF News [Update] President Trump Expected To Sign Anti-LGBTQ, Anti-Abortion Executive Order This Week Three months after a draft executive order was leaked that many saw as a thinly veiled attack on LGBTQ equality, sources close to the White House say that President Trump is aiming to
SF News Palantir No Longer Works For The NSA, CEO Slams Trump In Leaked Video Palantir, the Silicon Valley data analysis company co-founded by Peter Thiel, was mentioned a lot during this past election cycle in relation to Thiel's support of President Trump and the
Arts & Entertainment Mission Bookstore To Host Anti-Trump Aerobics Class Adding to the list of creative ways that Bay Area folk have found to sort out their political emotions express their resistance to the Trump regime, Alley Cat Books on 24th Street will
SF News Trump Calls For 'Review' of H-1B Visa Program In Latest Executive Order Whether President Trump plans to formally do away with the H-1B visa program as he repeatedly pledged to during his campaign for the presidency or whether he simply plans to make hostile
SF News At Friday Hearing, Trump Admin Lawyer Suggests SF Won't Be Penalized For Sanctuary City Status After All Though the battle is far from over regarding the country's sanctuary cities, President Trump's strong rhetoric regarding how he planned to punish cities that stuck by their guns to
SF News Berkeley Braces For Another Pro-Trump Rally Saturday, Cancels Farmers Market A "Patriots Day" rally is scheduled in Berkeley's Civic Center Park on Saturday, April 15, and authorities there are, rightly, concerned that it will just be a repeat of
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