SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Where To Find Syrian, Iraqi, Persian And Other Cuisines Around SF (Before They're Banned) Inspired by a pal on Facebook, allow me to introduce you, if you haven't been already, to the San Francisco restaurants serving the food native to some of the seven countries that President
SF News Uber Lost More Than 200,000 Customers In #DeleteUber Campaign Though they were, it turns out, falsely accused of trying to break up a taxi strike at JFK Airport last weekend, the social media response was nonetheless swift and damaging, and we now
SF News Uber CEO To Step Down From Trump Advisory Council Hold the protests! Uber's good now! That, at least, could be the message the company hopes to convey with news that Travis Kalanick, CEO of the massive Silicon Valley ride-hailing business, is stepping
SF News Nationwide General Strike Gains Traction, Scheduled For February 17 A proposed national general strike to oppose any and all things Trump has been coalescing around February 17, the Friday before President's Day when, presumably, a lot of people will be taking off
SF News Sheryl Sandberg Will Wait And See On Trump As Facebook And Others Draft Open Letter Against Immigration Policy Facebook COO and Lean In author Sheryl Sandberg is not ready to throw a shoulder into the resistance movement against President Donald Trump, as it's "early" to see how his policies will take
SF News Talbot: Democrats And Tech CEOs Better Stop 'Collaborating' With Trump It certainly feels like we're in a lead-up-to-the-Iraq-War kind of moment when Democrats who vote the wrong way in order to placate their friends in Congress or show some deference to a new
SF News State Senator From Berkeley Demands To See Melania Trump's Immigration Documents California state senator Nancy Skinner (D-Berkeley) makes a good point: If we already know that First Lady Melania Trump worked in this country illegally when she first arrived here from Slovenia in 1996,
SF News ACLU Joins Incubator Y Combinator To Help Manage Its New Influx Of Wealth Y Combinator president Sam Altman's heart grew three sizes today as he announced the American Civil Liberties Union would join his startup incubator in order to manage its massive influx of funding. The
SF News San Francisco Becomes First City To Sue Over Sanctuary City Order As California May Become Sanctuary State SF City Attorney Dennis Herrera filed a lawsuit Tuesday challenging President Trump's executive order that threatens to withhold federal funds from so-called Sanctuary Cities, becoming the first city the nation to do so.
SF News Feinstein To Vote No On Sessions For Attorney General JUST NOW: On Sessions attorney general nomination: “I must vote no.” pic.twitter.com/lfQnX5Khug— Sen Dianne Feinstein (@SenFeinstein) January 31, 2017 Though it was unclear if Senator Dianne Feinstein was going to
SF News Thousands Of Google Employees Stage Walkouts Against Trump Immigration Policies Protest along Embarcadero, with chants of "No Ban, No Wall." #ImWithThem pic.twitter.com/zY09fv6QAB— Jill Witty (@jwitty) January 30, 2017 A company-wide protest organized and attended by Alphabet/Google employees occurred Monday
SF News Trump Resistance Rises Fast In The Tech And Science Sectors As They See A Work Visa Ban Comes Next The weekend brought a flurry of public statements from Silicon Valley executives denouncing President Trump's refugee and general travel ban for residents of seven majority-Muslim nations, with varying degrees of outrage and criticism.
SF News As Thousands Delete Their Uber Apps Over JFK Story, Uber Denies Trying To Break Up Taxi Strike Following reports that Uber was still operating to and from JFK Airport in New York on Saturday during a taxi strike in response to Trump's immigration order, a call went out on social
SF News Second Day Of Protest Hits SFO As Airbnb Offers Free Rooms To Those Affected By Travel Ban Protesters are set to descend on the International Terminal at SFO for the second day in a row, at noon on Sunday, to express their outrage over Donald Trump's actions with regard to
SF News Tim Cook Met With Ivanka And Jared Thursday, Wrote Memo Condemning Trump's Order To Employees As the blowback continues over President Trump's sweeping, stupid, and dangerous executive order intended to ban Muslim immigration for 90 days, we learn that Apple CEO Tim Cook threw himself into the middle
SF News ACLU Celebrates Temporary Victory Over Trump's Order On Immigration; Mayor Lee Commends Federal Judge Hundreds showed up at SFO and elsewhere Saturday to protest President Trump's executive order on immigrants from seven primarily Muslim nations, which had led to detentions of innocent people at airports nationwide who
SF News Protesters Pack SFO To Decry Detentions Under Trump's Immigration Ban Protesting an immigration ban ordered by President Donald Trump, signs at SFO announce "We Want You Here" and "Give Us Your Huddled Masses." Demonstrators gathered at the airport this afternoon as similar actions
Arts & Entertainment KellyAnne Conway Makes Her Debut At 'Beach Blanket Babylon' That was fast! Wasting no time after last week's inauguration, the costume department at Beach Blanket Babylon has already whipped up a version of that goofy Gucci Paddington Bear outfit KellyAnne Conway was
SF News Google CEO Sundar Pichai Calls Trump's Ban On Immigration 'Painful'; Zuckerberg Says He's 'Concerned' Donald Trump's asinine executive order Friday banning entry into the country of all people from seven Muslim-majority nations for at least 90 days making good on his xenophobic campaign promises to fight radical
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink PS, We Have NAFTA To Thank For Plentiful Coronas And Modelos In American Bars As the Trump Administration looks to gut, or just possibly renegotiate portions of the 23-year-old trade agreement with Mexico and Canada known as NAFTA, I point you toa 2015 piece from NPR's food
SF News ICE Agents Descend On Mission's Good Samaritan Center The immigration crackdown has begun, and some ICE agents, possibly emboldened or directed by the new Trump regime, conducted a rare raid in San Francisco Thursday, descending upon the Good Samaritan Family Resource
SF News SF Protesters Arrested For 'Resist' Banner Near White House As Another Banner Appears On Twin Peaks A protracted protest last night conducted by Greenpeace members who illegally took over a crane near the White House to make an anti-Trump political statement included several representatives from the Bay Area, the
SF News Activists Calling Twitter The 'Mouthpiece Of Fascism' To Protest Outside Company's HQ Thursday As we all continue to point fingers at groups, individuals, and institutions for causing the waking nightmare we'll all in now, one San Francisco company is in for a rough few years at
SF News Trump Hotels Threaten SF Expansion, Local Leaders Say 'Good Luck' Eric Danziger, CEO of Trump Hotels, got his start right here in the City by the Bay, working in 1971 as a bellman at the Fairmont Hotel. Now he'd like to see the
SF News 'A Sanctuary From Trump's Hate': San Francisco Reacts To Executive Order Punishing Sanctuary Cities Sanctuary city rally on the steps of city hall #ICEoutofCA pic.twitter.com/qb2sGU0Ds7— gio (@giobannnaa) January 25, 2017 A rally formed on the steps of San Francisco's City Hall Wednesday afternoon shortly
