SF Politics Antifa a 'Terrorist Organization'? Good Luck Figuring That Out Predictably, though still confusingly, President Trump has declared Antifa as a "major terrorist organization," even though it isn't an organization, it's an umbrella term for a decentralized anti-fascist movement.
SF News UC Students and Administrators Sue Trump Administration Over So-Called ‘Antisemitism’ Purge While the UC system may be giving in on Trump’s attempt to turn the University of California into Trump U, students and faculty are taking up the fight, and have sued the administration to stop the university's defunding and blacklisting of activists.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Trump Announces All-Out War on Liberal Groups BART says it will only do computer upgrades on weekends now; Trump, via JD Vance, declared all-out war on liberal groups today in frighteningly vague terms; and it's going to be even hotter around the Bay on Tuesday than it was on Monday.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Lawmakers OK Bill to Rollback Cannabis Tax to 15%, Awaiting Newsom’s Approval Valkyries Coach Natalie Nakase was awarded ‘Coach of the Year’ and Vs guard Veronica Burton received ‘Most Improved Player;’ nasal sprays containing azelastine may help prevent contracting COVID-19; and the state excise tax on cannabis could go back down to 15% from the current 19% soon.
SF News UC Berkeley Hands Feds List of 160 Allegedly ‘Anti-Semitic’ Students and Staff, in Total Capitulation to Trump After months of pressure from the Trump administration, UC Berkeley has handed the feds a list of 160 students and faculty accused of “anti-semitism,” with no detail on what merits this allegation, and it’s probably just Palestine protests.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Hawaii Joins West Coast States in Vaccine Initiative Oakland celebrates Pride on Sunday — it's in front of City Hall this year; 50 years ago today a Manson follower tried to shoot President Gerald Ford in Sacramento; and Hawaii has joined California, Oregon, and Washington in creating a unified vaccine policy in the absence of CDC support.
SF News Protests Fill Bay Area Streets on Labor Day, Rallying Against Trump, Billionaires A "Workers Over Billionaires" march took place in San Francisco's Mission District Monday, alongside a separate rally for current and retired federal workers outside the Philip Burton Federal Building.
SF Politics Deploying National Guard In Los Angeles Was Illegal, Rules Federal Judge In SF A federal judge has ruled that the deployment of National Guard troops and Marines in Los Angeles in June constituted an illegal use of the military for domestic law enforcement purposes.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Tesla Driver Appears to Nap on MacArthur Maze, Sparks Outrage The former Delta pilot who was arrested for child sexual abuse at SFO in July appeared in court Friday; it's been 20 years since Hurricane Katrina tore through the Gulf Coast; and a Tesla driver appeared to be snoozing behind the wheel last week.
SF News Tourists Still Coming to San Francisco — But Not So Many From Abroad, Canada Tourism to San Francisco hasn't totally tanked in the first seven months of Donald Trump's second term, despite his success in alienating and offending Canadians and international travelers broadly.
SF Politics Trump, Gunning For More Legal and Militaristic Chaos, Doubles Down on Threat to Bring Troops to SF Whether he's legally permitted to or not, Herr Trump is doubling down on his earlier threat to send National Guard troops to combat "crime" in Chicago, New York City, and San Francisco.
SF Politics Elon Musk Getting Sued Over His Sham $1 Million Trump Election ‘Sweepstakes’ While Trump was complaining about a rigged election, his boy Elon Musk was running a rigged sweepstakes for $1 million that people who entered could not actually win, and now he’s facing a class action lawsuit over it.
SF Politics The Trump Administration Tried to Subpoena Medical Records of Children Seeking Gender-Affirming Care In one of the most disgusting and fascistic moves by this second Trump administration — which is saying a lot! — a new report details how the Justice Department tried to subpoena the medical records of children seeking gender-affirming care in Philadelphia.
SF Politics Gavin Newsom Demands Answers on Why ICE Agents Crashed His Press Conference Masked and armed US Customs and Border Patrol agents showed up to menace a Gavin Newsom event last week, and now Newsom is demanding records explaining why, and whether Fox News somehow had a hand in this.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Crews Contain 167-Acre Brush Fire in Solano County at 30% New plans for a 258-unit apartment building were announced for the long vacant 360 Fifth Street site in SoMa; a San Mateo County official pleaded not guilty to embezzling $800,000 over eight years; and a brush fire in Solano County has been contained at 30 percent.
SF Politics Federal Court Hearing Concludes Regarding Trump's Deployment of National Guard Troops in LA A federal court case with major implications for Donald Trump's agenda — namely his stated intent to send federal troops into US cities run by Democrats that he perceives to be crime-ridden — had its three-day hearing this week.
SF Politics Mayor Barbara Lee Reacts to Oakland Being Mentioned In Trump's Crime Speech Oakland Mayor Barbara Lee doesn't take kindly to her city being lumped in to Trump's fear-mongering campaign relating to urban crime, which he is using to justify deploying the National Guard in DC.
SF Politics Many Americans Dislike Trump and Newsom, But They Hate Elon Musk More, According to Gallup Poll It's fairly bad news for California Governor Gavin Newsom that he has quite a bit of ground to make up if he plans to run for president in a couple years, according to a new Gallup poll. But Americans really don't like Elon Musk anymore.
SF News Ghislaine Maxwell Has Been Moved to the Same Minimum-Security Prison Where Elizabeth Holmes Is Serving Time You can see the shitstorm clouds forming, can't you? Jeffrey Epstein's longtime associate slash girlfriend slash procurer slash co-conspirator Ghislaine Maxwell is looking for a pardon, and Donald Trump would love nothing more than for her to exonerate him in this whole mess.
SF Politics Trump Calls For Kamala Harris to Be Prosecuted as He Desperately Tries to Quash Epstein Furor Donald Trump’s latest slapdash attempt to change the topic from Jeffrey Epstein is his demand that Kamala Harris be prosecuted over some made-up $11 million payment to Beyoncé that completely never happened.
SF Politics Federal Judge Issues Order Blocking Trump Bill From Punishing Planned Parenthood A federal judge in Boston has just issued an order that indefinitely blocks the Trump administration from withholding Medicaid funds from Planned Parenthood, saying that the provision in the Big Beautiful Bill likely is unconstitutional retaliation.
SF Politics Planned Parenthood Closes South San Francisco Location, Four Others Due to Trump Budget Cuts The Republicans' abortion fight has just struck close to home with five California locations of Planned Parenthood shutting their doors due to federal funding cuts, including one in South San Francisco.
SF News Trump Administration Forces Muir Woods to Alter Its Signage, Because Trump Is Very Easily Offended A sweeping new Trump directive orders national parks to remove any signs that might "disparage Americans,” or hurt the sensitive egos of rich white men, so Muir Woods National Monument is being forced to change some of their signs.
SF Politics Ninth Circuit Shuts Down Trump's Executive Order on Birthright Citizenship, Setting Up Supreme Court Showdown The next legal step after the Supreme Court appeared to roll over multiple times to the will of President Trump this term will be answering the question of whether his executive order barring birthright citizenship to the children of undocumented immigrants is unconstitutional.
SF Politics California Planned Parenthood Loses $300 Million In Federal Funding In Latest Legal Blow A US District Court ruling this week strips every Planned Parenthood location in the state of California of all federal funding, which amounts to about $300 million statewide, though that loss could still be overturned in a future ruling.
