SF Politics

Trump Fires Kristi Noem and Installs New Clown to Lead Homeland Security

Given Trump's well established penchant for firing people, going a full year in office without a high-profile firing says something. But now Kristi Noem, aka ICE Barbie, the underqualified and always out-of-her-depth Secretary of Homeland Security, is out.

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Saturday Links: ‘Pizza Box’ Trash Cans Launch in North Beach, Rest of SF Still Awaiting Actual Trash Cans

Legendary 49ers quarterback John Brodie, who played with the team a record-breaking 17 seasons, died at age 90; the White House posted a doctored image to social media of a Minnesota protester crying; and North Beach launched some special "pizza box" trash cans.

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Five Gold Ingots From China, Looted From an 18th Century French Shipwreck, Returned to French Government Via SF

The Department of Homeland Security just returned a trove of artifacts deemed to be the property of the French government, and five gold ingots that were likely smuggled to the U.S. decades ago and which landed in a Bay Area auction house, were among them.

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How Homeland Security 'Deceived' Santa Cruz Police To Make Immigration Arrests In A Sanctuary City

Homeland Security (& other agencies) launch wave of pre-dawn raids across Santa Cruz, said to be targeting gang-affiliated homicide suspects pic.twitter.com/EDbfKHhDjj— Wilson Walker (@Wilson_Walker) February 13, 2017 An episode

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Brannan Street Retailer Arrested In Fake Burberry, Dior, And Gucci Bust

A San Francisco shop owner faces allegations that she sold fake designer goods, following an investigation by the San Francisco Police Department and Homeland Security. According to a press release sent by the

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Good Luck Figuring Out What These Department Of Homeland Security Devices On SF Streets Are!

When SFist reader Matt Scully spotted this Department of Homeland Security device at New Montgomery and Mission, he had some questions. Is this thing — whatever it is — Super Bowl related? Is it a

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Outer Sunset Photographer Busted For Child Porn, Tourist-Area Upskirts

The San Francisco Police Department is asking anyone who might have had contact with an Outer Sunset photographer to come forward after they say they discovered thousands of images and videos depicting children

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South San Francisco Man Beats Fellow Gymgoer To Death With Exercise Equipment

A South San Francisco gym member has been booked into the San Mateo County Jail for murder after allegedly beating another gymgoer to death with some of the gym's equipment, police said Thursday

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Al Qaeda Magazine Runs Photo Of SFO Tram: 'Assemble Your Bomb'

Al Qaeda's english language publication with an in-flight magazine name Inspire, raised some flags in Washington, D.C. this week after it ran a spread featuring man sitting on a tram car from

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Man Allegedly Tries To Fool TSA With Foil-Wrapped Gun

No longer just for deflecting mind-reading waves from outer space, aluminum foil was allegedly used in an attempt to conceal a firearm on a flight from SFO to Europe. Kerry Lee Bobo, 53,

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Your Oil Spill Update: Pelosi!

Like the bad ass she is, occasional San Francisco resident and current House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has written to the "Homeland Security Department's inspector general requesting an investigation of preparation for and response

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Dianne Feinstein Fit To Be Tied Over Oil Spill

Well spun, Dianne. Looking to use the oil spill to get some much needed face time -- perfect for balancing out other less savory images of the Senator -- Dianne Feinstein flew to

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But of Course: Falafels = Terrorism

According to CQ Politics, the FBI combed through customer data collected by SF and Bay Area grocery stores in 2005 and 2006. Why? To see what amount of Middle Eastern food products were

Arts & Entertainment

Bring The Musicologist Back!

Ghuman is a British citizen born in India, and an Oxford and Berkeley graduate who's working on a book about the influence of India on English music. She was coming back from England

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Feinstein Folds on FISA

The bill passed after some sheninagans by the White House when sixteen Democrats chickened out and voted with the Republicans. Most of them came from supposed Red States who thought that President 25%

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From The 'Why Isn't Everyone Worried About This' File

The way Wired's Noah Shachtman sees things struck us as astonishingly clear and pragmatic. "The Lawrence Livermore lab, outside of San Francisco, already has a pretty iffy security record -- barely-armed guards, affairs

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SFist Photo: Your Homeland Security $$$ at Work

Is that a good thing?

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Department of Homeand Security: Never Met a Fire Hydrant They Didn't Like

It's a Homeland Security car parked right in front of a hydrant last Wednesday, at Folsom/18th in the "abandoned warehouse" section of the Mission. And look, there's another one in the very

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The Only Bomb That Will Go Off on Sunday Will Be the Raiders

According to officials, an online discussion somewhere on the site "New Attack on America Be Afraid" (we're big fans of that site that site but we hate how they draw over pictures of

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Prurient Interest

We assume you know all the lurider and lurider details about this, so we're not going into it here. But what's the local angle? Karr used to be a substitute teacher in San

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Terrorize This

Luckily, reports have been coming out saying that yes indeed, the Bad Guys have been looking our way and plotting some terror. A new report that was released by the California Department of

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Ketchup Girl

We'll be straight with you -- we're having a hard time following the whole "is Annemarie Conroy qualified" debacle that's been afoot for the past few days -- something about a report being

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San Francisco is Being Invaded!

You may have already noticied the surprising tactical move to seize local public transportation, or the advance battalions who've landed on the Embarcadero, sending skirmishers down Market street. Word is that their supported

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SFist Answers: Things To Make You Cry

A friend of SFist writes: "Someone in my office was just arrested for possession of child pornography. The case has been relatively high-profile in the area. The suspect seemed like a nice guy,

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Stage Fog: Something for Everyone, Again

at Berkeley Repertory Theatre Who said interactive theater is uncool? One of the coolest things about Culture Clash's production of Zorro in Hell is that you can download your very own Zorro mask