SF News Hearing On Trump Immigration Order To Be Live-Streamed And Here Are The Three Judges Involved In a rare occurrence for an appeals court hearing on a major case, a three-judge panel of the Ninth Circuit today will be hearing oral arguments by phone in State of Washington v.
SF News Airbnb Follows Up '#WeAccept' Super Bowl Ad With Pledge To Help 100,000 People In Need With Short-Term Housing Following on an announcement last week by Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky that the company wanted to provide emergency short-term housing to those affected by President Trump's travel ban, the company has doubled down
SF News Ninth Circuit Schedules Hearing On Trump Immigration Order For Tuesday Following DOJ Brief The Department of Justice filed its brief Monday afternoon on behalf of the Trump administration ahead of the 3 p.m. PT deadline at the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco,
SF News Trump Threatens To Yank Funds From 'Out of Control' California If It Declares Itself A Sanctuary State In a pre-Super Bowl interview with buddy Bill O'Reilly on Fox, President Trump once again said a number of frightening and angry-making things, including new comments praising Vladimir Putin, implying the US government
SF News Trump Administration To Do Battle With Ninth Circuit Court In SF This Week Over Immigration Ban Because Friday's temporary restraining order blocking President Trump's executive order on immigration (that's more commonly being called a "Muslim ban") came from a federal judge in Seattle, the Trump Administration is stuck battling
SF News Thousands Protest Trump's Immigration Policies At Civic Center Saturday From San Francisco yesterday. The hashtag is needed. #NoBanNoWallsf #grumpyoldmenagainsttrump pic.twitter.com/wjmxM1rnVN— seecat42 🙈🐱🐙❄️ (@SeeCat42) February 5, 2017 Thousands gathered Saturday for a rally at SF's Civic Center Plaza in protest of
SF News ACLU Files Lawsuit Against Trump On Behalf Of Three Middle Eastern Students The ACLU of Northern California filed a lawsuit Thursday on behalf of three students at California universities who have been living here legally with F-1 student visas who are now barred from traveling
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 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 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 Restaurants, Food & Drink SF Bookstore Displays Cookbooks From Countries Affected By The Immigration Ban My new shop window, courtesy of our president. pic.twitter.com/FoHurAz0Y8— Omnivore Books (@omnivorebooks) January 28, 2017 Food-focused Noe Valley bookshop Omnivore Books is encouraging cooks in the neighborhood to learn about
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 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 Lyft Surpasses Uber In App Store Downloads As #DeleteUber Trend Continues Uber's loss is Lyft's gain as the long-running battle between the two San Francisco-based ride-hailing companies takes on a political valence. Reports (possibly spurious) that Uber had continued to operate to-and-from New York's
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 All SFO Detainees Released After Second Day Of Immigration Ban Protests After two days of protests at San Francisco International Airport in response to detentions under President Trump's executive order imposing a federal travel ban on seven majority-Muslim countries, all five detainees at the
SF News Golden State Warriors Coach And Victim Of Terrorism Steve Kerr Calls Trump's Immigration Ban 'A Horrible Idea' Steve Kerr -- "as someone whose family member was a victim of terrorism" -- speaks out against Donald Trump's recent executive order pic.twitter.com/YbCH2sn0hw— Anthony Slater (@anthonyVslater) January 30, 2017 Golden
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
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
