![[Update] GoFundMe Creates Placeholder Pages for 1.4 Million Nonprofits, Many Without Their Knowledge](https://img.sfist.com/2025/10/GoFundMe-Charity-Page.jpg)
Friends of the San Bruno Public Library discovered that GoFundMe created a donation page for it to “claim” without notifying its office. The site made 1.4 million such placeholder pages, which need to be manually unpublished if nonprofits wish to opt out.
Fundraiser for Madrone’s Oscar Myers; local Indigenous-owned businesses; processing trauma through surfing; learning about SF via Muni; downtown alley transformation; Photobook Fair weekend; Annie Sprinkle celebrates Earth and boobs; lavender and bees; SF’s 55-acre garden.
A Michigan woman used ChatGBT to pick her winning Powerball numbers; a prolific list of No King’s rallies across the Bay Area is provided within; and Marc Benioff has officially retracted his National Guard comments.
Prince Andrew no longer has his royal titles due to the Epstein scandal; a teenager was arrested for making a false bomb threat to a Marin County high school; and OpenAI is temporarily blocking users from utilizing Martin Luther King Jr.’s likeness.
Taylor Swift donned a vintage Monterey Bay Aquarium t-shirt in her recent theatrical release. The aquarium is now offering that retro t-shirt again, or rather, 16 different versions of the shirt, plus coffee mugs, magnets, and tote bags.
A Pearl 6101 chef branches out to Divisadero, a huge new dim sum restaurant opens in the East Bay, and MacKenzie Chung Fegan reviews Happy Crane, all in This Week In Food.
The SFPD is making no friends among the top brass of other Bay Area police departments, with their LED mobile billboard going right into other departments’ parking lots offering their cops higher pay to jump ship.
Some tough questions are suddenly being asked of the Daniel Lurie administration, after they awarded a contract to a very pricey vendor with connections to Lurie, snubbing a much cheaper and more highly rated competitor.
We need only follow the money to figure out what has turned the once-liberal-leaning Marc Benioff into a full-throated Trump supporter. And now we see that Salesforce was hoping to land a new contract helping ICE to expand its reach.
The previously announced residency by Grammy-winning singer Sam Smith, which will serve as the opening act for the renovated Castro Theatre in February and March, was already extended, and now spans over a month, with 20 show dates.
As has long been known, state Senator Scott Wiener has political ambitions beyond the California legislature, and this week he's apparently making moves.
A man was stabbed about a month ago at 3 pm on a Wednesday afternoon outside the Daly City BART station, and now BART Police are releasing photos of a woman they say is linked to the incident, as they would like a word with her.
Santa Clara Mayor Lisa Gillmor has responded to Trump's threats about moving the World Cup games; an Oakland neighborhood is menaced by a serial rock-thrower; and a petition seeks to replace Bad Bunny as Super Bowl halftime performer.
Gavin Newsom is promising $11 insulin in California; some November election ballots turned up at a Sacramento homeless encampment; and the last Sunday Streets of the year is this weekend, and it also comes with some renegade parties.
The SF Sheriff’s Office is calling it “sexual misconduct," while the SF Public Defender’s Office says it was a “nonconsensual” sexual assault, but something got a deputy fired for an alleged incident with a trans woman prisoner.
SF DA Brooke Jenkins sounds a lot like Chesa Boudin in her latest remarks about Trump sending troops to SF, saying she’d prosecute the troops if they use excessive force, though she’s always dismissed those charges against SF cops.
Chef Heena Patel has already spent years delighting San Francisco eaters with her interpretations of vegetarian Indian — specifically Gujarat — cuisine. And her celebratory menu at Besharam for Diwali, available this weekend only, is not to be missed.
It will make renters sick that they have to compete with AI sector workers whose cash-flush companies pay their rent for them. It will make renters even sicker to hear those AI companies do this to make their workplaces like “a frat house.”
Romy Mars, who represents a segment of self-aware, self-deprecating Gen Z nepo babies that may not be very large, has just gone viral on TikTok calling out UC Berkeley for inviting her to speak on campus, given she is 18 years old and doesn't feel qualified to speak about much.
The fallout continues from Marc Benioff's New York Times interview last week, in which the full-time Hawaii resident seemingly approved of Donald Trump's authoritarian use of the National Guard in liberal cities he doesn't like.
Some intriguing developments in San Francisco’s quest to lure Vanderbilt University to build a satellite campus here in SF, as the Chronicle reports that Vanderbilt might want their own Chronicle building to be part of the campus.
It's Great ShakeOut Day in California, and just as preparations were being made for the annual earthquake drill, a 3.1M quake struck near Berkeley.
A man covered in blankets in the back alley of a San Jose strip mall was hit by a garbage truck and killed at about 4 am Thursday morning in San Jose’s Cambrian neighborhood.
SF Sheriff Paul Miyamoto talks about Trump's threats to send the National Guard here; BART police have arrested a teen suspect in connection with a September shooting aboard a train in Oakland; and Rohnert Park police arrested a man for an alleged hate crime incident at a bowling alley.
Trump is yet again talking about sending troops to San Francisco; Trump is issuing blanket threats to Hamas; and Trump is really pissing off soybean farmers.
