SF News Saturday Links: ‘No ICE at 2026 Super Bowl’ Banner to Fly Over Levi’s Stadium Sunday A Gilroy teen found a razor blade in her Halloween candy; a federal judge in Oregon has permanently blocked Trump from deploying the National Guard in Portland; and the group MoveOn is flying an anti-ICE banner over Levi’s Stadium for two hours prior to Sunday’s 49ers game.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Salesforce's Marc Benioff Wants to Bring National Guard to SF, ‘Re-Fund’ SFPD The South Lake Tahoe church where Mayor Tamara Wallace embezzled funds said they caught her in the act; Two Gilroy elementary schools have encountered copper wire theft in the past month; and Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff mistakenly thought SFPD was defunded at some point.
Politics [Update] Deployment of California National Guard Members to Portland Halted by Judge Governor Newsom announced Sunday that Trump deployed California National Guard members to assist law enforcement in Portland. The move was later blocked by a Trump-appointed federal judge who had previously blocked the president from federalizing Oregon troops.
SF News Saturday Links: Climber’s Death on El Capitan Inadvertently Livestreamed by TikToker One speed camera in SF’s South Beach generates a quarter of the city’s tickets; a fake Mission District lawyer and MAGA supporter won’t stop giving legal advice to immigrants; and the sole witness to climber Balin Miller’s death also livestreamed it.
SF News Massive Evacuation Orders Come As Oregon Wildfire Nears Portland Suburb Approximately half the residents of Oregon's Clackamas County — the edge of which abuts the southern city limits of Portland — have been ordered to evacuate their homes as one of five wildfires currently burning in the state is threatening several towns and suburbs.
SF News Member of Alt-Right Group That Tried to Make Trouble In SF Three Years Ago Fatally Shot In Portland A man wearing a hat saying Patriot Prayer — the alt-right group that attempted to stir the pot in the Bay Area in the summer of 2017 — was fatally shot in the streets of downtown Portland Saturday night.
SF News CA Couple Moved To Portland, Vandals Respond With "Go Back To CA" Graffiti Jessica Faraday and Preston "I work for Adidas" Page did not receive a warm welcome from some new neighbors. KRON 4 reports (via Portland's KOIN) that the California-based pair moved to Portland, Oregon
SF News Like Berkeley, Portland Struggles To Keep Peace As Pro-Trump And Anti-Fascist Contingents Collide One man taken in to custody. He came in to Terry Schrunk, exchanging words with Trump supporters, pushing one #KOIN6News pic.twitter.com/GL156Lyxom— Cole Miller (@ColeKOIN) June 4, 2017 A planned rally
SF News Portland Train Suspect Appears In Court, Calls Stabbings 'Patriotism' The suspect in the fatal stabbings aboard a Portland commuter train on Friday made his first court appearance Tuesday, and he shows no signs of remorse for an act that is being widely
SF News Two Killed On Portland Commuter Train Allegedly By Man Spewing Hate Speech Update: @MikeBennerKGW reports 2 people have died following stabbing at Hollywood Transit Center in NE Portland https://t.co/mijfevEBwi pic.twitter.com/7AGupoNSPD— KGW News (@KGWNews) May 27, 2017 A man who
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Portland's Salt & Straw Ice Cream Arrives In SF For Pop-Ups Next Week, Opening Two SF Shops In 2017 Recent transplants from Portland and ice cream fiends who've traveled there in the last few years are likely familiar with Salt & Straw, the Pok Pok-adjacent ice creamery that consistently draws long lines
Arts & Entertainment Real-Life Feminist Bookstore From 'Portlandia' Cuts Ties With Show, Says It's Anti-Feminist, Transphobic Depicted as humorless on the IFC show Portlandia, Portland's real-life feminist bookstore In Other Words the basis of the show's Women and Women First, and also its shooting location has lost its sense
SF News 'After School Satan Club' Comes To Portland Elementary School Good news for fans of the goat-headed Baphomet! The children of at least one Portland, Oregon elementary school will now have a few more options in their after-school programming choices with The Oregonian
SF News Oh Great: Earthquake Swarm Beneath Mount Saint Helens Indicates Volcano Is 'Recharging' To our north, in Washington State, we're getting news that a swarm of 130 small earthquakes has been occurring between 1 and 5 miles beneath Mount Saint Helens, the volcano that last erupted
SF News SF Ranks 2nd In Highest Per Capita Campaign Contributions To Bernie Sanders Cities on the left-leaning left coast are donating in droves to Bernie Sanders, the Vermont Senator and candidate for the Democratic Presidential nomination about whom all your (most vocal and enfranchised) friends are
SF News Portland Python Thief Shoves Snake Down His Pants As the northwesternmost -ist site, it falls upon us to report on news coming from our friends in Oregon — for example, the armed ranchers who took over a federal building, or the firearms
SF News Video: Insanely Racist Road Rage Incident In Portland A Portland area plumber, apparently angry at a woman driving near him who he thought was Hispanic, began yelling racial slurs at her over and over again out his truck window, and she
Arts & Entertainment Behold: Portland's 'Hipster Santa' Yes, Virginia, in Portlandia, even Santa has a man bun. Portland, Oregon's KOIN dubbed the guy the Hipster Santa when they put him on TV last week, and this particular unidentified Kris Kringle
SF News Chicken Daycare 'Qoopy' Is The Startup Parody That Could Finally Wake Us Up It looks like a startup: You've seen the minimalist, mobile-friendly design before. It squawks like a startup: Twitter account? Check. But Qoopy, which purports to be a "waitlist only" doggy daycare for your
SF News People In Portland Are Putting 'No Californians' Stickers On Houses For Sale You think Oaklanders are pissed about San Franciscans moving there and driving up housing costs? Observe Portland, where a certain symbol sticker, showing the state of California with a line through it, has
Arts & Entertainment Somebody Is Hanging Dildos All Around Portland Who is hanging dildos all around Portland? Why, the Sex Toy Fairy of course! According to VICE, the alleged Sex Toy Fairy is a recent college graduate in her 20s who works in
SF News More Frightening Talk About The Devastating Earthquake Likely Coming To The Pacific Northwest Those who live in Seattle and Portland may have heard inklings of this for many years, but increasingly the geological and seismic science community are sounding alarm bells about a potentially massive and
Arts & Entertainment Matt Groening's Mother Dies, Leaves Behind Simpsons-esque Obit When Simpsons creator Matt Groening's mother, Margaret (or Marge, as her friends knew her), died last month at the age of 94, a wonderful obituary was printed in a Portland, Oregon newspaper, which
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The Mission: Brooklyn Meets Facebook, With Good Burritos A former Portlander who's spent four years in San Francisco pens a Mission restaurant roundup for Oregon Live that's mostly focused on the new and hip spots that have opened in the last
misc Portland and Seattle = The New SF Suburbs? Picture this: You've hit like thirty and you've reached that point in your boring, staid bourgeois existence when it's time to settle down, poop out the 2.5, and buy the home of
