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Bay Area Leaders Call Capitol Breach 'Terrorism' and 'An Attempted Coup'

As the United States Capitol Building remains in a state of chaos as the sun sets on the East Coast, Bay Area leaders are reacting with disgust at what President Trump has wrought in his final days as president.

Over 56,000 People in San Francisco Voted for Trump

Liberal bubble though it may be, there are more Trump voters in our midst than we may think here in SF. And not everyone in this town is immune to the attraction to an authoritarian strongman who spends his days doing his own PR on Twitter.

Deluded Trump Supporters Rally In Danville, Insist He Won Reelection Because He Said So

Here in the Bay Area we don't need to look further than eastern Contra Costa County to find some Trump supporters who think the election is far from decided.

Hair Salon Owner Claims She's Closing Cow Hollow Business Because She's 'Afraid to Return' to SF

Erica Kious, the Fresno-based hairstylist and salon owner who quickly became persona non grata to liberals and a hero to Fox News watchers when she leaked video of Nancy Pelosi coming to her SF salon for a blowout last week, has returned to Fox News to announce she's now "afraid to return" to SF.

Business & Tech

Devin Nunes Loses Lawsuit Over Twitter Cow, Is Now Telling Everyone to Get on Parler

The hilarious case of a parody account on Twitter that took pleasure in trolling Republican California Congressman Devin Nunes has (probably) come to a close over a year after Nunes filed one of many frivolous lawsuits.

SF Soul Cycle and Equinox Locations See Protests After News Of Owner's Trump Fundraiser

San Franciscans who patronize Soul Cycle and Equinox gyms are facing a moral quandary over their fitness choices this week after it was revealed that Equinox Fitness owner Stephen Ross was hosting a high-ticket fundraiser for President Trump in the Hamptons.

Devin Nunes Is Suing Twitter and Two Parody Accounts And It's Hilarious

Republican congressman and devoted Trump defender Rep. Devin Nunes of California has filed a defamation lawsuit against Twitter and a couple of parody accounts that enjoy making fun of him, and SNL couldn't have written a funnier script than this lawsuit and the ensuing Twitter pile-on.

Twitter Suspends GOP Congresswoman's Anti-Choice Political Advertisement

One GOP congresswoman's anti-choice campaign advertisement was suspended from being promoted on Twitter's advertising platform yesterday. Representative Marsha Blackburn (R-Tennessee) created a campaign video wherein she detailed her work against Planned Parenthood. In

Judge Tosses Berkeley College Republicans' Lawsuit Against School

Lost in the mercurial leadup to and catastrophic flop of Berkeley’s late September “Free Speech Week” was the footnote that two conservative student organizations have had a lawsuit against UC Berkeley arguing

Right-Wing Berkeley Students Claim Steve Bannon Is Definitely Coming For 'Free Speech Week'

Once again, Republican and other right-aligned students at UC Berkeley are upping the ante in booking speakers or pretending to book speakers that the general student population will find abhorrent, and as was

Piedmont Mayor Steps Down After Offensive Social Media Posts

Piedmont Mayor Jeff Wieler announced Sunday that he would be stepping down from the job following an outcry last week over several Facebook posts that showed him to be less than enlightened on

SF Republican Attorney Takes On James Damore Case, Suggests Possible Class-Action Against Google

The latest in the story of fired Google engineer James Damore is that he's hired a prominent conservative lawyer from San Francisco who was shortlisted for a possible post in President Trump's Justice

Video: That Fired Google Manifesto Guy Says His Feelings Are Hurt :(

Fired Google engineer James Damore has defended his memo and says he feels "hurt" https://t.co/2NqmKuwsf6 pic.twitter.com/ezuxXp211X— Bloomberg (@business) August 10, 2017 Former Google engineer James Damore was

Arts & Entertainment

GOP Super PAC Ad Trades Cable Cars For Golden Gate Bridge After SFMTA Legal Threat

This GOP attack ad out of Georgia is the gift that keeps on giving here at SFist, and today the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports that the super PAC behind the ad has swapped out

Arts & Entertainment

SFMTA Sends Cease-And-Desist To Super PAC That Made That Georgia Attack Ad About SF

You know that ridiculous ad we saw last week paid for by a Republican political group depicting goofy San Franciscans, all in the service of defeating a Democratic challenger in a Georgia House

The New York Times Found Five Republicans At UC Berkeley And Talked To Them

"I’m from Tennessee, where I’m called a commie. At Berkeley I’m a right-wing reactionary." https://t.co/71bOF7wwXL pic.twitter.com/NCxtyRrn5n— The New York Times (@nytimes) May 8, 2017

Ann Coulter Shows Up To Speak... In Modesto

@ModestoPolice @AnnCoulter 🇺🇸 Over 600 at the #AnnCoulter event in Modesto! Amazing evening!!! Many thanks to #ModestoPolice & #AnnCoulter! pic.twitter.com/TBLyUP4zSC— Barbara Jensen (@BarbaraJensen1) April 29, 2017 It seems as though Ann

Berkeley Chancellor Pens Op Ed: 'We Are Under Attack From Both Sides'

UC Berkeley Chancellor Nicholas Dirks took to the New York Times today with an op-ed concerning both the Ann Coulter speech kerfuffle and the ongoing use of the campus as a locale for

Ann Coulter Backs Out Of Berkeley Event After Student Groups Abandon Her

Welp, for all those warriors on the alt-right and far left who were dusting off their helmets and makeshift weapons in preparation for a new Battle of Berkeley this week, this should be

Ann Coulter Ragefully Tweets At UC Berkeley That May 2nd Does Not Work For Her

Wouldn't you know, the offer from UC Berkeley to allow conservative firebrand Ann Coulter to speak on campus this semester is not going to fly with Coulter because, she says, the time slot

Berkeley College Republicans Threatened By Graffiti

Classic leftist (in)tolerance being displayed on our campus:https://t.co/7B2tF4lJRc— Berkeley Republicans (@BerkeleyCRs) April 14, 2017 Berkeley College Republicans say they're threatened by intolerance and aggression on campus, the latest

Latest 'Calexit' Gambit: Split California Between East And West

#Calexit movement to split California into two states gets #Brexit leader @Nigel_Farage to help efforts. https://t.co/AgZAud6gH5 pic.twitter.com/8LsZ0fbYvN— AniRelic (@AniRelic) March 26, 2017 Entering the fray of

Three Ninth Circuit Judges Ask Congressional Committee Not To Split Up The Court

Three judges from the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals not the same three involved in the decision to uphold an injunction against President Trump's ban on travel from seven Muslim-majority nations last month

Is Schwarzenegger Seriously Eyeing Feinstein's Senate Seat?

Perhaps wanting to take his ongoing Twitter war with the President to the Senate floor, former California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger may be mulling a run for Dianne Feinstein's Senate seat in 2018 though

Berkeley College Republicans Insist Milo Yiannopoulos Will Be Back To Speak On Campus

Because college kids are really big on standing on principle, and because: free speech, campus conservatives at UC Berkeley say that they will, "without qualification," be bringing Milo Yiannopoulos back to speak on