SF News Day Around the Bay: Apartment Fire Erupts in SF’s North Beach, Quickly Contained by SFFD Surfers were met with 40-foot waves on the opening day of surf season in Mavericks, California; take part in a hyphy video shoot at Powell Station Saturday; and no injuries were reported after an apartment fire in North Beach Friday.
SF News YouTube Accounts Previously Banned for Misinformation Could Soon Be Reinstated YouTube’s parent company Alphabet announced Tuesday it’s allowing creators who received permanent bans over misinformation relating to COVID-19 and the 2020 election to apply to be reinstated. This likely includes Robert F. Kennedy Jr and Steve Bannon.
SF News Saturday Links: CDC Clarifies COVID Guidelines, Reverses RFK Jr.'s Broader Rollback Claims Veteran educator Denise Saddler has been appointed interim superintendent of Oakland Unified School District; a man was shot and killed in Sunnyvale; and the CDC has walked back RFK Jr.'s earlier claims.
SF Politics As Layoffs Begin Across Health Agencies, SF Office of Health and Human Services Set to Close The Trump administration sent layoff notices Tuesday to around 10,000 employees of the US Department of Health and Human Services, including dozens who work out of the Speaker Nancy Pelosi Federal Building in San Francisco.
SF News RFK Jr. Apparently Coming After Poppers Manufacturers Because of a Long-Discredited AIDS Conspiracy Theory The circus continues out of Trump's Washington, where clown-car cabinet member Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is now apparently wielding the power of the FDA to go after manufacturers of amyl nitrate, or poppers.
SF Politics Trump Names Anti-Lockdown Stanford Doctor to Lead NIH The ridiculous clown car that is the second Trump administration just gained another clown.
SF Politics RFK Jr.’s Bay Area Veep Pick Says Campaign Might Soon Throw In the Towel and Endorse Trump The RFK Jr. presidential campaign must be feeling bearish about their chances, as his VP pick Nicole Shanahan just admitted on a podcast that they’re thinking of quitting and endorsing Trump.
SF Politics NY Times Profile of RFK Jr. Running Mate Nicole Shanahan Details Giant Divorce Fortune, Cocaine, Elon Musk Affair It’s not new news that RFK Jr.’s vice-presidential pick Nicole Shanahan is wealthy because of her gargantuan divorce settlement from Google co-founder Sergey Brin, but the NY Times dug into her past to find “cocaine, ketamine and psychedelic mushrooms” use, and an affair with Elon Musk.
SF Politics Silicon Valley Lawyer (and Sergey Brin's Ex) Nicole Shanahan Named as RFK Jr.'s Running Mate The spoiler third-party presidential campaign of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. now has a running mate from the Bay Area: Silicon Valley lawyer and previous Democratic donor Nicole Shanahan.
