By J.K. Dineen, Reporter Updated Sep 28, 2024 (SFChronicle.com) A view from an apartment at 100 Van Ness, one of the largest office-to-housing conversion projects in San Francisco.Gabrielle Lurie/The Chronicle Developers hoping for a faster and easier path to converting empty office buildings to housing in California’s downtowns will have to wait… Continue reading
Screenshot of a tweet shared by journalist Ken Klippenstein prior to his account being suspended by X on Thursday, September 26, 2024. (Image: Screengrab) “The ‘free speech absolutist’ has once again silenced a journalist he didn’t like,” said one observer. BRETT WILKINS Sep 26, 2024 (CommonDreams.org) X—the social media platform… Continue reading
Long time CNN anchor shares that if hosts slam MAGA guests you could be fired Plus info on to help defeat Ted Cruz! DEAN OBEIDALLAH SEP 28, 2024 deanobeidallah@substack.com Share We all watched in disbelief as the CNN moderators failed to fact check Donald Trump during the June presidential debate… Continue reading
By Michael Hiltzik Business Columnist June 19, 2024 (LATimes.com) Rasmussen Reports used to be a fairly creditable and credible political polling organization, good enough to be included among the pollsters relied on by services such as FiveThirtyEight to give a broad-spectrum gauge of voter sentiment in the run-up to state and federal… Continue reading
The collective that runs Omni Commons bought the Shattuck Avenue building in 2016, and rmust make a nearly $1 million payment on its property loan this year, or obtain another one, in order to keep it. Credit: Saskia Hatvany FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 9/10/2024 CONTACT: Noni Session, Executive Director. noni@ebprec.org Oakland, CA — The… Continue reading
FRI, 9/27/2024 – BY CARL GIBSON (Occupy.com) The 2024 Republican ticket’s incitement of violence against Haitian migrants in Springfield, Ohio, is revealing in more ways than one. Former President Donald Trump and Sen. JD Vance (R-Ohio) have only doubled down on their baseless, debunked smear of Haitian immigrants as kidnappers of pets and… Continue reading
FRI, 9/27/2024 – BY STEVE RUSHTON (Occupy.com) THIS ARTICLE ORIGINALLY APPEARED ON WHAT BRITAIN NEEDS NOW IS MORE POLITICS, NOT MORE POLICE. Racist pogroms and rioting took place in cities across England and Northern Ireland last month, particularly targeting migrants and Muslims. Right-wing extremists tried to set fire to refugee accommodation. They… Continue reading
Like Starbucks and Amazon, the ‘progressive’ grocery chain Trader Joe’s has experienced a wave of unionization efforts in the COVID era—and has fought to crush them at every turn. BY MAXIMILLIAN ALVAREZ SEPTEMBER 25, 2024 (therealnews.com) Trader Joe’s employees and crew members from left Will Greene, Mandi Vogel, Nigel Brown, Dan… Continue reading
London Breed in 2019. Photo by Gage Skidmore This attitude in Breed’s administration of accepting low-level sleaze is undermining faith in government and nonprofits, and that’s a serious threat to all of us. By TIM REDMOND SEPTEMBER 26, 2024 (48hills.org) Public corruption is making headlines all over the country, with… Continue reading
