About the most racist thing a president has said in public in a long time. By TIM REDMOND JANUARY 20, 2025 (48hills.org) I don’t know what scared me the most this morning: The declaration by the President of the United States that trans people are not people, or the Nazi… Continue reading
by XU EER LU JANUARY 21, 2025 (MissionLocal.org) Read Mission Local often? Help grow our newsroom, joining the hundreds of San Franciscans who support us by giving below. Donate today! Karina Ortiz, a 26-year-old living in the Salvation Army Harbor House homeless shelter with her husband and seven-year-old daughter, will be evicted… Continue reading
21 JANUARY 2025/BUSINESS & TECH/JAY BARMANN (SFist.com) Hims & Hers Health, the SF-based telehealth startup founded by Andrew Dudum, just kicked $1 million to Donald Trump’s inauguration fund, perhaps because they’re concerned about the administration’s future plans when it comes to mail-order drugs. Much like the CEOs of Meta, Alphabet,… Continue reading
People attend a rally calling for an end to corporate money in politics and to mark the anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court’s Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission decision, at Lafayette Square in Washington, D.C. on January 21, 2015. (Photo: Drew Angerer/Getty Images) “As long as Citizens United remains the law… Continue reading
After World War II, Alcide De Gasperi Steered a Divided Nation to Democracy By Mark Gilbert January 20, 2025 (ZocaloPublicSquare.com) Americans are alarmed by their country’s stark political divisions. But they shouldn’t despair. After World War II, Italy was even more politically polarized than America is today. Yet by the mid-1950s, it… Continue reading
Plus: The immigrant rights march, Fielder’s ceremonial swearing in, what the billionaires fear—and why is all the new housing in SF so ugly? That’s The Agenda for Jan. 19-26 By TIM REDMOND JANUARY 19, 2025 (48hills.org) Donald Trump becomes president Monday/20 at 9am local time, and some of my neighbors in Bernal… Continue reading
Trump is barred by the 14th Amendment. Period. DEAN OBEIDALLAH JAN 20, 2025 (deanobeidallah.substack.com) At Noon today it became official: The United States has an illegitimate President. The reason for that statement is simple. It is undisputed that Donald J. Trump “engaged in an insurrection” with his role in the Jan…. Continue reading
20 JANUARY 2025/SF POLITICS (SFist.com) There were protests around the Bay Area and the country over the weekend ahead of Trump’s inauguration. But while there are real, grave dangers ahead in this presidency, especially for immigrant communities and trans people, the protests in SF were not major draws. At Sunday’s rally in… Continue reading
