Fires, squatting, scandal: S.F.’s last public housing complexes get new management

by ELENI BALAKRISHNAN FEBRUARY 14, 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! After years of scandals over management of San Francisco’s last two public housing projects, the company paid to manage both properties has been… Continue reading

Progressive Organizers Ready Nationwide “Not My Presidents’ Day” Protests

The 50501 Movement holds a protest at the Minnesota State Capitol in St. Paul, Minnesota on February 5, 2025.  (Photo: Michael Siluk/UCG/Universal Images Group via Getty Images) “We the people will not live under a king,” said one progressive organizer. “We will not allow Trump and Musk’s administrative coup.” JULIA… Continue reading

Raskin Condemns Trump DOJ’s ‘Illegal Intimidation’ of Anti-Corruption Division

U.S. Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) attends a hearing on September 10, 2024 in Washington, D.C.  (Photo: Kent Nishimura/Getty Images) “It’s time to do your job and stop this outrageous sabotage of justice in the interests of naked political corruption,” said the lawmaker. JULIA CONLEY Feb 14, 2025 (CommonDreams.org) Amid reports… Continue reading

Wingnuts Impersonating DOGE Officials Enter SF City Hall, Demand to ‘See Files’

Wingnuts Impersonating DOGE Officials Enter SF City Hall, Demand to ‘See Files’

14 FEBRUARY 2025/SF POLITICS/JAY BARMANN (SFist.com) Let the emboldened nutjob lunacy begin! Much like in the first year of Trump’s first presidency, we can expect there to be uprisings and shenanigans here in the Bay Area by his — and Elon Musk’s — emboldened acolytes. We should say that weirdness… Continue reading

The Expected Mass Firing of Biden-Appointed US Attorneys Is Underway, Including Northern California’s

The Expected Mass Firing of Biden-Appointed US Attorneys Is Underway, Including Northern California’s

14 FEBRUARY 2025/SF POLITICS/JOE KUKURA (SFist.com) The inevitable firing of most US Attorneys appointed by Biden has come to pass, and our US Attorney for the Northern District of California Ismail Ramsey just got the axe. It is fairly normal for many of the Department of Justice’s US Attorneys (there… Continue reading

IS “OTHERING” HUMAN NATURE’S DEADLIEST INSTINCT?

Now we have an opportunity to bring Americans together, to embrace a collective and inclusive “us,” and to repudiate hate and “othering” as a political strategy… THOM HARTMANN AUG 26, 2024 (hartmannreport.com) The song that was inspired by this article is available here.My reading this article as an audio podcast is available… Continue reading