One potential casualty of uncertain federal funds: Mission teacher housing

Federal dollars for site are available, provided President Donald Trump’s move to block funding is unsuccessful by OSCAR PALMA FEBRUARY 25, 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! Since 2017, the Mission Economic Development Agency… Continue reading

Amid rash of Walgreens closures, supervisor wants S.F. to look at ‘cooperative pharmacies’

Jackie Fielder wants city report exploring subsidies for independent pharmacies — plus new middleman regulations by JUNYAO YANG FEBRUARY 25, 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! As Walgreens shutters locations across San Francisco this… Continue reading

AI Video of Trump Licking Musk’s Toes Circulates in Government Building

“LONG LIVE THE REAL KING,” reads the message on the video that was played on more than a dozen screens in the HUD headquarters. PREM THAKKER FEB 24, 2025 (Zeteo.com) Screens throughout the US Department of Housing and Urban Development headquarters blasted images of President Donald Trump slobbering over the… Continue reading

Democratic Leaders Stand Real Still In Hopes No One Notices Them

Published: February 24, 2025 (TheOnion.com) WASHINGTON—With the elected officials trying their hardest not to move a muscle, reports confirmed Monday that top Democratic leaders in Congress were standing real still in hopes that the American people wouldn’t notice them. “Don’t make any sudden movements, or they’ll spot us,” Rep. Hakeem… Continue reading

‘Hell No!’ Postal Workers Protest Illegal Trump Takeover Scheme

American Postal Workers Union president Mark Dimondstein is pictured at a protest against President Donald Trump’s reported plan to seize control of the Postal Service on February 24, 2025.  (Photo: American Postal Workers Union/X.com) “The 295,000 active and retired members of the National Association of Letter Carriers have a message… Continue reading

Rights Group Urges ICC to Probe Biden for ‘Aiding and Abetting’ Israeli Crimes in Gaza

Then-U.S. President Joe Biden presided over a Cabinet meeting, flanked by Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin, at the White House in Washington, D.C. on September 20, 2024.  (Photo: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images) A veteran war crimes lawyer argues that “there are solid grounds to investigate Joe… Continue reading

San Francisco stubbornly clung to 19th-century technology. That crippled it during a 21st-century pandemic.

‘The amount of times that drawings have just been lost sitting on someone’s desk or in transit — you would be shocked.’ Would we, though? by JOE ESKENAZI FEBRUARY 15, 2021 (MissionLocal.org) On Sept. 9, the sun did not rise in San Francisco. Wildfire smoke shrouded the city, and masked figures… Continue reading

UC Berkeley faculty respond to Department of Education letter on race and diversity

President Donald Trump’s administration has attempted to curb diversity initiatives in federally funded educational institutions — a move UC Berkeley professors have criticized on both legality and principle. On Jan. 21, Trump issued an executive order titled “Ending Illegal Discrimination and Restoring Merit-Based Opportunity.” More recently, the Department of Education’s… Continue reading