Share this Post: 111 Taylor Street once housed Gene Compton’s Cafeteria, the site of an August 1966 riot by drag queens and trans people against the police. Photo: Cynthia Laird San Francisco’s Transgender History Month, observed in August for the past several years, often brings attention to the fact that… Continue reading
Meyerson on TAP August 29, 2025 (Prospect.org) At its meeting this week, the DNC opposed a ban on U.S. provision of offensive weapons to Israel. We’ve been here before: widespread Democratic opposition to an outrageous war, particularly among the young, while a good chunk of the party’s establishment remains unwilling… Continue reading
We’ve already been leafleting at a few San Francisco farmers markets, and it’s been a ton of fun. But we really want to be leafleting at ALL the farmers markets, every week! Several hundred people have signed up to do this kind of volunteering for the campaign. In fact, I have received… Continue reading
We sat down with Lee this week to ask what she’s doing about crime, illegal dumping, Trump’s threats, and how to unify the city. by Eli Wolfe and Natalie Orenstein Aug. 28, 2025 (Oaklandside.org) Help us tell the Oakland stories that matter to you and your fellow Oaklanders. Yes, I want to chip… Continue reading
The Palestinian Youth Movement says hundreds of military shipments passed through OAK this year. A coalition is calling for them to stop. by Darwin BondGraham and Esther KaplanAug. 28, 2025 (Oaklandside.org) Help us tell the Oakland stories that matter to you and your fellow Oaklanders. Yes, I want to chip in to support… Continue reading
After month-long delay, S.F. Dems deadlock on endorsement vote — well after recall ballots have been sent out by JUNYAO YANG August 27, 2025 (MissionLocal.org) The San Francisco Democratic Party deadlocked 11-11 and took no position on the recall of District 4 Supervisor Joel Engardio Wednesday night. Six members abstained from… Continue reading
The largest Muslim civil rights organization in the United States has declared UC Berkeley a “hostile campus” to pro-Palestine advocacy and Muslim students. Representatives from the San Francisco Bay Area chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations, or CAIR-SFBA, alleged in a press conference Tuesday that campus suppressed Palestinian, Muslim,… Continue reading
John Kenneth Galbraith in 1952 “The modern conservative is engaged in one of man’s oldest exercises in moral philosophy, that is the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness. It is an exercise which always involves a certain number of internal contradictions and even a few absurdities. The conspicuously… Continue reading
