Monthly Archives: October 2025

NBC Bay Area Oct 23, 2025 President Donald Trump is calling off any plans for federal deployment in San Francisco, Mayor Daniel Lurie announced Thursday after having a conversation with the president. Ginger Conejero Saab reports.

A dispatch from my city, where ICE has disrupted lives and protesters are fighting back by Emma JanssenOctober 22, 2025 (Prospect.org) CHICAGO – It’s been nearly two months since Chicago became the main target of President Trump’s Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) regime in what the government calls Operation Midway Blitz…. Continue reading →

The City is trying to help block the deployment of the National Guard in Chicago before it even arrives in San Francisco. Along with more than 40 other local governments, San Francisco urged the Supreme Court in a friend-of-the-court brief filed Monday to block President Donald Trump’s effort to deploy more than… Continue reading →

Robert Reich Oct 22, 2025 Paul Ingrassia, Trump’s nominee to oversee whistleblower protections Friends, When it comes to becoming part of the Trump regime, there’s been only one litmus test, at least until now: Total loyalty to Trump. Pass that test and nothing else matters. But Senate Republicans have now… Continue reading →

Customs and Border Protection agents are headed to Alameda for an operation beginning tomorrow, the Coast Guard has confirmed. by Darwin BondGraham Oct. 22, 2025, 2:01 p.m. A Customs and Border Patrol officer at a recent event in San Diego. Credit: AP Photo/Alex Brandon Social media was flooded today with rumors… Continue reading →

In late August, California lawmakers voted to initiate a Nov. 4 special election to pass Proposition 50. As mail-in voting opened earlier this month, student groups, advocates and the union workers at UC Berkeley are advocating for Prop. 50 and urging students to “VOTE YES.” Prop. 50 would replace the… Continue reading →

US Senate candidate Graham Platner is pictured during a campaign stop in Maine.  (Photo: Graham for Maine/Facebook) “The reason anyone pretends to care about Platner’s tattoo and Reddit posts is because they think he’s coming after the rich. That’s it. That’s all it’s about.” Jake Johnson Oct 22, 2025 (CommonDreams.org)… Continue reading →

22 October 2025/SF News/Jay Barmann (SFist.com) The gross and fascistic political theater of the Trump administration continues, and as we’ve been warned over the course of the last week, San Francisco is now squarely in Trump’s sights. We’ve been waiting for the shoe to drop, and it is now coming… Continue reading →

Experts warn federal immigration agents have more latitude to be aggressive and destructive than troops — with fewer avenues for the city to push back by Joe Eskenazi October 22, 2025 (MissionLocal.org) A bevy of Customs and Border Protection agents is heading to the Bay Area as soon as Thursday, a deployment that… Continue reading →

KTVU FOX 2 San Francisco Oct 22, 2025 San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie said his main priority is keeping San Franciscans safe during a large-scale federal immigration operation headed to the Bay Area.