Trump officials threatened legal action against the 18 cities on the list, including Berkeley and San Francisco. by Nico Savidge and Esther Kaplan Aug. 6, 2025 (Oaklandside.com) Help us tell the Oakland stories that matter to you and your fellow Oaklanders. Yes, I want to chip in to support Oaklandside’s work! On Tuesday,… Continue reading
Lawyers use an longtime tactic in a new way to get (some) asylum-seekers out of detention by MARGARET KADIFA August 6, 2025 (MissionLocal.org) On Friday, a 20-year-old asylum seeker from Colombia walked into immigration court at 630 Sansome St. for an administrative hearing related to his case. As has become routine in San… Continue reading
ATOMIC BOWL: FOOTBALL AT GROUND ZERO — AND NUCLEAR PERIL TODAY Special | 53m 6sVideo has Closed Captions|CC The second atomic bomb blast over Nagasaki in August 1945 has become known as “the forgotten bomb.” Less than five months later, the U.S. military staged an all-star football game on a killing… Continue reading
The significance of the Grateful Dead’s 60th anniversary last weekend was not lost on the tens of thousands of Deadheads who descended upon Golden Gate Park to commemorate it. Dead & Company’s trio of sold-out San Francisco shows celebrated the original band’s milestone anniversary in the city where the group’s legendary run… Continue reading
by Randy Shaw and Darshil Devdhara on August 4, 2025 (BeyondChron.org) July 29, 2025 Report 10-11:50am Public drug use in the Tenderloin has reached post-COVID highs. Consider: our July monitoring found many Tenderloin sidewalks had over 20 drug users per day. Some routinely had over 30. Why does City Hall allows this? 20… Continue reading
by Sebastian on August 4, 2025 (BeyondChron.org) District 2 Supervisor Stephen Sherrill on Van Ness Avenue Van Ness Avenue, “the city’s spine,” had been neglected by City Hall for far too long. The city should have done more during the six-year construction of the Van Ness Bus Rapid Transit to help the existing businesses survive…. Continue reading
Crucial classes are overbooked and students can’t get the credits they need to graduate. Here’s the data By RICK BAUM AUGUST 4, 2025 (48hills.org) City College of San Francisco recently received some good news. Soon after a new permanent chancellor was hired, the Accrediting Commission for Junior and Community Colleges reaffirmed… Continue reading
Meyerson on TAP August 5, 2025 (Prospect.org) The mystery of continuing Democratic support for offensive arms to Israel Last week, 27 Democratic senators voted to ban such sales. But 17 voted to let them continue.Even though few of Gaza’s buildings remain standing, even though Gazans continue to starve, Bibi Netanyahu… Continue reading
by DANIELA XITLALY SANDOVAL August 5, 2025 (MissionLocal.org) Yesenia Ochoa grew up just five blocks away from Rainbow Grocery. She remembers it as “the weird store” of her childhood; the place where her family could always find flor de jamaica and other hard-to-source ingredients. Today, Ochoa works there. She considers the… Continue reading
By Dawn Chmielewski August 4, 2025 (reuters.com) LOS ANGELES, Aug 4 (Reuters) – “Headless body in topless bar”-type headlines made famous by the iconic New York Post tabloid could soon greet Californians as Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp (NWSA.O), opens new tab prepares to expand to the West Coast with its biggest U.S. daily… Continue reading
