SF Grocery Stores Where You Can Still Buy Food (and Booze) on Thanksgiving Day

SF Grocery Stores Where You Can Still Buy Food (and Booze) on Thanksgiving Day

26 November 2025/SF Restaurants, Food & Drink/Joe Kukura (SFist.com) Last-minute, unanticipated needs are sure to strike any Thanksgiving Day celebration, so we’ve listed all of the major SF grocery chains’ Thanksgiving Day hours, for when you absolutely need that forgotten food item or an alcohol restock. Many of us will… Continue reading

Court orders ICE to immediately provide mattresses, blankets, medical care in S.F. holding cells  

The court order finds “likelihood” that conditions at at 630 Sansome are “unconstitutionally punitive” by Sage Ríos MaceNovember 25, 2025 (MissionLocal. com) On Tuesday evening, the United States District Court for the Northern District of California issued a preliminary injunction requiring the Department of Justice to improve the conditions of Immigration and Customs… Continue reading

Medicare for All Backers Argue It’s a Better Solution Than Whatever Trump Is Cooking Up

Members of National Nurses United rally with lawmakers to show their support for the Medicare For All Act on Capitol Hill on April 29, 2025 in Washington, D.C.  (Photo: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images) “Republicans have a million ideas regarding healthcare. Except one,” said Sen. Bernie Sanders. “They will never acknowledge that… Continue reading

Sanders, Warren Help Form Senate Democratic ‘Fight Club’ Challenging Schumer’s Leadership

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) holds a news conference with fellow senators on October 29, 2025 in Washington, DC.  (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images) “So glad there are some Senate Dems willing to fight back,” said one progressive strategist. Jake Johnson Nov 25, 2025 (CommonDreams.org) Angered by the Democratic leadership’s fecklessness… Continue reading

A Brief History: Universal Health Care Efforts in the US

(Transcribed from a talk given by Karen S. Palmer MPH, MS in San Francisco at the Spring, 1999 PNHP meeting) (pnhp.org) Late 1800’s to Medicare The campaign for some form of universal government-funded health care has stretched for nearly a century in the US On several occasions, advocates believed they were on the verge of success; yet each… Continue reading

Planning “No Kings” Demonstrations for July 4, 2026

Our 250th anniversary requires pro-Trump redcoats as well as pro-democracy bluecoats to re-enact our anti-monarchial founding. by Harold Meyerson November 24, 2025 (Prospect.org) Last February 6th—17 days after Donald Trump had begun his second term—the Prospect posted a piece I’d written noting that the 250th anniversary of the Battles of Lexington and Concord would soon… Continue reading