“As an adjudicated insurrectionist, Trump is an illegitimate president according to Section 3 of the 14th Amendment, and therefore every official act as president will be illegitimate.”
–Mike Zonta, co-editor of OccupySF.net
The 14th Amendment states: “No person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress, or elector of President and Vice President, or hold any office, civil or military, under the United States, or under any state, who, having previously taken an oath, as a member of Congress, or as an officer of the United States, or as a member of any state legislature, or as an executive or judicial officer of any state, to support the Constitution of the United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof. But Congress may, by a vote of two-thirds of each House, remove such disability.”
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California’s Governor’s race has shifted. The risk of two Republicans topping the field has sharply declined. Xavier Becerra is first or second in recent polls with Tom Steyer close behind; both could make the November runoff.
I was out of the country when polls found Eric Swalwell voters primarily switching to Becerra. Bacerra has since become the Democratic frontrunner. How long this lasts is unclear. After long being ignored by rivals, Becerra is under attack in both paid media and major newspapers. He may have peaked too soon.
I’ve always had good feelings about Becerra. I met him last fall where we had a brief talk. I told him how disappointed I was that Senator Alex Padilla decided not to run for Governor; I didn’t know Becerra was a candidate).
Progressives are Backing Steyer
With Becerra now among the top two in polls, he offers the historic opportunity for California to elect a Latino Governor. But as looked into his backers I found virtually no progressive legislators. I had previously noted that two of the most solid Sacramento progressives—Isaac Bryan of Culver City and San Jose’s Alex Lee—had endorsed Tom Steyer. Steyer has since been endorsed by the California Nurses Association, the California Teachers Association, UNITE HERE, the Sierra Club and a host of other progressive organizations and activists.
Betty Yee, my original choice for governor, left the race and endorsed Steyer.
Some are reluctant to favor a white billionaire over a longtime Latino public official. But the political differences between Steyer and Becerra are not a close call. Steyer is clearly more progressive.
Steyer would be among the nation’s most progressive governors. And likely California’s most progressive governor since Jerry Brown first two terms. Unlike Brown and Gavin Newsom, Steyer would work more closely with legislators and constituency groups. Lacking the charisma and personal following of his predecessors, Steyer would bring a more collaborative leadership model.
Billionaires have spent millions attacking Steyer. Many rich people see Steyer as a traitor to his class.
The Mystery of CA Politics
The California economy is among the world’s largest. Yet few voters pay close attention to legislative actions in Sacramento. Nor do they seem well informed about what Governor Newsom actually does.
There isn’t much media coverage about what happens in California government outside of Newsom press events. I don’t think most California voters have a clear sense of the governor’s powers. They clearly do not hear enough about the backroom dealing that is par for the course in Sacramento.
California’s governor can create a positive progressive political model for the nation. Newsom tries to do this but when he promotes progressive state policies he’s accused of really promoting his expected 2028 presidential run.
Promoting a California policy model won’t be a problem for Tom Steyer.
What About Porter and Mahan?
Katie Porter is a solid progressive. She simply has not resonated with the electorate. In recent polls Porter is at 10% and 12%. She will not become California’s first woman governor.
For moderate Democrats, San Jose’s Matt Mahan remains in the race. In a February story I foresaw a huge upside for Mahan. I thought he could become the front-runner. But his campaign never took off despite ample funding from the tech sector.
The two most recent polls have Mahan in 6th place at 7% and 8%. It appears Mahan wasn’t ready to run a statewide campaign. Gavin Newsom held elective office for over a decade before running for Lieutenant Governor; Mahan started his political career on the San Jose City Council in 2021.
The overwhelming Democratic legislature is not as progressive as many believe. That’s why progressives need to support the most progressive governor’s candidate who can win. Tom Steyer is the one.
Randy Shaw is the Editor of Beyond Chron and the Director of San Francisco’s Tenderloin Housing Clinic, which publishes Beyond Chron. Shaw’s new book is the revised and updated, The Tenderloin: Sex, Crime and Resistance in the Heart of San Francisco. His prior books include Generation Priced Out: Who Gets to Live in the New Urban America. The Activist’s Handbook: Winning Social Change in the 21st Century, and Beyond the Fields: Cesar Chavez, the UFW and the Struggle for Justice in the 21st Century.
By Alyce McFadden, Staff Writer May 19, 2026 (SFChronicle.com)
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Supervisor Chyanne Chen will introduce a charter amendment at the Board of Supervisors meeting that would establish a municipal financial corporation, a precursor institution to a public bank. Manuel Orbegozo/For the S.F. Chronicle
San Francisco is taking a step toward opening a public bank, with time running out to move the plan forward. Supervisor Chyanne Chen will introduce a charter amendment at the Board of Supervisors meeting that would establish a municipal financial corporation, a precursor institution to a public bank.
Proponents of the measure say a public bank would help San Francisco fund programs that align with its highest priorities, like building more affordable housing, supporting small businesses and meeting its climate goals. But such an institution could be the first in any contemporary American city, and some experts say it is unclear whether a public bank would succeed.
“San Franciscans need and deserve bold solutions to address our most pressing challenges,” Chen said in a statement. “We must use every tool we can to keep San Francisco affordable and to advance solutions that lead towards a just economic recovery for all.”
The proposal will need to win the approval of a majority of the Board of Supervisors to appear on voters’ ballots in November. Four supervisors — Jackie Fielder, Bilal Mahmood, Myrna Melgar and Shamann Walton — have already signed onto the measure as co-sponsors.
If it passes in November, it would codify the framework for how the institution would operate, drawing on a plan published in 2023 by a group convened to study how a public bank could work in San Francisco. The charter amendment would not provide a revenue stream to fund the bank but it would enshrine its rules, structure and mission in the city’s charter. To pass, it would require a simple majority of voters to approve it.
The bank would be run by a board of qualified bankers appointed by an oversight committee whose members would be selected by the supervisors, the treasurer, the city attorney, the controller and the mayor. The layered appointment structure is designed to help insulate the bank against corruption or political influence, according to the 2023 report.
Some San Francisco progressives have been pushing the city to create a public bank for years. In 2023, supervisors unanimously approved the plan outlined by The San Francisco Reinvestment Working Group, a body created by supervisors in 2021. The group’s final report forms the basis of Chen’s charter amendment.
Fielder, a progressive who represents the Mission and who has been on a leave of absence since March, founded the San Francisco Public Bank Coalition in 2017. The group helped push state lawmakers to pass a 2019 law giving cities and counties in California a path to creating their own public banks, but the law expires in 2028, giving San Francisco a short window to move on the plan.
“It feels like an incredible tool to add to the city’s tool kit,” said Misha Steier, a spokesperson for the coalition. “This is the culmination of years and years of movement effort.”
In February, Fielder proposed a separate ballot measure that would fund a public bank through a tax increase on lending companies including mortgage brokers and credit card companies, according to Mission Local. Daniel Anderson, a spokesperson for the Our City Our Bank campaign that had been gathering signatures for that measure, said the campaign’s efforts will now focus instead on passing the charter amendment.
Chen’s proposal would not designate a funding stream to direct money into the bank’s coffers, but bank leadership and San Francisco voters could separately decide how best to fund the institution later on, according to Steier. Raising money for the bank could prove challenging. San Francisco’s business community has organized to oppose a tax on big businesses that will come before voters as a ballot measure in June, arguing that new taxes could push employers out of San Francisco at a critical moment in the city’s economic recovery.
Several other jurisdictions in the state, including Los Angeles and Berkeley, have also explored public bank measures, but none have yet moved ahead.
A public bank in San Francisco would be among the first of its kind in the United States. As a point of reference for how it might work, public banking advocates frequently point to North Dakota, which has had an effective public bank since the early twentieth century. It boasts significant profit margins and has administered disaster relief programs in the wake of flooding and agricultural crises.
But Robert Chirinko, a professor of finance at the University of Illinois Chicago who has researched the effectiveness of public banking, says he sees little evidence that the model would necessarily work as well in San Francisco. According to his research, much of the North Dakota bank’s success stems from the state’s fracking boom and the fact that its funds are uninsured. Unlike a traditional bank, where deposits are insured by the federal government, North Dakota’s bank has no such protection. That saves the bank money but also means the state takes on a significant amount of risk.
More broadly, Chirinko said local legislative bodies — like San Francisco’s Board of Supervisors — are best equipped to decide which public programs to fund in the name of social good.
“Infrastructure, education, pollution, extending credit to low-income communities, et cetera: I have nothing against doing those things, but you should do it through the legislature,” he said. “You shouldn’t do this through this, basically, runaround.”
Steier said San Francisco’s proposal includes several layers of protection to reduce risk for money that is kept in the bank.
Some examples of the types of projects the public bank could help finance include multi-family housing, electrification projects and small business expansions, according to Chen’s office. A public bank has several advantages over bonds, according to Steier, including the fact that “we’d be keeping the interest, the loans would be cheaper.”
A municipal finance corporation “and Public Bank can help jumpstart the more than 10,000 affordable housing units in our pipeline that are stalled due to lack of financing, and incubate and grow our treasured local small businesses to help provide economic security for local entrepreneurs and their families,” said Chen in the statement.
Alyce McFadden is a City Hall reporter at the San Francisco Chronicle covering the Board of Supervisors. McFadden previously worked at the New York Times, where she was a news assistant and reporting fellow. She covered Andrew Cuomo’s history of sexual harassment, the trial of the man accused of attacking Salman Rushdie, the Los Angeles wildfires and the reaction to the killing of Charlie Kirk. McFadden has also written for Law360, OpenSecrets and the Maine Beacon. She’s a graduate of Bowdoin College, where she studied government and legal studies and was editor in chief of the student paper.
Recently, people have been asking me who I’m voting for in the California gubernatorial primary. Normally, I prefer to stay out of the primaries (I myself was involved in a contested primary way back when, but that’s another story).
Like most voters I know in California, I’ve been holding onto my ballot. It’s been an especially bruising campaign season, and folks are tired of the attack ads.
But it’s now time to commit. California voters must support a candidate for governor who will do the job the way it should be done.
I’m voting for Tom Steyer.
You may be thinking: a billionaire? Hear me out. Steyer is the only candidate with a plan to tax the wealthy and corporations to invest in public services.
Yes, the billionaire is the only candidate with a plan to tax billionaires.
Steyer is the only candidate who has said he’d vote for the billionaire wealth tax, and he’s also said we need to go even further. Under his revenue plan, he’d raise taxes on corporations and other billionaires to fund schools and healthcare.
Steyer understands that economic growth depends on a strong middle class, not trickle down nonsense.
On the issue of artificial intelligence, Steyer is the only candidate with a plan to tax Big Tech and share the gains with working people. Under Steyer’s plan, he will guarantee every worker impacted by AI has a good-paying job.
When it comes to single-payer healthcare, Steyer is also committed to making California a model for the rest of the nation.
But don’t take my word for it. Steyer’s progressive policies have won him the support of nurses, teachers, and other labor unions across the state. At the same time, PG&E, Chevron, and MAGA billionaires are spending millions against him.
We’ve had wealthy Democratic politicians before. FDR and JFK had tremendous fortunes, yet they enacted some of the most progressive policies in American history.
Meanwhile, the other candidates in the race for governor haven’t taken a stand on the billionaire wealth tax. Why? I fear it’s because they don’t want to upset the wealthy donors and corporations backing their campaigns. It’s that simple.
I love California. It’s been my home for nearly 30 years. We need progressive change, not more of the same.
Tom Steyer is the only viable candidate to deliver that change in Sacramento.
President Donald Trump speaks to the media alongside posters of his proposed White House ballroom amid construction at the White House on May 19, 2026 in Washington, DC.
(Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)
The president also dismissed the high price of gas caused by his illegal war with Iran, describing it as “peanuts.”
With his approval ratings hitting a second-term low in recent polling, President Donald Trump decided on Tuesday to show off the progress being made on the luxury ballroom he’s building at the White House.
While speaking with reporters outside the White House, Trump boasted that the planned ballroom will “be something incredible” and then explained that it would apparently come with military defense capabilities.
“On top of the roof, we’re gonna have the greatest drone empire that you’ve ever seen,” the president said. “And it’s gonna protect Washington.”
Trump: "This is the ballroom and it's gonna be something incredible. On top of the roof we're gonna have the great drone empire that you've ever seen. And it's gonna protect Washington." pic.twitter.com/rLEPGC2x7W
A reporter then asked Trump to elaborate on some of the security features in the ballroom.
“The underneath part [of the ballroom]… it’s far more complex than the upper,” the president responded. “Because what you don’t see are the floors that are beneath here. And they have very, very important rooms down there, very, the most important. This was the one opportunity for the military to do something.”
After rambling about the ballroom being “ahead of schedule,” Trump said it would have “a drone-proof roof, again, it’s all sealed, and all of this that you see is totally sealed, and we use it as a drone port, you can have unlimited drones up there, and drones are what’s happening right now.”
Trump on the ballroom: "They have very very important rooms down there. The most important. This was the one opportunity for the military to do something. We use it as a drone port. You can have unlimited drones up there and drones are what's happening right now." pic.twitter.com/XWzFBNOlmO
Trump also reiterated his disinterest in Americans’ concerns about his illegal war with Iran raising the price of gas and leading to the highest level of inflation since 2023.
“This is peanuts,” Trump said of the price of gas, which as of Tuesday stood at an average of $4.53 per gallon in the US. “And I appreciate everybody putting up with it for a little while, it won’t be much longer… But I don’t even think about that. What I think about is you can’t let Iran have a nuclear weapon, and they won’t have a nuclear weapon.”
Trump on high gas prices: "This is peanuts. I appreciate everybody putting up with it for a little while. But I don't even think about. What I think about is you can't let Iran have a nuclear weapon." pic.twitter.com/XUVyNUpspm
There is no indication that Iran was anywhere close to having a nuclear weapon at the time Trump launched his war in late February without any authorization from the US Congress.
US Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbardtestified under oath before the Senate Select Intelligence Committee last month that Iran’s nuclear weapons program had been “obliterated” by US-led airstrikes that were launched last year, and that there “has been no effort since then to try to rebuild their enrichment capability.”
Trump’s boasting of the planned defense stockpile also came days after an anonymous White House official claimed to the press that Cuba is preparing to attack the US with drones—an allegation the Cuban government and commentators dismissed as laughable.
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Supporters flash victory signs and wave Palestinian flags as vessels in the latest Global Sumud Flotilla convoy depart from Marmaris, Turkey, on May 14, 2026.
(Photo by Murat Kocabas/Middle East Images/AFP via Getty Images)
“With hands in the air, participants implored, ‘Do not shoot.’ This is an attack on Gaza. This is an attack on humanity.”
Israeli forces on Tuesday attacked and seized more vessels that were taking part in the latest Global Sumud Flotilla trying to break the illegal blockade of Gaza amid the ongoing genocide against the people of the besieged Palestinian territory.
Video posted by Global Sumud Flotilla shows Israeli forces in inflatable boats firing shots toward at least two GSF vessels, even as they are stopped and the activists aboard them have their hands held in the air in surrender. It is not clear what type of ammunition the Israelis fired in the attack, which occurred in international waters around 90-100 miles off the Gaza coast.
“This is an attack on humanity,” reads the video’s caption, which decried “Israeli violence against volunteers who sailed with compassion and love in their hearts.”
israeli violence against volunteers who sailed with compassion and love in their hearts.
With hands in the air, participants implored ‘do not shoot’.
This is an attack on Gaza. This is an attack on humanity.
— Global Sumud Flotilla (@gbsumudflotilla) May 19, 2026
“With hands in the air, participants implored, ‘Do not shoot,’” GSF said. “This is an attack on Gaza. This is an attack on humanity.”
“The Israeli occupation has again illegally and violently intercepted our international fleet of humanitarian vessels and abducted our volunteers as they undertake a legitimate mission to break the illegal siege on Gaza and open a humanitarian corridor,” GSF said after the latest seizures, which began Monday, as Common Dreams reported.
“This is what apartheid looks like: When those trying to save lives are met with bullets,” the group continued. “When aid is blocked with brutality. When international law is made a mockery. Israel openly bragged that they would target based on race. We cannot stand by while this is normalized.”
In another video posted by GSF, one member is seen talking into a ship’s radio—at least one of which was apparently jammed by Israeli forces, who broadcast Britney Spears’ 2000 hit “Oops!… I Did It Again” through their speakers.
“May Day! May Day! May Day! This is sailing vessel Zefiro… We are surrounded by military vessels, we are aware that other ships in our fleet have been boarded, and we expect further escalation of hostilities,” the man says. “We are in international waters; we are suffering an act of piracy!”
GSF said that hundreds of activists from over 40 countries were “being forcibly transferred” to Israel, where past flotilla participants say they were physically and psychologically tortured by their captors.
In 2010, Israeli forces raided one of the first Gaza-bound flotillas, killing nine volunteers aboard the MV Mavi Marmara, including Turkish-American teenager Furkan Doğan.
“States have an obligation to protect their citizens,” GSF said Tuesday. “Flag states under whose jurisdiction our boats are registered have an obligation to protect those vessels and prosecute acts of piracy in their courts.”
“We are outraged by the normalization of these violations of international maritime law and the kidnapping of peaceful civilians in international waters,” GSF added. “We demand the immediate release of our participants, the safe passage of our entire fleet, and an end to the illegal siege of Gaza.”
On Monday, Israeli forces reportedly seized 41 GSF vessels that set sail from Marmaris, Turkey last week. Among the activists reportedly abducted on Monday is Dr. Margaret Connolly, the sister of Irish President Catherine Connolly. Ireland is one of nearly 20 nations that have formally joined South Africa’s genocide case against Israel that is currently before the International Court of Justice in The Hague.
“It seems like this happened in international waters, and it’s a cause of worry, really, and I’m very proud of my sister, but I’m worried about her,” the president said Monday.
More than 250,000 Palestinians have been killed or wounded in Gaza, including thousands who are missing and presumed dead and buried beneath rubble. Almost all of Gaza’s approximately 2.1 million people have been forcibly displaced, starved, or sickened by Israel’s war and siege since the Hamas-led attack of October 7, 2023.
Palestinians are still starving in Gaza, as Israel’s ongoing blockade—which began two decades ago—has resulted in a sharp decline in the number of humanitarian aid trucks entering the strip in recent months. The United Nations World Food Program recently said that at least 1.6 million people—or 77% of Gaza’s population—are still “facing high levels of acute food insecurity,” including more than 100,000 children and 37,000 pregnant and breastfeeding women.
GSF on Tuesday urged Palestine defenders around the world to contact their governments and demand the immediate release of flotilla members, condemnation of Israeli crimes and state terrorism, an end to Israeli impunity, and support for Palestinian liberation.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who is wanted by the International Criminal Court—also in The Hague—for alleged war crimes and crimes against humanity in Gaza, praised the Naval commander in charge of intercepting the flotilla.
“You are doing an outstanding job, both in the first flotilla and in this part as well, and are effectively thwarting a malicious plan intended to break the isolation we are imposing on Hamas terrorists in Gaza,” he said Monday. “You are doing this with great success, and I must say also, quietly, and certainly with less publicity than our enemies expected.”
Israeli officials have repeatedly invoked the San Remo Manual on International Law Applicable to Armed Conflicts at Sea—often shortened to the San Remo Manual—to justify the interception and seizure of flotilla vessels attempting to reach Gaza on the high seas.
However, Don Rothwell, professor of international law at the Australian National University, refuted the legitimacy of that claim, which applies to international war between sovereign states, given Palestine’s lack of independence.
“There is no international armed conflict between Israel and the independent state of Palestine,” he told the Australian Broadcasting Corporation on Monday. “As such, any attempt to enforce the blockade… has no legal basis under international law.”
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US Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth testifies before the House Armed Services Committee in the Rayburn House Office Building on April 29, 2026 in Washington, DC.
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“Eighty days on, we have not taken responsibility for that attack,” said Rep. Adam Smith, ranking member of the House Armed Services Committee.
The top Democrat on the House Armed Services Committee delivered a scathing rebuke to US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s leadership on Tuesday while asking questions about a February US militarystrike on an Iranian primary school in the city of Minab.
Rep. Adam Smith (D-Wash.), the ranking member of the mommittee, confronted Adm. Brad Cooper about the fact that the US still hasn’t taken responsibility for the attack on the school, which killed more than 100 children, even though “it’s really pretty clear what happened there.”
“Eighty days on, we have not taken responsibility for that attack,” Smith said. “The endless stalling—’It’s being investigated, it’s being investigated, it’s being investigated.’ In the past, when we’ve had these type of mistakes, they’ve been quickly acknowledged, even if a further investigation is necessary to figure out prevention methods. So can you, at this moment, acknowledge that that mistake was made?”
Cooper responded by emphasizing that the US “does not deliberately target civilians,” while stating that the Iranian people are not “our enemy.”
The first day of the Iran war saw the devastating bombing of an elementary school in Minab, killing 156 including 120 young children. The U.S. has not taken responsibility, even though an ongoing investigation implicated the U.S. months ago. This horrific crime cannot be swept… pic.twitter.com/OVEyNmNTzb
Smith was not satisfied with this, however, and pressed Cooper to answer whether the US takes responsibility for the attack on the school.
“The investigation is ongoing,” Cooper said. “As soon as it’s complete, I’m happy to…”
“So that’s a no,” Smith interjected. “We will not take responsibility for something we very obviously did.”
“It’s a complex investigation,” Cooper replied. “The school itself is located on an active [Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps] cruise missile base. It’s more complex than the average strike. As soon as we’re complete, I’m fully committed to transparency.”
Smith did not buy this explanation.
“I have an enormous amount of respect for you and an enormous amount of respect for the Pentagon,” said Smith. “I do not trust that answer. What we’ve seen from this secretary of defense and his callous disregard for any sort of rules of engagement or protecting of civilian life, they make us suspicious.”
Smith’s grilling of Cooper earned praise from the National Iranian American Council (NIAC), which said the bombing of the school “cannot be swept under the rug” by Hegseth and the Pentagon brass.
Hegseth during his tenure leading the US Department of Defense has repeatedly attacked rule of engagement as “stupid,” while also authorizing a series of military strikes on purported drug-smuggling boats in international waters that many legal experts consider acts of murder.
During President Donald Trump’s first term, when Hegseth was a Fox News host, he successfully lobbied the president to pardon members of the US armed forces accused or convicted of killing civilians in Iraq and Afghanistan.
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Less than a day after a $1.77 billion settlement announced in President Donald Trump’s lawsuit against the Internal Revenue Service was denounced as “highway robbery” by one Democratic lawmaker, other members of Congress expressed disgust after it was reported that the taxpayer-funded deal had been updated by a top administration official to ensure the president and his family could potentially get away with defrauding the IRS in perpetuity.
A one-page document was posted on the US Department of Justice (DOJ) website early Tuesday morning, saying that under the settlement, the IRS is “forever barred and precluded” from prosecuting and pursuing any and all claims and other actions against Trump and his family members, regarding unpaid taxes.
The landmark judgement in a civil fraud case against Trump found that his two eldest son’s were implicated in an extensive financial and tax fraud scheme along with the president.
The release specifically notes that it also applies to “tax returns filed before the effective date” of the settlement, which was Monday.
“The president is now exempt from our tax laws while everyone else has to obey them,” said US Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.). “Got it. It’s just mind-blowing that is what’s happening in America.”
Politico reported on the document a day after 93 US House Democrats joined an amicus brief filed in Trump v. IRS, aiming to block the creation of a so-called “Anti-Weaponization Fund” as part of the deal for the president to drop his lawsuit against the tax agency, which he filed over a leak of his tax returns.
The “slush fund,” as Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) called it, could be used to give monetary rewards to people convicted of felonies in connection with the January 6, 2021 attempted insurrection.
The one-page document that was attached to the settlement Tuesday was signed by acting Attorney General Todd Blanche.
US Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-Wash.) called the preemptive and permanent blocking of any IRS enforcement against the Trump family “the height of corruption.”
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Opening Statements in the GG26 Felony Trial will be heard TOMORROW
We invite you to join us in the courtroom as the defense attorneys share the stories and preview evidence of our comrades in front of the newly appointed jury.
Prosecution will go first followed by each of the lawyers for the 7 defendants
**We will gather at 8:30 AM on the lawns across the Civic Center Courthouse at 400 McAllister Street, SF for coffee, treats, and sweet community grounding.
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Please help us support the defendants by following these guidelines when inside the building and courtroom:
– Keffiyehs are welcome. Clothing with “political” messaging will not be allowed in the courtroom, per instructions of the judge. We want you in there with us.
– Refrain from chanting, singing, or loud conversations.
– Leave signs and flags at the door. They are not allowed in the courtroom.
– Please remain quiet at all times. It might be tempting to react to the proceedings, but only a calm and quiet presence supports the defendants at this time.
– Do not talk to anyone who might be a juror, and do not direct any comments to people walking into the courtroom. That could be the basis for starting the whole process over.
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Thank you so much for your continued support of the GG26 Defendants and we look forward to seeing you tomorrow!
Saikat Chakrabarti Streamed live on May 7, 2026 With the primary election right around the corner, we’re hosting a night of excitement and celebration as our city decides the representation we want at this turning point in history. Saikat will be joined by co-hosts Hasan Piker and former NY Representative Jamaal Bowman, Justice Democrats Executive Director Alexandra Rojas, and progressive candidates from across the country, including Darializa Avila Chevalier, Angela Gonzales-Torres, and Melat Kiros. We’ll talk about the movement it will take to build a future that actually works for us, and get folks ready to rally up to election day on June 2nd, 2026. Support the Movement & Donate to Our Candidates: Angela Gonzales-Torres: https://secure.actblue.com/donate/web… Darializa Avila Chevalier: https://secure.actblue.com/donate/che… Melat Kiros: https://secure.actblue.com/donate/mel…
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