by Joshua Kaplan, Justin Elliott and Alex Mierjeski Sept. 22, 5 a.m. EDT (ProPublica.org) Thomas has attended at least two Koch donor summits, putting him in the extraordinary position of having helped a political network that has brought multiple cases before the Supreme Court. Series:Friends of the Court: SCOTUS Justices’ Beneficial Relationships With Billionaire Donors… Continue reading
POSTED INECONOMY AND INEQUALITY UAW workers are striking all three of the Big 3 auto makers at plants in Michigan, Ohio, and Missouri. BY KEITH BROWER BROWN, LUIS FELIZ LEON AND JANE SLAUGHTER SEPTEMBER 18, 2023 (therealnews.com) Members of the United Auto Workers (UAW) union march through the streets of downtown Detroit following a… Continue reading
By Silas Valentino Updated Sep 21, 2023 9:55 p.m. (SFGate.com) Dreamforce conference attendees depart the Moscone Center at lunchtime in downtown San Francisco on Tuesday Sept. 12, 2023. Charles Russo/SFGATE The annual tech conference Dreamforce roused an otherwise sleepy downtown San Francisco, packing city blocks with lanyard-necked attendees. Even Bono from U2 was spotted strutting along… Continue reading
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu holds a map of “The New Middle East” without Palestine during his September 22, 2023 address to the United Nations General Assembly in New York. (Photo: Spencer Platt/Getty Images) “Netanyahu made clear with his little map today what normalization really seeks: eliminating Palestine… from the… Continue reading
Indigenous people react as they watch a broadcast of the ‘Temporal Framework’ trial on a screen installed in front of the Supreme Federal Court (STF) in Brasilia, Brazil, on September 21, 2023. (Photo: Mateus Bonomi/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images) The court ruled against the Big Ag-backed “time limit trick,” which… Continue reading
Al Gore, former vice president of the United States, speaks onstage at The New York Times Climate Forward Summit 2023 at The Times Center on September 21, 2023, in New York City. (Photo: Bennett Raglin/Getty Images for The New York Times) At an event coinciding with the U.N. General Assembly… Continue reading
Madison Alvarado/San Francisco Public Press At a Board of Supervisors hearing on proposed reparations to the Black community, many shared their families’ experience of being pushed out of the city by urban renewal and other discriminatory practices. 09.21.2023 | by MADISON ALVARADO AND ZHE WU | In June, Mayor London Breed agreed to set aside $4… Continue reading
Sylvie Sturm/San Francisco Public Press Harm reduction advocates, addiction experts, lawmakers, drug users and supporters rally at San Francisco City Hall on Aug. 31, international drug overdose awareness day. 09.18.2023 | by SYLVIE STURM | This article is adapted from an episode of our podcast “Civic.” Click the audio player below to hear the… Continue reading
Nonprofit founder and Levi Strauss heir Daniel Lurie appears to be the latest major challenger to Mayor London Breed. As has long been expected, Lurie filed paperwork on Thursday with The City’s Ethics Commission to enable a run against Breed in her 2024 reelection campaign, the San Francisco Standard first reported. Lurie… Continue reading
A new definition for the GOP DAN RATHER AND ELLIOT KIRSCHNER SEP 23, 2023 (steady@substack.com) Photo by Kremlin Press Office There was a time the letters “GOP” stood for the “Grand Old Party” — a quaint nickname stretching back 150 years to when the Republican Party wasn’t very old at all. It… Continue reading
