50+ Dems Slam Rubio Plan to Burn 500 Metric Tons of Emergency Food Aid

Sacks of United States Agency for International Developmen sorghum are stored in a warehouse in Port Sudan, Sudan.  (Photo: Ashraf Shazly/AFP via Getty Images) “This action is not only morally indefensible, but also wasteful, strategically shortsighted, and completely counter to the entirety of your work while in the Senate.” BRETT… Continue reading

Three more immigrants arrested by ICE at S.F. immigration court

Court feels tenser than before as armed ICE agents prowl hallways by MARGARET KADIFA July 18, 2025 (MissionLocal.org) Three asylum-seekers were arrested Friday directly after court hearings at San Francisco immigration court, continuing a weeks-long pattern of federal agents waiting just outside courtrooms and arresting people as they step into the halls.  Mission Local saw… Continue reading

102 House Democrats, Including Jeffries, Help GOP Send Crypto Bill to Trump’s Desk

U.S. Rep. Mike Johnson (R-La.) talks to Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) on the first day of the 119th Congress at the Capitol on January 3, 2025 in Washington, D.C.  (Photo: Win McNamee/Getty Images) “Congress surrendered to the onslaught of crypto political spending and legitimized the world’s biggest Ponzi scheme,” said… Continue reading

Sanders Proposes ‘Pensions for All’ as Trump Aims to Open 401(k)s to Private Equity Vultures

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) speaks at a rally in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania on May 2, 2025.  (Photo: Nathan Morris/NurPhoto via Getty Images) “We can no longer tolerate a rigged retirement system that allows the CEOs of large corporations to receive massive golden parachutes for themselves, while denying workers a pension after… Continue reading

Appeals Board Rejects Attempt to Boot Prison Operator From Historic Compton’s Cafeteria Site; Activists Vow to Fight On

Appeals Board Rejects Attempt to Boot Prison Operator From Historic Compton’s Cafeteria Site; Activists Vow to Fight On

17 JULY 2025/SF NEWS/JAY BARMANN (SFist.com) The SF Board of Appeals heard an appeal Wednesday from a coalition of trans activists, historians, and others hoping to preserve the former Compton’s Cafeteria site in the Tenderloin as a landmark of trans and queer activism. As we reported in May, advocates have been… Continue reading

Q&A: Meet the attorney at the center of S.F.’s response to ICE

Milli Atkinson is the go-to lawyer for those wondering how Trump’s crackdown is hitting San Francisco by MARGARET KADIFA and FRANKIE SOLINSKY DURYEA July 17, 2025 (MissionLocal.org) Since early June, more than two dozen people have been arrested by federal immigration agents in San Francisco. Often, these arrests take place at the San Francisco immigration… Continue reading

THE PALMER RAIDS

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The Palmer Raids were a series of raids conducted in November 1919 and January 1920 by the United States Department of Justice under the administration of President Woodrow Wilson to capture and arrest suspected socialists, especially anarchists and communists, and deport them from the United States. The raids particularly targeted Italian immigrants and Eastern European Jewish immigrants with alleged leftist ties, with particular focus… Continue reading

Trump Admits He’s Trying to Rig the Midterm Elections

Donald Trump is eying major reform in multiple states that could hand him an even bigger House majority. CELAL GUNES/ANADOLU/GETTY IMAGES Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling/ July 16, 2025 (newrepublic.com) The president is gung-ho about gerrymandering ahead of next year’s midterm elections. Speaking with reporters on the tarmac of Joint Base Andrews… Continue reading