Will San Francisco Finally Bring Equity to Homeless Services?

by Randy Shaw on May 5, 2025 (BeyondChorn.org) Supervisor Bilal Mahmood D5 Supervisor Bilal Mahmood’s legislation mandating greater equity in the placement of homeless services is long overdue. Five supervisors are co-sponsoring. The measure challenges the longstanding myth that San Francisco can solve a citywide problem by limiting services to a handful of… Continue reading

By Confirming Bisignano, Senate GOP Greenlights ‘DOGE Destruction of Social Security’

Frank Bisignano, U.S. President Donald Trump’s nominee to be commissioner of the Social Security Administration, testifies at his Senate Finance Committee confirmation hearing on March 25, 2025 in Washington, D.C.  (Photo: Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images) “Their playbook is clearly to break Social Security so they can justify further cuts and privatization,”… Continue reading

‘We Don’t Do Kings’: Mass Protests Planned to Counter Trump’s Birthday Military Parade

Demonstrators protest U.S. President Donald Trump at the Vermont State House in Montpelier, Vermont on March 8, 2025.  (Photo: John Lazenby/UCG/Universal Images Group via Getty Images) “Donald Trump wants to spend tens of millions of taxpayer dollars to throw himself a big fancy parade with tanks in the streets,” said… Continue reading

ISRAEL’S CABINET APPROVES ‘CONQUEST’ PLAN TO RECAPTURE ALL OF GAZA

MIDDLE EAST Israel’s security cabinet has approved a military offensive that an official said would include the “conquest of the Gaza Strip” and moving the enclave’s remaining population to the south “for their protection”. The plan was unanimously approved by the ministers. Issued on: 05/05/2025 – 10:40 By: FR ANCE 24 Israel’s security… Continue reading