by Randy Shaw on September 29, 2025 (BeyondChron.org) Nonprofit distribution boosts illegal drug markets Mayor Lurie and the Board want to close open-air drug markets. Yet City Hall is fighting efforts to stop the distribution of drug paraphernalia in the Tenderloin. What explains this hypocrisy? San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie campaigned on a… Continue reading
by Suzanne Gordon on September 29, 2025 (BeyondChron.org) Over the past several months, veterans and their caregivers have been holding rallies every week in front of the San Francisco VA Medical Center and the Santa Rosa VA Outpatient Clinic. They’ve joined hundreds of other VA patients and staff around the country protesting Trump… Continue reading
by Peter Wong on September 29, 2025 (BeyondChron.org) Local filmmaker Rick Goldsmith’s powerful documentary “Stripped For Parts: American Journalism On The Brink” may have been around since 2023. But that fact doesn’t make the film’s information dated or irrelevant. In fact, given the ongoing American right-wing oligarchy’s program to keep the American public… Continue reading
State legislators have embraced norm-shattering techniques to boldly crack one House district. Voters may have the final say about that. BY GABRIELLE GURLEY SEPTEMBER 30, 2025 (Prospect.org) Expand CHRISTIAN GOODEN/ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH VIA AP Protesters and activists opposed to new redistricting laws proposed by Missouri Republican legislators hold a rally in… Continue reading
‘So disappointing and scary for so many immigrants.’ By TIM REDMOND SEPTEMBER 29, 2025 (CommonDreams.org) Mayor Daniel Lurie has appointed Democratic Party Chair Nancy Tung to the Airport Commission, and most of the news media have played the story as a normal item: Mayor makes appointment. The SF Standard focused on… Continue reading
Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-Wash.) speaks at a press conference on May 24, 2023, in Washington, DC. (Photo by Nathan Posner/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images) Top Republicans have claimed that calling Trump “fascist” or “authoritarian” is an incitement to “terrorism.” But party leaders have said nothing about an explicit call for… Continue reading
The first vessel “Sirius” of a civilian flotilla, carrying pro-Palestinian activists and humanitarian aid and aiming to break the Israeli blockade of the Gaza Strip, leaves the Barcelona port on September 1, 2025. (Photo by Lluis Gene/AFP via Getty Images) “We are not sailing simply to deliver our cargo, but… Continue reading
U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth speaks to senior military leaders at Marine Corps Base Quantico on September 30, 2025 in Quantico, Virginia. (Photo by Andrew Harnik/Getty Images) One critic expressed astonishment that Hegseth “summoned all the US generals from around the globe at great expense to fat shame them.”… Continue reading
US President Donald Trump departs after addressing senior military officers gathered at Marine Corps Base Quantico in Quantico, Virginia, on September 30, 2025. (Photo by Jim Watson/AFP via Getty Images) “Wake up, people, the US is fast approaching a point of no return,” warned one critic, who said the president’s… Continue reading
From Adrienne FongTue, Sep 30 at 3:33 PM ACTION ALERT THE GLOBAL SUMUD FLOTILLA Is now on its final leg of its journey to Break The Siege in Gaza and to deliver humanitarian aid. The flotilla is now in the ‘high risk’ zone (Orange zone), where it’s likely to be intercepted by… Continue reading
