SF Politics New Election Data for SF Shows Pockets of Trump Voters In Chinatown, the Tenderloin, the Marina, and the Avenues Of course people all over the country like Donald Trump for a variety of misguided and ignorant reasons. But it's bizarre to know that in multiple corners of San Francisco, not only did Trump pick up new voters between 2016 and 2020, there were hundreds of SF residents who voted for him.
SF Politics Bay Area Man Arrested After He Allegedly Went Nuts Threatening Democratic Congressman and His Family on Jan. 6 In yet another story of a conspiracy-addled right-wing Trump fanboy unraveling in the waning days before the inauguration and allegedly turning to criminal threats and other craziness, we bring you the case of 35-year-old Bay Point resident Robert Lemke.
SF Politics Updates: Trump Supporters Storm Capitol in Washington After President Incites Riot, One Person Dies President Trump implored ardent supporters at a rally Wednesday behind the White House to walk to the Capitol Building and "show strength" and "fight." Many of them have, and they breached the building and forced a stop to the electoral vote count in Congress.
Business & Tech Facebook Still Grappling With How Misinformation and Hate Speech Are Very Profitable for Them Engineers at Facebook reportedly labeled certain types of posts internally as “bad for the world,” and when limiting them led to less engagement on the platform, the baddies got boosted back.
SF Politics Over 56,000 People in San Francisco Voted for Trump Liberal bubble though it may be, there are more Trump voters in our midst than we may think here in SF. And not everyone in this town is immune to the attraction to an authoritarian strongman who spends his days doing his own PR on Twitter.
Business & Tech Zuckerberg Explains Why Facebook Isn't Banning Steve Bannon, Says Employees Shouldn't Necessarily Fear New Regulation Under Biden In a meeting with Facebook employees this week, Mark Zuckerberg explained why, unlike Twitter, the company had not moved to permanently ban conservative blowhard and onetime White House advisor Steve Bannon from the platform, following those comments about beheading Dr. Fauci.
SF Politics Deluded Trump Supporters Rally In Danville, Insist He Won Reelection Because He Said So Here in the Bay Area we don't need to look further than eastern Contra Costa County to find some Trump supporters who think the election is far from decided.
Business & Tech Biden Press Secretary Lambasts Facebook Over Post-Election Misinformation Facebook continues taking it from all sides in this election year, with Democrats generally livid that President Trump continues to have a presence on the platform at all, and conservatives and Trumpists generally annoyed that Facebook has done what little it's done to curb the president's lies.
SF Politics Prop 15 Goes Down By Narrow Margin as CA Voters Are Reluctant to Tax Businesses In a Pandemic One progressive measure among a slew of California ballot propositions this election might have stood more of a chance had we not been in the middle of a pandemic-triggered recession.
SF Politics SF Offices of Law Firm Jones Day Targeted With Protest As Lawyers Continue to Press Trump's Baseless Election Challenges If you want to know what enablers of an autocrat look like in the years before a country a plunges into autocracy, look no further than spineless Republicans this week, and law firm Jones Day, which has an SF office.
SF Politics London Breed Is On Short List To Take Kamala's Senate Seat It's an old joke in politics: "Every time you make an appointment, you make 20 enemies and one ingrate." And that's what Newsom is facing.
SF Politics Moms 4 Housing Organizer Wins Oakland City Council Seat, Beating Incumbent The woman who's credited with being the mastermind behind last fall's Moms 4 Housing protest in West Oakland, Carroll Fife, has unseated incumbent City Councilmember Lynette Gibson McElhaney, marking a shift toward a more progressive electorate in parts of Oakland.
SF Politics Connie Chan and Myrna Melgar Join SF Board of Supervisors Representing Districts 1 and 7 With a narrow ranked-choice victory declared Sunday for incoming District 1 Supervisor Connie Chan, the San Francisco Board of Supervisors has two new faces representing the Westside beginning in the new year.
SF News Election Updates: Twitter Bans Bannon For Beheading Comments; Biden to Make Evening Speech Joe Biden pulled ahead in the Pennsylvania count today, and the final result of that count could potentially put him on the most immediate path to declaring victory. Biden's lead in Nevada also expanded on Friday.
SF Politics Nancy Pelosi Intends to Be House Speaker For Another Two Years House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is seeking another two-year term as the head of the Democratic caucus — and she's laid out what her Day One priorities will be for the new Congress.
Business & Tech Facebook Shuts Down 'Stop the Steal' Group But Not Before It Amassed Over 350,000 Followers In another example of Facebook's ineptitude at stemming misinformation — during an election or otherwise — a group the entire purpose of which was to delegitimize the election and ballot-counting process was able to flourish for a full day and amplify Trump's lies before being taken down.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: Vote Counts Continue Amid Various Protests Protests erupt across the country demanding to "count every vote" and also to "stop the count," the District 1 supervisor's race in SF is still too close to call, and Biden appears to have an edge with remaining votes being counted in four states.
SF Politics SF Ballot Measure Results: Yeses Lead For Most Local Props, But 16-Year-Olds Not Likely to Get the Vote With results still being tallied for San Francisco's local ballot measures, the writing seems to be on the wall for most of them. SF residents largely voted yes down the ballot — just not for letting 16-year-olds vote.
SF News Election Limbo Headlines: Uber and Lyft Get Their Wish, Prop 22 Passes The dialysis regulation measure Prop 23 appears to be going down, Mark Kelly beat Martha McSally for the Arizona Senate seat, and as promised Facebook and Twitter flagged Trump's false claims about winning the election and the Democrats trying to "steal" it.
Business & Tech Waymo Has Taken Its Self-Driving Fleet Off SF Streets Out of Concern For Post-Election Chaos Safety drivers who are piloting Waymo's self-driving cars around San Francisco as part of a testing program that has been ongoing for several years were instructed on Monday to bring the vehicles back to Mountain View.
SF News Election Morning Links: Deep Breaths Twitter once again slapped Trump over mail-in voting fear/violence mongering, CBS News spoke to militia groups in Michigan prepping for war, and the New York Times print team is prepping for an uncertain election night and a likely non-decisive front page for Wednesday.
SF Politics You Can Vote Right Now, Tonight, Or Anytime on Election Day in Spacious Civic Center Voting Tents Friendly reminder for all those who haven't gotten ballots in the mail yet or don't want to deal with their polling place: You can go to the citywide voting center in front of Bill Graham and it is super convenient and easy.
SF Politics Trump Rallies Caused 30,000 COVID-19 Cases, 700 Deaths, Stanford Study Finds Stanford researchers ran the numbers and linked Trump rallies to 700 deaths, with the depressing kicker that these were “not necessarily among attendees.”
SF Politics Trumpist Caravan Terrorizes Marin County, Targets Black Community In Marin City for Intimidation A pro-Trump car and pickup truck caravan that seems to have originated in Santa Rosa traveled south to Marin County on Sunday, following a spate of similar caravans around the country that looked unsettlingly like those ISIS caravans from a few years back with their large flags flapping.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: Dia de Los Muertos In a Pandemic Dia de los Muertos takes on greater significance for the Latinx community hit hardest by the pandemic, meteorologists issue a sneaker wave warning for local beaches, and businesses are boarding up anticipating election unrest.
