Divided America

19 Jan 2025

Son of SF Sausage Slinger Spotted at Jan. 6th Insurrection

Frank Peter Molinari Giorgi Jr., of SF’s Molinari & Sons, has been arrested for crimes related to the Jan. 6th insurrection. The FBI identified him through police bodycam footage and confirmed his flight to Baltimore from Oakland two days prior. The United States Attorney’s Office charged Giorgi Jr. with assaulting,

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06 Jan 2025

Supervisor Matt Dorsey Wants ‘100 arrests a night’ Going Forward

Supervisor Matt Dorsey is proposing a plan to make “at least 100 arrests” per night in South of Market, with the goal of funneling the sick and suffering into “compulsory detox and treatment” through Mayor-elect Daniel Lurie’s new measures.

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30 Dec 2024

Protester Interrupts Biden’s Formal Apology to Native Americans

Joseph Biden has issued a formal apology for the Indian boarding school era. In one sweeping statement the outgoing president scrubbed centuries of genocide, a “stain on our nation’s soul,” from its conscience. Biden’s remarks come 530 years after colonization began in earnest—too little too late for some. For others,

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18 Dec 2024

Behind-the-Scenes with the Talented Cast of the Dickens Fair

The Great Dickens Christmas Fair and Holiday Market is a massive immersive theatrical experience made possible by hundreds of actors, musicians, artists, cooks, cleaners, carpenters, and chestnut roasters, including Mark Montgomery French, Sean Owens, Polly Amber Ross, Brendan Getzell, and Kerri Jones.

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25 Nov 2024

Charges Against Golden Gate Protesters Largely Dismissed

26 protesters drew international attention to their cause when they halted traffic on the Golden Gate Bridge last April. People lobbied praise and contempt for their highly visible stand against the Israeli invasion of Palestine. Contentious District Attorney Brooke Jenkins pursued extreme charges against many demonstrators, including felonies for conspiracy

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11 Nov 2024

My Daniel Lurie Wishlist

Daniel Lurie, the Mayor-elect of San Francisco, has a lot of problems to solve, including reversing the Tenderloin policy, rolling back policies that punish city residents, and making city streets safer for cyclists and pedestrians.

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09 Sep 2024

Why Are We Still Talking About 9/11?

How you discuss 9/11 hinges on where and how old you were. It outlines who you were before. The younger you were, the less of a secret it is that this was a long time coming. I am part of the last generation to have a definitive pre-9/11 childhood. We

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10 Aug 2024

Journey Home-less: What Really Happens to San Francisco’s Exiled?

San Francisco Mayor London Breed has recently dusted off a Newsom-era homeless relocation policy and rechristened it Journey Home. It began in 2005 under the similarly saccharine-named Homeward Bound. Portland, Seattle, Las Vegas and New York enacted similar policies, sending unhoused people across the United States. According to the SF

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