The US Capitol building had not been breached since the British burned it down in August 1814. But thousands of shrieking, armed MAGA insurrectionists took over the Capitol building and trashed the place today, in a failed coup that we thought would be funny that ended up being a failed

Should-be Georgia governor and sudden progressive power broker Stacey Abrams looks likely to deliver an unexpected win to Joe Biden in the state of Georgia. But she’s got her eyes on the bigger prize of ditching Mitch McConnell on January 5, 2021. And you can help her end Republican rule

I’ve got some awesome news! We received a grant from the Civic Joy Fund to put out a literary magazine celebrating SF and acting to counter the stupid “Doom Loop” narrative. It’s a gift to the people of San Francisco. And after months of working on this project it’s now available

Multiple news outlets are reporting that President Donald Trump, the bane of this website’s existence for the last five years, has lost the 2020 presidential election. Democtratic nominee Joe Biden was just declared the winner in Pennsylvania, delivering him that state’s 20 Electoral College votes, thereby giving him 20 Electoral College votes

San Francisco has been the poster boy city for income inequality for years. But on election day, SF voters passed a law that might finally bring some fairness to our wildly out-of-whack socioeconomic ridiculousness. The Proposition L Business Tax, commonly known as the “Overpaid CEO tax,” was approved by a

It looked like the Democrats blew their supposed “blue wave” to take the Senate on Election Night, but they actually do still have a very narrow path to ditch Mitch McConnell as Senate majority leader. There are still three essentially undetermined races in the Senate, and if all three go

We still don’t know who won the presidential election, but we really don’t know what 817 San Franciscans were thinking when they voted for the presidential ticket with Kanye West. According to the San Francisco Department of Elections, 817 San Francisco voters cast their ballot for Kanye West’s ticket. But

There’s an old dirty trick in politics where hucksters distribute information communicating the wrong election day to voters. The tactic generally works more effectively when you dupe your opponent’s voters, not your own. But the Donald Trump campaign has been running ads with the wrong election day, according to the

It hasn’t been a good week for Uber, Lyft, DoorDash and their shady political campaign for their terrible proposed law Prop. 22. First the New York Times came out against Prop. 22 in an editorial read across the nation. Then on Monday, SFGate busted them for fake “progressive” mailers calling