#BayArea #BBQ restaurant chain once had 6 busy locations, survived 40 yrs but after thriving in 90s, now down to single sit-down spot in #SanMateo
https://www.mercurynews.com/2025/06/18/breaking-armadillo-willys-bbq-abruptly-closes-all-but-1-restaurant-location/?share=hmkalarlybsoohm1aswu #GiftLink #SharedStory
Overall #California officially tallies over 30,000 total job losses in first 4 months of year as #DJT admin economic policies took effect. Steepest #federal #employment eradications were in #BayArea where #DOGE & related job cuts to #Federal workforce outweighed other regions in state by 3 to 1.
https://www.mercurynews.com/2025/06/08/economy-jobs-government-federal-work-layoff-trump-bay-area-doge-musk/?share=5epr5n0sestopoctnnwc #GiftLink #SharedStory #Unemployment #Jobs
#DJT expected to quickly run to pals in #SCOTUS to overturn 3 judge panel's ban in US Court of International Trade to resume his chaotic #WhiteHouse wank off of tariff tirades that many experts agree exceeds executive branch authority to push puerile policies purely on whim.
Typically tariffs must be approved by Congress, but naranja nincompoop claims national emergency requires him to bypass longstanding legislative process.
The court refuted the executive branch excess succinctly as "Worldwide and Retaliatory Tariff Orders exceed any authority granted to the President by IEEPA to regulate importation by means of tariffs,” referring to the 1977 International Emergency Economic Powers Act.
https://www.mercurynews.com/2025/05/28/court-blocks-trump-from-imposing-sweeping-tariffs/?share=trctstrh2ontffth2mit #SharedLink #SharedStory #MercuryNews
#Facebook front office grabbed great publicity from its bold #billion dollar public #pledge to help solve the #BayArea #housing crisis, then after the cameras, clicks and likes disappeared so did it's phony commitment, as #Meta quietly cut the funding teat and #ghosted the topic.
Money did flow at first , as public entities provided matching funds, but #Zuggerfugger's #PaloAlto #SocialMedia #boardroom backed shills quietly cut and run, committing far less than a quarter of the publicly pledged total. The vast majority of money from Meta, a company lacking a corporate charitable arm, came back to their HQ, repaid as low 2% interest rate loans of up to $15m to developers, not actual donations.
5 years after the flurry of #publicity, the unfulfilled propaganda pipe dream went deferred, projects were few and far between, impacts largely lost and untold in a region still desperately in need of more affordable housing.
https://www.eastbaytimes.com/2025/05/23/meta-affordable-housing-donation/?share=sfsrsw3uc3tc3wn0term #GiftLink #SharedStory #SiliconValley #HousingCrisis
#DJT's Massive #Medicaid Cuts That Provided Much Needed #Healthcare Access Across #USA Are Not Going To Be Easy For #GOP #MAGATS To Defend To Cursed Congressional Constituents
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/08/us/politics/republicans-medicaid-budget-dilemma.html?unlocked_article_code=1.Fk8.cULD.OMjjQtDjSThp&smid=nytcore-android-share #GiftLink #SharedStory #NewsToday #NYTimes
#DJT bloviation of intent to reappropriate #Alcatraz prison on #SanFrancisco Bay to host high security prisoners is as impractical as it is illogical.
Barriers of existing environmental acts including regional #CEQA process and wildlife regs , plus need to import all fresh water to island, and other construction and upgrades needed all make repurposing popular #NationalPark site back to historic usage as a #FederalPrison an impractical and downright dumb idea.
https://www.mercurynews.com/2025/05/04/california-trump-alcatraz/?share=0zwt5wozwpstmlpc5mer #GiftLink #SharedStory
#CalTrain deputy director Joseph Vincent Navarro found #guilty of misappropriation of $40k in public funds for conspiring with contractor during pandemic era and converting #Burlingame train station office into secret personal residential getaway with private gym.
Navarro, who now lives in Pennsylvania and previously told the #MercuryNews that his criminal charge was “overstated” and that he did nothing wrong. His co-conspirator #contractor had built himself similar living quarters inside the #Millbrae Cal #trainstation and plead #guilty, turning States #evidence against Navarro.
Navarro , whose attorneys claimed it was not a #secret , that he had given the key to his secretary, allowed his girlfriend to stay there, and the conversion was done with knowledge of his supervisor, still faces sentencing under judge's discretion which could range from actual #prison time, to more likely #probation.
https://www.mercurynews.com/2025/04/30/caltrain-secret-apartment-station-trial-jury/?share=c2oarcethlscruenanuo #GiftLink #SharedStory #PaywallLift
#TrumpAdmin Threats To Global Community Working... Future flight ✈️ & hotel bookings from abroad rapidly declining during Drumpf's second term. Travel from abroad puts over a trillion dollars into the US economy annually but this year, may be down by as much as one third of that.
International #Travel into #USA from foreign nations down by 12% overall this month alone thus far. Some regions sending far less visitors, many by 33% decline from previous years, figures reveal European visits down by almost 20% and 26% less tourism coming from nearby Caribbean islands.
Economic losses are billions of dollars gone in spending on hotels, meals, theme park admissions, airline flights etc ...
Declining #tourism totals currently similar to numbers seen at peak of #Coronavirus as #UltraNationalist #Moronavirus mouths run rampantly 24-7 from DC...
#GiftLink #SharedStory via The Washington Post
https://wapo.st/3YJbVGz #WaPo
#JoshHawley introduces #Senate bill to limit #power of #FederalJudges in wake of #DJT insolence over checks and balances from #judiciary branch as #WhiteHouse steps up attacks on judges who place limits on #PresidentialPower. House #GOP are already pursuing #impeachment against more than a half-dozen federal district court judges who made rulings against #Drumpf.
#FloridaMan Mordechai Brafman, 27, a plumber, who did a U turn in his pickup truck and opened fire on a car about 9:30 p.m. this past Saturday in #MiamiBeach. After arrest he told #Miami police the seventeen shots he proudly fired had killed two #Palestinians.
The gunshot #victims, who were #hospitalized in critical condition and thus far have survived, are #jewish #tourists from #Israel named Ari and Yaron Rabi
https://wapo.st/4gKikaO #FreeGftLnk #SharedStory #Floriduh #WellArmedMilitia #GunSense #FirstAmendmentFaves
Scion of Wealthy #Saratoga CA family who lived in their $6m mansion msg'd his sex assault victim on Facebook: “So I raped you...” followed by " I’ll pray for you.”
After returning to #SiliconValley , graduating from a "religious" college in #SantaClara & working for Elon's #Tesla, he fled to #France where, from what I've gleaned, #rape is apparently an unofficial national pastime ... this week, only 11 yrs later, the 31 yr old #fugitive was #extradited to USA, and denied bail.
Thankfully #DJT, who likes that sort of activity, is coming into office... anyone wanna bet on Prez #Pardon?
#MelonHusk names Trump pardoned ex #Tubi streaming exec Mahmoud Reza Banki as X #CFO / social media site formerly known as #Twitter.
#Banki previously served a couple years in federal prison, convicted by Feds for making false statements and violating Iran sanctions while operating an unlicensed money-transmitting business. #Trump previously pardoned Banki in January 2021 as one of his last acts before he left #WhiteHouse
https://www.wsj.com/tech/musks-x-names-mahmoud-reza-banki-cfo-65538482?st=FeWLzr #SharedStory #GiftLink
Internal #HarrisCampaign #poll data from #FutureForward saw slim narrowing path for #candidate in October, but claim her odds to victory seem much better in wake of #DJT at #MSG hate fest rally as #November #election finish line comes into focus
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/11/02/harris-future-forward-election/ #WaPo #GiftLink #SharedStory https://wapo.st/4fvyEfu
New #BobWoodward book describes how #Drumpf maintains private ties with #VladimirPutin and privately calls the #FSB trained leader from #MarALago . #DJT secretly sent taxpayer supplied #covid19 tests in 2020 to #Moscow to curry favor with the Russian dictator
#WSJ reveals #PwC to lay off 1,800 staffers at #BigFour accounting firm in first big #JobCuts since 2009 #FinancialCrisis era
https://www.wsj.com/articles/pwc-laying-off-1-800-employees-plans-restructuring-of-products-business-b5dfe7c1 #LinkShare #SharedStory #JobLosses #PaywallLift
#HewlettPackard still pursuing $4 Billion in damages after #Yachting Death of ex #Autonomy CEO Mike Lynch off coast of #Sicily . Their previous biz deal cost #HPE billions in write downs after true value of Lynch's biz was known, but #CEO was previously cleared in June of 15 #felony #fraud charges in US #court.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/03/business/dealbook/mike-lynch-hp-lawsuit.html?unlocked_article_code=1.H04.ZbBE.KAFqFTFDdKEi&smid=url-share #SharedStory #FreeLink #NYT #HP
Top US #bankruptcy #judge in #Texas secret #SexualRelationship scandal with a #BigLaw attorney working cases through his #courtroom has come under scrutiny of #USTrustee dept and put $13 million$ in #legal award$ under a dark skanky cloud that has attracted global scrutiny.
An aggrieved investor litigant who reportedly received an #anonymous tip letter was rebuffed by #court until later on his own, uncovered TX #property records that showed the #judge had real financial ties with his secret legal paramour.
The #whistleblower recently had his claims against the illicit ethically corrupt ties in the court "thrown out" finding he did not have "standing" to challenge the obviously twisted situation.
The judge who reigned over #SouthernDistrictofTexas’ #ComplexChapter11 cases and has since resigned, claims since he was #unmarried, #DirtyDeal recusal rules simply did not apply to him, but others want actual answers and finally, after years of sweeping this brewing kerfuffle under a rug, a #Federal #deposition has been ordered.
https://on.ft.com/3X5t63D via #FinancialTimes #SharedStory #ComplimentaryLink
https://www.wsj.com/articles/bankruptcy-racketeering-lawsuit-against-law-firms-ex-judge-dismissed-6c5d5de5?st=sdmh0mizhcb09t0 via #WSJ #FreeLink #SharedLink
https://news.bloomberglaw.com/bankruptcy-law/sex-and-secrets-trigger-downfall-of-star-texas-bankruptcy-judge via #Bloomberg
#TexasS #SouthernDistrict #JudicialBS #Chapter11 #FederalFreakShow
