Plus: A new contemporary art museum opened in downtown San Francisco, and one of the oldest Starbucks in SF closed.
Y’all, we’re so tired. The weeks leading up to the election — unironically the most important in our lifetime — have sent us all into a tizzy, refreshing election model and polling aggregators through the day. Everything has been (and will continue to be) represented in razor-thin margins and within realms of polling errors up until November 5th.
Then, of course, our jaws collectively dropped at Trump’s Madison Square Garden (MSG) which eerily evoked the anti-Semitic, racist undertones of the Nazi rally held at the exact same venue in 1939. The 2024 “October Surprise” this time around? Latino voters, particularly those from the island of Puerto Rico, rallying behind Harris amid the fallout from the MSG event … that had extremely racist and banal comedian Tony Hinchcliffe call the isle of 3.3 million people an “island of garage.” And given that Pennsylvania has some 500,000 Puerto Rican residents — the country’s eighth largest Puerto Rican community — Trump’s MSG rally might prove to be the tipping point into Harris securing those 19 Electoral College votes … and, ultimately, the presidency.
But we digress. Let’s talk about Nick Bosa’s MAGA hat.
In a postgame interview after the 49ers’ 30-24 victory over the Dallas Cowboys, the 27-year-old Ohio native took it upon himself to, seemingly out of nowhere, interrupt an interview with Brock Purdy, George Kittle, and Isaac Guerendo … by running up and showing NBC’s Melissa Stark the MAGA message on the front of his hat. He promptly ran away.
“All right, Nick Bosa with a message there,” Stark, visibly thrown off by the strange encounter, remarked to the camera.
Bosa volleyed questions from reporters during a press conference shortly after his run-by endorsement; Bosa was seen wearing a different hat … and declined to explain his reasoning or anything more on the matter.
“I’m not going to talk too much about it, but I think that it’s an important time,” he shared. Bosa’s right: It’s, indeed, an important time to denounce fascism, safeguard our fragile democracy, protect abortion rights and bodily autonomy, and vote for a future that doesn’t see the United States military used on the country’s citizens.
Tysm for the PSA, Bosa. Here’s hoping you won’t mind paying perhaps thousands of dollars in NFL fines, as laid out by the league’s rule book regarding such off-the-cuff endorsements.
MAGA madness aside, what else transpired over the weekend? Let’s take a look.
- Another Starbucks in San Francisco bites the dust. After 30 years in business, one of SF’s oldest Starbucks locations — the storefront on 120 4th Street — is shutting down; the location’s final day in business is slated for November 8th. More info.
- San Francisco’s 21st pedestrian death involved a local bartender. Broke-Ass Stuart shared the news, by way of a Reddit forum, that showed the fatal pedestrian death involved 35-year-old Jonathan Chase Johnson, who was a beloved bartender at the popular beer garden, Zeitgeist; Johnson was allegedly walking to a Kaiser Medical Center when a car fatally struck him. More info.
- A new art museum opened in downtown San Francisco. The Institute of Contemporary Art San Francisco (ICA SF) opened over the weekend inside the The Cube building at 345 Montgomery Street; the culture center will; unlike, say, SFMOMA, ICA SF is a “non-collecting” museum — meaning its pieces and exhibits are intended to exist as “canon” for that moment in time and culture. More info.
