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Alex M. (center) and Maddy Landry (second from right) spray bubbles and soap during the Bay to Breakers race in San Francisco on May 19, 2019.

In a tradition that dates back more than a century, thousands of people will participate in San Franciscos Bay to Breakers race this Sunday, dashing from one end of the city to the other in varying levels of dress and many in no dress at all.

As always, the revelry is expected to continue to spill out across the city throughout the day. Street closures will be in effect to make way for the 7.5-mile route; you can go here for the race route, map of closures and a full rundown on public transportation options.

The racing action gets underway (along with the serious runners) at 8 a.m., but the main event for most participants and spectators is the costumes as always, expect zany getups, inflatable dinosaurs, tutus, full-body paint and, probably, all of those things happening in an outfit at once.

Photos from The Chronicles archive show Elvis costumes have been a standby for decades, as are costumes with a nod to current events a crowd of dancing Ruth Bader Ginsbergs in 2019, for instance, or side-by-side Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton in 2016.

Here are some of the best photos from our archive of Bay to Breakers costumes and revelry through the years.

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The Yip Yip Martians arrived at the top of Hayes Street Hill during the 2014 Bay to Breakers in San Francisco.

Jessica Hall, dressed as Ariel from The Little Mermaid, does the limbo during the Bay to Breakers race on May 20, 2018.

Participants dressed as vampireslie down on Fell Street during the Bay to Breakers race in 2019.

Women dressed as Supreme Court Justice RuthBader Ginsburg dance at the start of the Bay to Breakers race on May 19, 2019.

Ben Rawner of San Francisco wears a mask as he waits for friends during the running of the 103rd Bay to Breakers in 2015.

Participants dressed as grapes make their way down Fell Street during the 2018 Bay to Breakers.

Juliana Cliv, Mike Cliv and Sarah Cliv, dressed as gold awards, dance in the streets during the Bay to Breakers in 2018.

Participants on Fell Street during the 2018 Bay to Breakers.

Anya Louisa and Dan Tarcy help Cosima Felten, 4, carry their Tesla float during the Bay to Breakers race in 2018.

Rocky Angel applies sunscreen before participating in Bay to Breakers in San Francisco on May 18, 2014.

People dressed in costume pose together for photos on Fell Street during the 2019 Bay to Breakers race.

Bay to Breakers participants from the Flying Elvis Monterey chapter during the event on May 16, 1993.

Bay to Breakers participants dressed as Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton run the race on May 15, 2016.

People in bee costumes dance during the Bay to Breakers race in San Francisco on May 19, 2019.

Brooke Bray (left), Lizzy Gregory, Kate Jamboretz and Michelle Meyer of the Impala Racing Team listen to the Pledge of Allegiance before the start of the Bay to Breakers annual race in 2018.

A participant dressed as Barney makes his way down Hayes Street in the 2018 Bay to Breakers.

A man dressed as a bather in a bathtub makes his way down Divisadero Streetin the 2019 Bay to Breakers.

A person in Donald Trump costume at the Bay to Breakers event in 2019.

JT Dermody as High Five Jesus greets runners by the Panhandle Park during the 2019 Bay to Breakers race.

Participants dressed as robots dance in the street at the Bay to Breakers race in 2018.

Police officers watch participants of S.F.s Bay to Breakers annual race on May 21, 2017.

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Bill Perkins, who for 24 years as a legislator from Harlem championed his community by, among other things, challenging Donald J. Trumps aggressive demand for the death penalty when five teenagers, who were later exonerated, were arrested in connection with a rape in Central Park in 1989 died on Tuesday at his home in Manhattan. He was 74.

His death was announced by his wife, Pamela Green Perkins. She did not give a cause, but Mr. Perkins had undergone treatment for colon cancer and, according to Richard Fife, a family spokesman, had developed dementia.

Raised with his brothers and a cousin by a single mother, Mr. Perkins was a relentless advocate in the New York City Council and the New York State Senate for raising the minimum wage, protecting children from being poisoned by lead paint in their apartments, instituting health screening programs in municipal hospitals, and protecting the rights of gay, lesbian and transgender people.

In 1989, when five Black and Hispanic teenagers were charged with the rape of a white jogger in Central Park, Mr. Perkins was among the first Black civic leaders to publicly raise questions about the evidence and to suggest that there had been a rush to judgment. At the time he was president of the tenants association of Schomburg Plaza, the Manhattan apartment complex where several of the defendants lived.

Few other public officials or civic leaders, white or Black, questioned the police investigation at the time, particularly since the defendants had confessed.

Mr. Perkins also took on Mr. Trump, then a wealthy real estate developer, who took out full-page advertisements in city newspapers after the attack calling for New York State to adopt the death penalty for murder cases. Mr. Trump did not explicitly call for the death penalty for the five defendants, but he made clear that he was referring to that case.

This was taking a moment, a very unfortunate and one might say racially tense moment in our city, and fueling a lynch mob, Mr. Perkins said when Mr. Trump was running for president in 2016.

The defendants, who became known as the Central Park Five, were convicted and imprisoned. But they were exonerated in 2002 after another man confessed to the crime.

In our darkest hours, when it seemed like the whole world was against us, Bill Perkins bravely stood behind and with us, one of the defendants, Yusef Salaam, said in a statement after Mr. Perkinss death. His bravery and commitment to justice were unwavering, and he is a big reason we were eventually exonerated.

William Morris Perkins was born on April 18, 1949, in the Bronx to Helen Perkins. He said he never knew his father.

Inspired by his mothers faith in education, he won scholarships to the Collegiate School in Manhattan and Brown University in Providence, R.I., where he graduated with a bachelors degree in 1972.

He was a community organizer, a social worker and a tenant leader before running for the City Council. He served there from 1997 to 2006 and again from 2017 to 2021, ultimately rising to deputy majority leader. From 2007 to 2017 he was a state senator, representing Harlem, the Upper West Side and Washington Heights.

Among his major accomplishments was sponsorship of the Childhood Lead Paint Poisoning Prevention Act of 2004, which required landlords to ameliorate hazardous paint conditions in their properties.

The Daily News columnist Juan Gonzalez wrote of Mr. Perkins, who was a marathoner, It took the stamina of a long-distance runner to prevail against the citys powerful landlord lobby, which has resisted stronger lead paint removal laws for decades.

Andrea Stewart-Cousins, the State Senate majority leader, said in a statement after Mr. Perkinss death that he never waited for the right thing to become popular before taking action.

He had no qualms about challenging Khalid Abdul Muhammad, a Nation of Islam minister known for his anti-white diatribes. And in the 2008 Democratic presidential primary campaign, when Senator Hillary Clinton of New York was running, he was among the first Black elected officials to endorse Barack Obama.

In 2021, when he was already ailing, he lost a primary to retain his Council seat.

In addition to his wife, Mr. Perkins is survived by his children, Kiva Perkins-Watts, Medjha White, William Perkins, Margaret Perkins, Maximilian Perkins and Rebecca Marimutu; his brothers, Gerry, Richard and Michael; and four grandchildren.

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May 19, 2023 | 5:19pm

Critics bashed an online profile Friday of the wife of expected presidential contender and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, calling the piece misogynistic and vicious.

The Politico article, The Casey DeSantis Problem: His Greatest Asset and His Greatest Liability, quoted anonymous former DeSantis staffers, alleged insiders and Democratic strategists who accused the first lady of Florida of being blindly ambitious in an effort to help her husband become the next US president.

Gov. DeSantis is expected to announce his bid for the presidency next week.

The story labeled the 42-year-old former Jacksonville TV anchor, breast-cancer survivor and mom of three paranoid and vindictive while quoting a male DeSantis supporter who said she needed to take a more traditional role and a Trump operative who called her similar to Lady MacBeth.

If youre a Democrat and a woman, youre fierce or an unapologetic or whatever, a senior DeSantis adviser raged to The Post. If youre a Republican or a conservative, you turn into a cartoon villainess.

The double standard is shameful. And the people who do this are always the most outspoken feminists on Twitter.

The Politico piece cited a months-old quote from longtime Trump loyalist Roger Stone on his Telegram account that read, Have you ever noticed how much Ron DeSantis wife Casey is like Lady Macbeth?

Nate Hochman, a speechwriter for DeSantis, responded while referring to a Politico article last year that covered how gender roles can still be weaponized in political attacks against women such as former Secretary of State and presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, first lady Jill Biden and Gisele Fetterman, the wife of Sen. John Fetterman (D-Pa.).

Politico, November 2022: Comparing women in politics to Lady Macbeth is a sexist trope, Hochman tweeted.

New York Times opinion columnist Ross Douthat referred to the Friday articles inclusion of a quote from ex-Republican strategist Rick Wilson, who said, Never cross Casey.

The fascinating arc of history in which the founder of a NeverTrump organization is touting a piece about Casey DeSantis organized around a Lady MacBeth analogy thats based on a quote from, um, Roger Stone, Douthat wrote.

A disgusted Twitter user added, I just started seeing these attacks on Mrs. Desantis, and WOW.

These people have no shame from behind their keyboards, sad sad time we live in.. you dont have to like or support her husband, but you also should be a decent human being!

DeSantis staffers disputed all the characterizations in the article.

When activist media like @politico et al have no real access but want to push their narrative anyways about @GovRonDeSantis or @CaseyDeSantis, they quote liberal activists and pretend theyre insiders, the governors press secretary, Bryan Griffin, seethed on Twitter.

Christina Pushaw, a former press secretary for Ron DeSantis, responded in support of Griffin,Fact check: TRUE.

Casey DeSantis recently accompanied her husband on a four-leg world tour, with visits to Japan, South Korea, Israel and the UK to tout Floridas economic strength.

The couple met in 2006 while the Florida governor, a Harvard Law School grad, was stationed as a Navy officer in Jacksonville and were married three years later at Disney World.

On Friday, he traveled to New Hampshire to talk about his record as the twice-elected governor of the Sunshine State ahead of his anticipated campaign launch next week.

He was photographed at a roundtable in Bedford, NH, kissing babies and slamming diversity, equity and inclusion consultants for raking in cash while hectoring people about how capitalism is racist.

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The FBI misused a digital foreign surveillance tool nearly 300,000 times on U.S. citizens, including January 6 insurrection suspects and protestors in the 2020 Black Lives Matter protests, according to a heavily-redacted court report obtained by multiple outlets Friday, as the FBI comes under increased pressure over its policies.

The report, from the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, found a series of abuses of the FBIs querying procedures between 2020 and 2021 that were persistent and widespread, and could require potential changes to the number of FBI personnel with access to a database intended to gather foreign intelligence called Section 702.

According to the report, the FBI failed to present a foreign intelligence purpose to use the database and instead used it to collect information on U.S. citizens, potentially shooting itself in the foot as the Biden Administration hopes to renew the federal act that created Section 702, which is set to lapse at the end of the year.

Among the findings in the report is a list of 133 identifiers of people used in searches in connection with civil unrest and protests during a three-week period in June 2020, the same time as the Black Lives Matter protests against racial injustice following the deaths of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor.

The FBI also searched in more than 23,000 queries on people believed to be involved in the January 6 Capitol riot, as well as a batch of queries into more than 19,000 donors to a congressional campaign, according to the report.

The FBI introduced corrective measures to resolve the issue in the summer of 2021, causing the use of the database to drop dramatically, according to a report released in March and obtained by the New York Times.

278,000. Thats how many times the FBI used Section 702 between 2020 and early 2021, according to the report.

The report comes as the FBI wrangles with increased scrutiny from the right, following the release of a report this week from Special Counsel John Durham, which found the FBI should not have launched its investigation into allegations then-candidate Donald Trump had sought information from Russia on his opponent Hillary Clinton during the 2016 presidential election. In January, House Republicans launched a new committeecalled the House Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Governmentand tasked its members with investigating the FBI and the Department of Justice, which launched probes into former President Donald Trump and his role in the January 6 riot as well as his alleged mishandling of classified White House documents discovered at his Mar-A-Lago resort during an FBI raid. Trump has repeatedly dubbed the investigations a witch hunt, a criticism echoed by his allies in Congress who argue Trump has been unfairly attacked during and after his time in the Oval Office.

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The bipartisan political group No Labels is stepping up a well-funded effort to field a unity ticket for the 2024 presidential race, prompting fierce resistance from even some of its closest allies who fear handing the White House back to Donald J. Trump.

At the top of the list of potential candidates is Senator Joe Manchin III, the conservative West Virginia Democrat who has been a headache to his party and could bleed support from President Biden in areas crucial to his re-election.

The centrist groups leadership was in New York this week raising part of the money around $70 million that it says it needs to help with nationwide ballot access efforts.

The determination to nominate a ticket will be made shortly after the primaries next year on what is known as Super Tuesday, March 5, said Nancy Jacobson, the co-founder and leader of No Labels. A national convention has been set for April 14-15 in Dallas, where a Democrat-Republican ticket would be set to take on the two major-party nominees. (Mr. Biden is facing two long-shot challengers, and Mr. Trump is the Republican front-runner.)

Other potential No Labels candidates being floated include Senator Kyrsten Sinema, an Arizona independent, and former Gov. Larry Hogan of Maryland, a Republican, who has said he would not run for the G.O.P. nomination and is the national co-chairman of the group. But Mr. Manchin has received most notice recently after speaking on a conference call last month with donors.

Were not looking to pick the ticket right now, former Representative Fred Upton, a Michigan Republican and longtime associate of the group, cautioned in an interview on Wednesday as he prepared to meet with donors and leaders in New York. Our focus is getting on the ballot.

The drive has already secured ballot spots in Alaska, Arizona, Colorado and Oregon and is now targeting Florida, Nevada and North Carolina. But gaining ballot access nationwide is a challenging and expensive effort, and the group still has a long way to go.

Ms. Jacobson called the project an insurance policy in the event both major parties put forth presidential candidates the vast majority of Americans dont support.

Were well aware any independent ticket faces a steep climb and if our rigorously gathered data and polling suggests an independent unity ticket cant win, we will not nominate a ticket, she said.

Caveats aside, the effort is causing deep tensions with the groups ideological allies, congressional partners and Democratic Party officials who are scrambling to stop it. Third-party candidates siphoned enough votes to arguably cost Democrats elections in 2000 (Al Gore) and 2016 (Hillary Clinton). Republicans say the same thing about Ross Perots role in blocking George H.W. Bushs re-election in 1992.

If No Labels runs a Joe Manchin against Donald Trump and Joe Biden, I think it will be a historic disaster, said Representative Dean Phillips, a Minnesota Democrat and, until now, a strong supporter of the organization. And I speak for just about every moderate Democrat and frankly most of my moderate Republican friends.

People close to Mr. Manchin have their doubts he would join a No Labels ticket. He must decide by January whether to run for re-election in his firmly Republican state. But he does see an avenue to return to the Senate.

The states popular Democrat-turned-Republican governor, Jim Justice, is running for the Republican nomination to challenge Mr. Manchin, but so is West Virginias most Trump-aligned House member, Alex Mooney, who has the backing of the deep-pocketed political action committee Club for Growth.

If Mr. Mooney can knock out Mr. Justice, or damage him badly by bringing up the governors centrist record and days as a Democrat, Mr. Manchin sees a path to re-election, and no real prospect of actually winning the presidency on the No Labels ticket.

But he is keeping his options open, at least as he raises money under the No Labels auspices.

Lets try to make people come back together for the sake of the country, not just for the sake of the party, Mr. Manchin told the groups donors on a recent conference call leaked to the news site Puck this month.

Opponents are mobilizing to stop No Labels. Maines secretary of state, Shenna Bellows, sent a cease-and-desist letter this month to the groups director of ballot access, accusing the organization of misrepresenting its intentions as it presses for signatures to get on the states presidential ballot.

The Arizona Democratic Party sued this spring to get No Labels off the states ballot, accusing it of engaging in a shadowy strategy to gain ballot access when in reality they are not a political party.

One of No Labels founders, William Galston, a former policy aide to President Bill Clinton, publicly resigned from his own organization over the push. In an interview, he pointed to polling saying that voters who dislike both Mr. Trump and President Biden double haters say overwhelmingly they would vote for Mr. Biden in the end. Given an alternative, that might not be the case.

And Democratic members of the Problem Solvers Caucus, a centrist coalition aligned with No Labels that actually does No Labels legislative work, are in open revolt.

I can think of nothing worse than another Trump presidency and no better way of helping him than running a third-party candidate, said Representative Brad Schneider, Democrat of Illinois.

No Labels has long had its detractors, variously accused of ineffectuality, fronting for Republicans and existing mainly to raise large amounts of money from wealthy corporate donors, many of whom give primarily to Republicans.

But the grumbling criticism took on a more urgent tone when Puck posted a partial transcript of a leaked conference call that No Labels held with its funders. On it, Ryan Clancy, the groups chief strategist, said ballot organizers were at 600,000 signatures and counting, and nearing slots on the ballot in roughly 20 states, with their eyes on all 50.

Mr. Manchin joined the call as the closer: The hope is to keep the country that we have, and you cannot do that by forcing the extreme sides on both parties, he said.

Mr. Manchins political appeal beyond West Virginia is questionable. The loudest discontent among Democrats with Mr. Biden has come from young voters, many of whom are animated by the issue of climate change, and they are not aligned with the coal-state Democrat on that.

Mr. Manchin is not a climate denier in the traditional sense. He has repeatedly referred to the climate crisis caused by human activities.

Yet Mr. Manchin, whose state produces some of the highest levels of coal and natural gas nationally and who has earned millions from his familys coal business, has long fought policies that would punish companies for not shifting more quickly to clean energy and has accused Mr. Biden of promoting a radical climate agenda.

But Democrats worry. The southwestern suburbs of Pittsburgh abut West Virginia, and it would not take many Democrats bolting to Mr. Manchin to hand Pennsylvania to Mr. Trump, they warn.

Ms. Jacobson, on the leaked conference call, said No Labels had been Pearl Harbored by a March memo from the Democratic centrist group Third Way. The memo was bluntly titled: A Plan That Will Re-elect Trump.

It wasnt exactly a sneak attack, Third Ways longtime leader, Matt Bennett, countered in an interview. We are enormously alarmed.

Lisa Friedman contributed reporting from Washington.

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