Anyone attending No Kings Day in San Francisco. The protest starts at 11:30 Dolores Park and marches to the Civic center. BlueSky people can group at Dolores & 18th. You can register online - SF No Kings Day or just show up.

California legislators are on the verge of overhauling a landmark environmental law www.latimes.com/homeless-hou... @liamjdillon.com @latimes.com

1/2 Misogynist Trump just rescinded Biden’s emergency abortion protections under EMTALA. This is a death sentence. More women will die in ERs because hospitals are no longer required to provide life-saving abortions. Trump made it easier to turn patients away. tinyurl.com/ER-Abortion

Gift link to a must-read from my colleagues. "I think people should know that research that they probably would support is being canceled," said Eden Tanner, who lost a grant to work on a new glioblastoma treatment. "I would like to cure brain cancer. I think that's not particularly controversial."

Is California's Williamson Act a giveaway to Fresno County’s wealthiest landowners? fresnoland.org/2025/02/18/w...

After telling CNN that Americans "can't trust the government anymore," DHS Sec Kristi Noem says she is comfortable with Musk having access to Americans’ personal data www.cnn.com/2025/02/09/p...

Lies and misinformation threaten CA’s future. When will lawmakers stand up for the truthtellers? The LA fires showed how essential local journalism is to public safety. And yet newsrooms are in jeopardy of dissolving without political support www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/edit...

"Gov. Gavin Newsom’s more than 90-minute meeting with President Donald Trump in the Oval Office Wednesday once again displayed the governor’s willingness to cede his leadership of the resistance — at least for now." www.politico.com/news/2025/02...

I keep waiting for tough questions from the press in these photo ops...not hearing them challenge him, call him out on many false statements -- or demand answers on unprecedented moves by Elon Musk. Do your job, people.

Musk, the world’s richest man, is sweeping through the federal government as a singular force, creating major upheaval as he looks to put an ideological stamp on the bureaucracy and rid the system of those who he and the president deride as “the deep state.” Gifted. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/03/u...

Where is Oakland laying off nearly 100 city workers in ‘hard but necessary’ cuts? The two depts we residents can least afford it: public works and police. www.eastbaytimes.com/2025/01/31/o...

"Donald Trump does not hide his disdain for California and its perceived progressive values. Now UC Berkeley analysts say he may be planning an offensive against the state that extends from public health and climate to immigration, energy and education." news.berkeley.edu/2025/01/10/t...

"A mass purge of field agents, the front line investigators in @FBI cases, signals "an even greater escalation of what has become a startling pattern of retribution — & would contradict pledges to avoid such action" by Trump’s nominees to lead FBI & DOJ, per washingtonpost.com

"As of May 2024, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) was approximately 3,000 controllers short of its staffing targets, despite a surge in hiring efforts," per CNN. So who now will be monitoring the skies for the flying public?? www.thedailybeast.com/trump-admin-...

OMG if you live near or use @FlySFO, or any major Bay Area airport, this is alarming to say the least

Beginning Feb. 1, San Carlos Airport will have no air traffic controllers?? What could go wrong regarding serious potential dangers for busy flight paths at nearby @FlySFO..

Southern California’s largest water supplier fires general manager The Metropolitan Water District of Southern California replaced Adel Hagekhalil with Deven Upadhyay after an investigation into claims of harassment.

University of California leaders are raising concerns about a temporary Trump administration pause on research grant reviews. UC is the nation’s top higher education recipient of federal research funding. www.latimes.com/california/s...

The Tech Arsenal That Could Power Trump’s Immigration Crackdown Border — enforcement agencies have spent billions assembling surveillance tools to track and find people. These could be critical in President Trump’s immigration agenda. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/25/t...

Question of the Week: Where do I sign?

Trump Justice Department has issued a freeze on the civil rights division, largely shutting it down for the time-being, halting all ongoing civil rights cases. (this would include environmental justice investigations). “It’s beyond unusual—it’s unprecedented." www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

Sold out. Feb. 8, Masonic Auditorium SF. Damn.

Ross Ulbricht of SF, founder of Silk Road -- "the most sophisticated & extensive criminal marketplace on the internet -- was arrested at the Glen Park branch of the SF Public Library. @GilDuran76 months ago wrote why a Trump pardon would be a terrible idea: www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/open...

WTF? Hotel booking sites caught overcharging travelers from Bay Area: On kayak.com, Bay Area user offered a room at Renaissance NY Times Square Hotel at $378/night...The same room "offered at $293 from Kansas City & Phoenix IP addresses." www.sfgate.com/travel/artic...

This is an insane lineup...

#BreakingNews Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen on Friday said the nation will hit its debt ceiling the day after President Trump is inaugurated, and that the agency will begin “extraordinary measures” to stave off the threat of a national default. #DebtCeiling #Congress

The former Oakland Mayor “was released on a $50,000 bond. The judge..barred her from traveling outside the region, and Ms. Thao surrendered her passport.” nytimes.com/2025/01/17/us/… via @NYTimes

CAGOP on Trump allies’ calls for fire aid conditions: The debate :puts CAGOP lawmakers in a potentially perilous position, stuck btwn suffering constituents & the president-elect’s desires. And it presents another test of congressional GOP loyalty to Trump." www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

ALARMING: Indirect death toll from the L.A. fires may end up in the thousands yaleclimateconnections.org/2025/01/indi...

These Brands Are Donating Proceeds to Los Angeles Wildfire-Relief Funds nymag.com/strategist/a...

Billionaires' Club: Trump "turning to nearly a dozen people worth at least $1 billion on their own or combined with their spouses’ assets – to oversee the nation’s policies and represent the US overseas as ambassadors." @CNN www.cnn.com/2025/01/16/p...

Back for more? Looks like Republican Caitlyn Jenner, who had a disastrous run for CA governor in 2021, is hinting she's still got a future in politics, via POLITICO CA Playbook

"Former Rep. @BarbaraLee_CA is stacking up endorsements ahead of an April special election to pick Oakland’s next mayor"....via POLITICO CA Playbook

California's @GavinNewsom will join GOP governors in raising flag for Trump inauguration abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory...

The legal fight over the LA fires is already here. Homeowners have already sued So California Edison Co. over the Eaton fire, which began at the base of 1 of the utility’s transmission towers and has destroyed or damaged 7,000 homes. www.sfchronicle.com/politics/art... via @sfchronicle

California won’t pursue a ban on new diesel truck sales by 2036 — and force fleet owners to take them off the road by 2042 — after Biden’s EPA failed to act on necessary waivers from federal air quality rules. LATimes.com www.latimes.com/environment/...

Elon Musk turns his firehose on the California Coastal Commission... questioning whether California officials can block rebuilding in the wake of LA’s wildfires. www.politico.com/news/2025/01...

Republicans blame DEI for the LA fires. This fire captain disagrees: Lauren Andrade, president of Equity on Fire, predicts efforts to diversify fire departments will face an uphill climb in this political climate. POLITICO www.politico.com/news/2025/01...

Stanford AI expert's credibility shattered by "fake, AI-created sources" - Hancock, whose work has received some $20 mil in grant support from Stanford & others, charged $600 an hour to prepare testimony the judge tossed, according to court filings. www.mercurynews.com/2025/01/15/s...

Adults on tricycles? A bizarre new sport takes off in San Francisco via SFChronicle.com www.sfchronicle.com/sports/artic...

Neighbors feel ‘scammed’ by Koi Nation casino approval "The project has drawn intense scrutiny, and for the most part condemnation, from a broad spectrum of Sonoma County residents and elected officials since the tribe purchased the land in 2021." Press Democrat www.pressdemocrat.com/article/news...

Among the false claims: "that pressure in fire hydrants dropped because of Newsom’s water policies. As anyone who has ever turned on the garden hose, washing machine and shower at the same time can tell you, pressure drops when you have too much demand." www.latimes.com/politics/new...

Outrageous: @ManuRaju of @CNN reporting that @SpeakerJohnson says there "should probably be conditions" on CA wildfire aide. That's a clear departure from major disasters in other states, which have quickly gotten bipartisan aide. But this time, a crisis in a blue state is a "big question."

Was the Palisades Fire started by a rekindling of a blaze from New Year’s Day? www.sfchronicle.com/california-w... via sfchronicle

The politicization begins: "There will be strings attached": GOP Senator John Barrasso says Los Angeles wildfire aid won't be "blank check" www.salon.com/2025/01/12/t...

"‘Half the Country’s Thinking Magically’: Even in a blue city in a blue state, disaster does not bring climate change to residents’ front of mind.' via POLITICO's David Siders www.politico.com/news/magazin...

Prices Spike on Some L.A. Rentals as Fire Victims Search for Places to Stay www.nytimes.com/2025/01/10/b...

Stuart Spencer, GOP strategist who helped Reagan become California governor, 40th president, dies via @markzbarabak.bsky.social www.latimes.com/obituaries/s...

Fmr Acting Director of National Intelligence Richard Grenell says LADWP Chief should serve jail time. How does he feel about Trump’s actions on January 6th, documents case and hush money case? 🤔

Gavin Newsom says CA budget is balanced, will still tap $7 billion in reserves www.mercurynews.com/2025/01/10/n...