Two landscape architects write about designing for a future of fire in California. www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/open...

"Research shows that more than 70% of second-generation Japanese Americans who were incarcerated discussed the camps with their children fewer than four times." www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/open...

‪ ‪ Jack Smith is calling for the House Judiciary Committee to release the recording of his full closed-door deposition before the panel. "Doing so will ensure that the American people can hear the facts directly from Mr. Smith, rather than through second-hand accounts."

Gavin Newsom’s big dilemma: Tax the rich or defy the left

The top is after Trump’s DOJ redactions below is without, I can almost figure out who they are protecting

"Deep inside the walls of our buildings, a quiet revolution in how San Franciscans manage and reuse their water is taking place." www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/open...

In @nytopinion.nytimes.com After switching her phone to black and white, Julia Angwin writes, “an invisible cord had been severed. I would leave my phone in my room when I walked from my home office to the kitchen. I would forget to check it for hours instead of minutes.”

Watch and decide for yourself. www.youtube.com/watch?v=jieh...

On choosing to spend Christmas away from family. www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/open...

"Guaraldi, who died in 1976, may have been a U.S.-born American of Italian heritage, but the sense of joy and free play in his score for 'A Charlie Brown Christmas' shows a connection to his Italian roots." www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/open...

Year 1 data on congestion pricing in Manhattan… * Vehicle traffic: -11% * Foot traffic: +3.4% * Storefront vacancy: -0.9% * Pollution: -22% * Revenue for mass transit: $548M So YES this has been a huge success.

(Reuters) - China imported no soybeans from the United States for a third straight month in November, as buyers turned to South American supplies amid fears of a shortfall if the trade war with Washington dragged on. @reuters.com www.producer.com/daily/china-...

"... if we only talk about Waymo, we will miss a critical, broader conversation around how San Francisco’s innovation policy still treats the city as a laboratory first and a community second." www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/open...

During this weekend's blackout on San Francisco, the “future of transportation” was a disaster. www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/open...

Arguing that an Article II contingent election is not really an "election," that's the good stuff. Founders really didn't appreciate the bullshit people would try to pull with their language www.wsj.com/politics/ele...

Americans weary of Trump’s executive authority, military action in Venezuela, Quinnipiac poll finds

BREAKING President Trump confirms to reporters that FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino is leaving the agency. "Dan did a great job. I think he wants to go back to his show,” Trump said.

NEW: Humanitarian officials staged a last-minute plea to Trump officials at their fancy hotel to re-start food aid $ for a huge refugee camp in Kenya. The Trumpers blew it off and babies starved. @annamaria.bsky.social & Brett Murphy www.propublica.org/article/keny...

From the Editorial Board: A cheering, $10 million boost for affordable housing in Chicago from the Chicago Prize.

Massive defeat for Mike Johnson. Still has to clear the senate, but this is what Dems wanted all along. Johnson has essentially lost control of the gavel after Epstein and now this. Weakest speaker in history.

"Though we live in an age that’s in thrall to technology, the happiest people I know are not the most tech-savvy. They’re artisans and artists, ceramicists, poets, booksellers, carpenters." www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/open...

BREAKING: Mike Johnson just said he won't call a vote this year to extend enhanced subsidies under the Affordable Care Act — effectively guaranteeing they will expire at the end of this month.

When you get interviewed multiple times over the course of a year and the interviews are recorded and you sit for formal photographs with a well known national magazine you definitely know it’s on the record.

Trump chief of staff Susie Wiles says president ‘has an alcoholic’s personality’ and much more in Vanity Fair interview. MS NOW's Vaughn Hillyard has the latest.

"Our fading memory of these illnesses is part of the problem. Measles is not a benign childhood rite of passage." www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/open...

The ridehail giant’s partnership with the self-driving startup is part of its push to be a global leader in operating autonomous cars and delivery vehicles.

Institutionalized regression in consumer protection. Next, they’ll make seat belts optional in the name of “choice”. 🤡

"In California, a significant number of incarcerated people struggle with substance use and/or mental health conditions. Studies estimate that 60% of individuals in our state prisons have a substance use disorder..." www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/open...

Obamacare premiums are set to spike next month for tens of millions of Americans at nearly all income levels. Plenty of Republicans are happy to sit back and ride it out. Why many in the party aren’t eager to cut a deal: politi.co/48snF4s  

I thought Democrats were the ones who controlled the weather.

Exclusive: Watchdog finds Hegseth risked endangering troops by sharing sensitive war plans on Signal, sources say From me and Zach Cohen www.cnn.com/2025/12/03/p...

I know "Best of" lists are written for people to argue about, but the New York Times place "Sinners" at the top of their 2025 films is just too much.

Last week, ICE arrested and separated a father and son after a routine check-in. Six-year-old Yuanxin had just enrolled in the first grade at an elementary school in Astoria. Now he's in custody, alone. ICE won't say where. This cruelty serves no one. It must end.

1. BREAKING President Trump says he is granting a pardon to Democratic Congressman Henry Cuellar and his wife Imelda. Federal prosecutors said they accepted around $600,000 from an oil-and-gas company wholly owned and controlled by the government of Azerbaijan and a bank in Mexico.

"A study published in 2022 of over 50,000 people showed that people interacting with diverse ties, including co-workers, acquaintances and even strangers, had better physical health and subjective well-being than those with only close friends." www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/open...

Is Eric Swalwell ready for prime time in the California governor's race? www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/open...

Officials in Congress and the Pentagon are increasingly concerned that the Trump administration intends to scapegoat the military officer who directed U.S. forces to kill two survivors of a targeted strike on suspected drug smugglers in Latin America.

"When compared to human drivers on the same roads, Waymo’s self-driving cars were involved in 91 percent fewer serious-injury-or-worse crashes and 80 percent fewer crashes causing any injury." www.nytimes.com/2025/12/02/o...

Breaking News: Juan Orlando Hernández, a Honduran ex-president convicted for drug trafficking, was freed from prison after a Trump pardon.

This admiral refused to carry out illegal orders. A professional soldier will never execute an illegal order.

Pete Hegseth on Sept 3 talking about the strike on boats where 2 survivors were later killed in a second strike: “I watched it live.”

Costco wants to build a gas station in a Bay Area town. Not everyone is happy. www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/open...

SCOOP: From a U.S. prison cell, Honduras' ex-president secured a likely pardon for drug trafficking thanks to a letter he penned praising President Trump — whom he called "Your Excellency" — and a persistent lobbying campaign by longtime Trump pal Roger Stone.

Wonderful piece in today's @sfchronicle.com by a woman who put on more than a dozen of his plays at ACT. www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/open...

"Compared to pedal bicycles, e-bike accidents are more likely to injure and kill pedestrians. Head trauma from e-bike accidents has increased 49-fold nationally from 2017 to 2022..." www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/open...

PHILADELPHIA (AP) - US appeals court rules former Trump lawyer Alina Habba disqualified as New Jersey prosecutor. @apnews.com

Hang on, a pause is by definition temporary. Permanent is the opposite of temporary. “Permanent pause” is an oxymoron, a contradiction. If you want to be president of the US, don’t you think you should learn English, @realDonaldTrump ?

"I spend my days helping women manage a condition called lichen sclerosus, an autoimmune skin disorder that affects the vulva." www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/open...