At Shanghai airport going home, and really looking forward to seeing my beloved newspaper websites and baby. (Solar industry's despondent. Storage industry ascendant. We're gonna see a big battery boom before it busts.)

Why does a president need immunity from committing TAX FRAUD unless he is and has been committing tax fraud?

May monthly CO2 average breaks record again: scripps.ucsd.edu/news/annual-...

New tagline suggestion: You can't spell CBS News without BS.

"The endorsement is a sad epilogue to a monumental career. But it may be fitting." www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/open...

"It’s likely billionaire activist Tom Steyer will join the expanding list of very wealthy California political candidates who discover that money can’t buy them political love." www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/open...

"Trouble has been brewing at the camps for years." www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/open...

Trump's message for California: "Vote today for Steve Hilton for Governor. He will work with me and the Federal Government, the money will flow because I have confidence in him (but not any of the others!)..."

NPR: DOJ is investigating former congressman George Santos for insider trading on Kalshi He allegedly stoked speculation that he’d attend SOTU, then bet he wouldn’t go. And didn’t. Does he have a Kalshi account? “I'm not saying yes, I'm not saying no.” www.npr.org/2026/06/02/n...

I had a prostate MRI earlier this year and it was perfect. Maybe I should do it again for fun!

The absolute bottom of the journalistic barrel is people in the media chiding Scott Pelley for having the gall to confront Bilton. If you want a job licking boots, become a bootlicker. You’re not a journalist.

L - GOP Rep and MI senate candidate Mike Rogers actual photo from the campaign trail. R - Photo put out by staffer.

Former interior secretary Deb Haaland won the Democratic nomination for governor in New Mexico on Tuesday, beating Albuquerque-area prosecutor Sam Bregman. Haaland could be the first Native American woman governor.

If Bilton truly cared about "60 Minutes" he might have taken a stab at winning over Mr. Pelley—even after that meeting—rather than canning him.

BREAKING CBS has fired 60 Minutes correspondent Scott Pelley for cause. This comes after Pelley confronted 60 Minutes’ new executive producer, Nick Bilton, in a meeting yesterday and said Bari Weiss was trying to murder the program.

BREAKING: Don't fall for what Blanche is suggesting - DOJ is NOT getting rid of the whole bogus slush fund deal; it's still giving Trump $1,776 billion AND still giving him (and family) a broad civil release of liability; all it is NOT doing is using the $1,776 to create a fund for J6ers and others.

"Trump Administration to Dismantle Ocean Monitoring System--The $368 million network of instruments collecting data in both the Atlantic and Pacific has been critical to climate and ocean research". | Eric Niiler for @nytimes.com: www.nytimes.com/2026/06/01/c...

"In short, gerrymandering has become a central feature of the system, not a bug. But what if we rethink the structure entirely?" www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/open...

Seven months after President Trump announced his peace plan for Gaza and more than four months since he convened his Board of Peace to implement and pay for it, the plan is stalled and expected donations to the fund it created are nonexistent.

Scott Wiener defeated California’s NIMBYs. Can he fix America’s housing crisis?

🚨 BREAKING: A federal appeals court has ruled, in a 2-1 decision, that the Trump-Hegseth transgender military ban is likely unconstitutional, finding that the policy appears to be driven by a “bare desire to harm a politically unpopular group” and is “both arbitrary and based upon animus.” 1/3

Breaking: Judge Jackson blocks NSF from dismantling NCAR. www.courtlistener.com/docket/72496...

"Since launching his campaign for governor, Republican Steve Hilton, the former Fox News host and aide to former British Prime Minister David Cameron, has done his best to steer the conversation away from President Donald Trump." www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/open...

"Bass and Pratt have shown little interest in implementing sweeping changes to the city’s housing needs." www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/open...

So it looks like we’re having a “Marshall plan” for Iran, in the amount of 300 billion to pay for the damage we did. Winning?

🧵 Public science in the US has taken some heavy hits over the last year, but the White House OMB is proposing a series of changes that will result in a TKO for science as we know it unless we fight back. Here's what's happening, and why it matters. 1/n

BREAKING: Judge Cooper has barred the Trump administration from shuttering the Kennedy Center. ecf.dcd.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/show...

Greg Bovino will speak at a white nationalist conference in Portugal tomorrow. He will share the stage with no fewer than five people who idolize Hitler, including one who joined a group created by two Nazi SS members. Another guy is a self-described racist who refers to women as "cockroaches."🧵

"...the bad news for Bondi is that it is well-grounded in the rules of legal ethics." www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/open...

California could hand over $200 million meant to cool kids’ classrooms to utilities. That money was promised to schools through CalSHAPE — a program Gov. Newsom helped create. With heat waves in winter, kids need cool classrooms. My latest in @latimes.com

“interviews and Defense Department records reviewed by ProPublica show that the request to loan hundreds of millions of dollars to the firm linked to Trump Jr. was made by Peter Navarro, a White House adviser to President Donald Trump and a friend of Trump Jr.’s.” www.propublica.org/article/dona...

Erwin Chemerinsky weighs in on the latest developments in Trump's retribution campaign. www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/open...

Commentary: The need to quash this fund seems close to existential for the future of good government in America.

"In just a few years, AI has moved from a novelty to a daily presence in the lives of young people." www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/open...

RCP and SSP scenarios are not emission scenarios. I repeat: they are not emission scenarios. They are radiative forcing scenarios. Forcing = human emissions + the response of the climate system to those emissions You can only back out emissions by making assumptions about climate sensitivity.

This is not the flex you think it is Donald Trump 🤣

Looking at what he's done to the People's House (without Congressional approval, of course), I feel equal parts rage & embarrassment for our country. The Midterms can't come soon enough... #Register&VOTE 🌊

"Leo’s leadership is especially important in light of recent backlashes against AI and its creators. Democrats, Republicans and independents are crossing deep political divides to come together on one issue: Anger about the rise of AI in society." www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/open...

OpenAI Announces Construction Of New Data Center On Top Of Sick Child

California could kill one of its biggest clean energy successes. More than 200,000 households are part of the Demand Side Grid Support program — the world's largest distributed power plant. It's on the chopping block. My latest in @sfchronicle.com. Gift link! www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/open...

They stole the internet’s knowledge and all the work that went into it and they want to sell it back to us for a fee. What a business model.

Great piece by @leahstokes.bsky.social www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/open...

"AI companies have, through their own development choices, enlarged the threat landscape we all now inhabit." www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/open...

"It is not easy being a veteran watching President Donald Trump’s reckless misuse of the military." www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/open...

An extraordinary rebuke of Todd Blanche and his Justice Department. Federal judge dismisses the indictment of Abrego Garcia (an exceedingly rare outcome in a criminal case). Finding of vindictive prosecution and "an abuse of prosecuting power." The opinion name checks Blanche nearly 30 times.

"I'm being very generous allowing domestic terrorists to steal only $2 billion dollars from you because otherwise I was going to steal even MORE from you. You're welcome, taxpayers. Suckers!"

"...in 2025, California spent three times as much money investigating Medicaid fraud as Texas, more than twice as much as Florida, and seven times as much as Louisiana." www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/open...

Let's be clear: Trump's slush fund creates a loyal militia of insurrectionists who are ready to break the law on his behalf and who will be PAID for their loyalty with your taxpayer money. There are no words left to describe the corruption we are witnessing.

Time to drink an entire bottle of champagne!!!

Very rich people getting booed during commencement speeches is my new favorite genre of entertainment.