A federal judge ordered major changes to conditions at the Adelanto ICE Processing Center, granting a preliminary injunction that requires federal immigration officials provide people with clean drinking water and adequate medical care.  W/ @wendyfry.bsky.social calmatters.org/justice/2026...

He should be sacked, as they say over there.

'Psychological war’: Inside California’s expanding use of jailhouse stings He thought his cellmates were gang members. They turned out to be undercover agents.

The University of California is still going to consider whether to bring back the SAT. My story: calmatters.org/education/hi...

This from @noupside.bsky.social is sadly relevant again since Trump is going to broadcast his lies and distortion for the entire country (and world) to hear: www.lawfaremedia.org/article/five... He is following a playbook to steal the midterms. I don't know if we're prepared for the aftermath.

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Congress is a club. The people who inhabit it pick their voters and hold on to power as long as possible. They serve themselves & their donors. It's why the way citizens talk about representatives and how representatives talk about each other is so different. Today has been a clear example of that.

A few words on the passing of South Carolina Sen. Lindsay Graham, who spent the last ten years of his life eagerly helping Donald Trump in his quest to destroy American democracy. youtu.be/z4HMequIiiY

Opinion | Reviving SAT requirements won’t fix California's university admissions problems In college admissions, the real quandary isn’t about requiring SATs. It’s about how to select applicants if they all seem to be exceptional.

Right now Newsom is in Nevada stumping for other Democrats. Khanna is in the occupied West Bank being confronted by armed settlers. It’s gonna be a long primary.

I’d rather see my federal government build bullet trains instead of financing foreign wars. It’s amazing how much faster we can pay private arms companies yet infrastructure is always victim to the ever-relentless ‘time+bureacracy=higher costs’ villain thenevadaindependent.com/article/brig...

If this is what the pre-IPO housing market looks like, I’m terrified of what will happen and how far this will spread once these AI companies are publicly traded www.nytimes.com/2026/07/08/t...

The latest reports almost read like a flashback to the very beginning of the war.

“Now ICE has killed one of our own. Blood stains Canal Street.” Lorenzo Salgado Araujo “may not have been an American on paper, but he was damned well a Houstonian. He lived in Houston for 35 of his 52 years, his family said.” www.houstonchronicle.com/opinion/edit...

Come on, Egypt! Time for the upset. Inshallah!

Honestly, I blame Trump. Everything he touches dies.

Breaking: The private prison company CoreCivic has sold two of the largest immigration detention facilities in California to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security in a deal worth $1.5 billion, the company announced Monday. cal.news/4p3tgG6 📸 Miguel Vasconcellos

Steve Hilton has undergone several transformations over his political and marketing career. At different points, he backed reparations, antiracism and environmentalism. A stellar profile of the GOP candidate for California governor by @jeannereporter.bsky.social calmatters.org/politics/202...

Trump always makes everything about himself — and makes the U.S. look bad in the process. The reality is the USMNT had accepted and was preparing to play without Balogun. Shifting tactics. Reworking the starting 11. He just dropped an anvil on our nation’s team, on the eve of its biggest match ever.

That’ll do.

It might not be the first news people in California see today, but the heat wave and storms along the East Coast are significant, and the alarms Americans used to sound when we still gave a shit about climate change are ringing loudly this weekend.

Cape Verde, we all believed it was possible. I’m so bummed to see this team exit the tournament.

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The corruption and fraud and flat out theft of taxpayer money is endless under this White House. The most disgraceful aspect of our country turning 250 is that we have enabled and accepted this.

Students who commute to college by bus and train in the Los Angeles area often experience delays and public safety threats. But they also don’t have to deal with the high costs of driving, such as parking and gas. cal.news/4oZ52wU 📸 Martin Romero

This is a weird one but stay with me. It seems that Steve Bannon, John Solomon, Cleta Mitchell, and two top officials at the Office of the Director of National Intelligence are forming a plot to subvert the midterm elections by declaring Chinese interference in US elections as a national emergency

I don’t care either way whether state workers can WFH or not. At least give them the option. The actual story, for me, is how property owners really run California. That was the ultimate driving force in all of this. Leases, paid with tax dollars, for empty skyscrapers.

His entire presidency has been and will always be a giant grift, nothing more. Tens of millions of people fell for the lies and rage bait and enabled this. All we got in return was a dying Constitution, hollowed-out federal government, global instability and unrestrained pillaging by the ultrarich.

Mbappe is 12 years younger than Messi and trails the Argentine's World Cup scoring record by 1 goal. By the end of his international career, it won't even be close.

After striking out in Solano County, California Forever is hoping the state will allow it to fast-track development.

It’s fitting that the apparently homophobic Giants are about to host the Braves this weekend. Spencer Strider recently made a surprise appearance at a Braves pride event, a simple but meaningful gesture from a guy who truly understands what being a pro athletes means www.reddit.com/r/Braves/s/r...

Added the following bit to last night's story with this response from the carpenters: calmatters.org/housing/2026...

Notable win for the Trades, perhaps the most anti-solidarity union that exists, and the NIMBY Democrats who chair key committees in the Legislature calmatters.org/housing/2026...

Boyle Heights was just the latest: California's megawarehouses are burning, and the public deserves answers. www.golden-state.org/californias-...

California's Capitol is consumed with backdoor budget negotiations and ballot measure standoffs, all under deadline pressures. Here is the latest from the @calmatters.org newsroom calmatters.org/politics/202...

Some data center battles are messy. Imperial County may look at this court battle later and consider it money well spent, regardless of the outcome calmatters.org/environment/...

For the first time in nearly a century, the USMNT has won two World Cup group games. A generation billed as “golden” is delivering performances to match that reputation. This team now has people dreaming big things. “We need to keep believing,” Pochettino said. www.nytimes.com/athletic/737...

Expect more slow vote counts: California Democrats won’t clamp down on late voters Despite Californians’ grumblings about delayed results, Democratic policymakers won’t curtail ballot access or risk inaccuracies to increase speed.

This is the dumbest and most disorienting war, managed by some of the most hardline, mouth-breathing heads of state on the planet. I’m so ready to be done with Trump and Netanyahu www.bbc.com/news/live/c9...

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There's a lot going on in California right now, but I really hope enough noise gets made over this egregious attempt to erode the state's Public Records Act @bystellayu.bsky.social calmatters.org/politics/202...

Two competing initiatives have qualified for CA's November ballot. Uber's measure would cap attorney contingency fees and limit medical-cost recoveries. Another measure would expand Uber's liability for sexual misconduct. I wrote about them here: calmatters.org/economy/2026...

Since any legislative deal to potentially remove this from the ballot would need to be in print by Monday, we are in for a very interesting few days calmatters.org/politics/202...

California politicians vowed to safeguard local news and made overtures on its importance in such an unstable moment for American democracy. And yet... calmatters.org/commentary/2...

"...this marks the first year when average generation in the first five months has outpaced the fossil fuel that’s the biggest source of US electricity." www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

After Newsom suspended the death penalty, it led to the dismantling of the death chamber at San Quentin and the dissolution of the condemned housing unit. The move introduced new questions for the state: How should California manage people who will never be paroled? calmatters.org/justice/2026...

I’m still unsure what to make of this, but it’s definitely not nothing.

MESSI GOAAAAAAAAAAALLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL

If I’m going to call out the NYT editorial board when it gets it wrong (about California) then I need to say when it’s right and it is spot on here www.nytimes.com/2026/06/15/o...