WOW: Jodi Kantor & Adam Liptak have the memos that describe the origins of SCOTUS shadow docket - the 2016 order halting Obama’s Clean Power Plan @jodikantor.bsky.social @adamliptak.bsky.social @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2026/04/18/u...

There should be a lot more skepticism and attention on legislation that helps consolidate a multibillion-dollar market for a company just found guilty of acting like a monopoly. The language used by the lawmakers & LiveNation in this story is chocked full of red flags calmatters.org/digital-demo...

Last fall, CA legislators made it legal to build mid-rises in big metros near major transit stops. But SB79, which goes into effect on July 1, gave local govs wiggle room over the where, when and how of the new law. My story on how cities are starting to wiggle: calmatters.org/housing/2026...

This is amazing recognition for the team behind Digital Democracy. More importantly, it makes wider adoption of our platform beyond California and Hawaii possible, making other state legislatures a lot more transparent and accessible.

Sharp analysis from The Bee here. This is a system-wide squeeze. A budding stagflation era. I mean, everyone has become a supply chain expert, which is how you know how widely this is being felt.

Democrats aren’t the only ones experiencing an identity crisis. Both parties failed to pick a candidate to endorse for California governor. And Republicans even rebuffed the president, a year-plus into his second term, underscoring how unpopular he is with rank & file calmatters.org/politics/202...

Artemis II humanized the moon. Lynn Sherr, who covered NASA during the early 1980s, wonders if we can capture the same sentiment back on Earth:

The first Honda Civic cost $2,100, or $15,100 today. Now, the reliable family car is 3.5 feet longer, three times more powerful — and almost twice as expensive. What happened to the “econobox” cars of the 1970s?

Reading some of the details in these reports the last few days, I’m stunned this man had the audacity to run for governor.

It is dumbfounding to watch the Trump regime try and fail to negotiate for things that were secured to much higher levels in the original Obama-era nuclear deal. When we talk about the Iran War as a war of choice, the idiotic choice to throw that away for nothing is what made all this possible.

If your main reaction to the allegations against Eric Swalwell is to question the timing or to invoke some fantasy conspiracy because he’s a frontrunner for California governor, you have completely lost the plot.

Let’s take a moment to recognize the Artemis crew is returning to Planet Earth in CALIFORNIA. What a flawless mission. No notes.

A woman who worked for nearly two years for Rep. Eric Swalwell told the Chronicle she had sexual encounters with him while he was her boss and alleged he twice sexually assaulted her when she was too intoxicated to consent. www.sfchronicle.com/politics/art...

The latest in @calireporter.bsky.social’s investigation into California’s conservator system reveals how weak and undermanned (one employee!) the Professional Fiduciaries Bureau really is, and the stunning amount of harm that happens calmatters.org/investigatio...

Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco’s investigators had no insider tipsters, no witnesses and no independent analyses from forensic experts when they approached a local judge and asked to take the unprecedented step of seizing hundreds of thousands of ballots cal.news/41oU74K 📸 Larry Valenzuela

Wildfire-related charges now add approximately $41 per month to the average PG&E residential bill (approximately 19% of the total bill), $27 for SCE (approximately 17%), and $21 for SDG&E (approximately 14%), according to a wildfire report released this week. www.cawildfirefund.com/sites/wildfi...

The U.S., despite its immense wealth and might, is increasingly an outlier in the world when it comes to covering the basic needs of its people.

The mystery of Satoshi Nakamoto, the pseudonymous inventor of Bitcoin, has remained unsolved for 17 years. Read my 18-month investigation to find out who Satoshi really is. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/08/b...

You know things are bad when Iran is also winning the meme war.

Since 2028 is so far away, taking a pass may quickly turn into a two-year-long regret. I just hate that these are the choices households have to make. Live events are wholly compromised.

Maybe Angelenos got luckier with the earlier access, but it really is a bummer just how expensive #LA28 tickets are. It's either: Pay a "once-in-a-lifetime" amount to see the Olympics in California, or make a responsible financial decision in our already high-cost era and don't go.

what a glorious time capsule of this broken moment we are in

Trump just made gas so much more expensive for the rest of the world. And for what?

If you haven’t been watching the Artemis broadcast today, even just in the background, you are really missing out.

Turns out Chad Bianco’s ballot seizure stunt wasn’t enough to sway Trump from backing Rupert Murdoch’s choice candidate.

They won’t. And the American people will be worse for it.

Federal judge: Continued Border Patrol sweeps in California violated court order In a tersely worded decision unsealed Thursday morning, the judge wrote that agents had “again detained people without reasonable suspicion,” W/ @wendyfry.bsky.social calmatters.org/justice/2026...

Breaking: Several media organizations, including CalMatters, filed a motion seeking public access to the warrants a judge approved allowing Sheriff Chad Bianco to seize hundreds of thousands of ballots cal.news/47FNsGS 📸 Jules Hotz

That’s two major endorsements for Swalwell with SEIU and now the all-powerful teachers union. Labor seems to have found their candidate…or are backing who polls the highest. That’s become a leading rationale lately because of the hysteria surrounding the primary edsource.org/updates/swal...

“Reckoning with the Chavez legacy requires reckoning with the movement as well — a movement that once gave hope and inspiration to so many but withered away long ago,” Miriam Pawel, the author of a Cesar Chavez biography, writes.

The recent decision by Monterey County supervisors to scrap a mental health center project means Central Coast families remain stuck seeking treatment for loved ones hundreds of miles from home. Not a good sign for a state trying to remake a broken system calmatters.org/commentary/2...

AB 2166, part of a new package of bills aimed at boosting factory-built housing, represents (as far as I can tell) a first-of-its-kind policy idea for this state — and maybe any state. It would have taxpayers backstop construction insurance contracts. calmatters.org/housing/2026...

This is an unfortunate story for the public servants involved but also a really illuminating snapshot of how biased think tanks utilize partisan media outlets to feed the outrage machine. This is what widespread media illiteracy and poor public discourse look like www.sfgate.com/la/article/c...

I wrote about the price of the illusion of American omnipotence that’s driving this reckless war in Iran, and so much else. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/26/o...

The discourse about California’s governor’s race ending up with two Republicans in the runoff almost universally overlooks that 1 in 4 voters are undecided. That’s anywhere from 10-14 percentage points above the leading candidates. And if you look at the data, those voters aren’t conservative.

6:49am: sudden spike in oil futures trading. no news. no announcement. nothing public. 7:05am: trump announces a pause on iran strikes. markets move. someone knew. 16 minutes early. $580 million in contracts. the corruption is staggering.

Tech companies are getting dragged in courthouses nationwide right now. They deserve every loss that juries and judges deliver calmatters.org/economy/tech...

To be clear: this was rejected on jurisdictional grounds. Bonta was basically told to take the case to a lower court, so this isn’t finished just yet. The AG just gave Bianco a news cycle win.

Regardless of what happens in the courts with Bianco and his recount stunt, he’s making it really clear to Republican voters — and the White House — who is the most MAGA candidate running for California governor.

As expected, California’s attorney general is suing Riverside sheriff Chad Bianco over his seizure of 650,000 ballots in an attempt to recount votes cast in last year’s special election @jeannereporter.bsky.social calmatters.org/politics/202...

Exclusive: San Diego County Sheriff’s officials failed to investigate at least seven reported sexual assaults at the privately run Otay Mesa immigration detention center in 2025 cal.news/4lOKYvF

Scott Wiener is known for being unusually good at passing bills and for his focus on housing policy, especially land use and permitting issues. Congress isn't known for either. My story on why California’s most prolific YIMBY lawmaker still wants to run for Congress calmatters.org/housing/2026...

Um…what

‘The stakes are enormous’: how a prolonged Iran war could shock the global economy

Pentagon orders 2,500 troops, 3 warships from California to the Middle East

Opinion | In 2012, after I published From the Jaws of Victory, a history of the UFW that also revealed much of Chávez’s complicated truth, I faced backlash within this same community. bit.ly/3NNHrkw 📝 Matt Garcia 📸 Les Lee

Matt Mahan’s Daily Show interview was a dumpster fire. Jon Stewart was toying with him from the jump, poking and prodding Mahan to expose how silly all his canned responses sound. Surely the campaign knew how much Stewart loathes the tech oligarchs funding his candidacy. Why even agree to go on?

MY LATEST @latimes.com ‬⁩ COLUMNA: And just like that, the Cesar Chavez myth is punctured. What's next?

100%, yes to this. We should also elevate Filipino Larry Itliong, who Newsom recognized last year. The Manongs working in grape fields actually voted to strike first in the 1960s, before Chavez. California needs to recognize and tell the full and complete history of farmworker movement.

The depth and detail in this investigation is stunning. And all of it just horrific. I’m sick.