Via: @sfchronicle.com: Customs and Border Protection wants ownership details and other information on every parcel in San Diego County, according to an official who handles county property data.

Congrats to 2026 Shadid Award finalists Joaquin Palomino and Cynthia Dizikes for their @sfchronicle.com investigation of for-profit mental health hospitals in California: www.sfchronicle.com/projects/202...

under questioning by Rand Paul, ICE officials confirm that yelling at officers is not assault and recording officers is not a crime

I'd say Varsity Blues was a movie, not a show, but that's not quite right either. It was *cinema* bsky.app/profile/wash...

Tom Steyer is trying to convince California voters he's the ultimate unicorn: a billionaire populist. www.sfchronicle.com/politics/joe...

Reps. Ro Khanna and Thomas Massie complained Monday that many of the files they looked at were still redacted.

A sad story from @sophiabollag.bsky.social about one mother who received a cruel lesson in the limitations of CARE Court and began to wonder who the program could possibly help: www.sfchronicle.com/politics/art...

what a shot

BREAKING: SCOTUS leaves California's Prop 50 in place for 2026, rejecting Republican efforts to block new redistricting maps. www.sfchronicle.com/politics/art...

A truly great read in which Newsom's spox tells @sophiabollag.bsky.social that the gov's ongoing kneepads bit is "not about a blowjob" www.sfchronicle.com/politics/art...

Tommy Tuberville says he placed his assets in a blind trust. There’s no record that he did www.al.com/politics/202...

BREAKING: The California Supreme Court has struck down Huntington Beach's voter ID law, leaving in place an appellate court ruling against the measure. www.sfchronicle.com/politics/art...

NEW: Teamsters California becomes the largest union to endorse the proposed billionaires tax. www.sfchronicle.com/politics/joe...

@adamserwer.bsky.social has a unique ability to drill down into the heart of a political dispute, and this is it:

BREAKING: San Francisco Giants star Jung Hoo Lee has been detained by CBP at LAX. Pelosi's office says she is working to secure his release. www.sfchronicle.com/sports/giant...

Minnesota: "School officials say the [5-year-old] child was used as bait. They say [ICE] agents made little Liam knock on the door to ask to be let in in order to see if anyone else was home."

BREAKING: Immigration officers are asserting sweeping power to enter homes without a judge’s warrant, a memo obtained by AP says.

California’s Prop. 50 Case is Heading to SCOTUS After Majority of District Court Rejects Republicans’ Motion for an Injunction Pending Appeal electionlawblog.org?p=153886

NEW: A federal judge just dismissed the Trump administration's attempt to force California to give up sensitive voter data. www.sfchronicle.com/politics/art...

BREAKING: In a fiery order, federal judges reject Republicans' claims that California's Prop 50 was an illegal race-based gerrymander, letting Prop 50 stay in place for the 2026 midterms. www.sfchronicle.com/politics/art...

In the last 4 days: -- Elise Slotkin says she's being criminally investigated by DOJ -- ICE illegally goes "door to door" in Minneapolis -- FBI raids the home of a WP journalist -- DHS illegally arrests, detains 100+ Somalians with legal refugee status

3 Prosecutors Quit After Push to Investigate ICE Shooting Victim’s Widow www.nytimes.com/2026/01/13/u...

portland city council confirms that two portland residents have been shot by federal agents. at this time, the city council has been told that both victims are alive.

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) - Minnesota investigators say they can't access evidence after fatal ICE shooting and FBI won't work jointly on probe. @reuters.com

NEW: An ICE agent killed Renee Nicole Good. Judge Sara Ellis all but told us today would happen. "[A]gents have used excessive force … without justification, often without warning, and even at those who had begun to comply with agents’ orders," Ellis wrote on Nov. 20. Tonight, at Law Dork.

Can't help thinking about the many citizens detained by immigration agents & held at gunpoint or had guns/less lethals pointed at them Some (thinking of George Retes) reported attempts to move out of the way per agents' requests, but were violently detained anyway www.propublica.org/article/immi...

She was the mother of a small child whose father also died last year. bsky.app/profile/alex...

uh holy SHIT?

The “free speech” and “cancel culture” panics have led to overt state censorship because that was always their purpose. (Gift link) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...

ICYMI: I asked DHS' public affairs office if it considered recording or following law enforcement to be obstruction of justice, and they said "that sure sounds like obstruction." reason.com/2025/12/22/d...

NEW: California plans to start re-issuing commercial drivers licenses this week after acknowledging it pulled thousands of immigrants' licenses who actually had valid docs amid pressure from the White House. www.sfchronicle.com/politics/art...

SCOOP: The Trump administration is providing the names of all travelers passing through U.S. airports to immigration officials in search of people with deportation orders, a substantial expansion of government efforts to draw on data to hunt down immigrants. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/12/u...

Another fiery order from U.S. District Judge Charles Breyer ordering Trump to return control of CalGuard to Gavin Newsom: www.sfchronicle.com/politics/art...

Fairly remarkable article here: ICE's acting director is publicly demanding that a parish in Massachusetts remove its nativity scene because it offends the administration. www.masslive.com/news/2025/12...

They're using the confinement box, one of the most horrific methods of CIA torture in the post-9/11 black sites, against migrants now. This is the direct result of the lack of consequences for the architects of the torture program. Either there will be criminal penalties for this or it will expand.

Saw Wicked for Good and Zootopia 2 this weekend and it’s almost like they’re both heavy-handed allegories about the person in power demonizing others to enrich himself and cling to power.

The D.C. shooting comes after months of warnings from Democratic officials that Trump's National Guard deployments would inflame tensions and endanger residents and troops. www.sfchronicle.com/politics/art...

Three Venezuelan siblings waited years for their asylum hearing. On Friday, the judge hearing their case was fired mid-hearing. Tears flowed throughout the courtroom, and now they're stuck in limbo. www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/j...

These 20 House Democrats just joined Republicans in voting to fully repeal DC's police reform laws. Wiping off the books critical laws on use of force, transparency, and preventing violent cops from getting rehired. They think that they should have more say over DC police than the people of DC.

NEWS: Rep. Eric Swalwell is running for governor - and @joegarofoli.bsky.social was backstage at Jimmy Kimmel as it all went down. www.sfchronicle.com/politics/art...

SCOOP from @sophiabollag.bsky.social: As part of the FBI's probe of Gov. Gavin Newsom's ex-chief of staff, it intercepted comms from within the governor's office. www.sfchronicle.com/politics/art...

Crypto bros spent millions of dollars in California's Senate race against Katie Porter. Now, as she runs for governor, she's winning some of them over. www.sfchronicle.com/politics/joe...

A federal judge has granted an injunction against the Trump administration blocking it from freezing or revoking grant funding and attempting to extort UCLA. bsky.app/profile/bigc...

BREAKING: Xavier Becerra confirmed to @sfchronicle.com he is the public official whose campaign funds were allegedly stolen. www.sfchronicle.com/politics/art...

Judge rules that police images taken by Flock’s AI license plate-scanning cameras are public records that can be requested as part of normal public records requests

NEW: ProPublica examined months of Fox News’ coverage and reviewed over 700 videos posted on social media. The network used five-year-old footage, mislabeled other dates and implied footage from elsewhere was in Portland.

Nothing like a proposal for a modest amount of lower-income housing nearby to find out who your neighbors are.

NEWS: Nancy Pelosi is retiring after 20 terms in Congress. “There has been no greater honor for me than to stand on the House floor and say, ‘I speak for the people of San Francisco,'” Pelosi said. www.sfchronicle.com/politics/art...

BREAKING: Alex Padilla tells reporters in DC he will not run for governor of California in 2026. www.sfchronicle.com/politics/art...