Rep. Eric Swalwell is resigning from Congress “Expelling anyone in Congress without due process, within days of an allegation being, made is wrong,” he said in a statement. “But it’s also wrong for my constituents to have me distracted from my duties." www.sfchronicle.com/politics/art...

That JD Vance magic strikes again

The success of the U.S. vaccination system depends on two fundamental pillars: parents trusting in vaccines and children having access to them. Under RFK Jr., both are in peril.

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...

Four ships were allowed to pass Wednesday, the fewest so far in April, according to S&P Global Market Intelligence…. apple.news/AyDFTu3VQTZm...

Did…the Trump regime lowkey threaten to kill the pope?

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Not the main point here, but I do not ever recall a federal agency making significant programmatic and personnel changes as a result of the PRESIDENT'S BUDGET PROPOSAL, which does not change any law or funding allocations. Congress hasn't acted yet. What are we doing here?

This is the anti-abortion playbook all over again: restrict for minors, restrict for adults, de facto bans then outright bans

Prime Minister of Spain Pedro Sánchez: “The Government of Spain will not applaud those who set the world on fire just because they show up with a bucket.” 🍿

California’s next governor will have the opportunity to decide whether the state remains among the Trump administration’s biggest opponents or pivots to become one of its most powerful allies. www.sfchronicle.com/politics/art...

Counterintuitively, the Supreme Court’s conversion therapy ruling could actually lead to a stricter law in California. Here’s how: www.sfchronicle.com/california/a...

Cross placement?

It's just not plausible that someone is teleporting into a waffle house because waffle houses are anchored sites of hyperreality. I don't think tarot even works in them. If he was claiming that he spatially displaced into a denny's that'd be worth investigating

NEW: Trump’s new executive order targeting mail voting might kill the DOJ’s legal campaign for access to states’ unredacted voter data. Why? Though the DOJ denied the data would be used for federal immigration purposes, the order mandates DHS to establish a national voter registration database.

Your federal government on Trumpism: "The top official in charge of the federal government’s disaster response has taken to social media to double down on his claim that he’s experienced 'teleportation' – an experience he insists was real..." www.cnn.com/2026/04/01/p...

We're deeply concerned by this suit for a number of reasons-- namely, that Donald Trump Jr. advises both Kalshi & Polymarket. He stands to profit off of these platforms' success.

NEW: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has taken steps to block or delay promotions for more than a dozen Black and female senior officers across all four branches of the military, according to nine U.S. officials familiar with the process.

The Carlin estate better get residuals for how often this classic bit gets teed up: www.youtube.com/watch?v=nZdR...

But she had said such nice things about him. www.politico.com/video/2025/1...

Just 10 artists accounted for 16% of all songs played on religious radio during the month we studied. This list includes contemporary Christian artists like Phil Wickham, Matthew West and the band MercyMe.

Trump bragged about Corinthian columns he has chosen for his $400 million gilded ballroom as Goldman Sachs found that the U.S. will lose 10k jobs a month through the end of the year due to high energy prices caused by the war.

As costs of living increase in the U.S. and the Japanese yen falls, more Americans are moving to Japan. But it’s more than just economics. The ancestral home is calling to some Japanese Americans.

@chenoweth.bsky.social, a @harvardkennedy.bsky.social civil resistance scholar, says “large-scale shows of discontent and resistance are very important during backsliding episodes and that “authoritarianism can’t fully consolidate when there are open and visible signs of opposition.”

This economy is tough on everyone.

89% – percentage of disaster aid requests Trump has approved for states with a Republican governor and two Republican senators 23% – percentage of disaster aid requests Trump has approved for states with a Democratic governor and two Democratic senators www.politico.com/news/2026/03...

"Researchers at Stanford University modeled how many people could die or be disabled in 25 years if vaccines for polio, measles, rubella or diphtheria were no longer available." Polio: 23k paralyzed Measles: 290k deaths Rubella: 41k born w/ congenital rubella syndrome Diphtheria: 138k-1M deaths

When No Kings Day returns Saturday, it’s likely to extend an unenviable trend for an American president fond of boasting about crowd sizes: If protester numbers are any indication, Donald Trump is one of the least popular presidents in modern history. www.sfchronicle.com/california/a...

I’ve entered my “more documentaries about elder / late comedians” stage.

Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco, a leading candidate for California governor, campaigned for the man who would sign his ballot seizure warrant as a local judge four years later.

It would've been reckless and inexcusable to cause generational damage by illegally defunding USAID, NIH, HHS, Dept of Edu, and so on just to reduce the deficit... ... but spending and the deficit are both higher than '22, '23, '24. It was all just harm for harm's sake. The cruelty was the point.

This is incredibly irresponsible journalism. You cannot write this headline without acknowledging all the times Elon Musk has promised to pay for things, then didn't. Let's take a stroll down memory lane. 🧵

Please kill me

The unusual investigation by Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco, a Republican candidate for governor, draws parallels to FBI raids in Georgia and Arizona.

One of two stories I worked on today where someone graciously called me back despite being with their kids, in this case taking them to see HAIL MARY. Props to moms. www.sfchronicle.com/california/a...

"Dole's parent company has logged record income levels and payments to its investors, even as its local operation has said that it cannot afford the dam upgrades." Dole overthrew the Queen, monocropped the land into near-ruin, and their dam could kill thousands. www.civilbeat.org/2026/03/were...

Chad Bianco’s claims about his elections investigations have been contested by the Riverside County registrar and district attorney, California secretary of state and, now, attorney general. www.sfchronicle.com/california/a...

The distance between what is empirically known and what is deeply believed has tormented scholars since before Galileo. But the schism has rarely felt so impassable in American culture, say those devoted to the research sciences. www.sfchronicle.com/california/a...

This @the-independent.com story is such an obvious lift of mine that they didn’t even bother deleting my site’s referral URL. And no, they do not credit me for reporting it first or (intentionally) link to my story. In j-school, rewording someone else’s reporting was called plagiarism. 1/

Joe Kent is the Director of National Counterterrorism Center in the Trump Administration HE JUST RESIGNED IRAN POSED NO IMMINENT THREAT It is clear that we (trump) started this Read his statement below I hope other Republicans will be inspired to do the right thing and follow your lead

Shocked to just now learn that the narrator in the excellent THE ASSASSINATION OF JESSE JAMES (etc.) is not the great Ricky Jay but instead a very talented Hugh Ross. Clearly I can make it through a 3+-hour elegiac meditation on fame and notoriety but not stay for 90 seconds of credits.

41 years old, evacuated here legally, asylum case pending, kidnapped while driving his six children (one a US citizen) to school. Dead within 24 hours. Betrayed and murdered by the United States government. 42nd confirmed and reported death in ICE custody under Trump.

The only open nonbeliever in Congress, @rephuffman.bsky.social is leading a crusade to uphold the separation of church and state www.sfchronicle.com/politics/art...

HYPOTHETICAL Legal Advice to SecDef Hegseth on “No Quarter” Statement (from General Counsel) By Daniel Maurer, retired Judge Advocate "... may be construed as ... a war crime. This may expose you to criminal liability under 18 U.S.C. 2441(c)(2) ... We recommend that you publicly retract."

The Texas Supreme Court is set to decide a major child abuse case that could affect when the state can legally protect children from violence by their parents.

Ms Rachel talking to Deiver Henao, a 9yo in an immigration detention center www.instagram.com/reel/DVzUzoz... What a world

I knew that the Department of War shot a missile into a school & killed 175 civilians, mostly children. This is learned today: Secretary of War Hegseth had cut the teams assigned to prevent such tragedies by 90%. www.npr.org/2026/03/11/n...

Scoop: The Pentagon barred press photographers from briefings on the ongoing U.S.-Israeli military conflict with Iran after they published photos of Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth that his staff deemed "unflattering."

NEW: Title X clinics around the country that provide contraception, cancer screening etc. to more than 2mil low income people could see their federal funding cut off in a few weeks. HHS was supposed to give clinics guidance months ago about reapplying for funding, but it's been "radio silence."

NEW: Confidence in the Supreme Court has dropped to a new low, according to the latest NBC News polling. Details: www.nbcnews.com/politics/sup...