• Following his hilarious and widely mocked defamation suit against Twitter, CA Rep. Devin Nunes has also filed suit against the Fresno Bee. This suit, which is related, complains that the paper defamed Nunes when it published an article about a drug-fueled sex party on board a yacht owned by a winery the congressman invested in. Thus you may see that the hashtag #YachtCocaineProstitutes is trending on Twitter. [Associated Press]
  • A suspect in his 30s allegedly ran down a cyclist in Pacific Heights Monday following a verbal argument. When the 25-year-old cyclist tried to leave the scene on his bike, the suspect got into his car and ran into the cyclist, knocking him to the ground and crushing his bike. [Examiner]
  • By the time the high-speed rail between Bakersfield and Merced is complete in 2027, a planned extension of the Altamont Corridor Express (ACE) will likely be done too, providing a rail connection (if a slower one) to San Jose. [SF Business Times]
  • The Chronicle's editorial board has come out in support of Mayor London Breed's so-far unwavering support for a homeless Navigation Center on the Embarcadero. Breed's admirable commitment, they say, was on display as she faced an ugly, angry group of neighbors last week. [Chronicle]
  • Governor Gavin Newsom is on a tour of El Salvador this week alongside a California state assemblywoman who is from there. He's on a listening and cultural tour of one of the country's contributing to the migrant crisis, in order to better understand the roots of the crisis. [CalMatters]
  • A Sacramento-based anti-tax group has lost a lawsuit to try to halt voter-mandated toll hikes on Bay Area bridges. The Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association was attempting to argue that the toll hike was a tax and therefore required a two-thirds majority to pass. [Examiner]
  • Facebook says it will use AI to prevent its algorithm from telling you to wish a dead friend a happy birthday. Way too late, Facebook says it's fixing the problem of painful reminders regarding accounts that have not yet been officially "memorialized." [Associated Press]