• The Oakland City Council voted Tuesday night to allow psychoactive plants, or rather to bar police from enforcing laws against them. Oakland is the second U.S. city after Denver to decriminalize psilocybin mushrooms, and Oakland's new ordinance also includes ayahuasca and peyote. [East Bay Times]
  • Mayor London Breed officially filed her papers for re-election on Tuesday. She faces no serious opposition from progressives so far, which means she's likely to sail into a four-year term in November's election, making her mayor through 2023 at least. [Examiner]
  • The Home Depot in Oakland is threatening to leave if the city doesn't do something about the huge homeless encampment and rampant crime in the area. The store is already paying $100/hr each for two Oakland Police squad cars to patrol the perimeter of the parking lot. [Chronicle]
  • A homeowner in the Contra Costa County town of El Sobrante has put a huge concrete swastika in his yard that he's claiming is a Tibetan symbol. Neighbors say he's displayed the Nazi symbol before, including on his motorcycle, even if he might not be a "hard-core" neo-Nazi. [CBS SF]
  • A 35-year-old suspect from Alameda has been arrested in connection with the May 3 stabbing of a 59-year-old man in North Beach. [Chronicle]
  • A brown bear was spotted this week in the relatively suburban area of Rohnert Park in Sonoma County. [CBS SF]
  • The average price on the secondary market for a Warriors Finals ticket at Oracle is around $3,000, 50% higher than when they were in the 2016 Finals. [SF Business Times]
  • The Mega Millions jackpot grew again with no winner Tuesday, and now stands at $530 million. [ABC 7]