Local:

  • District 5 Supervisor Bilal Mahmood says he was retaliated against by Board President Rafael Mandelman after he tried to amend a historic preservation ordinance to make it easier to build new housing. Mandelman announced a shuffling of board committee assignments on Friday in which Mahmood has been removed from the Board of Supervisors' land use and government oversight committees, and he declined to confirm the reason for the removals. [Chronicle]
  • A car crashed into the historic Judson Pacific-Murphy building at 17th and Texas streets in Potrero Hill on Monday, leaving the driver injured and damaging the 100-year-old brick building. [SFFD/X]
  • A Marin County woman has donated $1 million to distribute to all 100 teachers in the Ross Valley school district, meaning that each teacher will receive just over $9,000 as a gift. [KRON4]
  • The Jonas Brothers just announced that their Burning Up All Over Again Tour is coming to the Chase Center on November 21. [NBC Bay Area]

National:

  • As he runs for reelection in Georgia, and as he prepares for a possible presidential bid in 2028, Senator Jon Ossoff made some disparaging remarks about Trump at a rally on Sunday in Atlanta, mentioning Trump's not-well-known executive assistant Natalie Harp. "He doesn’t want to do the job. He wants to build his ballroom and travel with Natalie on their apparently defenseless flying palace gifted by the Emir of Qatar," Ossoff remarked. [CNN]
  • As the Trump administration continues pushing vaccine misinformation, kindergarten vaccine exemptions have hit a new high. [Washington Post]
  • A water crisis that's been decades in the making in the American Southwest is getting worse as the major reservoirs Lake Mead and Lake Powell, hit their lowest levels since 1957. [New York Times]

Video:

  • President Trump made good on his invitation today to the heroic Santa Cruz lifeguard, 16-year-old Ryder Williams, to come to the White House following the video of Williams going nationally viral showing him rescuing a 10-year-old boy from some violently crashing waves on July 25. Trump told Williams, "You’re going to have a long and beautiful life."

Top image via SFFD/X

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