Day Around the Bay: 3.5-Magnitude Earthquake Strikes Near Santa Rosa

Local: 

• Following the chaos surrounding the recent 4th of July and Formula 1 events, Supervisor Stephen Sherrill said he hopes the city can handle large Fleet Week crowds when the Blue Angels visit SF next month, noting that 20% more porta potties will be installed and 30% more buses deployed. [NBC Bay Area]
• The Bay Area is having a resurgence of hand-painted signs, with sign painters like Seth Vargas designing bespoke storefronts that are drawing renewed attention to the trade. [Chronicle]
• SFist felt it: A 3.5-magnitude earthquake struck about four miles north of Santa Rosa Thursday morning. [ABC 7]

National:

• New York City and Los Angeles are both moving to sharply restrict student use of AI, with NYC banning most AI tools through eighth grade and LA Unified pausing student access across all grade levels this school year. [New York Times]
• Thomas Christopher Ross, a Republican candidate in Missouri, was charged Thursday after allegedly asking his campaign manager to plant drugs on a rival candidate in the primary, whom he beat by three votes. [NBC News]
• A less sanitized take on Gloria Steinem than all the obits: Steinem’s time at the CIA helped create a more palatable, mainstream feminism that centered middle-class gender issues while deflecting from the deeper intersections of class, race, imperialism, and civil rights. [United Panther Party]

Video:

• Karl the Fog made for a more subtle yet lovely California Henge Wednesday morning — when the sun lines up perfectly with the city’s street streets twice a year, making for spectacular sunrise images of the Bay Bridge from California Street.