Business & Tech Report: Elon Musk’s DOGE Did Not Decrease Government Spending, Actually Increased It A detailed new analysis finds that the federal government is spending more money than it did before Elon Musk’s “eliminating waste" DOGE program came to town, and that most of the supposed cost savings were simply just math errors.
SF Politics Lurie Violated City Law by Keeping Records of Trump Phone Call Secret, City Committee Says SF residents still don’t know what happened on that phone call where Mayor Lurie talked Donald Trump out of sending federal troops into SF, and a panel of SF’s Sunshine Ordinance Task Force says Lurie is breaking the law.
SF News Federal Judge In SF Again Rules Against Trump's National Guard Deployment In LA, Says It Must End A federal judge has, for the third time, ruled against the Trump administration in its monthslong deployment of National Guard troops in Los Angeles, ordering the troops out of the city.
Business & Tech NYT: Trump’s Silicon Valley ‘AI and Crypto Czar’ David Sacks Apparently Enriching Himself and Friends In White House Role SF’s own right-wing VC billionaire David Sacks was named the Trump administration’s ‘AI and Crypto Czar’ last year, and a New York Times analysis says that since then, his investments have hit the jackpot over policies he helped craft.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Trump Fires Five More SF Immigration Judges, to Hire ‘Deportation Judges’ Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene announced her retirement after her public falling out with Trump; ICE agents were turned away at a Hayward elementary school Friday; and Trump has fired five additional SF immigration judges to be replaced by “deportation judges.”
SF Politics Marc Benioff, Elon Musk Attend White House Dinner With Murderous Saudi Crown Prince The billionaires were all back in their billionaire bubble alongside Trump Tuesday night, and even Elon Musk has been welcomed back into the fold after his teenage-style tiff with Trump.
SF Politics Trump Administration Unleashes Mortgage Fraud Investigation on Eric Swalwell, His East Bay Enemy in Congress Trump’s Department of Justice has opened a probe into East Bay Congressman and Trump enemy Eric Swalwell for mortgage fraud, though several members of Trump’s cabinet have engaged in the same mortgage practices as Swalwell.
SF Politics AG Bonta Seeks Court Clarification on USDA Demand to Claw Back SNAP Benefits As poor Americans continue to be pawns in the Trump administration's gameplay over the government shutdown, California Attorney General Rob Bonta is seeking guidance from the Supreme Court over how to address the administration's latest "capricious" demand.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Apartment Fire Erupts in SF’s North Beach, Quickly Contained by SFFD Surfers were met with 40-foot waves on the opening day of surf season in Mavericks, California; take part in a hyphy video shoot at Powell Station Saturday; and no injuries were reported after an apartment fire in North Beach Friday.
SF Politics Trump Already Claiming Today’s Prop 50 Vote Is Rigged, Threatening Lawsuit The polls have not yet even closed on California’s Prop 50 redistricting measure, but Trump is already insisting that the vote is “rigged,” which means he knows Prop 50 is going to win by a landslide and is looking for excuses.
SF News 26-Year-Old U-Haul Driver Described By Other Protesters as 'Lone Actor' Charged With Assaulting Federal Officers A 26-year-old man is now facing federal charges for a bizarre act that capped off a mostly peaceful day of protests outside the Coast Guard facility where federal agents were being staged for a local operation that called off by President Trump.
SF Politics Trump Administration Agrees to Fund 50% of SNAP Benefits For November As court-ordered over the weekend, the Trump administration is tapping emergency reserve funds to pay out partial SNAP benefits for the month of November, despite there being funds available to pay full benefits.
SF Politics Lurie’s Office Unwilling to Share Details of His Call With Trump That Called Off Federal Troop Deployment The SF Public Press put in a records request for call logs of Mayor Lurie’s famed call with President Trump where Trump called off the cavalry of an impending federal troop invasion. Lurie's office refuses to disclose details.
SF Politics Now California Will Bring In State Election Monitors to Monitor Trump’s Federal Election Monitors The Trump administration has already declared they’re sending election monitors to California for next week’s Prop 50 vote. But the Gavin Newsom administration just announced they’ll have their own monitors to monitor Trump’s monitors.
SF Politics Trump Administration Declares It’s Sending ‘Election Monitors’ to California for November 4 Election Even though there’s only one issue on your upcoming November 4 ballot, Trump’s Justice Department is calling out the cavalry of so-called election monitors to spy on polling places, perhaps as a warm-up for the 2026 midterms.
SF Politics Oakland Mayor Barbara Lee Gets Confirmation That No Immigration Operations Are Happening In Bay Area Oakland Mayor and former Congresswoman Barbara Lee never had the pleasure of a phone call from President Trump on Wednesday. But she now says that she has otherwise been able to confirm that no immigration-arrest "surges" are happening in the Bay Area, full stop.
SF Politics Trump and Lurie Have Their Moment as Oakland Braces For Its Own Possible Federal 'Surge' SF Mayor Daniel Lurie, who has spent months treading carefully when it comes to discussing national politics, has now emerged as an unlikely recipient of praise from President Donald Trump, among Democratic mayors.
SF Politics Marc Benioff Helped Talk Trump Out of Federal 'Surge' In San Francisco; White House Says 'We'll Be Watching' After potentially helping encourage Trump two weeks ago in his quest to invade Democratic-led cities, Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff was reportedly one of several "friends" Trump spoke to Wednesday who talked him out of a planned incursion in San Francisco.
SF News Rallies and Marches Planned Thursday as Federal Agents Arrive In East Bay As federal agents are now arriving in the Bay Area, there are rallies and marches scheduled for Thursday afternoon and evening to protest whatever it is Trump’s goons may be planning to do.
SF Politics Trump Tells Mayor Daniel Lurie That Federal Deployment In SF Is Called Off In a confusing turn of events, San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie says he had a phone call with President Trump Wednesday night, and the president said he was calling off any federal deployment in the city. But does that mean federal agents will focus on Oakland or another locale?
SF News Protesters Gather Near Coast Guard Island In Alameda Ahead of Immigration Operation, at Least Two Already Injured Ahead of a planned immigrant round-up operation by federal agents in the Bay Area that seems likely to look like previous operations in Southern California, protesters gathered early Thursday morning outside the agents' staging area on Alameda's Coast Guard Island.
SF Politics 'Don't Take the Bait': Bay Area Leaders Plead With Potential Protesters to Stay Peaceful as Trump Sends Federal Agents Thursday could bring chaos to the Bay Area, and local leaders are hoping against hope that any protesters can temper their passions long enough to avoid what Trump and his team surely want, which are television images of violence and protest chaos that they can use to make their case for fascism.
SF News Trump's Federal Invasion of San Francisco to Begin on Thursday It's unclear if or how the National Guard might be involved, but apparently a large contingent of federal agents, including US Customs and Border Protection personnel, is headed to the Bay Area on Thursday for some sort of operation.
SF Politics Newsom Deploying National Guard to Support Local Food Banks, In Response to Government Shutdown In a political gesture to match Trump's own, many political gestures, Governor Gavin Newsom announced Wednesday that he was deploying the National Guard, like he did during the pandemic, to support food banks in California.
SF Politics SF City Attorney Vows Legal Action If Trump Sends In National Guard, Joins Amicus Brief at Supreme Court Mayor Daniel Lurie might be trying to avoid a verbal confrontation with President Trump, but City Attorney David Chiu came out swinging Tuesday about this National Guard business.
