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SF Federal Judge Orders Rehiring of Probationary Workers at Six Federal Agencies, Calling Firings 'a Sham'

A federal judge in San Francisco has ordered six federal agencies to reinstate thousands of probationary employees who were summarily fired or laid off last month, some of them for cause.

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UC Berkeley and UCLA Both Face Trump Wrath Over Student Protests, Accused of Antisemitism

The Trump Justice Department is attempting to use an accusation of tolerating an "antisemitic hostile work environment" for Jewish faculty and students to claw back hundreds of millions in federal funding promised to UC Berkeley and other schools.

SF Politics

Lurie Sending SF Delegation to Washington DC to Plead We Get Spared From Trump’s Budget Cuts

With the Trump administration likely to yank hundreds of millions from SF in already-promised reimbursement funds and other federal subsidies, Mayor Lurie is sending a team of negotiators to Washington, DC in hopes of preventing this.

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Saturday Links: Arson and Vandalism Abound At Tesla Sites Nationwide And In France

Seven Telsa charging stations in Boston and a Tesla dealership in France were set on fire; sources say the Trump administration has been falsely flagging the business expenses of USAID and EPA employees as "fraud;" and Walgreens has been acquired by a private equity firm.

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Day Around The Bay: Trump Might Be Ready To Set Some Limits With Musk

Trump might be about to start reining Musk in after a heated exchange between Musk and Rubio in a Cabinet meeting; the former officer involved in the scandals surrounding the Antioch Police Department admits that he enjoyed inflicting violence; and Gene Hackman and his wife died a week apart.

SF Restaurants, Food & Drink

Tacolicious Alters Menu Over Trump’s Tariffs, Now Serving ‘Avocado Garbanzo Guacamole’

In hopes of not making you pay $16.75 for just a side of guacamole (which you still can), Bay Area chain Tacolicious has introduced a “tariff-era menu” with guacamole that uses chickpeas, to cut down on their lime and avocado use as Trump’s tariffs kick in.

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Fired NOAA Researchers Talk About Their Critical Work Protecting Northern CA Coasts From Climate Change

Three recently fired NOAA researchers are speaking out about their team's important work protecting vulnerable species along the Northern California coast, which was abruptly disrupted last Thursday when over 800 probationary employees at the agency were fired.

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SF Judge Temporarily Blocks Musk and Trump’s Mass Firing of Federal Employees

A federal judge just took a chainsaw to Elon Musk and Donald Trump’s attempt to mass-fire thousands of government employees, saying the DOGE team “does not have any authority whatsoever under any statute in the history of the universe” to fire these workers.

SF Politics

Guys Who Posed as DOGE at SF City Hall Are YouTube Trolls Who Also Harassed Kamala Harris HQ

A couple of aggressive jokesters who wore MAGA hats and DOGE t-shirts and went around harassing workers in various Civic Center offices on February 14 were, indeed, just some YouTuber/podcasters trying to pump out some content.

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Report: Trump and Musk Want to Sell Off Two SF Federal Buildings

There are reports that the Trump administration plans to shutter and sell off hundreds of US federal buildings around the country, including two in SF. It’s being sold as “efficiency,” but is probably just a middle finger to SF and Nancy Pelosi.

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Trump Orders Presidio Trust 'Eliminated' But That May Not Happen

Another night in Washington and another executive order from Trump, this one ordering the elimination of four specific federal entities, including the Presidio Trust in San Francisco, declaring them examples of "waste and abuse."

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North Bay Congressman Blasts Musk and Trump for Firing Wine Country Wildfire Smoke Researchers

The DOGE mass-firings could have serious consequences come wildfire season, as Elon Musk has fired the UC Davis smoke researchers who were working on ways to mitigate the effects of wildfire smoke on wine grapes. And wine country’s congressional rep is furious.

SF Politics

Wingnuts Impersonating DOGE Officials Enter SF City Hall, Demand to 'See Files'

Let the emboldened nutjob lunacy begin! Much like in the first year of Trump's first presidency, we can expect there to be uprisings and shenanigans here in the Bay Area by his — and Elon Musk's — emboldened acolytes.

SF Politics

The Expected Mass Firing of Biden-Appointed US Attorneys Is Underway, Including Northern California’s

The frankly expected firing of most US Attorneys appointed by Biden has come to pass, and our US Attorney for the Northern District of California Ismail Ramsey just got the axe.

SF Politics

In Typical Fashion, Trump Now Spreading Lies About the California Vote Count In 2024

Trump naturally doesn't like anyone to point out the margin by which he won the 2024 election, which was very small, and now he's trying to blame the vote count in California.

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Judge Blocks Trump’s Medical Research Funding Cuts, After California and 21 Other States Sue

While the case is not fully decided, a pair of lawsuits has for now halted Trump's attempt to block tens of billions of dollars of life-saving medical research funding provided by the National Institutes of Health, and California played a role.

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It’s On: San Francisco Sues Trump Administration Over Sanctuary City Crackdown

SF City Attorney David Chiu is leading a lawsuit against the Trump administration for targeting sanctuary cities, and Chiu’s odds may be good, because his office brought the same lawsuit against Trump in 2017 — and won.

SF Politics

Elon Musk Furious That His Fresh-Out-of-College DOGE Employees Have Been Named By the Press

As new reporting reveals that Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) is being staffed by recent college grads, who now have access to our personal data and taxpayer dollars, Musk is on a warpath that their names have been made public.

SF Politics

California Joins Coalition of States Suing Trump Over Federal Funding Freeze They Call Illegal

The latest piece of governing-by-fiat from Trump, which is perfectly in line with that Project 2025 he claimed not to know much about, is an immediate freeze of federal funding and grants of many kinds, set to take effect later today — but a federal judge has already blocked it.

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SFUSD Superintendent Fuels False Rumor About ICE Agent on Muni Bus

As fear continues to spread among immigrant communities across the country about potential deportation by the Trump administration, the San Francisco Unified School District didn't help the situation by spreading a rumor, now proven false, about ICE agents questioning kids on public transit.

Business & Tech

Conspiracy Theories Fly as Meta Users Find Themselves Suddenly Following Trump and JD Vance

Millions of Facebook and Instagram users were shocked to find that they were suddenly following Donald Trump, JD Vance, and Melania Trump, but the company insists it was just the normal switching of official accounts that happens for every presidential transition.

Business & Tech

Elon Musk Fumes as $500 Billion AI Data Center Investment Comes From Sam Altman and Not Him

The completely unproven and unreliable AI sector says it’s going to build $500 billion worth of data centers with Trump’s blessing, and with AI safeguards now repealed, that’s a lot of deepfake porn to produce. But Elon Musk is mad that he’s not in on the action.

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Trump Pardons Ross Ulbricht, Kingpin of the Bitcoin Drugs-and-Murder Online Market Silk Road

In another sop to the libertarian crypto bros, President Trump has pardoned the San Francisco founder of the Silk Road online drug marketplace, indicating Trump’s increasing fondness for crime among the cryptocurrency crowd.

Business & Tech

SF-Based Hims & Hers Healthcare Company, Founded By Owner of New West Portal Doughnut Shop, Donates to Trump Inauguration

Hims & Hers Health, the SF-based telehealth startup founded by Andrew Dudum, just kicked $1 million to Donald Trump's inauguration fund, perhaps because they're concerned about the administration's future plans when it comes to mail-order drugs.

SF Politics

Bay Area Trans Community Braces for Civil Rights Onslaught After Trump Remarks ‘There are Two Genders, Male and Female’

Donald Trump’s inaugural speech seemed to be an opening salvo of war against the trans and non-binary communities, who are gearing up for legal attacks on their passports and driver's licenses, and the potential for widespread discrimination.