SF News Sunday Links: Ninety-Five Percent of Oakland Teachers Vote to Authorize Strike A body that was found in Napa County is believed to be connected to the kidnapping of a Sikh man in the Central Valley; cartel violence has taken over Puerto Vallarta; and Oakland’s teachers’ union is demanding a 12% pay increase as 95% of educators voted to strike.
SF News Trump Administration Insists It Won’t Turn Shuttered FCI Dublin Into an ICE Detention Facility, But Says So in Very Fishy Terms The notorious and scandal-tainted former federal women’s prison known as FCI Dublin was rumored to be in the Trump administration’s crosshairs to make it an ICE holding pen, but the administration claims it has no such plans.
SF News Newsom and California Sue Trump Administration Again, This Time Over Greenhouse Gas Emissions Trump’s EPA is running roughshod over all California’s environmental protections, so the state is suing to keep as many of them as intact as possible, the latest being our rollback of how much greenhouse gases can be emitted into the environment.
SF News Trump Administration Trying to Boot All Undocumented Immigrants Out of SF Public Housing The latest ‘Show me your papers’ bully move from the Trump administration seems to want immigrants out of any supportive housing that receives federal funding, and they're demanding citizenship checks of Section 8 residents.
Arts & Entertainment SF Ballet Under Pressure to Cancel Kennedy Center Performance, Nearly 7,000 Sign Petition In the wake of Trump attaching his name to the Kennedy Center and firing several board members — resulting in a cascading stream of cancellations, SF Ballet fans are urging the company to cancel its stop at the center in May during its upcoming 'Mere Mortals' tour.
SF Politics Three Months Ago, San Francisco Was Hours Away From Sharing the Fate of Minneapolis Were it not for a last-minute reversal by President Trump, brokered in secret by a couple of billionaires and SF's mayor, San Francisco and Oakland could have easily descended into the same violent chaos, provoked by an ICE invasion, that we're seeing in Minneapolis.
SF Politics Newsom Shoved Aside From Planned Event at Davos, Likely Because Trump Decreed It After Governor Gavin Newsom made some remarks disparaging to Trump at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland Wednesday, he was promptly shut out of the US pavilion and an on-stage event he was supposed to participate in was canceled.
SF Politics Rep. Eric Swalwell Calls for Trump’s Removal From Office Over Seemingly Dementia-Fueled Text to Norway's PM President Trump reiterated calls to invade Greenland because he’s mad at Norway for not giving him the Nobel Prize, leading many to wonder about Trump’s current mental capacity, including East Bay Congressman Eric Swalwell.
SF News Hundreds Gather on Ocean Beach to Spell Out 'It Was Murder - ICE Out!' There were multiple protests Saturday around the Bay Area expressing rage over the killing of a Minneapolis mother of three at the hands of an ICE agent with a gun, including a gathering at Ocean Beach to spell out another aerially photographed message.
SF News Day Around the Bay: SF Traffic Deaths Decreased in 2025 Thanks to Vision Zero Initiatives Instagram users received strange password reset messages they didn’t request; a Slovenian newspaper takes a stab at Trump; and San Francisco had 25 traffic deaths last year compared to 43 in 2024.
SF News Deadly ICE Shooting of Minnesota Woman Prompts Protests Across the Bay Area Hundreds marched through San Francisco's Mission District Wednesday night following a deadly shooting by ICE agents across the country in Minneapolis, and there was a simultaneous protest in Oakland as well.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: Trump Gives Extended Interview to the Times President Trump gave a wide-ranging interview to the NY Times; a child died from the flu last month in San Mateo County; and Gov. Gavin Newsom is giving his final State of the State address today.
SF Politics Downtown San Francisco Immigration Court Set to Close In a Year The federal immigration court in downtown San Francisco that started 2025 with 21 judges and will soon be down to just four, thanks to Trump administration mass-firings, will close by January 2027.
SF Politics Trump Announces Fraud Probe of California Social Services, Withholds Federal Funds In Wake of Minnesota Scandals The Trump administration is now waging more political war with Democrat-led states, announcing the withholding of $10 billion in social services funding to five states: Minnesota, California, New York, Illinois, and Colorado.
SF News Saturday Links: Human Skull Found Near Monterey Leads to Discovery of Additional Remains Yet another power outage hit about 3,400 residences in SF’s Richmond District and Seacliff Friday; 12 people were injured in a two-car crash near SF’s Balboa Park; and a land surveyor found a skull off Highway 1 near Monterey this week.
SF Politics Ninth Circuit Rules That Trump Must Return Control of National Guard to California "We will come back, perhaps in a much different and stronger form, when crime begins to soar again — Only a question of time," wrote President Trump on his chosen social media network, admitting defeat in the battle over federalizing the National Guard.
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.
