SF Politics The Trump Administration Tried to Subpoena Medical Records of Children Seeking Gender-Affirming Care In one of the most disgusting and fascistic moves by this second Trump administration — which is saying a lot! — a new report details how the Justice Department tried to subpoena the medical records of children seeking gender-affirming care in Philadelphia.
SF Politics Gavin Newsom Demands Answers on Why ICE Agents Crashed His Press Conference Masked and armed US Customs and Border Patrol agents showed up to menace a Gavin Newsom event last week, and now Newsom is demanding records explaining why, and whether Fox News somehow had a hand in this.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Crews Contain 167-Acre Brush Fire in Solano County at 30% New plans for a 258-unit apartment building were announced for the long vacant 360 Fifth Street site in SoMa; a San Mateo County official pleaded not guilty to embezzling $800,000 over eight years; and a brush fire in Solano County has been contained at 30 percent.
SF Politics Federal Court Hearing Concludes Regarding Trump's Deployment of National Guard Troops in LA A federal court case with major implications for Donald Trump's agenda — namely his stated intent to send federal troops into US cities run by Democrats that he perceives to be crime-ridden — had its three-day hearing this week.
SF Politics Mayor Barbara Lee Reacts to Oakland Being Mentioned In Trump's Crime Speech Oakland Mayor Barbara Lee doesn't take kindly to her city being lumped in to Trump's fear-mongering campaign relating to urban crime, which he is using to justify deploying the National Guard in DC.
SF Politics Many Americans Dislike Trump and Newsom, But They Hate Elon Musk More, According to Gallup Poll It's fairly bad news for California Governor Gavin Newsom that he has quite a bit of ground to make up if he plans to run for president in a couple years, according to a new Gallup poll. But Americans really don't like Elon Musk anymore.
SF News Ghislaine Maxwell Has Been Moved to the Same Minimum-Security Prison Where Elizabeth Holmes Is Serving Time You can see the shitstorm clouds forming, can't you? Jeffrey Epstein's longtime associate slash girlfriend slash procurer slash co-conspirator Ghislaine Maxwell is looking for a pardon, and Donald Trump would love nothing more than for her to exonerate him in this whole mess.
SF Politics Trump Calls For Kamala Harris to Be Prosecuted as He Desperately Tries to Quash Epstein Furor Donald Trump’s latest slapdash attempt to change the topic from Jeffrey Epstein is his demand that Kamala Harris be prosecuted over some made-up $11 million payment to Beyoncé that completely never happened.
SF Politics Federal Judge Issues Order Blocking Trump Bill From Punishing Planned Parenthood A federal judge in Boston has just issued an order that indefinitely blocks the Trump administration from withholding Medicaid funds from Planned Parenthood, saying that the provision in the Big Beautiful Bill likely is unconstitutional retaliation.
SF Politics Planned Parenthood Closes South San Francisco Location, Four Others Due to Trump Budget Cuts The Republicans' abortion fight has just struck close to home with five California locations of Planned Parenthood shutting their doors due to federal funding cuts, including one in South San Francisco.
SF News Trump Administration Forces Muir Woods to Alter Its Signage, Because Trump Is Very Easily Offended A sweeping new Trump directive orders national parks to remove any signs that might "disparage Americans,” or hurt the sensitive egos of rich white men, so Muir Woods National Monument is being forced to change some of their signs.
SF Politics Ninth Circuit Shuts Down Trump's Executive Order on Birthright Citizenship, Setting Up Supreme Court Showdown The next legal step after the Supreme Court appeared to roll over multiple times to the will of President Trump this term will be answering the question of whether his executive order barring birthright citizenship to the children of undocumented immigrants is unconstitutional.
SF Politics California Planned Parenthood Loses $300 Million In Federal Funding In Latest Legal Blow A US District Court ruling this week strips every Planned Parenthood location in the state of California of all federal funding, which amounts to about $300 million statewide, though that loss could still be overturned in a future ruling.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Feds End Special 988 Crisis Services for LGBTQ+ Youth, Trevor Project Line Open 24/7 Ten detained Americans were released by Venezuela while 250 Venezuelans were released by El Salvador in a deal; John Waters takes the stage this weekend as host of Mosswood Meltdown festival; and specialized support for LGBTQ+ youth through the 988 crisis hotline has ended.
SF Politics Justice Department Seeks Lists of Undocumented Jail Inmates From SF Sheriff and Others in CA The Trump administration is going to try to have a showy showdown over sanctuary policies in California, and likely elsewhere, and they're now setting their sights on county jails and sheriffs in large jurisdictions.
SF Politics In Distraction From Epstein Files Uproar, AG Pam Bondi Comes to SF to Tour Alcatraz The clown show continues today with the Trump administration waving its hands in the direction of Alcatraz in an attempt to distract the more distractable members of the public from all the terrible shit they're doing.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Trump Officials Making Visit to Alcatraz Nancy Pelosi says Trump's vision of reopening Alcatraz is the administration's "stupidest" idea yet; an eerie photo has been released of three teens who were in that Cybertruck crash in Piedmont; and an Oakland group struggled with having an invite to the Kennedy Center.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Trump Admin Erases Bi History From Stonewall Site After Earlier Trans Omission Berkeley Flea Market vendors are still setting up outside the Ashby BART station on the weekends; a worker was killed during Thursday's raid at Glass House Farms in SoCal; and references to bisexual people have been erased from the Stonewall Memorial site.
SF News Trump Administration Sues California, Claims We’re Driving Up the Price of Eggs The latest legal fight between Trump and California cracks open an argument that California’s anti-animal cruelty laws are responsible for spikes in egg prices, even though the price of eggs has stabilized since the bird flu emergency ended.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Trump Hat Reportedly Spotted Behind Counter at Swan Oyster Depot, Prompting Yelp Revolt Well, for those looking for another reason not to stand in an hour-long line at Swan Oyster Depot, a local food influencer has one for you.
SF Politics Military-Style Sweep of City Park in LA Could Be Harbinger of Things to Come With nothing better to do in LA and without a protest to quash, the Trump administration is now using the National Guard to set up a perimeter around a completely peaceful and mostly empty city park, while federal agents on horseback roam around.
SF Politics Elon Musk Declares He’s Starting a New Political Party, Tesla Promptly Loses $68 Billion In Value In One Day On Saturday, Elon Musk declared he was starting a new political party to declare war on both Democrats and Republicans. By the time the markets closed on the first business day after that, Tesla shareholders lost a collective $68 billion.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Harvey Milk Plaza Redesign to Break Ground in 2026 The funeral for former Minnesota House Speaker Melissa Hortman and her husband took place today — while their accused killer appeared in court; someone died after falling off a cliff near Devil’s Slide; and the Harvey Milk Plaza revamp is scheduled to start in 2026.
SF Politics Trump Scores Another Win From Conservative Supreme Court Majority in Birthright Citizenship Case The question of the legality of President Donald Trump declaring, by fiat, that children born in the United States are not automatically citizens — something that is clearly guaranteed by the 14th Amendment — was not answered by the Supreme Court. But they handed Trump a win nonetheless.
SF Politics Gavin Newsom Sues Fox News For Saying He Lied About Phone Call With Trump Fox News is once again facing a defamation lawsuit over false claims made on air, with California Governor Gavin Newsom filing suit against the network Friday, in much the same way President Trump has sued other media organizations.
