SF News Former Private Prison In SoCal Being Converted Into Largest Migrant Detention Camp In the State The mass-deportation effort by the Trump administration, which is all but certain to cost the American people much more money than it saves — and deprive multiple industries of an able and willing workforce — soldiers on.
SF News Ninth Circuit Sides With Trump Over National Guard, But Battle Continues In District Court Friday In celebrating a temporary legal victory Thursday night, Donald Trump immediately threatened to deploy the National Guard in any state where protests occur. But California will continue to do battle with the administration in district court Friday.
SF Politics Newsom Calls Trump 'Truly Disturbed' For Threatening to Withhold Federal Disaster Aid From Los Angeles The latest escalation in President Trump's feud with California Governor Gavin Newsom finds him quite characteristically and yet again threatening to withhold federal funds from the state, and Newsom is already punching back.
Business & Tech TikTok to Remain in Legal Limbo Another 90 Days as Trump Signs Another Executive Order Chinese-owned company ByteDance is getting another 90 days to figure out how to separate its American user base of TikTok and sell the business to an American company, even though there's been no movement on this since Trump announced his tariffs.
SF Politics Ninth Circuit Judges Appear Inclined to Support Trump's Use of the National Guard In LA It's not looking good for Gavin Newsom in the faceoff with President Trump over what a federal judge agreed last week was the illegal federalizing of National Guard troops in Los Angeles.
SF News Journalists Report Being Shoved, Restrained by SFPD During Protests Ahead of ‘No Kings’ San Francisco police are facing criticism for detaining multiple journalists, including two UC Berkeley students, during recent protests against federal immigration raids, raising urgent concerns about press freedom ahead of the anti-Trump protests planned for this weekend.
SF News National Guard Presence to Remain In LA Into Next Week After Ninth Circuit Blocks Lower Court Order A federal judge issued a restraining order Thursday and declared President Trump's move to federalize the National Guard in Los Angeles "illegal," but two hours later, a three-judge panel of the Ninth Circuit temporarily blocked that order.
SF Politics California Senator Alex Padilla Forcibly Removed From Kristi Noem Event In LA By Federal Goons The Trump dictatorship now features goons wrestling with and forcibly removing a United States senator from an event at a federal office building because he was apparently asking questions they didn't like.
SF News Analysts Warn That Trump Could Send National Guard Here to San Francisco, Too We could see scenes in San Francisco like what’s happening in Los Angeles, as political analysts say it’s possible, and even likely, that Trump will send National Guard members or Marines into San Francisco as anti-ICE protests continue.
SF News ‘No Kings’ Protests Set to Rabble-Rouse In SF and Nationwide Saturday During Trump’s Military Parade While President Trump has a phenomenally wasteful $45 million military parade planned for his birthday Saturday, SF, Oakland, the Bay Area, and the whole country will be taking to the streets themselves for a nationwide “No Kings” protest.
SF News Santa Clara County Pledges to Continue Gender-Affirming Care Using Local Funds Prompted by a move from the Trump administration to prohibit Medicaid funds from being used for gender-affirming care for trans people, Santa Clara County is prepared to use some reserve budget funds to offset the cuts.
SF News In National Address, Newsom Calls Out Trump's Authoritarianism, Says We're at a 'Perilous Moment' Governor Gavin Newsom gave a stern speech Tuesday night that was carried nationally on radio and television, calling out Trump's deployment of the National Guard and Marines in Los Angeles as "authoritarianism," and saying it was a "perilous moment" for our democracy.
SF News Thousands Pack the Mission for Peaceful ICE Protest; SFPD Pulls Pepper Spray On Separate, Smaller Civic Center Protest As many as 10,000 protesters jammed the streets of the Mission District Monday night in yet more public opposition to ICE actions in California, but a small splinter group hit Civic Center late at night, leading to arrests and SFPD pepper sprayings.
SF Politics Gov. Gavin Newsom Says California Will Sue Trump Over Unauthorized National Guard Deployment In LA California Governor Gavin Newsom had some angry words for President Trump and his administration Sunday night about what he says was the illegal and unconstitutional deployment of federal troops in Los Angeles to quell protests.
SF Politics The Inevitable Trump-Musk Feud Has Arrived, and Should Be Hilarious Musk is digging up Twitter receipts on Trump, who has contradicted himself so many times you'd be a billionaire if you had a nickel for each. And the feud that went very public as of Thursday morning is likely to get very, very funny, our teetering democracy aside.
SF News Harvey Milk's Nephew on Navy Ship Name-Stripping: 'I Don't Think He'd Be Surprised' Reactions are streaming in across the Bay Area and beyond to Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's Pride Month shot across the bow at the queer community, announcing his intention to strip the name of LGBTQ civil rights icon Harvey Milk from a Navy ship.
SF News Trump Administration Seeks to Claw Back $4B In Funding for High-Speed Rail As promised, the Trump administration is looking to cancel $4 billion in funding already approved for California's beleaguered high-speed rail project, which was already on life support. But Scott Wiener, at least, says this isn't "a death knell."
SF News Pete Hegseth Orders the Navy to Strip Harvey Milk’s Name Off Naval Ship The US Navy’s oiler ship known as the USNS Harvey Milk was christened in 2016, but Trump’s Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth is ordering Milk’s name stripped off the ship, and he’s reportedly doing this during Pride Month on purpose to enrage people.
SF News Trans Athlete AB Hernandez Wins Triple Medals at CA Track Finals Amid Policy Change, Protests Trans athlete AB Hernandez medaled in all three events at the CA state track finals over the weekend—just days after a last-minute rule change aimed at appeasing the Trump administration diluted her wins with shared titles.
SF News Bombshell Report Says Elon Musk Was Using Copious Amount of Drugs While In Trump's Orbit Blaze one up to check out the biggest scandal of the day, as the New York Times has an exhaustive new exposé on how Elon Musk was hopped up on ketamine, ecstasy, mushrooms, and Adderall on the Trump campaign, and maybe in the White House.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Federal Court Says Trump's Tariffs Aren't Legal A panel of judges on the US Court of International Trade ruled today that Trump doesn't have the authority to impose his tariffs; Elon Musk departs the White House with parting shot; and Sonoma Ponzi scheme suspect Kenneth Mattson has been granted $4M bail.
SF News Sunday Links: 1975 Murder Convict Arrested for Child Porn, Narcotics, and Gun Possession Amazon-backed AI model, Claude Opus, attempted to blackmail engineers; local film industry leaders hope two new proposed state bills will increase production in SF; and a Vallejo ex-con was arrested for child porn.
SF News Trump Still Barreling Forward With Certifiably Insane Plan to Reopen Alcatraz as a Prison President Trump’s Federal Bureau of Prisons officials insist they are moving forward with their out-to-lunch scheme to reopen the tourist site Alcatraz as a maximum-security prison, despite that this is all galactically unrealistic.
Business & Tech Sam Altman, Elon Musk, Other Silicon Valley Titans Join Trump In Seeking Money at Saudi Luncheon President Trump and some of his top aides were joined at a lunch Tuesday in Riyadh by a couple dozen representatives from Fortune 500 companies in the US, including a group from Silicon Valley.
SF News Trump Was Very Clearly Watching 'Escape From Alcatraz' on TV When He Wrote His Dumb Tweet And just like that, we have confirmation of the likely source of President Trump's Sunday whim to reopen Alcatraz — which will never happen — and it's the Clint Eastwood classic 'Escape From Alcatraz' from 1979.
