SF News Sunday Links: Trump's Election Law Order Creates Uncertainty, Concern For Many States Trump's election law order has led to confusion and worry in states across the country leading up to the 2026 midterms; a small plane crashed into a house in a Minneapolis suburb on Saturday; and Pink Pistols is helping the LGBTQ+ community arm and protect themselves.
SF News Saturday Links: OpenAI’s Viral Studio Ghibli Generator Takes Dark Turn With White House ICE Meme The White House used ChatGBT's Studio Ghibli generator to create a whimsical image of a real ICE arrest; there's a pronatalist matchmaking conference in Austin this weekend; and Canadian-Asian supermarket, T&T is coming to SF in 2026.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Red Flags Abound As Fyre Fest 2 ‘Changes Locations,’ Authorities Say No Paperwork Was Ever Filed Organizers say Fyre Fest 2 is still happening in a couple months, even though Mexican authorities said no paperwork had been filed; Musk’s xAI has acquired X, officially “intertwining” the two; and Sex Pistols tickets go on sale April 4.
SF News SF Law Firm at Forefront of Fighting Back Against Trump’s Attempts to Punish Legal Industry As Donald Trump’s executive orders target law firms that have taken on his administration, many big firms are cowering and backing down. Others are doubling down on their mission, like one here in San Francisco that's fighting the legality of ICE raids.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: 'Tesla Takedown' Events Planned Around Bay Protests at Tesla dealerships are happening across the country today; Gov. Newsom issued an executive order to expedite the undergrounding of power lines; five Kohl's stores are closing around the Bay.
SF News San Francisco Federal Buildings Spared, For Now, as GSA Pares Down Its List of Real Estate to Sell Two federally owned office buildings in San Francisco, one dating to the 1930s and the other a contemporary architectural landmark built less than 20 years ago, are not on the drastically pared-down list of "assets for disposition" now on the General Services Administration website.
SF Politics Another Federal Judge Pushes Back on Trump Immigration Action, Suggests It's Racist Another federal judge in San Francisco is voicing concern about the legality of an action being taken by the Trump administration, and suggesting that deporting hundreds of thousands of Haitian and Venezuelan migrants with legal status may just be racist.
Arts & Entertainment Episcopal Bishop Who Took Trump to the Woodshed Coming to SF to Deliver Palm Sunday Sermon Bishop Mariann Budde, who royally pissed off Trump and all the Trumpers by saying “the vast majority of immigrants are not criminals” at his inauguration sermon, is coming to SF’s Grace Cathedral to deliver a Palm Sunday address on April 13.
SF News 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.
SF News 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.
SF News 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.
SF News 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.
SF News 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.
SF News 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.
SF News 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.
SF News 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."
SF News 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.
SF News 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.
SF News 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.
