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.
SF News Wiener: Trump's Alcatraz Idea 'Absurd,' Would Be 'Domestic Gulag In the Middle of San Francisco Bay' Yet again, after all these years, the media is compelled to jump and respond to Trump's every mis-capitalized tweet from the toilet, and this time it was a ridiculous idea floated on Sunday to turn Alcatraz back into a federal prison.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: Trump Is Firing Waltz CHP put out a new alert about a missing Oakland 3-year-old; May Day protests are happening around the Bay; and Trump is firing his first top aide, national security advisor Mike Waltz, the one who added the Atlantic guy to the Signal chat.
SF Politics Trump Administration Now Looking Into Building Immigrant Detention Camp In Solano County As part of its broader plan to use military facilities to house immigrants before systematically deporting them, the Trump administration is reportedly looking into creating a detention camp at Travis Air Force Base in Fairfield.
SF Politics Lots More Bay Area Tech Companies Gave Millions to the Trump Inauguration Than We Had Realized The Bay Area spent more than $30 million sucking up to Donald Trump by shoveling donations to his inauguration, and as it turns out, tech companies like Uber, Robinhood, and Chris Larsen’s Ripple Labs all bent the knee with $1 million or more to Trump.
SF News International Students In Bay Area Get Sudden Reprieve as Trump Administration Reverses on Visa Cancellations A Trump administration lawyer announced a sudden reversal Friday in a federal court in Washington, DC, saying that around 1,500 international students around the country would not have their visas revoked after all.
SF News Federal Judge Blocks Trump Order Punishing Sanctuary Cities A lawsuit being led by San Francisco and Santa Clara counties sought an injunction against President Trump's executive order denying federal funds to all cities and counties that decline to cooperate with ICE, and on Thursday, a federal judge granted it.
SF News Sunday Links: Sacramento Sheriff’s Deputy Fired For Shoving Prisoner To The Ground The opening of the new Sunset Dunes park was a big success, but opponents' concerns haven't been addressed; the city announced the winners of its first Culture Forward grant program; and a Sacramento sheriff's deputy was fired for shoving an elderly prisoner to the ground.
SF News Anti-Trump Protests Take Over San Francisco: Ocean Beach, Civic Center, Union Square And Chinatown An estimated 4 million protestors showed up nationwide on Saturday voicing their opposition to the Trump regime. Thousands rallied across San Francisco with protests taking place in Ocean Beach, Civic Center, Union Square, and Chinatown.
SF Politics Gavin Newsom Sues Trump Administration For the Second Day in a Row, This Time Over AmeriCorps Cuts California Governor Gavin Newsom is keeping his state Attorney General busy, suing the Trump administration twice in two days, the latest lawsuit challenging Elon Musk’s DOGE firing of thousands of AmeriCorps volunteers.
Arts & Entertainment 'The Studio' Star Seth Rogen Roasted Silicon Valley Titans at Recent Ceremony, and Jokes Were Cut From Video of It At a ceremony for a set of science prizes that has become a favorite event of VCs and tech titans, celebrity presenter Seth Rogen couldn't even take a few jabs about the money they all gave to Donald Trump without them being cut from the official video of the event.
