SF Politics California Sues Donald Trump In Attempt to Stop the Tariffs Outright Gavin Newsom and state AG Rob Bonta are blitzing the Trump administration with a bombshell new lawsuit saying Trump’s tariffs are completely illegal because Congress never approved them, a move that could wholly upend Trump’s signature cause.
SF Politics Gavin Newsom Woos Trump-Hating Canadians To Come Visit California in New Ad Campaign As anti-Trump sentiment sweeps Canada over the whole tariff chaos, California Governor Gavin Newsom is trying to sweet-talk Canadians into visiting blue-state California, either because we’re losing tourism dollars, or maybe just to irritate Trump.
SF News Saturday Links: Oakland Reverses Decision To End Kids' Free Summer Lunch Program After announcing the closure of its free summer lunch program, the City of Oakland said it would continue at limited sites; Mayor Lurie is holding a competition to help revitalize downtown; and nearly 70 people were arrested during a joint operation in the Tenderloin and the Mission.
SF News Likely Thanks to DOGE, Government Claims HIV-Positive SF Man Owes Them $200K In Disability Payments The federal government just cut off 62-year-old HIV activist Paul Aguilar’s disability payments, but also claims he owes them back $200,000 in benefits they’ve already paid him over the last 11 years.
Business & Tech Sonoma-Serving Budget Airline Avelo Shuts Down Flights, Becomes Trump Deportation Contractor A budget airline that made a hub of Santa Rosa's Charles M. Schulz Airport is closing that hub and turning its attention to providing charter flights for deported migrants out of Arizona, under contract with the federal government.
SF Politics Supreme Court Thwarts SF Judge's Order to Reinstate Federal Agency Workers The court ruled Tuesday 7-2, on a narrow legal basis, to block an order from an SF-based federal judge to reinstate fired probationary workers at six federal agencies.
SF News Thousands Attend ‘Hands Off’ Anti-Trump Protests Across Bay Area, Nationwide Thousands of demonstrators showed up to “Hands Off” protests across the Bay Area on Saturday, and at least 1,400 nationwide, in the biggest show of resistance yet against the current administration.
SF News Day Around the Bay: California Law Firm Sues Trump On Behalf of 500 Firms Usha Vance's former law firm filed a federal lawsuit against Trump, along with more than 500 others; shots were fired during an armed robbery in Brentwood on Friday afternoon; and an American "danger tourist" visited remote, indigenous North Sentinel Island, leaving behind a Coke.
Business & Tech Trump Extends TikTok Ban/Sale Another 75 Days, as Tariffs Blow Up Current Deal Just as a deal to place TikTok in the hands of US owners was almost in place, China pulled ByteDance out of that deal in response to our tariffs, though Trump is selling this as him just extending the deadline.
SF Politics Newsom Wants to Negotiate Separately For California With Global Trading Partners, Asks for Tariff Exemptions Governor Gavin Newsom on Friday asked other countries to exempt California exports from retaliatory tariffs, in an effort to save the state's agricultural industry in particular amid Trump's asinine trade war.
Business & Tech Bay Area Tech Stocks Get Destroyed By Trump Tariffs, SF CEO Screams Obscenity on Live Earnings Call Remember when all those Bay Area tech CEOs cuddled up to Trump with $1 million inauguration donations? Boy did that just blow up in their faces! They lost billions today, and one yelled “Oh sh*t!” when he checked his stock on a live earnings call.
SF Politics As Layoffs Begin Across Health Agencies, SF Office of Health and Human Services Set to Close The Trump administration sent layoff notices Tuesday to around 10,000 employees of the US Department of Health and Human Services, including dozens who work out of the Speaker Nancy Pelosi Federal Building in San Francisco.
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.
