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 Elon Musk Gets His Way, Private Jets Can Keep Their Flight Data Secret After a Florida college kid got on Elon Musk’s wrong side by posting the travel coordinates of Musk’s private jet, the FAA just caved to the billionaire class and will allow private jets to keep their flight data secret.
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 Restaurants, Food & Drink Oh, No: Tartine Investor Involved In Elon Musk's LA Diner/Drive-In Project Well, it's been a minute since Tartine Bakery was making headlines for its unionization dispute. And now that everything associated with Elon Musk has the stink of Trumpian Republicans, a Tartine partner getting in bed with Musk is not a good look.
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 News Day Around The Bay: Newsom Sends Prepaid Phones To Tech Execs With Note, ‘I’m A Phone Call Away’ Reports came out earlier this week that about 100 tech executives received "burner" phones with Newsom's number programmed in them; PG&E is requesting yet another rate hike; and Musk's PAC is offering $100 to Wisconsin voters to sign a petition opposing activist judges ahead of the April 1 election.
SF News Man Arrested In San Jose For Allegedly Keying a Tesla, as Seen In Viral Video A probably politically motivated act of vandalism has resulted in an arrest in San Jose, after a man seen in a viral video keying a Tesla in a Costco parking lot has been taken into custody.
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.
Business & Tech Musk Blames 'Massive Cyberattack' For X/Twitter Outages Monday Morning Tesla owners have been under attack as billionaire Elon Musk continues to wield destructive, job-slashing power in Washington, so why wouldn't Twitter come under attack as well?
SF News Sunday Links: The US Army Is Using 'CamoGPT' To Omit DEI References From Training Materials The US Army is using an aptly named bot called 'CamoGBT'; 350 protestors in Manhattan shut down the Tesla showroom, resulting in six arrests; and SF's 20-something population is declining more quickly than other cities.
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 News Friday Morning Constitutional: Tesla Owners Increasingly Face Harassment Tesla owners in the Bay Area are loading up on anti-Elon bumper stickers to avoid harassment; VTA workers may be striking next week; and another new Costco opening draws whiskey lovers to line up for deals.
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 News Day Around the Bay: Tesla Sales Plummet In Europe Tesla sales decreased by 45% across Europe in January; Oakland city departments were found to have paid more than $1.6 million in excess overtime over the past six years; and a man who shot at San Leandro police was charged.
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 Tuesday Morning Topline: Musk Says Federal Workers Have 'Another Chance' Elon Musk was forced to backtrack a bit on his federal worker ultimatum email; 40% of DOGE's canceled contracts to date add up to zero savings; and a suspected Santa Rosa fentanyl dealer makes a court appearance.
Arts & Entertainment Yes, Elon Musk’s Brother Is on the Burning Man Board of Directors Burning Man has added Elon Musk’s younger brother Kimbal Musk to its board of directors, stoking concern among Burners about connections between the annual desert event and the new Republican tech oligarchy overhauling the US government.
SF News SF's Conservative Catholic Archbishop Just Threw Shade at Elon Musk on X We're not looking to lionize SF's bigoted, Republican, anti-vax, homophobe of a Catholic archbishop. But he just went minorly viral by responding to a tweet about Elon Musk.
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.
Business & Tech Elon Musk Bids to Buy OpenAI for $97.4 Billion, Sam Altman Laughs It Off A team of investors led by Elon Musk put in a bid to buy OpenAI for $97.4 billion, a fraction of the company’s value. OpenAI founder Sam Altman merely responded, “No thank you but we will buy twitter for $9.74 billion if you want.”
SF Politics Elon Musk Furious That His Fresh-Out-of-College DOGE Employees Have Been Named By the Press As new reporting reveals that Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) is being staffed by recent college grads, who now have access to our personal data and taxpayer dollars, Musk is on a warpath that their names have been made public.
Business & Tech Elon Musk Claims Tesla Will Have Self-Driving Robotaxis This Year, Which He Has Claimed in Five Previous Years This is at least the fifth time that Elon Musk has declared he’d have self-driving cars this year, though if it ends up being true, at least they would start rolling in Texas and not San Francisco.
Business & Tech SEC Gets In Parting Shot at Elon Musk, Sues Him For Swindling Investors by Hiding His Twitter Shares Purchase The US Securities and Exchange Commission is accusing Elon Musk of cheating shareholders out of $150 million by not disclosing his secret 2022 purchase of 10% of Twitter shares, as was legally required.
