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 News Sunday Links: Newsom and Bass Reject Crisis Claims as Trump Deploys National Guard to LA The Valkyries broke their losing streak in a big win over Las Vegas; Greta Thunberg and other Freedom Flotilla Coalition activists are nearing Gaza; and Newsom and Bass say Trump is manufacturing a crisis by sending the National Guard to LA.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Toxic Metals Found in All Rice Samples Tested in US Stores Brock Purdy signed a five-year contract as the 49ers' franchise quarterback; a new report found arsenic in 100% of the rice tested in U.S. stores; and Microsoft laid off 6,000 employees nationally and 122 locally.
SF Politics Newsom Proposes Rollback of Health Coverage for Undocumented Immigrants California Governor Gavin Newsom continued his rightward shift with a surprise announcement Wednesday proposing a freeze on healthcare coverage for undocumented immigrants in the state.
SF News Newsom Calls on California Cities to Flat-Out Ban Homeless Encampments Governor Gavin Newsom is once again ramping up the rhetoric to try to get California cities to be more aggressive around clearing street encampments, but this time says he’ll be handing cities money for more shelter and services.
SF News Sunday Links: ICE Arrests California Father While His Children Wait Alone at Gas Station All 15 of Newsom's podcasts feature men, except for one that includes a man and a woman; two brothers were rescued from the surf at Ocean Beach; and ICE arrested a father and left his children alone in the car during a recent rash of raids along Central Coast.
SF News Newsom to Set Strict Staffing Rules at For-Profit Mental Hospitals After Reporters Exposed Conditions A series of recent press exposés showed California’s for-profit mental health hospitals have way lower staffing than their nonprofit counterparts, so now Governor Newsom is pushing an emergency order forcing the for-profits to beef up their staffs.
SF News California Moves Up to Fourth-Largest Economy In the World, and Boy Is Gavin Newsom Crowing About It Take that, red states! California has surpassed Japan to become the fourth-largest economy in the world, with an estimated Gross Domestic Product of more than $4 trillion.
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.
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 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.
SF News Gavin Newsom’s $240 Million Gussying-Up of San Quentin Prison Is Now Underway Governor Newsom’s curious obsession with overhauling San Quentin State Prison is now becoming a reality, as the notorious prison is getting a farmers market, podcast studios, and food trucks.
SF Politics Newsom Now Trying to Court Right-Wing Dudebros So He Can Run For President In his first episode of his transparently dudebro-courting podcast, Gavin Newsom has decided to jump over and join the conservative argument against trans athletes in sports.
SF Politics Gavin Newsom Now Facing Eighth (!) Futile Recall Attempt, But This Time Mel Gibson Is Involved Get ready for the eighth attempt to recall Governor Gavin Newsom in his six years in office, a recall attempt that just kicked off today, but maybe having the washed-up Mel Gibson on board will help this one make the ballot and lose by 25 percentage points again.
SF News Now Gavin Newsom Claims California Has Eliminated Its Budget Deficit, Is Back in Surplus Times Governor Gavin Newsom says last year’s $68 million budget deficit is now completely erased, and he claims the state is running a surplus again, though he won’t say how much of a surplus.
SF News Good News for Newsom, as California Deficit Slashed From $68 Billion to Just $2 Billion What a difference a year makes, as the state’s Legislative Analyst Office said early last December that California had a $68 billion budget deficit, but now that deficit is down to just $2 billion.
SF Politics Katie Porter for Governor? Poll Suggests She Might Do Well Congresswoman Katie Porter, who is not running for reelection in her purple Southern California district following her unsuccessful run for Senate, is hinting she would consider running for governor in 2026.
SF Politics Newsom Signs Off on Bill Allowing One Tiny, Rich-Person Club to Serve Booze Until 4AM Various competing interests have killed multiple bills in the California legislature over the last decade that would have allowed specific cities to grant licenses for liquor service past the longtime 2 am cutoff. But one LA assemblymember has gotten one tiny carve-out passed in her district.
SF Politics Newsom Says He’ll Yank Counties’ Funding If They Don’t Clear Homeless Encampments Aggressively Enough Governor Gavin Newsom is ratcheting up the threat level toward California cities and counties on the homeless encampment front, now saying he’ll cut their funding if they aren’t more aggressive in clearing encampments.
SF Politics Trump Mixes Up Willie Brown and Jerry Brown In Helicopter Story, Newsom Says Willie Brown calls bullshit on Trump's story about sharing a bumpy helicopter ride, but it turns out Trump did ride in a helicopter once with a California politician named Brown.
SF News Newsom Orders State Agencies to Clear Homeless Encampments En Masse in Wake of Supreme Court Ruling Governor Gavin Newsom just issued an executive order that would represent the largest homeless encampment sweep effort in the nation since the Supreme Court handed down their decision that cities can ban sleeping outdoors.
SF Politics SFist Turns 20: The San Francisco Scandals That Made This Website What It Is As SFist celebrates its 20th anniversary, we remember the ridiculous San Francisco City Hall scandals that made us a go-to destination for salacious political gossip and mockery in our early days.
SF News In Goodwill Gesture, Gavin Newsom Sending More Than 60 State Police to Republican Convention In the wake of Saturday’s assassination attempt on Donald Trump, Governor Gavin Newsom is sending five dozen Highway Patrol and state police officers to help keep the calm at the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee.
SF Politics Governor Newsom Abruptly Revokes That State Assistance He Offered to Alameda County DA Pamela Price In a very public rebuke of Alameda County DA Pamela Price, Governor Gavin Newsom has suddenly yanked the extra state attorneys he’d offered to Price, saying, “Your office has yet to make use of these resources.”
