SF News Day Around the Bay: Over 200 California State Parks Will Be Free on Martin Luther King Jr. Day Boudin Bakery’s master chef is preparing an 8-foot-long sourdough alligator for Claude the albino alligator’s memorial Sunday; Matthew McConaughey trademarked his likeness from being used by AI without permission; and Newsom announced that 200 state parks will be free Monday.
SF News Alameda County Will Consider Establishing ‘ICE-Free Zones,’ Potentially Banning ICE From County-Owned Property The Alameda County Board of Supervisors will vote on a measure that would set “ICE-free zones” where ICE agents would not be allowed to set foot. But it remains to be seen whether any of this is even legally enforceable.
SF News Saturday Links: California Has Zero Droughts For the First Time in 25 Years Two protestors were detained and two pepper sprayed Friday afternoon outside ICE's field office in SF; Guy Fieri is on the mend from “exploding” his leg muscle; and the state of California is drought-free for the first time since 2000.
SF News Rep. Ro Khanna Calls ICE Detention Center in Bakersfield a ‘Detention-Industrial Complex’ After Alarming Visit Conditions are absolutely inhumane at California's largest ICE holding center near Bakersfield, according to South Bay congressional rep Ro Khanna, who just had a visit to the for-profit prison facility being operated with your tax dollars.
SF News Deadly ICE Shooting of Minnesota Woman Prompts Protests Across the Bay Area Hundreds marched through San Francisco's Mission District Wednesday night following a deadly shooting by ICE agents across the country in Minneapolis, and there was a simultaneous protest in Oakland as well.
SF Politics Scott Wiener’s Law Banning ICE Agents From Wearing Masks Takes Effect Thursday. Will ICE Abide? State Senator Scott Wiener got a law passed prohibiting ICE agents from wearing face coverings in California. We’ll find out when it goes into effect Thursday whether ICE agents will follow that law.
SF Politics Federal Judge Orders Homeland Security to Stop Arresting Immigrants at Courts In Northern California A federal judge who previously ruled that conditions at San Francisco's ICE facility are inhumane, has now temporarily halted all arrests of immigrants at courthouses in Northern California and the Pacific Islands, citing lack of due process and violations of civil rights.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Half of NorCal ICE Arrests Have Been People With No Criminal Record Whatsoever The Shake Shack in SF’s ‘dead mall’ is going to close; two people were killed in a fiery San Jose double-Tesla crash; and half the people ICE has arrested in Northern California this year have not had any form of criminal record at all.
SF News Federal Judge Orders ICE to Stop Holding Immigrants at 630 Sansome Due to Inhumane Conditions A federal judge has ordered Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to cease detaining immigrants at its downtown San Francisco facility due to unsanitary and inhumane conditions in the facility.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Trump Fires Five More SF Immigration Judges, to Hire ‘Deportation Judges’ Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene announced her retirement after her public falling out with Trump; ICE agents were turned away at a Hayward elementary school Friday; and Trump has fired five additional SF immigration judges to be replaced by “deportation judges.”
SF News ICE Agents Show Up Near West Oakland Elementary School, Resulting in Car Chase and Irate Parents Parents dropping off their kids at Hoover Elementary School got a rude surprise in the form of ICE agents in the vicinity, with a car chase and crash resulting, and now the parents are banding together to prevent any ICE arrests.
Arts & Entertainment Latinx Drag Queens to Put on Anti-ICE Show at Oakland's White Horse Friday A trio of Latinx drag performers are putting on a show Friday in Oakland in protest of ICE — and the cast includes recently detained performer Hilary Rivers, who spent three months in ICE detention.
SF News British Muslim Journalist in US on Speaking Tour Detained by ICE, Visa Revoked at SFO Sami Hamdi, a British Muslim journalist and political commentator currently visiting the US on a speaking tour for the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), was detained by immigration authorities at San Francisco International Airport Sunday morning.
SF News Undocumented Immigrant Detained by ICE in Front of Home in San Jose Advocates warn of ongoing isolated ICE raids after an undocumented immigrant was detained in front of his San Jose home Saturday — despite the Trump administration calling off the mass deployment of federal agents in the Bay Area earlier this week.
SF Politics Oakland Mayor Barbara Lee Gets Confirmation That No Immigration Operations Are Happening In Bay Area Oakland Mayor and former Congresswoman Barbara Lee never had the pleasure of a phone call from President Trump on Wednesday. But she now says that she has otherwise been able to confirm that no immigration-arrest "surges" are happening in the Bay Area, full stop.
SF News Rallies and Marches Planned Thursday as Federal Agents Arrive In East Bay As federal agents are now arriving in the Bay Area, there are rallies and marches scheduled for Thursday afternoon and evening to protest whatever it is Trump’s goons may be planning to do.
sports San Jose Sharks Apologize for Pro-ICE Jumbotron Message During Hispanic Heritage Night During the first intermission at Saturday night’s hockey game between the San Jose Sharks and Pittsburgh Penguins at SAP Center, an offensive fan-submitted message flashed across the scoreboard in support of ICE. The team later apologized for the oversight.
SF News Day Around the Bay: OpenAI to Block Users From Using Martin Luther King Jr.’s Likeness Prince Andrew no longer has his royal titles due to the Epstein scandal; a teenager was arrested for making a false bomb threat to a Marin County high school; and OpenAI is temporarily blocking users from utilizing Martin Luther King Jr.’s likeness.
SF Politics Trump Yanks Mark Zuckerberg’s Leash Again, Meta Deletes Page That ICE Didn’t Like Mark Zuckerberg said Facebook content moderation had “gone too far” earlier this year, and promised less censorship. Until his boss man Trump told him to censor a Facebook page that ICE complained about, and Zuck quickly complied.
Politics [Update] Deployment of California National Guard Members to Portland Halted by Judge Governor Newsom announced Sunday that Trump deployed California National Guard members to assist law enforcement in Portland. The move was later blocked by a Trump-appointed federal judge who had previously blocked the president from federalizing Oregon troops.
SF News Saturday Links: Climber’s Death on El Capitan Inadvertently Livestreamed by TikToker One speed camera in SF’s South Beach generates a quarter of the city’s tickets; a fake Mission District lawyer and MAGA supporter won’t stop giving legal advice to immigrants; and the sole witness to climber Balin Miller’s death also livestreamed it.
SF News Saturday Links: New State Legislation Bolsters Access to Reproductive Care, Privacy Protections BART is now collaborating with Baggu after voicing displeasure with the brand’s unauthorized use of its logo; a person was critically injured in a shooting at SF’s Civic Center Friday; and Newsom signed new bills that strengthen reproductive health access and privacy protections.
SF News Leaders Across Bay Area Launch Fund for Families of Immigrants Targeted by ICE Local leaders are launching the Stand Together Bay Area Fund, which will provide living expenses to families of local immigrants who’ve been deported or detained by ICE. Applicants can sign up through the SF-based Mission Asset Fund.
SF News Saturday Links: State Bill Would Relax Height Limits Within Half-Mile of Transit Hubs About 100 people gathered to protest the detainment of a 73-year-old grandmother Friday night; SFUSD said it will fill its vacant school crossing guard roles by the end of the year; and a new bill would allow for apartment buildings up to nine stories adjacent to transit stations.
SF News Sunday Links: Tech Worker Who Was Stabbing Roommate Fatally Shot by Santa Clara Police The Valkyries played a strong game but lost against the Minnesota Lynx; posts on social media are saying salt trucks have been deployed across Chicago in anticipation of ICE; and an unemployed tech worker was shot and killed by police during a knife attack.
