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submitted 5 hours ago • 480 comments

In a group chat of health care innovators, acting DOGE head Amy Gleason denied responsibility for mass firings and cuts across the federal government, @shiramstein.bsky.social reports. www.sfchronicle.com/politics/art...

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"The court cannot look away or the CFPB will be dissolved and dismantled completely in approximately thirty days, well before this lawsuit has come to its conclusion," U.S. District Judge Amy Berman Jackson wrote in a 112-page decision. www.cbsnews.com/news/federal...

submitted 13 days ago • 0 comments

California lawmakers have scaled back CEQA enough that people joke it's now "Swiss cheese CEQA." But a new bill would blow a much bigger hole through it: www.sfchronicle.com/politics/joe...

submitted 13 days ago • 0 comments

JUST IN: My old firm WilmerHale sues to challenge Trump’s order against them, represented by the best conservative lawyer in the country, former Solicitor General Paul Clement. THE TIDE IS STARTING TO TURN 👊🇺🇸🔥 assets.bwbx.io/documents/us...

submitted 13 days ago • 52 comments

Since virtually every single outlet is describing California's law on forced outing of transgender students wrong: Schools are not banned from outing kids to their parents. They're banned from requiring that students be outed. They are still allowed to do it!

submitted 14 days ago • 0 comments

California has signed a $189 million contract with Securus, which acknowledged improperly recording privileged attorney-client phone calls in California and states across the country. www.sfchronicle.com/politics/art...

submitted 15 days ago • 0 comments

SCOOP: Before the IRS fired nearly 7,000 probationary employees, a senior lawyer raised the alarm that: - the terminations contained "false" information - they amounted to a "fraud" on the US judicial system Don't miss this @propublica.org exclusive: www.propublica.org/article/trum...

submitted 22 days ago • 63 comments

This, from the NYT morning newsletter, is one of the most irresponsible things I've ever read. Defying any court order means we're already in a constitutional crisis.

submitted 22 days ago • 0 comments

Agency after agency here says rehiring terminated employees would cause "turmoil" for those employees. (In the meantime, they've rehired them and placed them on admin leave.) bsky.app/profile/bigc...

submitted 23 days ago • 0 comments

Some agencies are complying with court orders to rehire federal workers by placing them on administrative leave. An S.F. federal judge last night ruled that doesn't count -- they actually have to work. www.sfchronicle.com/politics/art...

submitted 23 days ago • 0 comments

Based on this fast and excellent WaPo reporting, these four guys are not gang members, just Venezuelan dads who came to the US to work. They’re now being paraded in shackles in El Salvador www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...

submitted 23 days ago • 134 comments

A group of retired Republican lawmakers, including Joe Walsh, Bill Weld and Christine Todd Whitman, urge the court to restore AP's White House access. bsky.app/profile/bigc...

submitted 24 days ago • 0 comments

Lisa Blatt—a Big Law attorney who bills herself as a feminist—argued that protecting migrant children from sexual abuse in detention is BAD because it will “actually incentivize illegal crossings” if they know they’re protected from rape. From @jaywillis.net: ballsandstrikes.org/legal-cultur...

submitted 27 days ago • 22 comments

BREAKING: California regulators have given State Farm General initial approval for a major home insurance rate hike later this year — but first, they want the insurer to pledge not to drop any more customers en masse.

submitted 27 days ago • 4 comments

Katie Porter made her first campaign stop last night. She told a group of Bay Area seniors she would focus on two things if she becomes governor. www.sfchronicle.com/politics/joe...

submitted 27 days ago • 0 comments

On his podcast, Gavin Newsom keeps bringing a thesaurus to a gun fight. www.sfchronicle.com/politics/joe...

submitted 29 days ago • 2 comments

A San Francisco judge has rejected the Trump admin's attempt to block the acting OPM director from testifying on the firings of federal workers. Charles Ezell must testify Thursday, or face sanctions. www.sfchronicle.com/politics/art...

submitted 30 days ago • 0 comments

Katie Porter is running for California governor. But a source says she’ll likely exit if Kamala Harris runs. www.sfchronicle.com/politics/art...

submitted 30 days ago • 0 comments

DOJ, is it good when a judge issues you a "SECOND REQUEST FOR INFORMATION" order? storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

submitted 31 days ago • 11 comments

The Trump admin is arguing in court docs that requiring the acting OPM director to testify on mass firings, with two weeks' advance notice, "raises fundamental constitutional concerns"

submitted 31 days ago • 1 comment

NEWS: Top Washington Post columnist Ruth Marcus resigns, accusing publisher Will Lewis of killing her piece criticizing Jeff Bezos' overhaul of the opinion section My story for NPR: www.npr.org/2025/03/10/n...

submitted 31 days ago • 23 comments

Of course www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...

submitted 34 days ago • 157 comments

San Jose's mayor has unveiled a plan to arrest homeless people who refuse offers of shelter. www.sfchronicle.com/politics/joe...

submitted 35 days ago • 0 comments

Rep. Steve Cohen said today he learned of the plan to sell the downtown Memphis federal building -- which houses his office and which he successfully had renamed -- from the media. He wasn't the only outraged member of Congress demanding answers. www.sfchronicle.com/politics/art...

submitted 35 days ago • 0 comments

This is the third or fourth plaintiff who has noted something from Trump's speech last night. Most are doing what this is--noting that Trump keeps insisting Elon is running DOGE. But this is the lawsuit where DOJ first claimed he was not. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

submitted 35 days ago • 14 comments

Two -- TWO -- of the six finalists for the Goldsmith Prize for Investigating Reporting are from @sfchronicle. www.sfchronicle.com/about/newsro...

submitted 36 days ago • 0 comments

In a hearing on federal building sales, Rep. Rick Larson says members of Congress have had to resort to scouring Reddit threads to get answers on GSA's plans.

submitted 36 days ago • 0 comments

Another Texas bill that has no chance of passing, but its wild what the fringe is putting out there. Literally makes it "fraud" to be trans.

submitted 36 days ago • 112 comments

Part 2 of this incredible investigative series examining California's broken psychiatric care system. www.sfchronicle.com/projects/202...

submitted 36 days ago • 0 comments

Interesting to see a democrat attempt to risk negative reaction to draw attention to the crisis we're in. @algreen.house.gov

submitted 36 days ago • 239 comments

The USAID cuts have left the LGBTQ people in Uganda devastated, with support networks and medical supplies evaporating as they already face grave threats: www.nytimes.com/2025/03/04/w...

submitted 37 days ago • 3 comments

Gavin Newsom has ordered California state workers to return to the office four days a week beginning July 1. www.sfchronicle.com/politics/art...

submitted 37 days ago • 0 comments

Los Angeles is warning that a crush of lawsuits could bankrupt it. A chorus of California school districts and other counties are raising the same alarm.

submitted 38 days ago • 0 comments

As Los Angeles County recovers from wildfires, it's warning in court that another issue altogether could bankrupt it. Counties and school districts across the state are raising the same alarm. Great reporting by @sophiabollag.bsky.social www.sfchronicle.com/politics/art...

submitted 38 days ago • 0 comments

For folks asking if I'm going to attend Trump's joint address to Congress next week: no. Instead, I'm choosing to hear directly from Oregonians and will be hosting an open-to-all town hall on Facebook live. Oregonians can submit questions in advance here:

submitted 40 days ago • 742 comments

Pool report: As Zelensky was ushered out of the Oval Office after being berated by Vance and Trump, the White House press pooler observed staffers whisper to each other: "This is going to be big."

submitted 41 days ago • 0 comments

An S.F. judge has blocked the firings of probationary federal workers, and ordered some reinstated. www.sfchronicle.com/politics/art...

submitted 41 days ago • 0 comments

Pam Bondi just discovered what it's like any time a journalist has ever filed a public records request to any agency, ever. bsky.app/profile/para...

submitted 42 days ago • 0 comments

Pulitzer for this lede. www.politico.com/news/2025/02...

submitted 42 days ago • 0 comments

The Fifth Circuit has discovered a circumstance where qualified immunity does NOT apply to a fatal police shooting of a black person. www.ca5.uscourts.gov/opinions/pub...

submitted 43 days ago • 26 comments

From WH pool report: Musk asked if the cabinet is happy with him, Trump interrupts and asks: “Is anyone unhappy with Elon? If you are, we’ll throw them out of here”

submitted 43 days ago • 0 comments

Rep. Kevin Mullin left a Bay Area hospital following two emergency surgeries to vote against Republicans' budget plan. He voted with his IV still attached. www.sfchronicle.com/politics/art...

submitted 43 days ago • 0 comments

HUGE: The Supreme Court sides with Richard Glossip, holding that prosecutors violated his constitutional rights by failing to correct false testimony at his trial. It directs the Oklahoma courts to vacate his conviction! www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...

submitted 44 days ago • 33 comments

BIG: DC Metro Police decided they had sufficient evidence to arrest sitting GOP Congressman and sent warrant request to USATTY's office. Acting USATTY Martin, who's been explicitly acting as Trump's personal attorney, ignored it. talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/big-b...

submitted 44 days ago • 121 comments

God help us.

submitted 45 days ago • 144 comments

A group of churches, including Sikh Temple Sacramento, has just won an order blocking the Trump administration from conducting most immigration raids at any of the institutions represented in the suit. ecf.mdd.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/show...

submitted 45 days ago • 0 comments

In deep blue Oakland, voters are demanding Democrats "grow a spine" (and, surprisingly, "be like Mitch!") www.sfchronicle.com/politics/joe...

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An assistant SFPD chief who violated department policy by activating his lights to get around traffic and drove into oncoming lanes, then got in an accident, says: "I'm not at fault, I got hit." www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/l...

submitted 47 days ago • 0 comments