Trump claims ‘unquestioned power’ to deploy troops to San Francisco under Insurrection Act
Chronicle, AIDIN VAZIRI: "President Donald Trump said he has “unquestioned power” to deploy the National Guard and reaffirmed that San Francisco will be the next city to face federal intervention.
In an interview that aired Sunday on Fox News’ “Sunday Morning Futures,” Trump floated invoking the Insurrection Act — a centuries-old law that allows presidents to deploy troops on U.S. soil."
How military’s ‘safe’ plan to fire munitions over Interstate 5 went off the rails with CHP cruiser hit
LAT, RONG-GONG LIN II/MELODY GUTIERREZ: "It was supposed to be a boisterous event at Camp Pendleton celebrating 250 years of the U.S. Marine Corps that included a live simulation of a beach assault by sea and air.
The plan involved Marines firing high explosive rounds from M777 Howitzers — artillery used to launch shells in wars in Afghanistan and Ukraine — into designated ranges. Federal officials last week insisted it would be done with “all safety precautions in place” and said no public highways would be closed."
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Experts Expound: Newsom trolling Trump
Capitol Weekly, STAFF: "“It had its moment as satire but it’s time to pivot back to being the grownups in the room.”
“The short answer? No. And old to whom? Certainly not to Democrats, who were languishing for someone among the ranks of Democratic elected officials who had the courage and skill to give Trump a taste of his own medicine.”"
This city banned the Pride flag. Newsom’s maps would give them a progressive, gay congressman
CALMatters, MAYA C. MILLER: California may have a reputation as a bastion of blue, but there are only so many Democratic voters to go around.
Under Proposition 50, Gov. Gavin Newsom’s plan to gerrymander California’s congressional maps to favor Democrats, no incumbent Democrat would take on more Republican voters than Rep. Robert Garcia of Long Beach.""
The feds want to know more about the people on food stamps. How Newsom responded
CALMatters, PHOEBE HUSS: "A law that allowed the sharing of limitless amounts of personal data across the state to find people eligible for CalFresh was rescinded this week.
On Monday, Gov. Gavin Newsom signed Assembly Bill 593 by Assemblymember Buffy Wicks, a Democrat from Oakland, that forbids state and local departments from sharing sensitive personal data to increase food stamp enrollment."
It’s available in California stores and surging in use — yet this dangerous drug is ruining lives
Chronicle, BROOKE PARK: "On a clear fall morning, a black Dodge Challenger hurtled down Highway 99 in Sutter County headed toward San Francisco. Kalie Rae McIntire-Lewis rode in the front passenger seat as her boyfriend drove while repeatedly inhaling nitrous oxide from a two-liter canister.
At roughly 100 mph, Shayne Loudermilk lost consciousness, a known effect of the anesthetic drug. He swerved across a 21-foot-wide median and into oncoming traffic south of Yuba City, slamming head-on into a sedan, killing himself at age 20 and two people in the other car."
Expect more phonics lessons in California schools under law Newsom signed
CALMatters, CAROLYN JONES: "California took a big step toward overhauling its reading curriculum last week when Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a bill pushing for phonics-based instruction in elementary and middle school classrooms.
The new law provides training for school principals and reading specialists in the “science of reading,” a method of literacy instruction focused on vocabulary, comprehension and sounding words out rather than learning words by sight. The approach has led to improved reading scores in Mississippi, Louisiana and districts like Los Angeles Unified, which adopted it several years ago."
These UC campuses send the most students to graduate schools
Chronicle, HANNAH ZAKHARENKO: "Only 14% of U.S. adults aged 25 to 45 have earned a degree beyond a bachelor’s, according to U.S. census data. Among University of California undergraduate alumni, that figure is closer to 36%.
But which schools send the most alumni to graduate school? And what types of graduate degrees do they obtain? Those questions can now be answered through new data released by the University of California on alumni graduate degree outcomes. The data was collected by matching UC bachelor’s degree recipients with records from the National Student Clearinghouse data, which tracks education data for roughly 90% of U.S. colleges and universities. The graduate degree outcomes are for students who graduated from a UC from 2001 to 2018."
From droughts to human mistakes, California salmon near extinction (OP-ED)
Sac Bee, TOM PHILP: "For California water managers, the Sierra snowpack has always been like money in the bank. With steady kisses of spring sun, snowmelt reliably flows ever downward until reaching the state’s vast network of reservoirs downstream.
But in the spring of 2021, in what turned out to be the second year of a scorching three-year drought, something happened to a meager snowpack. Much of it unexpectedly vanished into the sky or ground. Summer, as it now tends to do, had arrived early."
Last year’s flu season was California’s worst in years. How bad will this one get?
LAT, RONG-GONG LIN II: "Last year’s flu season was the worst California had seen in years — and state health officials warn this year could potentially be just as bad.
While forecasting disease isn’t an exact science, there are some troubling signs. In Asia, the flu has made an early comeback, and quickly swelled to epidemic proportions in Japan and Taiwan."
A raging jet stream is reshaping the Pacific. Here’s what it means for California weather
Chronicle, GREG PORTER: "Monday will offer the kind of weather that makes the Bay Area feel amazing, with light offshore breezes, blue skies and warm temperatures.
But that serenity masks a brewing change over the Pacific."
Big Tech’s $200M AI power grab is bad for California—and America
Capitol Weekly, BRENDAN STEINHAUSER: "The 2026 midterms are over a year away, but Silicon Valley is not waiting to make its presence felt. Led by companies like Meta and investors such as Andreessen Horowitz, Big Tech recently pledged up to $200 million to Big Tech funded and operated super PACs in the months ahead.
Why? To convince elected officials—in California and across America—to oppose AI safeguards of any kind, and to punish those who dare to speak out against technology companies. Any sort of pro-safeguard rhetoric is on the radar of Silicon Valley, which seeks unfettered development and deployment of advanced AI agents that have the potential to upend society as we know it."
Home prices in these California cities just hit record highs — even amid a cooling market
Chronicle, CHRISTIAN LEONARD: "What do laid-back San Luis Obispo and agricultural Madera have in common? They’re the only two kinds of cities whose homes are reaching record prices.
California’s housing market is in something of a rut. Unfavorable interest rates, a softening job market and general economic anxiety are driving many buyers away, forcing some sellers to cut prices."
L.A. declares uncleared properties a ‘public nuisance,’ including a mansion from HBO’s ‘Succession’
LAT, TONY BRISCOE: "A burned-down hilltop mansion once featured in HBO’s “Succession” is one of eight Pacific Palisades properties declared a public nuisance by Los Angeles city officials who alleged the owner still hasn’t removed fire ash and debris.
The Los Angeles Board of Building and Safety Commissioners, a five-member committee that adjudicates public nuisance cases, voted that the fire debris at the eight properties — a mix of luxury estates, multifamily apartments and businesses — constituted a public nuisance and could pose a risk to public health and safety. City officials alleged the owners of these properties failed to meet the Oct. 2 deadline to clear hazardous fire debris."
Can BART bring a Civic Center-style revival to another dilapidated S.F. station?
Chronicle, RACHEL SWAN: "It wasn’t so long ago that anyone walking from San Francisco’s Civic Center BART Station to a job at City Hall, or a performance at the Opera House, had to pass through a gantlet of despair: slumped-over drug users, unleashed dogs, street peddlers rolling out blankets of stolen goods.
Now, that two-block stretch is utterly enchanting, starting with the skate park at United Nations Plaza and culminating in a Beaux Arts square lined with London plane trees and manicured grass. The transformation is so complete that people manage to forget what it looked like before."
