Matthias Gafni

The woman pouring your $18 beer at the Super Bowl makes $14.25 an hour with no health insurance When the Raiders moved to Las Vegas, Nevada lawmakers approved a $750 million gift to the...

Two years ago at the #SuperBowl in LAs Vegas I wrote about the economics of the big game.

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Organizers hand out more than 25,000 “ICE OUT” towels at Super Bowl for halftime protest A group of activists handed out more than 25,000 towels with the words “ICE OUT” to Super Bowl attendees on Sunday, hoping they will display throughout the game.

NEW: Organizers hand out more than 25k towels with “ICE OUT” messaging for planned protest of Trump administration immigration enforcement at #SuperBowl halftime during Bad Bunny performance. Stay tuned

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Attorney reveals key evidence that flipped Antioch death from suicide to murder Civil attorney Matt Guichard reveals critical piece of evidence and Brenda Leon’s daughter speaks out after court hearing Monday.

NEW: Attorney reveals critical piece of evidence discovered that turned the Brenda Leon suicide case into a homicide investigation

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Exclusive: Hegseth approves request by leaders of Minneapolis immigration siege for use of military base In an email obtained by the Chronicle, U.S. Customs and Border Protection asked for use of Fort Snelling to house federal immigration agents, weapons, vehicles and aircraft.

EXCLUSIVE: In a sign federal immigration efforts may not be ramping down, Pete Hegseth approved the CBP to position personnel, weapons, vehicles and aircraft at an Army Reserve base at Fort Snelling

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Artist of mural that gained TikTok fame has stopped painting YouTube video by San Francisco Chronicle

And watch this brilliant video showing the mural, his vocal struggles and his lovely family by @sarahrosemcgrew.bsky.social

youtu.be/Oy6FlXgyRrw

This was a fascinating, tragic and heartwarming story to work on. What a brilliantly creative mind - now trapped inside itself by aphasia.

Will he finish his masterpiece?

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Interesting. Was looking at this data and it sounds like in layman’s terms this equipment does not indicate that significant shaking happened 23 kilometers away at the time of USGS “quake”? It, in fact, is picking up some type of shaking from much farther away?

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This is Matthias with the SF Chronicle. We spoke in past. Had a question for you on this. I’m at matthias.gafni@sfchronicle.com

Stunning Northern Lights show in Northern California tonight. I used the California wildfire camera network to capture some of the best video. Here’s one from Modoc County:

And finally one from near Ione. What an amazing show!

And another from the far NE tip of California

Here’s another from St. Helena camera in Napa County

Stunning Northern Lights show in Northern California tonight. I used the California wildfire camera network to capture some of the best video. Here’s one from Modoc County:

Vinny Was a Good Boy Vinny Was a Good Boy [Gafni, Eloise, Becker, Gail] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Vinny Was a Good Boy

My daughter wrote a book for her Girl Scouts Gold Award! Inspired by her own pit bull rescue Oliver, she wrote about Vinny, a shelter dog, in an effort to end “dangerous breed” stigma and increase adoptions. All proceeds go to Jelly’s Place dog rescue!

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Vinny Was a Good Boy Vinny Was a Good Boy [Gafni, Eloise, Becker, Gail] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Vinny Was a Good Boy

My daughter wrote a book for her Girl Scouts Gold Award! Inspired by her own pit bull rescue Oliver, she wrote about Vinny, a shelter dog, in an effort to end “dangerous breed” stigma and increase adoptions. All proceeds go to Jelly’s Place dog rescue!

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Bay Area police investigating report of razor blade in teen’s Halloween candy Days after trick-or-treating in her South Bay neighborhood, a teen bit into a Milky Way and told police she found a razor blade embedded in the nougat.

Urban legend?

Gilroy police are investigating report by teen saying she bit into this Milky Way she collected during Halloween trick-or-treating and found a razor blade inside

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Video taken by @sfchronicle.com reporter Sarah Ravani shows flash bangs used to disperse crowd blocking federal agents from entering bridge to Coast Guard base

Protest of Bay Area immigration crackdown met with apparent stun grenades at Coast Guard base Law enforcement officials deployed what appeared to be stun grenades to break up a group of protesters attempting to block traffic to Coast Guard Island.

Happening now: Protesters are continuously walking across crosswalk blocking entrance to Alameda Coast Guard base. Some unmarked and marked federal agent vehicles having to inch through crowd, one used what appeared to be flash bangs to disperse crowd.

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The Trump administration has dispatched more than 100 federal agents, including from U.S. Customs and Border Protection, to Coast Guard Base Alameda and they will begin to arrive Thursday, according to a source familiar with the operation.

Exclusive: Major federal immigration operation headed to San Francisco Bay Area The Trump administration has dispatched more than 100 federal agents, including from U.S. Customs and Border Protection, to Coast Guard Base Alameda and they’ll begin to arrive Thursday.

Coast Guard has confirmed they are welcoming CBP. Story updated:

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Exclusive: Major federal immigration operation headed to San Francisco Bay Area The Trump administration has dispatched more than 100 federal agents, including from U.S. Customs and Border Protection, to Coast Guard Base Alameda and they’ll begin to arrive Thursday.

BREAKING via @mgafni.bsky.social
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Clarifying CBP-led operation, not confirmed ICE involvement

Exclusive: Major federal immigration operation headed to San Francisco Bay Area More than 100 federal agents, including some from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and U.S. Customs and Border Protection to Alameda base.

EXCLUSIVE: @sfchronicle.com learns that more than 100 agents, including ICE and CBP are headed to San Francisco

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Ex-NFL running back Doug Martin dies during struggle with Oakland police Doug Martin, 36, who was born in Oakland, played for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and the Oakland Raiders.

Ex-NFL and Raiders RB Doug Martin died early Saturday morning after a struggle with Oakland police

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We’ve seen the damage wrought from Palisades, Maui and Oakland Hills from rekindling. Poses major questions about firefighting when severe fire weather predicted:

- Should predeploy resources to recent burn sites?

- Should return to recent burn sites to redouble mop-up work, use heat sensors?

Spot on thread here from my reporting partner @jjreport.bsky.social.

LAFD brass publicly slammed our report of rekindling early on. And now have ignored it altogether in after-action report. That is precisely where lessons are to be learned for future CA and LA wildfires.

Bay Area teen survived a broken neck after swim accident. His family says the hospital care cost him his life Seventeen-year-old East Bay football player was paralyzed and died after a swimming accident in April. His parents filed a lawsuit Thursday alleging poor care by John Muir Medical Center.

EXCLUSIVE: Family of East Bay 17yo Amin Noroozi, who got paralyzed after an accident at Stinson Beach, is suing John Muir hospital in Walnut Creek, alleging they failed in his care.

He died April 17.

Absolutely gut wrenching story.

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A burned Bible and ChatGPT messages: Chilling details of the case against man charged with starting Palisades Fire Investigators allege Uber driver Jonathan Rinderknecht lit a fire early New Year’s Day that was extinguished but smoldering and rekindled days later.

After being the first to report that the horrific Palisades Fire was linked to an earlier blaze, @mgafni.bsky.social and Julie Johnson have a remarkable deep dive into the person who has now been charged with starting it:
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A burned bible and ChatGPT messages: Chilling details of the case against man charged with starting Palisades Fire Investigators allege Uber driver Jonathan Rinderknecht lit a fire early New Year’s Day that was extinguished but smoldering and rekindled days later.

Chilling details of what led up to suspected Palisades Fire arsonist lighting hillside on fire.

With @jjreport.bsky.social

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Shoutout to @sfchronicle.com investigative reporter @mgafni.bsky.social and climate reporter @jjreport.bsky.social