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Calif.'s incarcerated firefighters just got a nearly 700% raise The LA fires put a spotlight on how little incarcerated firefighters are paid.

ALSO NEW from @juliebrowndavis.bsky.social

More than 1,100 incarcerated firefighters were sent to Southern California in January to fight four different wildfires.

They just got a massive pay bump.

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'Under tremendous pressure': Newsom vetoes long-awaited AI chatbot bill Gov. Gavin Newsom vetoed a bill that would have barred youth use of AI chatbots.

NEW: In a win for big tech, Newsom vetoed a bill that would have put safeguards for minors who engage w/ AI chatbots

The gov agreed that chatbots pose harm to youth but was concerned the law could “unintentionally” impose a total ban on the use of chatbots for youth

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Thanks so much Steve!

Map shows which 16M acres of Calif. public lands eligible for sale in GOP bill 258 million acres of public lands across the western U.S. could be eligible for sale.

If the budget is passed by the July 4 deadline, an estimated 16 million acres in Calif. are at risk of being sold over the next 5 years. Those vulnerable parcels of land include areas adjacent to Yosemite, Mount Shasta, Big Sur & Tahoe.

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Ripple effects from Los Angeles ICE raids hit San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie said the city is preparing for "more activity" this week.

San Francisco's @DanielLurie said Monday the city is preparing for “more activity” this week after more than 150 people were arrested Sunday night during protests. www.sfgate.com/politics/art...

SFGATE launched a National Parks bureau. It led to explosive growth. SFGATE was one of America's 10 fastest growing news sites in back-to-back months.

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@sfgate.com launched a National Parks bureau in Jan. 1. It's led to millions of readers and our site being one of America's fastest growing in back-to-back months.

Instead of doing a 🧵 I wrote about who we hired + the wild numbers here: www.sfgate.com/national-par...

Happening now: San Francisco Mayor @DanielLurie addressing Sunday night’s ICE protests that lead to the arrest of 60 people.

“I understand why people are out on the streets,” Lurie said. He said he expects “more activity” this week in SF

Happening now: San Francisco Mayor @DanielLurie addressing Sunday night’s ICE protests that lead to the arrest of 60 people.

“I understand why people are out on the streets,” Lurie said. He said he expects “more activity” this week in SF

The Trump and Musk drama just got more heated, and Tesla stock is down Since leaving the White House, Elon Musk has spoken out against Trump's agenda.

Musk credited himself for the Republican victory last election, encouraged an impeachment of Trump, accused the president of being in the Jeffrey Epstein files and said an entirely new political party should be formed to represent the middle 80% of people.

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Newsom is making a billion-dollar bet against Trump's EV plans Trump is expected to revoke California's plan to ban new gas car sales by 2035.

Do you still want an electric car? California is taking a bet you do. New story from me today in @sfgate.com

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8 candidates, 1 massive question mark in California governor race Former vice president and possible governor candidate Kamala Harris sat out the California Democratic Party convention this weekend.

New from me in @sfgate.com, one big absence from the Calif. Democratic Party convention last weekend loomed large over the affair

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Appreciate the retweet from @maddow.msnbc.com on my recent story about how Calif. House Republicans peddled back on promises after voting for president Trump’s reconciliation bill

Shasta County's most knowledgeable elections official just got fired Joanna Francescut, the former assistant county registrar of voters, was terminated on Tuesday. The decision was made by the new top elections official.

More updates coming out of Shasta County this week after the newly appointed out-of-town top elections official Clint Curtis abruptly fired his second-in-command. The move is adding agitation in a community worn out from years of election distrust.

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9 Calif. Republicans in hot seat after consequential health care vote California's nine House Republicans voted for the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, which includes cuts to key programs such as Medicaid.

There are about 15 million Californians enrolled in Medi-Cal, the state’s Medicaid program, and some of the most vulnerable individuals are in Republican districts. Top-notch reporting by @anabelsfgate.bsky.social of @sfgate.com www.sfgate.com/politics/art...

9 Calif. Republicans in hot seat after consequential health care vote California's nine House Republicans voted for the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, which includes cuts to key programs such as Medicaid.

These 9 California Republican congressmembers have a lot of explaining to do after last week's vote on President Donald Trump's "Big Beautiful Bill." Read my latest in @sfgate.com www.sfgate.com/politics/art...

Newsom banned future gas car sales. A Tahoe congressman is trying to reverse it. Rep. Kevin Kiley, a Republican, wants to reverse California's plan to ban the sale of gas-powered vehicles by 2035.

In @sfgate.com today I wrote about how Lake Tahoe Republican congressman Kevin Kiley is determined to reverse one of Newsom's signature gas-car ban, even though the legality of those efforts has been questioned.
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Shasta County meeting descends into profanities over new elections official The Shasta County Board of Supervisors appointed Clint Curtis as its new clerk and registrar of voters.

The election saga continues to unfold up in Shasta County, where the conservative majority Board of Supervisors officially appointed an out-of-state Florida-based lawyer to run its elections next year.

Read more on the public uproar that has unfolded in @sfgate.com

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How Cal killed one of America's best sports bars One of the most storied bars in Berkeley, the Bear's Lair, is dying a long, slow death thanks to apathy and mismanagement from the university.

Wrote about Bear's Lair, which has a storied history in Berkeley involving Robin Williams, Jerry Garcia and Aaron Rodgers' Bowl Cut that you likely don't know much about.

That's because Cal has stood by and watched it die a long, slow, seemingly never-ending death 👇 www.sfgate.com/food/article...

Trump nominee 'learned virtually nothing' about public health at Stanford President Donald Trump has nominated author Casey Means for surgeon general, after the previous nominee withdrew.

In @sfgate today, more on the 37 year old Surgeon General nominee who along with her brother are in RFK Jr’s inner circle

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A SF engineer is going after the most powerful woman in Congress Saikat Chakrabarti, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's former chief of staff, sat down with SFGATE and laid out his ambitious bid to unseat Rep. Nancy Pelosi.

He struck gold as the second engineer ever to join Stripe Inc., the multibillion dollar payment services platform based in San Francisco. Now he's using those millions to try to unseat Nancy Pelosi.

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The tech millionaire running against Nancy Pelosi from an SF apartment Saikat Chakrabarti, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's former chief of staff, sat down with SFGATE and laid out his ambitious bid to unseat Rep. Nancy Pelosi.

Last month I followed around @saikatc.bsky.social, the modest tech millionaire and progressive challenging San Francisco’s Rep. Nancy Pelosi next year. My profile on him is out today in @sfgate.com

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Yes, there are Sunset residents who seem to also share that sentiment. Thank you for sharing Sue!

The park that replaced SF's Great Highway is slowly winning over critics Former critics of San Francisco's contentious Proposition K are now reconsidering.

After a citywide election led to the passage of Prop. K, a measure to close the 2-mile stretch of the Upper Great Highway, it exposed a divide among San Franciscans. For @sfgate.com I wrote about a small and seemingly growing group of residents having a change of heart www.sfgate.com/politics/art...

New Berkeley poll illuminates Kamala Harris' chances in governor's race Voters are feeling mixed emotions about the possibility of Kamala Harris running for governor in 2026.

Some Californians ‘irritated’ about Kamala Harris running for governor. Others say they're 'joyful' too. Today in @sfgate.com www.sfgate.com/politics/art...