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2Pac feat. Dr. Dre:
🎵 California Love
#NowPlaying #2Pac #DrDre
https://attamusic.bandcamp.com/track/2pac-dr-dre-california-love-atta-re-edit
https://open.spotify.com/track/3ia3dJETSOllPsv3LJkE35

“Many AVs are electric, but the metals and minerals used to build them often come from environmentally harmful mining operations that damage communities—especially Indigenous communities—and ecosystems abroad.”
Appreciate @… calling this out! Cars aren't green, AV or not. Sign her petition to let California counties vote on whether we wan…

Let the People Decide: Give Us a Vote on Autonomous Vehicles
Autonomous vehicles (AVs) have flooded San Francisco’s streets, raising serious safety and traffic concerns for residents, pedestrians, animal advocates, and local businesses. In 2025 alone, both Waymo and Zoox recalled over 1,200 vehicles due to crash risks. AVs have also blocked emergency vehicles, caused traffic jams, and created dangerous situations for people walking, biking, and driving. Ride-hailing services like Uber and Lyft already made traffic worse, accounting for about half th…

My hometown beach donated it's sand to Waikiki Beach
https://www.sfgate.com/hawaii/article/waikiki-beach-california-sand-21261111.php

🐻 Bye bye, bear: beast living ‘rent-free’ under California home has been removed
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jan/09/bear-under-california-home-evicted

‘Boom, he’s out’: bear living ‘rent-free’ under California home has been removed
The 550lb black bear was drawn out with paintball guns after it had resided under the home for more than a month

Methyl bromide pesticide still widely used in California, raising health concerns #California

Methyl bromide pesticide still widely used in California, raising health concerns
In a new study of the continuing use in California of the pesticide methyl bromide, a known developmental, neurologic and respiratory toxin, researchers from UCLA and UC Irvine found that the compound is still in widespread use across the state, from San Diego and Los Angeles counties northward through the Central Valley.

Meta gives $65M to two super PACs to elect California state candidates, regardless of party, whom it views as supportive of the AI and tech industry (Christine Mui/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/02/02/m

Los Angeles protesters treating the local paramilitary hideout with the same respect that the fascist invaders has shown the country (California - 1/30/26)
Source:
#politics

Credo just dropped its 2025 ESG report, and it's all about making AI infrastructure greener.
The connectivity tech company is tackling one of AI's biggest challenges: massive energy consumption in data centers. Their solution? High-speed connectivity hardware designed for lower power use and reduced waste.
Beyond products, they're investing in education, health, and local communities.

Credo Releases 2025 Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) Report - CleanTechnica
Support CleanTechnica's work through a Substack subscription or on Stripe. San Jose, California — Credo Technology Group Holding Ltd (Credo) (NASDAQ: CRDO), an innovator in providing secure, high-speed connectivity solutions that deliver improved reliability and energy efficiency, has released its 2025 Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) Report. The report outlines ... [continued]

California Post, a daily newspaper produced by the same company that publishes the New York Post, debuts on Monday in Southern California, led by EIC Nick Papps (Zhiyu Luo/Los Angeles Business Journal)
https://labusinessjournal.com/media/california-post-begins-this-mon…

California Post Begins This Month - Los Angeles Business Journal
California Post will premiere in Los Angeles Jan. 26 in a much-anticipated debut, ushering in what its sister publication, New York Post, calls a “new era

Matt Mahan, mayor of San Jose, announces run for governor of California
The former tech entrepreneur joins a sprawling but stagnant field to succeed Gavin Newsom
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jan/29/matt-mahan-sa…

California has lost more than a quarter of its immigration judges this year (Andrea Castillo/Los Angeles Times)
https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2025-12-29/california-has-lost-more-than-quarter-of-its-immigration-judges-this-year
http://www.memeorandum.com/251229/p82#a251229p82

🚁 Why an unproven air taxi company is spending $126 million to take over an L.A. airport
#la

Newsom urges California law enforcement to investigate possible federal agent crimes - POLITICO
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/01/27/newsom-urges-california-law-enforcement-to-investigate-possible-federal-agent-crimes-00751293

Gavin Newsom accused the Trump administration official
Dr Mehmet Oz
of discrimination in a civil rights complaint filed with the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).
Oz, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) administrator, recently visited Los Angeles
and filmed a video alleging that members of the city’s Armenian community orchestrated large-scale healthcare fraud.
The post set off a days-long public quarrel that culminated in the Ca…

Sergey Brin Donates $20 Million to California Political Effort After Leaving the State (John Sexton/HotAir)
https://hotair.com/john-s-2/2026/01/28/sergey-brin-donates-20-million-to-california-political-effort-after-leaving-the-state-n3811325
http://www.memeorandum.com/260128/p137#a260128p137

Oz is a Turkish-American with ties to Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan,
and has been accused of denying the Armenian Genocide.
As a result, Armenian-American voters in Pennsylvania played a key role in defeating him in his tight 2022 U.S. Senate race,
during which Oz refused to explicitly recognize the 1915 mass killings of Armenians.
California Governor Gavin Newsom’s press office echoed concerns of ulterior motives,
saying it is reviewing reports of Oz …

Details on the California #wealthTax proposal:
https://lao.ca.gov/BallotAnalysis/Initiative/2025-024
It's a one-time 5% wealth tax but can be spread over 5 ye…

Silicon Valley Favorite Jumps Into California Governor's Race (Eliyahu Kamisher/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-01-29/san-jose-mayor-a-silicon-valley-darling-announces-run-for-california-governor
http://www.memeorandum.com/260129/p45#a260129p45

California Regulators Force Verizon To Do “Woke” Stuff Like Make Sure Broadband Is Semi-Affordable To Poor People | Techdirt
https://www.techdirt.com/2026/01/29/california-regulators-force-verizon-to-do-woke-stuff-like-make-sure-broadband-is-semi-affordable-to-poor-people/

The college dreams of 80,000 undocumented California students threatened by Trump suit
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-11-22/trump-suit-threatens-in-state-college-tuition-for-undocumented-cal…

Trump suit targets college tuition of undocumented California students
Trump sues California alleging in-state tuition and financial aid programs for undocumented students are illegal, threatening the education of some 80,000 such students.

Thiel Capital opens an office in Miami, as Peter Thiel and others reportedly look to cut ties with California over a proposed ballot measure to tax billionaires (Biz Carson/Bloomberg)

Water pounded Santa Barbara’s coastline on November 6 for the first king tides of the year — flooding beaches and parking lots and jumping the walls of usually dry lookouts at places like Butterfly Beach and Campus Point. 
This weekend marks round two of these extraordinarily high tides,
which occur when the sun, moon, and Earth align, pulling the surf to extreme highs and lows.
They are typically at least one foot above the average high tide, according to the California Co…

A look at Rupert Murdoch's California Post, which will focus on LA, Silicon Valley, and Sacramento when it launches in 2026; Ian Mohr will lead CA Page Six (Lachlan Cartwright/Vanity Fair)
https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/story/rupert-murdoc…

Rupert Murdoch’s Last Hurrah: Conquering Hollywood With the 'California Post'
California is a veritable news feast—politicians with national ambitions, climate disasters, the twin industries of Hollywood and tech. And News Corp sees a media weakness to exploit.

Sources: Peter Thiel and Larry Page may leave CA over a proposed ballot measure, opposed by Newsom, that levies a one-time 5% tax on those with $1B in assets (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/26/tec…

A Wealth Tax Floated in California Has Billionaires Thinking of Leaving
It’s uncertain whether the proposal will reach the statewide ballot in November, but some billionaires like Peter Thiel and Larry Page may be unwilling to take the risk.

№ 8 Adam Hinton 6'4" from Hollywood Hills, California looks for a way around the Princeton Tigers -- I took this photo yesterday but I'm heading back to Newman this evening to catch a game against the Pennsylvania Quakers
#photo #photography

U.S. Department of Education Finds California Department of Education Violated Federal Law by Hiding Students' "Gender Transitions" from Parents (U.S. Department of Education)
https://www.ed.gov/about/news/press-release/us-department-of-education-finds-california-department-of-education-violated-federal-law-hiding-students-gender-transitions-parents
http://www.memeorandum.com/260128/p116#a260128p116

Last year we reported how Verizon executives
agreed to be more racist and sexist
in exchange for Trump DOJ and FCC approval of their $20 billion merger with telecom giant Frontier Communications.
Verizon embarrassingly said they’d cull race and gender equality initiatives,
and try harder moving forward to protect downtrodden white people from the scary monster that is diversity.
But California regulators have thrown a few wrinkles into the mix for Verizon.

California Regulators Force Verizon To Do “Woke” Stuff Like Make Sure Broadband Is Semi-Affordable To Poor People
Last year we reported how Verizon executives happily agreed to be more racist and sexist in exchange for Trump DOJ and FCC approval of their $20 billion merger with telecom giant Frontier Communica…

‘Call a Republican’: Viral phone booth connects Calif. liberals, conservative Texans
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2026-01-22/california-texas-phone-booths-experiment-political-divide

California to Texas pay phone sparks conversation across party lines
Matter Neuroscience installed phone booths in liberal San Francisco and conservative Abilene, Texas, encouraging strangers to engage in conversation across party lines.

Gov. Newsom's 2026 budget proposal contains no funding for the California Civic Media Fund, despite a 2024 deal to provide $175M to newsrooms over five years (Yue Stella Yu/Los Angeles Times)
https://www.latimes.com/california/stor…

Newsom plans no new journalism funding despite $175-million funding deal with Google
It’s a significant walkback from an August 2024 deal between California leaders and Google to jointly spend $175 million over five years to fund local journalism.

With growing interest in social housing in SF, maybe it’s a good time to re-up this Q&A I hosted last month. In addition to lessons from Seattle, @… goes over SF efforts so far, so it’s a great way to get up to speed!

Municipal Social Housing: What can California learn from Seattle’s win? — California DSA
By now, San Francisco is famous not just for unaffordable rent, but also for its acrimonious debates about how to solve the problem. One well-funded contingent asserts it’s all about making it easier and cheaper to build privately owned homes, but as even the corporate media is now noting, we’ve don

California DMV says a California administrative law judge recently ruled Tesla engaged in deceptive marketing around its Autopilot and Full Self-Driving systems (Lora Kolodny/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/12/16/california-judge-say…

California judge rules that Tesla engaged in deceptive marketing around Autopilot
An administrative law judge in California ruled Tesla's license to sell or manufacture cars in the state should be suspended for 30 days.

California bill would ban ICE agents from jobs in teaching and policing (Sara DiNatale/San Francisco Chronicle)
https://www.sfchronicle.com/politics/article/california-bill-ice-teachers-21318405.php
http://www.memeorandum.com/260127/p148#a260127p148

Federal agents raiding schools and abducting children sounds far-fetched. 
But considering the recent trends of immigration enforcement nationwide,
California officials are treating this as a real possibility. 
The California Attorney General’s office has released updated guidelines for school staff, students, and families
on what to do should Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) try to step onto school grounds.
It is intended to expand and standardize pro…

Federal judge dismisses indictment against TikToker shot by ICE, citing constitutional violations (Brittny Mejia/Los Angeles Times)
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-12-28/federal-judge-dismisses-indictment-against-tiktoker
http://www.memeorandum.com/251228/p43#a251228p43

The rolling grasslands and rocky beaches of
"Vandenberg Space Force Base",
— home to more than a dozen at-risk species,
easily could pass for a peaceful nature preserve
— but that's an illusion.
The nearly 100,000-acre base was a testing ground in the 1960s for early-generation ballistic missiles,
and today it's a launch site for satellites, classified missions and other payloads key to a new type of war: one fought far above the Earth.

FACT FOCUS: A look at false and misleading claims made during Trump's first cabinet meeting of 2026 (Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/fact-check-trump-cabinet-economy-housing-energy-health-california-f4b4fb985300724a7e717863626e5506
http://www.memeorandum.com/260129/p131#a260129p131

Apple wins dismissal of parts of a class action alleging it violated CA privacy law by collecting user data from its apps despite users believing they opted out (Isaiah Poritz/Bloomberg Law)
https://news.bloomberglaw.com/tech-and

Apple Beats California Privacy Law Claims in Data Tracking Suit
Apple Inc. defeated claims that it violated California privacy law when it allegedly collected user data from its in-house apps, such as the App Store or Apple Music, despite users believing they opted out of collection.

A Wealth Tax Floated in California Has Billionaires Thinking of Leaving (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/26/technology/california-wealth-tax-page-thiel.html?unlocked_article_code=1._k8.Yct_.GBwN4RfhTu-6&smid=url-share
http://www.memeorandum.com/251226/p53#a251226p53

Local authorities issued an evacuation warning for
Wrightwood, California,
a town of just under 5,000 people around 80 miles north-east of Los Angeles,
as images showed mud and debris engulfing homes and vehicles.
The San Bernardino county fire department on Thursday night stated that one person was injured in the slide,
but that weather conditions were expected to improve and there was no ongoing safety threat.

California regulators unanimously voted in favor of Verizon's $10B Frontier acquisition; deliberations included Verizon committing to CA's DEI requirements (Matthew Keys/TheDesk.net)
https://thedesk.net/2026/01/california-approves-verizon-frontier-merger/

California approves Verizon-Frontier merger, requires DEI commitments
Verizon must deploy fiber to 75,000 locations, build new wireless sites and offer $20 broadband to low-income households.

Northern California Conservatives Are Frustrated They Could Get a Democratic Representative (Kellen Browning/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/26/us/politics/california-redistricting-lamalfa-republicans.html?unlocked_article_code=1._k8.keXo.Wxtgj8S2CEKz&smid=url-share
http://www.memeorandum.com/251226/p7#a251226p7

Trump administration retreats in Newsom lawsuit over National Guard deployment
https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2025-12-31/trump-administration-retreats-in-newsom-lawsuit-over-national-guard-deployment

Trump administration retreats in Newsom lawsuit over National Guard deployment
In a brief filing with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit on Tuesday, Justice Department lawyers said they no longer oppose lifting a partial administrative stay and formally withdrew their request to keep California National Guard under federal control while the appeal proceeds.

Meta, TikTok, Google, and YouTube sue California over a new law that prohibits personalized feeds for minors without parental consent, claiming it violates 1A (Bernie Pazanowski/Bloomberg Law)
https://news.bloomberglaw.com/states-of-p…

Tech Giants Sue California Over Social Media Access Law (2)
Meta Platforms Inc., TikTok Inc., Google LLC, and YouTube LLC are challenging a California law that forbids social media platforms from allowing minors to access personalized feeds without parental consent.

The Justice Department sued California in federal court on Thursday,
claiming that providing in-state college tuition to unauthorized students is illegal
and discriminates against Americans from out of state who pay higher rates.
The complaint, filed in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California,
is the latest action by the Trump administration against California.
It is the third lawsuit filed by the Justice Department against the state in a…

Justice Dept. Sues California Over College Benefits for Undocumented Students
The lawsuit is the third filed by the Justice Department against the state in a week.

The most prominent American voice at the COP Climate Summit in Belém was that of the California governor, Gavin Newsom.
During the five days he spent in Brazil, Newsom described Donald Trump as an “invasive species”
and condemned his rollback of policies aimed at reducing emissions and expanding renewable energy.
Newsom, long considered a presidential hopeful, argued that,
as the US retreated, California would step up in its place as a
“stable, reliable” climat…

A woman in Los Angeles was swept nine miles down San Jose Creek in the mid-afternoon on Wednesday, Dec. 24

The woman was initially spotted in the creek near near Fullerton Road around 1:50 p.m. local time and was rescued by first responders at Workman Mill Road and taken to the hospital

This comes amid severe weather conditions in California, which has prompted Gov. Gavin Newsom to declare a state of emergency in southern California counties

Woman Rescued After Being Swept at Least 9 Miles Down Creek During Christmas Eve Calif. Storm
A woman in Los Angeles was rescued after being swept nine miles down San Jose Creek in the mid-afternoon on Wednesday, Dec. 24, amid severe weather conditions in California.

Three people were found dead on Mt. Baldy on Monday,
days after a winter storm blanketed the peaks of the San Gabriel Mountains with snow.
At around 11:30 a.m., search and rescue teams responded to a request to find an injured man, 19,
who had fallen 500 feet while hiking near Devil’s Backbone,
a sharp ridge flanked by steep drops that leads to the summit,
the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department said in a news release.
A friend who had been traveli…

Three hikers found dead on Mt. Baldy. Harsh weather blocks recovery
Three people died on Mt. Baldy, and powerful Santa Ana winds have prevented helicopters from recovering their bodies, authorities said Tuesday.

Eric Swalwell, a seven-term Democratic US representative known for his pugnacious and persistent opposition to Donald Trump,
announced on Thursday night he will run for governor of California.
“This great state needs a fighter and a protector, someone who will bring prices down, lift wages up,” Swalwell said.
“So I came here tonight, Jimmy to tell you and your audience that I’m running to be the next governor of California.”
Swalwell’s announcement comes shortly after…

DOJ lawsuit seeking records of
23 million California voters
is dismissed by judge
https://www.ocregister.com/2026/01/16/judge-dismisses-trump-administration-lawsuit-seeking-detailed-voter-informa…

DOJ lawsuit seeking records of 23 million California voters is dismissed by judge
The Trump administration contended that California and other states were illegally blocking the federal government’s wide-ranging effort to scrutinize detailed voter data.

Up to 1,800 flights a day could be disrupted by Trump's airport cuts;
California to be hard hit
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-11-06/why-california-could-be-so-hard-hit-by-airport-capacity…

California airport will be hard hit by
California airports are expected to be hard hit by dramatic reduction in flights as the Federal Aviation Administration plans to cut air traffic by 10% at 40 airports to maintain travel safety during the government shutdown.

LA Times Investigation:
Ex-Trump DOJ lawyers say ‘fraudulent’ UC antisemitism probes led them to quit
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-12-13/former-doj-attorneys-university-of-california-ucl…

Ex-Trump DOJ lawyers say 'fraudulent' UC antisemitism probes led them to quit
The Times spoke to nine former Department of Justice civil rights attorneys tasked with investigating antisemitism complaints at the University of California. They all resigned during their investigation. Here's why.

Southern California mountain lions recommended for threatened status
The California Department of Fish and Wildlife has recommended granting threatened species status
to roughly 1,400 mountain lions roaming the Central Coast and Southern California,
pointing to grave threats posed by freeways, rat poison and fierce wildfires.
The determination, released Wednesday, is not the final say
but signals a possibility that several clans of the iconic cougars will be …

Southern California mountain lions recommended for threatened status
The California wildlife department is recommending listing mountain lions in Southern California and the Central Coast as threatened.