In Super Bowl LX's backyard, the DA is losing sleep, he tells me.
Why?
B/c he fears a physical fight b/w local police and ICE agents if the feds try to obstruct probes of killings, like in Minneapolis.
"We don’t want a civil war here," DA Jeff Rosen says:
www.mercurynews.com/2026/02/04/m...
TPUSA set a trap. Cal fell in, I argue @mercurynews.com
Like Pavlov's dogs salivating before they saw Alpo in the bowl, protesters were vandalizing before TP's event began.
What students didn't realize? They were unwitting accomplices in GOP content strategy:
www.mercurynews.com/2025/11/07/e...
San Jose wants to be the Capital of AI.
The problem?
The president's war on universities and immigration are sabotaging San Jose's (and America's) ambitions.
My column for @mercurynews.com explains why:
#nokings
San Jose says, “No kings!”
Cal Fire, state’s fire agency is greenwashing its industrial logging side hustle, while raising carbon emissions — and fire risk, argues environmental scientists and ex-senior Lawrence Livermore Lab researchers at @mercurynews.com and @eastbaytimes.com.
Read:
Donald Trump’s obsession with genes fits into long, ugly tradition of presidents who consider immigrants inherently inferior, argues Claremont McKenna U.S. history professor John J. Pitney, Jr. in an op-ed @mercurynews.com and @eastbaytimes.com today.
Read how:
www.mercurynews.com/2025/08/27/o...
Trump's "ongoing efforts to combine access to the sensitive and personal information of Americans into a single searchable system with the help of shady companies should terrify us – and should inspire us to fight back," argues @eff.org's Cindy Cohn in today's @mercurynews.com and @eastbaytimes.com.
Thank you!
Look past the jets, the mansions and billions in the bank. Zuckerberg, Bezos, Pichai and Cook are becoming Trump's high-paid hostages.
Be afraid.
Their companies' lucrative levers of surveillance and persuasion are at the disposal of a criminal president.
Read my op-ed @mercurynews.com:
Silicon Valley has a hostage crisis, I argue in today's @mercurynews.com and @eastbaytimes.com.
After Trump threatened Zuckerberg with a lifetime prison sentence last year, the heads of Meta, Alphabet, Amazon and Apple are starting to resemble high-paid hostages.
Be afraid.
Read why ⬇️:
Citizens aren't safe.
"Late last month the Supreme Court dropped its second bombshell: as a practical matter, it said, the government is free to deport U.S. citizens too."
-- Stanford University Law's Mark Lemley in op-ed @mercurynews.com & @eastbaytimes.com
Read full story ⬇️
"American democracy died last week, just shy of this country’s 249th birthday," argues @marklemley.bsky.social in a @mercurynews.com & @eastbaytimes.com op-ed today.
2 recent decisions by SCOTUS have removed the last remaining bulwarks against a lawless POTUS.
Please read Mark's full argument ⬇️
Yes
@eastbaytimes.com @mercurynews.com
No. Two hours ago
San Jose: “No kings in the USA!”
San Jose: “No kings in the USA!”
San Jose says, “No kings.”
For now, L.A. is satiating Trump's sadism, I argue in today's @mercurynews.com.
But he needs to sow more chaos to continue pushing the boundaries of military power over domestic politics.
And that's where the Bay Area comes in.
The question is:
Will San Jose, Oakland & SF bite his bait of bile?
L.A. took Trump's bait.
Will the Bay Area bite, too?
For now, L.A. is satiating Trump's sadism & its chaos is helping justify expanding military power.
But San Jose, Oakland & SF are in ICE's crosshairs, I argue @eastbaytimes.com and @mercurynews.com.
www.mercurynews.com/2025/06/10/t...
“The wrong #ICE is melting.”
San Jose City Hall now:
#iceprotests
@christiannaj.bsky.social did you ever do a follow-up to this piece?
mashable.com/article/mark...
Not at all. This is now becoming all too common.
@jtyska.bsky.social
This sad trend continues.
A clearly sick (gray?) whale is fighting for survival rn onshore at Montara State Beach, 8m north of Half Moon Bay.
As reported by @eastbaytimes.com & @mercurynews.com , a suspiciously high number of whales are dying in Bay Area.
My drone footage from this PM:
“Tackling homelessness has pit California against itself,” I argue today’s @mercurynews.com.
“Mayors blame other mayors, who blame county supervisors, who blame mayors and the governor, who, in turn, blames mayors and supervisors.”
Gov. Newsom must take charge:
www.mercurynews.com/2025/05/31/t...
Bay Area universities used their autonomy and funding to make America great. U.S. military, economic and scientific hegemony was built by the minds trained at UC Berkeley and Stanford, I argue @mercurynews.com @eastbaytimes.com.
But now, that's all at risk of falling apart...
Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara is paving California's road to hell, I argue in my column in today's @mercurynews.com.
The insurance market is trying to send a message to Californians: Stop building in the most predictably flammable areas.
But we don't want to learn new lessons...
Link below:
