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UC students sue education department over DOGE's access to private financial aid data latimes.com/california/sto…

A Kern County baker violated California law when she refused to sell a cake to a lesbian couple for their wedding, a state appeals court ruled this week in a suit brought by the state’s Civil Rights Division. cal.news/4hwBGRZ 📝 Jeanne Kuang

Breaking: California’s Insurance Commissioner rejects State Farm’s request for an average 22% premium hike. This could set up a showdown between the state and its biggest insurer. cal.news/41cjlnr 📝 Levi Sumagaysay 📸 iStock

It’s been eight months since the U.S. Supreme Court fundamentally changed how cities in CA and beyond can respond to homeless encampments. Even liberal strongholds such as San Francisco were quick to start removing camps. cal.news/3QGNLbi 📝 Marisa Kendall 📸 Jungho Kim

California’s legislative leaders don’t think the public should know whether federal agents are investigating state lawmakers for public corruption cal.news/4knuJEx 📝 Ryan Sabalow 📸 Miguel Gutierrez Jr.

The California State Senate has severely limited press access in the chamber to journalists and despite repeated calls from Capitol Correspondents Association of California to change this, leaders will not listen. Here’s what’s going on 🧵

THREAD: Last year, ProPublica started receiving tips from an unusual kind of source: flight attendants. They said they'd worked on deportation flights for ICE, and they could tell us what it was really like on board. 1/

Nearly one-third of California prisoners released early during the pandemic by Gov. Gavin Newsom’s administration ended up back in prison, Byrhonda Lyons reports calmatters.org/justice/2025/0…

DHS agents just denied me entry to the immigration court on Varick St. I identified myself as a member of the press and said I was there to observe. They still didn't let me in, saying I had "no business" there.

MAGA-aligned leaders took over the city council and set up a community review board for library material and singled out LGBT books. Have they gone too far? cal.news/43oGeoS 📝 Alexei Koseff

Water heaters and furnaces powered by natural gas could be phased out under new air quality rules in the four-county region. cal.news/4klDsGZ 📝 Alejandra Reyes-Velarde

Was shot twice by LASD at the Paramount/Compton protest this evening while reporting/photographing (with a press pass around my neck). Unsure what hit me both times but they hit like a sledgehammer and without immediate warning. Elbow is all wrapped with gauze and knee is weak.

Hard to overstate just how big the crowd is

Los Angeles school police will set up a safety perimeter around campuses and school events — including graduations — to keep federal immigration agents away from students, employees and families, school officials said. Read more: latimes.com/california/sto…

There are now more U.S. troops deployed to Los Angeles than in Iraq and Syria. There are 4,800 activated Guard and Marine personnel in LA, compared to the 2,500 troops in Iraq and 1,500 in Syria. abcnews.link/iJS5RvT

Once he got the sound working, Gavin Newsom in his evening address blamed Trump for enflaming tensions in LA by calling in National Guard and Marines. "We honor their service. We honor their bravery. But we do not want our streets militarized by our own armed forced," he said.

BREAKING: California Democratic Senator Alex Padilla just crashed DHS Secretary Noem’s press conference in LA and was forcibly removed.

Federal judge has just ruled that President Trump’s deployment of California National Guard was illegal and grants Gavin Newsom’s request for a temporary restraining order. He orders control of the troops be returned to California.

This picture from Reuters confirms U.S. Marines have carried out the first detention of a civilian in L.A.

California officials tried to help ICE deport a convicted sex offender. ICE: ⭕️ Cancelled the hold and didn’t pick him up from prison ⭕️Arrested him in the community two weeks later ⭕️Blamed California officials Full story w/WendyFry 👇🏾 calmatters.org/justice/2025/0…