The Trump administration has fired 57% of the judges at SF immigration court so far this year. Now the court is emptier and less likely to grant asylum than ever. The gutting, by the numbers, by Jesse Alejandro Cottrell. @sfstandard.com sfstandard.com/2025/12/04/s...

Baby’s got opsec

The internet reminded me that I drew this ten years ago. Now everyone seems even more certain that the robots are taking our jobs imminently, but UBI seems further away than ever.

THE END OF THE WEST has won the Lukas Work-in-Progress book award. Totally thrilling and slightly anti-climactic, because you can't read it yet. But here's what the judges think. journalism.columbia.edu/news/lukas-p...

And an editorial board press campaign! Whew.

I spent weeks piecing together what public officials knew and when for that story. And here it all was in this 150 page booklet that California’s attorneys sat on for going on two years since my initial request. They knew it was a risk, they just didn’t care.

This was the ghost behind my 2023 @themarshallproject.org story on the prisons in Tulare Lake - Corrections’ environmental self-assessment designed to fast-track iffy prison construction. www.themarshallproject.org/2023/10/24/c... The state archives wouldn’t let me see it until now.

tfw the state finally unseals the records you requested in 2023.

In a memo among a flurry sent to department staff today, AG Pam Bondi has ordered DOJ employees to stop work and rescind directives on “environment justice,” with a deadline of Friday.

This is the specific sharp deadliness of weather whiplash: The closer the fire and rain seasons get, the more chance they meet violently.

This house in the Palisades is the only survivor for four blocks. It was last sold in 1979, and it doesn't look like it was updated much if at all since then. Next door was a stucco home with a tile roof, which I've seen some outlets erroneously refer to as "fireproof."