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After primary flop, San Jose's mayor banks on World Cup bounce

Matt Mahan lost his race for governor. He's counting on the Bay Area's soccer surge — and a summit full of tech dignitaries — for a second act.

Don’t forget San Diego’s July 4 fiasco — then vote the bums out

The San Diego County Board of Supervisors voted this year to align the county’s Independence Day event with “equity and racial justice” goals.

Justice Sotomayor Warns Trans Athlete Bans Aren’t Based on Any Facts

The Supreme Court on Tuesday upheld West Virginia and Idaho state laws banning transgender athletes from competing on teams that align with their gender, further restricting trans rights in the U.S.This is the court’s first ruling on laws regarding trans athletes, and follows last year’s decision in U.S. v. Skrmetti allowing states to ban gender-affirming care for transgender minors.The ruling contributes to an increasingly bleak legal landscape for trans people in the U.S. Both petitioners argued that the state bans are discriminatory, and violate the Fourteenth Amendment’s equal protection clause. One argued that the restrictions are also a violation of Title IX, which prohibits discrimination in schools on the basis of sex.All three liberal justices dissented in the decision, noting that they would have sent the case back for further factual findings on the equal protection claim.Justice Sonia Sotomayor wrote a partial dissent, joined by Justices Ketanji Brown Jackson and Elena Kagan.“States do have some room to legislate around issues when there exists significant, and genuine, scientific debate,” Sotomayor wrote. “At this point, however, neither the District Court nor the Fourth Circuit has passed upon any of the available evidence or made the necessary factual findings about the state of the scientific debate.“The majority’s opinion ends by reciting the many wonderful ways in which playing sports can be valuable to young people. It can help build resilience, tenacity, leadership, and discipline. It can lead to life-long friendships, community, and a sense of belonging. It can bring joy and the thrill of victory, along with all the lessons one learns from experiencing defeat. The benefits are immense,” Sotomayor continued. “Because of the Court’s decision today, West Virginia, and any other state actor, can deny B. P. J. and others like her these experiences simply because it thinks they have an inherent athletic advantage, even if the facts show that they do not.”“A transgender woman penalized for being perceived as aggressive has experienced discrimination ‘on the basis of sex’ just as much as a cisgender woman has, no matter that the transgender woman’s behavior matches expectations of her sex assigned at birth,” Justice Jackson wrote in an additional dissent. “Either way, the institution has imposed its gender-based expectations upon her. And either way, the institution may have violated Title IX.”The majority decision will have national repercussions on transgender athletes competing in youth and college sports. The number of trans athletes participating in these activities is already very slim.Rachel Kahn contributed reporting to this story.

Fact Checking Trump’s Claims About the Strait of Hormuz

The president claimed that an ‘all time RECORD’ amount of oil exited the strait on June 22.

Trump official bashes host after being fact-checked in real time

Acting deputy secretary of Homeland Security, Ken Cuccinelli, attacked a CNN host live on air after she fact-checked him before closing his laptop to the interview. "Boy! You're a left-wing hack!" Cuccinelli yelled at host Erica Hill when she nailed him on the myth of "birth tourism" by immigrants. On Tuesday, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the U.S. Constitution upholds birthright citizenship, effectively striking down a key executive order issued by President Donald Trump in the first months of his second administration. Arguing before the court, the Justice Department used a similar talking point that people come from all over the world to the U.S. to have their children so that they will be American citizens. Cuccinelli claimed that it's "a full-blown industry in this country."A study by the Immigration Policy Institute using data from the U.S. Census showed that approximately 0.7 percent of births in the U.S. "could be attributed to birth tourism." They aren't certain whether or not they are, but that is the maximum amount it could be. Hill said as much as she spoke over Cuccinelli, attempting to interrupt her."There aren't concerns about it," Hill explained before also cutting in that a constitutional amendment would require a heavy lift and that the American people overwhelmingly support birthright citizenship. "We appreciate you taking the time to join us," she said with a smile. That's when Cuccinelli yelled, "Boy, you are a left-wing hack."Not missing a beat, Hill replied, "Wow, it's unfortunate that you felt the need to say that. I appreciate you coming on to answer fair questions." A previous conversation between former CNN host Jim Acosta and political commentator Wajahat Ali mentioned that far-right personalities who appear on the network often get angry when they're fact-checked or someone pushes back against them. His infamous example was Scott Jennings, who Ali recalled whining to the network, "because I was too mean." "It's an egregious double standard for right-wing conservatives and [Donald] Trump supporters. And it's always been this way with corporate media. They've (conservatives) always worked the refs," said Ali at the time. In a 5-4 decision, the Supreme Court upheld birthright citizenship, striking down Trump's executive order that would have denied citizenship to children born in the U.S. to undocumented immigrants or those on temporary visas. Chief Justice John Roberts wrote that the 14th Amendment's citizenship clause, ratified in 1868, guarantees citizenship to "all persons born or naturalized in the United States." The Trump administration had argued the amendment was misunderstood for over a century and was intended only for freed slaves' children. However, the Court reaffirmed that birthright citizenship is a fundamental constitutional right. The narrow 5-4 margin alarmed legal experts, revealing how close the Court came to dismantling 156 years of established citizenship law. - YouTube youtu.be

Elon Musk gets brutally fact-checked on social media

Elon Musk challenged critics on X this Sunday. “They cannot cite a single name of someone who died out of the ‘millions’ they falsely claim have died,” Musk wrote on X. Tesla's CEO has faced intense criticism, as reports indicate his work with the Department of Government Efficiency has led to preventable deaths and might cause millions more by 2030. His social media post drew thousands of replies, including the names of children as young as three, whose deaths were linked to foreign aid cuts. Most notably, New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof confronted Musk on X. “Elon, I can give you many, many names of people who have died because of your aid cuts,” he wrote, and listed the names of numerous victims. "I could go on and on. In almost every village you go to in South Sudan, Uganda, Liberia, Sierra Leone or other countries I reported in, you find people dying because of aid cuts."Rather than engage with Kristof's response, Musk posted about immigration and other topics. Musk's own AI chatbot, Grok, contradicted his claim. Former MSNBC host Mehdi Hasan shared the chatbot's response, listing names of those whose deaths were connected to the aid disruptions.Watch the video below. Your browser does not support the video tag.

San Francisco Trans March Turns on One of California's Most Radical Progressive Democrat