I’m at a town hall in Fremont with Alameda County DA Pamela Price.

Follow this 🧵 for updates: Event moderator, of the ACLU of Northern California, notes that 40% of people in Santa Rita Jail are mentally ill and 25% are seriously mentally ill.

Similar patterns across the state, as the @sfchronicle editorial board has reported: sfchronicle.com/opinion/articl…

Exclusive in my latest column: The wealthy city of La Cañada Flintridge is using SCOTUS’ affirmative action ruling to fight a builder’s remedy project. Its argument: CA’s fair housing law, aimed at integrating exclusionary areas, is unconstitutional.

sfchronicle.com/opinion/articl… In other words: building affordable apartments is racially discriminatory — mostly against rich white people.

La Cañada Flintridge is 60% white & 1% Black, w/ a median home value of $1.7 million. It hasn’t approved a multifamily project in over a decade. sfchronicle.com/opinion/articl…

My latest column: Democrats' recent votes on high-profile criminal justice and housing bills sent a glaring signal that some members are increasingly willing to sacrifice everyday Californians on the altar of ideology, even when it means denying reality.
sfchronicle.com/opinion/articl… The notion, upheld by the Assembly Public Safety Committee, that it isn’t a serious crime to traffic children for sex or labor is so absurd as to be laughable if it weren’t for the gravity of the situation. sfchronicle.com/opinion/articl…

.@GavinNewsom accepting education award in Washington, D.C.

I'll 🧵 his comments — .@GavinNewsom says California's education budget alone is larger than the entire budgets of all other states but 2.

"What we do has consequences," he says.

"We practice pluralism -- you don't hear that word in our culture a lot today," he says.

SCOOP: @GavinNewsom is on vacation in Montana. His office had been loath to disclose the location until now.

Montana is one of 22 states to which CA bans state-funded travel due to anti-LGBTQ+ policies. It's also likely to institute an abortion ban.

More in tmrw's newsletter calmatters.org/subscribe-to-c…

NEW: Assembly Democrats, helmed by @Rendon63rd, are forming a Select Committee on Gasoline Supply and Pricing to investigate "gas-price gouging."

"Californians need more than Band-Aid relief from high gasoline prices," Rendon says.

CA's gas excise tax is set to increase July 1 Rendon says the committee plans to investigate 2 main questions:

1- why are gas prices so high?
2- what can we do to stop it?

🧵:Senate Judiciary Committee hearing @Scott_Wiener's bill to allow minors to get vaccines w/out parental consent.

Speaking in opposition is a single mom of 6 who says her son got vaccinated at school "in exchange for pizza," against her wishes, and has experienced side effects. "I feel that, in that age, they still don't have that mentality ... to choose if they're OK or healthy enough to make that decision," the mom says, adding that she now fears her son could die at school, and he wakes up at night struggling to breathe.

.@GavinNewsom at Planned Parenthood Los Angeles: "I want to express my outrage about the decision the Supreme Court appears to have made about rolling back our constitutional rights. ... At a time when countries are expanding rights, America is about to roll back rights." "Don't think for a second this is where they stop," @GavinNewsom says. "If you think it affects someone else over there -- it affects you. The right to privacy affects all of you. ... You think the right to same-sex marriage is safe? Give me a break."

Here where @SacPoliceChief & @SchubertForAG are announcing updates in the Sacramento shootout that killed 6 and injured 12. Follow this🧵for updates “This was clearly gang related,” @SacPoliceChief says, with more than 100 casings on scene from handguns of at least 2 calibers. At least 5 gunmen. Team working round the clock to arrest suspect Mtula Payton

California is advancing legislation to help it become a “sanctuary” and “haven” for out-of-state patients seeking abortion

calmatters.org/newsletters/wh… No state does more to protect abortion access, as @khwangreports has reported: calmatters.org/explainers/abo…

BREAKING: @GavinNewsom unveils $286.4 billion budget proposal — $23.8 billion more than budget approved last year.

One key aspect: Makes California the first state in the nation to offer universal access to health care coverage for all residents, regardless of immigration status .@GavinNewsom estimates that California has a $45.7 billion budget surplus — $20.6 billion of which is "discretionary surplus."

"This year, we are in a substantially better place than we projected last January."

.@GavinNewsom: it appears we have overwhelming no vote today.

We said yes to science, to vaccines, people’s right to vote without fraud, women’s constitutional rights to decide what she does with her body I’m humbled and grateful to the millions of Californians who voted overwhelmingly to reject cynicism, negativity, @GavinNewsom says

"Just 24 more hours," @GavinNewsom says at campaign rally with @JoeBiden in Long Beach. "24 more hours to send a powerful message." #CaliforniaRecall "We're in the most diverse city in the most diverse county in the most diverse state, which is the most diverse democracy in the world," @GavinNewsom says #CaliforniaRecall

Director of Oakland's La Clínica de la Raza opens @GavinNewsom's vaccine press conference by saying that his "controversial" decision to shut down the state saved lives, and history will show that. "History will prove that your decisiveness, the leadership you showed, even when it wasn't popular, will go down in record to have saved many, many lives," she says of @GavinNewsom

BREAKING: @GavinNewsom is set to announce that state employees and all health care workers (public + private employees) must be vaccinated or undergo weekly testing and wear masks. "We are exhausted, respectfully, exhausted by the ideological prism too many Americans are living under" regarding "politicization of the vaccine and mask wearing," @GavinNewsom says.

At the risk of bringing on early-onset carpal tunnel, I've decided to live-tweet as much of today's Cal/OSHA meeting as I can handle... Follow this thread for updates 🧵 After numerous buzzing sounds, Board president says, "People keep calling my phone, so I have to get it off the desk."

BREAKING: Dr. Mark Ghaly confirms that California's mask mandate will NOT be lifted on June 15 at K-12 schools when students/staff are indoors. Unvaccinated workers will also have to keep wearing masks at businesses, Ghaly says.

BREAKING: @GavinNewsom will today unveil a slate of proposals for California's public schools:

- Universal pre-k by 2024
- Savings accounts for 3.7 million kids
- $14.5 billion to "reimagine K-12 public schools and reduce class sizes" .@GavinNewsom says his budget will have the biggest investment in K-14 education in California history. "We are putting out a blueprint over the next five years for a total transformation in education, which includes a new grade, TK," he says.

Officials pulling out all the stops at the first event in @GavinNewsom's "California Roars Back" stimulus package tour, likely also doubling as an anti-recall campaign tour.

Oakland Mayor @LibbySchaaf said Newsom is "creating one of the greatest CA budgets we have ever seen." I believe this is the first time in months @GavinNewsom has worn a suit during one of his public events/press conferences -- signaling he's stepping things up. "I'm about to make an announcement, arguably, no other governor in America has ever made," he says.

When the first press conference you cover in person in months is a recall event with a 1000 pound live bear... follow this thread for more The bear has been let out without a leash, @BeastJohnCox has not made an appearance yet

.@GavinNewsom: "None of us were shy about our condemnation of @PGE4Me. PG&E is now out of bankruptcy, but they're coming out a new company, with new expectations and accountability. And new criteria, that if they don't perform, CA can intervene in ways we couldn't in past." "They're now required to do new things on vegetation management, updating grid, sectionalizing grid to be more precise for when they turn off/on power, weather monitoring stations, infrared evening capacity, procure personnel that are required."