Day Around the Bay: PG&E Will Be Cutting Many SF Residents' Power on Monday and Tuesday

"After that gigantic December 20 SF PG&E outage caused by a fire at a substation, PG&E says they're going to cut two neighborhoods' power next week to try to restore power to that substation. On Monday at 12 am, 3,600 homes and businesses near Civic Center will lose their power until 12 noon Monday. Then on Tuesday at 12 am, 14,000 homes and businesses in the Richmond District will lose power, but only about until 2 am. [Chronicle]"

"Well, Donald Trump got his Nobel Peace Prize he always wanted, as he talked the winner Maria Corina Machado into giving it to him, and she did. Will he just not notice that someone else's name is engraved onto it? [CBS News] Pete Hegseth's Pentagon is seizing control of the military publication Stars and Stripes, which has always been editorially independent, claiming that will refocus its content away from woke distractions that syphon morale. [The Hill]"

"One of Elon Musk's many baby-mamas, conservative blogger Ashley St. Clair, is suing xAI, claiming that Musk fanboys are generating large volumes of deepfake porn depicting her. [CNN] A throwback video from 1993 at the beloved Mission Street bar Doc's Clock, from the days when anti-immigrant ghoul Pete Wilson was California governor, where KRON4's Vic Lee shares how Doc's Clock was in fact found"

Mayor Daniel Lurie proposes combining the Planning Department, Building Inspection, and Permit Center into one department, likely via a 2026 charter reform ballot measure. After a December 20 substation fire, PG&E plans preemptive outages to restore the substation, impacting 3,600 homes and businesses near Civic Center Monday midnight to noon and about 14,000 in the Richmond District Tuesday midnight to 2 am. The SFPD will run DUI checkpoints Saturday night from 7 pm after the 49ers game until 3 am. The Pentagon is seizing control of Stars and Stripes to shift content away from perceived woke distractions. Blogger Ashley St. Clair is suing xAI over alleged deepfake pornography. Donald Trump received a Nobel Peace Prize from Maria Corina Machado.

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