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The California Sun is a daily newsletter on the most interesting news from across California by former New York Times writer Mike McPhate.

02/10/2025

An anonymous group of artists is beaming giant projections satirizing President Trump and his allies on outdoor walls across Los Angeles, including this one of ICE detaining Jesus.

https://www.californiasun.co/newsletter/gov-gavin-newsom-signs-landmark-ai-law-21-of-the-best-airbnbs-in-l-a/ -10

26/09/2025

Coastal Mendocino’s Albion River is an emerald waterway with ospreys, otters, and soaring trees. Then there are the three ramshackle cabins anchored on platforms in the water. Their origins, as well as their code compliance, are murky.

https://www.californiasun.co/newsletter/central-coast-newsroom-shutters-abruptly-modernist-masterpiece-in-pacific-palisades/ -8

18/09/2025

Why does an albino alligator named Claude, who lives in a patch of swampland inside San Francisco’s California Academy of Sciences, have a cult following?

https://www.californiasun.co/newsletter/california-braces-for-thunderstorms-robert-redford-dies-at-89/ -8

17/09/2025

Yosemite and Lake Tahoe, many complain, are madhouses. But wedged right in between those destinations is the Emigrant Wilderness, a High Sierra landscape with much of the same natural beauty. On a recent two-night journey through the region, outdoors journalist Gregory Thomas found soaring peaks and stunning alpine lakes — and almost no other people.

https://californiasun.co/newsletter/teachers-face-outrage-over-charlie-kirk-remarks-a-spectacular-uncrowded-alternative-to-yosemite/ -3

10/09/2025

In July 1950, LIFE magazine sent a photographer to San Onofre to capture life of the “beach bum.” He returned from the legendary San Diego County surf break with images of paradise, where tanned surfers rode waves all day and drank beer into the night.

https://www.californiasun.co/newsletter/planned-tower-tears-marin-county-community-apart-old-pictures-of-the-beach-bums-of-san-onofre/ -12

07/09/2025

The photographer Todd Weaver takes dreamy analog pictures of the ocean and surfing in California. The project coincided with his own relationship with surfing, which became an obsession in the last seven years or so.

His love for the sport seems to pulse through pictures that capture surfers communing with nature as much as riding waves.

https://www.californiasun.co/newsletter/sikh-truck-drivers-face-harassment-ellen-degeneres-earns-190-million-flipping-hous

06/09/2025

State legislation has made backyard rooms known as ADUs easier and faster to build, and companies are offering more and more designs in kits that can be shipped directly to buyers’ homes. Polyhaus, co-founded by an architect in La Jolla, has new fire-resistant cabins.

https://www.californiasun.co/newsletter/clippers-are-accused-of-skirting-salary-cap-trump-aims-to-crush-wind-industry/ -12

01/09/2025

Scientists created an interactive map showing the plumes of toxic pollution seeping from oil and gas sites across the U.S. The map includes 32 leaks in California, all surrounding Bakersfield.

Researchers have estimated that roughly 24,100 Californians live within 2 miles of such sites.

https://www.californiasun.co/newsletter/republican-leader-calls-for-splitting-california-in-two-openai-faces-wrongful-death-lawsuit/ -10

30/08/2025

The movement of fog is commonly described as drifting, descending, or rolling. In San Francisco, it can be more like the rushing of a river. As the summer sun bakes the Central Valley, the resulting difference in air pressure means that inland California essentially inhales air from off the coast, carrying the fog along for the ride.

https://www.californiasun.co/newsletter/gavin-newsom-deploys-crime-suppression-teams-how-an-ice-raid-broke-one-family/ -7

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