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"content": "\u003cp>For many of us, the idea of rebuilding your life after losing your home and belongings to a wildfire is unthinkable. But for many in Los Angeles, that’s now the reality after a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12020872/la-fires-eaton-fire-palisades-pasadena-wildfire-resources-air-quality\">firestorm leveled thousands of homes and businesses in early January\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This kind of recovery is “a long, hard road,” said Lizz Porter, a small business owner who lives in Colfax. Porter lost her home during the River Fire in Placer County in 2021. The work of rebuilding in the wake of a fire can take years, she said. “It is time consuming. It is heartbreaking. It is exhausting, but it’s also worth it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Porter is one of many Northern Californians who have survived devastating wildfires in recent years — and endured the process of rebuilding their lives. In \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101908557/advice-on-recovering-from-a-wildfire-from-californians-whove-been-there\">a conversation broadcast on KQED’s \u003cem>Forum\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, Porter and other fire survivors shared their emotional and practical advice for people who have only recently started along the path to recovery.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Big picture advice for fire survivors\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Give yourself space, time and compassion — especially in Year One\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You will get through this. It’s not going to be easy. There will be peaks and valleys, but you will get through this,” said Melissa Schuster, owner of Burnt Barn Distilling Company in Paradise, California. Schuster lost her home to the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12015150/life-after-paradise-one-camp-fire-survivors-long-road-to-a-new-home\">Camp Fire in 2018\u003c/a>. “Just take each moment as it comes and each event as it happens.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jennifer Gray Thompson is the CEO of \u003ca href=\"https://afterthefireusa.org/\">After the Fire\u003c/a>, a nonprofit that helps communities rebuild in the wake of wildfires. Her community in Sonoma was destroyed by the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13828118/up-from-the-ashes-six-months-after-the-north-bay-fires\">North Bay fires in 2017\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s perfectly natural and normal, for the first year in particular, to be very challenging,” said Thompson. “It can be hard to form words. Your fight or flight [response] is completely activated for a very long time.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Once the adrenaline starts to wear off, Thompson added, “a bit of crankiness” can set in. She described the whole first year as “surreal.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Everything that you thought was true the day before the fire is completely different the day after the fire, especially for those who lost loved ones, who lost homes.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12022580\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12022580\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/AP25016124878838-scaled-e1737665727227.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Residents embrace in front of a fire-ravaged property after the Palisades Fire swept through the Pacific Palisades neighborhood of Los Angeles on Wednesday, Jan. 8, 2025. \u003ccite>(Etienne Laurent/AP Photo)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Lean into your community\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another piece of shared advice from fire survivors: Gather a community of supporters around you. And don’t be afraid to rely on them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Let people do things for you,” Leigh-Anne Lehrmann suggested. “Do you have a friend that you can send to the store to buy you some basic clothes or comfort foods? Let them do it. They want to help and you don’t need to spend time doing these errands.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Lehrmann, the “fun” of shopping was gone after she lost her home to the CZU Lightning Complex fire in 2020. “It quickly becomes a chore, because you don’t \u003cem>want \u003c/em>a new shirt,” she explained. “You want the one that you always liked to wear but now it’s gone.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lehrmann also recommends being transparent about your loss, as you begin to purchase replacement goods and clothing. “Tell the store owner your situation,” she said. “Many stores will give you some level of discount, as their way of helping you.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Reach out to your work community,” suggested another \u003cem>Forum \u003c/em>listener. “My union was a huge supporter of my family. They asked for my whole family’s clothes sizes. They got us new clothes and suitcases! You always forget that you need a way to carry stuff.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Network, recommended Lehrmann, because you’ll “learn so much from other people as you go through the rebuilding process.” Lehrmann said she and her family formed a special email list with everyone who had the same home insurer, which was “invaluable.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s important to remember that you’re not alone, Thompson said. “You are in this very unique club, a terrible club nobody wanted to be in, but it is full of the very best people.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12022769\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12022769\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/GettyImages-2193205551.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/GettyImages-2193205551.jpg 1024w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/GettyImages-2193205551-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/GettyImages-2193205551-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/GettyImages-2193205551-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Volunteers carry water for evacuees from the Eaton Fire dwell at a donation center in Santa Anita Park, Arcadia, Los Angeles, on Jan. 13, 2025. \u003ccite>(Etienne Laurent/AFP via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Keep yourself open to transformation\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For many people, said fire survivor Melissa Schuster, their first instinct is to “get the stuff that they’ve lost, rebuild the same house.” Schuster saw it more as “an opportunity, really, for us to do something different and do it better.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among Schuster’s learnings from the experience: “I don’t need the number of clothes and all the fast fashion and all the stuff that I had before the fire. … I can live in a much smaller footprint.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Schuster and her husband ultimately decided to rebuild the home they lost, but not exactly as it was. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12024420/rebuilding-la-heres-what-fire-survivors-and-experts-say-is-key\">Their new home is less flammable\u003c/a>, using insulated concrete foam — and it took over five years to construct.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We were in an RV for four and a half years, and I know a lot of people were, too.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Practical steps for fire survivors to take \u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Get your bills and finances in order\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Set up a P.O. Box ASAP, says Schuster. “Your mail needs to get to you, and it can’t get [to you] any other way.” You could also lean on a trusted friend or relative for a new mailing address, or redirect mail to your business address, she advised.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To accomplish these tasks, Lehrmann said she relied on a checklist. Among her recommendations:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Quickly download an updated estimated value for your home from a real estate site.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Ask your cellphone carrier if they will give you an unlimited data, voice and message plan at a discount.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Request a waiver of mortgage payments and interest charges for at least three months.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Call all of your utilities and either freeze or cancel service.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Stop payments to your homeowners association.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Cancel or update magazines and newspapers to online subscriptions.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>If you lost a car, don’t forget to cancel your car insurance.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>But the most important step, according to Lehrmann, is to open a dedicated checking account \u003cem>just \u003c/em>for fire expenses and payments from insurance or relief foundations: “Our credit union did this at no charge, and gave us a debit card for that account.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You should also save receipts carefully, she advised, but having this dedicated checking account and debit card will help with documenting expenses for insurance and tax purposes later.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Document your losses — and communication\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of the most difficult parts of the process, survivors agreed, is taking stock of all the personal property you’ve lost. “This is not fun at all,” said Lehrmann. “Be prepared to cry.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To split this task into mentally — and emotionally — manageable chunks, she recommended organizing your list room by room, and listing everything that was there with a replacement cost.[aside label=\"Related Stories\" postID=\"forum_2010101908557,news_12021661,news_11624683\"]Be specific with brand names of the things you owned, she added — because otherwise you could end up with insurance only covering “a crappy generic item.” And the replacement cost should be what it would currently cost to replace your item, she noted — “not the sale price at Walmart.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s important to list \u003cem>everything\u003c/em>, even if it is above and beyond your policy limit — because those costs can still be considered a loss and claimed as such on your taxes. This process isn’t linear, Thompson said, and you may remember lost items weeks — or months — later. Her tips: Keep an inventory of things you find and remember — for example, while clearing your property. Collect photos of property and belongings to share with your insurance company, and expect to be updating this inventory for a long time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Colorado-based wildfire survivor Dan Hasselbach suggested that to juggle the huge amount of information, numbers and costs you’ll be discussing, you should record all phone conversations (with permission), request everything in writing, write “confirmation emails” back to insurance adjusters and contractors to make sure you have any information in writing — “to make sure everyone is on the same page, and to jog your memory later.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Plan for long-term temporary housing — and get your insurance involved\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Start searching for a long term rental, advised Lehrman — because “everyone will be grabbing whatever they can.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You should plan on renting for between one and two years, she said, but she advised against signing a lease for a full two years, as your circumstances could change\u003cstrong>. \u003c/strong>You should call your homeowners or rental insurance to \u003ca href=\"https://www.nerdwallet.com/article/insurance/loss-of-use-coverage\">trigger “Loss of Use”\u003c/a> coverage, which can help pay for you to live elsewhere.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You can also ask your insurance company to ask about allowances for additional living expenses (a.k.a “ALE”) for costs potentially including clothes, toiletries, meal stipends and hotel stays.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Get familiar with the cleanup and rebuilding process\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You won’t be allowed back inside your home right away after a fire, stressed Thompson — and it helps to know why that is.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If a wildfire has resulted in fatalities or missing persons, emergency services first will need to conduct searches in the area. After this, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) will move in to remove any hazardous waste — which is why Thompson stressed it’s important to fill out a Right of Entry (ROE) form as soon as possible, to give remediators access to your land. “They really want to do this in blocks in order to make it efficient, especially in a large-scale disaster,” she said. “Not doing that can actually hold up the entire neighborhood.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12021365\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12021365\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240109-CAWindStorm-043-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240109-CAWindStorm-043-1.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240109-CAWindStorm-043-1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240109-CAWindStorm-043-1-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240109-CAWindStorm-043-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240109-CAWindStorm-043-1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240109-CAWindStorm-043-1-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fire destruction in downtown Altadena, after the Eaton Fire swept through the area northeast of Los Angeles, on Thursday, Jan. 9, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Once the EPA has cleared your neighborhood zone, you’re allowed to sift your individual land — although Thompson noted that some people choose not to. Those that do should wear personal protective equipment (PPE), as there may still be hazardous waste and chemicals on the property.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Don’t forget that there will almost certainly be permits to account for, said Lehrmann — such as a permit for removing debris from your property. You may also need a permit to put erosion control in place, or to install a temporary power source and trailer while you build. Get the ball rolling on these permits early, advised Thompson, which can help you move quickly once the land is clear — and this is another reason that organizing with your neighbors into zones or blocks, and designating “zone captains” will be really helpful.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For example, your home insurance claim may be passed from one insurance adjuster to another over the period it takes to rebuild — perhaps even several times. This means most fire survivors don’t deal with one insurance adjuster who understands the full history of their claim, Thompson explained — and may find themselves having to explain the history of their claim and experience to several adjusters. This is another reason why community is “so important,” she said, and remember that you’re not the only person in your area dealing with this. “You have to be able to lean on your neighbors to share the very best information,” she advised.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Zone captains can help collect information for the neighborhood, and help your community advocate collectively with insurance companies and government agencies. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Big picture advice for fire survivors\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Give yourself space, time and compassion — especially in Year One\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You will get through this. It’s not going to be easy. There will be peaks and valleys, but you will get through this,” said Melissa Schuster, owner of Burnt Barn Distilling Company in Paradise, California. Schuster lost her home to the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12015150/life-after-paradise-one-camp-fire-survivors-long-road-to-a-new-home\">Camp Fire in 2018\u003c/a>. “Just take each moment as it comes and each event as it happens.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jennifer Gray Thompson is the CEO of \u003ca href=\"https://afterthefireusa.org/\">After the Fire\u003c/a>, a nonprofit that helps communities rebuild in the wake of wildfires. Her community in Sonoma was destroyed by the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13828118/up-from-the-ashes-six-months-after-the-north-bay-fires\">North Bay fires in 2017\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s perfectly natural and normal, for the first year in particular, to be very challenging,” said Thompson. “It can be hard to form words. Your fight or flight [response] is completely activated for a very long time.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Once the adrenaline starts to wear off, Thompson added, “a bit of crankiness” can set in. She described the whole first year as “surreal.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Everything that you thought was true the day before the fire is completely different the day after the fire, especially for those who lost loved ones, who lost homes.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12022580\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12022580\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/AP25016124878838-scaled-e1737665727227.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Residents embrace in front of a fire-ravaged property after the Palisades Fire swept through the Pacific Palisades neighborhood of Los Angeles on Wednesday, Jan. 8, 2025. \u003ccite>(Etienne Laurent/AP Photo)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Lean into your community\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another piece of shared advice from fire survivors: Gather a community of supporters around you. And don’t be afraid to rely on them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Let people do things for you,” Leigh-Anne Lehrmann suggested. “Do you have a friend that you can send to the store to buy you some basic clothes or comfort foods? Let them do it. They want to help and you don’t need to spend time doing these errands.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Lehrmann, the “fun” of shopping was gone after she lost her home to the CZU Lightning Complex fire in 2020. “It quickly becomes a chore, because you don’t \u003cem>want \u003c/em>a new shirt,” she explained. “You want the one that you always liked to wear but now it’s gone.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lehrmann also recommends being transparent about your loss, as you begin to purchase replacement goods and clothing. “Tell the store owner your situation,” she said. “Many stores will give you some level of discount, as their way of helping you.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Reach out to your work community,” suggested another \u003cem>Forum \u003c/em>listener. “My union was a huge supporter of my family. They asked for my whole family’s clothes sizes. They got us new clothes and suitcases! You always forget that you need a way to carry stuff.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Network, recommended Lehrmann, because you’ll “learn so much from other people as you go through the rebuilding process.” Lehrmann said she and her family formed a special email list with everyone who had the same home insurer, which was “invaluable.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s important to remember that you’re not alone, Thompson said. “You are in this very unique club, a terrible club nobody wanted to be in, but it is full of the very best people.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12022769\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12022769\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/GettyImages-2193205551.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/GettyImages-2193205551.jpg 1024w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/GettyImages-2193205551-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/GettyImages-2193205551-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/GettyImages-2193205551-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Volunteers carry water for evacuees from the Eaton Fire dwell at a donation center in Santa Anita Park, Arcadia, Los Angeles, on Jan. 13, 2025. \u003ccite>(Etienne Laurent/AFP via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Keep yourself open to transformation\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For many people, said fire survivor Melissa Schuster, their first instinct is to “get the stuff that they’ve lost, rebuild the same house.” Schuster saw it more as “an opportunity, really, for us to do something different and do it better.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among Schuster’s learnings from the experience: “I don’t need the number of clothes and all the fast fashion and all the stuff that I had before the fire. … I can live in a much smaller footprint.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Schuster and her husband ultimately decided to rebuild the home they lost, but not exactly as it was. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12024420/rebuilding-la-heres-what-fire-survivors-and-experts-say-is-key\">Their new home is less flammable\u003c/a>, using insulated concrete foam — and it took over five years to construct.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We were in an RV for four and a half years, and I know a lot of people were, too.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Practical steps for fire survivors to take \u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Get your bills and finances in order\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Set up a P.O. Box ASAP, says Schuster. “Your mail needs to get to you, and it can’t get [to you] any other way.” You could also lean on a trusted friend or relative for a new mailing address, or redirect mail to your business address, she advised.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To accomplish these tasks, Lehrmann said she relied on a checklist. Among her recommendations:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Quickly download an updated estimated value for your home from a real estate site.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Ask your cellphone carrier if they will give you an unlimited data, voice and message plan at a discount.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Request a waiver of mortgage payments and interest charges for at least three months.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Call all of your utilities and either freeze or cancel service.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Stop payments to your homeowners association.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Cancel or update magazines and newspapers to online subscriptions.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>If you lost a car, don’t forget to cancel your car insurance.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>But the most important step, according to Lehrmann, is to open a dedicated checking account \u003cem>just \u003c/em>for fire expenses and payments from insurance or relief foundations: “Our credit union did this at no charge, and gave us a debit card for that account.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You should also save receipts carefully, she advised, but having this dedicated checking account and debit card will help with documenting expenses for insurance and tax purposes later.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Document your losses — and communication\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of the most difficult parts of the process, survivors agreed, is taking stock of all the personal property you’ve lost. “This is not fun at all,” said Lehrmann. “Be prepared to cry.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To split this task into mentally — and emotionally — manageable chunks, she recommended organizing your list room by room, and listing everything that was there with a replacement cost.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Be specific with brand names of the things you owned, she added — because otherwise you could end up with insurance only covering “a crappy generic item.” And the replacement cost should be what it would currently cost to replace your item, she noted — “not the sale price at Walmart.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s important to list \u003cem>everything\u003c/em>, even if it is above and beyond your policy limit — because those costs can still be considered a loss and claimed as such on your taxes. This process isn’t linear, Thompson said, and you may remember lost items weeks — or months — later. Her tips: Keep an inventory of things you find and remember — for example, while clearing your property. Collect photos of property and belongings to share with your insurance company, and expect to be updating this inventory for a long time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Colorado-based wildfire survivor Dan Hasselbach suggested that to juggle the huge amount of information, numbers and costs you’ll be discussing, you should record all phone conversations (with permission), request everything in writing, write “confirmation emails” back to insurance adjusters and contractors to make sure you have any information in writing — “to make sure everyone is on the same page, and to jog your memory later.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Plan for long-term temporary housing — and get your insurance involved\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Start searching for a long term rental, advised Lehrman — because “everyone will be grabbing whatever they can.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You should plan on renting for between one and two years, she said, but she advised against signing a lease for a full two years, as your circumstances could change\u003cstrong>. \u003c/strong>You should call your homeowners or rental insurance to \u003ca href=\"https://www.nerdwallet.com/article/insurance/loss-of-use-coverage\">trigger “Loss of Use”\u003c/a> coverage, which can help pay for you to live elsewhere.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You can also ask your insurance company to ask about allowances for additional living expenses (a.k.a “ALE”) for costs potentially including clothes, toiletries, meal stipends and hotel stays.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Get familiar with the cleanup and rebuilding process\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You won’t be allowed back inside your home right away after a fire, stressed Thompson — and it helps to know why that is.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If a wildfire has resulted in fatalities or missing persons, emergency services first will need to conduct searches in the area. After this, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) will move in to remove any hazardous waste — which is why Thompson stressed it’s important to fill out a Right of Entry (ROE) form as soon as possible, to give remediators access to your land. “They really want to do this in blocks in order to make it efficient, especially in a large-scale disaster,” she said. “Not doing that can actually hold up the entire neighborhood.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12021365\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12021365\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240109-CAWindStorm-043-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240109-CAWindStorm-043-1.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240109-CAWindStorm-043-1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240109-CAWindStorm-043-1-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240109-CAWindStorm-043-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240109-CAWindStorm-043-1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240109-CAWindStorm-043-1-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fire destruction in downtown Altadena, after the Eaton Fire swept through the area northeast of Los Angeles, on Thursday, Jan. 9, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Once the EPA has cleared your neighborhood zone, you’re allowed to sift your individual land — although Thompson noted that some people choose not to. Those that do should wear personal protective equipment (PPE), as there may still be hazardous waste and chemicals on the property.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Don’t forget that there will almost certainly be permits to account for, said Lehrmann — such as a permit for removing debris from your property. You may also need a permit to put erosion control in place, or to install a temporary power source and trailer while you build. Get the ball rolling on these permits early, advised Thompson, which can help you move quickly once the land is clear — and this is another reason that organizing with your neighbors into zones or blocks, and designating “zone captains” will be really helpful.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For example, your home insurance claim may be passed from one insurance adjuster to another over the period it takes to rebuild — perhaps even several times. This means most fire survivors don’t deal with one insurance adjuster who understands the full history of their claim, Thompson explained — and may find themselves having to explain the history of their claim and experience to several adjusters. This is another reason why community is “so important,” she said, and remember that you’re not the only person in your area dealing with this. “You have to be able to lean on your neighbors to share the very best information,” she advised.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Zone captains can help collect information for the neighborhood, and help your community advocate collectively with insurance companies and government agencies. 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"content": "\u003cp>How do you think the next four years under President Donald Trump will affect your daily life and community?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12022187/how-would-another-trump-term-impact-your-corner-of-california\">the question KQED and its California public radio partners in The California Newsroom posed\u003c/a> to our listeners and readers around the state as Trump returned to the White House for a second term. More than 150 of you shared your questions, hopes and fears about the coming years, from concerns about immigration, the economy to social services and the future of California under Trump 2.0.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We’ve gathered this selection of responses below from Californians across the state. If these comments strike a chord with you — or if you don’t see your particular issues or concerns reflected below — you can \u003ca href=\"#A\">submit your own thoughts using our Google Form below\u003c/a>. What you share with us could be shared on kqed.org, KQED Public Radio or KQED’s social media.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Responses have been lightly edited for brevity and clarity.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>The future of California under Trump \u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12004715\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12004715\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240913-TRUMPRALLY-JG-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240913-TRUMPRALLY-JG-1.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240913-TRUMPRALLY-JG-1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240913-TRUMPRALLY-JG-1-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240913-TRUMPRALLY-JG-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240913-TRUMPRALLY-JG-1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240913-TRUMPRALLY-JG-1-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Paul Nguyen of San José chants on the side of El Camino Real in Palo Alto during a rally supporting Donald Trump for President on Friday, Sept. 13, 2024. \u003ccite>(Joseph Geha/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Being a California resident for all my life, I feel that Trump policies will have little effect on California residents other than costing taxpayers millions that our state will spend on lawsuits against the federal government. Just seeing California Trump-proof itself by using taxpayer funds to litigate all things Trump instead of looking at the future makes me want to leave this great state in search of a more pleasant and positive place in America. I hope there can be some kind of peaceful alternative to all the upcoming lawsuits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>– James, Shasta\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump’s cabinet selections are to me the most troubling. There are none that aren’t willing to do his bidding, rather than what is in the best interest of the United States … Therefore, they will be willing to take hostages and make California pay for any slight they feel they have suffered. This time around, there will be very few people standing in his way when he wants to enact poor policies that further degrade the environment, the social safety net, and humanitarian relief.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>– Ana, Contra Costa County\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I think that I will benefit from the increased job possibilities from oil drilling and as a business owner I am glad to see limits on the EPA’s oversteps into our daily work. As a realtor I look forward to reduced regulations that will lead to more urgently needed housing being built.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>– Shannon, San Luis Obispo County\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It will be very disruptive. We have just suffered catastrophic wildfires that are still burning, and he doesn’t care. We are a region of immigrants proud of our diversity, and he wants to rip that apart with deportations. We are increasingly harmed by the climate crisis and he calls that a hoax. His tariffs will stop business at our ports. Congress under the Republicans will try to harm us and he will enjoy that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>– Sally, L.A.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>The economy\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12024465\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12024465\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/food-stamp-cuts-photo-1-_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1316\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/food-stamp-cuts-photo-1-_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/food-stamp-cuts-photo-1-_qed-800x526.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/food-stamp-cuts-photo-1-_qed-1020x671.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/food-stamp-cuts-photo-1-_qed-160x105.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/food-stamp-cuts-photo-1-_qed-1536x1011.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/food-stamp-cuts-photo-1-_qed-1920x1263.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Antoinette Martinez does her weekly grocery shopping at FoodMaxx on July 26, 2019. \u003ccite>(Anne Wernikoff/CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>I can’t help but think his economic ideas will cause problematic inflationary issues. His threats to withhold federal emergency funds cause me to wonder if there’s a way we can “redirect” our federal tax payments to the state of California as a way to challenge his audacity. As he requires quid pro quo of other nations to receive our support, maybe we as a state should enact the same mentality.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>– Carl, Manteca\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I am hoping for lower taxes, cheaper gasoline and utilities, and streamlined regulation for small businesses. I am optimistic about better economic growth and the enforcement of law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>– Emerson, Pleasant Valley\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I think I’ll be hurt. Silicon Valley has caved to this man and many within that community, while not supporting him philosophically, recognize that economically they will do well. For people like me, who have professional jobs but can’t compete with high tech and finance salaries, the struggle will drive me out or limit my lifestyle. Meanwhile, many of my more privileged friends just want to avoid the news for the next 4 years. That’s not an option. We need to know what is coming at us and our nation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>– Andria, San José\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>People have given up looking for jobs and everything is so expensive I’m going into credit debt. I think the economy will get better and I hope housing prices can go down decreasing the homeless here in CA.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>– John, Folsom\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Discrimination and civil rights\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12024467\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1777px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12024467\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/IMG_1361_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1777\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/IMG_1361_qed.jpg 1777w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/IMG_1361_qed-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/IMG_1361_qed-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/IMG_1361_qed-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/IMG_1361_qed-1536x1152.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1777px) 100vw, 1777px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">People protest President Donald Trump’s decision to bar transgender people from serving in the military, in a march through San Francisco’s Castro neighborhood on July 26, 2017. \u003ccite>(Polly Stryker/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>I am a transgender woman and my life is severely impacted. With the recent passing of executive orders on January 20. With changes like workplace protections and private spaces, I no longer have the safety and security of how I do trivial things like shop, go to a bathroom, workout in a gym, or even use the post office. … Right now my right to live as who I am is under siege, and I don’t see myself staying in the U.S. much longer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>– Kaedi, Tustin\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Any online interactions have increased bigotry since the bigots feel protected now, which is unfortunate. I am an LGBTQ ally but I wouldn’t consider myself in that bracket. I get attacked online for mentioning that everyone has a right to their opinion and their identity. I’m also concerned for myself that we are regressing in terms of rights for minorities as I am a minority.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>– Alexander, San Francisco\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The media is making a lot of noise, but Trump’s tactics of shock and awe can be very effective. Some fights/policies will fail and some I’ll disagree with, but the nation requires a much needed kick in the ass, so we could lead again, instead of being the woke nation that’s more focused on gender equality and DEI initiatives than creating opportunities for all.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>– Cindy, Encinitas\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I live in East San José, a vibrant and ethnically diverse neighborhood. I also work for the UC system and was a community college counselor for years. I have seen first hand the long term/short term effects of the bigotry, blatant racism, and discrimination against undocumented Americans and folks who identify as LGBTQIA. Former students and their families living under intense fear is detrimental to their health and yet they all work here and pay taxes that they get zero benefits for.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>– Nohemy, San José\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I hope that I am not directly impacted, but I believe that Trump’s elitism and selfishness will empower the rich and the ignorant to treat perceived “others” with discrimination, contempt, or worse. As a white person, I am not that fearful; as a woman, I am extremely anxious and concerned. And for people of color, I am also very anxious and concerned.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>– Sarah, Orange County\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The impact of fear, preparation, and resolve has been felt by the trans community since he was nominated to run for the Republican Party. We began to save medications, learn self-defense, understand our fragile rights, and learn to read legislation and Supreme Court tea leaves. … My optimism comes from knowing my elders have fought this before. Trans people have always, and will always, exist. We find joy in small moments while rusting the gears of the hate machine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Chloe, L.A.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Housing and homelessness\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12024498\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12024498\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/027_KQED_WoodStreetEncampment_07192022_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/027_KQED_WoodStreetEncampment_07192022_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/027_KQED_WoodStreetEncampment_07192022_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/027_KQED_WoodStreetEncampment_07192022_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/027_KQED_WoodStreetEncampment_07192022_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/027_KQED_WoodStreetEncampment_07192022_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/027_KQED_WoodStreetEncampment_07192022_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A sign says, ‘Housing is a Human Right’ at the Cob on Wood Project at the Wood Street encampment in West Oakland on Tuesday, July 19, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>I wish to see reduced homelessness, easier paths to home construction and easier agricultural access to water. Optimistic about the America First policies to focus on building more homes and propping up businesses by reducing the onerous regulatory state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>– Shannon, San Luis Obispo \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We need to help the homeless more as well as build housing for them and also for people whose income is considered “extremely low” and “low” income. I live in Senior subsidized housing so I have the lowest rent I can find but I worry if Trump takes away housing subsidies, rent will go up and I’ll be on the street as will many other seniors who live here.I also worry that I won’t be able to afford food.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>– Jody, Contra Costa County\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By no means MAGA, I consider myself pretty moderate. But this state and much of the country needs a hard reboot. Voters feel overburdened with the cost of utilities, gas and housing. … Though Trump will not get some of his agenda accomplished, he’s going to shake things up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>– Cindy, Encinitas\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Immigration and border security \u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11971660\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1568px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11971660\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/080923_Salinas-Farmworkers_SN_CM_16-copy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1568\" height=\"1045\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/080923_Salinas-Farmworkers_SN_CM_16-copy.jpg 1568w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/080923_Salinas-Farmworkers_SN_CM_16-copy-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/080923_Salinas-Farmworkers_SN_CM_16-copy-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/080923_Salinas-Farmworkers_SN_CM_16-copy-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/080923_Salinas-Farmworkers_SN_CM_16-copy-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1568px) 100vw, 1568px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Farmworkers harvest strawberries in Salinas on Aug. 9, 2023. \u003ccite>(Semantha Norris/CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>I went to work yesterday, the first day of class; the first day since Trump’s executive orders. I am sitting in a circle with my students. These are first generation young adults from all over California and a few international students from Uganda, Nigeria and China. My heart stops. What can I say to them to reassure them? As I pass out markers and construction paper so they can place their names, I add that they can also write their preferred pronoun. “Oops,” I add, “I just broke an executive order.” I refrain from saying that I will defy the other orders. If ICE comes to remove them, they will have to remove me too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>– Susan, Merced\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We need to prioritize fairness and justice. It’s unacceptable that illegal immigrants are often treated better than our Native American communities — this has to change, and I stand firmly for it. Ending birthright citizenship is a strong first step toward addressing these issues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>– Amanda, Crescent City\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I live near the border and to see families separated from one another is heartbreaking. I’ve experienced immigration raids when I lived at the racetrack and the agents are completely lacking in compassion. My sister may have a harder time getting the medicine she needs. My adult children are half Mexican and already fear racist policies. I’m a bilingual teacher (white) and I worry for students. I work in minority communities. I’m afraid for the gardener here at the apartment complex where I live. And I’m angry at people who voted for Trump including my younger sister and brother.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>– Stacey, La Mesa\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I am very concerned that we have illegal immigrants, gang members in drug cartels in our community and the state is refusing to work with the Trump administration to clear criminals out. I am concerned that California has become a criminal enabling state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>– Kerry, Los Angeles\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I am a teacher and I know there are several undocumented families in our community. I fear the day where I might not see my students anymore. I love my students and I will worry about them for the next four years. Also I have undocumented family members. I fear for their safety and whether the last day I saw them would have been my last.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>– Cynthia, Santa Clara County\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If this incoming administration deports undocumented Americans, imagine all the jobs that would be unfilled, education enrollments would continue to drop, tax revenue would decrease, but most tragic of all is that we would lose wonderful people who make our country better. In my 13 plus years of being in education, no one works harder and wants to be a contributor to our country than undocumented Americans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>– Nohemy, East San José\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Climate and the environment\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12021737\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12021737\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/GettyImages-2192687291.jpg\" alt=\"Firefighters look on as a big red smoky blaze comes over a hill.\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/GettyImages-2192687291.jpg 1024w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/GettyImages-2192687291-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/GettyImages-2192687291-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/GettyImages-2192687291-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A view of Palisades Fire as firefighting planes and helicopters drop water over flames in Mandeville Canyon in Los Angeles, on Jan. 10, 2025. \u003ccite>(Tayfun Coskun/Anadolu via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>I think that I will benefit from the increased job possibilities from oil drilling and as a business owner I am glad to see limits on the EPA’s oversteps into our daily work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>– Shannon, San Luis Obispo\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I am worried about California receiving financial help for the L.A. fires. And I am afraid Trump will undo all climate change legislation, and as a result there will be more catastrophic weather events.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>– Susan, San José\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It will be very disruptive. We have just suffered catastrophic wildfires that are still burning, and he doesn’t care. We are increasingly harmed by the climate crisis and he calls that a hoax. Our recovery from the Palisades and Eaton fires is likely to be harder, slower and meaner with his administration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>– Sally, Los Angeles\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Division and anxiety \u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12007728\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12007728\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/20240623_GAZAEVACUATION_GC-20-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/20240623_GAZAEVACUATION_GC-20-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/20240623_GAZAEVACUATION_GC-20-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/20240623_GAZAEVACUATION_GC-20-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/20240623_GAZAEVACUATION_GC-20-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/20240623_GAZAEVACUATION_GC-20-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/20240623_GAZAEVACUATION_GC-20-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Angelica Davila (right) faces off with a counterprotester at Window on the Bay Park in Monterey on June 23, 2024. Ceasefire demonstrators and Former President Trump supporters rallied at the same park. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Trump’s presidency is intentionally designed to keep us in constant states of anxiety and depression so that we’ll be worried about what he intends to do next and depressed about what he has done already. He will lie constantly & convince us to mistrust reliable sources of news.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>– Barbara, Newark\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The lies and disinformation that Trump’s team will be spewing out will certainly cause me great emotional distress because I fear it will lead more and more people from factual information and therefore to actions threatening our democracy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>– Elli, Yolo County\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It will make my life a living hell of chaos and confusion along with the never ending pack of lies that he tells … Why are there two systems of justice in this country? One for white males and the other for the rest of us.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>– D.C., Fresno\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s going to be more chaos and hate. Less facts. 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I worry that there may be reduced funding for Section 8 (subsidized housing) and that also will affect me directly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>– Delia, South San Francisco\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I’m hoping the next four years under [Trump] will have little to no effect on my life or community, since the only effect we might see will be negative. Plans to cut social services, including Medicare and Social Security while cutting taxes for the oligarchs and increasing tariffs on foreign goods, including food, may bankrupt our family and put us out onto the street, worst case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>– Mike, Merced\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I’m not optimistic that anything will get better. I think he’s out to dismantle health care, Medicare and social security. I’m concerned for the farm workers who are instrumental in our rural agricultural community. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I think that I will benefit from the increased job possibilities from oil drilling and as a business owner I am glad to see limits on the EPA’s oversteps into our daily work. As a realtor I look forward to reduced regulations that will lead to more urgently needed housing being built.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>– Shannon, San Luis Obispo County\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It will be very disruptive. We have just suffered catastrophic wildfires that are still burning, and he doesn’t care. We are a region of immigrants proud of our diversity, and he wants to rip that apart with deportations. We are increasingly harmed by the climate crisis and he calls that a hoax. His tariffs will stop business at our ports. Congress under the Republicans will try to harm us and he will enjoy that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>– Sally, L.A.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>The economy\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12024465\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12024465\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/food-stamp-cuts-photo-1-_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1316\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/food-stamp-cuts-photo-1-_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/food-stamp-cuts-photo-1-_qed-800x526.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/food-stamp-cuts-photo-1-_qed-1020x671.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/food-stamp-cuts-photo-1-_qed-160x105.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/food-stamp-cuts-photo-1-_qed-1536x1011.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/food-stamp-cuts-photo-1-_qed-1920x1263.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Antoinette Martinez does her weekly grocery shopping at FoodMaxx on July 26, 2019. \u003ccite>(Anne Wernikoff/CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>I can’t help but think his economic ideas will cause problematic inflationary issues. His threats to withhold federal emergency funds cause me to wonder if there’s a way we can “redirect” our federal tax payments to the state of California as a way to challenge his audacity. As he requires quid pro quo of other nations to receive our support, maybe we as a state should enact the same mentality.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>– Carl, Manteca\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I am hoping for lower taxes, cheaper gasoline and utilities, and streamlined regulation for small businesses. I am optimistic about better economic growth and the enforcement of law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>– Emerson, Pleasant Valley\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I think I’ll be hurt. Silicon Valley has caved to this man and many within that community, while not supporting him philosophically, recognize that economically they will do well. For people like me, who have professional jobs but can’t compete with high tech and finance salaries, the struggle will drive me out or limit my lifestyle. Meanwhile, many of my more privileged friends just want to avoid the news for the next 4 years. That’s not an option. We need to know what is coming at us and our nation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>– Andria, San José\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>People have given up looking for jobs and everything is so expensive I’m going into credit debt. I think the economy will get better and I hope housing prices can go down decreasing the homeless here in CA.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>– John, Folsom\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Discrimination and civil rights\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12024467\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1777px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12024467\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/IMG_1361_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1777\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/IMG_1361_qed.jpg 1777w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/IMG_1361_qed-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/IMG_1361_qed-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/IMG_1361_qed-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/IMG_1361_qed-1536x1152.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1777px) 100vw, 1777px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">People protest President Donald Trump’s decision to bar transgender people from serving in the military, in a march through San Francisco’s Castro neighborhood on July 26, 2017. \u003ccite>(Polly Stryker/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>I am a transgender woman and my life is severely impacted. With the recent passing of executive orders on January 20. With changes like workplace protections and private spaces, I no longer have the safety and security of how I do trivial things like shop, go to a bathroom, workout in a gym, or even use the post office. … Right now my right to live as who I am is under siege, and I don’t see myself staying in the U.S. much longer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>– Kaedi, Tustin\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Any online interactions have increased bigotry since the bigots feel protected now, which is unfortunate. I am an LGBTQ ally but I wouldn’t consider myself in that bracket. I get attacked online for mentioning that everyone has a right to their opinion and their identity. I’m also concerned for myself that we are regressing in terms of rights for minorities as I am a minority.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>– Alexander, San Francisco\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The media is making a lot of noise, but Trump’s tactics of shock and awe can be very effective. Some fights/policies will fail and some I’ll disagree with, but the nation requires a much needed kick in the ass, so we could lead again, instead of being the woke nation that’s more focused on gender equality and DEI initiatives than creating opportunities for all.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>– Cindy, Encinitas\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I live in East San José, a vibrant and ethnically diverse neighborhood. I also work for the UC system and was a community college counselor for years. I have seen first hand the long term/short term effects of the bigotry, blatant racism, and discrimination against undocumented Americans and folks who identify as LGBTQIA. Former students and their families living under intense fear is detrimental to their health and yet they all work here and pay taxes that they get zero benefits for.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>– Nohemy, San José\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I hope that I am not directly impacted, but I believe that Trump’s elitism and selfishness will empower the rich and the ignorant to treat perceived “others” with discrimination, contempt, or worse. As a white person, I am not that fearful; as a woman, I am extremely anxious and concerned. And for people of color, I am also very anxious and concerned.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>– Sarah, Orange County\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The impact of fear, preparation, and resolve has been felt by the trans community since he was nominated to run for the Republican Party. We began to save medications, learn self-defense, understand our fragile rights, and learn to read legislation and Supreme Court tea leaves. … My optimism comes from knowing my elders have fought this before. Trans people have always, and will always, exist. We find joy in small moments while rusting the gears of the hate machine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Chloe, L.A.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Housing and homelessness\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12024498\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12024498\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/027_KQED_WoodStreetEncampment_07192022_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/027_KQED_WoodStreetEncampment_07192022_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/027_KQED_WoodStreetEncampment_07192022_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/027_KQED_WoodStreetEncampment_07192022_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/027_KQED_WoodStreetEncampment_07192022_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/027_KQED_WoodStreetEncampment_07192022_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/027_KQED_WoodStreetEncampment_07192022_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A sign says, ‘Housing is a Human Right’ at the Cob on Wood Project at the Wood Street encampment in West Oakland on Tuesday, July 19, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>I wish to see reduced homelessness, easier paths to home construction and easier agricultural access to water. Optimistic about the America First policies to focus on building more homes and propping up businesses by reducing the onerous regulatory state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>– Shannon, San Luis Obispo \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We need to help the homeless more as well as build housing for them and also for people whose income is considered “extremely low” and “low” income. I live in Senior subsidized housing so I have the lowest rent I can find but I worry if Trump takes away housing subsidies, rent will go up and I’ll be on the street as will many other seniors who live here.I also worry that I won’t be able to afford food.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>– Jody, Contra Costa County\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By no means MAGA, I consider myself pretty moderate. But this state and much of the country needs a hard reboot. Voters feel overburdened with the cost of utilities, gas and housing. … Though Trump will not get some of his agenda accomplished, he’s going to shake things up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>– Cindy, Encinitas\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Immigration and border security \u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11971660\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1568px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11971660\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/080923_Salinas-Farmworkers_SN_CM_16-copy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1568\" height=\"1045\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/080923_Salinas-Farmworkers_SN_CM_16-copy.jpg 1568w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/080923_Salinas-Farmworkers_SN_CM_16-copy-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/080923_Salinas-Farmworkers_SN_CM_16-copy-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/080923_Salinas-Farmworkers_SN_CM_16-copy-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/080923_Salinas-Farmworkers_SN_CM_16-copy-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1568px) 100vw, 1568px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Farmworkers harvest strawberries in Salinas on Aug. 9, 2023. \u003ccite>(Semantha Norris/CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>I went to work yesterday, the first day of class; the first day since Trump’s executive orders. I am sitting in a circle with my students. These are first generation young adults from all over California and a few international students from Uganda, Nigeria and China. My heart stops. What can I say to them to reassure them? As I pass out markers and construction paper so they can place their names, I add that they can also write their preferred pronoun. “Oops,” I add, “I just broke an executive order.” I refrain from saying that I will defy the other orders. If ICE comes to remove them, they will have to remove me too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>– Susan, Merced\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We need to prioritize fairness and justice. It’s unacceptable that illegal immigrants are often treated better than our Native American communities — this has to change, and I stand firmly for it. Ending birthright citizenship is a strong first step toward addressing these issues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>– Amanda, Crescent City\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I live near the border and to see families separated from one another is heartbreaking. I’ve experienced immigration raids when I lived at the racetrack and the agents are completely lacking in compassion. My sister may have a harder time getting the medicine she needs. My adult children are half Mexican and already fear racist policies. I’m a bilingual teacher (white) and I worry for students. I work in minority communities. I’m afraid for the gardener here at the apartment complex where I live. And I’m angry at people who voted for Trump including my younger sister and brother.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>– Stacey, La Mesa\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I am very concerned that we have illegal immigrants, gang members in drug cartels in our community and the state is refusing to work with the Trump administration to clear criminals out. I am concerned that California has become a criminal enabling state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>– Kerry, Los Angeles\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I am a teacher and I know there are several undocumented families in our community. I fear the day where I might not see my students anymore. I love my students and I will worry about them for the next four years. Also I have undocumented family members. I fear for their safety and whether the last day I saw them would have been my last.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>– Cynthia, Santa Clara County\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If this incoming administration deports undocumented Americans, imagine all the jobs that would be unfilled, education enrollments would continue to drop, tax revenue would decrease, but most tragic of all is that we would lose wonderful people who make our country better. In my 13 plus years of being in education, no one works harder and wants to be a contributor to our country than undocumented Americans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>– Nohemy, East San José\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Climate and the environment\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12021737\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12021737\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/GettyImages-2192687291.jpg\" alt=\"Firefighters look on as a big red smoky blaze comes over a hill.\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/GettyImages-2192687291.jpg 1024w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/GettyImages-2192687291-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/GettyImages-2192687291-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/GettyImages-2192687291-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A view of Palisades Fire as firefighting planes and helicopters drop water over flames in Mandeville Canyon in Los Angeles, on Jan. 10, 2025. \u003ccite>(Tayfun Coskun/Anadolu via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>I think that I will benefit from the increased job possibilities from oil drilling and as a business owner I am glad to see limits on the EPA’s oversteps into our daily work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>– Shannon, San Luis Obispo\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I am worried about California receiving financial help for the L.A. fires. And I am afraid Trump will undo all climate change legislation, and as a result there will be more catastrophic weather events.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>– Susan, San José\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It will be very disruptive. We have just suffered catastrophic wildfires that are still burning, and he doesn’t care. We are increasingly harmed by the climate crisis and he calls that a hoax. Our recovery from the Palisades and Eaton fires is likely to be harder, slower and meaner with his administration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>– Sally, Los Angeles\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Division and anxiety \u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12007728\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12007728\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/20240623_GAZAEVACUATION_GC-20-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/20240623_GAZAEVACUATION_GC-20-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/20240623_GAZAEVACUATION_GC-20-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/20240623_GAZAEVACUATION_GC-20-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/20240623_GAZAEVACUATION_GC-20-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/20240623_GAZAEVACUATION_GC-20-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/20240623_GAZAEVACUATION_GC-20-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Angelica Davila (right) faces off with a counterprotester at Window on the Bay Park in Monterey on June 23, 2024. Ceasefire demonstrators and Former President Trump supporters rallied at the same park. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Trump’s presidency is intentionally designed to keep us in constant states of anxiety and depression so that we’ll be worried about what he intends to do next and depressed about what he has done already. He will lie constantly & convince us to mistrust reliable sources of news.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>– Barbara, Newark\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The lies and disinformation that Trump’s team will be spewing out will certainly cause me great emotional distress because I fear it will lead more and more people from factual information and therefore to actions threatening our democracy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>– Elli, Yolo County\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It will make my life a living hell of chaos and confusion along with the never ending pack of lies that he tells … Why are there two systems of justice in this country? One for white males and the other for the rest of us.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>– D.C., Fresno\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s going to be more chaos and hate. Less facts. Unfortunately I live in a predominantly red area in SLO County … I’ve had to be very careful not to discuss politics in any way shape or form for fear of being bullied and insulted for not confirming to the MAGA way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>– Catherine, Atascadero\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I won’t be decreasing my amitriptyline dose anytime soon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>– Charmaine, Walnut Creek\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Cuts to social services programs\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12024503\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12024503\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240903-OverdoseResponse-56-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240903-OverdoseResponse-56-BL_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240903-OverdoseResponse-56-BL_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240903-OverdoseResponse-56-BL_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240903-OverdoseResponse-56-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240903-OverdoseResponse-56-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240903-OverdoseResponse-56-BL_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Paramedic Isaac James (left) and counselor Chantel Hernandez-Coleman, members of the Street Overdose Response Team, speak with 2 people sitting on the street in the South of Market neighborhood in San Francisco on Sept. 3, 2024. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Since I am disabled & have Medicare & Medi-Cal I worry that funding for my healthcare will be cut. I worry that there may be reduced funding for Section 8 (subsidized housing) and that also will affect me directly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>– Delia, South San Francisco\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I’m hoping the next four years under [Trump] will have little to no effect on my life or community, since the only effect we might see will be negative. Plans to cut social services, including Medicare and Social Security while cutting taxes for the oligarchs and increasing tariffs on foreign goods, including food, may bankrupt our family and put us out onto the street, worst case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>– Mike, Merced\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I’m not optimistic that anything will get better. I think he’s out to dismantle health care, Medicare and social security. I’m concerned for the farm workers who are instrumental in our rural agricultural community. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>Updated 8:11 a.m. Friday, Feb. 7\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12025026/ice-redadas-desinformacion\">Leer en español\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even before President Donald Trump took office for a second time, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12023560/bay-area-officials-vow-uphold-sanctuary-immigrants-despite-threats-from-trump\">panic about his promised “mass deportations”\u003c/a> — and raids by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) — was already spreading throughout California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For example, in an early January operation unrelated to ICE, the Santa Clara County Sheriff’s Office \u003ca href=\"https://sheriff.santaclaracounty.gov/misinformation-about-raids-triggers-panic-among-immigrant-communities\">served two search warrants related to retail theft\u003c/a>. But photos of the vans used by the sheriff’s office began spreading on social media, accompanied by messages claiming that ICE was present and detaining people in East San José, where thousands of immigrant families live.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People in the community were reaching out to me to ask me if this was true,” said Huy Tran, executive director of Services, Immigrant Rights and Education Network (SIREN), an organization with offices in San José and Fresno that offers legal aid, trainings and leadership development to immigrant communities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Throughout California, there are networks of dedicated volunteers and attorneys who are responding to possible ICE activity around the clock — called \u003ca href=\"https://podersf.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/Northern-California-Rapid-Response-Network.pdf\">Rapid Response Networks\u003c/a>. SIREN, for example, forms part of Santa Clara County Rapid Response Network, which, on Jan. 26, responded to reports from neighbors about ICE sightings in East San José. This time around, the Rapid Response Network \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=641298691891287&set=pcb.641298741891282\">confirmed that the rumors were true\u003c/a>: ICE agents were indeed transferring individuals who had received deportation orders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.instagram.com/reel/DFgRPYWzrAD/\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since the inauguration, \u003ca href=\"https://www.cbsnews.com/minnesota/news/immigration-advocates-ice-raids-deportation-social/\"> social media posts about apparent ICE sightings in the Bay Area’s immigrant communities have ramped up\u003c/a> — bringing understandable concern and panic with them. Last week, a San Francisco middle student’s report that \u003ca href=\"https://www.kron4.com/news/bay-area/student-reports-ice-agent-asked-for-id-on-muni-bus-sfusd/\">they were questioned by an immigration agent on a city Muni bus\u003c/a> prompted \u003ca href=\"https://missionlocal.org/2025/01/sfpd-confirms-no-ice-activity-on-muni-but-sfusd-helped-to-spread-rumor/\">SFUSD officials to send emails to local families warning them about the alleged incident\u003c/a> — even though representatives for both ICE and the San Francisco Sheriff’s Office ultimately denied any involvement in the incident.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But it \u003cem>can \u003c/em>be difficult to distinguish fact from rumor while you’re scrolling, especially when the news is concerning. We spoke to immigration experts and advocates about what to know about current ICE operations in California and how to avoid sharing misinformation about ICE raids yourself — even with the best of intentions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jump straight to:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#ice-raids-on-social-media\">How can I verify an ICE sighting before sharing on social media?\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#what-does-ice-look-like\">How can I recognize an ICE agent in a video?\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>ICE, fear and perception\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In California, a state with roughly 2 million undocumented individuals, according to \u003ca href=\"https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2024/07/22/what-we-know-about-unauthorized-immigrants-living-in-the-us/\">the Pew Research Center\u003c/a>, advocates say Trump has been weaponizing fear, along with harsher enforcement of immigration policies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The federal government is more likely going to do the things that can get the Trump administration visibility,” said Lourdes Martínez, who helps lead the immigrants’ rights practice at Oakland legal services nonprofit \u003ca href=\"https://www.centrolegal.org/\">Centro Legal de la Raza\u003c/a>. “They only have to detain a few people for the fear to really reverberate.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s normal to feel scared about ICE showing up in your community, said Tran from SIREN. “I understand the desire to want to do something, to share information right away,” he added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But fear also makes it hard for people to sort bad information from good, and panic can lead folks to quickly share online posts without checking them out further. “Anxiety, fear, it spreads incredibly quickly,” Tran said. “When people send information out to these huge networks, it spreads far, wide and fast.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12024338\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12024338\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/GettyImages-1181956018-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1582\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/GettyImages-1181956018-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/GettyImages-1181956018-800x494.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/GettyImages-1181956018-1020x630.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/GettyImages-1181956018-160x99.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/GettyImages-1181956018-1536x949.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/GettyImages-1181956018-2048x1265.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/GettyImages-1181956018-1920x1186.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Students and supporters of DACA (Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals) rally in downtown Los Angeles on Nov. 12, 2019. \u003ccite>(Frederic J. BrownAFP via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Q. What have ICE arrests looked like in Trump’s first days, and what is the focus?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>During his 2024 campaign, Trump promised his administration would launch “\u003ca href=\"https://www.opb.org/article/2024/11/15/trump-mass-deportation-immigration-border/\">the largest deportation program of criminals in the history of America.\u003c/a>” He even \u003ca href=\"https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2024/11/18/congress/donald-trump-military-deportation-plan-00190168\">promised to deploy the military for deportations\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In his first week back as president, Trump signed both an executive order declaring “\u003ca href=\"https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/declaring-a-national-emergency-at-the-southern-border-of-the-united-states/\">an invasion” at the southern border\u003c/a> and ended a \u003ca href=\"https://www.dhs.gov/sites/default/files/publications/21_1027_opa_guidelines-enforcement-actions-in-near-protected-areas.pdf\">2011 Homeland Security policy\u003c/a> that restricted immigration officers from \u003ca href=\"https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/migrants-can-now-be-arrested-at-churches-and-schools-after-trump-administration-throws-out-policies\">detaining people at “sensitive locations” like schools, churches and hospitals\u003c/a>. ICE detentions have also \u003ca href=\"https://blockclubchicago.org/2025/01/27/ice-arrests-dozens-in-chicago-as-part-of-targeted-operation-with-dr-phil-broadcasting-live/\">intensified in Chicago\u003c/a> since the inauguration, where officials said they have launched “enhanced targeted operations.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But while Trump still said his administration would go ahead with mass deportations, officials appointed by him are being more careful with their words — laying emphasis, for now, on people with criminal convictions. “If you’re in the country illegally, ICE can visit you,” said Tom Homan, who Trump designated as “border czar.” “But right now … we’re concentrating on the worst first,” he clarified during an interview with Fox News on Wednesday. “The public safety threats.”\u003cbr>\n[ad fullwidth]\u003cbr>\nIn the same interview, Homan said that ICE had arrested 308 undocumented individuals with criminal convictions the previous day alone. For context, that’s still way below \u003ca href=\"https://www.migrationpolicy.org/article/obama-record-deportations-deporter-chief-or-not\">the average daily number of arrests and deportations during the Obama administration\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As for Trump’s promise of using the military for deportations, the only evidence of the administration doing this is \u003ca href=\"https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/us-military-aircraft-deport-migrants-pentagon-readies-more-troops-border-2025-01-24/\">using military aircraft to fly migrants detained by ICE to their countries of origin\u003c/a>. Additional troops have \u003ca href=\"https://www.kpbs.org/news/border-immigration/2025/01/24/camp-pendleton-troops-arrive-at-us-mexico-border\">arrived in San Diego\u003c/a>, but the Pentagon said \u003ca href=\"https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-troops-us-mexico-border/\">these troops will not be involved in law enforcement\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"ice-raids-on-social-media\">\u003c/a>Q. What should I do if I see an online post about ICE in the community?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The major takeaway: If you think you see ICE in your neighborhood or see ICE reported nearby on social media, \u003cstrong>advocates advise that you call them \u003cem>instead \u003c/em>of circulating anything online.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tran of SIREN explained further: Before posting anything, you should first reach out to your local Rapid Response Network — a coalition of volunteers, organizations and attorneys that work together to confirm ICE sightings and connect people who have been detained by ICE to legal representation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/BarrioDrive/status/1882505353289769141\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.ccijustice.org/find-your-local-rr-hotline\">Find the Rapid Response Network that serves your community.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s possible that the Rapid Response Network in your city has already checked out the reported ICE sighting you’re seeing on your feed — so by calling them, you can get information from folks who are at the scene. You could also be \u003ca href=\"https://library.witness.org/product/verify-ice-raids/\">alerting them to an ICE sighting\u003c/a> that isn’t already on their radar.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco community organization \u003ca href=\"https://www.missionaction.org/\">Mission Action\u003c/a> urged people to avoid sharing unverified information, with Executive Director Laura Valdez saying that such rumors “can unnecessarily heighten fear and confusion” and that communities should trust Rapid Response Networks to “verify reports and share clear, actionable updates.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The organization said that anyone directly witnessing ICE activity can contact the 24-hour San Francisco hotline at 415-200-1548. (\u003ca href=\"https://www.ccijustice.org/find-your-local-rr-hotline\">Find other hotlines available in Northern California.\u003c/a>)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As a general rule, to be wary of misinformation online, check which organization is posting about apparent ICE sightings, and look for \u003ca href=\"https://guides.law.stanford.edu/c.php?g=1255722&p=9200578\">any sources for their information\u003c/a>. Keep in mind that \u003ca href=\"https://www.cnn.com/2023/04/24/tech/musk-twitter-blue-check-mark/index.html\">users of social media platform X can purchase “blue check marks\u003c/a>,” so a blue check alone isn’t proof of reliability.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://sites.google.com/view/reverse-images/home\">Google’s reverse image search\u003c/a> can be a \u003ca href=\"https://firstdraftnews.org/long-form-article/too-much-information/\">quick way\u003c/a> to see where a photo has been used on the internet. For example, an image purporting to show a recent “ICE raid” could be, in fact, an archive image from another year entirely. However, keep in mind that Google prioritizes its own AI results at the top of the page. Those results have been proven to sometimes be \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/google-ai-overviews-96e763ea2a6203978f581ca9c10f1b07\">unreliable, inconsistent\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.404media.co/google-ai-overview-search-magic-wand/\">even inappropriate\u003c/a>, so it’s best if you actually visit the source through the links provided.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12021954/misinformation-about-the-la-fires-spreads-fast-heres-how-to-spot-it#how-to-spot-ai-and-misinformation\">Read more tips for spotting misinformation online.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"what-does-ice-look-like\">\u003c/a>Q. How can I recognize an ICE agent in real life or in a video?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>ICE agents can sometimes wear uniforms or gear that \u003cem>suggests \u003c/em>they are police officers or probation officers, according to \u003ca href=\"https://www.aclusocal.org/en/icenotwelcome\">the American Civil Liberties Union Southern California\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This can sometimes convince people to let \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2017/02/21/516488396/without-warrants-immigration-agents-often-pose-as-police-officers\">agents enter a home without a warrant\u003c/a>. In 2018, several San Francisco police commissioners \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11642905/s-f-police-commissioners-want-ice-agents-to-stop-impersonating-police\">called on ICE\u003c/a> to stop \u003ca href=\"https://www.immigrantdefenseproject.org/raids-foia/\">these practices\u003c/a>, saying it interfered with local policing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>ICE agents can also wear civilian clothes or plain dark clothing with a bulletproof vest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Police officers, however, usually wear a more specific-looking uniform “\u003ca href=\"https://www.aclusocal.org/en/icenotwelcome\">with identifying insignias,\u003c/a>” ACLU SoCal said.[aside label=\"Related Stories\" postID=\"news_12019638,news_12024082,forum_2010101908578\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Q. What is the difference between ICE and CBP?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or ICE, and Customs and Border Protection, CBP, are both immigration enforcement agencies within the Department of Homeland Security. \u003ca href=\"https://crsreports.congress.gov/product/pdf/LSB/LSB10362\">ICE conducts enforcement within the U.S.\u003c/a> and manages detention and deportation operations. CBP conducts inspections at all U.S. “ports of entry” – at land borders, seaports, and airports. And the Border Patrol, which is part of CBP, polices the land borders in between the official ports of entry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>ICE and CBP officers generally need an administrative warrant (signed by an ICE or CBP supervisor) in order to arrest a person. However they can make an arrest without a warrant if they see a person illegally entering the country, or they have “reason to believe” a person is here illegally and likely to escape before they can get a warrant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You have more protections if the encounter happens when you are in your home. Under the Fourth Amendment, if ICE or CBP agents (or any law enforcement officer) comes to your door and wants to enter your home, they either need to present a warrant signed by a judge (not just an administrative warrant from their agency) – or they need your consent. \u003ca href=\"https://www.axios.com/2025/01/27/ice-warrants-undocumented-immigrants-raids-arrests\">Agents could also technically enter without permission if they report hearing an emergency\u003c/a> happening inside the home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you don’t want the agent to come in, legal advocates say, you don’t have to open the door unless the agent shows you a judicial warrant. (Advocates suggest asking the agent to slide the warrant under the door or hold it up to a window where you can read it.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Similar to ICE, CBP officers \u003ca href=\"https://careers.cbp.gov/s/career-paths/ofo/cbpo\">may have “police” written prominently on their uniform\u003c/a>. “U.S. Customs and Border Protection” may be written on their sleeve or on their back.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Federal law grants additional powers to CBP within \u003ca href=\"https://www.aclu.org/know-your-rights/border-zone\">a wide border zone\u003c/a> that the government has defined as 100 air miles from an “external boundary” of the U.S. Within that zone – which covers most coastal cities in the country, including \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11801962/immigration-advocates-call-sending-border-patrol-agents-to-sanctuary-cities-a-scare-tactic\">San Francisco\u003c/a> – \u003ca href=\"https://crsreports.congress.gov/product/pdf/LSB/LSB10559\">CBP agents can stop and question people\u003c/a>, and board vessels, buses and trains to search for unauthorized immigrants without a warrant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That said, you do still have constitutional protections, including the right to remain silent so you don’t say something that could incriminate you. Immigration officers cannot detain you without “reasonable suspicion” of a crime, and they cannot search you or your belongings without “probable cause” – unless you give your consent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.axios.com/2025/01/27/ice-warrants-undocumented-immigrants-raids-arrests\">Read more from Axios on how ICE agents apply warrants to entering a home and making arrests\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Hotlines for ICE encounters and sightings:\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://immigrants.sf.gov/help/rapid-response\">San Francisco’s 24-hour hotline\u003c/a> to either report ICE sightings or get legal assistance: \u003cstrong>415-200-1548\u003c/strong>. This is run by the \u003ca href=\"https://sfilen.org/\">San Francisco Immigrant Legal & Education Network\u003c/a>.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>In Alameda County, local organizations \u003ca href=\"https://www.acilep.org/\">are working to establish a hotline that will be operational on Feb. 17\u003c/a>. In the meantime, folks can call \u003ca href=\"https://www.centrolegal.org/\">Centro Legal de la Raza\u003c/a> from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. at \u003cstrong>510-437-1554\u003c/strong>.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://pactsj.org/\">Santa Clara County’s\u003c/a> hotline: \u003cstrong>408-290-1144\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://montereycountyrrn.com/\">Monterey County’s\u003c/a> hotline: \u003cstrong>831-643-5225\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/YARRsantacruz/\">Santa Cruz County’s\u003c/a> hotline:\u003cstrong> 831-239-4289\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.marinrrn.org/\">Marin County’s\u003c/a> hotline: \u003cstrong>415-991-4545\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://podersf.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/Northern-California-Rapid-Response-Network.pdf\">San Mateo County’s\u003c/a> hotline: \u003cstrong>203-666-4472\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Fresno County’s hotline: \u003cstrong>559-206-0151\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Sacramento County’s hotline: \u003cstrong>916-245-6773\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://northbayop.org/rapidresponse/\">Sonoma, Solano and Napa counties’\u003c/a> hotline: \u003cstrong>707-800-4544\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Central Valley (Fresno, San Joaquin, Merced, Stanislaus, and Kern counties) hotline: \u003cstrong>559-206-0151\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Los Angeles County’s hotline: \u003cstrong>888-624-4752\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.aclusocal.org/en/mobilejustice\">Mobile Justice\u003c/a>, which sends information, incident reporting and more to the ACLU.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>If someone is inside a detention facility, they can dial \u003cstrong>9233# from a facility phone\u003c/strong> on Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays to reach the \u003ca href=\"https://www.freedomforimmigrants.org/resources\">National Immigration Detention Hotline\u003c/a>.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Selected resources:\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.centrolegal.org/\">Centro Legal de la Raza\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.larazacrc.org/\">La Raza Community\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.missionaction.org/find-services/\">Mission Action\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://mujeresunidas.net/en/programas/\">Mujeres Unidas y Activas \u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.asianlawcaucus.org/\">Asian Law Caucus\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://immigrantsrising.org/\">Immigrants Rising\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://unitedwedream.org/our-work/undocuhealth-wellness/\">UndocuHealth\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://iibayarea.org/get-involved/\">Immigration Institute of the Bay Area\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.chirla.org/\">Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.sfbar.org/jdc/immigrant-legal-defense/attorney-of-the-day-resources-for-our-immigrant-community/\">Bar Association of San Francisco\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.immigrationadvocates.org/nonprofit/legaldirectory/search?state=CA\">National Immigration Legal Services Directory for California\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.informedimmigrant.com/help/\">Informed Immigrant\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://help.asylumadvocacy.org/private-attorneys/\">Private immigration lawyer lookup\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s Tyche Hendricks and Samantha Lim contributed to this article.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Correction: A previous version of this story stated that the policy preventing ICE from operating in schools and churches was President Biden-era guidance. This was in fact\u003ca href=\"https://www.dhs.gov/sites/default/files/publications/21_1027_opa_guidelines-enforcement-actions-in-near-protected-areas.pdf\"> guidance from 2011,\u003c/a> which Biden had \u003ca href=\"https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/migrants-can-now-be-arrested-at-churches-and-schools-after-trump-administration-throws-out-policies\">expanded\u003c/a> upon during his term. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Since the inauguration, \u003ca href=\"https://www.cbsnews.com/minnesota/news/immigration-advocates-ice-raids-deportation-social/\"> social media posts about apparent ICE sightings in the Bay Area’s immigrant communities have ramped up\u003c/a> — bringing understandable concern and panic with them. Last week, a San Francisco middle student’s report that \u003ca href=\"https://www.kron4.com/news/bay-area/student-reports-ice-agent-asked-for-id-on-muni-bus-sfusd/\">they were questioned by an immigration agent on a city Muni bus\u003c/a> prompted \u003ca href=\"https://missionlocal.org/2025/01/sfpd-confirms-no-ice-activity-on-muni-but-sfusd-helped-to-spread-rumor/\">SFUSD officials to send emails to local families warning them about the alleged incident\u003c/a> — even though representatives for both ICE and the San Francisco Sheriff’s Office ultimately denied any involvement in the incident.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But it \u003cem>can \u003c/em>be difficult to distinguish fact from rumor while you’re scrolling, especially when the news is concerning. We spoke to immigration experts and advocates about what to know about current ICE operations in California and how to avoid sharing misinformation about ICE raids yourself — even with the best of intentions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jump straight to:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#ice-raids-on-social-media\">How can I verify an ICE sighting before sharing on social media?\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#what-does-ice-look-like\">How can I recognize an ICE agent in a video?\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>ICE, fear and perception\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In California, a state with roughly 2 million undocumented individuals, according to \u003ca href=\"https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2024/07/22/what-we-know-about-unauthorized-immigrants-living-in-the-us/\">the Pew Research Center\u003c/a>, advocates say Trump has been weaponizing fear, along with harsher enforcement of immigration policies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The federal government is more likely going to do the things that can get the Trump administration visibility,” said Lourdes Martínez, who helps lead the immigrants’ rights practice at Oakland legal services nonprofit \u003ca href=\"https://www.centrolegal.org/\">Centro Legal de la Raza\u003c/a>. “They only have to detain a few people for the fear to really reverberate.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s normal to feel scared about ICE showing up in your community, said Tran from SIREN. “I understand the desire to want to do something, to share information right away,” he added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But fear also makes it hard for people to sort bad information from good, and panic can lead folks to quickly share online posts without checking them out further. “Anxiety, fear, it spreads incredibly quickly,” Tran said. “When people send information out to these huge networks, it spreads far, wide and fast.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12024338\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12024338\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/GettyImages-1181956018-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1582\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/GettyImages-1181956018-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/GettyImages-1181956018-800x494.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/GettyImages-1181956018-1020x630.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/GettyImages-1181956018-160x99.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/GettyImages-1181956018-1536x949.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/GettyImages-1181956018-2048x1265.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/GettyImages-1181956018-1920x1186.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Students and supporters of DACA (Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals) rally in downtown Los Angeles on Nov. 12, 2019. \u003ccite>(Frederic J. BrownAFP via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Q. What have ICE arrests looked like in Trump’s first days, and what is the focus?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>During his 2024 campaign, Trump promised his administration would launch “\u003ca href=\"https://www.opb.org/article/2024/11/15/trump-mass-deportation-immigration-border/\">the largest deportation program of criminals in the history of America.\u003c/a>” He even \u003ca href=\"https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2024/11/18/congress/donald-trump-military-deportation-plan-00190168\">promised to deploy the military for deportations\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In his first week back as president, Trump signed both an executive order declaring “\u003ca href=\"https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/declaring-a-national-emergency-at-the-southern-border-of-the-united-states/\">an invasion” at the southern border\u003c/a> and ended a \u003ca href=\"https://www.dhs.gov/sites/default/files/publications/21_1027_opa_guidelines-enforcement-actions-in-near-protected-areas.pdf\">2011 Homeland Security policy\u003c/a> that restricted immigration officers from \u003ca href=\"https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/migrants-can-now-be-arrested-at-churches-and-schools-after-trump-administration-throws-out-policies\">detaining people at “sensitive locations” like schools, churches and hospitals\u003c/a>. ICE detentions have also \u003ca href=\"https://blockclubchicago.org/2025/01/27/ice-arrests-dozens-in-chicago-as-part-of-targeted-operation-with-dr-phil-broadcasting-live/\">intensified in Chicago\u003c/a> since the inauguration, where officials said they have launched “enhanced targeted operations.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But while Trump still said his administration would go ahead with mass deportations, officials appointed by him are being more careful with their words — laying emphasis, for now, on people with criminal convictions. “If you’re in the country illegally, ICE can visit you,” said Tom Homan, who Trump designated as “border czar.” “But right now … we’re concentrating on the worst first,” he clarified during an interview with Fox News on Wednesday. “The public safety threats.”\u003cbr>\n\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cbr>\nIn the same interview, Homan said that ICE had arrested 308 undocumented individuals with criminal convictions the previous day alone. For context, that’s still way below \u003ca href=\"https://www.migrationpolicy.org/article/obama-record-deportations-deporter-chief-or-not\">the average daily number of arrests and deportations during the Obama administration\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As for Trump’s promise of using the military for deportations, the only evidence of the administration doing this is \u003ca href=\"https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/us-military-aircraft-deport-migrants-pentagon-readies-more-troops-border-2025-01-24/\">using military aircraft to fly migrants detained by ICE to their countries of origin\u003c/a>. Additional troops have \u003ca href=\"https://www.kpbs.org/news/border-immigration/2025/01/24/camp-pendleton-troops-arrive-at-us-mexico-border\">arrived in San Diego\u003c/a>, but the Pentagon said \u003ca href=\"https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-troops-us-mexico-border/\">these troops will not be involved in law enforcement\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"ice-raids-on-social-media\">\u003c/a>Q. What should I do if I see an online post about ICE in the community?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The major takeaway: If you think you see ICE in your neighborhood or see ICE reported nearby on social media, \u003cstrong>advocates advise that you call them \u003cem>instead \u003c/em>of circulating anything online.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tran of SIREN explained further: Before posting anything, you should first reach out to your local Rapid Response Network — a coalition of volunteers, organizations and attorneys that work together to confirm ICE sightings and connect people who have been detained by ICE to legal representation.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.ccijustice.org/find-your-local-rr-hotline\">Find the Rapid Response Network that serves your community.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s possible that the Rapid Response Network in your city has already checked out the reported ICE sighting you’re seeing on your feed — so by calling them, you can get information from folks who are at the scene. You could also be \u003ca href=\"https://library.witness.org/product/verify-ice-raids/\">alerting them to an ICE sighting\u003c/a> that isn’t already on their radar.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco community organization \u003ca href=\"https://www.missionaction.org/\">Mission Action\u003c/a> urged people to avoid sharing unverified information, with Executive Director Laura Valdez saying that such rumors “can unnecessarily heighten fear and confusion” and that communities should trust Rapid Response Networks to “verify reports and share clear, actionable updates.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The organization said that anyone directly witnessing ICE activity can contact the 24-hour San Francisco hotline at 415-200-1548. (\u003ca href=\"https://www.ccijustice.org/find-your-local-rr-hotline\">Find other hotlines available in Northern California.\u003c/a>)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As a general rule, to be wary of misinformation online, check which organization is posting about apparent ICE sightings, and look for \u003ca href=\"https://guides.law.stanford.edu/c.php?g=1255722&p=9200578\">any sources for their information\u003c/a>. Keep in mind that \u003ca href=\"https://www.cnn.com/2023/04/24/tech/musk-twitter-blue-check-mark/index.html\">users of social media platform X can purchase “blue check marks\u003c/a>,” so a blue check alone isn’t proof of reliability.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://sites.google.com/view/reverse-images/home\">Google’s reverse image search\u003c/a> can be a \u003ca href=\"https://firstdraftnews.org/long-form-article/too-much-information/\">quick way\u003c/a> to see where a photo has been used on the internet. For example, an image purporting to show a recent “ICE raid” could be, in fact, an archive image from another year entirely. However, keep in mind that Google prioritizes its own AI results at the top of the page. Those results have been proven to sometimes be \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/google-ai-overviews-96e763ea2a6203978f581ca9c10f1b07\">unreliable, inconsistent\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.404media.co/google-ai-overview-search-magic-wand/\">even inappropriate\u003c/a>, so it’s best if you actually visit the source through the links provided.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12021954/misinformation-about-the-la-fires-spreads-fast-heres-how-to-spot-it#how-to-spot-ai-and-misinformation\">Read more tips for spotting misinformation online.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"what-does-ice-look-like\">\u003c/a>Q. How can I recognize an ICE agent in real life or in a video?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>ICE agents can sometimes wear uniforms or gear that \u003cem>suggests \u003c/em>they are police officers or probation officers, according to \u003ca href=\"https://www.aclusocal.org/en/icenotwelcome\">the American Civil Liberties Union Southern California\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This can sometimes convince people to let \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2017/02/21/516488396/without-warrants-immigration-agents-often-pose-as-police-officers\">agents enter a home without a warrant\u003c/a>. In 2018, several San Francisco police commissioners \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11642905/s-f-police-commissioners-want-ice-agents-to-stop-impersonating-police\">called on ICE\u003c/a> to stop \u003ca href=\"https://www.immigrantdefenseproject.org/raids-foia/\">these practices\u003c/a>, saying it interfered with local policing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>ICE agents can also wear civilian clothes or plain dark clothing with a bulletproof vest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Police officers, however, usually wear a more specific-looking uniform “\u003ca href=\"https://www.aclusocal.org/en/icenotwelcome\">with identifying insignias,\u003c/a>” ACLU SoCal said.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Q. What is the difference between ICE and CBP?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or ICE, and Customs and Border Protection, CBP, are both immigration enforcement agencies within the Department of Homeland Security. \u003ca href=\"https://crsreports.congress.gov/product/pdf/LSB/LSB10362\">ICE conducts enforcement within the U.S.\u003c/a> and manages detention and deportation operations. CBP conducts inspections at all U.S. “ports of entry” – at land borders, seaports, and airports. And the Border Patrol, which is part of CBP, polices the land borders in between the official ports of entry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>ICE and CBP officers generally need an administrative warrant (signed by an ICE or CBP supervisor) in order to arrest a person. However they can make an arrest without a warrant if they see a person illegally entering the country, or they have “reason to believe” a person is here illegally and likely to escape before they can get a warrant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You have more protections if the encounter happens when you are in your home. Under the Fourth Amendment, if ICE or CBP agents (or any law enforcement officer) comes to your door and wants to enter your home, they either need to present a warrant signed by a judge (not just an administrative warrant from their agency) – or they need your consent. \u003ca href=\"https://www.axios.com/2025/01/27/ice-warrants-undocumented-immigrants-raids-arrests\">Agents could also technically enter without permission if they report hearing an emergency\u003c/a> happening inside the home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you don’t want the agent to come in, legal advocates say, you don’t have to open the door unless the agent shows you a judicial warrant. (Advocates suggest asking the agent to slide the warrant under the door or hold it up to a window where you can read it.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Similar to ICE, CBP officers \u003ca href=\"https://careers.cbp.gov/s/career-paths/ofo/cbpo\">may have “police” written prominently on their uniform\u003c/a>. “U.S. Customs and Border Protection” may be written on their sleeve or on their back.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Federal law grants additional powers to CBP within \u003ca href=\"https://www.aclu.org/know-your-rights/border-zone\">a wide border zone\u003c/a> that the government has defined as 100 air miles from an “external boundary” of the U.S. Within that zone – which covers most coastal cities in the country, including \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11801962/immigration-advocates-call-sending-border-patrol-agents-to-sanctuary-cities-a-scare-tactic\">San Francisco\u003c/a> – \u003ca href=\"https://crsreports.congress.gov/product/pdf/LSB/LSB10559\">CBP agents can stop and question people\u003c/a>, and board vessels, buses and trains to search for unauthorized immigrants without a warrant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That said, you do still have constitutional protections, including the right to remain silent so you don’t say something that could incriminate you. Immigration officers cannot detain you without “reasonable suspicion” of a crime, and they cannot search you or your belongings without “probable cause” – unless you give your consent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.axios.com/2025/01/27/ice-warrants-undocumented-immigrants-raids-arrests\">Read more from Axios on how ICE agents apply warrants to entering a home and making arrests\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Hotlines for ICE encounters and sightings:\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://immigrants.sf.gov/help/rapid-response\">San Francisco’s 24-hour hotline\u003c/a> to either report ICE sightings or get legal assistance: \u003cstrong>415-200-1548\u003c/strong>. This is run by the \u003ca href=\"https://sfilen.org/\">San Francisco Immigrant Legal & Education Network\u003c/a>.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>In Alameda County, local organizations \u003ca href=\"https://www.acilep.org/\">are working to establish a hotline that will be operational on Feb. 17\u003c/a>. In the meantime, folks can call \u003ca href=\"https://www.centrolegal.org/\">Centro Legal de la Raza\u003c/a> from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. at \u003cstrong>510-437-1554\u003c/strong>.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://pactsj.org/\">Santa Clara County’s\u003c/a> hotline: \u003cstrong>408-290-1144\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://montereycountyrrn.com/\">Monterey County’s\u003c/a> hotline: \u003cstrong>831-643-5225\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/YARRsantacruz/\">Santa Cruz County’s\u003c/a> hotline:\u003cstrong> 831-239-4289\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.marinrrn.org/\">Marin County’s\u003c/a> hotline: \u003cstrong>415-991-4545\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://podersf.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/Northern-California-Rapid-Response-Network.pdf\">San Mateo County’s\u003c/a> hotline: \u003cstrong>203-666-4472\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Fresno County’s hotline: \u003cstrong>559-206-0151\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Sacramento County’s hotline: \u003cstrong>916-245-6773\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://northbayop.org/rapidresponse/\">Sonoma, Solano and Napa counties’\u003c/a> hotline: \u003cstrong>707-800-4544\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Central Valley (Fresno, San Joaquin, Merced, Stanislaus, and Kern counties) hotline: \u003cstrong>559-206-0151\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Los Angeles County’s hotline: \u003cstrong>888-624-4752\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.aclusocal.org/en/mobilejustice\">Mobile Justice\u003c/a>, which sends information, incident reporting and more to the ACLU.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>If someone is inside a detention facility, they can dial \u003cstrong>9233# from a facility phone\u003c/strong> on Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays to reach the \u003ca href=\"https://www.freedomforimmigrants.org/resources\">National Immigration Detention Hotline\u003c/a>.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Selected resources:\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.centrolegal.org/\">Centro Legal de la Raza\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.larazacrc.org/\">La Raza Community\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.missionaction.org/find-services/\">Mission Action\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://mujeresunidas.net/en/programas/\">Mujeres Unidas y Activas \u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.asianlawcaucus.org/\">Asian Law Caucus\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://immigrantsrising.org/\">Immigrants Rising\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://unitedwedream.org/our-work/undocuhealth-wellness/\">UndocuHealth\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://iibayarea.org/get-involved/\">Immigration Institute of the Bay Area\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.chirla.org/\">Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.sfbar.org/jdc/immigrant-legal-defense/attorney-of-the-day-resources-for-our-immigrant-community/\">Bar Association of San Francisco\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.immigrationadvocates.org/nonprofit/legaldirectory/search?state=CA\">National Immigration Legal Services Directory for California\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.informedimmigrant.com/help/\">Informed Immigrant\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://help.asylumadvocacy.org/private-attorneys/\">Private immigration lawyer lookup\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s Tyche Hendricks and Samantha Lim contributed to this article.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Correction: A previous version of this story stated that the policy preventing ICE from operating in schools and churches was President Biden-era guidance. 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"content": "\u003cp>Back in the Oval Office, President Donald Trump is once again trying to break a policy California Democrats adopted during his first term to protect certain undocumented immigrants from being deported.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of his first executive orders targets the state’s so-called sanctuary law, which generally limits how local cops interact with federal immigration officers. Trump’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/protecting-the-american-people-against-invasion/\">order\u003c/a>, titled “Protecting the American People Against Invasion,” would deny federal funds to sanctuary jurisdictions across the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s not clear yet what kind of federal funds the Trump administration would withhold. But, for a state of 39 million people that relies heavily on federal dollars for its public programs and currently for its wildfire recovery, withholding money could be a crippling blow.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s worth noting that \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/2025/01/california-lawsuits-against-donald-trump/\">Trump attempted something similar\u003c/a> during his first term. California sued, and the courts sided with the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before Trump took office, a nonprofit led by his policy adviser Stephen Miller \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/justice/2024/12/sanctuary-cities-san-diego-letter/\">sent letters to hundreds of local elected officials\u003c/a> around the country warning them they faced “legal consequences” if their sanctuary policies interfered with immigration enforcement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So what does the state’s sanctuary law do exactly, and what does it mean for Trump’s mass deportation plans?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here are five things to know about the California Values Act.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>It’s about what California cops can do\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In October 2017, \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/general-news-5b325d95a9c548e29b887de8b2303b76\">Gov. Jerry Brown\u003c/a> signed into law Senate Bill 54, the California Values Act, commonly referred to as the state’s sanctuary law. That law bars state and local police from investigating, interrogating, or arresting people for immigration enforcement purposes and limits — but does not entirely prohibit — police cooperation with federal immigration officials.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kevin De Leon, the former state Senate leader who authored the law, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2017/09/17/551670840/california-state-senator-speaks-on-recently-approved-sanctuary-state-bill\">told NPR in 2017\u003c/a> that the point of the law was to make clear that the feds cannot enlist local police “as a cog in the Trump deportation machine.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The “sanctuary” movement goes back to the 1980s when Central American refugees fled civil war and immigrated to the U.S. When they were denied asylum, they sought protection from deportation in churches and other places of worship.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today, the sanctuary law does not actually refer to a place or territory where immigrants can seek protection. Living in California alone does not shield someone from deportation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead, the law clarifies what state and local law enforcement in California can and cannot do with regard to immigration. For example, the law says that local police cannot detain or keep someone in custody more than 48 hours past their release date just for immigration officials to pick them up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The law does not restrict what the federal government can do in the state. To be clear, that means U.S Immigration Customs and Enforcement (ICE) can still arrest and deport undocumented people living in California and other sanctuary jurisdictions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The federal government has a lane that they are entitled to move in, they can enforce immigration law,” California Attorney General Rob Bonta said last week during a press conference in San Diego. But “They can’t conscript or force the city or the county or the state law enforcement entities to do their job for them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Who isn’t protected by sanctuary law\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/justice/2024/12/sanctuary-cities-san-diego-letter/\">President Trump and his allies\u003c/a> have repeatedly argued that sanctuary laws shield dangerous criminals. They have, at times, pointed to specific crimes committed by undocumented immigrants to argue the sanctuary law puts the greater public at risk. In 2019, for example, Trump pointed to the slaying of a \u003ca href=\"https://www.modbee.com/news/article224103155.html\">police officer in Stanislaus County\u003c/a> to criticize the sanctuary law and demand more funding for border protection.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But that’s not the whole story. The law says police can tell immigration authorities about an inmate’s upcoming release if that person has been convicted of \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySection.xhtml?lawCode=PEN§ionNum=1192.7\">a serious crime or felony, such as\u003c/a>: murder, rape, kidnapping, robbery and arson, among many others.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And as some \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/justice/2025/01/california-sheriffs-sanctuary-law/\">sheriffs have noted\u003c/a>, there is nothing that stops immigration officials from using jail websites and fingerprints databases to identify people of interest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It is up to ICE to pick up individuals on their release. Between 2018 and 2023, California jails \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/justice/2025/01/california-sheriffs-sanctuary-law/\">transferred more than 4,000 individuals\u003c/a> to immigration authorities. At the same time, ICE doesn’t always show up when someone is released from jail or prison. For example, ICE picked up about 80% of undocumented immigrants released from state prisons between 2017 and 2020, according to a 2022 \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billAnalysisClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB937\">Senate legislative analysis\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is an absurdity to be talking about SB 54 as preventing bad, noncitizens with serious criminal convictions from being turned over to (the Department of Homeland Security), it doesn’t do that,” said Niels Frenzen, a professor at USC’s Gould School of Law and codirector of the school’s immigration clinic. “But those facts are just not part of the political debate.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Immigrants who are protected by the sanctuary state law are usually those who are arrested for less serious offenses, such as traffic violations and driving without a license or insurance, Frenzen said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Courts upheld California’s sanctuary state law\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>After California enacted its Values Act, Trump’s Justice Department took the state to court, \u003ca href=\"https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/justice-department-files-preemption-lawsuit-against-state-california-stop-interference\">arguing that the state law\u003c/a> “interferes with federal immigration authorities’ ability to carry out their responsibilities under federal law.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some immigration attorneys, however, have pointed out that the state law seemed to have little impact on ICE’s ability to do its job.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For example, \u003ca href=\"https://www.justice.gov/opa/press-release/file/1041431/dl\">the Justice Department, in its 2018 lawsuit,\u003c/a> said that in 2017, ICE apprehended 20,201 unlawfully present people in California, which represented about 14% of all ICE arrests made that year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>ICE was on track to exceed that number in the following year. In the first two months of 2018, after the sanctuary law took effect, it arrested 8,588 people in California, or about 14% of all arrests nationwide, according to a filing in the lawsuit by Trump’s Justice Department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2019, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2019/04/18/714882333/federal-appeals-panel-upholds-california-sanctuary-state-law\">the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled\u003c/a> that the California Values Act did not impede enforcement of federal immigration law. When the Trump administration \u003ca href=\"https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2020/6/16/21291797/supreme-court-trump-immigration-sanctuary-california-values-act\">asked the Supreme Court to review the case\u003c/a>, it refused to do so, leaving the law as is.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a separate fight, California sued the Trump administration for its policy to withhold federal law enforcement grants from jurisdictions with sanctuary policies. 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Whether causation or coincidence, there isn’t much in the way of official research that proves this.[aside label=\"Related Stories\" postID=\"news_12023560,news_12024082,news_12016037\"]To prove such a claim, one would have to isolate the sanctuary state law’s specific impact on crime, researchers say.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A \u003ca href=\"https://news.uci.edu/2020/03/05/no-increase-in-crime-under-californias-sanctuary-state-status-uci-study-finds/\">2020 analysis of California’s law\u003c/a> by researchers at UC Irvine examined the state’s 2018 violent and property crime rates and compared them to estimated crime rates had Gov. Brown not signed the sanctuary policy. The study found that the law did not have a significant impact on either violent crime or property crime.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Charis Kubrin, who authored the study, said the takeaway of her research was that changing the state’s sanctuary status is not likely to result in major reductions in crime. “Getting rid of SB 54, for example, is not going to make crime go down because it didn’t cause crime to go up in the first place,” Kubrin said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.pnas.org/doi/full/10.1073/pnas.2014673117\">A separate study\u003c/a> by researchers at Stanford and Princeton looked at sanctuary policies across the country and found that these measures reduced the overall number of deportations by one-third, but they did not reduce the number of deportations of people with violent criminal convictions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That study also found that these policies don’t have much of a direct effect on crime.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Conflict expected in ‘sensitive areas’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>During the Biden administration, the federal government had in place a “sensitive areas” order, which discouraged immigration agents from making arrests in places like schools, hospitals, churches and courthouses. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Back in the Oval Office, President Donald Trump is once again trying to break a policy California Democrats adopted during his first term to protect certain undocumented immigrants from being deported.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of his first executive orders targets the state’s so-called sanctuary law, which generally limits how local cops interact with federal immigration officers. Trump’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/protecting-the-american-people-against-invasion/\">order\u003c/a>, titled “Protecting the American People Against Invasion,” would deny federal funds to sanctuary jurisdictions across the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s not clear yet what kind of federal funds the Trump administration would withhold. But, for a state of 39 million people that relies heavily on federal dollars for its public programs and currently for its wildfire recovery, withholding money could be a crippling blow.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s worth noting that \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/2025/01/california-lawsuits-against-donald-trump/\">Trump attempted something similar\u003c/a> during his first term. California sued, and the courts sided with the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before Trump took office, a nonprofit led by his policy adviser Stephen Miller \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/justice/2024/12/sanctuary-cities-san-diego-letter/\">sent letters to hundreds of local elected officials\u003c/a> around the country warning them they faced “legal consequences” if their sanctuary policies interfered with immigration enforcement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So what does the state’s sanctuary law do exactly, and what does it mean for Trump’s mass deportation plans?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here are five things to know about the California Values Act.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>It’s about what California cops can do\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In October 2017, \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/general-news-5b325d95a9c548e29b887de8b2303b76\">Gov. Jerry Brown\u003c/a> signed into law Senate Bill 54, the California Values Act, commonly referred to as the state’s sanctuary law. That law bars state and local police from investigating, interrogating, or arresting people for immigration enforcement purposes and limits — but does not entirely prohibit — police cooperation with federal immigration officials.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kevin De Leon, the former state Senate leader who authored the law, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2017/09/17/551670840/california-state-senator-speaks-on-recently-approved-sanctuary-state-bill\">told NPR in 2017\u003c/a> that the point of the law was to make clear that the feds cannot enlist local police “as a cog in the Trump deportation machine.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The “sanctuary” movement goes back to the 1980s when Central American refugees fled civil war and immigrated to the U.S. When they were denied asylum, they sought protection from deportation in churches and other places of worship.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today, the sanctuary law does not actually refer to a place or territory where immigrants can seek protection. Living in California alone does not shield someone from deportation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead, the law clarifies what state and local law enforcement in California can and cannot do with regard to immigration. For example, the law says that local police cannot detain or keep someone in custody more than 48 hours past their release date just for immigration officials to pick them up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The law does not restrict what the federal government can do in the state. To be clear, that means U.S Immigration Customs and Enforcement (ICE) can still arrest and deport undocumented people living in California and other sanctuary jurisdictions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The federal government has a lane that they are entitled to move in, they can enforce immigration law,” California Attorney General Rob Bonta said last week during a press conference in San Diego. But “They can’t conscript or force the city or the county or the state law enforcement entities to do their job for them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Who isn’t protected by sanctuary law\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/justice/2024/12/sanctuary-cities-san-diego-letter/\">President Trump and his allies\u003c/a> have repeatedly argued that sanctuary laws shield dangerous criminals. They have, at times, pointed to specific crimes committed by undocumented immigrants to argue the sanctuary law puts the greater public at risk. In 2019, for example, Trump pointed to the slaying of a \u003ca href=\"https://www.modbee.com/news/article224103155.html\">police officer in Stanislaus County\u003c/a> to criticize the sanctuary law and demand more funding for border protection.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But that’s not the whole story. The law says police can tell immigration authorities about an inmate’s upcoming release if that person has been convicted of \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySection.xhtml?lawCode=PEN§ionNum=1192.7\">a serious crime or felony, such as\u003c/a>: murder, rape, kidnapping, robbery and arson, among many others.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And as some \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/justice/2025/01/california-sheriffs-sanctuary-law/\">sheriffs have noted\u003c/a>, there is nothing that stops immigration officials from using jail websites and fingerprints databases to identify people of interest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It is up to ICE to pick up individuals on their release. Between 2018 and 2023, California jails \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/justice/2025/01/california-sheriffs-sanctuary-law/\">transferred more than 4,000 individuals\u003c/a> to immigration authorities. At the same time, ICE doesn’t always show up when someone is released from jail or prison. For example, ICE picked up about 80% of undocumented immigrants released from state prisons between 2017 and 2020, according to a 2022 \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billAnalysisClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB937\">Senate legislative analysis\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is an absurdity to be talking about SB 54 as preventing bad, noncitizens with serious criminal convictions from being turned over to (the Department of Homeland Security), it doesn’t do that,” said Niels Frenzen, a professor at USC’s Gould School of Law and codirector of the school’s immigration clinic. “But those facts are just not part of the political debate.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Immigrants who are protected by the sanctuary state law are usually those who are arrested for less serious offenses, such as traffic violations and driving without a license or insurance, Frenzen said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Courts upheld California’s sanctuary state law\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>After California enacted its Values Act, Trump’s Justice Department took the state to court, \u003ca href=\"https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/justice-department-files-preemption-lawsuit-against-state-california-stop-interference\">arguing that the state law\u003c/a> “interferes with federal immigration authorities’ ability to carry out their responsibilities under federal law.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some immigration attorneys, however, have pointed out that the state law seemed to have little impact on ICE’s ability to do its job.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For example, \u003ca href=\"https://www.justice.gov/opa/press-release/file/1041431/dl\">the Justice Department, in its 2018 lawsuit,\u003c/a> said that in 2017, ICE apprehended 20,201 unlawfully present people in California, which represented about 14% of all ICE arrests made that year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>ICE was on track to exceed that number in the following year. In the first two months of 2018, after the sanctuary law took effect, it arrested 8,588 people in California, or about 14% of all arrests nationwide, according to a filing in the lawsuit by Trump’s Justice Department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2019, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2019/04/18/714882333/federal-appeals-panel-upholds-california-sanctuary-state-law\">the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled\u003c/a> that the California Values Act did not impede enforcement of federal immigration law. When the Trump administration \u003ca href=\"https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2020/6/16/21291797/supreme-court-trump-immigration-sanctuary-california-values-act\">asked the Supreme Court to review the case\u003c/a>, it refused to do so, leaving the law as is.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a separate fight, California sued the Trump administration for its policy to withhold federal law enforcement grants from jurisdictions with sanctuary policies. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>To prove such a claim, one would have to isolate the sanctuary state law’s specific impact on crime, researchers say.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A \u003ca href=\"https://news.uci.edu/2020/03/05/no-increase-in-crime-under-californias-sanctuary-state-status-uci-study-finds/\">2020 analysis of California’s law\u003c/a> by researchers at UC Irvine examined the state’s 2018 violent and property crime rates and compared them to estimated crime rates had Gov. Brown not signed the sanctuary policy. The study found that the law did not have a significant impact on either violent crime or property crime.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Charis Kubrin, who authored the study, said the takeaway of her research was that changing the state’s sanctuary status is not likely to result in major reductions in crime. “Getting rid of SB 54, for example, is not going to make crime go down because it didn’t cause crime to go up in the first place,” Kubrin said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.pnas.org/doi/full/10.1073/pnas.2014673117\">A separate study\u003c/a> by researchers at Stanford and Princeton looked at sanctuary policies across the country and found that these measures reduced the overall number of deportations by one-third, but they did not reduce the number of deportations of people with violent criminal convictions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That study also found that these policies don’t have much of a direct effect on crime.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Conflict expected in ‘sensitive areas’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>During the Biden administration, the federal government had in place a “sensitive areas” order, which discouraged immigration agents from making arrests in places like schools, hospitals, churches and courthouses. Last week, the Trump administration rescinded that order.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When ICE engages in civil immigration enforcement actions in or near courthouses it can reduce safety risks to the public,” reads a Jan. 21 memo to staff from ICE Acting Director Caleb Vitello.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The sanctuary state law asks officials at the same places to adopt policies to limit public participation with immigration enforcement, such as requesting a warrant from ICE agents before they attempt to arrest anyone. That could create a conflict for local officials if the immigration crackdown in the new administration hits their venue, said Alvaro Huerta, director of litigation and advocacy at Immigrant Defenders Law Center.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Given Trump’s recent rule reversal, Huerta said, “The federal government may attempt some (immigration) enforcement in those spaces, but the state government is asking those spaces to require warrants.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12025342/ciudadania-por-nacimiento-trump\">Leer en español\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story is from January. Looking for the latest updates on the rules for U.S. birthright citizenship? \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12046217/what-the-supreme-courts-latest-ruling-means-for-birthright-citizenship\">Find them in our latest guide.\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Day One back in The White House, President Donald Trump signed \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12023126/california-leaders-to-sue-trump-over-birthright-citizenship-border-policies\">an executive order that seeks to transform who gets to be a United States citizen at birth\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During his 2024 campaign, Trump \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/TrumpWarRoom/status/1663537082633953282\">promised to end birthright citizenship for children born in the U.S. to parents who are undocumented\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But his Jan. 20 executive order, titled “\u003ca href=\"https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/protecting-the-meaning-and-value-of-american-citizenship/\">Protecting the Meaning and Value of American Citizenship\u003c/a>,” goes even further: It denies birthright citizenship to babies born on or after Feb. 19, 2025, who don’t have at least one parent who is a citizen or a lawful permanent resident.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Federal judges, however, have pushed back against Trump’s plans. On Feb. 6, U.S. District Judge John Coughenour of Washington State \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/06/us/federal-judge-trump-birthright-citizenship.html\">issued a preliminary injunction against the executive order\u003c/a>, which means the order is frozen until the courts reach a final decision — which could take weeks or even months. Coughenour had previously blocked the order for a period of 14 days back in January, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12023740/federal-judge-temporarily-blocks-trumps-executive-order-ending-birthright-citizenship\">after declaring that the order is “blatantly unconstitutional.”\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This is the \u003ca href=\"https://abcnews.go.com/US/judge-future-trumps-order-blocking-birthright-citizenship/story?id=118460936\">second preliminary injunction a federal judge has issued\u003c/a> against the executive order and the Trump administration could soon face more legal obstacles, as more than 22 states — \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12023126/california-leaders-to-sue-trump-over-birthright-citizenship-border-policies\">including California\u003c/a> — have filed different lawsuits against the order in order to overturn it completely.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jump straight to:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#A\">What is birthright citizenship?\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#B\">Who is affected by Trump’s executive order?\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#C\">Will this order strip anyone of their existing American citizenship?\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#D\">I’m having a baby soon. What do I need to know?\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>This executive order has created \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/21/us/birthright-citizen-children-migrant.html\">a great deal of confusion and even panic\u003c/a> — especially among parents who worry if their kids and future children will lose their right to citizenship.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Keep reading for a breakdown of what birthright citizenship really means, who would actually be impacted by this executive order and the latest on the legal battle that could put a stop to Trump’s plans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"A\">\u003c/a>What is birthright citizenship?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>If you’ve been hearing the term “birthright citizenship” repeated over and over on the news and you’re feeling a bit confused about what this actually means, here’s the breakdown: Under law and the U.S. Constitution, \u003ca href=\"https://crsreports.congress.gov/product/pdf/LSB/LSB10214/2\">people born on American soil are automatically recognized as American citizens\u003c/a> at the time of their birth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The 14th Amendment in the Constitution — a document which is more powerful than any branch of government — \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12015449/a-129-year-old-san-francisco-lawsuit-could-stop-trump-from-ending-birthright-citizenship\">established birthright citizenship in 1868\u003c/a>. The amendment’s first clause states:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Congress first proposed adding the 14th Amendment to the Constitution, it was in response to laws passed by many Southern states after the Civil War that severely restricted the rights of formerly enslaved Black Americans and their children.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And while lawmakers who wrote the amendment were responding to the needs of Black Americans, the Supreme Court — which has the responsibility to interpret what the Constitution actually \u003cem>means \u003c/em>— declared in 1898 that birthright citizenship \u003ca href=\"https://www.law.cornell.edu/supremecourt/text/169/649\">also includes children born to immigrant parents who are not citizens of the United States\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Supreme Court established this precedent in the landmark case \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12015449/a-129-year-old-san-francisco-lawsuit-could-stop-trump-from-ending-birthright-citizenship\">\u003cem>United States v. Wong Kim Ark\u003c/em>, named for a man born in San Francisco in the 1870s to Chinese immigrant parents\u003c/a>. Wong was denied re-entry into the U.S. after travelling to China to visit his family. Officials insisted that he was not an American citizen but rather a Chinese national — a group essentially banned from coming into the country, due to the \u003ca href=\"https://www.britannica.com/question/What-is-the-Chinese-Exclusion-Act\">Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During the legal battle that followed, the government argued that Wong’s citizenship depended not on where he was born but rather on the nationality of his parents. But the Supreme Court didn’t buy that argument and ruled that Wong was a citizen due to the fact that he was born in San Francisco — and added that the 14th Amendment “in clear words and in manifest intent, includes the children born within the territory of the United States of all other persons, of whatever race or color, domiciled within the United States.” \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12015449/a-129-year-old-san-francisco-lawsuit-could-stop-trump-from-ending-birthright-citizenship\">Read more about this landmark birthright citizenship case.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Are there exceptions to birthright citizenship?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Yes, but they only apply in very specific circumstances.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since the \u003cem>Wong Kim Ark\u003c/em> case, the Supreme Court \u003ca href=\"https://sgp.fas.org/crs/misc/LSB10214.pdf\">has provided three exceptions to the 14th Amendment\u003c/a>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>If, at the time of your birth, your parents are in the U.S. as high-ranking foreign diplomats who are subject to the jurisdiction of the United States. This could include the ambassador of a foreign country who has diplomatic immunity and is exempt from following certain U.S. laws and taxes.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>If, at the time of your birth, your parents are in the U.S. as part of an invading army.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Children born into Native American tribes with a specific autonomy from the federal government — but this exception was later eliminated when Congress passed the \u003ca href=\"https://www.loc.gov/item/today-in-history/june-02/#:~:text=to%20this%20page-,Indian%20Citizenship%20Act,barred%20Native%20Americans%20from%20voting.\">Indian Citizenship Act of 1924, granting citizenship to all Native people born in the U.S.\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Throughout the 20th century, Congress passed a series of laws that also granted birthright citizenship to people born in certain U.S. territories, including \u003ca href=\"https://www.cga.ct.gov/PS97/rpt/olr/htm/97-R-0359.htm#:~:text=The%20Nationality%20Act%20of%201940,1187%2C%201139).\">Puerto Rico\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?path=/prelim@title48/chapter8A&edition=prelim\">Guam\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12024134\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12024134\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2030/01/GettyImages-2194985045.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2030/01/GettyImages-2194985045.jpg 1024w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2030/01/GettyImages-2194985045-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2030/01/GettyImages-2194985045-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2030/01/GettyImages-2194985045-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">President Donald Trump signs executive orders in the Oval Office on Jan. 20, 2025 in Washington, DC. \u003ccite>(Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>\u003ca id=\"B\">\u003c/a>Who does Trump’s birthright citizenship order affect?\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The order declares that American citizenship “\u003ca href=\"https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/protecting-the-meaning-and-value-of-american-citizenship/\">is a priceless and profound gift\u003c/a>” and then goes on to argue that the 14th Amendment “has never been interpreted to extend citizenship universally to everyone born within the United States.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If the courts were to decide in favor of the Trump administration in the ongoing legal battles and allow the executive order to move forward, the federal government will no longer grant documents that confirm citizenship, like a Social Security Number or passport, to children born on or after Feb. 19, who are in the following situations:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>At the time of birth, the baby’s biological mother is “unlawfully present” (with no legal status) in the U.S. and the biological father was not a U.S. citizen or lawful permanent resident.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>At the time of birth, the baby’s biological mother was in the U.S. with a temporary visa or permit, and the biological father was not a U.S. citizen or lawful permanent resident.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>If an individual state or local government provides documents that state a child in this situation is an American citizen, the federal government will not recognize that documentation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The text of the executive order can be confusing for many to read, as it’s meant to be read primarily by lawmakers and attorneys. But based on the circumstances the order describes, these are families that could be affected by Trump’s birthright citizenship executive order:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Families where both parents have no legal immigration documents at the time of their baby’s birth.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Families where both parents only have a temporary legal status, which could include: \u003ca href=\"https://www.uscis.gov/humanitarian/temporary-protected-status\">Temporary Protected Status (TPS)\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.uscis.gov/DACA\">Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals\u003c/a> (DACA), H1-B holders, a student J-1 visa or an H-2A visa for agricultural workers, another temporary visa or humanitarian parole. Their baby would not have birthright citizenship.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>If one parent has no legal status and the other only has a temporary legal status, which could include: \u003ca href=\"https://www.uscis.gov/humanitarian/temporary-protected-status\">Temporary Protected Status (TPS)\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.uscis.gov/DACA\">Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals\u003c/a> (DACA), H1-B holders, a student J-1 visa or an H-2A visa for agricultural workers, another temporary visa or humanitarian parole. Their baby would not have birthright citizenship.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>But it’s very important to remember that on Feb. 6, a federal judge \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/06/us/federal-judge-trump-birthright-citizenship.html\">froze this executive order\u003c/a> and the federal government cannot enforce it until the courts have reached a final decision — which could happen at the Supreme Court or at a federal court of appeals.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"C\">\u003c/a>I’m worried: Is my baby still a US citizen?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>As the executive order was written, only babies born “within the United States after 30 days from the date of this order” will be affected — which would make Feb. 19, 2025, the official start date of this policy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If your baby is born any time before that date, the federal government will still recognize them as a U.S. citizen, regardless of your immigration status.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>I’m seeing that Trump’s executive order ‘repealed the 14th Amendment.’ Is that true?\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>No, Trump’s executive order did not repeal the 14th Amendment — as doing so would require a complicated process in Congress, and at least 37 out of the 50 states would need to vote in favor of the change.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Would anyone be stripped of their existing American citizenship with this order?\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Trump’s executive order will only move forward if the courts end up ruling in his favor. If that were to happen, and the order is enforced on Feb. 19, no one born before that date will lose their U.S. citizenship.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The executive order says nothing about taking away the citizenship of people already born in the U.S. before Feb. 19, regardless of the immigration status of their parents.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>\u003ca id=\"D\">\u003c/a>I’m expecting a baby that could be born after Feb. 19. Will they still become a US citizen automatically?\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>This one’s complicated, as this depends entirely on what the courts decide.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two federal judges — Coughenour in Washington state and Deborah Boardman in Maryland — have already issued preliminary injunctions against Trump’s birthright citizenship executive order. These injunctions come from separate lawsuits against the federal government and they prevent the administration from enforcing the order until the courts reach a decision in the respective cases.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As long as these preliminary injunctions stays in place, the Trump administration cannot enforce the executive order and deny birthright citizenship to children born after Feb. 19 who don’t have at least one parent who is a citizen or a lawful permanent resident. And more preliminary injunctions could be announced in the coming weeks as there’s dozens of other lawsuits from states and civil rights groups seeking to overturn the order.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Department of Justice, which is representing the federal government has repeatedly stated that \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/birthright-citizenship-donald-trump-lawsuit-immigration-9ac27b234c854a68a9b9f8c0d6cd8a1c\">it will “vigorously defend” Trump’s order\u003c/a>, and is expected to appeal any decision that tries to stop the order. A case would have to make it up the different levels in the judicial system before reaching the Supreme Court, which would then make a binding, permanent decision.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We will be updating this section to include the latest information from the courts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"A\">\u003c/a>What is birthright citizenship?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>If you’ve been hearing the term “birthright citizenship” repeated over and over on the news and you’re feeling a bit confused about what this actually means, here’s the breakdown: Under law and the U.S. Constitution, \u003ca href=\"https://crsreports.congress.gov/product/pdf/LSB/LSB10214/2\">people born on American soil are automatically recognized as American citizens\u003c/a> at the time of their birth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The 14th Amendment in the Constitution — a document which is more powerful than any branch of government — \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12015449/a-129-year-old-san-francisco-lawsuit-could-stop-trump-from-ending-birthright-citizenship\">established birthright citizenship in 1868\u003c/a>. The amendment’s first clause states:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Congress first proposed adding the 14th Amendment to the Constitution, it was in response to laws passed by many Southern states after the Civil War that severely restricted the rights of formerly enslaved Black Americans and their children.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And while lawmakers who wrote the amendment were responding to the needs of Black Americans, the Supreme Court — which has the responsibility to interpret what the Constitution actually \u003cem>means \u003c/em>— declared in 1898 that birthright citizenship \u003ca href=\"https://www.law.cornell.edu/supremecourt/text/169/649\">also includes children born to immigrant parents who are not citizens of the United States\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Supreme Court established this precedent in the landmark case \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12015449/a-129-year-old-san-francisco-lawsuit-could-stop-trump-from-ending-birthright-citizenship\">\u003cem>United States v. Wong Kim Ark\u003c/em>, named for a man born in San Francisco in the 1870s to Chinese immigrant parents\u003c/a>. Wong was denied re-entry into the U.S. after travelling to China to visit his family. Officials insisted that he was not an American citizen but rather a Chinese national — a group essentially banned from coming into the country, due to the \u003ca href=\"https://www.britannica.com/question/What-is-the-Chinese-Exclusion-Act\">Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During the legal battle that followed, the government argued that Wong’s citizenship depended not on where he was born but rather on the nationality of his parents. But the Supreme Court didn’t buy that argument and ruled that Wong was a citizen due to the fact that he was born in San Francisco — and added that the 14th Amendment “in clear words and in manifest intent, includes the children born within the territory of the United States of all other persons, of whatever race or color, domiciled within the United States.” \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12015449/a-129-year-old-san-francisco-lawsuit-could-stop-trump-from-ending-birthright-citizenship\">Read more about this landmark birthright citizenship case.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Are there exceptions to birthright citizenship?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Yes, but they only apply in very specific circumstances.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since the \u003cem>Wong Kim Ark\u003c/em> case, the Supreme Court \u003ca href=\"https://sgp.fas.org/crs/misc/LSB10214.pdf\">has provided three exceptions to the 14th Amendment\u003c/a>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>If, at the time of your birth, your parents are in the U.S. as high-ranking foreign diplomats who are subject to the jurisdiction of the United States. This could include the ambassador of a foreign country who has diplomatic immunity and is exempt from following certain U.S. laws and taxes.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>If, at the time of your birth, your parents are in the U.S. as part of an invading army.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Children born into Native American tribes with a specific autonomy from the federal government — but this exception was later eliminated when Congress passed the \u003ca href=\"https://www.loc.gov/item/today-in-history/june-02/#:~:text=to%20this%20page-,Indian%20Citizenship%20Act,barred%20Native%20Americans%20from%20voting.\">Indian Citizenship Act of 1924, granting citizenship to all Native people born in the U.S.\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Throughout the 20th century, Congress passed a series of laws that also granted birthright citizenship to people born in certain U.S. territories, including \u003ca href=\"https://www.cga.ct.gov/PS97/rpt/olr/htm/97-R-0359.htm#:~:text=The%20Nationality%20Act%20of%201940,1187%2C%201139).\">Puerto Rico\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?path=/prelim@title48/chapter8A&edition=prelim\">Guam\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12024134\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12024134\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2030/01/GettyImages-2194985045.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2030/01/GettyImages-2194985045.jpg 1024w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2030/01/GettyImages-2194985045-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2030/01/GettyImages-2194985045-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2030/01/GettyImages-2194985045-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">President Donald Trump signs executive orders in the Oval Office on Jan. 20, 2025 in Washington, DC. \u003ccite>(Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>\u003ca id=\"B\">\u003c/a>Who does Trump’s birthright citizenship order affect?\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The order declares that American citizenship “\u003ca href=\"https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/protecting-the-meaning-and-value-of-american-citizenship/\">is a priceless and profound gift\u003c/a>” and then goes on to argue that the 14th Amendment “has never been interpreted to extend citizenship universally to everyone born within the United States.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If the courts were to decide in favor of the Trump administration in the ongoing legal battles and allow the executive order to move forward, the federal government will no longer grant documents that confirm citizenship, like a Social Security Number or passport, to children born on or after Feb. 19, who are in the following situations:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>At the time of birth, the baby’s biological mother is “unlawfully present” (with no legal status) in the U.S. and the biological father was not a U.S. citizen or lawful permanent resident.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>At the time of birth, the baby’s biological mother was in the U.S. with a temporary visa or permit, and the biological father was not a U.S. citizen or lawful permanent resident.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>If an individual state or local government provides documents that state a child in this situation is an American citizen, the federal government will not recognize that documentation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The text of the executive order can be confusing for many to read, as it’s meant to be read primarily by lawmakers and attorneys. But based on the circumstances the order describes, these are families that could be affected by Trump’s birthright citizenship executive order:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Families where both parents have no legal immigration documents at the time of their baby’s birth.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Families where both parents only have a temporary legal status, which could include: \u003ca href=\"https://www.uscis.gov/humanitarian/temporary-protected-status\">Temporary Protected Status (TPS)\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.uscis.gov/DACA\">Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals\u003c/a> (DACA), H1-B holders, a student J-1 visa or an H-2A visa for agricultural workers, another temporary visa or humanitarian parole. Their baby would not have birthright citizenship.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>If one parent has no legal status and the other only has a temporary legal status, which could include: \u003ca href=\"https://www.uscis.gov/humanitarian/temporary-protected-status\">Temporary Protected Status (TPS)\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.uscis.gov/DACA\">Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals\u003c/a> (DACA), H1-B holders, a student J-1 visa or an H-2A visa for agricultural workers, another temporary visa or humanitarian parole. Their baby would not have birthright citizenship.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>But it’s very important to remember that on Feb. 6, a federal judge \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/06/us/federal-judge-trump-birthright-citizenship.html\">froze this executive order\u003c/a> and the federal government cannot enforce it until the courts have reached a final decision — which could happen at the Supreme Court or at a federal court of appeals.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"C\">\u003c/a>I’m worried: Is my baby still a US citizen?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>As the executive order was written, only babies born “within the United States after 30 days from the date of this order” will be affected — which would make Feb. 19, 2025, the official start date of this policy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If your baby is born any time before that date, the federal government will still recognize them as a U.S. citizen, regardless of your immigration status.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>I’m seeing that Trump’s executive order ‘repealed the 14th Amendment.’ Is that true?\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>No, Trump’s executive order did not repeal the 14th Amendment — as doing so would require a complicated process in Congress, and at least 37 out of the 50 states would need to vote in favor of the change.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Would anyone be stripped of their existing American citizenship with this order?\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Trump’s executive order will only move forward if the courts end up ruling in his favor. If that were to happen, and the order is enforced on Feb. 19, no one born before that date will lose their U.S. citizenship.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The executive order says nothing about taking away the citizenship of people already born in the U.S. before Feb. 19, regardless of the immigration status of their parents.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>\u003ca id=\"D\">\u003c/a>I’m expecting a baby that could be born after Feb. 19. Will they still become a US citizen automatically?\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>This one’s complicated, as this depends entirely on what the courts decide.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two federal judges — Coughenour in Washington state and Deborah Boardman in Maryland — have already issued preliminary injunctions against Trump’s birthright citizenship executive order. These injunctions come from separate lawsuits against the federal government and they prevent the administration from enforcing the order until the courts reach a decision in the respective cases.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As long as these preliminary injunctions stays in place, the Trump administration cannot enforce the executive order and deny birthright citizenship to children born after Feb. 19 who don’t have at least one parent who is a citizen or a lawful permanent resident. And more preliminary injunctions could be announced in the coming weeks as there’s dozens of other lawsuits from states and civil rights groups seeking to overturn the order.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Department of Justice, which is representing the federal government has repeatedly stated that \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/birthright-citizenship-donald-trump-lawsuit-immigration-9ac27b234c854a68a9b9f8c0d6cd8a1c\">it will “vigorously defend” Trump’s order\u003c/a>, and is expected to appeal any decision that tries to stop the order. A case would have to make it up the different levels in the judicial system before reaching the Supreme Court, which would then make a binding, permanent decision.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We will be updating this section to include the latest information from the courts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>This might not come as a shock, Bay Area: Your utility bill is expensive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California’s residential electricity rates are almost double the rest of the nation, according to \u003ca href=\"https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4950\">a report by the state Legislature’s nonpartisan advisers earlier this month\u003c/a> — which says your costs are “mostly driven by high rates charged by the state’s three large investor‑owned utilities,” including PG&E.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many Bay Area residents have long been frustrated with — and\u003ca href=\"https://www.stoppgenow.com/\"> even organized against\u003c/a> — \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfgate.com/local-donotuse/article/alternatives-to-pge-other-options-rates-monopoly-13533155.php\">Northern California’s main utility supplier\u003c/a>. The last major PG&E rate hike in January 2024 saw the average household gas and electric bill increase by $34.50 a month — and California regulators \u003ca href=\"https://abc30.com/post/california-regulators-approve-pges-5th-rate-hike-2024/15679054/\">approved six such rate increases\u003c/a> in 2024.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>PG&E says the increasing cost will, among other things, \u003ca href=\"https://abc30.com/post/california-regulators-approve-pges-5th-rate-hike-2024/15679054/\">help cover vegetation management\u003c/a> — a practice that could help prevent wildfires. Last year, the company paid $45 million in a settlement after it was found that \u003ca href=\"https://www.cnn.com/2024/01/26/us/pacific-gas-electric-settlement-dixie-fire-california/index.html\">a 2021 wildfire started when a tree fell and hit PG&E equipment\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#A\">Jump straight to: Ways to potentially reduce your PG&E bills\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003ch2>The strain of high utility bills\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>California’s electricity rates have been increasing rapidly in recent years, \u003ca href=\"https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4950\">the state report says \u003c/a>— “not only growing faster than inflation but also outpacing growth in other states.”[aside label=\"Related Stories\" postID=\"news_12015942,news_11983675,news_11981173\"]In its December 2024 end-of-year update, PG&E representatives offered that customers’ bills — and electricity in particular — will\u003ca href=\"https://www.sacbee.com/news/california/article297755753.html\"> steady or even decrease in price\u003c/a> after last year’s\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101895461/historic-pge-rate-increases-will-hit-hard-in-2024\"> historic price hikes\u003c/a>. However, in the same update, PG&E says that \u003ca href=\"https://www.northbaybusinessjournal.com/article/article/pge-rates-northern-california/#:~:text=PG&E's%20Director%20of%20Rate%20Analysis,constituency%20weary%20of%20higher%20costs.\">\u003cem>gas \u003c/em>prices were slated to increase by 8.6%\u003c/a> — an increase for customers that PG&E Director of Rate Analysis Ben Kolnowski attributed to “\u003ca href=\"https://www.northbaybusinessjournal.com/article/article/pge-rates-northern-california/\">colder forecast temperatures and higher gas rates\u003c/a>.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Such sharp rises in utility bills can be \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11970332/rising-utility-costs-compound-californias-housing-crisis\">a breaking point for some households\u003c/a>. And the high cost of heating our homes — especially in these colder winter months — and using necessary appliances has many Bay Area residents looking for \u003ca href=\"https://www.reddit.com/r/eastbay/comments/1hu7ys3/pge_bill_is_430_this_month/?share_id=3BeVvjEg4uvhKcjyRTvlj&utm_content=2&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=ioscss&utm_source=share&utm_term=1\">ways they could reduce their bills wherever possible\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you’re one of them, keep reading for advice on how you could potentially decrease the costs of electricity and gas in your home — albeit often by small amounts, and against this backdrop of rising rates.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"A\">\u003c/a>Check if you’re eligible for a PG&E discount program\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11972887/pge-rates-are-way-up-do-you-qualify-for-a-discount\">PG&E has two discount programs called CARE and FERA\u003c/a>, both of which offer a discount on your bills — and depending on how much you earn you may qualify for one of them. The utility also has other one-time aid programs, like the \u003ca href=\"https://www.pge.com/en/save-energy-and-money/energy-saving-programs/energy-savings-assistance-program.html\">Energy Savings Assistance program.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You can read about these programs — and see if you’re eligible for them based on your income or location — in our separate guide on\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11972887/pge-rates-are-way-up-do-you-qualify-for-a-discount\"> PG&E’s discounts.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Keep the temperature of your appliances in mind\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.cleanpowersf.org/save-energy\">CleanPowerSF\u003c/a> — which is part of the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission — recommends you try setting your fridge to 38 degrees and setting your water heater to 120 degrees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>PG&E also recommends you use \u003ca href=\"https://www.pge.com/en/save-energy-and-money/energy-usage-and-tips/residential-energy-savings-tips/everyday-energy-savings-tips.html#accordion-fb47195c28-item-0808a24940\">cold water settings when doing your laundry\u003c/a> to save on energy. If you’re skeptical, “modern detergents work great in cold water,” PG&E says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12023828\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12023828\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/GettyImages-734164671_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/GettyImages-734164671_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/GettyImages-734164671_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/GettyImages-734164671_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/GettyImages-734164671_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/GettyImages-734164671_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/GettyImages-734164671_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">CleanPowerSF recommends setting the fridge temperature to 38 degrees. \u003ccite>(Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Unplug electronics when you’re not using them\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Even when you’re not actively using them, plugged-in devices can still use low levels of electricity — called “\u003ca href=\"https://www.energy.gov/femp/measuring-standby-power\">standby energy consumption,\u003c/a>” or “\u003ca href=\"https://www.energy.gov/energysaver/articles/save-energy-your-household-smart-power-strip\">vampire loads\u003c/a>.” The National Renewable Energy Laboratory says \u003ca href=\"https://www.nrel.gov/docs/fy14osti/60461.pdf\">this kind of energy usage adds up to around $200 on average a year, per household\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To prevent this, make sure you’re not leaving your appliances plugged in constantly. This could include turning off overhead fans when you’re leaving a room, and setting power strips to “off” when not in use.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before \u003ca href=\"https://www.ohmconnect.com/make-money/17-ways-to-pay-less-for-your-pge-bill\">you go to sleep, do a sweep of your house\u003c/a>, to make sure nothing is left running — or plugged in — overnight.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Choose smaller kitchen appliances over your oven\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>PG&E says that r\u003ca href=\"https://www.pge.com/en/save-energy-and-money/energy-usage-and-tips/residential-energy-savings-tips/winter-energy-savings-tips.html\">eheating food like leftovers in a microwave can use up to 80% less than a standard oven\u003c/a>. CleanPowerSF similarly recommends that you \u003ca href=\"https://www.cleanpowersf.org/news/2025/1/14/manage-winter-energy-bills-with-discount-programs-and-simple-tips\">try a toaster oven too, or your stovetop.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Don’t forget your ceiling fan can help keep your home warm\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In summer, your ceiling fan should spin counterclockwise, to push air down and create a breeze.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But in winter, you can use the direction switch (usually located on the side of the fan) to reverse \u003ca href=\"https://www.homedepot.com/c/ah/ceiling-fan-direction-in-summer-and-winter/9ba683603be9fa5395fab9036ab25bf\">the\u003c/a> spin so the blades run clockwise \u003ca href=\"https://www.homedepot.com/c/ah/ceiling-fan-direction-in-summer-and-winter/9ba683603be9fa5395fab9036ab25bf\">at a low speed\u003c/a> instead. This will push down the warm air near the ceiling and redistribute it throughout the room.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12023824\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12023824\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/P1100979_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/P1100979_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/P1100979_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/P1100979_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/P1100979_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/P1100979_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/P1100979_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">PG&E smart meter inside a residential apartment building at Florida and 21st streets in the Mission District of San Francisco. \u003ccite>(Sheraz Sadiq/KQED News)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Consider using smart power strips\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Traditional power strips — the ones you can plug several different devices into — can still cause those vampire loads if you don’t turn them off. Smart power strips can detect when a device has gone into standby mode and automatically cut power off to the strip.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are several different kinds of smart power strips, including ones with timers and motion-controlled strips that detect when you’re not in the room. \u003ca href=\"https://www.nrel.gov/docs/fy14osti/60461.pdf\">Read more about smart strips from The National Renewable Energy Laboratory.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Know the thermostat rule of thumb\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>You should set your thermostat to 68 degrees in winter and 73 degrees in summer, according to OhmConnect,\u003ca href=\"https://www.ohmconnect.com/how-it-works\"> an Oakland-based energy-saving program\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But when you leave the house, \u003ca href=\"https://www.pge.com/en/account/rate-plans/find-your-best-rate-plan/time-of-use-rate-plans.html#accordion-8dbc61448e-item-f4331a4ea9\">set the thermostat to 56 degrees or shut it off entirely\u003c/a>, recommends PG&E, which notes that doing this 8 hours a day could “save 5%–15%” on an annual heating bill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You can also selectively use space heaters — or fans in summer — instead of your central heating/cooling, but bear in mind that these appliances also use energy.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Check the filters of your air conditioner every other month\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.pge.com/en/save-energy-and-money/energy-usage-and-tips/residential-energy-savings-tips/winter-energy-savings-tips.html#tabs-67a53e1905-item-b8696766f7-tab\">Dirtier filters work harder\u003c/a> and use more energy, so be sure to change them when needed, using low-cost replacement filters from a local hardware store.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Consider taking shorter showers\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Spending less time in the shower can \u003ca href=\"https://www.pge.com/en/save-energy-and-money/energy-usage-and-tips/residential-energy-savings-tips/everyday-energy-savings-tips.html#accordion-fb47195c28-item-9dc3093346\">reduce the costs of heating this water\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12023820\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12023820\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/467031551_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1315\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/467031551_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/467031551_qed-800x526.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/467031551_qed-1020x671.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/467031551_qed-160x105.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/467031551_qed-1536x1010.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/467031551_qed-1920x1262.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Water drips from a low flow shower head at a home on Feb. 5, 2014 in Novato. \u003ccite>(Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Stop warm air escaping your home\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.pge.com/en/save-energy-and-money/energy-usage-and-tips/residential-energy-savings-tips/winter-energy-savings-tips.html#accordion-7b2e6d69ca-item-cee07d6b57\">Close any curtains, shades or blinds you have at night\u003c/a> — and while you’re out of the house — PG&E says, which can help prevent warm air from escaping.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a similar vein, be sure to plug up any places where drafts enter your home, like \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/wirecutter/blog/for-a-safer-easier-winter-prep-your-home-now/\">using a door draft stopper\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Check if you’re enrolled in the Time-of-Use Rate plan\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.cleanpowersf.org/save-energy\">CleanPowerSF\u003c/a> notes that many Californians are under\u003ca href=\"https://www.pge.com/en/account/rate-plans/find-your-best-rate-plan/time-of-use-rate-plans.html\"> a Time-of-Use Rate\u003c/a> with PG&E — meaning they are paying higher rates in “peak hours” like 4 p.m. to 9 p.m.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Residents can\u003ca href=\"https://www.pge.com/en/account/rate-plans/find-your-best-rate-plan/time-of-use-rate-plans.html\"> enroll in different time-of-use rate plans\u003c/a> that choose different “peak” hours. You can use your online profile on PG&E’s site while signed in to \u003ca href=\"https://www.pge.com/en/save-energy-and-money/energy-usage-and-tips/understand-my-usage/energy-data-hub.html#:~:text=Sign%20into%20your%20account.,%22Download%20My%20Data%22%20icon.\">see the hours you’re using the most energy\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CleanPowerSF recommends you try doing your \u003ca href=\"https://www.cleanpowersf.org/save-energy\">high-powered, high-energy chores\u003c/a> at specific hours, like running the dishwater or doing the laundry before 4 p.m. or after 9 p.m. PG&E suggests you\u003ca href=\"https://www.pge.com/en/account/rate-plans/find-your-best-rate-plan/time-of-use-rate-plans.html#accordion-8dbc61448e-item-e42156168d\"> load up these appliances throughout the day\u003c/a> but wait until night to run them.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Try talking to an energy-saving professional\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Some organizations in the Bay Area provide advice or tools on how to utilize energy-saving techniques through a call, online or in-home visit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You can look up services in your area using the state’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.csd.ca.gov/Pages/Assistance-HomeEnergyEfficiency.aspx\">searchable database\u003c/a>.\u003ca href=\"https://www.marincounty.gov/departments/cda/sustainability/residents/home-energy-assessments\"> Programs include\u003c/a> Rising Sun, \u003ca href=\"https://www.bayren.org/toolkit\">BayRen’s\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"https://risingsunopp.org/programs/ghc/\"> free Green House calls\u003c/a> and PG&E’s\u003ca href=\"https://www.pge.com/en/save-energy-and-money/energy-usage-and-tips/residential-energy-savings-tips/home-energy-checkup.html\"> free home energy check-up\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Private companies like\u003ca href=\"https://www.quitcarbon.com/\"> QuitCarbon\u003c/a> and\u003ca href=\"https://www.rockrabbit.ai/customers/homeowners\"> RockRabbit\u003c/a> can also offer these services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Jan. 24: A previous version of this story misstated the timing of PG&E’s last major rate hike which saw the average household gas and electric bill increase by $34.50 a month. The increase took effect in January 2024, not January 2025 as originally stated.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>This might not come as a shock, Bay Area: Your utility bill is expensive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California’s residential electricity rates are almost double the rest of the nation, according to \u003ca href=\"https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4950\">a report by the state Legislature’s nonpartisan advisers earlier this month\u003c/a> — which says your costs are “mostly driven by high rates charged by the state’s three large investor‑owned utilities,” including PG&E.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many Bay Area residents have long been frustrated with — and\u003ca href=\"https://www.stoppgenow.com/\"> even organized against\u003c/a> — \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfgate.com/local-donotuse/article/alternatives-to-pge-other-options-rates-monopoly-13533155.php\">Northern California’s main utility supplier\u003c/a>. The last major PG&E rate hike in January 2024 saw the average household gas and electric bill increase by $34.50 a month — and California regulators \u003ca href=\"https://abc30.com/post/california-regulators-approve-pges-5th-rate-hike-2024/15679054/\">approved six such rate increases\u003c/a> in 2024.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>PG&E says the increasing cost will, among other things, \u003ca href=\"https://abc30.com/post/california-regulators-approve-pges-5th-rate-hike-2024/15679054/\">help cover vegetation management\u003c/a> — a practice that could help prevent wildfires. Last year, the company paid $45 million in a settlement after it was found that \u003ca href=\"https://www.cnn.com/2024/01/26/us/pacific-gas-electric-settlement-dixie-fire-california/index.html\">a 2021 wildfire started when a tree fell and hit PG&E equipment\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>In its December 2024 end-of-year update, PG&E representatives offered that customers’ bills — and electricity in particular — will\u003ca href=\"https://www.sacbee.com/news/california/article297755753.html\"> steady or even decrease in price\u003c/a> after last year’s\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101895461/historic-pge-rate-increases-will-hit-hard-in-2024\"> historic price hikes\u003c/a>. However, in the same update, PG&E says that \u003ca href=\"https://www.northbaybusinessjournal.com/article/article/pge-rates-northern-california/#:~:text=PG&E's%20Director%20of%20Rate%20Analysis,constituency%20weary%20of%20higher%20costs.\">\u003cem>gas \u003c/em>prices were slated to increase by 8.6%\u003c/a> — an increase for customers that PG&E Director of Rate Analysis Ben Kolnowski attributed to “\u003ca href=\"https://www.northbaybusinessjournal.com/article/article/pge-rates-northern-california/\">colder forecast temperatures and higher gas rates\u003c/a>.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Such sharp rises in utility bills can be \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11970332/rising-utility-costs-compound-californias-housing-crisis\">a breaking point for some households\u003c/a>. And the high cost of heating our homes — especially in these colder winter months — and using necessary appliances has many Bay Area residents looking for \u003ca href=\"https://www.reddit.com/r/eastbay/comments/1hu7ys3/pge_bill_is_430_this_month/?share_id=3BeVvjEg4uvhKcjyRTvlj&utm_content=2&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=ioscss&utm_source=share&utm_term=1\">ways they could reduce their bills wherever possible\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you’re one of them, keep reading for advice on how you could potentially decrease the costs of electricity and gas in your home — albeit often by small amounts, and against this backdrop of rising rates.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"A\">\u003c/a>Check if you’re eligible for a PG&E discount program\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11972887/pge-rates-are-way-up-do-you-qualify-for-a-discount\">PG&E has two discount programs called CARE and FERA\u003c/a>, both of which offer a discount on your bills — and depending on how much you earn you may qualify for one of them. The utility also has other one-time aid programs, like the \u003ca href=\"https://www.pge.com/en/save-energy-and-money/energy-saving-programs/energy-savings-assistance-program.html\">Energy Savings Assistance program.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You can read about these programs — and see if you’re eligible for them based on your income or location — in our separate guide on\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11972887/pge-rates-are-way-up-do-you-qualify-for-a-discount\"> PG&E’s discounts.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Keep the temperature of your appliances in mind\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.cleanpowersf.org/save-energy\">CleanPowerSF\u003c/a> — which is part of the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission — recommends you try setting your fridge to 38 degrees and setting your water heater to 120 degrees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>PG&E also recommends you use \u003ca href=\"https://www.pge.com/en/save-energy-and-money/energy-usage-and-tips/residential-energy-savings-tips/everyday-energy-savings-tips.html#accordion-fb47195c28-item-0808a24940\">cold water settings when doing your laundry\u003c/a> to save on energy. If you’re skeptical, “modern detergents work great in cold water,” PG&E says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12023828\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12023828\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/GettyImages-734164671_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/GettyImages-734164671_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/GettyImages-734164671_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/GettyImages-734164671_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/GettyImages-734164671_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/GettyImages-734164671_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/GettyImages-734164671_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">CleanPowerSF recommends setting the fridge temperature to 38 degrees. \u003ccite>(Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Unplug electronics when you’re not using them\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Even when you’re not actively using them, plugged-in devices can still use low levels of electricity — called “\u003ca href=\"https://www.energy.gov/femp/measuring-standby-power\">standby energy consumption,\u003c/a>” or “\u003ca href=\"https://www.energy.gov/energysaver/articles/save-energy-your-household-smart-power-strip\">vampire loads\u003c/a>.” The National Renewable Energy Laboratory says \u003ca href=\"https://www.nrel.gov/docs/fy14osti/60461.pdf\">this kind of energy usage adds up to around $200 on average a year, per household\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To prevent this, make sure you’re not leaving your appliances plugged in constantly. This could include turning off overhead fans when you’re leaving a room, and setting power strips to “off” when not in use.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before \u003ca href=\"https://www.ohmconnect.com/make-money/17-ways-to-pay-less-for-your-pge-bill\">you go to sleep, do a sweep of your house\u003c/a>, to make sure nothing is left running — or plugged in — overnight.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Choose smaller kitchen appliances over your oven\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>PG&E says that r\u003ca href=\"https://www.pge.com/en/save-energy-and-money/energy-usage-and-tips/residential-energy-savings-tips/winter-energy-savings-tips.html\">eheating food like leftovers in a microwave can use up to 80% less than a standard oven\u003c/a>. CleanPowerSF similarly recommends that you \u003ca href=\"https://www.cleanpowersf.org/news/2025/1/14/manage-winter-energy-bills-with-discount-programs-and-simple-tips\">try a toaster oven too, or your stovetop.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Don’t forget your ceiling fan can help keep your home warm\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In summer, your ceiling fan should spin counterclockwise, to push air down and create a breeze.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But in winter, you can use the direction switch (usually located on the side of the fan) to reverse \u003ca href=\"https://www.homedepot.com/c/ah/ceiling-fan-direction-in-summer-and-winter/9ba683603be9fa5395fab9036ab25bf\">the\u003c/a> spin so the blades run clockwise \u003ca href=\"https://www.homedepot.com/c/ah/ceiling-fan-direction-in-summer-and-winter/9ba683603be9fa5395fab9036ab25bf\">at a low speed\u003c/a> instead. This will push down the warm air near the ceiling and redistribute it throughout the room.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12023824\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12023824\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/P1100979_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/P1100979_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/P1100979_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/P1100979_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/P1100979_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/P1100979_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/P1100979_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">PG&E smart meter inside a residential apartment building at Florida and 21st streets in the Mission District of San Francisco. \u003ccite>(Sheraz Sadiq/KQED News)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Consider using smart power strips\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Traditional power strips — the ones you can plug several different devices into — can still cause those vampire loads if you don’t turn them off. 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And 25 years later, this tradition of online event listings is going strong.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jump straight to:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#things-to-do-in-the-bay-area\">The Bay Area’s classic listings sites\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#live-music-bay-area\">Live music in the Bay Area\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#things-to-do-for-families-bay-area\">Events for families in the Bay Area\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#art-shows-bay-area\">Arts and culture events in the Bay Area\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Keep reading for our collection of Bay Area social calendars for you to browse and consult for your next day (or night) out — with a focus on those with newsletters so you can keep up with all the happenings in your inbox.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12022557\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12022557\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/015_SanFrancisco_AquariumoftheBay_03042021_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/015_SanFrancisco_AquariumoftheBay_03042021_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/015_SanFrancisco_AquariumoftheBay_03042021_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/015_SanFrancisco_AquariumoftheBay_03042021_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/015_SanFrancisco_AquariumoftheBay_03042021_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/015_SanFrancisco_AquariumoftheBay_03042021_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/015_SanFrancisco_AquariumoftheBay_03042021_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Helen Yool and Jacky Romano at the Under the Bay gallery at the Aquarium of the Bay in San Francisco on March 4, 2021. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>\u003ca id=\"things-to-do-in-the-bay-area\">\u003c/a>The Bay Area’s classic event listing sites\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>You know the scene: It’s your day off, you head over to the park to chill, and as soon as you get there, a huge event is taking place … that you had no idea about. If you’ve been left thinking, ‘How did all these people know this was happening and not me?’ you’re not alone. Folks organize very quickly in the Bay Area, but there are several places online that always have details about the biggest free events in the region:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://sf.funcheap.com/free-events/\">\u003cstrong>FunCheapSF\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now in its 22nd year, FunCheapSF is one of the most reliable places to find free museum days, cheap concert tickets and event-free ticket giveaways. Despite the name, FunCheapSF has info about events all over the Bay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Newsletter: Find the FunCheapSF newsletter sign-up link on the right side of the page.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12063214\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12063214 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/20240802_OliviaRodrigo_GC-22_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/20240802_OliviaRodrigo_GC-22_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/20240802_OliviaRodrigo_GC-22_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/20240802_OliviaRodrigo_GC-22_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Olivia Rodrigo performs during her “Guts” World Tour at the Chase Center in San Francisco on August 2, 2024. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.indybay.org/calendar/?page_id=12\">\u003cstrong>IndyBay\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A place with deep connections to the region’s organizing spaces, IndyBay also has a very detailed calendar of free workshops, teach-ins and family-friendly activities with a social focus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Newsletter: Yes, although \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://lists.riseup.net/www/subscribe/indybay-news\">\u003cem>an additional sign-up to riseup.net is required\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://sf-events.brokeassstuart.com/\">\u003cstrong>Broke-Ass Stuart\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_11979339 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/GettyImages-1244474782_qut-1038x576.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What began in the 2000s as a zine from Stuart Schuffman, alias Broke-Ass Stuart, is now one of the best places online to find concerts and nightlife events in the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Newsletter: \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://brokeassstuart.com/stuart-2/\">\u003cem>Sign up for the Broke-Ass Stuart newsletter\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem> on his site.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12034579\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12034579\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/Free-Things-to-Do-1920x1280-Resize.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/Free-Things-to-Do-1920x1280-Resize.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/Free-Things-to-Do-1920x1280-Resize-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/Free-Things-to-Do-1920x1280-Resize-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/Free-Things-to-Do-1920x1280-Resize-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/Free-Things-to-Do-1920x1280-Resize-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Conservatory of Flowers in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park. \u003ccite>(Lisa Aliferis/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://bartable.bart.gov/\">\u003cstrong>BARTable\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A collection of both events and year-round activities that — you guessed it — are all reachable by BART. Everything included is either free or low-cost.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Newsletter: \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://bartable.bart.gov/\">\u003cem>Sign up for the BARTable This Week newsletter\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://oaklandside.org/events/\">\u003cstrong>Oaklandside\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003cstrong> and \u003c/strong>\u003ca href=\"https://richmondside.org/events/\">\u003cstrong>Richmondside\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These two local news publications are always updating their events calendar, which includes both journalism-focused events but also fun activities for both families, seniors and young people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Newsletter: You can sign up for \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://oaklandside.org/newsletters/\">\u003cem>Oaklandside’s newsletter\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem> or \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://richmondside.org/newsletters/\">\u003cem>Richmond’s newsletter\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem> (or both.)\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12022560\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12022560\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/022_KQED_SanFrancisco_Playgrounds_12102020_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/022_KQED_SanFrancisco_Playgrounds_12102020_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/022_KQED_SanFrancisco_Playgrounds_12102020_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/022_KQED_SanFrancisco_Playgrounds_12102020_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/022_KQED_SanFrancisco_Playgrounds_12102020_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/022_KQED_SanFrancisco_Playgrounds_12102020_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/022_KQED_SanFrancisco_Playgrounds_12102020_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Children go down a concrete slide at Youngblood Colman Community Learning Hub in San Francisco on Dec. 10, 2020. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/events\">\u003cstrong>KQED Live\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of course, we have to highlight the work done by the KQED Live Events team. Free and low-cost events, many of them featuring KQED journalists, are held throughout the year at both KQED headquarters in San Francisco and throughout the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Newsletter: \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/newsletters\">\u003cem>Sign up for the KQED Live newsletter\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem> to receive advance notice of events.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>\u003ca id=\"live-music-bay-area\">\u003c/a>More live music, please\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The Bay Area does \u003cem>not \u003c/em>lack a live music scene, and you may even find your new favorite band performing at a small bar somewhere in Solano County or a plaza in the middle of San José. Since everything is happening everywhere — all at once — keep yourself organized with these sites and listings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12022561\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12022561\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240501-DannyLux-JY-019_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240501-DannyLux-JY-019_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240501-DannyLux-JY-019_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240501-DannyLux-JY-019_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240501-DannyLux-JY-019_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240501-DannyLux-JY-019_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240501-DannyLux-JY-019_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Melanie Arias, 12, sings along with Mexican American singer-songwriter DannyLux as he performs during his ‘Tour of Lux’ at the Regency Ballroom in San Francisco on Wednesday, May 1, 2024. \u003ccite>(Juliana Yamada for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.sfstation.com/calendar/bay-area/free-events\">\u003cstrong>SF Station\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What began as a site to promote local artists in 1996 keeps going strong. These listings contain free concerts, details on how to enter contests for free tickets and other cool stuff too, like community service events, wine dinners and workshops.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.foopee.com/punk/the-list/\">\u003cstrong>The List\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In almost 30 years, this website’s format has been updated only a handful of times. But don’t be fooled by its lo-fi look: The List is incredibly thorough, curated by Steve Koepke with details for punk and rock concerts for almost every venue and bar in the Bay Area and Santa Cruz area. It’s also helpful for keeping up with emerging local musicians. You can also \u003ca href=\"https://stevelist.com/\">subscribe to Koepke’s List via email. \u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12022562\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12022562\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20241127_CyndiLauper_GC-21_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20241127_CyndiLauper_GC-21_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20241127_CyndiLauper_GC-21_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20241127_CyndiLauper_GC-21_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20241127_CyndiLauper_GC-21_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20241127_CyndiLauper_GC-21_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20241127_CyndiLauper_GC-21_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An attendee of the Cyndi Lauper concert looks up at the crowd during the Girls Just Wanna Have Fun Farewell Tour at the Chase Center in San Francisco on Nov. 27, 2024. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://latinbayarea.com/\">\u003cstrong>LatinBayArea\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A site that mostly highlights concerts featuring both established and rising stars in Latin music and also includes \u003ca href=\"https://latinbayarea.com/events/category/free/\">a free events section\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://dothebay.com/\">\u003cstrong>DoTheBay\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mostly focused on nightlife and parties, DoTheBay also has \u003ca href=\"https://dothebay.com/free\">a free events section\u003c/a>, along with plenty of promotions for free or discounted tickets to big concerts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/thedolist\">\u003cstrong>KQED Arts: The To-Do List\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Arts team interviews Bay Area artists as they tour the region or release new music. Around-the-year concert and festival coverage complemented by great journalism.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Newsletter: \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/newsletters\">\u003cem>Sign up for the KQED Arts & Culture newsletter.\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12022565\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12022565\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240524_BottleRock_EG_77_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240524_BottleRock_EG_77_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240524_BottleRock_EG_77_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240524_BottleRock_EG_77_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240524_BottleRock_EG_77_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240524_BottleRock_EG_77_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240524_BottleRock_EG_77_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ariel Thomas (left) and her 5-year-old daughter Aurora Duarte soak in The Offspring’s performance from the front row of the Verizon Stage at BottleRock Napa Valley festival on Sunday, May 26, 2024. \u003ccite>(Estefany Gonzalez for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>\u003ca id=\"things-to-do-for-families-bay-area\">\u003c/a>Events for Bay Area families\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Sometimes, the newsletter with details about the latest club or rave just isn’t going to work with the 7-year-old. But no worries: there are sites keeping track of events for infants, older kids and teens. And even KQED \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/newsletters/kid-friendly-kqed\">has its own monthly newsletter full of programming for families: Kid Friendly\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://bayareaparent.com/event-calendar/#/\">\u003cstrong>Bay Area Parent\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Created, read and shared by parents across the nine-county Bay Area, BAP is a great resource for planning your family’s week — and comes with great family-focused reporting as well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsletter: You can sign up \u003ca href=\"https://www.bayareaparent.com/subscribe/\">for several subscriptions Bay Area Parent has\u003c/a>, including newsletters for Editors’ top picks, promotions and special offers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12022566\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1988px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12022566\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20240524_MobileHeadStart-14_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1988\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20240524_MobileHeadStart-14_qed.jpg 1988w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20240524_MobileHeadStart-14_qed-800x536.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20240524_MobileHeadStart-14_qed-1020x684.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20240524_MobileHeadStart-14_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20240524_MobileHeadStart-14_qed-1536x1030.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20240524_MobileHeadStart-14_qed-1920x1287.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1988px) 100vw, 1988px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Children play under a giant parachute at Lincoln Square Park in Oakland on Friday, May 24, 2024. Last year, the city of Oakland introduced their ‘Ready, Set, Go’ vehicle, an RV converted into a Head Start classroom, which travels to homeless shelters, providing educational and social services to families experiencing housing instability. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.bayareakidfun.com/family-friendly-events-in-the-bay-area/\">\u003cstrong>Bay Area Kid Fun\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Storytime, soccer, family-friendly marches and more can be found on this listings site, which particularly boasts a lot of events for folks in the South Bay and on the Peninsula.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.510families.com/calendar/\">\u003cstrong>510families\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Are you an Alameda or Contra Costa County family? Keep this website close. 510families’ listings are especially helpful for families with younger kids.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>\u003ca id=\"art-shows-bay-area\">\u003c/a>Arts and culture event listings in the Bay Area\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Missed \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11943906/how-to-find-free-museum-tickets-in-the-bay-area\">a free museum day\u003c/a>? Want to learn more about photography but don’t know where to start?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not only is the Bay full of creative talent, it’s also full of people working hard to make sure you check out their work — and below are just of few of these arts and culture listings in the Bay:\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12022567\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12022567\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/046_KQED_SanFrancisco_ElectionDayVoting_11032020_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/046_KQED_SanFrancisco_ElectionDayVoting_11032020_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/046_KQED_SanFrancisco_ElectionDayVoting_11032020_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/046_KQED_SanFrancisco_ElectionDayVoting_11032020_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/046_KQED_SanFrancisco_ElectionDayVoting_11032020_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/046_KQED_SanFrancisco_ElectionDayVoting_11032020_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/046_KQED_SanFrancisco_ElectionDayVoting_11032020_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Southern Exposure art gallery polling place in San Francisco on Nov. 3, 2020. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.bayartagenda.com/\">\u003cstrong>Bay Art Agenda\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bookmark this one just in time for San Francisco Art Week (which \u003ca href=\"https://www.eventbrite.com/e/sf-art-week-kickoff-party-at-ica-sf-tickets-1127100210069?aff=ehometext\">kicks off on Jan. 18\u003c/a>). The Bay Area Art Agenda includes gallery openings, free showings and plenty of community activities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://docs.google.com/document/d/1EPuQY0pmQEolKP1764UwgB1sXGJw6oG72_rZL4D9nhk/edit?tab=t.0\">\u003cstrong>Bay Area Art Happenings\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/shotchkiss\">KQED Arts’ very own Sarah Hotchkiss\u003c/a> maintains an annual list of gallery openings and closings, with opportunities to meet artists and see in person what the Arts team reports on — which you can keep up with by bookmarking KQED Arts’ \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/thedolist\">\u003cstrong>The Do List\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.sfarts.org/calendar/?experiences=Free\">\u003cstrong>SF/Arts Free Calendar\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A must-have listing resource from SF/Arts magazine, full of film screenings, author talks and performances.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Newsletter: You can sign up at the bottom of the \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://www.sfarts.org/calendar\">\u003cem>calendar page\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12022568\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1999px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12022568\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/009_SanFrancisco_SkyStarWheel_03042021_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1999\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/009_SanFrancisco_SkyStarWheel_03042021_qed.jpg 1999w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/009_SanFrancisco_SkyStarWheel_03042021_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/009_SanFrancisco_SkyStarWheel_03042021_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/009_SanFrancisco_SkyStarWheel_03042021_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/009_SanFrancisco_SkyStarWheel_03042021_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/009_SanFrancisco_SkyStarWheel_03042021_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1999px) 100vw, 1999px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">View from the SkyStar Observation Wheel of the de Young Museum in Golden Gate Park on March 4, 2021. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://eltecolote.org/content/en/newsletter/\">\u003cstrong>Acción Latina and El Tecolote\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>El Tecolote is one of the oldest bilingual newspapers in the country and its Calendario section has been keeping up with some of the biggest events targeted to the Latino community for decades, including rallies, teach-ins and family cultural events.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Newsletter: You can sign up \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://eltecolote.org/content/en/newsletter/\">\u003cem>for the newsletter from El Tecolote’s parent organization, Acción Latina\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>SFGate’s \u003c/strong>\u003ca href=\"https://www.sfgate.com/sf-culture/article/sf-underrated-venue-closes-10-20025871.php\">\u003cstrong>Fogcutter\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003cstrong> column\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SFGate began \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfgate.com/sf-culture/article/sf-underrated-venue-closes-10-20025871.php\">Fogcutter\u003c/a> as a weekly column “tracking the coolest events in the Bay Area,” from concerts and restaurants to hikes, bars and comedy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12022569\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1999px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12022569\" 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You’ll also likely find events listed on posters on your library’s lobby pinboard.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12022571\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2500px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12022571\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/Copy-of-KQED-side-by-side-downpage-image-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2500\" height=\"833\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/Copy-of-KQED-side-by-side-downpage-image-1.jpg 2500w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/Copy-of-KQED-side-by-side-downpage-image-1-800x267.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/Copy-of-KQED-side-by-side-downpage-image-1-1020x340.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/Copy-of-KQED-side-by-side-downpage-image-1-160x53.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/Copy-of-KQED-side-by-side-downpage-image-1-1536x512.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/Copy-of-KQED-side-by-side-downpage-image-1-2048x682.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/Copy-of-KQED-side-by-side-downpage-image-1-1920x640.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2500px) 100vw, 2500px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Left: Mychal Threets works organizing and displaying books in the children’s section of the Fairfield Civic Center Library in Fairfield on Oct. 19, 2023. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What began in the 2000s as a zine from Stuart Schuffman, alias Broke-Ass Stuart, is now one of the best places online to find concerts and nightlife events in the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Newsletter: \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://brokeassstuart.com/stuart-2/\">\u003cem>Sign up for the Broke-Ass Stuart newsletter\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem> on his site.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12034579\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12034579\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/Free-Things-to-Do-1920x1280-Resize.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/Free-Things-to-Do-1920x1280-Resize.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/Free-Things-to-Do-1920x1280-Resize-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/Free-Things-to-Do-1920x1280-Resize-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/Free-Things-to-Do-1920x1280-Resize-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/Free-Things-to-Do-1920x1280-Resize-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Conservatory of Flowers in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park. \u003ccite>(Lisa Aliferis/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://bartable.bart.gov/\">\u003cstrong>BARTable\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A collection of both events and year-round activities that — you guessed it — are all reachable by BART. Everything included is either free or low-cost.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Newsletter: \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://bartable.bart.gov/\">\u003cem>Sign up for the BARTable This Week newsletter\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://oaklandside.org/events/\">\u003cstrong>Oaklandside\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003cstrong> and \u003c/strong>\u003ca href=\"https://richmondside.org/events/\">\u003cstrong>Richmondside\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These two local news publications are always updating their events calendar, which includes both journalism-focused events but also fun activities for both families, seniors and young people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Newsletter: You can sign up for \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://oaklandside.org/newsletters/\">\u003cem>Oaklandside’s newsletter\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem> or \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://richmondside.org/newsletters/\">\u003cem>Richmond’s newsletter\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem> (or both.)\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12022560\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12022560\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/022_KQED_SanFrancisco_Playgrounds_12102020_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/022_KQED_SanFrancisco_Playgrounds_12102020_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/022_KQED_SanFrancisco_Playgrounds_12102020_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/022_KQED_SanFrancisco_Playgrounds_12102020_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/022_KQED_SanFrancisco_Playgrounds_12102020_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/022_KQED_SanFrancisco_Playgrounds_12102020_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/022_KQED_SanFrancisco_Playgrounds_12102020_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Children go down a concrete slide at Youngblood Colman Community Learning Hub in San Francisco on Dec. 10, 2020. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/events\">\u003cstrong>KQED Live\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of course, we have to highlight the work done by the KQED Live Events team. Free and low-cost events, many of them featuring KQED journalists, are held throughout the year at both KQED headquarters in San Francisco and throughout the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Newsletter: \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/newsletters\">\u003cem>Sign up for the KQED Live newsletter\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem> to receive advance notice of events.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>\u003ca id=\"live-music-bay-area\">\u003c/a>More live music, please\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The Bay Area does \u003cem>not \u003c/em>lack a live music scene, and you may even find your new favorite band performing at a small bar somewhere in Solano County or a plaza in the middle of San José. Since everything is happening everywhere — all at once — keep yourself organized with these sites and listings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12022561\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12022561\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240501-DannyLux-JY-019_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240501-DannyLux-JY-019_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240501-DannyLux-JY-019_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240501-DannyLux-JY-019_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240501-DannyLux-JY-019_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240501-DannyLux-JY-019_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240501-DannyLux-JY-019_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Melanie Arias, 12, sings along with Mexican American singer-songwriter DannyLux as he performs during his ‘Tour of Lux’ at the Regency Ballroom in San Francisco on Wednesday, May 1, 2024. \u003ccite>(Juliana Yamada for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.sfstation.com/calendar/bay-area/free-events\">\u003cstrong>SF Station\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What began as a site to promote local artists in 1996 keeps going strong. These listings contain free concerts, details on how to enter contests for free tickets and other cool stuff too, like community service events, wine dinners and workshops.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.foopee.com/punk/the-list/\">\u003cstrong>The List\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In almost 30 years, this website’s format has been updated only a handful of times. But don’t be fooled by its lo-fi look: The List is incredibly thorough, curated by Steve Koepke with details for punk and rock concerts for almost every venue and bar in the Bay Area and Santa Cruz area. It’s also helpful for keeping up with emerging local musicians. You can also \u003ca href=\"https://stevelist.com/\">subscribe to Koepke’s List via email. \u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12022562\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12022562\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20241127_CyndiLauper_GC-21_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20241127_CyndiLauper_GC-21_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20241127_CyndiLauper_GC-21_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20241127_CyndiLauper_GC-21_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20241127_CyndiLauper_GC-21_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20241127_CyndiLauper_GC-21_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20241127_CyndiLauper_GC-21_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An attendee of the Cyndi Lauper concert looks up at the crowd during the Girls Just Wanna Have Fun Farewell Tour at the Chase Center in San Francisco on Nov. 27, 2024. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://latinbayarea.com/\">\u003cstrong>LatinBayArea\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A site that mostly highlights concerts featuring both established and rising stars in Latin music and also includes \u003ca href=\"https://latinbayarea.com/events/category/free/\">a free events section\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://dothebay.com/\">\u003cstrong>DoTheBay\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mostly focused on nightlife and parties, DoTheBay also has \u003ca href=\"https://dothebay.com/free\">a free events section\u003c/a>, along with plenty of promotions for free or discounted tickets to big concerts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/thedolist\">\u003cstrong>KQED Arts: The To-Do List\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Arts team interviews Bay Area artists as they tour the region or release new music. Around-the-year concert and festival coverage complemented by great journalism.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Newsletter: \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/newsletters\">\u003cem>Sign up for the KQED Arts & Culture newsletter.\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12022565\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12022565\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240524_BottleRock_EG_77_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240524_BottleRock_EG_77_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240524_BottleRock_EG_77_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240524_BottleRock_EG_77_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240524_BottleRock_EG_77_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240524_BottleRock_EG_77_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240524_BottleRock_EG_77_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ariel Thomas (left) and her 5-year-old daughter Aurora Duarte soak in The Offspring’s performance from the front row of the Verizon Stage at BottleRock Napa Valley festival on Sunday, May 26, 2024. \u003ccite>(Estefany Gonzalez for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>\u003ca id=\"things-to-do-for-families-bay-area\">\u003c/a>Events for Bay Area families\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Sometimes, the newsletter with details about the latest club or rave just isn’t going to work with the 7-year-old. But no worries: there are sites keeping track of events for infants, older kids and teens. And even KQED \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/newsletters/kid-friendly-kqed\">has its own monthly newsletter full of programming for families: Kid Friendly\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://bayareaparent.com/event-calendar/#/\">\u003cstrong>Bay Area Parent\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Created, read and shared by parents across the nine-county Bay Area, BAP is a great resource for planning your family’s week — and comes with great family-focused reporting as well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsletter: You can sign up \u003ca href=\"https://www.bayareaparent.com/subscribe/\">for several subscriptions Bay Area Parent has\u003c/a>, including newsletters for Editors’ top picks, promotions and special offers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12022566\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1988px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12022566\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20240524_MobileHeadStart-14_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1988\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20240524_MobileHeadStart-14_qed.jpg 1988w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20240524_MobileHeadStart-14_qed-800x536.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20240524_MobileHeadStart-14_qed-1020x684.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20240524_MobileHeadStart-14_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20240524_MobileHeadStart-14_qed-1536x1030.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20240524_MobileHeadStart-14_qed-1920x1287.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1988px) 100vw, 1988px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Children play under a giant parachute at Lincoln Square Park in Oakland on Friday, May 24, 2024. Last year, the city of Oakland introduced their ‘Ready, Set, Go’ vehicle, an RV converted into a Head Start classroom, which travels to homeless shelters, providing educational and social services to families experiencing housing instability. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.bayareakidfun.com/family-friendly-events-in-the-bay-area/\">\u003cstrong>Bay Area Kid Fun\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Storytime, soccer, family-friendly marches and more can be found on this listings site, which particularly boasts a lot of events for folks in the South Bay and on the Peninsula.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.510families.com/calendar/\">\u003cstrong>510families\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Are you an Alameda or Contra Costa County family? Keep this website close. 510families’ listings are especially helpful for families with younger kids.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>\u003ca id=\"art-shows-bay-area\">\u003c/a>Arts and culture event listings in the Bay Area\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Missed \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11943906/how-to-find-free-museum-tickets-in-the-bay-area\">a free museum day\u003c/a>? Want to learn more about photography but don’t know where to start?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not only is the Bay full of creative talent, it’s also full of people working hard to make sure you check out their work — and below are just of few of these arts and culture listings in the Bay:\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12022567\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12022567\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/046_KQED_SanFrancisco_ElectionDayVoting_11032020_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/046_KQED_SanFrancisco_ElectionDayVoting_11032020_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/046_KQED_SanFrancisco_ElectionDayVoting_11032020_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/046_KQED_SanFrancisco_ElectionDayVoting_11032020_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/046_KQED_SanFrancisco_ElectionDayVoting_11032020_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/046_KQED_SanFrancisco_ElectionDayVoting_11032020_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/046_KQED_SanFrancisco_ElectionDayVoting_11032020_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Southern Exposure art gallery polling place in San Francisco on Nov. 3, 2020. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.bayartagenda.com/\">\u003cstrong>Bay Art Agenda\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bookmark this one just in time for San Francisco Art Week (which \u003ca href=\"https://www.eventbrite.com/e/sf-art-week-kickoff-party-at-ica-sf-tickets-1127100210069?aff=ehometext\">kicks off on Jan. 18\u003c/a>). The Bay Area Art Agenda includes gallery openings, free showings and plenty of community activities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://docs.google.com/document/d/1EPuQY0pmQEolKP1764UwgB1sXGJw6oG72_rZL4D9nhk/edit?tab=t.0\">\u003cstrong>Bay Area Art Happenings\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/shotchkiss\">KQED Arts’ very own Sarah Hotchkiss\u003c/a> maintains an annual list of gallery openings and closings, with opportunities to meet artists and see in person what the Arts team reports on — which you can keep up with by bookmarking KQED Arts’ \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/thedolist\">\u003cstrong>The Do List\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.sfarts.org/calendar/?experiences=Free\">\u003cstrong>SF/Arts Free Calendar\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A must-have listing resource from SF/Arts magazine, full of film screenings, author talks and performances.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Newsletter: You can sign up at the bottom of the \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://www.sfarts.org/calendar\">\u003cem>calendar page\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12022568\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1999px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12022568\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/009_SanFrancisco_SkyStarWheel_03042021_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1999\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/009_SanFrancisco_SkyStarWheel_03042021_qed.jpg 1999w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/009_SanFrancisco_SkyStarWheel_03042021_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/009_SanFrancisco_SkyStarWheel_03042021_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/009_SanFrancisco_SkyStarWheel_03042021_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/009_SanFrancisco_SkyStarWheel_03042021_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/009_SanFrancisco_SkyStarWheel_03042021_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1999px) 100vw, 1999px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">View from the SkyStar Observation Wheel of the de Young Museum in Golden Gate Park on March 4, 2021. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://eltecolote.org/content/en/newsletter/\">\u003cstrong>Acción Latina and El Tecolote\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>El Tecolote is one of the oldest bilingual newspapers in the country and its Calendario section has been keeping up with some of the biggest events targeted to the Latino community for decades, including rallies, teach-ins and family cultural events.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Newsletter: You can sign up \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://eltecolote.org/content/en/newsletter/\">\u003cem>for the newsletter from El Tecolote’s parent organization, Acción Latina\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>SFGate’s \u003c/strong>\u003ca href=\"https://www.sfgate.com/sf-culture/article/sf-underrated-venue-closes-10-20025871.php\">\u003cstrong>Fogcutter\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003cstrong> column\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SFGate began \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfgate.com/sf-culture/article/sf-underrated-venue-closes-10-20025871.php\">Fogcutter\u003c/a> as a weekly column “tracking the coolest events in the Bay Area,” from concerts and restaurants to hikes, bars and comedy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12022569\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1999px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12022569\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240723-DIYMuseum-17-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1999\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240723-DIYMuseum-17-BL_qed.jpg 1999w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240723-DIYMuseum-17-BL_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240723-DIYMuseum-17-BL_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240723-DIYMuseum-17-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240723-DIYMuseum-17-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240723-DIYMuseum-17-BL_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1999px) 100vw, 1999px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Members of the DIY Museum meet at the Crisis Club Gallery in Oakland on July 23, 2024. \u003ccite>(Beth 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>Update, 10:30 on Sunday:\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>After going dark Saturday night, TikTok said it would come back online Sunday. “TikTok is in the process of restoring service,” the company stated on X. “We thank President Trump for providing the necessary clarity and assurance to our service providers that they will face no penalties providing TikTok to over 170 million Americans and allowing over 7 million small businesses to thrive.”\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Friday, the Supreme Court ruled that the ban \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13970457/supreme-court-upholds-tiktok-ban-threatening-apps-existence-in-the-u-s\">does not violate the Constitution’s free speech protections\u003c/a> and can proceed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">TikTok issued a statement late Friday that the app would be forced to “go dark” without an intervention from the Biden administration, as of Saturday users attempting to open TikTok were greeted with a message reading, “Sorry, TikTok isn’t available right now.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The message also added: “We are fortunate that President Trump has indicated that he will work with us on a solution to reinstate TikTok once he takes office. Please stay tuned!”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Congress originally passed the law behind the ban on April 2024, with both Democrats and Republicans arguing that TikTok represents a national security risk for the U.S. \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2024/04/24/1246663779/biden-ban-tiktok-us\">because ByteDance is based in China\u003c/a> — a country the government considers to be a foreign adversary.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In just a few years, the U.S. has become the country with the most TikTok users in the world, and the app has formed deep ties with the country’s economy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thousands of small businesses — many in California — \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12022409/tiktok-ban-looms-bay-area-businesses-uncertainty\">depend on the app to reach customers\u003c/a>. “If TikTok ends up going away … how will we reach out to Gen Z and this entire community that we’ve built?” said Meryl Marr, vice president of marketing at Straus Family Creamery, a Sonoma County dairy company.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Scrolling down the TikTok’s “For You” page this week feels like scrolling through a river of anxiety, worries and rumors, as users try to figure out what the ban actually entails. Some users have posted videos \u003ca href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8FQHqAv/\">claiming that using the app after Jan. 19 will lead to jail time\u003c/a>, while others \u003ca href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8FQSq2t/\">are expressing their anger at the federal government\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Banning TikTok is fascist,” Alex Joy Pucci, a New York-based wellness content creator with over 182,000 followers, \u003ca href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8FQSq2t/\">claimed in a recent video\u003c/a>. “Only fascist countries ban apps claiming national security.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Keep reading for a breakdown of what the law actually said, who the ban applies to and the latest on the recent Supreme Court decision that permits the ban.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>What will happen to TikTok on my phone on Jan. 19?\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>One of the biggest pieces of misinformation floating around social media right now is that users will wake up on Jan. 19 and see that the TikTok app has disappeared from their phones overnight.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That is not correct.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/7521/text\">Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act\u003c/a> does not say anything about TikTok having to disappear from cellphones by a certain date. Instead:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Platforms like Apple’s App Store and Google’s Play Store will no longer be able to have TikTok available for downloads or uploads.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>After the ban comes into place, companies that store and manage websites will be prohibited from distributing, maintaining or updating TikTok’s website, which is currently available on desktop computers.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>In other words, the law targets the distribution and maintenance of the app — not consumption by individual users. That said, users will no longer be able to update the app or re-download it if they have deleted it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Social media companies regularly provide updated versions of their apps to keep up with changes companies like Google and Apple make on the mobile operating system our phones run on. Over time, it becomes increasingly difficult to use an app that can’t keep up with those changes. Ultimately, the app will become incompatible with your phone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That could also make it very difficult to upload videos to the app, affecting the experience of thousands of content creators who have helped the app grow so quickly.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Will it become a crime to use TikTok once the ban begins?\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Individual users will not be subject to criminal or civil penalties if they use the app after Jan. 19, according to Patrick Toomey, deputy director of the American Civil Liberties Union’s National Security Project. “Its penalties are directed at companies that provide services to TikTok in the United States.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the end of last year, the ACLU \u003ca href=\"https://www.aclu.org/cases/tiktok-inc-et-al-v-garland-amicus#legal-documents\">filed a brief in support of TikTok’s lawsuit against the government’s ban\u003c/a>, arguing that the ban gives the government too much power to limit free speech online more than it actually prevents a national security risk.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you have downloaded your favorite videos from TikTok, the law does not ban you from watching them on your phone after Jan. 19.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Will it be illegal to access or download TikTok using work-arounds like a VPN?\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Videos abound on TikTok that show creators explaining different ways of how to download or update the TikTok app after Jan. 19. One strategy: \u003ca href=\"https://www.yahoo.com/tech/vpn-tiktok-ban-everything-know-225823130.html\">downloading a Virtual Private Network (VPN) to access the Internet from another country\u003c/a>. A VPN tricks your phone into thinking that you’re someplace else, some place where it’s legal to download TikTok, for instance.[aside label=\"Related Stories\" postID=\"news_12022409,news_12021209,news_12021468\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the ACLU’s Toomey, the TikTok ban does not target individuals who use a VPN. “It’s important for people to understand that they will not be subject to criminal or civil penalties if they continue to use TikTok on their phone,” he said, asserting once more that the law focuses on companies and websites that distribute TikTok.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But even with a VPN, the content you see on TikTok after Jan. 19 may be completely different from what you’re used to. Because it will become harder and harder for many U.S.-based content creators to post videos, many are expected to switch to other platforms if they haven’t already started doing so.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Will it be illegal to use other apps based in China, like Xiaohongshu?\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In these last few days before the ban kicks in, thousands of Americans \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12022361/what-to-know-about-rednote-the-chinese-app-that-american-tiktokkers-are-flooding\">have downloaded another social media app based in China\u003c/a>: Xiaohongshu — also known as Little Red Book or RedNote. The app is similar to TikTok as it offers a seemingly limitless supply of vertical videos, along with tools to create blog-like content.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, the language of the federal ban appears to hold the door open to including any other app based out of any country considered a foreign adversary. That list includes not just China but also Russia, Iran and North Korea.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Is there any hope of this ban being averted in the courts?\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>When Congress passed the bill behind the ban, it gave TikTok’s parent company, ByteDance, two choices: the ban or sell the app to an American business — a divestiture. But TikTok sued the federal government instead, arguing that the government is contravening free speech protections in the U.S. Constitution.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13970457/supreme-court-upholds-tiktok-ban-threatening-apps-existence-in-the-u-s\">The case finally reached the Supreme Court on Friday\u003c/a>, only a few days before the ban’s start date. And despite several civil rights organizations, including the ACLU, coming in support of TikTok, the court ultimately decided “that the divestiture is necessary to address [Congress’] well-supported national security concerns.” The end result: The Supreme Court ruled that\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13970457/supreme-court-upholds-tiktok-ban-threatening-apps-existence-in-the-u-s\"> the federal government does have the power to ban TikTok.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump will be sworn in as the next president on Jan. 20 — one day after the ban is set to begin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The incoming Trump administration \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/01/15/trump-tiktok-ban-executive-order/\">is considering several strategies\u003c/a>, including a potential executive order to keep TikTok running. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12022028/about-as-bad-as-it-gets-fire-danger-heightens-as-strong-winds-bear-down-on-la\">A week into the devastating wildfires i\u003c/a>n and around Los Angeles County that have \u003ca href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2025/jan/14/la-california-fires-los-angeles-live-wildfire-map-warning-evacuation-latest-news\">claimed at least 25 lives\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.fire.ca.gov/\">destroyed over 12,300 homes, buildings and landmarks\u003c/a>, thousands of residents are still displaced by mandatory evacuation orders — and many have lost their homes and businesses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Amid the destruction and upheaval caused by the Palisades, Eaton and Hurst fires, as well as other blazes, huge numbers of people have begun to fundraise for themselves or for others, using online crowdfunding platforms. These include GoFundMe, which has \u003ca href=\"https://www.gofundme.com/c/act/wildfire-relief/california\">a list of verified fundraisers\u003c/a> using its site for those impacted by the fires. (If you’re looking for other ways to help people affected by the L.A. fires, take a look at \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12021150/where-to-donate-help-los-angeles-wildfire-eaton-fire-palisades-pasadena\">our ongoing list of organizations and groups asking for support\u003c/a>.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But there’s one thing that anyone thinking of online fundraising in this way should know before they start: \u003cstrong>If someone intends to \u003cem>also \u003c/em>seek\u003ca href=\"https://www.fema.gov/press-release/20250109/fema-assistance-available-individuals-affected-wildfires-california\"> financial assistance from the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA)\u003c/a>, the agency says it \u003ca href=\"https://www.fema.gov/node/if-i-receive-donations-gofundme-page-or-something-similar-fema-will-not-help-me\">“cannot duplicate benefits you receive from another source”\u003c/a> — including platforms like GoFundMe.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Keep reading for what you need to know about applying for FEMA aid if you’re fundraising online through a platform like GoFundMe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jump straight to: \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#gofundme-fema-wording\">The GoFundMe language to watch for when it comes to FEMA aid\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#apply-for-fema-aid\">Why having a GoFundMe doesn’t mean you should hold off applying to FEMA\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>What does FEMA say about platforms like GoFundMe?\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>FEMA assistance — which is\u003ca href=\"https://www.fema.gov/fact-sheet/myths-vs-facts\"> not dependent on household income\u003c/a> — can help disaster survivors with a wide range of needs,\u003ca href=\"https://www.fema.gov/assistance/individual/housing\"> from rental assistance to childcare to accessibility requirements\u003c/a>. Read our \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11835318/fema-disaster-assistance-in-california-how-fire-survivors-can-apply\">2020 guide on how fire survivors can apply for FEMA aid\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But according to \u003ca href=\"https://www.fema.gov/node/if-i-receive-donations-gofundme-page-or-something-similar-fema-will-not-help-me\">FEMA’s rules\u003c/a>, if a person’s GoFundMe details that they’ll be using any money raised for “a specific disaster-related expense” — which the agency defines as including home repairs, funeral expenses or other emergency needs — they cannot receive funds from FEMA for the same \u003cem>specific \u003c/em>purpose.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>How does this practically work? In \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/FEMARegion9/status/1879285609149370567\">a video posted to social media platform X\u003c/a> on Tuesday, FEMA public affairs officer Brandi Richard Thompson says that aid from the agency “may be able to help you replace a vehicle that was damaged during the disaster” — but “if your GoFundMe page clearly states that the funds you’re raising will be used to replace your car, FEMA won’t be able to provide assistance for that specific need.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/FEMARegion9/status/1879285609149370567\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is because the government regulations prevent FEMA from providing financial assistance to replace items that have already been paid for by another source,” Thompson says — such as insurance payouts, platforms like GoFundMe and “money received from nonprofit organizations.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.fema.gov/fact-sheet/spend-your-fema-funds-wisely#:~:text=Do%20not%20use%20your%20assistance,your%20disaster%20funds%20were%20used.\">FEMA also suggests people keep their FEMA-related receipts\u003c/a> for at least three years to show how they spent their aid.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>\u003ca id=\"gofundme-fema-wording\">\u003c/a>So, how should I word my GoFundMe or other fundraiser?\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/FEMARegion9/status/1879285609149370567\">As FEMA has made clear\u003c/a>, the agency can’t provide you aid for an expense that you’ve already \u003cem>specifically \u003c/em>fundraised for.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We know this can be frustrating,” Thompson says. “That’s why we encourage you to carefully consider how you describe your needs when creating a GoFundMe page.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the context of these FEMA rules, some organizers assisting families affected by the Los Angeles wildfires suggest that people \u003ca href=\"https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/u/1/d/1km3lEvdVY70P3875guzujp5xtoIFMr6jVZVxfpN3MeA/htmlview\">“avoid specifying funds for expenses like home repairs, medical bills, or cleanup\u003c/a>, if you intend to apply for FEMA assistance for those specific purposes.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead, they recommend that people should keep the descriptions of their GoFundMe pages\u003ca href=\"https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1km3lEvdVY70P3875guzujp5xtoIFMr6jVZVxfpN3MeA/htmlview\"> “broader to reflect your general recovery and supplemental needs.”\u003c/a> However, these groups emphasize that they are not legal experts. Residents can reach out to \u003ca href=\"https://nlsla.org/services/disaster-assistance/#:~:text=We%20provide%20free%2C%20legal%20help,or%20click%20here%20for%20help.\">legal groups in the L.A. region\u003c/a> that specialize in working with people in the aftermath of a natural disaster.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>\u003ca id=\"apply-for-fema-aid\">\u003c/a>I already have a GoFundMe. Should I hold off on applying for FEMA assistance?\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>No. Thompson told LAist that\u003ca href=\"https://laist.com/news/climate-environment/los-angeles-eaton-palisades-wildfire-aid-fema-gofundme\"> the funds you’ve received via a GoFundMe or similar can be used to offset whatever funds you could get from FEMA\u003c/a> — i.e., fundraising does not make you immediately ineligible for FEMA aid.[aside label=\"Related Stories\" postID=\"news_12021150,news_12021308,news_12021574\"]FEMA says \u003ca href=\"https://www.fema.gov/node/if-i-receive-donations-gofundme-page-or-something-similar-fema-will-not-help-me\">survivors of a disaster should still apply for FEMA assistance regardless\u003c/a> of other fundraising you’ve been doing or benefitting from, so it can review people’s specific cases. The agency emphasizes that there are\u003ca href=\"https://www.fema.gov/assistance/individual/housing\"> “many different types of assistance”\u003c/a> available and that it will review each application “to ensure you receive the aid for which you are eligible.” In other words, don’t try to work it out yourself and count yourself out prematurely.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You can apply for FEMA assistance online at \u003ca href=\"http://disasterassistance.gov\">disasterassistance.gov.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Folks can visit one of FEMA’s two \u003ca href=\"https://www.fema.gov/disaster/4856#block-views-block-disaster-recovery-centers-block-3\">Disaster Recovery Centers\u003c/a>, the UCLA Research Park or Pasadena City College Community Education Center, in person. There, FEMA representatives can answer questions about applying for aid and help them navigate the process.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>I’m concerned that vague language in a GoFundMe might seem ‘scammy’ to people\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>This is admittedly a snag that fire survivors attempting to fundraise for their needs might run into when trying to abide by FEMA’s rules: \u003ca href=\"https://www.gofundme.com/c/fundraising-tips\">GoFundMe’s own best practices\u003c/a> for drafting a fundraiser recommend that people should be: “as detailed as possible in your fundraiser story,” “be specific about what you are fundraising for whenever possible,” and “break down the costs that make up your fundraising goal.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What’s more, \u003ca href=\"https://support.gofundme.com/hc/en-us/articles/115015913668-Determining-if-a-fundraiser-is-trustworthy\">GoFundMe’s tips for spotting a fundraising scam \u003c/a>also warn potential donors to be wary of fundraisers that \u003cem>don’t\u003c/em> specify “how will the funds be used.” (\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12021150#fundraising-scams-la-fires\">Read more about advice on spotting fundraising scams.\u003c/a>)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In this context, \u003ca href=\"https://support.gofundme.com/hc/en-us/articles/4405037683227-Writing-your-story-Sharing-your-need\">GoFundMe’s “Writing Your Story” guide\u003c/a> to structuring and drafting a fundraiser may offer fire survivors some tips on how to emphasize their personal experience to share their story without necessarily falling foul of FEMA’s rules. You can also speak to FEMA representatives in person about this issue at one of \u003ca href=\"https://www.fema.gov/disaster/4856#block-views-block-disaster-recovery-centers-block-3\">FEMA’s two Disaster Recovery Centers\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>A “particularly dangerous situation red flag warning” has been issued for parts of Southern California, as more extreme winds are expected to impact the region and deadly fires continue to burn.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The rare, National Weather Service-issued PDS warning is for “\u003ca href=\"https://x.com/nwslosangeles/status/1879099654337667553?s=12&t=zqhVQvPMIcoxuuo4LPBNMw\">extremely rare and dangerous fire weather conditions\u003c/a> that have previously led to large and dangerous deadly wildfires.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In effect for parts of Los Angeles and Ventura counties through noon Wednesday, the PDS red flag warning signals that “this setup is about as bad as it gets,” \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/nwslosangeles/status/1878882840492044401?s=12&t=zqhVQvPMIcoxuuo4LPBNMw\">the NWS says\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, as member station LAist reports, the PDS red flag warning has already been issued \u003ca href=\"https://laist.com/news/climate-environment/cheat-sheet-what-is-a-pds-weather-fire-talk\">a few other times in recent months\u003c/a> — an indication of the extreme weather Southern California is facing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The “particularly dangerous situation” term was first used in the 1980s as guidance for tornado watches, says Marc Chenard, a meteorologist at the NWS Weather Prediction Center. Since then, it’s been used for other hazards, such as flash flood watches, to “signal more extreme events.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With the ongoing fires in Southern California, a PDS red flag warning means that “the risk of damage and loss of life is high,” Chenard tells NPR.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A regular warning already indicates a significant hazard, Chenard says. “But when you see the PDS term attached to it, it’s even a level beyond that. So, now the threat to life and property is even more extreme.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Multiple fires have been burning across Los Angeles and Ventura counties since last week, fueled in part by extremely dry conditions, gusty winds and low humidity. The Eaton, Palisades and Hurst fires have scorched more than 38,000 acres and destroyed more than 12,000 structures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here are a few more terms related to the wildfires to understand:\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12022125\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1600px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12022125\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-40.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1600\" height=\"1067\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-40.jpg 1600w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-40-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-40-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-40-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-40-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1600px) 100vw, 1600px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A firefighter drags a hose during the Palisades Fire on Jan. 8, 2025, in Malibu, Los Angeles County. \u003ccite>(Eric Thayer/Getty Images North America)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Red flag warning:\u003c/strong> A \u003ca href=\"https://www.weather.gov/mqt/redflagtips\">red flag warning\u003c/a> means there are conditions for an increased risk of fire: a combination of very low humidity, warm temperatures and strong winds. More on \u003ca href=\"https://laist.com/news/climate-environment/what-is-a-red-flag-warning-fire-nws\">red flag warnings\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://laist.com/news/climate-environment/cheat-sheet-what-is-a-pds-weather-fire-talk\">PDS warnings\u003c/a> from LAist.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Santa Ana winds:\u003c/strong> \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2025/01/08/nx-s1-5252535/palisades-fire-california-los-angeles-santa-ana-winds\">Winds with powerful gusts\u003c/a> that sometimes exceed hurricane-force winds. They are caused by high pressure over the desert Southwest and push through the mountain passages in Southern California toward an area of lower pressure off the Pacific coast. \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2025/01/08/nx-s1-5252535/palisades-fire-california-los-angeles-santa-ana-winds\">More on the Santa Ana winds\u003c/a>.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Evacuation Warning:\u003c/strong> There is “impending danger” to life or property, according to the \u003ca href=\"https://news.caloes.ca.gov/know-the-difference-what-evacuation-warnings-and-orders-mean/\">California Governor’s Office of Emergency Services\u003c/a>. A person should also expect an order to evacuate will follow shortly after.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Evacuation Order:\u003c/strong> The office also says there is an “immediate threat” to one’s life and people within an evacuation zone should leave immediately. \u003ca href=\"https://laist.com/news/climate-environment/evacuation-orders-warnings-what-they-mean-emergency-wildfire-earthquake\">More on evacuation warnings and orders from LAist\u003c/a>.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Containment:\u003c/strong> Several factors determine how much of a \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2017/12/21/572305828/what-does-containing-a-fire-really-mean\">fire has been contained\u003c/a>. Rather than describing how much of a fire has been put out, it refers to how much of a perimeter firefighters have created around a fire to prevent it from spreading. \u003ca href=\"https://laist.com/news/climate-environment/what-is-fire-containment\">More on containment from LAist\u003c/a>.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Prescribed burns:\u003c/strong> Also called prescribed fires, they are controlled fires used as a tool in firefighting to help prevent forest fires from burning out of control, according to the \u003ca href=\"https://www.fs.usda.gov/managing-land/prescribed-fire#:~:text=Prescribed%20fires%2C%20also%20known%20as,ecosystems%20that%20depend%20on%20fire.\">U.S. Forest Service\u003c/a>. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12021125/la-fires-renew-debate-over-prescribed-burns-and-fire-preparedness-in-california\">More on the debate over prescribed burns from member station KQED\u003c/a>.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003ch2>How to help and stay safe\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Resources to help stay safe:\u003cbr>\n➡️ \u003ca href=\"https://laist.com/news/climate-environment/authorities-ask-residents-to-evacuate-when-ordered-warned\">\u003cstrong>With fire danger still high, authorities implore you to follow evacuation orders.\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n➡️ \u003ca href=\"https://laist.com/news/climate-environment/dos-donts-after-wildfire\">\u003cstrong>What to do — and not do — when you get home after a fire evacuation.\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n➡️\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2025/01/10/nx-s1-5256230/smoke-home-air-purifier-box-fan\"> \u003cstrong>Is smoke in your home? 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The Eaton, Palisades and Hurst fires have scorched more than 38,000 acres and destroyed more than 12,000 structures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here are a few more terms related to the wildfires to understand:\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12022125\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1600px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12022125\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-40.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1600\" height=\"1067\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-40.jpg 1600w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-40-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-40-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-40-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-40-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1600px) 100vw, 1600px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A firefighter drags a hose during the Palisades Fire on Jan. 8, 2025, in Malibu, Los Angeles County. \u003ccite>(Eric Thayer/Getty Images North America)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Red flag warning:\u003c/strong> A \u003ca href=\"https://www.weather.gov/mqt/redflagtips\">red flag warning\u003c/a> means there are conditions for an increased risk of fire: a combination of very low humidity, warm temperatures and strong winds. More on \u003ca href=\"https://laist.com/news/climate-environment/what-is-a-red-flag-warning-fire-nws\">red flag warnings\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://laist.com/news/climate-environment/cheat-sheet-what-is-a-pds-weather-fire-talk\">PDS warnings\u003c/a> from LAist.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Santa Ana winds:\u003c/strong> \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2025/01/08/nx-s1-5252535/palisades-fire-california-los-angeles-santa-ana-winds\">Winds with powerful gusts\u003c/a> that sometimes exceed hurricane-force winds. They are caused by high pressure over the desert Southwest and push through the mountain passages in Southern California toward an area of lower pressure off the Pacific coast. \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2025/01/08/nx-s1-5252535/palisades-fire-california-los-angeles-santa-ana-winds\">More on the Santa Ana winds\u003c/a>.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Evacuation Warning:\u003c/strong> There is “impending danger” to life or property, according to the \u003ca href=\"https://news.caloes.ca.gov/know-the-difference-what-evacuation-warnings-and-orders-mean/\">California Governor’s Office of Emergency Services\u003c/a>. A person should also expect an order to evacuate will follow shortly after.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Evacuation Order:\u003c/strong> The office also says there is an “immediate threat” to one’s life and people within an evacuation zone should leave immediately. \u003ca href=\"https://laist.com/news/climate-environment/evacuation-orders-warnings-what-they-mean-emergency-wildfire-earthquake\">More on evacuation warnings and orders from LAist\u003c/a>.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Containment:\u003c/strong> Several factors determine how much of a \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2017/12/21/572305828/what-does-containing-a-fire-really-mean\">fire has been contained\u003c/a>. Rather than describing how much of a fire has been put out, it refers to how much of a perimeter firefighters have created around a fire to prevent it from spreading. \u003ca href=\"https://laist.com/news/climate-environment/what-is-fire-containment\">More on containment from LAist\u003c/a>.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Prescribed burns:\u003c/strong> Also called prescribed fires, they are controlled fires used as a tool in firefighting to help prevent forest fires from burning out of control, according to the \u003ca href=\"https://www.fs.usda.gov/managing-land/prescribed-fire#:~:text=Prescribed%20fires%2C%20also%20known%20as,ecosystems%20that%20depend%20on%20fire.\">U.S. Forest Service\u003c/a>. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12021125/la-fires-renew-debate-over-prescribed-burns-and-fire-preparedness-in-california\">More on the debate over prescribed burns from member station KQED\u003c/a>.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003ch2>How to help and stay safe\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Resources to help stay safe:\u003cbr>\n➡️ \u003ca href=\"https://laist.com/news/climate-environment/authorities-ask-residents-to-evacuate-when-ordered-warned\">\u003cstrong>With fire danger still high, authorities implore you to follow evacuation orders.\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n➡️ \u003ca href=\"https://laist.com/news/climate-environment/dos-donts-after-wildfire\">\u003cstrong>What to do — and not do — when you get home after a fire evacuation.\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n➡️\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2025/01/10/nx-s1-5256230/smoke-home-air-purifier-box-fan\"> \u003cstrong>Is smoke in your home? 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>Updated 9:40 a.m. on Tuesday\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Los Angeles remains in the grip of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12021150/where-to-donate-help-los-angeles-wildfire-eaton-fire-palisades-pasadena\">most destructive wildfire event in the region’s history\u003c/a>, with the combined fires claiming at least \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12021834/la-fire-death-toll-reaches-24-as-high-winds-forecasted-to-return\">24 lives\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.fire.ca.gov/incidents\">destroying over 12,300 homes\u003c/a>, buildings and landmarks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the midst of the ongoing disaster — and on the heels of Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s announcement that the company Meta is \u003ca href=\"https://www.factcheck.org/2025/01/our-partnership-with-meta-is-ending/\">ending its partnership\u003c/a> with \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12020606/meta-ends-fact-checking-ahead-of-2nd-trump-term\">third-party fact-checking organizations\u003c/a> — many social media users and news experts have expressed concern about the spread of false information online about the L.A. fires.\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Jump to: \u003ca href=\"#how-to-spot-ai-and-misinformation\">How to recognize misinformation online yourself\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>This kind of misinformation, which has ranged from AI-generated footage created by artificial intelligence programs like Chat GPT to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12021798/why-right-wing-pundits-point-fingers-at-diversity-efforts-for-los-angeles-wildfires\">politically motivated false claims\u003c/a>, spikes “whenever there’s any kind of crisis,” said Sam Wineburg, Emeritus Professor at Stanford University and the \u003ca href=\"https://inquirygroup.org/about\">founder of Digital Inquiry Group\u003c/a>, a nonprofit dedicated to digital education.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Inaccurate information can also bog down users’ news feeds during times of disaster, making it harder to find genuine resources and timely updates. Bad actors “are at the ready, just waiting to jump in order to sow discord” in the “information stream,” Wineburg said. “Crisis sells. Mischief sells. Anger sells.”[aside postID=news_12021150 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240109-CAWindStorm-082_qed-1020x680.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Keep reading for just a few examples of misinformation that’s been spreading online during the L.A. fires and how to spot these kinds of fake postings and false claims.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘Ready and waiting in order to create chaos’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The spread of misinformation is especially heightened during \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1995420/climate-scientists-warn-of-growing-whiplash-effect-on-weather-patterns\">extreme weather events exacerbated by climate change\u003c/a>, which has become highly politicized. The L.A. fires have shown how this dynamic can play out in California — a state that’s already a target for right-wing media and influencers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People immediately perceive California as on the left side of the political spectrum,” Wineburg said. “There are going to be people on the other side — not all people, there are trolls on both sides — and they’re ready and waiting in order to create chaos.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1995420/climate-scientists-warn-of-growing-whiplash-effect-on-weather-patterns\">A Republican user with over 100,000 followers on social media platform X\u003c/a> — whose \u003ca href=\"https://www.theverge.com/2024/11/17/24298669/musk-trump-endorsement-x-boosting-republican-posts-july-algorithm-change\">algorithm and owner, billionaire Elon Musk,\u003c/a> have favored \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2024/10/22/nx-s1-5156184/elon-musk-trump-election-x-twitter\">right-leaning posts\u003c/a> — claimed last week that California turned away fire trucks from Oregon because of their emission levels, writing that “California is a JOKE. Get out while you can.” The Oregon State Fire Marshall subsequently \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2024/10/22/nx-s1-5156184/elon-musk-trump-election-x-twitter\">debunked this claim\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/caplesweb/status/1878109017089728854?s=46&t=7BBzFwo6eYLzJIVfAlumEQ\">adding that\u003c/a> Oregon’s firefighters had arrived on Jan. 9 “and are working around the clock to help our neighbors.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even before the L.A. fires, AI-generated photos and videos were already rampant on platforms like Facebook and X, which has also \u003ca href=\"https://foreignpolicy.com/2023/07/15/elon-musk-twitter-blue-checks-verification-disinformation-propaganda-russia-china-trust-safety/\">de-emphasized news in its platform\u003c/a> since Musk’s acquisition. Last week, fake images and videos made with AI and purporting to depict the blazes — including imagery of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/hollywood-sign-la-wildfires/\">Hollywood sign apparently burning\u003c/a> — began to proliferate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These images have often driven a particular political narrative. \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/lmatsakis/status/1877071716679025039?s=46&t=PMxn5DJx4Cr-fWgaQBUvVA\">A widely circulated AI image\u003c/a> that the poster claimed was created using X’s own Grok AI tool depicted people in dark clothing in a burning suburban area, with the poster predicting that Pacific Palisades homes would be “picked clean.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/shayan86/status/1877537853372039481?s=46&t=7BBzFwo6eYLzJIVfAlumEQ\">recent viral post\u003c/a> presented local news footage of Black families attempting to save their household items and described them as “looters.” Accusations of looting often erupt during times of disasters and crisis, and while officials say that the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department has \u003ca href=\"https://www.cbsnews.com/losangeles/news/more-than-20-arrested-palisades-eaton-fire-zones-looting-concerns-sheriff/\">arrested nearly 30 people\u003c/a> for looting, police presence and reporting during disasters have a \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/suhaunah/status/1877570458310099428?s=46&t=7BBzFwo6eYLzJIVfAlumEQ\">complicated history\u003c/a> — \u003ca href=\"https://cretscmhd.psych.ucla.edu/nola/volunteer/EmpiricalStudies/Race%20and%20media%20coverage%20of%20hurricane%20katrina%20-%20analysis,%20implications,%20and%20future%20research%20questions.pdf\">especially for Black and brown people\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Politically-motivated claims\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12021798/why-right-wing-pundits-point-fingers-at-diversity-efforts-for-los-angeles-wildfires\">Right-wing media and commentators have been quick to blame\u003c/a> the devastation wrought by the fires on diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) policies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside tag='wildfire' label='More Wildfire Coverage']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Musk was one of those circulating screenshots of the Los Angeles Fire Department’s four-year-old ‘racial equity action plan,’ claiming the agency “prioritized DEI over saving lives and homes” and that “\u003ca href=\"https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1877224004680843539\">DEI means people DIE\u003c/a>.” Musk provided \u003ca href=\"https://www.forbes.com/sites/conormurray/2025/01/09/elon-musk-and-more-right-wing-critics-blame-diversity-equity-and-inclusion-for-la-wildfires-with-little-evidence/'\">no evidence for this claim\u003c/a>, and, like \u003ca href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/society/shortcuts/2020/jan/21/how-the-word-woke-was-weaponised-by-the-right\">the word “woke\u003c/a>,” “\u003ca href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2024/apr/21/dei-language-conservatives-baltimore\">DEI” has been a phrase claimed by right-wing commentators\u003c/a> to lodge baseless claims against institutions they perceive as left-leaning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Misinformation has also come directly from politicians themselves. According to \u003ca href=\"https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/113793724958051185\">President-elect Donald Trump’s Jan. 8 social media post\u003c/a>, Gov. Gavin Newsom had “refused to sign the water restoration declaration put before him that would have allowed millions of gallons of water” to flow into the parts of California currently affected by wildfire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom responded that such a declaration does not exist, and the BBC confirmed it was \u003ca href=\"https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/czj3yk90kpyo\">not able to find such documents\u003c/a>, although a Trump spokesperson told BBC that the incoming president was referring to \u003ca href=\"https://www.fresnobee.com/news/politics-government/article240434781.html\">Newsom opposing Trump’s plans in 2020\u003c/a> to divert water from Northern California to the southern parts of the state. Newsom’s team at the time said it would have \u003ca href=\"https://www.fresnobee.com/news/politics-government/article240434781.html\">further endangered a species of fish\u003c/a>, and experts said it was unrelated to the current water available for firefighting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With Trump pushing some of the misinformation about wildfires, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12021435/trumps-misinformation-la-fires-fuels-concerns-over-future-disaster-aid-california\">some California leaders are worried\u003c/a> about the incoming president’s willingness to disperse aid to the state in future disasters.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"how-to-spot-ai-and-misinformation\">\u003c/a>How can I spot misinformation?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>One of the most pernicious aspects of misinformation online is how anyone can be susceptible — and guilty of spreading it too, even inadvertently. Here’s how to catch common indicators of false information and bad-faith posting:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Don’t think ‘I can always tell’\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wineburg said users should let go of the idea that “they can immediately tell” whether an online image or video is AI-generated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>AI generation — once mocked for its inability to produce details like \u003ca href=\"https://hyperallergic.com/808778/ai-image-generators-finally-figured-out-hands/#:~:text=The%20newest%20version%20of%20the,full%20set%20of%20five%20fingers.\">anatomically correct human fingers\u003c/a> or shadows — has gotten more sophisticated. Someone with a photo editing program like Photoshop could further polish these images.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Consider the source\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For bad actors, “their goal is to dispense information that keeps us online, so more ads can be shown to us,” Wineburg said. “And the information that keeps us online is anger, chaos, crisis.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He suggested that users wait before interacting with a post and sift through the comments to see what people are saying about it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Check the organization that is posting the content, and look for \u003ca href=\"https://guides.law.stanford.edu/c.php?g=1255722&p=9200578\">any sources for their information\u003c/a>. Keep in mind that \u003ca href=\"https://www.cnn.com/2023/04/24/tech/musk-twitter-blue-check-mark/index.html\">X users can purchase “blue check marks\u003c/a>,” so a blue check alone isn’t proof of reliability.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Do some digging\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://sites.google.com/view/reverse-images/home\">Google’s reverse image search\u003c/a> can be a \u003ca href=\"https://firstdraftnews.org/long-form-article/too-much-information/\">quick way\u003c/a> to see where a photo has been used on the internet, for example, if an image purporting to show a person during the L.A. fires is, in fact, an archive image from another year entirely. However, keep in mind that Google prioritizes its own AI results at the top of the page. Those results have been proven to sometimes be \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/google-ai-overviews-96e763ea2a6203978f581ca9c10f1b07\">unreliable, inconsistent\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.404media.co/google-ai-overview-search-magic-wand/\">even inappropriate\u003c/a>, so it’s best if you actually visit the source through the links provided.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The idea that technology is going to solve a problem that technology has created gets us into trouble every time we go down that particular path,” Wineburg said. “What we need is to develop human technologies. We need to develop a skill set for dealing with an information stream where it is difficult to tell what’s true or false.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Wait before sharing\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wineburg said patience is key, especially if you are unsure of a video, post, or image.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even if the post is depicting something momentous, he said users should wait for experts “who will verify whether a video can be trusted or whether it should be distrusted.” In many extreme cases, misinformation has fanned the \u003ca href=\"https://firstdraftnews.org/long-form-article/too-much-information/\">flames of racism, xenophobia, \u003c/a>and \u003ca href=\"https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2022/09/myanmar-facebooks-systems-promoted-violence-against-rohingya-meta-owes-reparations-new-report/\">real-life organized violence\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even if you have the best intentions, spreading a faulty post can hurt people. A \u003cem>Washington Post\u003c/em> investigation found that a QAnon conspiracy theory about furniture company Wayfair trafficking children resulted in \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/interactive/2021/wayfair-qanon-sex-trafficking-conspiracy/\">serious trauma for the young people\u003c/a> whose images were used in those posts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Get a second opinion\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A gut check with a trusted friend, colleague, or family member \u003ca href=\"https://www.rtdna.org/preventing-the-spread-of-misinformation-and-disinformation\">may be useful\u003c/a> in figuring out if a post seems valid — or at least can alert you that it might not be all it seems.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Remember that Gen-Z is susceptible, too\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wineburg said the idea of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.ala.org/future/trends/digitalnatives\">“digital native”\u003c/a> — someone who’s used technology and social media from a very young age — has been “completely overturned for at least a decade.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The idea that somehow Gen-Z and today’s young people are savvy at determining what is true and what’s fictitious — that itself is a fiction,” he said. Wineburg cited \u003ca href=\"https://purl.stanford.edu/cz440cm8408\">a 2021 study\u003c/a> he conducted of 3,446 high school students where they had to find out the source of a video they were shown. Only three students were able to correctly discern the video was from \u003ca href=\"https://engineering.stanford.edu/news/sam-wineburg-how-improve-american-students-fact-checking-skills\">a Russian disinformation campaign\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s incumbent that we teach these skills in school, which we are not presently doing,” he said. Well-meaning teachers and adults may see young people are comfortable with their devices, and assume that is accompanied by the ability to “discern the information that that device produces,” Wineburg said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And that’s simply not the case.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>More reliable fact-checkers:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.politifact.com/\">PolitiFact\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://Factcheck.org\">Factcheck.org\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.snopes.com/\">Snopes\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.bbc.com/news/reality_check\">BBC Verify\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Verification resources and best practices:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://firstdraftnews.org/long-form-article/too-much-information/\">First Draft News\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://cor.inquirygroup.org/curriculum/?tab=collections\">Civic Online Reasoning\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://libguides.uvic.ca/fakenews/how-it-spreads#:~:text=False%20news%20can%20spread%20through,misinformation%20and%20perpetuate%20the%20cycle.\">University of Victoria’s library\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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According to \u003ca href=\"https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/113793724958051185\">President-elect Donald Trump’s Jan. 8 social media post\u003c/a>, Gov. Gavin Newsom had “refused to sign the water restoration declaration put before him that would have allowed millions of gallons of water” to flow into the parts of California currently affected by wildfire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom responded that such a declaration does not exist, and the BBC confirmed it was \u003ca href=\"https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/czj3yk90kpyo\">not able to find such documents\u003c/a>, although a Trump spokesperson told BBC that the incoming president was referring to \u003ca href=\"https://www.fresnobee.com/news/politics-government/article240434781.html\">Newsom opposing Trump’s plans in 2020\u003c/a> to divert water from Northern California to the southern parts of the state. 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Keep in mind that \u003ca href=\"https://www.cnn.com/2023/04/24/tech/musk-twitter-blue-check-mark/index.html\">X users can purchase “blue check marks\u003c/a>,” so a blue check alone isn’t proof of reliability.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Do some digging\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://sites.google.com/view/reverse-images/home\">Google’s reverse image search\u003c/a> can be a \u003ca href=\"https://firstdraftnews.org/long-form-article/too-much-information/\">quick way\u003c/a> to see where a photo has been used on the internet, for example, if an image purporting to show a person during the L.A. fires is, in fact, an archive image from another year entirely. However, keep in mind that Google prioritizes its own AI results at the top of the page. 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