{"id":345820,"date":"2026-06-04T02:17:17","date_gmt":"2026-06-04T02:17:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/345820\/"},"modified":"2026-06-04T02:17:17","modified_gmt":"2026-06-04T02:17:17","slug":"san-francisco-balanced-its-budget-by-cutting-off-the-ngos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/345820\/","title":{"rendered":"San Francisco balanced its budget by cutting off the NGOs"},"content":{"rendered":"

1. Gavin Newsom hates trees<\/p>\n

by Mike Solana<\/p>\n

You probably don\u2019t realize this on account of you have a real job, but government workers in California are still basically grifting on Covid hours, and they just sued notoriously evil MAGA Republican Gavin Newsom after he attempted to force them back into the office<\/a> (four days a week). <\/p>\n

Now, the derangement of government unions<\/a> isn\u2019t really news, but their novel approach to stealing your money is making headlines: union lawyers allege the carbon released from forcing government workers to actually work, via commuting, violates CEQA, an environmental law<\/a> typically just used to paralyze the housing market. <\/p>\n

It\u2019s truly an amazing theater of villains, and who do you root for? The public sector unions? The \u201cenvironmental\u201d law clearly designed to break civilization? The legal industry built upon our ongoing tolerance of frivolous lawsuits? Or the enabling bimbo governor who drove our state into the ground? A tough choice, but I\u2019ll be cheering for an asteroid.<\/p>\n

\"CaliforniaGavin Newsom was sued for forcing government workers back into the office. REUTERS<\/p>\n

2. The nonprofit state<\/p>\n

by Harris Sockel<\/p>\n

Per the SF Standard, nonprofits are bracing for ~1,050 layoffs as Mayor Lurie trims the city budget. Hundreds of nonprofit orgs across SF rake in ~$1.63 billion annually for, let\u2019s see\u2026 hosting street fairs next to open drug markets in the Tenderloin, giving free money to undocumented immigrants, and \u201crepairing historic harms\u201d in black neighborhoods (free money). <\/p>\n

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Meanwhile, the city is facing a $643 million budget deficit \u2014 and most of this nonprofit money goes to staff. (The Dream Keeper Initiative, for example, intended to help black residents, spent ~$6 million on, among other things, trips to Martha\u2019s Vineyard, spa days for execs, and a bulk order of an employee\u2019s children\u2019s book (lol)). <\/p>\n

Lurie is the only politician capable of cleaning house here, because he\u2019s rich and won\u2019t need a fake nonprofit job later. (When asked for comment on why nonprofit spending\u00a0increased\u00a0during her term, London Breed was busy\u2026 interviewing for \u201ccommunity-centered\u201d $400,000 jobs.)<\/p>\n

\"SanPer the SF Standard, nonprofits are bracing for ~1,050 layoffs as Mayor Lurie trims the city budget. Anadolu via Getty Images<\/p>\n

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3. UC the problem?<\/p>\n

by Hunter Ryerson<\/p>\n

Tuesday, STEM faculty across the University of California system released an open letter to the UC regents, in which they beg for the reinstatement of the SAT\/ACT requirement for admissions (famously abandoned in 2020). <\/p>\n

The 656 signatories said the test-free policy destroyed basic mathematical fluency, concluding that students have \u201cpreparation gaps so severe that instructors must reteach middle-school mathematics\u201d (yikes). <\/p>\n

The UC faculty warned about EXACTLY THIS OUTCOME when this insane test policy was adopted, but activist administrators went ahead with it anyway, gutting the best public school system in the world for\u2026 equity, or whatever. <\/p>\n

Yes, mass-H1Bs suck, but our education system is so crappy that we can\u2019t even homegrow STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) talent anymore. <\/p>\n

Paging POTUS: The federal gov gives the UCs $50 billion+ in annual funding. Until standardized testing and percentile-based grading are\u00a0mandatory, cut off this money. All of it. My tax dollars should be reserved for groundbreaking research, not remedial algebra for bums.<\/p>\n

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