Several arrested in protest over housing, homelessness at offices of California Gov. Newsom
https://www.sacbee.com/news/local/crime/article293141909.html
Protesters target Palo Alto’s Palantir office
https://www.paloaltoonline.com/community/2025/07/15/protesters-target-palo-altos-palantir-office/
Mark Zuckerberg
Meta announced in August 2025 that it will launch a CA-focused PAC, Mobilizing Economic Transformation Across California, to back state-level candidates favoring lighter regulation of technology, particularly AI. Meta has already made $218,000 in political contributions in California in 2025.
Zuckerberg dined with Trump at Mar-a-Lago at the end of November and attended the inauguration after a $1 million donation to the inaugural fund. In January, Meta settled a lawsuit that Trump had brought against the company in 2021, agreeing to contribute $22 million to the construction of Trump’s presidential library. Weeks before Trump took office, Meta announced that it would be getting rid of fact-checkers, saying they have become too politically biased.
In the months following Trump’s inauguration, the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative eliminated its internal diversity, equity and inclusion teams and reportedly pulled funding for a school for low-income children in East Palo Alto and have ended all of its advocacy work.
Zuckerberg has an 11-property compound in Palo Alto, CA spending more than $110 million to purchase the properties. It includes a private school for 14 children and 7,000 square feet of underground bunker space
Priscilla Chan contributed $750,000 to a PAC opposing the recall of Gavin Newsom in 2021. Chan also previously served on Newsom’s Economic Recovery Task Force.