r/California

Starting at the beginning of this year (2026), the California Privacy Protection Agency allowed residents of the state to sign up for the Delete Request and Opt-out Platform, or DROP. The tool lets consumers send an instant request to hundreds of data brokers, asking them to delete their data and stop tracking them. The brokers are required to start processing those requests in August.

https://privacy.ca.gov/drop

I saw a social media post from the owner, but this article provides more context. From the owner's post, the buyer was undercutting prices, forcing him to sell at low prices, to cut out the competition. From the article, it sounds like he signed a contract to sell to the buyer, but the buyer won't pay enough to cover his costs.

Gov. Gavin Newsom approved California’s state budget for the fiscal year 2026-27, which approves $355 billion in spending, despite the Legislative Analyst’s Office’s May projection of a $16.9 billion deficit. The budget protects UC funding but cuts healthcare coverage and funding for some student financial aid programs as Newsom aims to balance state finances.

The cuts reduce funding for the Middle Class Scholarship, aimed at low- to middle-income UC and CSU students. While it previously covered up to 35% of eligible students’ remaining cost of attendance after other aid, it will cover only 17.5% of the remaining cost of attendance for the 2026-27 school year under the new plan. This is expected to reduce the cost of the program from $1.1 billion to $531 million.

The budget designates a total of approximately $5.4 billion in funding, honoring Newsom’s 2022 compact with the UC and CSU systems to annually increase their funding by 5% over the span of five years.

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Context:

>The U.S. Supreme Court Tuesday struck down President Donald Trump’s attempt to redefine the constitutional right to birthright citizenship.

>In the decision, a majority of the justices upheld the country's long understanding of automatic citizenship by birth on American soil, regardless of the immigration status of a newborn’s parents. The majority opinion, written by Chief Justice John G. Roberts, Jr., found the president’s executive order violated the 14th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution. 

>“Citizenship, then and now, was the right to have rights—to freely participate in our political community,” Roberts wrote. “The Framers of the Fourteenth Amendment extended that promise to ‘every free-born person in this land.’ We keep that promise today.”

>While six of the justices agreed — Roberts, Amy Coney Barrett, Brett Kavanaugh, Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan and Ketanji Brown Jackson — that the president’s executive order was unlawful, conservative Justices Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito and Neil M. Gorsuch dissented.