A USA Today investigation revealed that the new chancellor of the California State University system, Joseph Castro, overlooked sexual harassment complaints against an administrator he recruited during his tenure as president of Fresno State. The administrator, Frank Lamas, faced at least a dozen accusations of misconduct over six years: women said he groped them, stared at their breasts, and made sexist remarks. But Castro took no disciplinary action. When Lamas was finally forced out, Castro quietly gave him $260,000 and full retirement benefits.

Dispatches from California’s climate fight:

On this week’s California Sun Podcast, host Jeff Schechtman interviews Alice Waters, the chef who pioneered farm-to-table food at Berkeley’s Chez Panisse. She talked about how eating a wild strawberry during a trip to Paris in 1965 changed her life. She learned that the markets only had food that was in season and grown locally. “When I came back. I wanted to live like that,” she said.

A man who had been acting strangely opened fire on a Greyhound bus during a stop in Oroville on Wednesday, killing a 43-year-old woman and wounding four others, authorities said. Among those hurt was a pregnant woman and an 11-year-old girl. Asaahdi Coleman, 21, was arrested shortly after inside a nearby Walmart, where police said he had gotten into a fight with a customer and stripped naked. Action News Now | Oroville Mercury-Register

Facebook’s parent company Meta has been having a very bad week. On Wednesday, an earnings report contained a startling statistic: For the first time in its 18 years, the social media giant lost daily users. On Thursday, Meta’s stock fell 26%, erasing more than $230 billion in market value. It was called the biggest one-day crash in U.S. stock market history. CNBC | N.Y. Times

Washington Post: “The end of Facebook’s growth era is a landmark in social media history.”

Search “Nancy Pelosi stocks” on TikTok and hundreds — if not thousands — of videos will pop up. The San Francisco politician has curiously become one of the most influential figures in investing. Legions of amateur traders pore over the stock picks of her husband’s venture capital firm on the belief that Pelosi has access to insider information. The trend has been traced to a winning bet that her husband made on tech stocks last summer a week before the House considered antitrust action. SFGATE

A Bay Area town just installed a mission bell along its downtown over the objections of local Native Americans. Across California, mission bells commemorating the state’s Spanish missionary past have been increasingly denounced as symbols of Indigenous oppression. Gilroy added its bell as part of a 150th birthday celebration. “It shows the destruction and domination of native people never ended,” said Valentin Lopez, of the Amah Mutsun Tribal Band. “It just evolved.” SFGATE | KPIX

San Diego now has the highest electricity rates in the country after years of rate increases by SDG&E. Outraged customers have been complaining of bills double and triple what they used to be following the latest hike on Jan. 1. The utility has blamed wildfire mitigation and rising natural gas prices. But Kevin Kilpatrick isn’t buying it. The statistics lecturer at Cal State San Marcos just filed a small claims lawsuit against SDG&E seeking damages for emotional distress. S.D. Union-Tribune | CBS 8

Los Angeles County health officials set a benchmark for when masking rules could be relaxed — a bit. Public Health Director Barbara Ferrer said when coronavirus hospitalizations drop below 2,500 for seven straight days officials would lift mask requirements for big outdoor events and outdoor spaces at schools. Hospitalizations as of Wednesday: just under 3,400. Any wider relaxation — including inside businesses, schools, and offices — remained a ways off. L.A. Times | L.A. Daily News

A Southern California man named Randy Williams paid $19,000 for a patch of desert near the Salton Sea and erected large green road signs proclaiming it “The Republic of Slowjamastan.” Williams, speaking in what he called the “Slowjamastan accent,” said he has granted citizenship to 99 people. There are rules, however. “For example, you cannot wear Crocs into our nation,” Williams said. Desert Sun

Years before the pandemic, the filmmaker Russell Houghten had a strange vision: What would it look like to skateboard in a Los Angeles devoid of cars? In a sometimes risky process, he filmed skaters sailing down highways and city streets, then painstakingly removed all of the vehicles with editing software. The resulting four-minute film is eerie — and prescient. Vimeo

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