Washington Post: “Service members began to arrive in Los Angeles early Sunday, part of the 2,000 California National Guard troops that President Donald Trump has ordered to be deployed to the city to intervene in protests against his administration’s immigration sweeps.”

“California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) has condemned the move, which a military legal expert said was unusual because the state did not request assistance but not outside the bounds of presidential authority.”

New York Times: “It is the first time since 1965 that a president has activated a state’s National Guard force without a request from that state’s governor. The last time was when President Lyndon B. Johnson sent troops to Alabama to protect civil rights demonstrators in 1965, she said.”

Newark Mayor Ras Baraka (D) “sued government officials including Alina Habba, the interim U.S. attorney for New Jersey, claiming that his arrest outside an immigration detention center last month was motivated by political malice,” the New York Times reports.

Paul Krugman: “MAGA and MAGA-adjacent types are very good at finding things and people to hate. They hate immigrants (unless they’re white South Africans), LGBTQ people and wokeness. They hate universities and are doing their best to destroy American science. The New York Times reports that they hate Europe. And they very much hate New York City.”

“OK, I’m not impartial on this issue. I grew up on Long Island and still think of NYC proper as ‘the city.’ I live in Manhattan now, and my experience is that if you can afford housing — which is admittedly a huge problem — it’s actually a very good life, with an incredible range of things to do either in walking distance or a short subway ride away. Not everyone wants to live this way, but nobody is saying they should. All we ask is that some Americans be allowed to have favorable views of a place that provides the advantages density and, yes, diversity can offer.”

“But that, of course, is exactly what the U.S. right refuses to accept. New York is one of the safest places in America, yet much of the country insists on seeing it as a terrifying urban hellscape.”

“For the first time since his federal corruption case was dropped, Mayor Eric Adams of New York City met with President Trump in Washington on Friday, hours before documents related to his case were released,” the New York Times reports.

“The stated purpose of the visit, according to the mayor’s office, was for Mr. Adams to ‘discuss New York City priorities,’ including its infrastructure needs. But apparently there was another item on his agenda.”

“After Mr. Adams had left, Mr. Trump quickly summarized the meeting. ‘I think he came in to thank me, frankly,’ he said without elaborating.”

“The South Texas home of Elon Musk’s SpaceX rocket company is on its way to becoming an official city with a galactic name: Starbase,” the AP reports.

“A vote Saturday to formally organize Starbase as a city was being approved by a lopsided margin by a small group of voters who live there and are mostly Musk’s employees at SpaceX.”

NOTUS: “As the city drafts plans for furloughs, building closures and cuts to public safety services to help accommodate the $1 billion hole Congress blew in its $21 billion budget in the last government funding bill, House Republicans have more or less forgotten about the issue.”

Lancaster, CA Mayor Rex Parris (R) said he wants to “purge” his city’s homeless population and give them “all the fentanyl they want,” the New York Post reports.

He added: “They are responsible for most of our robberies, most of our rapes, and at least half of our murders. There’s nothing that we can do for these people.”

“The founder of Pirate’s Booty Snacks lost his chaotic bid for mayor of a tiny New York community after he claimed he was the village leader and had the authority to replace the entire local government,” NBC News reports.

“Elena Villafane, the incumbent mayor of Sea Cliff, defeated Robert Ehrlich, 1,064-62, on Tuesday in the village, which is about 26 miles northeast of midtown Manhattan.”

“Villafane had been running unopposed for her third two-year term when Ehrlich jumped into the fray a week ago Monday.”

“That’s when Ehrlich went to Village Hall and ‘presented a statement falsely asserting his authority as mayor, demanding access to office space, and declaring that the entire Village staff was fired effective immediately but could reapply for their jobs,’ the village said in a statement.”

Gina LaPlaca (D), the mayor of Lumberton, New Jersey, was arrested at her home on St. Patrick’s Day after, police allege, she drove with her son in her car while under the influence of alcohol, NBC Philadelphia reports.

New York Times: “The mural, spelling ‘BLACK LIVES MATTER’ in bright yellow letters, covered two blocks of 16th Street NW. It was painted in June 2020, turning the pavement into a pedestrian zone called Black Lives Matter Plaza.”

“But its fate has been in question since President Trump returned to the White House in January, and last week the mayor, Muriel Bowser, said that the mural would be removed. Her announcement came shortly after Representative Andrew Clyde, a Republican from Georgia, introduced legislation threatening to withhold millions in federal funds from the city unless the mural was removed and the plaza renamed.”

“A federal spending bill introduced Saturday by House Republicans could have a drastic impact on D.C.’s budget, potentially leading to about $1 billion in overnight cuts impacting everything from the city’s law enforcement to schools,” the Washington Post reports.

A new Quinnipiac poll in New York City finds a record low 20% of voters approve of the way Eric Adams (D) is handling his job as mayor of New York City, while 67% disapprove and 13% did not offer an opinion.

Voters by 56% to 35% think that Adams should resign as mayor.

The day before Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass left for Ghana, her aides received an email warning of a “high confidence in damaging winds and elevated fire conditions occurring next week,” the Los Angeles Times reports.

The mayor nevertheless went on the trip, attending the Ghanaian president’s inauguration, as well as a U.S. Embassy cocktail party, on Jan. 7, the day the Palisades fire broke out.

A new M3 Strategies poll of Chicago voters finds fewer than 7% have a favorable opinion of Mayor Brandon Johnson, while 80% have an unfavorable opinion of the mayor.

“New York City Mayor Eric Adams filed a lawsuit Friday against President Donald Trump and others in his administration over $80 million the White House removed from a city bank account without permission, after Elon Musk threatened the withdrawal on X,” Politico reports.

“New York Gov. Kathy Hochul will — for the time being — not remove embattled New York City Mayor Eric Adams from office, but will instead impose limits on his power,” NBC News reports.