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The UC San Diego researcher was among more than 1,000 scientists, data geeks and everyday people to attend the March for Science at Waterfront Park on Saturday, the second annual drive to celebrate knowledge and connect data to everyday life. McDonald was staffing a booth promoting American Gut, a self-proclaimed citizen science project that aims to sequence and study millions of donated stools to better understand how individual human microbiomes can save lives. The 2018 march, which unfolded in hundreds of other cities across the nation on Saturday, was nowhere near as well-attended as the inaugural event a year ago, when 15,000 people paraded through downtown San Diego to support scientific research. But the organizers, speakers and attendees this year were every bit as passionate about what they see as a need to shield science from political influence and make sure public policies are based on evidence rather than ideology. They spoke about how science can save lives, create new industries and improve the human condition. They talked about pushing for explanations about arcane and routine questions that can spark innovations that change the world. "Science is going to be political, but it doesn't have to be partisan," said Mary Canady, one of the march organizers and the co-founder of a newly established nonprofit called San Diego For Science. "We tell people what the important issues are when looking at candidates." While speakers at the March for Science were largely non-partisan, some marchers carried signs criticizing President Trump because he has called climate change a hoax and threatened to cut funding for research. "Science is important, not only to science but to the world," said Robbie Todd, a professional photographer from North Park.

They don’t care about robberies. They don’t care about the kind of things that you and I care about.” On the eve of Tuesday’s visit, Brown and California Attorney General Xavier Becerra — who has sued the Trump administration 28 times — suggested additions to Trump’s itinerary, knowing full well he wasn’t likely to listen. “You see, in California we are focusing on bridges, not walls,” Brown said in the letter, in which he also recounted visits by other presidents who celebrated the state’s diversity and recognized its role in the U.S. economy. “California’s economy is larger than Vladimir Putin’s Russia,” as de León put it. The border wall prototypes Trump plans to visit are on display in a dusty lot near the border east of here. While protests of Trump’s survey of the prototypes are being planned, at least one group is pledging a rally in support of the president’s vision. Alvarado predicted that Trump will also be met in the Los Angeles area by “plenty of people protesting. There’s really no political incentive for Trump to visit now, Mann said. “What’s the point of doing it if all you’re going to do is stir up the opposition?” When asked about the trip at Monday’s briefing for reporters, White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said that isn’t Trump’s aim. De León said California “is not Trump country.

SAN DIEGO, Calif. — Three Democratic candidates running in top-tier House races in 2018 landed highly coveted endorsements from the California Democratic Party. The endorsements give candidates a big boost of momentum to stand out among their crowded fields ahead of the June 5 primaries. At the state party’s annual convention in San Diego, those three candidates were able to get the 60 percent of votes needed to land the endorsement. But tensions were high in the Walters district as Min’s opponents sought to block his endorsement. His rivals were able to collect the 300 signatures needed to do so and forced a floor fight that played out at the convention Sunday morning. But in a voice vote, state party chairman Eric Bauman said that more delegates supported Min. Meanwhile, in the other four GOP-held seats that Clinton carried, there will be no state party endorsements since no candidate reached the 60-percent threshold. Those are the seats held by GOP Reps. Steve Knight, Jeff Denham, Ed Royce and Darrell Issa. Both Royce and Issa opted not to run for reelection in 2018. Beyond those seven races, Democrats are also targeting several other House seats in California that are considered more of a reach.

Waters recently called on Kelly to resign over his handling of domestic abuse allegations against ex-White House aide Rob Porter. But when FBI Director Christopher Wray testified in the Senate earlier this month, he said the agency completed the investigation into Porter in July and contradicted the White House’s timeline of his background check. “This self-centered president with his 3 a.m. tweeting is presiding over a chaotic administration with John Kelly who can’t get his lies straight,” Waters said during her Saturday keynote address in San Diego. “This president has managed to hire the most incompetent staff and he’s made the most ridiculous appointments to his Cabinet.” Waters also ticked through several of Trump’s Cabinet secretaries and argued why they are unfit to serve in the administration. "Give me a break, Betsy DeVos?” Waters said of the Education secretary. “This woman has never seen the inside of a classroom. All of her efforts have been to work on the elimination of public education in favor of privatization." She also took aim at “sorry” Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Secretary Ben Carson, who was a presidential candidate before endorsing Trump and a retired neurosurgeon. “Those skills do not qualify him to lead and manage HUD,” Waters said to roaring applause. “We must send Ben Carson back to the hospital where he can do some operating and get him out of HUD.