When we make transit better, more people take it. It’s why we work so hard to prevent service cuts and to make service enhancements. Let’s keep fighting for transit.

Muni is rolling out extra buses on some of its most congested routes

The changes, set to go into effect in late August, are meant to avoid packed buses by increasing availability.

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Climate change continues to have huge impacts on California. Climate action is an urgent need. We must end our reliance on fossil fuels and transition to a clean energy economy.

Northern California air quality may soon get hit by smoke coming from out-of-state fires

Fires burning millions of acres in Oregon and Washington state are sending smoke across the West.

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This is payment to Trump for insider information people can use to profit at the expense of the American people. Trump isn’t just the most corrupt President in U.S. history but also the most willing to screw over people who can’t or won’t pay to play.

Trump’s health care cuts are harming patients, hospitals, and the entire health care system. We’re going to reverse them and ensure access to affordable care. And we’re going to enact Medicare for All to have truly universal health care where folks don’t fall through the cracks.

After Obamacare Cuts, Hospitals Are Treating More Uninsured Patients (Gift Article)

More people who lost coverage after congressional Republicans ended enhanced federal subsidies are now seeking care in emergency rooms and unable to pay bills.

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The more we learn about ICE’s airport dragnet, the worse it gets. ICE is grabbing people at SFO and other airports and sending them to private prison gulags — people with no criminal record, no deportation orders, and even with pending visa or change of status applications.

At least 11 Bay Area residents have been detained in ICE airport crackdown

Bay Area politicians, attorneys and activists are warning immigrants with unresolved immigration issues to avoid traveling through airports.

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Trump’s war against Iran is illegal & atrocious. It must end. But it’s also atrocious for anyone to celebrate or defend the fascist Iranian regime, which continues to murder its own people.

Slashing federal health & food safety oversight has major consequences. Trump has eviscerated food safety programs & monitoring requirements. We’ve already had one brutal outbreak from contaminated food & more will come if we don’t turn this around. We must reverse these cuts.

Food safety experts fear next outbreak could be deadlier as Trump cuts weaken oversight

Trump administration cuts to staffing, inspections and disease tracking are making foodborne outbreaks harder to stop before more people get sick or die, experts say.

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ICE & TSA have now turned airports into a dragnet to grab immigrants who’ve committed no crime, who have work permits, are married to citizens, or have pending green card applications. It’s outrageous. It’s tearing families apart & tearing people away from their communities. We must stop them.

They told us in Project 2025 they wanted to kill public transit, and they’re now working overtime to do it. They’ve not signed a single capital grant agreement for transit, in an effort to kill major rail, subway, and rapid bus projects across the country.

Congress Budgeted Billions for Big Transit Projects. Trump Isn’t Spending It. (Gift Article)

“It’s hard to look at the last year and see anything other than a deliberate slowdown of these grants.”

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Happy Dore Alley Street Fair!

The deadly terror attack against Berlin Pride yesterday is yet another reminder that LGBTQ people are under threat globally. Whether in Iran, Russia, Qatar, Europe, Uganda, or the U.S., an array of extremists want us gone & are willing to act on their goal to eliminate us. We’re not going anywhere.

Where there’s a will there’s a way. Morocco built high speed rail faster & cheaper than what California is doing. Morocco didn’t let the perfect be the enemy of the good. It now has faster rail. We can do this in California.

How Morocco wiped the floor with California in the game of high-speed rail

OPINION: California claims it doesn’t have enough money for high-speed rail, while Morocco built a 201-mile line across floodplains, requiring 286 engineering structures and 13 viaducts.

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Insulting the Motherland by accurately describing its history is now a violation of official regime dogma.

Trump Orders Warnings Placed at ‘Inaccurate’ Smithsonian History Museum (Gift Article)

President Trump said the signage at the National Museum of American History would correct what a disputed White House report described as “extreme political activism.”

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Measles, hantavirus, Ebola & parasites aren’t the only diseases surging under Trump’s gutted public health system. He and his team are also working overtime to surge HIV infections and transition HIV back from chronic condition to potential death sentence. Trump leads a death cult.

Trump’s lapdog FCC Chair Brendan Carr is again targeting TV stations for saying things Trump doesn’t like. And again he’s violating the First Amendment in doing so.

Los Angeles Times@latimes.com · 2w ago

California Democrats blast FCC in KABC, KGO license reviews

The Saudi regime has made clear it wants to develop nuclear weapons. Trump just helped the Saudis enter that path, with no apparent oversight. Trump is fueling global nuclear proliferation.

CNN@cnn.com · 2w ago

President Trump has approved a nuclear deal with Saudi Arabia that could lead to the kingdom enriching its own fuel for civilian reactors without adopting the "gold standard" of international oversight, according to two US officials and a source familiar with the matter. https://cnn.it/4hmjbCs

Electric bills are way too high — particularly PG&E — and plug-in solar is a great way to lower those bills. I’m authoring legislation to allow Californians to easily use these devices; it’s currently quite hard, if not impossible, for people to do so.

California bill backs plug-in solar as PG&E rates soar, and renters could save on power

"Anyone can access it to harvest sunshine and generate immediate energy savings."

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The renewed escalation of Trump’s illegal war with Iran could quickly spiral into a much broader war, with profound implications for our security & economy. It’s extremely dangerous & must end. Let’s also remember how we got here:

It’s almost impossible to sue a federal agent, including ICE & Border Patrol, for violating your rights. Now they want ICE & Border Patrol to investigate themselves. We must end the impunity, not expand it. It’s why I’m authoring the No Kings Act, which allows you to sue federal agents.

Federal Agents Were Told FBI Will No Longer Investigate ICE Confrontations

Senior officials deny such a change is in the works, despite guidance shared with agents around the country in recent days.

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In just one day, Trump engaged in massive corruption by selling early access to his Truth Social posts, rehashed patently false conspiracy theories & threatened to revoke tv licenses for not broadcasting his propaganda. He’s a disgrace. He’s a criminal. He needs to be removed from office & jailed.

This campaign is about spreading joy (and hot dogs). Happy National Hot Dog Day, San Francisco!

Now do taking off the masks & stopping the terror campaign entirely.

The New York Times@nytimes.com · 3w ago

Breaking News: The Trump administration is said to have ordered ICE to halt most vehicle stops after agents fatally shot a man in Houston and another in coastal Maine, both in their vehicles. nyti.ms/4vqR4VZ

Right now, it’s borderline impossible to sue ICE agents (or other federal agents) for murdering folks like Joan Sebastian Guerrero. We need to make it possible. It’s why we’re advancing legislation to create a state right to sue any official — including federal agents — who violate your rights.

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San Francisco now has the lowest apartment vacancy rate among major cities. It’s 2.2%, which is unhealthy & driving up rents. We need more housing of all kinds. We need to continue our work to get it built. And we need to stabilize renters in their homes.

San Francisco has surpassed New York on this key housing metric

The city’s apartments have filled up rapidly, driving up rents and forcing some tenants to squeeze in together.

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Zohran is keeping his campaign promise to speed up the buses, including expanding the rapid bus dedicated lane network. Transit is a big divide in the San Francisco Congressional race. Spoiler: I’ve long championed transit while my opponent, Connie Chan, has long sabotaged it.

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Mayor Zohran Mamdani unveiled a new plan to speed up New York City buses by improving service along 50 priority corridors across the five boroughs, beginning with Flatbush Avenue in Brooklyn.

This new housing will be in my neighborhood & I support it. It’s being built based on state housing laws we passed. Across the street will be 16 story affordable housing focused on low income LGBTQ seniors. All within blocks of subway & bus service. Step by step we are tackling our housing crisis.

S.F. just approved a 23-story Market Street condo tower. Its sale could test the city’s recovery

This San Francisco property is about to hit the market, and brokers say it could establish a “comp” for what land approved for dense development is worth as the city’s recovery picks up steam.

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I passed SB 79 last year — a new law authorizing more housing density near high quality public transit — and it went into effect last week. It’s fantastic to see the first applications moving forward.

The Fillmore Jazz Fest is always a blast, and this year it was even better thanks to the new Entertainment Zone. Entertainment Zones are succeeding beyond my wildest hopes when I authored the law that created them, enhancing our amazing legacy events and sparking new ones across the city. Enjoy!

More despicable Trump behavior toward Muslim Americans, like when his followers advocate to expel all Muslims from the United States. Their Christian Nationalism bigotry is dangerous to the fabric of our nation.

The story of this country has always been people fighting to be freer. Let’s write the next chapter together - happy 4th of July San Francisco!