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Human Rights Campaign and 8 others

Nov 26, 2022

🧵Let’s talk about “groomer,” a word totally co-opted by the homo/transphobic MAGA right to slander LGBTQ people & their allies. Ex A: The reply below to an

@HRC

tweet about a murdered trans bartender at Club Q: “And yet, he supported the grooming of children. Hard to feel bad.”

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Amtrak

@Amtrak

May 25

transit x anime is the crossover we all deserve Love it,

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BART

@SFBART

May 25

Reveal photo of the BART anime mascots. From left to right: Baylee, Nimbus, Mira and Jasmine

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They're here! BART is excited to unveil anime mascots making its debut at @FanimeCon, the largest anime convention in the Bay Area! Our anime mascots are here to promote public transit and engage with youth riders.

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Millions of Californians rely on transit to get to work, school, the doctor, etc. Moreover, CA can’t meet its climate goals w/o robust transit. You can’t have robust transit if you allow your transit systems to fall apart. We must not go down this road due to political inertia.

Of note: The Senate Democratic Caucus proposed partially reversing the Trump tax cut for large corporations, paired with a tax cut for small businesses. The net revenue would help fund priorities like saving public transit. Sadly, the Governor immediately rejected the idea.

Yet federal highway funds are not part of the Legislature’s fiscal cliff budget proposal. Instead, the focus is exclusively on using transit capital funds. At a minimum, we should use a mix of sources to solve for the fiscal cliff & not rely only on diverting transit capital

CA is in a tough budget situation, but we have options. Perhaps the best source of funds to flex for transit operations are excess federal highway funds CA received: $1B/yr > anticipated. The Biden Admin has stated it’s ok to flex fed highway funds to address transit operations.

So, sadly, the current proposal in the Legislature will have the unintended effect of harming both transit operations (there will still be service cuts) & transit capital (projects will be defunded & we’ll forfeit major federal funds). Not a good outcome.

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Cyrus Hall

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Let's go through some of the things that are horribly broken the CA Senate and House proposals for transit operations funding. Top-level: the current proposals are deeply insufficient, particularly for the Bay Area. Nerdy budget stuff ahead.

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(2) The proposal moving through the Legislature will still send Bay Area transit agencies over the fiscal cliff, since due to the formula used, it will not produce anywhere near enough funding to prevent significant service cuts by BART, Muni, AC Transit & other Bay Area systems.

(1) Using a large amount of transit capital funds for operations will defund — potentially kill — various significant CA transit infrastructure projects. It’ll also cause California to forfeit billions in federal transit infrastructure dollars (up to $6B in the Bay Area alone).

At no point did we advocate relying *exclusively* on converting transit capital funds for operations, yet that is exactly what the Legislature is now advancing. I’m grateful that the Legislature is taking this crisis seriously, but this approach is very problematic because:

Several months ago, various coalitions submitted a list of recommendations to address the fiscal cliff, advocating for a mix of approaches, e.g., flexible use of federal highway $ (CA received $1B/yr more than anticipated), general fund, cap & trade, flexible transit capital.

Leadership in both Houses have made strong statements supporting addressing the fiscal cliff. Many of us are grateful for that. Yet, the proposal advancing in the Legislature will still result in service cuts & lead to serious unintended consequences for transit infrastructure.

Compare this to Governor Hochul’s approach in New York: Prioritizing saving public transportation.

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Governor Kathy Hochul

@GovKathyHochul

The success of our public transit system is non-negotiable. Our budget provides the @MTA with the support it needs to continue delivering safe, reliable, quality service to New Yorkers for years to come.

The Governor’s January & May budget proposals contained no funding for the fiscal cliff & instead *cut* $2B in transit capital, which would undermine many transit capital projects up & down the state & cause California to forfeit billions in federal infrastructure matching funds.

🧵The CA public transit budget situation continues to be alarming CA transit faces a fiscal cliff that, if not solved, will lead to devastating service cuts Yet, the Governor’s budget proposal slashes transit funding & the proposal advancing in the Legislature is problematic ⬇️

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The Senate unanimously passed our legislation (SB 76) to authorize cities to create outdoor entertainment zones where local restaurants & bars can sell alcohol. SB 76 will make our public spaces more vibrant, support local businesses & help with economic recovery post-pandemic.

Beloved S.F. Mexican restaurant saved from permanent closure

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Wherein Charlie Kirk advocates to send Target into bankruptcy for the crime of displaying LGBTQ-themed merchandise — as a message to all corporations not to support LGBTQ people. This is what fascism looks like.

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The beloved restaurant Don Ramon’s will reopen in San Francisco’s Embarcadero...

Absolutely thrilled that Don Ramon’s, despite losing its lease on 11th Street, will reopen in Embarcadero Center. Big win for the community & downtown. So many small businesses struggle with SF’s high retail rents. We have vacancies downtown that need to be filled. A win-win.

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California girls face anti-trans attacks as they head to track championship

An anti-transgender protest at a high school semifinal race in Dublin last weekend links...

This weekend, 1,400 girls will compete in CA’s track & field championships. Of those 1,400, 2 are trans: .0014%. Yet .0014% is apparently too much for the transphobes, who are now targeting these athletes for simply playing the sport they love. So many Californians support them!

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Here’s the coverage:

How Do Bay Area Parks Rank Nationally?

San Francisco, Oakland, San Jose and Fremont are in the top 100 cities nationally having nice parks close at hand.

I’m so proud of SF’s park system, which once again ranks among the best in the U.S. — #7 of the 100 largest cities & #2 in CA. San Franciscans have easy access to parks, we maintain them well & they provide so much joy to residents. Congrats

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Wajahat Ali

@WajahatAli

They won't stop at Pride or LGBTQ community, Target and other organizations that cave to right wing extremism. They're coming after all of us who threaten their fickle and violent sense of superiority.

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Thank you to Mayor

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for their continuous advocacy for transit. The bridge funding for California public transit, including BART, will give us a lifeline to build ridership. Transit can be the engine to help revitalize Downtown San Francisco.

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London Breed

@LondonBreed

Public transportation is essential for our economic recovery. Our residents, workers, and visitors rely on it. We can’t let Muni and BART fail for lack of emergency funding. twitter.com/scott_wiener/s…

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The Senate just passed our bill (SB 58) to decriminalize possession & use of 5 naturally occurring psychedelics — psilocybin, psilocin, DMT, ibogaine, mescaline. These substances aren’t addictive & show promise in treating mental health /addiction. Let’s stop criminalizing them.

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The Senate, today, passed our legislation to ensure foster families are supportive of LGBTQ youth (SB 407) & that LGBTQ foster kids aren’t placed in hostile homes. 30% of foster youth are LGBTQ. They deserve to be treated with basic respect & dignity & not with hostility.

Target is removing LGBTQ Pride products because of terrorist behavior like this. Yes, this is absolutely terrorism & Target should be ashamed for caving in. Just like Anheuser Busch caved in. And people wonder why there’s so much fear in our community.

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Tina Turner was the definition of resilience. She was so intensely talented & never let horrific circumstances stop her. She always got back up & kept going. She also made some of the most beautiful music ever. Her passing is a huge loss for humanity. Rest in Peace.

The community celebrates

@Heklina

. Rest in peace, my friend.

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Tesla is opening its global engineering headquarters in California after Elon Musk left the state...

Alfred Twu

@alfred_twu

May 19

What happens if we don't #SaveTransit? Here's what downtown San Francisco would look like if the 50,000 people who currently BART in each day had to drive and park downtown instead. 50,000 cars = almost an entire square mile of parking

aerial view of downtown san francisco with most of the buildings replaced by parking lots

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Meanwhile, Elon made the smart move to build Tesla’s global engineering headquarters in the Bay Area liberal hellscape. The new facility is taking over vacant office space left by Hewlett-Packard, one of many younger businesses expanding in the region.

fortune.com

The company is occupying the former headquarters of Hewlett Packard.

Governor DeSantis’s crusade against LGBTQ children led directly to Disney choosing to send 2,200 jobs to Anaheim, CA instead of Florida. The average salary is over $120,000.

reuters.com

Disney cancels plans for $1 billion campus, 2,000 jobs in Florida

Walt Disney Co is scrapping plans to build a nearly $1 billion corporate campus in central Florida that would have housed 2,000 employees, according to an e-mail to employees.

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Excited to see these two champions of California’s economic recovery teaming up. While I’ve criticized Elon for running one of my district’s anchor companies into the ground, he & Governor DeSantis deserve credit for the thousands of jobs they’ve brought to CA in recent months.

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Dasha Burns

@DashaBurns

Op-Ed: Lack of Transit Funding in Proposed State Budget Conflicts with Climate/Air Quality Goals

EXCLUSIVE: Ron DeSantis will launch his presidential bid with Elon Musk The Florida governor will announce he is running for president on Twitter Wednesday evening in a conversation with Musk. W/ @Mdixon55 nbcnews.com/politics/2024-

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Editor’s Note: Former Deputy Executive Officer at the California Air Resources Board Craig Segall wrote this open letter to the legislature, including members of the Senate and Assembly commi…

The current budget proposal contains no solution for the impending transit fiscal cliff that’ll lead to huge service cuts. Former Deputy Executive Officer at the CA Air Resources Board: “The State cannot meet its climate & air quality goals if transit falls into a death spiral.”

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Yesterday the Senate unanimously passed two major health bills I’m authoring: (1) Capping insulin co-pays at $35 (SB 90) (2) Expanding access to PrEP (HIV prevention med) through pharmacists (SB 339) It’s fantastic to have broad bipartisan support for impactful public policy.

Equality California

@eqca

#SB339 passed the Senate Floor today — it will improve the ability of pharmacists to provide PrEP without a doctor’s prescription and requiring health plans to reimburse pharmacists for providing PrEP. Thank you, Sen.

for your leadership!

Thank you,

, for reversing this bad decision. The Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence are one of our very best community organizations & they deserve this honor.

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Los Angeles Dodgers

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