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Lian Chikako

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Yes to transit, housing, and safe streets. 👟🏡🚆🚲 Gather signatures with us for Connect Bay Area, the five-county regional transit funding measure for the Nov 26 ballot! luma.com/connectbayarea

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San Francisco Democratic Party @sfdemocrats.org · 27/09/2026
"At a time of unprecedented political instability and economic turmoil, California needs to send its best to Washington. Cut through the campaign noise, and it’s beyond obvious that person is Scott Wiener." www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/edit...
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Endorsement: Who should replace Nancy Pelosi in Congress? It’s not even a choice
OPINION: The most intriguing thing about the race between Scott Wiener and Connie Chan to fill Nancy Pelosi’s House seat is that it has become a race at all, the editorial board writes.
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Lian Chikako @lian.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
It's not easy to write a survey that people can easily answer and that you'll get clean results from.
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Lian Chikako @lian.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Just saw this--a list of everything that Supervisor Connie Chan has opposed. growusa.org/everything-c...
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Lian Chikako @lian.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
There's just 3,573,503 seconds left until election day, let's make every moment count! 💫🎉😂 Seriously, though, volunteer with us to send @scottwiener.bsky.social to Congress! www.mobilize.us/scottwienerf...
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Volunteer Opportunities, Events, and Petitions Near Me · Scott Wiener for Congress on Mobilize
Find events, petitions, volunteer opportunities, fundraisers and more with Scott Wiener for Congress.
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Robert Prinz @prinzrob.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
SPUR’s new report details how catastrophic it will be for Bay Area transit riders if the public transit funding Measure RTM fails. But drivers will feel it too, w an estimated doubling of Bay Bridge crossing times and more than 3X longer through the Caldecott Tunnel. www.spur.org/sites/defaul...
“The Bay Area's Top Three Highway Bottlenecks After Potential Transit Cuts
The Bay Bridge, Caldecott Tunnel, and I-680 in Walnut Creek/Concord would experience some of the most significant travel delays in both directions if looming cuts to transit service are not prevented.
Bay Bridge
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A.M. PEAK
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Caldecott
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Traffic Delays at Most
Current Highway
Bottlenecks Would
Double With Proposed
Transit Service Cuts
Line and station closures and reduced service frequency would compel transit users to drive, worsening current highway bottlenecks.
Source: SPUR-Jacobs.”
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Lian Chikako @lian.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
SPUR analyzed what would happen if the Regional Transit Measure doesn't pass. Traffic delays would DOUBLE on the Bay Bridge and TRIPLE through the Caldecott Tunnel. We can't let that happen. Volunteer with us this weekend in San Francisco! Saturday: www.mobilize.us/scottwienerf...
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Urbanist Day of Action - For Scott Wiener and the Transit Funding Ballot Measures · Scott Wiener for Congress
Get Out the Vote for Scott Wiener and the Transit Funding Ballot Measures in the Inner Sunset, together with the Westside Family Democratic Club, the San Francisco Bicycle Coalition, and Abundant San ...
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Lian Chikako @lian.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Every. single. kids activity has a different platform to sign into to get the provider's messages. Signal, great. WhatsApp, fine. Text messages, no prob. ParentSquare, I can deal. Remini, okay. Homeroom, I'll manage. ActivityHero, sure. Teamsnap, sigh. Microsoft Teams...I throw my laptop.
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Lian Chikako @lian.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Former Supervisor Mar explains why he's voting No on G, supporting Sunset Dunes and rejecting a return to the "compromise" he first brokered: "If neither listening nor experience can ever cause us to reconsider our views, those processes don’t mean very much." www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/open...
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I created the Great Highway compromise. Here’s why I’m voting against it in November
OPINION: “In a political culture that increasingly demands that we choose a side and never waver, I hope there is still room for another possibility,” Gordon Mar writes.
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Lian Chikako @lian.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
When a politician is brave, it helps others--their elected colleagues, public employees, ordinary people--be braver too. @scottwiener.bsky.social is not afraid to ruffle feathers and this has helped make him one of our country's most effective lawmakers. www.sfchronicle.com/politics/art...
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Lian Chikako @lian.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Awesome to see our San Francisco City Attorney David Chiu leading the fight to reduce the ability of corporations to push ultra-processed foods on us. www.nytimes.com/video/opinio...
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Video: Opinion | The Wild West of Ultraprocessed Food
Salt and sugar taste great, and Big Food knows that. While ultraprocessed foods are formulated to keep us coming back for more, the Times Opinion writer Jessica Grose argues that a lack of regulation ...
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Lian Chikako @lian.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
"Currently, the San Francisco Unified School District has a phone 'ban' that purports to bar students from using their smartphones throughout the day. This is a silly fiction, and the district, alongside 92% of the staff, knows it, according to a survey." www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/open...
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California says it banned phones in schools. As a teacher, I know that’s fiction
OPINION: Two years ago, Gov. Gavin Newsom signed the Phone-Free Schools Act, a piece of legislation with a great title — and a big loophole, John Lisovsky writes.
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Lian Chikako @lian.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
My local library has free programs for all ages: baby, toddler, Pokemon, teens, adults, and seniors. Not even inaccurate. I love our San Francisco Public Libraries. <3
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Jane Natoli 🥑🚲🍍 @wafoli.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
As someone who is basically that same age… It took until my late teens to even find the vocabulary to make sense of being trans, that there were other people like me. It took another decade to come to terms with it. The few examples in pop culture were punchlines or worse. It was a tough time!
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Buffy Wicks @buffywicks.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
I'm the author of ACA 22. I'm also adamantly opposed to it. That deserves an explanation – so I want to tell you what went down w/the ACA, and the fight over transfer taxes & the Taxpayer Protection Act. 👇
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Buffy Wicks @buffywicks.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
That's why I'm opposing “my own” measure. The emergency that led to its creation is over. Now, voters have the final say. I'm asking them to vote NO on ACA 22.
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Lian Chikako @lian.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
Responding to Kaiser's annual 'social health' questionnaire. If the Bay Area doesn't pass Connect Bay Area and (in San Francisco) Stronger Muni For All at the ballot this November, there's a lot more people who will be answering 'yes' to these questions about whether they lack basic transportation.
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Cyrus Hall @cyrushall.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Senate passes it as well. The one vote against? Scott Wiener. Thank you @scottwiener.bsky.social for standing up against this blackmail by the HJTA.
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Warren Wells, AICP @warrenjwells.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
I'm something of a strava artist myself.
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Lian Chikako @lian.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
If you have seasonal allergies in the Bay Area, this is the account to follow. He tests pollen for individual species and updates the pollen counts regularly.
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Lian Chikako @lian.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
Come gather signatures with us to put transit funding on the November ballot, and earn stickers featuring BART, Caltrain, AC Transit, VTA, Muni, and SF Bay Ferry! These stickers are super cute and versatile! Volunteer with us at luma.com/connectbayarea. @connectbayarea.bsky.social
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Lian Chikako @lian.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
We desperately need to thin the field of Democrats in the CA governor's race, and being credibly accused of sexual assault is as good a reason as any. I was interested in @ericswalwell.bsky.social's candidacy but it's time for him to step back from the race and help us avoid a Republican governor.
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Lian Chikako @lian.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
I think this 30s campaign ad from Patrick Wolff, candidate for California Insurance Commissioner, offers a pretty devastating critique of his opponents, without being personal or nasty. Do you agree? www.youtube.com/watch?v=354G...
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“Experience” — Patrick Wolff for CA Insurance Commissioner
YouTube video by Patrick Wolff
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Lian Chikako @lian.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
"Several voters recognized Wiener at the door or as the 6-foot-7 state legislator walked down the street. Some even cited specific legislative efforts of Wiener’s from his tenure on the Board of Supervisors." www.sfchronicle.com/politics/joe...
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I went door-knocking with the S.F. House hopefuls. One was on far more voters’ minds
Supervisor Connie Chan and former tech engineer Saikat Chakrabarti face a challenge in overcoming state Sen. Scott Wiener’s years of engaging local voters, columnist Joe Garofoli writes.
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Connect Bay Area Transit @connectbayarea.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
“It seems insane that a place as flush with cash as this town can’t keep things like this that allow society to function,” Mr. Bond said, shaking his head." www.nytimes.com/2026/03/10/u...
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The Bay Area Considers the Unthinkable: Life Without BART
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Lian Chikako @lian.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
Buried deep in the contingency plan to slash costs at BART is an all-out nuclear scenario called “Phase 3”: Shut the rail system down altogether. This complete unraveling would only happen if voters decline to [vote for for Connect Bay Area in November]. www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/arti...
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BART’s cost-cutting plan risks a ‘death spiral’ that could end all train service
Hidden deep in the contingency plan to slash costs at BART if voters decline to bail out the rail agency is an all-out nuclear scenario called Phase 3: Shut the rail system down altogether.
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Lian Chikako @lian.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
Connect Bay Area is a five-county ballot measure to fund public transit throughout our region, and we need it to avoid severe service cuts (things like 50% cuts to Muni and an end to weekend BART and Caltrain service). Join us in gathering signatures for it: luma.com/connectbayar...
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Connect Bay Area Transit · Events Calendar
View and subscribe to events from Connect Bay Area Transit on Luma. https://connectbayarea.com/ Paid for by Connect Bay Area Transit. Committee's Top Funders: Chris Larsen, Genentech USA, Inc., Servi...
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Lian Chikako @lian.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
We deserve a justice system that acknowledges that Grandpa Vicha was murdered. We can have that and also give his killer a clear path toward rehabilitation. This was not an involuntary death.
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Lian Chikako @lian.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
Very few Jewish electeds have called this a 'genocide.' Thank you @scottwiener.bsky.social. @sanders.senate.gov and @balint.house.gov are I think the only two at the national level who have? And they only did in September--it took them time to grapple with this too. www.reddit.com/r/sanfrancis...
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From the sanfrancisco community on Reddit: Gaza Genocide
Explore this post and more from the sanfrancisco community
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Lian Chikako @lian.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
Excited to see this “pragmatic policy wonk eager to dive into the nitty-gritty of City College’s finances" appointed as a City College of SF trustee! Congrats, Ruth! www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/l...
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Mayor Lurie appoints S.F. housing advocate Ruth Ferguson to City College board
San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie on Monday appointed housing advocate Ruth Ferguson to the City College board, a move expected to push trustees toward tighter fiscal discipline after years of...
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Lian Chikako @lian.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
Absolute tragedy. The DPH and Sheriff failed in their duty to protect front-line healthcare and social workers. They should have taken it seriously when workers were asking, for weeks, for help with the attacker, whom they feared. www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/s...
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‘He was fighting it’: Colleagues of slain S.F. General Hospital social worker tried to save him
A vigil Sunday evening memorialized Alberto Rangel, 51, the social worker fatally attacked Thursday afternoon by a man authorities have identified as a patient.
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Nato Green @natogreen.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
At SFGH for a candlelight vigil and memorial for Alberto Rangel, the social worker who was killed this week. This was predictable and preventable. It was a failure of systems and could have been any of the thousands of committed workers across DPH. We are all heartbroken.
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Lian Chikako @lian.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
I don't know who needs to hear this, but if you have a Costco membership, you can order from sameday.costco.com instead of from Instacart. I find it's about 10% cheaper on the overall order--and the user interface and delivery is executed by Instacart, anyways.
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Lian Chikako @lian.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
RIP one of the great ones, Frank Gehry. Architects love to be too cool for him, but he changed the world's conception of what a building could be.
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Lian Chikako @lian.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
"Unlike denser parts of the city, there are very few affordable homes in D4, where homes are $2M. We need more housing options for young people for the next generation so that they have opportunities for homes. I support the Family Zoning Plan." Not bad for your first BOS meeting, Supervisor Wong! 🙌
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Lian Chikako @lian.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
I've been taking a breather from Mamdani content because I think he needs time to set up his team, get sworn in, and start doing things before the fawning continues, but THIS is worth an exception.
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Senator Scott Wiener @scottwiener.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
This is rich. Connie Chan says she “built real affordable housing, not the Sacramento version that destroys our neighborhoods.” She points to new affordable housing on Geary: housing that she didn’t build but that *was* built using “Sacramento version” housing laws & $52M in state funds. 🧵
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
The fact that no one in the room stood up for her says a lot about how we got here bsky.app/profile/pale...
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Lian Chikako @lian.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
Thank you and congratulations to every Democrat in the United States who ran for office, defended your seat, knocked on doors, made phone calls, donated, talked to your friends and family, or voted. Last night showed me that we can win our country back.
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Aaron Stewart-Ahn @badideas.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
My god this is for real one of the most incredible speeches I’ve ever seen by an elected US politician: ‘And if there is any way to terrify a despot, it is to dismantle the very conditions that allowed him to accumulate power. This not only how we stop Trump, it’s how we stop the next one.’
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
AOC: We have a future to fight for, and we're either going to do that together or you're going to be left behind. It's not about Progressive. It's not moderate, it's not liberal. This is about do you understand the assignment of fighting fascism right now? And the assignment is you come together…
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Lian Chikako @lian.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
Every official with a heart & brain says they have a plan to protect our country from Trump. There's nobody I believe more on this than Scott Wiener. He's our most effective legislator on a huge range of difficult issues, and doesn't flinch in the face of fierce opposition and even personal threats.
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Lian Chikako @lian.bsky.social · 19/10/2025
Had a great time giving out #Yeson50 signs today at #NoKings in San Francisco. If we were the only people voting, it'd be a landslide. Unfortunately, there's parts of the state where Prop 50 will probably be under water so... SAN FRANCISCO, GET YOUR BALLOTS IN! Please vote Yes on Prop 50!
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Lian Chikako @lian.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
What is food
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Lian Chikako @lian.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
California insulin! This is how we could get single-payer healthcare in the U.S.--by showing how much cheaper things are when you leverage the purchasing power of the state instead of pitting us all against each other as individual buyers in open markets. www.politico.com/news/2025/10...
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In shot across Big Pharma's bow, California will sell its own insulin
Delivery of the state-branded drug makes good on a longstanding promise by Gov. Gavin Newsom.
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Cyrus Hall @cyrushall.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
CS is banned in warfare by treaty - a treaty the US itself has actually signed (the Geneva Gas Protocol). Yet we continue to allow police to use it. If it's beyond the pale when used by militaries against other militaries, it should clearly be banned from use against civilians.
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Governor Gavin Newsom @governor.ca.gov · 10/10/2025
I just approved major pieces of legislation to keep building more affordable housing. Whether it's turning empty office buildings into residential spaces or building more homes near public transportation, we're doing all we can to lower the price to realize the California Dream.
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Jeffrey Tumlin 🏳️‍🌈 🌁 @jeffreytumlin.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
This gives me hope. That Calif can get serious about climate. That young people and new immigrants to Calif might have same privileges I did. That we can make transit work. And that we transit advocates can learn from this phenomenal work by housing activists
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
another curmudgeonly thread for the many of you who will be entering organizing spaces. all other things being equal, when confronted with one team of people recruiting you to Be a Thing and another team recruiting you to Do a Thing, please give serious thought to joining the second.
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Lian Chikako @lian.bsky.social · 11/10/2025
Thank you @brookejenkins.bsky.social
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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 10/10/2025
aaand we are officially in the hide-your-neighbors stage
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