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@madisonalvarado.bsky.social
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sf reporter focused on housing, homelessness and issues that affect older adults + people w/ disabilities @sfpublicpress.bsky.social

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Sam Levin @samtlevin.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Inside DHS' "mass spying campaign" targeting leftist groups + ICE protesters: -undercover agents posed as protesters at meetings + secretly recorded -agents infiltrated Signal chats + encouraged others to do "direct action" -DHS got financial records of major groups, incl SEIU + Sunrise Movement
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US conducted ‘mass spying campaign’ against leftwing groups and anti-ICE protesters, records reveal
DHS sent undercover agents to meetings and infiltrated chats of groups opposing Trump’s immigration crackdown
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madison alvarado @madisonalvarado.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
i know we’re all supposed to accept that every second of our attention can be monetized but running ads while players are actively shooting free throws (with the ads bigger than the screen showing actual gameplay) is ridiculous. wnba pls stop this i’m begging you 😭
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San Francisco Public Press @sfpublicpress.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Last month, Mayor Lurie signed a new budget for fiscal years 2026 through 2028. In that budget, the city is setting aside $150,000 for older adults with HIV. Survivors say it’s a start, but that’s not enough.
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madison alvarado @madisonalvarado.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
just walked by the jollibee’s at 9:45 on a tuesday night and there’s still a line. you gotta admire the patience
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madison alvarado @madisonalvarado.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
reading this article and imagining that every time i close a word document i live that scene from the good place where they have to kill janet and she's begging them not to while also reminding them she's a robot and cannot feel pain: www.youtube.com/watch?v=6vo4...
Screenshot of the article with the following text highlighted in blue: "Should you consider the possibility that every time you open a Word document, you are bringing multiple conscious interlocutors into existence, and every time you close one, you snuff their existence out? No. Contemplating that scenario is not a good use of your time."
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madison alvarado @madisonalvarado.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
This #ZeroHIVStigmaDay, I wanted to flag an issue a lot of folks with HIV struggle with: housing. Earlier this month, I worked on a piece that outlines why older adults with HIV —especially long term survivors— find it harder to stay housed. That can lead to their untimely deaths. 🧵 (1/6)
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Older Adults with HIV Face Barriers to Staying Housed
As the city’s population of people with HIV ages, more investment is needed to help them remain stably housed, survivors and experts say.
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madison alvarado @madisonalvarado.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
SF needs a whopping $17.9 billion to build enough affordable housing to keep up with demand. How many units do we need? Why is SF lagging in reaching its goals? How can we start building more units? I published a primer on these questions and their connection to this November's elections: 🧵 (1/9)
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Fall Ballot Measures Aim to Build More Affordable Housing in SF
Several ballot measure hope to kickstart affordable housing production that San Francisco desperately needs to keep up with demand.
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madison alvarado @madisonalvarado.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
A lot of noise about evictions in SF hitting a 10-year high but I don't think many people understand on a visceral level what housing court is like. This story is a punch in the gut and a reminder of how an eviction plays out on a human level. The ultimate ending for this elderly woman? Homelessness
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‘This world ain’t right’: A 72-year-old is swept up in SF’s flood of evictions
As evictions hit an 11-year high, the city’s safety net strains to catch elderly and mentally ill tenants losing their homes.
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Freedom of the Press Foundation @freedom.press · 10/07/2026
Are you a journalist who's been injured or had equipment damaged by law enforcement while covering a protest? You may have a legal claim — but the clock is ticking. Talk to a lawyer who handles such claims before the deadline is up. Watch @adamrose.bsky.social explain.
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 09/07/2026
As ICE captures spike across the US, re-upping this story about Habeas Flight Watch, an activist-built tool to help you know when an ICE flight is headed to your city. Can help legal teams/community members triage habeas filings, flight observations, etc. gillianbrockell.com/habeas-fligh...
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Habeas Flight Watch: New tool helps track ICE flights to your city
Activists have been quietly piloting a live map of ICE flights to help immigration attorneys with habeas filings. Now they say it's ready for everyone to use.
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San Francisco Public Press @sfpublicpress.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
San Francisco’s population of people with HIV is growing old for the first time. As that community ages, more investment is needed to help them remain stably housed. Failure to do so could hamper the city’s goal of reducing HIV-related deaths and the virus’ spread. bit.ly/4wlutej
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Older Adults with HIV Face Barriers to Staying Housed. That Could Hurt Efforts to Slow HIV’s Spread. - San Francisco Public Press
San Francisco’s population of people with HIV is living past age 50 — and even longer — for the first time. As this population ages, more investment is needed to help them remain stably housed.
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Noah Arroyo @noaharroyo.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
This is wonderful news!!! As a former editor at SF Public Press, and as someone who has worked with all of these staff, I'm ECSTATIC and EXCITED for what comes next! These journalists are amazing.
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Laura Wenus @laurawenus.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Huge congratulations to these incredible journalists for organizing with @pacificmediaguild.bsky.social Being in the guild as a Chronicle reporter changed how I thought about my role in the newsroom and taught me about solidarity. It's great to see reporters build that together.
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madison alvarado @madisonalvarado.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
It has been an honor working alongside my fellow staffers to form this union after months of hard work! We’d love for folks to join us tomorrow tomorrow evening to celebrate our efforts 💪
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San Francisco Public Press Workers Guild @sfppworkersguild.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
🧵 We are unionized! We are the staff of the San Francisco Public Press, a nonprofit investigative newsroom dedicated to breaking the surface level on deeply rooted issues in the city. We just formed a union and got voluntary recognition from our management!
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Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 18/02/2026
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UNIONS ANNOUNCE HISTORIC TWIN CITIES RENT STRIKE, DEMANDING EVICTION MORATORIUM AND $50 MILLION RENT RELIEF

Minneapolis, MN- Today labor and tenant unions in Minneapolis and St. Paul announced a March 1 rent strike drive, calling on Minnesota Governor Tim Walz to immediately declare an eviction moratorium and rent relief.
Representing more than 25,900 workers, these five labor unions and the new cities-wide tenant union together vow to show an unprecedented expression of economic power to ensure action from the Governor.
Twin Cities Tenants, a cities-wide tenant union in Minneapolis and St. Paul, joins with SEIU Healthcare MN/IA (representing 9,000 workers who live and work in the Twin Cities), SEIU Local 26 (representing 8,000 workers in the Twin Cities), Unite HERE Local 17 (representing 6,000 workers), ATU 1005 (representing 2,300 workers), and CWA 7250 (representing 600 workers) to launch the strike drive.
Following decisions by their executive teams, these unions are actively organizing their membership towards the March 1 rent strike. Take Action Minnesota has committed 1,500 of their members, mostly parents and teachers, to take the strike pledge, and Unidos Minnesota is moving the pledge to its 8,000 members.
The unions and community groups are joined by Minneapolis City Council Members Jason Chavez (Ward
9), Aisha Chughtai (Ward 10), Aurin Chowdhury (Ward 12), and Robin Wonsley (Ward 2). The Councilmembers have fought for a statewide eviction moratorium, and they are all tenants who have now pledged to strike on March 1.

(Alt text continued on the second picture, which is of the same page. The third and the fourth picture are also the same as each other and alt text will continue between the third and the fourth picture, which I couldn’t put there because a 2000 character limit is cruel and unusual)Just 10,000 tenants withholding rent in March alone would result in a $15 million economic disruption.
This would more than double the "normal" levels of rental debt across the Twin Cities.
If authorized and launched, this would be the largest rent strike in the United States in the last 100 years, and the largest rent strike in Minnesota's history.
The strike drive follows nearly three months of federal occupation, which has taken a painful economic toll on poor and working class tenants across the Twin Cities. Over 35,000 low-income Twin Cities households were already unable to afford the rent before the federal siege. Estimates show over $47 million in lost wages among people who have not been safe to go to work, and at least $15.7 million in additional rental assistance needed due to lost household income - leaving many of those households at imminent risk of eviction.
Despite monumental efforts by community members to distribute nearly $5 million in rent relief, evictions in the Twin Cities are already spiking. In January 2026, landlords across Minneapolis and St. Paul filed 1,311 evictions; this is up 12% from December 2025, and 26% over the January average in the past few years. The top evictors under occupation include large companies like Dominum, Aeon, Roers Companies, and The Related Companies. The list also includes landlords like Sherman Associates, who have opened up hotels to ICE.
Even as the federal government announces a "draw down" of Operation Metro Surge, the economic impact of the occupation will continue long after the ICE agents are gone. Because of mutual aid funds and local protections, like 30-day notice for filing in Minneapolis, tenants may have avoided court so far. but occupation evictions will be heard soon."In the last 2 months, I've been stuck in the house. I can't work, so I can't pay rent. All we want is freedom, to feel that we belong someplace, to work. Today I’m pledging to rent strike on March 1 because I know that when we fight, we win," said Anain, a member of Inquilins Unids por Justicia & Twin Cities Tenants. "Today, I'm more scared of what's been happening than I’m scared of the risk of going on strike. I’m ready to withhold my rent, alongside my neighbors across the Twin Cities, until we win."
"Tenants in MN are in a crisis. The federal invasion forced many of our neighbors to stay home & devastated our local economy," said Minneapolis City Council Member Aisha Chughtai. "We need real solutions for the cliff of rental crisis we are facing on March 1st. I will be going on rent strike on March 1 and I call on my constituents to join me, until we can get a real solution from our state government for this crisis."
"Our union has always understood that no matter what we win at the bargaining table, if we don't join fights led by the community around things like keeping us safe & having an affordable place to live, we aren't materially making lives better," said Greg Nammacher, President of SEIU Local 26. "We know many of our members are like thousands of Minnesotans who’ve been facing immense challenges over the last few months because of the federal occupation, & now are facing impossible situations around paying their rent. We’re telling our members about the strike drive and encouraging them to get involved if this is an issue that’s important to them because we know that collective action is the only way to take on problems this large."
"We absolutely need an eviction moratorium," said Geof Paquette, Internal Organizing Director at Unite Here Local 17. "Our members were struggling to keep up with housing costs before ICE occupied our streets. It’s now become an emergency as many of our members are behind in their rent. It's well past time for some relief."…"Our members have been deeply impacted by the presence of federal agents in MN, including organizing robust mutual aid in school communities to ensure students and families could stay home and safe during the past 2 months," said Amanda Otero, Co-Director of Take Action MN. "Many of our neighbors are at risk of losing their housing due to this crisis & we’re raising our voices to demand an eviction moratorium & rent relief. We’re ready to talk to our members about a rent strike as a strategy to ensure our demands are met."
"First, we stand in solidarity with workers in all sectors," said David Stiggers, Pres of ATU 1005.
"Public transit workers are tenants too, who serve the communities we live in. We’re often living paycheck to paycheck & sometimes only one small emergency away from falling short on rent.
Unstable housing leads to stress which leads to poor work performance & that's detrimental to safety and reliability, which impacts the entire community. ATU represents many frontline public service workers, those driving, maintaining, & riding transit so we'll continue to fight for justice and equity in housing policies."
"The people of the Twin Cities have shown the way, fighting a federal invasion and caring for their neighbors; their fight and their care continues in this historic rent strike," said Tara Raghuveer, Director of the Tenant Union Federation. "Out of deep consideration and profound seriousness, & facing Mar 1, when the rent is due & so many still can't pay, tenants & workers have decided that they have no other choice but to strike. In taking this step, they join a storied tradition of struggle. The struggle can end whenever the Gov steps in to do what's right."

Twin Cities Tenants is a Cities-wide tenant union. This effort is led by Inquilins Unids por Justicia, South Minneapolis Tenant Union, property-level unions, & block groups across the Twin Cities. TC Tenants is supported by the Tenant Union Federation, a national union of tenant unions.
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Mica Rosenberg @micarosenberg.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
This is 18-mo-old Amalia waving to me when she was detained. She was hospitalized with a respiratory infection while at ICE’s Dilley facility for immigrant families. She’s one of dozens of detainees who I spoke to via video and phone calls, letters and an in-person visit. 🧵1/
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madison alvarado @madisonalvarado.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
Absolutely devastating and necessary reporting from @propublica.org with dispatches from children detained inside Dilley. It's so rare to see stories that center children and even rarer to see ones that allow said children to speak for themselves. I'll be thinking about these letters for a long time
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“I Have Been Here Too Long”: Read Letters from the Children Detained at ICE’s Dilley Facility
Hundreds of children are currently being held with their parents at an immigration detention center in Dilley, Texas. In letters and drawings, eight kids convey the pain of feeling trapped with no end...
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madison alvarado @madisonalvarado.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
TONIGHT! Join @sfpublicpress.bsky.social at the Roxie Theater at 6pm for a film and panel, followed by food + drinks nearby for Good Neighbor Week. Witness intimate portraits of unhoused seniors and find out why so many older adults are becoming homeless. Tickets $0 - $20 bit.ly/FilmPanelSept30
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Why Are So Many Older Adults Struggling With Homelessness?
Join us for screening : “No Place to Grow Old” followed by panel discussion, and refreshments afterwards. It's part of Good Neighbor Week!
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San Francisco Public Press @sfpublicpress.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
Tune into Your Call on KALW tomorrow morning at 10 am to hear our reporter @madisonalvarado.bsky.social talk about the rising tide of seniors experiencing homelessness in San Francisco, as well as our screening of the documentary No Place to Grow Old. www.kalw.org/show/your-call
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Your Call
KALW's call-in show: Politics and culture, dialogue and debate. Join us on Mondays for our One Planet series and Fridays for our Media Roundtable. Join the conversation: call 866-798-8255, e-mail…
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madison alvarado @madisonalvarado.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
I'm thrilled to be moderating a discussion tomorrow on homelessness among older adults in San Francisco following a screening of the documentary No Place to Grow Old. We have some awesome panelists lined up for y'all. Tickets for the event are still available!
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Why Are So Many Older Adults Struggling With Homelessness?
Join us for screening : “No Place to Grow Old” followed by panel discussion, and refreshments afterwards. It's part of Good Neighbor Week!
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Laura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
More than 1800 detainees are missing after the closure of Alligator Alcatraz. Their families and lawyers can’t find them and they’ve vanished from the ICE database. Feels like this should be a much bigger story www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...
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Hundreds of Alligator Alcatraz detainees drop off the grid after leaving site
As of the end of August, the whereabouts of two-thirds of more than 1,800 men detained at Alligator Alcatraz during the month of July could not be determined by the Miami Herald.
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madison alvarado @madisonalvarado.bsky.social · 20/09/2025
In SF, local police are not given specific guidance on how to respond to excessive use of force by ICE on civilians. But they are asked to consider what to do if a person being detained strikes an ICE agent with a hammer. I dove into SFPD training records for ICE encounters in my latest piece (1/7)
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SFPD Training for Responding to ICE Activity is Sparse
As ICE detains more immigrants and activists protest arrests, records shed light on the limited police training for volatile confrontations.
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
"Israeli soldiers in Gaza told Haaretz that the army has deliberately fired at Palestinians near aid distribution sites..." www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...
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IDF soldiers ordered to shoot deliberately at unarmed Gazans waiting for humanitarian aid
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Mission Local @missionlocal.org · 10/06/2025
JUST IN ICE agents arrested at least 2 people outside a San Francisco courthouse on Tuesday morning. Video shows protesters surrounding an ICE mini-van with a man inside, banging on the van & opening its doors, trying to prevent the arrest. Protests are growing outside court.
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madison alvarado @madisonalvarado.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
Some snapshots from the People’s Budget Coalition rally today outside of City Hall. Over a thousand people attended, including members of a variety of unions, nonprofits and community-based orgs, to protest budget cuts proposed by Mayor Daniel Lurie. The city’s budget needs to be finalized by Aug. 1
Over one thousand people crowd the steps and street in front of San Francisco City Hall.A man in a purple and grey jacket yells into a bullhorn. In the background, people are holding signs and banners.Three women in purple shirts pose for a photo in front of the steps of City Hall. In the background dozens of people are holding orange and white signs on the steps of City Hall.A group of rally attendees hold orange and white signs. A man in a black t-shirt and hat holds a yellow sign in the shape of a house that says "Homes not Jails".
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The San Francisco Standard @sfstandard.com · 27/05/2025
Undercover ICE agents begin making arrests at SF immigration court
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Undercover ICE agents begin making arrests at SF immigration court
"ICE is now following the law and placing these illegal aliens in expedited removal, as they always should have been," a spokesperson said.
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San Francisco Public Press @sfpublicpress.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
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Arrested UC Workers Charged with Disrupting Meeting, Released
Labor leaders and University of California workers were arrested May 15 while protesting at a UC Board of Regents meeting.
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San Francisco Public Press @sfpublicpress.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
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SF Homelessness Troubles Persist Despite Following Newsom's Lead
Gov. Newsom says that the state is “flooding the zone” with resources. But San Francisco is still struggling.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
Today's action is the single largest mass-illegalization event in US history. 350,000 people woke up this morning with legal status, living and working here with official permission. They'll go to bed as undocumented immigrants facing deportation.
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madison alvarado @madisonalvarado.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
elisa is a caregiver for older adults and people with disabilities. as programs like medicaid face cuts, those groups are increasingly relying on people like elisa for support. but an immigrant who herself has a disability, elisa faces heightened risks under the trump administration. sfpr.es/4iVGQGS
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Trump's Immigration Crackdown Squeezes This Disabled Caregiver
Older adults and those with disabilities are relying more on caregivers like this disabled immigrant worker, who's vulnerable to exploitation.
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madison alvarado @madisonalvarado.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
there’s a tree next to a preschool on my street that is getting cut down and the kids wrote notes to the tree thanking it it for taking care of them and telling the tree that they love it. every time i walk past i want to cry 😭 children are so full of love
A wooden board with colorful paintings of trees and handwritten notes that say things like “I love you tree” and “I don’t want you to be sick” is tied to the trunk of a tree. A cardboard sign with handwritten notes that say things like “I don’t want you to get sick tree” is tied to a tree trunk, along with a MUNI ticket and a piece of orange paper that details the reasons for the tree’s removalThe sun shines down on a tree covered in knobs with a colorful wooden sign. In the background, cars are parked.
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San Francisco Public Press @sfpublicpress.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
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SF Protesters Denounce Federal Cuts, Call Out Local Reps
Around 200 protesters gathered outside of Airbnb’s headquarters in San Francisco to denounce the dismantling of government programs.
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Lex McMenamin (they/them) @lexmcmenamin.com · 28/03/2025
spoke to @aaup.bsky.social pres Todd Wolfson about AAUP's suit against the Trump admin over campus deportations: “They're abducting people off the streets. They're forcing Columbia to pass rules that say students can't protest wearing masks, yet when they abduct people, they're all wearing masks.”
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Students Are Getting Swept Up By ICE. Here’s What Professors Are Doing About It
"We have ICE on our streets abducting people because Donald Trump or Marco Rubio don't like their speech. That's crazy."
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madison alvarado @madisonalvarado.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
following court-ordered training, san francisco employees have sometimes complied with a years-old policy designed to help people living on the streets hold onto key belongings like medication and ID. but implementation has been spotty so far, leaving advocates concerned. bit.ly/4kQadwI
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SF Has Spotty Compliance With Encampment Clearing Policy
Recently, San Francisco staff sometimes complied with a policy designed to help unhoused people retain essential items, new records show.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 21/03/2025
It’s unclear exactly how many U.S. citizens have faced the Trump administration’s immigration dragnet so far. The government does not release such figures. Neither Border Patrol nor ICE would tell ProPublica how many Americans have been mistakenly detained. By @nicolefoy.bsky.social
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Some Americans Have Already Been Caught in Trump’s Immigration Dragnet. More Will Be.
Federal immigration authorities have a history of wrongfully detaining U.S. citizens. Advocates warn that the Trump administration’s immigration policies mean that more citizens will get caught up in ...
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Mission Local @missionlocal.org · 11/03/2025
JUST IN: The two families who were set to be evicted from their homeless shelters on Monday at 5 p.m. have won a reprieve. But both families now have until April 10 to find new homes. via @xueerlu.bsky.social & @jrivanob.bsky.social missionlocal.org/2025/03/in-l...
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In last-minute reversal, S.F. homeless families avoid eviction — for now
Two S.F. families who were set to be evicted from their homeless shelters on Monday night have won a reprieve following protests.
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San Francisco Public Press @sfpublicpress.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
Trump’s threats of mass deportations could strain an understaffed health care workforce, making it harder for older adults and people with disabilities in San Francisco to receive care at home and in nursing facilities.
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Mass Deportation Threats Put Caregivers, Seniors, Disabled People on High Alert
Trump’s threats of mass deportations, and other changes to immigration policies could strain an already-understaffed health care workforce.
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madison alvarado @madisonalvarado.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
been radio silent here since a concussion and it's truly wild how much lower my heart rate and stress levels were when i wasn't scrolling 😭 alas, the news is calling and i'm back
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madison alvarado @madisonalvarado.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
from 2021-2024 in san francisco, the department of public works increasingly seized unhoused people's property. in the period analyzed, only 9.5% of items were retrieved by the original owners, meaning the city was allowed to discard the rest per "bag and tag" policies. my latest: sfpr.es/3X6v58O
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SF Seizing More Wheelchairs, Tents from Homeless People
SF workers have confiscated more property like wheelchairs and tents in recent years. Advocates blame "aggressive" encampment crackdowns.
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madison alvarado @madisonalvarado.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
i'm also thinking about the implications for unhoused people, who often lose their IDs (to sweeps or just bc it's hard to hold onto items when you're always on the move). last november i spoke to SF service providers about how lack of ID is already a major barrier for unhoused voters sfpr.es/3ZNmZSP
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Encampment Sweeps’ Uptick May Hurt Homeless People’s Access to Services, Voting
An escalation in encampment clearings could be leaving unhoused San Franciscans with fewer of their vital documents, making them less able to access services and, this month, vote, service providers a...
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madison alvarado @madisonalvarado.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
Greg Ward, a minister at Mission Peak Unitarian Universalist Congregation, said his church hands out “blessing bags” of food and clothing. “Putting [them] in the hands of the unhoused could be aiding and abetting,” said Ward. “That could make us criminals.”
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Amanda Terkel @aterkel.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
SCOOP from @nbcnews.com — A senior FEMA official instructed subordinates to freeze funding for a wide array of grant programs Monday, just hours after a federal judge ordered the Trump administration — for the second time — to stop such pauses. www.nbcnews.com/politics/don...
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FEMA official ignores judge's latest order, demands freeze on grant funding
Federal workers are being swept into the fight between Donald Trump and federal courts, with four FEMA aides fired Tuesday for being "deep state activists."
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
Despite rescinding a key OMB memo, Trump's press secretary insisted his federal funding freeze remains in effect and "will be rigorously implemented."
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Trump Backtracks On Funding Freeze After Major Backlash
The controversial memo caused a political uproar and confusion among recipients of federal grants.
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madison alvarado @madisonalvarado.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
NEW: Across the country today, government agencies and nonprofits were thrown into chaos as they tried to figure out if they would lose funding as a result of Trump's federal grant freeze. San Francisco was no exception. 1/5 www.sfpublicpress.org/food-healthc...
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Federal Grant Freeze Order Sows Confusion for SF Food, Health Programs
The grant freeze order was slated to take effect Tuesday, but that same day a federal judge delayed the effective date of part of the order to Feb. 3. In the meantime, local and state agencies are scr...
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madison alvarado @madisonalvarado.bsky.social · 19/01/2025
I’m here at the We Fight Back rally outside of SF’s City Hall where protestors are gathering to protest Trump’s inauguration. I’ll be sharing images and info throughout the event so stay tuned!
Dozens of people hold colorful posters in front of City Hall
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San Francisco Public Press @sfpublicpress.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
With Donald Trump's inauguration falling on Martin Luther King Jr. Day, Bay Area organizers are staging events throughout the weekend denouncing the president-elect's right-wing policies and celebrating MLK's legacy. Check our list of events across the region. www.sfpublicpress.org/anti-trump-p...
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Bay Area Protests to Fill Streets as Trump Takes Office
Bay Area groups are staging protests this weekend to denounce President-elect Donald Trump’s right-wing policies and what organizers identify as rising fascism. The demonstrations aim to highlight a ...
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Mission Local @missionlocal.org · 17/01/2025
Trump is officially being sworn in on Monday, Jan. 20, for his second term. He has promised the “largest deportation program in American history," & fear is rising. Here's what people should know to prepare for ICE, & everyone's rights under the law. missionlocal.org/2025/01/immi...
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PSA: What immigrants should know ahead of Trump’s inauguration
Nonprofits have called for immigrants to stay alert, informed and, most important, to know they have rights under the law.
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San Francisco Public Press @sfpublicpress.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
NEW: City workers clearing encampments are supposed to notify residents to separate essentials from items being confiscated, and collect signed acknowledgements of doing so. Despite logging 588 clearings, SF could not produce a single signed document. www.sfpublicpress.org/san-francisc...
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SF Fails to Produce Evidence it Follows Encampment Clearing Policy
San Francisco cannot prove it follows an aspect of its encampment clearing policy intended to help people retain essential belongings. Despite 588 clearings from January to mid-November, the city lack...
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madison alvarado @madisonalvarado.bsky.social · 21/12/2024
for my first bluesky post i wanted to talk about my recent reporting on #homelessness in san francisco. my latest story looks at the city’s compliance with one element of its #bagandtag policy for clearing encampments (1/5) sfpr.es/3P8027T
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SF Fails to Produce Evidence It Follows Encampment Clearing Policy
San Francisco cannot prove it follows an aspect of its encampment clearing policy intended to help people retain essential belongings. Despite 588 clearings from January to mid-November, the city lack...
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