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Nikil Saval

@nikilsaval.bsky.social
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PA State Senator, writer.

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Senator Nikil Saval @pasenatorsaval.com · 24/06/2026
When we first passed Whole-Home Repairs, we hoped it would offer a blueprint for other states grappling with how to preserve aging housing stock and protect their residents. Today’s passage of the 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act shows the realization of this hope.
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Senator Nikil Saval @pasenatorsaval.com · 03/01/2026
Trump’s attack on Venezuela and abduction of its President are criminal acts of terror. They follow in the darkest traditions of American history: a violent, reckless flex of military power to gain control over foreign resources.
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Senator Nikil Saval @pasenatorsaval.com · 17/12/2025
Some books I read this year and loved, plus a spotlight on local authors! What’s on your list of recommended reads for 2025? 📚
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Senator Nikil Saval @pasenatorsaval.com · 13/08/2025
My statement on today’s shameful Senate vote. What our Commonwealth needs from its legislators is leadership, for those of us who have the honor of sitting on the Senate Floor to do our jobs and pass a budget that invests in Pennsylvania’s people and communities.
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Senator Nikil Saval @pasenatorsaval.com · 04/07/2025
My statement on Congress’s passage of Trump’s devastating tax and spending bill. My office will continue to fight—legislatively, organizationally, in the streets—for a new vision in which all of us have what we need to thrive.
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Senator Nikil Saval @pasenatorsaval.com · 01/07/2025
Solidarity with DC33! Together we can stand strong with the workers and help them hold the line.
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Senator Nikil Saval @pasenatorsaval.com · 29/06/2025
This bill would be disastrous for my constituents, for Pennsylvania, for everyone. We need our U.S. Senators to hold the line against a budget that would let Trump line the pockets of his billionaire backers through robbing us of everything we’ve created to care for each other.
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Senator Nikil Saval @pasenatorsaval.com · 26/06/2025
The SEPTA Board’s budget vote is a sobering reminder of what’s at stake in the fight for fully funded transit in PA. All of us rely on public transportation, and our communities can’t afford the proposed cuts. Know we are continuing to fight in Harrisburg for robust state funds to keep SEPTA moving.
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Nikil Saval @nikilsaval.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
Elated, proud, and frankly in tears at the incredible victory of my friend @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social. A campaign for the ages: full of heart, integrity, compassion, relentlessly focused on the struggles of the working-class. Grateful at what he’s done and will do for his city and our country.
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Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
June 4 @ CityHall: "A conversation btw State Sen. Nikil Saval + [me] on the architecture, dsgn, + infrastructure of the city. [We'll] discuss the reflexive relationship btw spaces of civil servant work, the maintenance + delivery of public services, + the shifting perception of the public sector."
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Civic Views - Mural Arts
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Senator Nikil Saval @pasenatorsaval.com · 14/05/2025
MontCo officials stand up against formal collaborations between police and ICE: “When traffic stops become de facto immigration checks, we create a subset of residents forced to live further in the shadows. This doesn‘t enhance public safety — it compromises it.” www.inquirer.com/opinion/comm...
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Why Montgomery County won’t deputize our officials as ICE agents | Opinion
We will not sign a 287(g) agreement, and our stance is rooted in constitutional principle, public safety, and fiscal responsibility.
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Senator Nikil Saval @pasenatorsaval.com · 13/05/2025
Sudden closures are disruptive and destabilizing for our communities and families. Workers and neighbors deserve better from the businesses they steward. Should you or someone you love need support with unemployment or next steps, please reach out to my office. Details in 🧵 whyy.org/articles/rit...
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Massive layoffs at Rite Aid’s Philly HQ after filing for bankruptcy
The Philadelphia-based retail pharmacy had more than 1,000 corporate workers at the Navy Yard until layoffs.
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Senator Nikil Saval @pasenatorsaval.com · 12/05/2025
My thanks to @spotlightpa.org for the feature in their newsletter! Recently, I reflected on the writings of James C. Scott in the New Yorker. Finding the time to write as a legislator isn’t simple, but it is always worthwhile. www.spotlightpa.org/news/2025/05...
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The hidden talents of Pennsylvania lawmakers
Pennsylvania lawmakers have hobbies too, and sometimes surprising hidden talents.
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Senator Nikil Saval @pasenatorsaval.com · 08/05/2025
The Lombardi Trophies have arrived on the Senate Floor! 🏆 Both chambers brimmed with joy and pride at the chance to celebrate our World Champion Philadelphia Eagles once more. Thank you to Don Smolenski and the @philadelphiaeagles.bsky.social for sharing a taste of the glory with us. Go birds!
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Senator Nikil Saval @pasenatorsaval.com · 08/05/2025
This week I voted against SB9, which would ban transgender youth from participating in school sports. All young people deserve access to athletics and extra-curricular growth. Attempts to ban trans students from school sports punish young people for simply being themselves.
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Senator Nikil Saval @pasenatorsaval.com · 06/05/2025
I was proud to welcome Asian Americans United and @apipennsylvania.bsky.social to the Capitol in celebration of Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month! It's their work, and that of countless more, that helps us hold close our past so that together we can build a vibrant future.
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Senator Nikil Saval @pasenatorsaval.com · 05/05/2025
Members of the PA Senate and House Philadelphia delegations sent a letter to UPS management in support of truck drivers who are being forced to work in dangerous conditions. Driver safety is a key component of their union contract, and it’s past time for UPS to uphold this commitment.
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Senator Nikil Saval @pasenatorsaval.com · 02/05/2025
Two new ways to display your support for SEPTA! 1️⃣ Free window signs are now available at my South Philly office. Stop in Monday-Friday between 9am and 5pm to get your sign! 2️⃣ Have a SEPTA story you want to share? Drop in on Friday, May 9 between 2pm and 6pm to record a video!
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Senator Nikil Saval @pasenatorsaval.com · 02/05/2025
Mobility is crucial to a community’s social and economic wellbeing and to a region’s health and vitality. The PA legislature has underfunded our transit agencies FOR YEARS. Proud to introduce the Transit for All Funding Package with @senwilliamspa.bsky.social. 🚍 via @6abcactionnews.bsky.social
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Senator Nikil Saval @pasenatorsaval.com · 01/05/2025
International Workers’ Day is a commemoration of the fight for dignity and personhood against the forces that try to demean, atomize, and dehumanize us in pursuit of profit. Beyond a celebration of unions, May Day honors the martyrs who fought and died for the 8-hour workday. 🧵
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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 16/04/2025
To read the late political scientist James C. Scott “is to feel the fatalistic sense that civilization may have been botched from the beginning,” Nikil Saval writes. “But it is also to be hopeful.” nyer.cm/94gfOpG
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Senator Nikil Saval @pasenatorsaval.com · 15/04/2025
Had a wonderful time visiting with The Big Picture Alliance! Students have developed powerful shorts that uplift community work across our city. I'm so grateful for the programs at BPA that empower young people to define their own narrative through digital media. I can't wait to see what's next! 🎥
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Senator Nikil Saval @pasenatorsaval.com · 13/04/2025
No one should have to fear for their safety in their homes. I’m relieved that the Shapiro family is unharmed and grateful for the dedicated first responders whose work ensured safety in the wake of this morning's violence.
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Arsonist set fire to Pa. governor’s mansion during Passover causing ‘significant damage’
Gov. Josh Shapiro and his family were uninjured, but the fire caused a "significant amount of damage" to parts of the governor's mansion, according to state police.
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Senator Nikil Saval @pasenatorsaval.com · 13/04/2025
Tonight, Passover began. Jewish families across our city, commonwealth, and world gathered at the seder table to recount a story of collective liberation and finding unity in moments of struggle. Chag Sameach!
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Senator Nikil Saval @pasenatorsaval.com · 10/04/2025
We're all connected by SEPTA. Service cuts would be catastrophic for our city—devastating union jobs, exposing workers to precarity, and hurting working families and communities most. Tomorrow, stand up for SEPTA with a coalition of transit riders, workers, elected representatives, and more!
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Senator Nikil Saval @pasenatorsaval.com · 09/04/2025
Proud to stand with my union family and demand a stop to the federal funding cuts! Read to find out what happened when @dannybauder.bsky.social and I tried to deliver a letter to Sen. McCormick on behalf of 50,000 union workers... www.thedp.com/article/2025...
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Penn affiliates join Labor for Higher Education rally outside Sen. Dave McCormick’s office
The Philadelphia demonstration was part of the second “Nationwide Day of Action” — organized by Labor for Higher Education and Higher Education Labor United.
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Senator Nikil Saval @pasenatorsaval.com · 03/04/2025
One week away!
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Senator Nikil Saval @pasenatorsaval.com · 07/04/2025
Philly showed up strong for the HANDS OFF Day of Action! Across the country, millions of people came out in solidarity against Trump and Musk's billionaire agenda. Our broad coalition has a clear demand: hands off our public services and the workers who make them run.
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Nikil Saval @nikilsaval.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
For @newyorker.com, I wrote about the late great James C. Scott: www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
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James C. Scott and the Art of Resistance
The late political scientist enjoined readers to look for opposition to authoritarian states not in revolutionary vanguards but in acts of quiet disobedience.
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Nikil Saval @nikilsaval.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
GO. BIRDS. 🦅
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Senator Nikil Saval @pasenatorsaval.com · 06/02/2025
With Philly schools going virtual today, Ishaan and I tackled learning/work from home. The talented teachers and staff throughout the district move mountains for their students. I’m lucky for the flexibility to stay with him today. All families deserve the support they need to care for their kids.
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Nikil Saval @nikilsaval.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
GO. BIRDS. 🦅
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Senator Nikil Saval @pasenatorsaval.com · 23/01/2025
President Trump’s policies on mass deportation are designed to provoke fear and sow division. All people have rights in this country, including our neighbors who are here seeking safety and a better life, and my office will work tirelessly to uphold them: www.aclu.org/know-your-ri...
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Know Your Rights | Immigrants' Rights | ACLU
Regardless of your immigration status, you have guaranteed rights under the Constitution. Learn more here about your rights as an immigrant, and how to express them.
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Senator Nikil Saval @pasenatorsaval.com · 22/01/2025
The closure of UArts was an enormous loss for our city’s world-class arts community. The sale of its campus should prioritize buyers that will safeguard its legacy and uphold a vision of the Avenue of the Arts as a nexus of creative expression, collaboration, and education.
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Should arts buildings remain in the arts community in the case of bankruptcy? The sale of UArts’ assets may hinge on the answer.
The Pennsylvania Attorney General has objected to the Arts Bank sale to Quadro Bay, arguing that state law requires that the donor’s intent and charitable purposes of the property be considered.
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Nikil Saval @nikilsaval.bsky.social · 19/01/2025
Go birds 🦅
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Senator Nikil Saval @pasenatorsaval.com · 17/01/2025
David Lynch was one of the most mesmerizing artists of his or any generation—a filmmaker who understood dream logic and its relation to our waking lives. While his time in Philadelphia was brief, the city left its imprint on him, and he, too, on it. 🧵
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Senator Nikil Saval @pasenatorsaval.com · 14/01/2025
Honored to serve a third term as Democratic Chair of Urban Affairs and Housing and thrilled to join the Transportation Committee! We need to fund SEPTA and transit systems across the Commonwealth, and we need to make sure all Pennsylvanians have homes that are safe and that they can afford.
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Senator Nikil Saval @pasenatorsaval.com · 13/01/2025
Honored to join workers in my district standing up to one of the richest and most notorious union busting companies in the world to make history as the first-ever unionized Whole Foods! Your fight is an inspiration. Your community and your city are with you. ✊🏾 @ufcwlocal1776.bsky.social
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Senator Nikil Saval @pasenatorsaval.com · 08/01/2025
Thanks to @aldasky.bsky.social and @triofrancos.bsky.social for shouting out #WholeHomeRepairs in the @nytimes.com! 🛠️ Their work shows cost of living through a climate lens, impacting energy bills, home insurance, workers’ rights, groceries, transit, and housing—and the work we need to do next.
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Opinion | Biden Left Us With a ‘Prius Economy.’ It’s Time for Something Different. (Gift Article)
Climate impacts are fueling the cost-of-living crisis, especially for the poor and working class.
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Senator Nikil Saval @pasenatorsaval.com · 07/01/2025
Good morning from the train! We've got three generations traveling to Harrisburg today for swearing-in. It's the honor of my life to serve the people and communities of Pennsylvania's First Senatorial District. Humbled, grateful, and ready for the work we'll do together for this second term.
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Senator Nikil Saval @pasenatorsaval.com · 23/12/2024
December means the Pyramid of Light is shining brightly every evening in the center of beautiful Cianfrani Park! ✨ At this year’s lighting ceremony, @repbenwaxman.com and I were thrilled to announce a $200,000 state grant to enhance this beloved community greenspace for all who use it.
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Senator Nikil Saval @pasenatorsaval.com · 24/12/2024
In recognition of the holidays, my offices are closed December 24 through January 1. We will be back and ready for business on TUESDAY, JANUARY 2! We’re so grateful to have been able to work with you and for you this past year, and we can’t wait to continue this work in 2025! ✊🏾
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Senator Nikil Saval @pasenatorsaval.com · 17/12/2024
It was a joy to join PhillyBOLT and students at Academy at Palumbo. We talked about organizing, about politics, about my work in the district and in Harrisburg, and about the work these incredible students are already engaged in. I look forward to keeping in touch on all your future endeavors!
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Senator Nikil Saval @pasenatorsaval.com · 16/12/2024
The Welcoming Center plays a vital role in fostering immigrant inclusion and opportunity, continuing Philly’s long-standing history welcoming immigrants as neighbors. Honored to join @rephohenstein.com and @sensharifstreet.bsky.social in announcing $1 million to support and expand their work! 🎉
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