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PUML @puml.media · 09/10/2026

After successfully killing a plan to develop 180 units of affordable housing at a 400 Divisadero, SF’s YIMBY politicians are celebrating the plan for Greystar (the largest corporate landlord in the country) to develop luxury housing on the site.

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PUML @puml.media · 06/10/2026

During Daniel Lurie's first 20 months in office, the rising cost of San Francisco housing rarely found its way into the Mayor's constant stream of shortform videos, press releases and keynote speeches.

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PUML @puml.media · 03/10/2026

"In Lurie, the nation’s elites think they may have found the answer. ‘The foil to the rising socialists might be found in a red state with conservative values. But perhaps he’s a Democrat in San Francisco Read the whole story puml.media/a-lifelong-r...

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PUML @puml.media · 02/10/2026

San Francisco's Board of Supervisors is required to incorporate input from the City's Youth Commission whenever it considers legislation that affects young people and the Commission has been instrumental in the success of policies like the closing of Juvenile Hall and Free Muni for Youth.

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PUML @puml.media · 30/09/2026

America's first billionaire President has been blatant in his attempts to retain his grip on power by rigging the electoral system in his favor.

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PUML @puml.media · 26/09/2026

Longtime service provider Hospitality House has fallen victim to the Mayor's plans to "revitalize" 6th Street, and has been ordered to close its 6th St. drop-in center by the end of the year.

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PUML @puml.media · 24/09/2026

On a Thursday in September, the New York Times broke the news that Mayor Daniel Lurie had declared a "Rent Emergency" in San Francisco.

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PUML @puml.media · 23/09/2026

District 10 Supervisor Shamann Walton has introduced a 45-day moratorium on approvals of new data centers in San Francisco, co-sponsored by Jackie Fielder and Chyanne Chen.

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PUML @puml.media · 22/09/2026

San Francisco's Democratic Party leadership has officially joined the opposition to California Proposition 40, which would levy a one-time 5% wealth tax on billionaires so that the state can protect Medi-Cal, public education and food assistance from the looming devastation of Trump's tax cuts.

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PUML @puml.media · 19/09/2026

PUML INDEX: Number of young people who applied to be on San Francisco Youth Commission: 156 Percent of applicants who go to public schools: 55 Percent of school-age San Franciscans who attend public school: 70 Number of Mayoral appointees to youth commission: 6 Number who attend public school: 0

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PUML @puml.media · 18/09/2026

San Franciscans are rallying around Hospitality House and its 6th Street Drop-in Center, a crucial provider of basic services and amenities for anyone in need. The center has fallen victim to the Mayor's plans to "revitalize" 6th St. and has been ordered to close by the end of the year.

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PUML @puml.media · 18/09/2026

Crime rates are historically low in San Francisco, as they are in nearly every major US city. Though opinions vary about the main causes of this nationwide trend, San Francisco District Attorney Brooke Jenkins hasn't been shy about taking credit.

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PUML @puml.media · 17/09/2026

Mayor Daniel Lurie recently declared a “rent emergency,” while offering no solutions to lower the rent. Lurie spent his first 20 months in office wooing real estate developers and has welcomed the current AI boom, which has been tied to giant spikes in rents and evictions.

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PUML @puml.media · 17/09/2026

SFPD cleared just 14% of rape cases last year, giving them the lowest rate among California’s large counties over the past five years. 78% of last year’s rape kit cases were classified as “inactive,” meaning they are no longer being actively investigated.

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PUML @puml.media · 16/09/2026

A two-bedroom apartment now averages more than $6,000, according to the Zumper National Rent Report. This is a 25.9% increase in the last year.

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PUML @puml.media · 15/09/2026

Hospitality House has welcomed 4,200 people a year to its Sixth Street drop-in center, getting people indoors and helping them access health services, use a restroom, and connect with resources.

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PUML @puml.media · 15/09/2026

Mayor Daniel Lurie’s singular focus on “recovery,” as showcased in his “everything’s peachy” highlight reel social media presence, has resulted in him declaring a “rent emergency” for San Francisco.

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PUML @puml.media · 14/09/2026

The average rent for a one-bedroom apartment in San Francisco has spiked up to $4,300 according to Zumper, a 25.7% year-over-year increase. A person would have to make nearly $83/hour at a full-time job in order to pay that, or 4.2x the minimum wage. Looking for something cheaper?

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PUML @puml.media · 12/09/2026

Thousands of San Franciscans faced eviction in the past year, thanks to a median 26% increase in rents by landlords cashing in on the AI boom. A one bedroom apartment now averages over $4,000, and the cost of living for everyday people hasn't caught up.

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PUML @puml.media · 10/09/2026

You don't have to go to NYC to find socialists fighting for working class people. San Francisco's Democratic Socialist Supervisor Jackie Fielder is fighting to keep people in their homes in the midst of an explosion of evictions and spiking rents.

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PUML @puml.media · 09/09/2026

It's been over a week since US Representative Kevin Mullins was allowed to visit the ad hoc ICE detention facility in the bowels of San Francisco International Airport,

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PUML @puml.media · 08/09/2026

Mayor Daniel Lurie's aversion to transparency is at the root of several controversies that won't go away. First there was his call with Donald Trump on the eve of the President's planned National Guard deployment to San Francisco. Lurie and Trump got on the horn, and the deployment was called off.

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PUML @puml.media · 06/09/2026

Offer a million dollars over the asking price, apparently. Median asking price for a home in San Francisco stands at $1.7 million and rising.

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PUML @puml.media · 05/09/2026

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PUML @puml.media · 03/09/2026

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PUML @puml.media · 29/08/2026

"San Franciscans deserve a government where responsibility is clear, accountability is real, and the people entrusted to serve this city are held to the highest standards.”

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PUML @puml.media · 28/08/2026

San Francisco's Democratic County Central Committee (DCCC), the governing body of the local Democratic Party, has released its endorsements for November's election, the first general election since Donald Trump's local donor base gained control of the Committee in 2024.

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PUML @puml.media · 27/08/2026

SFPD participation in San Francisco's Pride events has always been controversial, since the local movement for LGBTQ+ rights began in earnest with revolts against the widespread police brutality against the community,

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PUML @puml.media · 26/08/2026

Mission Local's Junyao Yang broke the story that the San Francisco Democratic Party's governing body has rewritten its bylaws to allow it to break with the California Democratic Party and oppose California Proposition 40, the Billionaire Tax.

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PUML @puml.media · 26/08/2026

The ILWU Local 6 strike against C&H Sugar in Crockett, CA is on pause as the sides have agreed to return to the table for 60 days of renewed contract negotiations.

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PUML @puml.media · 25/08/2026

Seemingly oblivious to the anti-Flock movement gathering steam across the country, San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie and his allies continue to rhapsodize the benefits of putting cameras up all over town at every opportunity.

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PUML @puml.media · 25/08/2026

San Francisco's Sunshine Ordinance, enhanced in 1999 by voter referendum, states: "Elected officials, commissions, boards, councils and other agencies of the City and County exist to conduct the people's business.

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PUML @puml.media · 22/08/2026

Hundreds of San Francisco renters showed up on a Saturday in August at Jones Memorial Methodist Church in the Fillmore, but they weren't there to find Jesus.

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PUML @puml.media · 21/08/2026

The San Francisco Standard recently revealed that Supervisor Matt Dorsey has been using an obscure campaign fund tied to his successful 2024 run for a seat on the San Francisco Democratic County Central Committee for personal expenses like $3k at restaurants and over $5k worth of Uber rides.

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PUML @puml.media · 20/08/2026

Surveillance, AI hyperscaling, trickle-down housing policy, Israel's genocide. A nationwide wave of popular antagonism to these causes has created a clear dividing line within the Democratic Party.

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PUML @puml.media · 19/08/2026

Nobody asked Supervisor Matt Dorsey for his opinions on Israel's ongoing genocide of Palestinians, but that won't stop him.

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PUML @puml.media · 18/08/2026

The movement against data centers has been gathering steam for years, and it has expanded from one-off opposition to individual data centers into proactive bans and moratoria.

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PUML @puml.media · 18/08/2026

Five years ago, a gaggle of rich and reactionary tech industry ghouls set out to commandeer San Francisco’s politics. They’ve been grievously successful and now control nearly every electoral office in town, but boy, it was a lot of work.

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PUML @puml.media · 16/08/2026

The San Francisco Mayor's Office of Innovation is a bit of a misnomer, as the office is almost entirely funded by former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, who has provided a series of donations totaling more than $10 million for its operating expenses.

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PUML @puml.media · 16/08/2026

Though his political career has entirely overlapped with Israel's genocide in Gaza, Mayor Daniel Lurie has assiduously skirted the issue.

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PUML @puml.media · 15/08/2026

The San Francisco Chronicle published comprehensive data on city employee's compensation which proved, yet again, that the City budget is a vast and growing slush fund for police and sheriff overtime (and to a lesser extent, firefighters), despite years of documented abuse of the system,

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PUML @puml.media · 15/08/2026

A day after Mayor Daniel Lurie and the Police and Firefighter unions made headlines calling the Mayor's Office of Housing and Community Development an "unaccountable slush fund,"

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PUML @puml.media · 15/08/2026

Alexander Lurie, half-brother to San Francisco's mayor Daniel Lurie, has been called "The tech elite's go-to real estate broker" by the Information, the tech-elite's go-to news site.

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PUML @puml.media · 14/08/2026

To hear San Francisco's "moderate" Democrats tell it, the solution to the ever-worsening housing affordability crisis squeezing the working class out of town en masse is simple: Build, build, build. The City needs to get out of the way, they say, and let the market produce more housing supply.

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PUML @puml.media · 13/08/2026

In his latest attempt to keep San Francisco housing unaffordable, Mayor Daniel Lurie teamed up with the police and firefighter unions to issue a statement against giving the Mayor's Office of Housing and Community Development roughly $100 million a year to build affordable housing,

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PUML @puml.media · 12/08/2026

San Francisco was already one of the most expensive real estate markets in the world before the median rent rose 22% in the past year, the fastest rate of growth in the nation.

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PUML @puml.media · 11/08/2026

Here on social media, San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie recently pledged "We are going to use every tool at our disposal to get more housing built in San Francisco."

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PUML @puml.media · 10/08/2026

Mayor Daniel Lurie and fellow billionaires Michael Moritz and Chris Larsen have each donated over a million dollars to a slate of amendments to the City charter which will go before San Francisco voters in November.

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PUML @puml.media · 10/08/2026

Supervisor Matt Dorsey has been raising eyebrows this summer by posting his unsolicited and vehement opinions about Israel's genocide of Palestinians online, even enlisting Elon Musk's AI chatbot, Grok, to help him build his case in the grand marketplace of ideas that is X.com.

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PUML @puml.media · 09/08/2026

Waymo had a charmed rollout for its robotaxis in San Francisco. The first major commercial rollout of an autonomous vehicle operation in human history happened without so much as a public hearing or vote for approval.

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