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Senator Scott Wiener

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6’7” California State Senator representing San Francisco 🏳️‍🌈 ✡️ Policy nerd & chronic legislative overachiever 🤓 Running for Congress to protect our democracy 💙 Vote Nov. 3, 2026 🗳️ Get involved ⬇️ linktr.ee/scottwiener

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Senator Scott Wiener @scottwiener.bsky.social · 4h
Yesterday, the Governor signed into law my bill authorizing people to sue ICE and Border Patrol (or any other federal official) for violating their rights. Hours later, 3 people filed lawsuits under the new law. The era of impunity is ending. When we act decisively, we can fight authoritarianism.
sfchronicle.com
3 Californians sue ICE officers hours after Newsom signs bill greenlighting lawsuits
Gov. Gavin Newsom signed Sen. Scott Wiener’s SB 747 Tuesday as part of a slate of bills designed to combat the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown.
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Senator Scott Wiener @scottwiener.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The Governor just signed my bill to allow people to sue ICE, Border Patrol, and other federal agents for violating people’s constitutional rights. Starting immediately, people can sue federal agents retroactive to abuse occurring in March 2025.
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Senator Scott Wiener @scottwiener.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Happy Folsom! Great energy, as always, at one of the best and queerest San Francisco events of the year.
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Senator Scott Wiener @scottwiener.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Thank you Governor Newsom for signing my bill to strengthen California’s ban on youth conversion therapy — psychological torture where a therapist tries to change someone’s sexual orientation or gender identity. Conversion therapy has caused incalculable harm to LGBTQ young people over the years. 🧵
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Senator Scott Wiener @scottwiener.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Polluting the air. Making people sicker. Prolonging a disastrous war. Just another day in Trump’s dystopia.
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Senator Scott Wiener @scottwiener.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Trump’s gestapo-like terror campaign against immigrants isn’t as loud, visible & openly chaotic, but it’s still happening, it’s escalating & now upending nearly 50,000 lives (+ the lives of their friends & families) each month. Ending this paramilitary organization’s terror must be a top priority.
nytimes.com
A Quiet ICE Surge That Unfolded ‘Everywhere All at Once’ This Summer (Gift Article)
A review of dozens of incidents caught on camera sheds new light on a largely invisible crackdown.
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Senator Scott Wiener @scottwiener.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
I authored California’s Entertainment Zone law, which allows sale of alcohol outdoors on designated streets and plazas. Cities have flexibility in designating locations, days, and times. It’s great that San Francisco just designated its first permanent Entertainment Zone, at Thrive City.
sfchronicle.com
Thrive City becomes San Francisco’s first full-time entertainment zone
This weekend’s playoff game for the Golden State Valkyries will mark the start of Thrive City becoming San Francisco’s first full-time “entertainment zone.”
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Senator Scott Wiener @scottwiener.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
This evening I’ll be with my Jewish community for Yom Kippur, as we atone and look toward growth in the year to come. Yom Kippur is when we repent before God. To make right among one another, we must repair harm that has been done. Wishing a meaningful fast to those who do so.
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Senator Scott Wiener @scottwiener.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
This is what happens when the President of the United States coddles Putin, signals he won’t honor American obligations toward NATO, and starts a losing war against Iran that shows his weakness. No one has emboldened and empowered Putin more than Donald Trump.
politico.eu
European leaders prepare public for ‘intensified threat’ from Putin
However, NATO sees no risk of “imminent attack” despite the fresh warnings from countries such as Poland, Lithuania, France and the Netherlands.
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Senator Scott Wiener @scottwiener.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
This evening is the start of Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year and the beginning of the High Holy Days. I’ll be observing and celebrating with my community and with Jews across the globe as we begin this period of reflection, awe, and repentance. Wishing all a sweet new year. Shana Tovah! ✡️
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Senator Scott Wiener @scottwiener.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
The smartest AI minds on the planet are my constituents, and they’ve been warning for years that the risk of runaway AI causing a catastrophe is very real.  It was because of those warnings that I introduced the nation’s first AI safety bill in 2023, alongside a great coalition of youth activists,
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Senator Scott Wiener @scottwiener.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
He’s losing his war with Iran — making the fascist Iranian regime stronger — yet he thinks he can and should conquer Mexico, Canada, parts of Europe, and various Caribbean nations. It’s easy to dismiss shit like this as trolling or a joke. It’s not. It’s unbelievably dangerous. 🧵
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Senator Scott Wiener @scottwiener.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
The Supreme Court has become a partisan political body and has no binding ethics standards. It must be expanded and must have binding anti-corruption standards.
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Senator Scott Wiener @scottwiener.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Plug-in solar allows people — renters and homeowners — to plug in a small, low-cost solar device, generate electricity, and lower their electric bills. My legislation to make it dramatically easier for people to install plug-in solar is on the Governor’s desk.
kqed.org
These Bay Area Residents Have Had Balcony Solar for a Year. Here’s How It’s Going | KQED
State legislators passed a bill to make plug-in solar simpler to install, and it’s on Gov. Gavin Newsom’s desk. Here’s what Bay Area residents who already have it are saying.
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Senator Scott Wiener @scottwiener.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
PG&E demanded it not be liable for causing wildfires. The Legislature did not agree. PG&E’s response: Punishment by extending already ridiculous timelines to hook up new housing and clean energy to the grid. It’s straight up extortion. 🧵
sfchronicle.com
PG&E says it will scale back planned work after California wildfire reforms fail
PG&E CEO Patti Poppe said delaying the investments means the utility won’t have to borrow as much money at high rates that end up raising bills for customers.
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Senator Scott Wiener @scottwiener.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
The Senate just voted to give final sign off to place our science bond on the March 2028 ballot. It now heads to the Governor. GO SCIENCE!
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Senator Scott Wiener @scottwiener.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
BIG SCIENCE NEWS: Our bill authorizing a $7.5B science bond passed the Assembly. It heads back to the Senate for a final vote today. As Trump tears apart federal science investment, CA must triple down as global science leader. SB 895 — sending the bond to the March 2028 ballot — is a huge step.
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Senator Scott Wiener @scottwiener.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
The regime is taking a wrecking ball to science. It’s fueling a brain drain of scientists that, if not reversed, will do severe, long-term harm to our country. We must reverse course. And CA must lead — which we’re doing with the science bond I’m authoring and we’re poised to place on the ballot.
nytimes.com
Canada Hires 48 Scholars Away From Top U.S. Universities (Gift Article)
A crackdown on American academia by the Trump administration has handed Canadian universities a rare opportunity to lure some top researchers north.
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Senator Scott Wiener @scottwiener.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Whether the result of dementia or fascism, this is beyond dangerous and Trump must be removed from office.
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Senator Scott Wiener @scottwiener.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
HUGE NEWS ON HOLDING ICE AND BORDER PATROL ACCOUNTABLE: My bill to allow people to sue federal agents for violating their constitutional rights — just like people can already sue local police — received its final approval from the Senate and is on its way to the Governor! 🧵
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Senator Scott Wiener @scottwiener.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
BIG WIN FOR LOWER ENERGY BILLS AND CLEAN ENERGY: My legislation to allow people to use plug-in solar (aka balcony solar) just received final Senate sign-off and is on its way to the Governor!
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Senator Scott Wiener @scottwiener.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
My legislation to speed up & lower the cost of permitting for heat pumps (SB 222) cleared the Legislature & is on its way to the Governor. We need more heat pumps & we need to make it easier, faster & less expensive to install them. They lower energy costs & reduce our reliance on fossil fuels.
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Senator Scott Wiener @scottwiener.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
The best of the best of the best. She set the standard for being an extraordinary human being in a million different ways. Rest in power, Dolly.
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Senator Scott Wiener @scottwiener.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Corporate transparency and accountability for their carbon emissions is a critical step in fighting climate change. I passed California’s law requiring large corporations to disclose their carbon emissions. It’s now being implemented, under continued intense corporate opposition.
sfchronicle.com
California’s water shortages partly due to climate pollution from big oil and gas, study finds
The new study is one of the first to dissect the impacts of climate change on dwindling water supplies in the West.
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Senator Scott Wiener @scottwiener.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Trump knows he can’t win an election the legal way, so he’s trying to sabotage it by demanding voter lists and empowering his controlled Postal Service to decide who gets a mail-in ballot and who doesn’t. They’ll steal this election if we let them. We won’t let them.
nytimes.com
Supreme Court Allows Trump Plan to Restrict Mail-In Voting, for Now (Gift Article)
The administration asked the court to clear the way for President Trump’s order that creates “state citizenship lists” and directs the Postal Service to decide who gets a mail-in ballot.
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Senator Scott Wiener @scottwiener.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
They’re now deporting spouses and parents of active service members, including those on deployment. Here they deported the father (who has a work permit) of a service member who was trapped on the USS Abraham Lincoln due to the regime’s utter operational incompetence. Their cruelty has no limits.
ktla.com
He was waiting for his son to return from the USS Lincoln. Then Border Patrol arrested him.
When Luis Manuel Aviles was arrested by immigration authorities, his son was entering his ninth month on the USS Abraham Lincoln with the Navy — a vessel that set a U.S. military record for uninter…
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Senator Scott Wiener @scottwiener.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
We rallied with Senator Alex Padilla against Prop 39, a “voter id” ballot measure that’ll make it harder for folks to vote (which is the point) and force people who vote by mail to include the last 4 digits of their social security or driver’s license number on the outside of the envelope. No on 39
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Senator Scott Wiener @scottwiener.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Their deportation machine — driven by aggressive quotas of human beings to tear away from their families and communities — is in overdrive. It’s now extended to airports, targeting folks who have no criminal record and are in process to obtain a green card or other visa.
nytimes.com
Years of Trump Support Came Undone in 15 Minutes in an Airport. (Gift Article)
The case represents a new front in President Trump’s mass deportation drive: arrests at airports of people who have active immigration cases and no criminal history.
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Senator Scott Wiener @scottwiener.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
The Supreme Court has become a partisan body that’s undermining democracy and empowering authoritarianism. We must reform the Court by expanding it, putting term limits on it, and codifying strong ethics standards in law.
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Senator Scott Wiener @scottwiener.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Kansas is on the cutting edge of the fascist movement to dehumanize trans people: Revoking their driving privileges. Banning them from using restrooms. Banning their health care. And more. We must pass a federal civil rights law that overrides all of these horrific hate laws.
nytimes.com
Opinion | What’s Happening in Kansas Should Alarm Us All (Gift Article)
Is Kansas just the beginning?
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Senator Scott Wiener @scottwiener.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
San Francisco has made great progress on public safety, but we have more to do. It was great to join members of the community is recommitting to that work on National Night Out.
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Senator Scott Wiener @scottwiener.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Parmount’s proposed merger with Warner Brothers is bad for California, bad for consumers, and bad for democracy. We need less media consolidation, not more. Thank you Attorney General Rob Bonta for fighting hard on behalf of Californians.
sfstandard.com
Bonta calls Paramount’s threat to leave California ‘blackmail’
Speaking at Politico’s California Summit in Sacramento, Bonta said reports that Paramount CEO David Ellison is considering moving the studio’s headquarters and much of its workforce out of California ...
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Senator Scott Wiener @scottwiener.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Public transit is an essential service, but every year it seems like transit funding is on the chopping block. I’m sick of playing defense — we need to fully fund Muni, BART, Caltrain, and other systems to expand access to transit and deliver faster, cleaner, more reliable service.
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Senator Scott Wiener @scottwiener.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
We can stabilize social security by extending payroll withholding to the wealthy, who currently pay far less, as a percentage, than lower and middle income people. We don’t need to — and we should not — cut benefits to seniors.
notus.org
A Group of Centrist Senators Sees a Window to Overhaul Social Security
AARP is already lobbying against the bipartisan effort.
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Senator Scott Wiener @scottwiener.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Nancy Mace is on yet another bender demonizing Muslims and advocating to strip them of full citizenship. She is a vile person.
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Senator Scott Wiener @scottwiener.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Todd Blanche isn’t working for the American people. He’s working exclusively for Trump. He’s effectively Trump’s personal attorney and has helped turn DOJ into Trump’s personal law firm. In the process he’s empowered Trump’s corruption. Blanche has no business in any public office, let alone AG.
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Senator Scott Wiener @scottwiener.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
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Senator Scott Wiener @scottwiener.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
When we make transit better, more people take it. It’s why we work so hard to prevent service cuts and to make service enhancements. Let’s keep fighting for transit.
sfchronicle.com
Muni is rolling out extra buses on some of its most congested routes
The changes, set to go into effect in late August, are meant to avoid packed buses by increasing availability.
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Senator Scott Wiener @scottwiener.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Climate change continues to have huge impacts on California. Climate action is an urgent need. We must end our reliance on fossil fuels and transition to a clean energy economy.
sfchronicle.com
Northern California air quality may soon get hit by smoke coming from out-of-state fires
Fires burning millions of acres in Oregon and Washington state are sending smoke across the West.
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Senator Scott Wiener @scottwiener.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
This is payment to Trump for insider information people can use to profit at the expense of the American people. Trump isn’t just the most corrupt President in U.S. history but also the most willing to screw over people who can’t or won’t pay to play.
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Senator Scott Wiener @scottwiener.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Trump’s health care cuts are harming patients, hospitals, and the entire health care system. We’re going to reverse them and ensure access to affordable care. And we’re going to enact Medicare for All to have truly universal health care where folks don’t fall through the cracks.
nytimes.com
After Obamacare Cuts, Hospitals Are Treating More Uninsured Patients (Gift Article)
More people who lost coverage after congressional Republicans ended enhanced federal subsidies are now seeking care in emergency rooms and unable to pay bills.
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Senator Scott Wiener @scottwiener.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
The more we learn about ICE’s airport dragnet, the worse it gets. ICE is grabbing people at SFO and other airports and sending them to private prison gulags — people with no criminal record, no deportation orders, and even with pending visa or change of status applications.
sfchronicle.com
At least 11 Bay Area residents have been detained in ICE airport crackdown
Bay Area politicians, attorneys and activists are warning immigrants with unresolved immigration issues to avoid traveling through airports.
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Senator Scott Wiener @scottwiener.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Trump’s war against Iran is illegal & atrocious. It must end. But it’s also atrocious for anyone to celebrate or defend the fascist Iranian regime, which continues to murder its own people.
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Senator Scott Wiener @scottwiener.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Slashing federal health & food safety oversight has major consequences. Trump has eviscerated food safety programs & monitoring requirements. We’ve already had one brutal outbreak from contaminated food & more will come if we don’t turn this around. We must reverse these cuts.
sfchronicle.com
Food safety experts fear next outbreak could be deadlier as Trump cuts weaken oversight
Trump administration cuts to staffing, inspections and disease tracking are making foodborne outbreaks harder to stop before more people get sick or die, experts say.
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Senator Scott Wiener @scottwiener.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
ICE & TSA have now turned airports into a dragnet to grab immigrants who’ve committed no crime, who have work permits, are married to citizens, or have pending green card applications. It’s outrageous. It’s tearing families apart & tearing people away from their communities. We must stop them.
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Senator Scott Wiener @scottwiener.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
They told us in Project 2025 they wanted to kill public transit, and they’re now working overtime to do it. They’ve not signed a single capital grant agreement for transit, in an effort to kill major rail, subway, and rapid bus projects across the country.
nytimes.com
Congress Budgeted Billions for Big Transit Projects. Trump Isn’t Spending It. (Gift Article)
“It’s hard to look at the last year and see anything other than a deliberate slowdown of these grants.”
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Senator Scott Wiener @scottwiener.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
Happy Dore Alley Street Fair!
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Senator Scott Wiener @scottwiener.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
The deadly terror attack against Berlin Pride yesterday is yet another reminder that LGBTQ people are under threat globally. Whether in Iran, Russia, Qatar, Europe, Uganda, or the U.S., an array of extremists want us gone & are willing to act on their goal to eliminate us. We’re not going anywhere.
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Senator Scott Wiener @scottwiener.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
Where there’s a will there’s a way. Morocco built high speed rail faster & cheaper than what California is doing. Morocco didn’t let the perfect be the enemy of the good. It now has faster rail. We can do this in California.
sfchronicle.com
How Morocco wiped the floor with California in the game of high-speed rail
OPINION: California claims it doesn’t have enough money for high-speed rail, while Morocco built a 201-mile line across floodplains, requiring 286 engineering structures and 13 viaducts.
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Senator Scott Wiener @scottwiener.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Insulting the Motherland by accurately describing its history is now a violation of official regime dogma.
nytimes.com
Trump Orders Warnings Placed at ‘Inaccurate’ Smithsonian History Museum (Gift Article)
President Trump said the signage at the National Museum of American History would correct what a disputed White House report described as “extreme political activism.”
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