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Yes, that SFHSA letter you got is real

If you’re on CalFresh/SNAP, you may have already received your gift card letter from the City and County of San Francisco Human Services Agency, in a different envelope than usual, but it is real and legitimate and you have until December 31 to request it.

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The contrast of No Kings weekend: Truth vs. Dare

In the millions of faces that filled thousands of streets this weekend, Trump saw the power of peaceful people organizing—and it scares him. He knows as well as we do that nobody showed up to his self-glorification parade, we the people showed up to denounce the regime’s fascist actions.

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Hell No to MAGA's Budget Swindle!

Trump and his MAGA regime are assaulting our democracy and threatening our economic security. To fund massive tax cuts for their billionaire buddies, they are massively cutting funds for the domestic social-safety net while increasing defense and police-state spending to historic highs.

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SF DA Brooke Jenkins is using a Federal Program to do an End Run around the City and State Sanctuary Laws

DA Brooke Jenkins, who previously attempted to bypass San Francisco’s Sanctuary Ordinance but backed down after the Board pushed back, has elected to participate in the All Hands on Deck operation and is using it to allow ICE to detain people accused of low-level drug offenses, in violation of both the city and state’s Sanctuary laws.

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What if Trump invokes the Insurrection Act?

Trump May Invoke the 1807 Insurrection Act

On his first day in office last January, wannabe king Trump declared a national emergency on our southern border granting him broad powers to repel a non-existent  "invasion." (In actual fact, the number of illegal border crossings is at an historic low.) Trump's declaration also gave the departments of Defense and Homeland Security 90 days to produce a report recommending that he invoke the Insurrection Act of 1807. 

That report has now come due. Trump could invoke the Insurrection Act at any moment.

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San Francisco Stands Up for Science

"Got polio? Me neither. Thanks science!" The signs were nerdy. The labcoats gleamed in the bright afternoon sun. Hundreds, maybe a thousand people gathered in Civic Center Plaza in SF to defend a pillar of our modern world that too many of us take for granted: science.

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