What would happen if we treated homelessness and drug addiction as humanitarian crises and not just as quality-of-life concerns for housed people? Attorney Fanilla Cheng critiques recent public camping crackdowns in her San Francisco neighborhood. 🌉 go.newamerica.org/reducing-hom...

We can’t arrest our way out of #homelessness, but that’s what communities have been doing since last year's Grants Pass decision, which made it a crime to sleep in public even if there's nowhere else to go. In my new piece for #TheRooftop @newamerica.org, I write about what I've seen here in SF:

I’ve been seeing lots of posts about what Trump has done in his first 100 days. So, on this 101th day, to avoid giving up and to keep myself accountable, I’m going to start documenting what I’m doing each day to #resist this autocratic regime, starting with a donation to Democracy Forward.

everything about this is so unbelievably horrifying and yet some version of this seems to be happening constantly now, every day

Hosting Bukele while publicly and pointedly refusing to request, let alone demand, the return of Kilmer Abrego Garcia is an intentional show of defiance to the Supreme Court. Testing what they can get away with. www.npr.org/2025/04/14/n...

At the hands off protest in SF today

Crawford: I never could have imagined that I'd be taking on the richest man in the world for justice in Wisconsin. And we won.

So much admiration and respect for @booker.senate.gov who has been going for 20+ hours now 👏 teared up at parts of his speech wow

I live between Hayes Valley and Japantown and this is absolutely not my experience -- I was bipped 3x and had one of my tires slashed, all within 6 months (Sep. 2024-Feb. 2025) -- and yes I did report all 4 of these incidents, and no I never leave anything in my (very basic, not flashy) car

Recently, green card and visa holders have been facing tougher scrutiny at airports. Immigration attorneys give tips on how to reduce the chances of running into problems while traveling.

Some lawyers are truly the worst. The richest ones are rushing to bow down to a monster even before an illegal EO is issued. And it’s been a week since Paul Weiss sold out, but no news that any of their 1000+ lawyers have resigned in protest.

The top 7 donors in the 2024 election — all GOP — gave a combined $1B to buy Trump a second term. It's a gigantic amount of money in total — but it's just pocket change to them. We must get Big Money out of politics. No one from either party should be able to buy an election.

Yes to "2025 is about decentralized protests in rich neighborhoods"

Truly horrific beyond imagination and surely the reason why so many didn't turn out to vote for Kamala in November

Why, during these unprecedented times, is she the ONLY one? WHY

This is one of the saddest capitulations I have ever seen. A law firm honored for its bravery has more than bent the knee and kissed the ring: it has paid the ransom demanded by Trump. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/20/u...

Yes. If DHS can barge in, say your visa was revoked, be told you have a green card, say it's revoked too, and then disappear you so that neither your lawyer nor your family can find you, then all the guardrails are gone. There is no policy, practice, or law protecting anyone.

“What’s transpired over the last three or four days just takes it to a whole new level of cruelty and inhumanity and, frankly, a whole new level of stupidity in doing this is the most non-strategic way.” Tens of thousands of people will die as a result of this action. www.salon.com/2025/02/28/a...

Was I naive to think that this would have been unimaginable just 2 months ago

Not big on school pride, but I’m a proud GULC alum today 👏