CA State Senator, 13th District. Working on Climate & Social Justice. Love live music, Bay Area & Philly sports. Dog pictures are my own.

Joined January 2009
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The Governor signed my free prison phone call bill (sb1008)!!!!! Thank you @GavinNewsom and thank you to all the thousands of advocates across the state who worked on this!!!
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.@JamesTalarico: There's been a lot of talk in this race about what it means to be a real man. Recently on the campaign trail I told the story of my adoptive dad, Mark Talarico. Every Saturday morning, he would mow our lawn, and then without anyone asking him to, he would go next door and mow our neighbor's lawn because she was a widow. My dad never talked about it — he just did it, because that's what a man does. A man takes responsibility, upholds his commitments to his family and his neighbors, and does what's right, even when no one is watching. Here's what real men don't do. They don't lie and cheat their way through life, sell their soul to the highest bidder, or steal from other people in order to enrich themselves. Real men serve others. Weak men serve themselves. I welcome this debate about what it means to be a man, and I don't think Ken Paxton or Ted Cruz are in a position to tell anybody what a real man is.
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My Dad would be so happy right now. I know he’s looking down on us. #sixers beat the hated Celtics in game 7!!!!
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California is heading into its fourth straight spring of strong water storage, with most of the state’s major reservoirs nearly full, despite one of the worst snowpacks in recorded history. State reservoirs are at 118% of the historical average for late April. Four consecutive years of strong storage is a remarkable streak for a state that has spent much of the 21st century going from one record-breaking drought to the next.
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Credit where credit is due. The Tesla Semi is a game changer for the electrification of our truck fleet (where much of the emissions are). Thanks @elonmusk and the Tesla team.
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Just saw the comment from his former political director and that’s very damning, “Maybe he didn’t know it when he got it, but he got it years ago and he should have had it covered up because he knows damn well what it means,” politico.com/news/2025/10/21…
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Rise was designed by a 2nd grader in MTVW!
Fist bump, Rise! Very emotional moment zipping up Rise, knowing we are bringing 5,647,889 names with us on this journey around the Moon. For all!   People from around the world submitted their names through the Send Your Name with Artemis campaign. These names were downloaded onto an SD card that is safely stored inside "Rise," the zero gravity indicator designed by 2nd grader Lucas Ye from California. Thanks for coming along, everyone!
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Weirdly quiet from a certain group that was so loud on here before
Measured relative to GDP, Trump in one year has added three times as much to federal debt as Biden did in four.
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Another massive battery storage record in California (CAISO) yesterday, March 29 🔋 At 7pm, batteries reached 12.3 GW of output, meeting 42.8% of demand! And it's not just a short peak anymore. Batteries stayed above 20% of grid supply from 5.50pm to 9.35pm, almost four hours.
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Hey check out my collab with the AG to tell you how you can delete your personal info from all the data brokers operating in CA!
.@CalPrivacy’s DROP tool allows Californians to send one request to more than 500 data brokers to stop them from selling your personal information.   Join @SenJoshBecker and I in DROPing out of the sale and collection of our data.    Learn more at privacy.ca.gov/drop
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I stand with Dolores Huerta.
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Another day another ignorant anti-Muslim post from Republicans in Congress. Shame on them. This is petty, ignorant and wrong!
The enemy is inside the gates.
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This is the difference with CA that people don’t get - the wealthy in CA already pay 14.3% tax rate. Yes almost 5% more than this new Washington state tax. And still they’ve chosen to stay in California! —at least until this Billionaires tax by UHW! nytimes.com/2026/03/11/us/wa…
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Question: should Bam Adebayo’s feat have an Asterix since he was competing against the Washington Wizards?
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This is crazy!
Nathan Martin, a 36-year-old high school cross-country coach from Jackson, Michigan, won the 2026 Los Angeles Marathon by running past Kenya’s Michael Kamau in the final second.
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This is a stunning authoritarian power grab, and all because Anthropic wouldn't comply with the Pentagon's unreasonable demands. It's an attempt to commandeer the private sector to the administration's will. Every day there is a new affront to decency, good sense, the rule of law, and the Constitution.
To put a finer point on what just happened: Hegseth's post says that "no contractor, supplier, or partner that does business with the United States military may conduct any commercial activity with Anthropic". Anthropic serves its models through the cloud. Its primary partner is AWS, but it also serves its models through Google Cloud and Azure (not sure if there are any others?). ALL of Amazon, Microsoft and Google do business with the U.S. military (see, e.g., the link below). If we take Hegseth's post literally, Anthropic should now find itself unable to serve its models via any of these providers. war.gov/News/Releases/Releas…
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Indeed, love this from my friend @RepLuzRivas
Our amazing colleague @RepLuzRivas’s face says it all. #SOTU ❤️
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Replying to @nickshirleyy
Ok I found these voters! They are registered at 4142 Kensington Ave, San Diego. This is the address of a UPS Store, yes. But that is on the ground floor of the Kensington Estates that also has residences. The UPS Store is suite 103, the residences range from Apt 201 - 316.
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I am not Reform or Conservative - I am an Orthodox Rabbi, fully committed to halakha and the Jewish tradition - yet I am deeply disturbed by what is happening at the egalitarian prayer space at the Kotel. The Jewish people, with all their streams and movements, make up one family. We are held together by a common heritage, a shared history that is stained with the blood of our persecuted ancestors, whom we mourn each Tish’a B’av. Our Conservative and Reform brothers and sisters deserve their own sacred space. Antagonism towards other streams of Judaism, even as it masquerades as concern for the future of the Jewish people and the Torah, is as unforgivable as it is ineffective. It completely fails to enhance the image of Orthodoxy in the eyes of our own community or in the eyes of world Jewry. timesofisrael.com/liveblog_e…
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For the first time ever, clean energy supplied over half of Australia’s national electricity market. Compared to the same period a year earlier, wholesale electricity prices dropped by almost half. Clean energy is cheaper electricity. End of story. theguardian.com/environment/…
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