Senator Scott Wiener
@scottwiener.bsky.social
CA State Senator, representing San Francisco & northern San Mateo County. Chair, Senate Budget Committee. Passionate about health care, climate, making it easier/faster to build good things like housing, transit, clean energy. Democrat 🏳️🌈✡️ scottwiener.com
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It’s official: I’m running for Congress to represent San Francisco!
I’ll fight for our city – against Trump’s takeover, for our values, & for real progress. I’ve delivered on housing, healthcare, clean energy, & civil rights – & I’ll do it again.
Let’s build the future our city & country deserve.
I’ll fight for our city – against Trump’s takeover, for our values, & for real progress. I’ve delivered on housing, healthcare, clean energy, & civil rights – & I’ll do it again.
Let’s build the future our city & country deserve.
Initiating a court martial investigation against a sitting U.S. Senator for making a video that does nothing more than state the law: that soldiers aren’t required to follow unlawful orders.
And some say we’re being dramatic when we name these people for what they are: straight up fascists.
And some say we’re being dramatic when we name these people for what they are: straight up fascists.
November 24, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Initiating a court martial investigation against a sitting U.S. Senator for making a video that does nothing more than state the law: that soldiers aren’t required to follow unlawful orders.
And some say we’re being dramatic when we name these people for what they are: straight up fascists.
And some say we’re being dramatic when we name these people for what they are: straight up fascists.
… making it easier, faster & less expensive to build every kind of housing — below market rate, market rate, social housing, apartments, condos, town homes, student housing, senior housing, etc. It’s what people want & it’ll make our country stronger economically & culturally. We can do this.
November 24, 2025 at 4:41 PM
… making it easier, faster & less expensive to build every kind of housing — below market rate, market rate, social housing, apartments, condos, town homes, student housing, senior housing, etc. It’s what people want & it’ll make our country stronger economically & culturally. We can do this.
You can’t talk about affordability & cost of living without talking about the obscene cost of housing, which is driven by a massive shortage of homes. We’re working hard to make it easier & faster to build more homes in California. We need to take that work national …
November 24, 2025 at 4:41 PM
You can’t talk about affordability & cost of living without talking about the obscene cost of housing, which is driven by a massive shortage of homes. We’re working hard to make it easier & faster to build more homes in California. We need to take that work national …
The work we’ve been doing in the California Legislature to make it easier to build things that benefit our state & society is just getting started. We have more work to do in California & nationally to have a better, cleaner, more affordable & more climate-resilient future.
November 24, 2025 at 3:37 PM
The work we’ve been doing in the California Legislature to make it easier to build things that benefit our state & society is just getting started. We have more work to do in California & nationally to have a better, cleaner, more affordable & more climate-resilient future.
I also authored a law (SB 379) to make it automatic/instantaneous via an app to obtain a permit for basic solar & storage. We’re building on this work to make it more seamless to get permits for heat pumps. We’re looking at other clean energy permitting ideas for next year.
November 24, 2025 at 3:37 PM
I also authored a law (SB 379) to make it automatic/instantaneous via an app to obtain a permit for basic solar & storage. We’re building on this work to make it more seamless to get permits for heat pumps. We’re looking at other clean energy permitting ideas for next year.
All of this is on top of our decade-long housing work to make more & more housing “ministerial” — meaning automatic permitting with no discretion and no CEQA. One of those laws (SB 35/423) which I authored, has led to thousands of affordable homes in SF alone, with more coming.
November 24, 2025 at 3:37 PM
All of this is on top of our decade-long housing work to make more & more housing “ministerial” — meaning automatic permitting with no discretion and no CEQA. One of those laws (SB 35/423) which I authored, has led to thousands of affordable homes in SF alone, with more coming.
We also passed a law on which I led (SB 131) to exempt advanced manufacturing & certain child care centers, health centers, broadband & other facilities from CEQA. This coming year, we will work to tighten up these exemptions, which are important & need to be focused & effective.
November 24, 2025 at 3:37 PM
We also passed a law on which I led (SB 131) to exempt advanced manufacturing & certain child care centers, health centers, broadband & other facilities from CEQA. This coming year, we will work to tighten up these exemptions, which are important & need to be focused & effective.
In California this year, we passed a law (SB 130) to exempt all infill housing from CEQA. We also passed a law (SB 71) to exempt sustainable transportation projects from CEQA. I proudly served as wingman to my colleague @BuffyWicks on the first & I proudly led on the second.
November 24, 2025 at 3:37 PM
In California this year, we passed a law (SB 130) to exempt all infill housing from CEQA. We also passed a law (SB 71) to exempt sustainable transportation projects from CEQA. I proudly served as wingman to my colleague @BuffyWicks on the first & I proudly led on the second.
We need to be willing to challenge the orthodoxy underlying these barriers to solving some of our most pressing problems. CEQA, NEPA, APA, etc. are laws that do many good things but also incentivize endless process at the expense of good outcomes.
Let’s be open to smart reforms.
Let’s be open to smart reforms.
November 24, 2025 at 3:37 PM
We need to be willing to challenge the orthodoxy underlying these barriers to solving some of our most pressing problems. CEQA, NEPA, APA, etc. are laws that do many good things but also incentivize endless process at the expense of good outcomes.
Let’s be open to smart reforms.
Let’s be open to smart reforms.
For well-intentioned reasons, we pile on endless regulation, process, cost, opportunity for litigation & number of agencies. We then apply this endlessness to the very things we know will be beneficial, for example, housing, clean energy & climate-friendly infrastructure.
November 24, 2025 at 3:37 PM
For well-intentioned reasons, we pile on endless regulation, process, cost, opportunity for litigation & number of agencies. We then apply this endlessness to the very things we know will be beneficial, for example, housing, clean energy & climate-friendly infrastructure.
To solve our biggest problems — eg housing & climate — & make life more affordable we need to get out of our own way & make it easier to build the infrastructure to solve these problems.
Yet our system is designed to bog it down & make it more costly.
That needs to change.🧵 rein.pk/over-regulat...
Yet our system is designed to bog it down & make it more costly.
That needs to change.🧵 rein.pk/over-regulat...
November 24, 2025 at 3:37 PM
To solve our biggest problems — eg housing & climate — & make life more affordable we need to get out of our own way & make it easier to build the infrastructure to solve these problems.
Yet our system is designed to bog it down & make it more costly.
That needs to change.🧵 rein.pk/over-regulat...
Yet our system is designed to bog it down & make it more costly.
That needs to change.🧵 rein.pk/over-regulat...
Big Oil is providing substantial financial and strategic support to Republican AGs in an effort to block my climate impact disclosure law. They're even going so far as to weaponize the First Amendment. They can try to stop us, but we will win this fight to tackle climate change.
November 24, 2025 at 8:00 AM
Big Oil is providing substantial financial and strategic support to Republican AGs in an effort to block my climate impact disclosure law. They're even going so far as to weaponize the First Amendment. They can try to stop us, but we will win this fight to tackle climate change.
Team Wiener hit the Clement Street Farmers Market this morning. I’ve been coming to this Farmers Market for years & it always has great energy. If you’d like to get involved — volunteering, hosting a house party or fundraiser, putting up a window sign — you can sign up at scottwiener.com. Onward!
November 23, 2025 at 9:32 PM
Team Wiener hit the Clement Street Farmers Market this morning. I’ve been coming to this Farmers Market for years & it always has great energy. If you’d like to get involved — volunteering, hosting a house party or fundraiser, putting up a window sign — you can sign up at scottwiener.com. Onward!
Yet another surge of antisemitic attacks on Hillel — which for over a century has provided space & community for Jewish college students — in addition to another surge of antisemitic attacks on & protests of synagogues.
Targeting Jewish students & places of worship is never ok.
Targeting Jewish students & places of worship is never ok.
November 23, 2025 at 4:43 PM
Yet another surge of antisemitic attacks on Hillel — which for over a century has provided space & community for Jewish college students — in addition to another surge of antisemitic attacks on & protests of synagogues.
Targeting Jewish students & places of worship is never ok.
Targeting Jewish students & places of worship is never ok.
MTG is the drama & it’s fun to watch, but that doesn’t change who she is or the harm she’s caused & continues to cause.
November 22, 2025 at 3:50 PM
MTG is the drama & it’s fun to watch, but that doesn’t change who she is or the harm she’s caused & continues to cause.
I’m honored to have helped launch Save Science, Save Lives. This will create a foundation, backed by $23 billion in state bonds, to fund world-changing work across our universities, hospitals, and research institutions.
November 22, 2025 at 12:37 AM
I’m honored to have helped launch Save Science, Save Lives. This will create a foundation, backed by $23 billion in state bonds, to fund world-changing work across our universities, hospitals, and research institutions.
I’m honored to receive the endorsement of UAW Region 6 & UAW Local 4811. Researchers & grad students are powering the next wave of innovation that will power California’s future prosperity. It’s an honor to fight with them for better working conditions & to protect science & progress in California.
November 21, 2025 at 7:06 PM
I’m honored to receive the endorsement of UAW Region 6 & UAW Local 4811. Researchers & grad students are powering the next wave of innovation that will power California’s future prosperity. It’s an honor to fight with them for better working conditions & to protect science & progress in California.
Didn’t mom tell us not to copy other people’s homework?
November 21, 2025 at 6:07 PM
Didn’t mom tell us not to copy other people’s homework?
As part of his quest to find new & creative ways to crater the economy, Trump is now targeting immigrant truck driver by trying to revoke their licenses. This is on top of his targeting of farmworkers, construction workers, home health workers & others.
An efficient way to tank American prosperity
An efficient way to tank American prosperity
Trump’s newest fight with California? Immigrants who drive trucks for a living
The Trump administration’s new trucking rules ban certain immigrant drivers. Up to 61,000 California truck drivers could lose their licenses.
calmatters.org
November 21, 2025 at 3:54 PM
As part of his quest to find new & creative ways to crater the economy, Trump is now targeting immigrant truck driver by trying to revoke their licenses. This is on top of his targeting of farmworkers, construction workers, home health workers & others.
An efficient way to tank American prosperity
An efficient way to tank American prosperity
Yet another garbage, frivolous Trump lawsuit against California.
California offers in-state tuition to non-citizen California residents who graduate from California high schools. Trump says that discriminates. No, it doesn’t, actually.
Quiet, piggy.
California offers in-state tuition to non-citizen California residents who graduate from California high schools. Trump says that discriminates. No, it doesn’t, actually.
Quiet, piggy.
In-state college tuition for California’s undocumented students is illegal, Trump suit alleges
California universities offer in-state tuition to undocumented students who graduate from state high schools. The Trump administration is suing CSU, UC and the state, calling the practice illegal.
www.latimes.com
November 21, 2025 at 6:35 AM
Yet another garbage, frivolous Trump lawsuit against California.
California offers in-state tuition to non-citizen California residents who graduate from California high schools. Trump says that discriminates. No, it doesn’t, actually.
Quiet, piggy.
California offers in-state tuition to non-citizen California residents who graduate from California high schools. Trump says that discriminates. No, it doesn’t, actually.
Quiet, piggy.
Today is Transgender Day of Remembrance — when we remember those no longer with us & recommit to the fight ahead. As Trump & his cult try to erase trans people from existence, we must have their backs.
November 21, 2025 at 3:26 AM
Today is Transgender Day of Remembrance — when we remember those no longer with us & recommit to the fight ahead. As Trump & his cult try to erase trans people from existence, we must have their backs.
Honored to be endorsed by San Francisco’s education leaders: School Board President Phil Kim, Vice President Jaime Huling, Board Members Parag Gupta and Supriya Ray, and City College of San Francisco Trustees Heather McCarty and Luis Zamora.
November 21, 2025 at 12:00 AM
Honored to be endorsed by San Francisco’s education leaders: School Board President Phil Kim, Vice President Jaime Huling, Board Members Parag Gupta and Supriya Ray, and City College of San Francisco Trustees Heather McCarty and Luis Zamora.
It’s not just Nick Fuentes. The rot is so much deeper.
November 20, 2025 at 8:25 PM
It’s not just Nick Fuentes. The rot is so much deeper.
Connie Chan caters to NIMBYs — e.g., opposing zoning to allow apartments & affordable housing, helping kill rapid bus service & opposing new transit funding — & will try to ride NIMBYism to Congress.
She is no champion for affordable housing.
She is no champion for affordable housing.
November 20, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Connie Chan caters to NIMBYs — e.g., opposing zoning to allow apartments & affordable housing, helping kill rapid bus service & opposing new transit funding — & will try to ride NIMBYism to Congress.
She is no champion for affordable housing.
She is no champion for affordable housing.
The 4200 Geary affordable housing for low income seniors & veterans was “built” using:
SB 35, a permit streamlining law I passed that’s resulted in thousands of new affordable homes in San Francisco
State density bonus law that allowed more units & more height
$52M in state housing funds
SB 35, a permit streamlining law I passed that’s resulted in thousands of new affordable homes in San Francisco
State density bonus law that allowed more units & more height
$52M in state housing funds
November 20, 2025 at 7:30 PM
The 4200 Geary affordable housing for low income seniors & veterans was “built” using:
SB 35, a permit streamlining law I passed that’s resulted in thousands of new affordable homes in San Francisco
State density bonus law that allowed more units & more height
$52M in state housing funds
SB 35, a permit streamlining law I passed that’s resulted in thousands of new affordable homes in San Francisco
State density bonus law that allowed more units & more height
$52M in state housing funds